Detaining Immigrant Children Is Now a Billion-Dollar a Year Industry

The year is 2018 and detaining, and holding immigrant children for the federal government is now a billion dollar industry.

More than a billion dollars are paid annually for the service of transporting, processing, and housing the children of migrants captured attempting to enter the US illegally.
One company alone the 'nonprofit' Southwest Key Programs has itself won $955 million in federal contracts since 2015. By far one of the largest recipients of taxpayer money. Payed by the government through a process of taxation sub-contractors run shelters and provide other services that immigrant children in federal custody require. Southwest Key is a shelter for migrant boys built out of a former Walmart Supercenter It is also the largest and richest of the dozen or so contractors which operate more than 30 facilities in Texas alone, with numerous others in 15 states representing about 100 different contractors with 90 facilities involved in the now very lucrative, secretive world of migrant sheltering/fostering business.

Recently an [Associated Press analysis] found that Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children skyrocketed from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million in 2017.

Read Original Report From AP
When President Trump campaigned on a pledge to crack down on illegal immigration, the nation's big private prison companies saw opportunity. As of last month more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states. They are being held while their parents await immigration/ deportation proceedings or are reviewed for possible asylum. If there is a migrant-shelter hub in America, then it is the four-county Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas. They are the region’s largest employers, and what happens inside is often confidential as signing nondisclosure agreements has become the norm in the world of incorporated not for profit child-care centers. Trump’s order after political pressure calling for migrant families to be detained together likely means millions more in contracts for private shelter operators, construction companies, and defense contractors. Like most things there are no easy solutions to this situation, more government is never the answer, raising awareness to the issues is.

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