Obscure disaster-response firms have been angling to profit from the president’s mass deportation plans since before his reelection.

Sounds like a lot of people quit rather than do this:

Disaster relief tends to attract a certain kind of person. Detention work attracts another. Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with multiple people who left disaster-relief companies when they saw the turn they were taking. They asked not to be identified because they signed nondisclosure agreements or fear retaliation. “The idea that we were going to pack these people in cages,” says one. “I couldn’t do it.” Another says they “didn’t want to be designing the systems for internment camps.”

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    3 days ago

    Sounds like a great cover for a catch and release shelter.

    ICE brings people to be locked up. A handful of immigrants play pretend prisoners. ICE officers have to sign people in and out but there are huge delays and secretly the people sent there are just quietly let go after ICE leaves