Quotable Quotes

[sear]

"Don't know about El Salvador but I'm pretty sure ICE is being paid for: arrests, imprisonments, deportations (and making a serious profit in the process)" S2 #1,400

That would be news to me. Alarming, horrifying news.
At some level federal operations are funded. But on basis of a bounty, per person? I hope that's not the case.

"If the spirit of Liberty dies in the hearts of men & women, no court will ever revive it."
Learned Hand - American jurist, during his career as a federal judge (1924-1951) his influence was so great he was sometimes called the "tenth man" of the US Supreme Court

 

[Shiftless2]

Technically ICE itself is a sub of Homeland Security so it's non profit. However

For-profit immigrant detention facilities still hold the vast majority of individuals detained by ICE. As of January 2025, private companies managed all twenty of the top twenty private detention centers. All told, 86 percent of ICE detainees were held in facilities run by for-profit entities

Immigration Detention Statistics: A Retrospective and a Look Forward