Who benefits financially from ICE's sprawling private prison system on taxpayer's dime?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement now holds a record 73,000 people on any given day — a detention population that has nearly doubled since President Trump returned to office just more than a year ago. The daily cost has climbed to roughly $165 per detainee, totaling approximately $4.4 billion annually at current levels.

Yet that figure represents merely the starting point of what has become the most dramatic expansion of immigration detention infrastructure in American history.

It’s not without profit.