The Big Business of Detaining Families Creates a Serious Fraud Risk
Posted 06/21/18
By Poppy Alexander
The massive public outcry about family separations at the border has spotlighted an area of federal spending that often gets ignored-the massive business that is immigration detention for children and families. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of HHS, spent approximately $3.4 billion on private companies to shelter and detain these kids in just the last four years. Yet little data...
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