With the detainee population surging to 53,000 people this year, immigrant rights organizations contend that ICE is under pressure to keep facilities open at any cost — and that the agency has insulated itself from reproach by hiring inspectors who act as allies for the private prison companies that now house the majority of U.S. detainees.

(Español) 40 estados y el Distrito de Columbia actualmente usan criterios de elegibilidad alternativos que permiten a algunos recibir cupones de alimentos automáticamente si sus ingresos son menores del doble del nivel de pobreza.