"ICE has not let up on its horrors and barbarities against immigrants and their families. Luckily the movement to abolish ICE has racked up victories that other activists can learn from." —an extract from ABOLISH ICE written by Natascha Elena Uhlmann published in Jacobin

Keep The Pressure on ICE

Zero tolerance is big business for US corporations. From private prisons to tech conglomerates, companies across the globe are scrambling for a piece of the pie. The Department of Homeland Security has awarded billions in federal contracts to surveil, detain, and terrorize immigrants.

Just a week after the 2016 election, stock prices for the nation’s two largest prison companies rose by nearly a third. In June 2018 they rose further on the assumption that they would benefit from the expansion of family detention facilities throughout the country amid the child separation crisis at the border.

Just what sort of company could bear to profit from the indefinite detention of children? Meet CoreCivic and GEO Group.

Read the full excerpt here.