How Companies Profit from a Supersized ICE
A conversation with Alvaro Bedoya and Sabeel Rahman
Trump 2.0’s deportation regime has dominated headlines over the last year and sparked mass protests in Minnesota and beyond. And while the administration has slashed much of the federal government’s capacity, ICE has ballooned in size and budget. In today’s conversation, we’re exploring the role corporate interests have played in getting us here.
Former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya and former OIRA head K. Sabeel Rahman1 join Roosevelt President and CEO Elizabeth Wilkins to break it down: what it means that ICE has $85 billion of public money at its disposal, and how the country’s biggest corporations benefit from this massive deportation and detention bureaucracy.
A full transcript of this conversation will be available soon here.
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Rahman is also a member of Roosevelt’s board of directors.