America's Best Kept Secret: Immigration Detention Bed Mandate

Every day, people are bought and sold like commodities on American soil, and taxpayers are footing the bill, according to a new video produced by Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC).  

The video details how the private prison industry has exerted significant influence over Congress, and how that body requires  34,000 immigrants be incarcerated on any given day. These men and women are not permitted free legal services, phone calls and visitaiton are often limited, and medical needs are often neglected. Here's the video: 

What’s more, the House of Representatives has approved a $5.4 million budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operations in FY 2014. Over $2 billion of that amount will be allocated to immigrant detention.   According to Representative Ted Deutch, “No other law enforcement agencies have a quota for the number of people they must keep in jail.”  Here's the CIVIC video: