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  • Detained in Washington: ’They put me in shackles. Why? I am not a criminal’
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/undocumented-migrants-detained-washington-mexico

    Almost 34,000 undocumented migrants are locked up in America’s vast network of detention facilities – and Tacoma is the crucible of a burgeoning protest campaign. Rory Carroll reports

    A little-known congressional directive known as the “bed mandate” obliges Ice to keep 34,000 detainees per day in custody, a quota driven by conservative calls to secure the border.

    But tighter border controls and a shaky economy have reduced illegal border crossings to their lowest level in decades, leaving Ice and US Customs and Border Protection, both part of the Department of Homeland Security, struggling to meet the quota. The solution: sweep up people like Mendoza.

    Commercial imperative underpins the dynamic. Companies like Geo Group and the Corrections Corporation of America run the facilities, reaping billions of taxpayer dollars, some of which end up as campaign donations to members of Congress.

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