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09-29-2011, 12:35 AM #1
Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit
Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: September 28, 2011
Andrew Quilty for The New York Times
Australia has relied on private security companies to run immigrant detention centers in places like Perth.
It was just a small part of a pattern on three continents where a handful of multinational security companies have been turning crackdowns on immigration into a growing global industry.
Especially in Britain, the United States and Australia, governments of different stripes have increasingly looked to such companies to expand detention and show voters they are enforcing tougher immigration laws.
Some of the companies are huge — one is among the largest private employers in the world — and they say they are meeting demand faster and less expensively than the public sector could.
But the ballooning of privatized detention has been accompanied by scathing inspection reports, lawsuits and the documentation of widespread abuse and neglect, sometimes lethal. Human rights groups say detention has neither worked as a deterrent nor speeded deportation, as governments contend, and some worry about the creation of a “detention-industrial complexâ€NO AMNESTY
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