Look, the numbers here practically tell the story on their own. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement burned through roughly $5.4bn in contracts during Donald Trump's first year back in office, and close to 70% of that — about $3.8bn — ended up with just ten companies. Several had donated heavily to his campaign. That is not an allegation from a pressure group or a think tank trying to make a point; it comes from a forensic breakdown of federal spending records by the Project on Government Oversight, published last week.
The same year, 32 people died inside immigration detention centres. Highest toll in two decades.
