Make Crimes Against Humanity a BAD Investment: ICE's Deadly For-Profit Prison Gulag Is a Bipartisan Shame That Must Be Slain

Dear Subscribers,

Apologies for the radio silence. It has not been without reason…

As soon as I started working on the above ☝🏼 Divestment Case Study and Call to Action, based on interviews I conducted while volunteering at New Jersey’s Delaney Hall in November 2025, nearly 300 of our neighbors, family members, colleagues, and friends went on hunger and labor strikes to protest the horrific conditions of their illegal and inhumane incarceration at the infamous ICE blacksite.

That was May 22, 2026. Then, literal hell broke loose. It’s been nothing but ICE violence and Trump & Co corruption ever since.*

June brought day after day of atrocious news and dreadful SCOTUS decisions, rendering each successive podcast edit obsolete within hours. Sadly, this final draft ☝🏼 is no different: As soon as I declared the episode “done,” ICE murdered again.

I therefore dedicate this podcast to Jesús Manuel Arenas Silva.

Jesús is the 22nd person to die, tragically and unnecessarily, while in ICE custody just this year, and the 53rd person since inauguration day 2025. Jesús died in shackles on an ICE transport, while being shuffled from one notoriously cruel ICE blacksite to another. ICE kidnappers and for-profit prison profiteers, GEO Group and LaSalle Corrections, killed Jesús with dehumanizing indifference and criminal neglect. They denied him access to his life-saving prescription medications.

“We implored ICE not to take him due to his medical needs, but they didn’t listen to our pleas. They also ignored our request to at least allow him to take the medication with him . . .

Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was a loving son and brother, a hard-working man who came to this country to seek better opportunities. His tragic death has left our family with an immense void and deep sorrow.” — Sonimar, Jesús’s sister

Following the Hope Knows No Borders Network May 24th divestment webinar and workshop…

…and in the face of escalating ICE impunity, interest in how to find and divest from the US for-profit immigrant gulag has mushroomed.

The webinar panelists and I have since coalesced around growing a coalition of for-profit prison abolitionists to campaign around both gulag divestment and values-based re-investment. I’ll have more news about that for you soon.

Until then…

Brew a pot of iced tea or coffee and find a comfortable spot in the shade (it’s too hot for anything else). Then kick back for what my editor tells me is “an important listen.” We hope you’ll agree, if you don’t already: Crimes Against Humanity are a BAD business model and a worse investment. ICE’s deadly for-profit prison gulag is a bipartisan shame that must be slain.

Don’t forget to heart, restack, and…

And if you find this podcast worthy,please share it with your neighbors, family members, colleagues, and friends:

Stay strong, everyone. Know your allies and keep them close. The only way through this…Together.

✊🏼 Sarah

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Critical Resources Mentioned in the Podcast:

The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? Maria Cancian, Nissi Cantu, Lanikque Howard, and Tara Watson, May 18, 2026, Brookings.

Banished by Bargain - Third Country Deportation Watch: Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third-country transfer agreements. Refugees International & Human Rights First.

Biden Administration Sides With Private Prison Company CoreCivic to Keep Immigrant Detention in New Jersey. Michelle Ancil, June 29, 2023, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.

Central African Republic Latest ‘Third Country’ for US Deportees: Don’t Forcibly Repatriate People to Iran, Afghanistan, and Other High-Risk Countries. Lauren Seibert, June 29, 2026, Human Rights Watch.

Data on “Mega Masters” Show EOIR is Targeting Individual Judges and Courts with a Flood of Hearings. Austin Kocher, July 9, 2026.

The Deportation Machine Kills Again: Justice for Lorenzo. July 8, 2026, Eyes On Ice

Due Process Vindicated: The Fifth Circuit Rejects Categorical Detention for Longtime Undocumented Residents. In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals establishes a 90-day bond hearing requirement, striking a blow against the administration’s mandatory immigration detention policy. Pedro Chavez, July 4, 2026, The Migra(N)ation.

HOLY SH*T! ICE Arrests 10,000 in FIVE DAYS. JT Cestkowski, July 2, 2026, Status Coup News and MeidasTouch.

“I was shot six times”: A military veteran protesting outside Delaney Hall says police and private security fired rubber bullets and paintball rounds at demonstrators, hitting him multiple times. June 5, 2026, MiddleEastEye.

ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up “international staging areas” abroad. Charles R. Davis, 13 July 2026, The Redoubt.

ICE Flight Monitor: A data-driven initiative that systematically tracks and documents U.S. immigration enforcement flights, providing detailed insights into government operations often hidden from public view. Human Rights First.

Letters from Inside an ICE Gulag Jail: Delaney Hall. Movimiento Cosecha.

El Grito de Nosotros: Our Cry. “We feel vulnerable, in a way, kidnapped or detained without justification.”

A Second Letter From Delaney Hall. Signed by nearly 300 people, including over 50 women

Don’t Give Up: A Demand for Freedom. Written during the hunger and labor strike, the authors describe the horrific conditions inside the facility, but the strike is not only about the conditions. It is a demand for freedom.

A Cry for Freedom, Justice, Human, and Constitutional Rights. “We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”

“We Demand Justice”: A letter from the women detained at Delaney Hall. “We are from different cultures, nationalities, and religions, but at the end of the day, we all pray to the same God [for] help with our process, for our families, for other detainees that we don’t know their names but are here, women that are vulnerable without attorneys, without families, completely alone.”

MASS DEPORTATION OF NON-AFRICAN MIGRANTS FROM THE U.S.: THE CENTRAL AFRICAN GOVERNMENT MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP “HUMAN TRAFFICKING”! Press Release: July 11, 2026, Mandela Center International, an international NGO with Special Consultative Status with the United Nations.

Mass De-Legalization: Supreme Court lets Trump take aim at humanitarian immigration law. César García Hernández, June 25, 2026, Immigration Law Unhinged.

Mega Masters: The Data Behind the Latest Scheme to Manufacture Removal Orders, (Part I). Austin Kocher, June 25, 2026.

Mega Masters: Docket Politics and the Immigration Courts, Why Mega Masters Are Only New-ish (Part 2): The Trump administration is forcing over a hundred people to show up in immigration court at once—but manipulating judges’ dockets is nothing new. Austin Kocher, June 25, 2026.

Mullin v. Doe: Blessing a Race-Neutral Cover for Racial Animus. Cyrus D Mehta and Damira Zhanatova, June 25, 2026, The Insightful Immigration Blog: Commentaries on Immigration Policy, Cases, and Trends.

A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids. Jack Brook, July 6, 2026, Associated Press.

Private Prison Company Sells Two CA Immigrant Detention Centers to Feds. Wendy Fry and Nigel Duara, July 6, 2026, San Jose Inside.

SCOTUS Guts Asylum and TPS in Sweeping 6–3 Rulings: On the same day it blocked 356,000 people from legal status, the Supreme Court ruled that standing in Mexico means you don’t exist. Pablo Manríquez, June 25, 2026, Migrant Insider.

“Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall. May 29, 2026, Democracy Now!

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at Border: A policy of turning back asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Trump administration wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control. Ann E. Marimow, June 25, 2026, New York Times.

This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers (July 11, 2026). Austin Kocher, July 11, 2026.

Welcome With Dignity Denounces SCOTUS Decisions Greenlighting Asylum Turnback Policy, Gutting TPS. Press Release: June 25, 2026, Welcome with Dignity Coalition.

Which air carriers are positioned to benefit from increased deportations? Indy Scholtens, May 12, 2025, Open Secrets.

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