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EPISODE · May 14, 2025 · 19 MIN

Small Towns Are Getting Hooked on ICE Detention

from Big Take · host Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts

Like a growing number of US communities, Torrance County, New Mexico, is convinced its financial survival depends on locking immigrants up. A lucrative ICE contract keeps a private detention facility open that local politicians say the area needs. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg reporters Rachel Adams-Heard and Fola Akinnibi examine how these private facilities are becoming key to the US government’s immigration crackdown – and the financial incentives making it harder for small communities to quit them.  Read more: Addicted to ICESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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