EPISODE · Feb 19, 2026 · 1H 27M
What You Need to Know about Immigration and ICE
from Built to Grow · host Valdet Selimaj
The immigration system is more than just policies—it's a web of human rights violations, private profits, and systemic abuses you're unlikely to know about. In this eye-opening episode, Carlos Alberto Yañez Navarro, a PhD candidate and human rights advocate, exposes how detention centers are operated by private corporations driven by profit, often holding individuals in inhumane conditions with little accountability. Discover how for-profit prisons, legal contradictions, and executive overreach fuel mass detentions, deportations to dangerous third countries, and even international crimes like torture and genocide.You'll learn about the expanding reach of immigration enforcement beyond undocumented populations—targeting legal residents, citizens, and the very fabric of democratic rights. Carlos shares harrowing stories from detention centers, sheds light on how private companies manipulate laws for financial gain, and explains how constitutional rights—such as due process, free speech, and protections against unreasonable searches—apply to everyone on U.
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The immigration system is more than just policies—it's a web of human rights violations, private profits, and systemic abuses you're unlikely to know about. In this eye-opening episode, Carlos Alberto Yañez Navarro, a PhD candidate and human rights advocate, exposes how detention centers are operated by private corporations driven by profit, often holding individuals in inhumane conditions with little accountability. Discover how for-profit prisons, legal contradictions, and executive overreach fuel mass detentions, deportations to dangerous third countries, and even international crimes like torture and genocide.You'll learn about the expanding reach of immigration enforcement beyond undocumented populations—targeting legal residents, citizens, and the very fabric of democratic rights. Carlos shares harrowing stories from detention centers, sheds light on how private companies manipulate laws for financial gain, and explains how constitutional rights—such as due process, free speech, and protections against unreasonable searches—apply to everyone on U.
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