America's secret "ICE Castles," immigrations and customs prisons

By at 10:34 am Sunday, Jan 3

"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." —James Pendergraph, former executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination. From a Nation article on America's immigration prisons. (thanks, Ned Sublette)

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