Who’s Secretly Making Money Off ICE — Why No One Is Talking About It
February 4, 2026
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as posted by the channelWho’s really making money off ICE — and why does reform keep failing even when the public wants it? In this livestream, we’re joined by Anne Kim, Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (The New Press, 2024), for a deep dive into one of the most underreported forces shaping U.S. politics: the quiet business of government enforcement.
We start with the corporations that benefit from immigration enforcement and detention — why transparency is so limited, how profit incentives shape policy, and why this part of the immigration debate rarely breaks through to the public.
From there, we zoom out to our TOP TEN stories Worth Knowing, which includes discussion of the broader political impasse: Why Democrats are pushing for what most Americans consider reasonable reforms — and how Republicans counter with demands that sound moderate on paper but are designed to preserve a system voters increasingly reject.
Polling shows the Trump administration, ICE, and authoritarian-style governance are deeply unpopular across a wide range of issues. And yet, Democrats still aren’t performing as well as the numbers suggest they should.
Why?
Anne Kim helps connect the dots between:
Corporate power and enforcement policy
The money structures that warp political incentives
Extreme partisanship that keeps unpopular policies in place
And why even majority opinion often fails to translate into political change
This conversation goes beyond daily outrage to ask a harder question: How do you dismantle systems that survive not because voters support them — but because they’re profitable, polarized, and protected?
If you’re looking for serious analysis about power, policy, and why American democracy feels stuck even when the public wants change, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
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