In March 2026, the VA and the Department of Justice signed an agreement to put homeless veterans under permanent legal guardianship. They called it protection.
It isn’t.
private prisons
ICE Detention: Racism Meets Extraction
ICE detention has been restructured into a large-scale system of wealth extraction. Government authority is used to move public money to private corporations, while enforcement practices determine who bears the human and economic costs. In this system, extraction politics—the use of governmental power, budgets, and enforcement authority—works in tandem with extractive capitalism, in which private firms convert public policy into guaranteed revenue.