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Detention beds: Where ICE is spending much of its new money

Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director of the Brennan Center’s justice program, joins host Robin Young to talk about how a huge increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement spending in the past year is fueling what she calls the "detention-industrial complex" for migrants arrested in the United States.
This segment aired on January 29, 2026.