Illinois enacted a first-of-its kind ban on privately-run immigration detention, as President Donald Trump's threat of mass deportations looms and his administration scrambles to find more jail space in an already overcrowded system.
Far from the southern border crisis, Illinois has launched a bullish effort to undercut the Trump administration's immigration detention practices, and politicians and activists are taking note.
The move was hailed as a major victory by immigrant rights advocates, who have fought off other proposals in the area. While a national ban would be politically and practically unrealistic with most immigrant detainees being held in privately-run detention, some 2020 candidates held up Illinois as a model.
Private detention facilities have been used for immigration since the 1980s but didn't take off until the 2000s, when management was increasingly outsourced, according to Lauren Brooke Eisen, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice who wrote a book on private prisons. Activists argue that for-profit private facilities aren't subject to the same standards as public ones and cite a lack of oversight by ICE, as an inspector general report at the Department of Homeland Security concluded earlier this year.
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