The Contract

They don't want to lose their contract:

Acacia Center for Justice, based in Washington, D.C., is one of the largest federal immigration contractors, overseeing a $769 million program that provides lawyers for unaccompanied alien children and adults in immigration court hearings and deportation proceedings. The group says its aim is to provide due process rights for illegal aliens. But it also calls for a radical upheaval of the immigration and deportation system—goals that are starkly at odds with the Trump administration's objectives. Launched in 2022, Acacia Center argues that "no immigrant should be detained" and that electronic surveillance to track illegal aliens "must be abolished." According to the center, "the use of local law enforcement for immigration purposes … must be dismantled." It maintains that the immigration detention and deportation system is "intentionally designed to exploit, exclude, criminalize, detain and deport" people deemed to be "undeserving of inclusion in our national fabric, particularly Black and brown people." That puts it squarely at odds with the Trump administration, which has pledged to increase deportations of illegal aliens dramatically. The administration has threatened to pull federal funds from sanctuary cities and states that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Trump has ordered federal agencies to shut down the kinds of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies pushed by the Acacia Center.

Illegal immigration is good for their business...