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Wait, How Exactly Did ICE Manage to “Lose” More Than 1,000 Alligator Alcatraz Detainees? (www.esquire.com)

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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The private contractor gets about $100/ day per person, so they so have an incentive to make up numbers. $100k / day out of the $250B is a rounding error.

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Not for the person pocketing it, it's very common kind of fraud in various repression organs through history.

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