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Private equity firm's ICE deportation flights draw scrutiny in Chicago

Original: Gillian Brockell on Bluesky: "This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off

Washington Post reporter Gillian Brockell says Chicago residents went to great lengths to protect thousands of immigrants from deportation flights run by a private equity firm profiting from ICE contracts, calling the outcome a better epilogue to her January story on the company than she could have hoped for. The remark has drawn attention to how contractors profit from removals and how local communities have resisted them.

Why now: Ongoing public concern over ICE deportation flights and private contractors profiting from immigration enforcement

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• Gillian Brockell on Bluesky: "This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from… · azteclady@kind.social · 3

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