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British firm aims to open immigration detention center near US-Mexico border
Thursday, June 09, 2016
- The Guardian
- Link: https://www.theguardian.com
"Billion-dollar company Serco has lobbied the US for more than a year in a push for detention contracts, sparking criticism from immigrant rights groups. The British security firm Serco has moved a step closer to entering the controversial but lucrative immigration detention market in the US, as the company successfully lobbied public officials in a small Texas county near the Mexico border to propose that the federal government open a family detention centre in the jurisdiction..."
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