News Summary

• On the ground in Eloy, Arizona, our reporter found lives on hold, families broken apart, and a Kafkaesque system that seems to lead to only one way out.
• Eloy is privately owned and operated by a contractor, CoreCivic, working for U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• The government’s reliance on immigration detention has grown dramatically over time, from a daily average of roughly twenty-five hundred people in the 1970s to a record of sixty thousand, and counting, this year.