The US is building an industrial-scale deportation system — detention infrastructure at home, offloading agreements abroad

By Calvin G. Brown | WiredJa

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica January 27, 2026 - "We need to get better at treating this like a business — like Amazon Prime, but with human beings." Those words, spoken by Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at the 2025 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, capture the cold logic driving the most ambitious deportation machinery in American history.