Deportation Inc. is an ongoing investigative video series by SITU and Lawfare that examines how U.S. immigration enforcement has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry shaped by private profit and political power—where contracts, capital flows, and institutional incentives increasingly govern detention, deportation, and surveillance. While walls, checkpoints, and patrols remain the dominant visual shorthand, migrants are caught within increasingly complex and opaque systems of enforcement run and managed by private contractors tasked with everything from guaranteed bed quotas to speculative real estate strategies. Focusing on recent transformations in the immigration enforcement industry, this video series presents a high-yield, profit-generating business model that may be too big to fail. 

The screening will be followed by a conversation situating detention sites—from Newark to Guantánamo Bay—within longer histories of privatization, racialized incarceration, jurisdictional maneuvering, and municipal complicity. An audience Q&A will follow.