Don’t worry, there’s fears it might get worse

As detention numbers creep upward, some advocates are worried that detainees could be compelled to work to fill gaps in the workforce of some of the most dangerous jobs in the country, including on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. “Over the last decade or so, ICE has been contracting with private organizations to run their detention centers, very much like prisons have been doing. Those private companies have been making detainees work for $1 a day,” Amal Bouhabib, senior staff attorney with the legal advocacy organization FarmSTAND, tells Sentient.

To be clear, there is no evidence this is happening right now in ICE detention centers, but advocates are worried this could change.

The meat, dairy, etc. industry already uses prison slave labor in various parts

https://sentientmedia.org/people-in-ice-detention-forced-to-work/