Alligator Alcatraz, Florida; Fort Bliss, Texas; Speedway Slammer, Indiana; Cornhusker Clink, Nebraska; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From the Trail of Tears to ICE Camps this is the story of how America developed the largest civil concentration camp system in the world, and is now expanding the migrant detention system at a pace unseen since the second world war.

In part two Rich and Adam expose how every administration since 1980 transformed immigration from an administrative process to militarized mass incarceration. Starting with Reagan's reversal on 30 years of bonded release, to Clinton's mandatory detention laws, to Obama's family separation facilities, to Trump's zero tolerance policy. Learn how private prison corporations like CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from detaining 86% of immigrants in conditions that Rudy Giuliani's own immigration task force warned would look like "concentration camps."

[00:00 ] Introduction and Disclosure

[04:15 ] 1893-1924: How Open Borders Became Closed

[12:40 ] WWII: Japanese Internment and Latin American Deportations

[22:18 ] The McCarran Act: America's "Concentration Camp Law"

[28:45 ] Reagan Revolution: The Groundwork for Mass Detention

[38:20 ] Clinton's Mandatory Detention Explosion

[45:50 ] Bush & The Patriot Act: Blurring Civil and Criminal Law

[52:30 ] Obama's Family Detention: "Deportation Mills"

[01:02:15 ] Trump's Zero Tolerance and Family Separations

[01:15:40 ] 2025: Tripling Capacity to 116,000 Beds

[01:25:10 ] The Private Prison Profit Machine

[01:32:45 ] Why This Is a Choice, Not a Necessity