Every day the US government detains more than 33,000 non-citizens awaiting immigration hearings, at a cost of about $5.5 million a day, and nearly half of those beds now sit in facilities run by for-profit prison companies. Al Jazeera's Fault Lines travels to Texas and Florida to trace how that money moves, following the lobbying dollars these companies spend to keep detention numbers high and to shape the immigration laws that fill their beds. The reporting comes during a presidential election cycle in which candidates compete to sound toughest on undocumented immigrants, even as deportation and detention under the Obama administration reach record levels. Interviews with detained families and former detainees describe medical neglect, poor conditions, and prolonged separation, while company representatives and policymakers defend the system's growth. The film treats detention as a business with quarterly incentives, not just a law enforcement tool, and lets the per-detainee, per-day payment structure explain why the numbers keep climbing.