<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard - ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard - ]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASS6d4o5g2I/rachel-adamsheard</link><image><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.png</url><title>Rachel Adams-Heard - </title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASS6d4o5g2I/rachel-adamsheard</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:20:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2025 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASS6d4o5g2I/rachel-adamsheard.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Companies With No Detention Experience Want to Run Trump’s ICE Camps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Obscure disaster-response firms have been angling to profit from the president’s mass deportation plans since before his reelection.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-15/trump-s-ice-camps-turn-to-contractors-with-no-detention-experience</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-15/trump-s-ice-camps-turn-to-contractors-with-no-detention-experience</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:00:30 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ide.4nFH4wCM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" 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Yin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE Moves to DNA-Test Families Targeted for Deportation with New Contract]]></title><description><![CDATA[Advocates worry the tests will pave the way for the Trump administration to separate children from their caregivers.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-04/trump-administration-s-ice-wants-25-million-to-dna-test-immigrant-families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-04/trump-administration-s-ice-wants-25-million-to-dna-test-immigrant-families</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:00:40 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifjFCGD11h3g/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail 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Torrance County, Nuevo México, es una de ellas.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-adictos-a-centros-ICE-de-detencion-de-inmigrantes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-adictos-a-centros-ICE-de-detencion-de-inmigrantes/</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:00:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hinges on Small Towns Hooked on Private Prisons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like a growing number of US communities, Torrance County, New Mexico, is convinced its financial survival depends on locking people up.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-addicted-to-ice-immigrant-detention-centers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-addicted-to-ice-immigrant-detention-centers/</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 10:00:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rising Cost of ICE Flying Immigrants to Far-Flung Detention Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The increase in long-distance transfers makes it harder to fight deportation and boosts taxpayer expense.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-ice-immigrant-move-costs-taxpayers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-ice-immigrant-move-costs-taxpayers/</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Leon Yin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 11:00:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Mass-Deportation Push Overcrowds Miami Krome ICE Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two detainees who were held at the detention facility have died this year, and many more have endured long waits for basic necessities]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-24/trump-immigration-push-sparks-overcrowding-at-miami-s-krome-detention-center</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-24/trump-immigration-push-sparks-overcrowding-at-miami-s-krome-detention-center</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Smith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:53:36 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5Lqw6XBAus0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5Lqw6XBAus0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An aerial view of the Krome Detention Center outside of Miami</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Aims to Bring Back Detention Centers for Immigrant Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[The move to use jail-like facilities to hold children comes as the administration also rolls back legal services offered to unaccompanied minors.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-administration-plans-detention-centers-for-migrant-children</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-administration-plans-detention-centers-for-migrant-children</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fola Akinnibi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:00:16 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iCWzzSnsxbL8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iCWzzSnsxbL8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Unaccompanied immigrant minors waited to be processed by Border Patrol agents after they crossed the Rio Grande into south Texas in 2021.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work for an Immigration-Related Federal Contractor? Share Your Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bloomberg wants to hear from individuals employed by companies involved in US immigration and deportation.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/work-for-federal-contractors-in-immigration-or-detention-share-your-story</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/work-for-federal-contractors-in-immigration-or-detention-share-your-story</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:29:11 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ijgC3BOKsoc8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ijgC3BOKsoc8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Winn Correctional Center, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility, in Winnfield, Louisiana, US, on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. In 2019, five ICE detention centers opened in Louisiana, bringing the state’s total to nine. All the new centers were former jails, operated by private contractors. The shift began under Trump, but it has intensified under President Joe Biden.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE Eyes Massive California Tent Facility Amid Space Constraints]]></title><description><![CDATA[The agency plans to take over the site as the Trump administration runs out of room to put arrested migrants.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-13/san-diego-area-tent-facility-set-to-be-converted-into-an-ice-detention-site</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-13/san-diego-area-tent-facility-set-to-be-converted-into-an-ice-detention-site</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:08:03 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ibgrjGdo6480/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ibgrjGdo6480/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>This photograph distributed by the US Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs shows the intake area of the soft-sided facility in Otay Mesa, California.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contractor Keeps Working for US After 8-Year-Old Died in Custody]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loyal Source Government Services remains the chief healthcare provider for migrants in border custody almost two years after the child’s death.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-06/federal-medical-contractor-cashing-in-despite-troubled-record</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-06/federal-medical-contractor-cashing-in-despite-troubled-record</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:00:04 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVT__3wJ3AuE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iVT__3wJ3AuE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A Customs and Border Protection vehicle patrolling along the US-Mexico border in El Paso.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Tent Facility is Holding Migrant Families Longer Than Recommended]]></title><description><![CDATA[They're being kept far more than 72 hours, despite a plunge in border crossings, according to an immigration advocate and a person familiar with the matter.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/us-border-facility-violating-rules-on-holding-migrant-families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/us-border-facility-violating-rules-on-holding-migrant-families</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fola Akinnibi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:00:06 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ipAFRUBEX_lg/v2/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ipAFRUBEX_lg/v2/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>In this photograph distributed by the US Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs, an aerial view of the soft-sided facility in Otay Mesa, California.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistleblowers Allege Fraud, Cover-Up at ICE Detention Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Homeland Security’s inspector general had previously urged the immediate removal of detainees from the facility due to “critical staffing shortages.”]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/ice-corecivic-accused-of-covering-up-poor-conditions-at-migrant-center</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/ice-corecivic-accused-of-covering-up-poor-conditions-at-migrant-center</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:44:33 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOZA9rVQb09w/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOZA9rVQb09w/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico in 2022.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CDC Won’t Give the Public a Full Picture of Fertility Treatment Risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Egg donation comes with health risks. Women are unable to learn which clinics have the fewest adverse outcomes.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-24/fertility-treatment-risks-what-information-the-cdc-holds-back</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-24/fertility-treatment-risks-what-information-the-cdc-holds-back</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jackie Davalos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:00:14 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iJpJGCKaGjG8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iJpJGCKaGjG8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A woman injects herself with a hormone meant to induce superovulation.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcript ‘In Trust’ Episode 12: The Celebration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read the transcript from the investigative podcast. ]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-11/transcript-in-trust-episode-12-the-celebration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-11/transcript-in-trust-episode-12-the-celebration</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Adams-Heard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:11:36 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRBRJrksw0TI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.png" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRBRJrksw0TI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.png"/><media:description/></media:content></item></channel></rss>