Doing so enabled the Government to save the expense of incarceration. It also enabled the aliens to earn money to support themselves and their families. and it was a steady source of labor for employers who wanted cheap and docile labor. After all. if any alien who had been farmed out by the border patrol complained. he was just simply picked up and put back in jail or chased out. This was a scandalous system. in no way any less odious than the infamous convicts leasing that some States employed until the public indignation was aroused in this country. It was only about 5 years ago that the border patrol quit farming out alien witnesses. I was told. officially. And yet here we have it again.
Identified stereotypes
Aliens are described as cheap and docile labor.