# Lawfare Daily: The Dangers of Privatized, Automated Immigration Enforcement Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition-6936765/lawfare-daily-the-dangers-of-privatized-automated-immigration-enforcement Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition-6936765/lawfare-daily-the-dangers-of-privatized-automated-immigration-enforcement.md Podcast: [The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition-6936765) Published: 2026-04-30T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition/episodes/lawfare-daily-the-dangers-of-privatized-automated-immigratio Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/60baafd7d3cdd0001b29d9ee/e/69f13158f8c6637737690908/media.mp3 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition-6936765/episodes/lawfare-daily-the-dangers-of-privatized-automated-immigration-enforcement Duration seconds: 2467 ## Resource Lawfare  Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with  Chinmayi Sharma , an associate professor at Fordham Law School and a contributing editor at  Lawfare , to discuss Sharma’s  forthcoming law review article, “Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries.” They discuss the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement—which Sharma describes as “a code-based Leviathan—cloaked in the veneer of legal legitimacy yet operating outside traditional democratic channels”—and how private technology vendors entrench their positions within that system. Sharma also walks through a number of proposals for states and other sub-federal entities to counteract these harms to immigrants, society, and the rule of law itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition-6936765/episodes/lawfare-daily-the-dangers-of-privatized-automated-immigration-enforcement/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast-patreon-edition-6936765/lawfare-daily-the-dangers-of-privatized-automated-immigration-enforcement.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.