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Make no mistake, mass deportation is not about safety or security... it's about creating fear, division, and hand outs to greedy private prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic.
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Throughout the entire decade or so I've been writing about the migrant carceral complex, I've tried to help people understand apparent contradiction this vast federal apparatus represents. Hunting down and caging migrants, particularly on the scale the Trump regime is attempting to do, is a mind-fuckingly expensive operation that provides literally no benefit whatsoever to the vaunted "America taxpayer" (so, you) and yet we do it anyway - why? Well part of it is certainly racism and white nationalism, but the reality is that our vast incarceration and deportation machine is actually extremely profitable for some highly influential people; particularly folks that own or invest in private prison companies. How profitable? Well a recent ACLU report reveals that the Trump regime has put $45 billion (with a b) up for grabs in contracts to facilitate a massive expansion of the migrant carceral complex and their white nationalist scheme to bleach America's demographics by (lawless) force.
ACLU Exposes Trump Admin’s Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Jail System
"The documents, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, “signal a massive expansion of ICE detention capacity — including at facilities notorious for misconduct and abuse — which echo reports earlier this week that the Trump administration has sought proposals for up to $45 billion to expand immigrant detention,” ACLU said.
“The discovery also comes on the heels of a ‘strategic sourcing vehicle‘ released by ICE earlier this month, which called for government contractors to submit proposals for immigration detention and related services,” the group added."
The truth here is that there are billions of dollars swimming around in the migrant carceral complex whether the facilities are private or publicly controlled; but Trump's close relationship with donors and lobbyists from the private prison industry ensures that he's going to turn out maximum value for *his* investors - who are some of the worst human beings on earth, quite frankly. This article in particular singles out three companies (Geo Group, CoreCivic, and Management Training Corporation) that are soliciting big contracts to make the regime's nativist dreams of an upgraded national gulag system for brown people a reality; and the free market is rewarding them in anticipation of the regime's mass deportation agenda:
"The documents received provide important details regarding what we have long feared — a massive expansion of ICE detention facilities nationwide in an effort to further the Trump administration’s dystopian plans to deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones,” said Eunice Cho, senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Prison Project.
“This expansion is a disastrous waste of billions of taxpayer dollars that will only line the coffers of the private prison industry,” Cho added.
Indeed, GEO shares have nearly doubled in value since Trump’s election, while CoreCivic stock is up 57% over the same period."
Of course, there are other benefits to expanding a massive private prison complex for migrants for a white nationalist regime bent on creating an ethno-state besides appeasing donors. As the article notes, privately run ICE facilities are not subject to state regulation or inspection; which is both why the reported levels of abuse are so much higher than in publicly run prison facilities, and why they're the preferred destination to send migrants for a cracker fascist regime that has more or less openly admitted "the cruelty, is the point."
Look, as an abolitionist it's not lost on me that all prisons are bad no matter who is running them. But the reality here is that most Americans don't really understand what the migrant carceral complex actually is, and without that realization it's easier for them to fall into the trap of casually believing this monstrous bullshit serves the public interest somehow. The migrant carceral complex is at the end of the day a business, in which billions of dollars in public funds are distributed to rich people for the privilege of having them cage and torture brown people as part of a (shockingly bipartisan) nativist agenda. You don't get healthcare, your kids don't get lunch at school, and your grandma is eating cat food because the wise people running our society would rather make blood ticks running prison companies fat and happy, to appease racists in the body politic. Yeah, it's certainly worse under a white nationalist Trump regime, but the reality is they're just expanding this system in anticipation of conducting mass deportations (which are legally recognized as a crime against humanity by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court). Trump didn't build the migrant carceral complex; it was handed to him by generations of politicians before him who laid the roads he's running towards a genocide on, as we speak.
Truthout · ACLU Exposes Trump Admin’s Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Jail SystemTrump has reportedly sought proposals for a $45 billion expansion of immigrant detention.
From #Wikipedia: Internment of Japanese Americans
"During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (#WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.
"These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following the outbreak of war with the Empire of Japan in December 1941. About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei ('second generation'; American-born Japanese with #USCitizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans comprised more than one-third of the territory's population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were incarcerated.
"#Internment was intended to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose. The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. Following the executive order, the entire West Coast was designated a military exclusion area, and all Japanese Americans living there were taken to assembly centers before being sent to concentration camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas. Similar actions were taken against individuals of Japanese descent in Canada. Internees were prohibited from taking more than they could carry into the camps, and many were forced to sell some or all of their property, including their homes and businesses. At the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, internees often lived in overcrowded barracks with minimal furnishing."
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Prior use of internment camps in the United States
"The United States Government had previously employed civilian internment policies in a variety of circumstances. During the 1830s, civilians of the indigenous #CherokeeNation were evicted from their homes and detained in 'emigration depots' in Alabama and Tennessee prior to the deportation to Oklahoma following the passage of the #IndianRemovalAct in 1830. Similar internment policies were carried out by U.S. territorial authorities against the #Dakota and #Navajo peoples during the American Indian Wars in the 1860s.
"In 1901, during the Philippine–American War, General J. Franklin Bell ordered the detainment of #Filipino civilians in the provinces of Batangas and Laguna into U.S. Army-run #ConcentrationCamps in order to prevent them from collaborating with #Filipino General Miguel Malvar's guerrillas; over 11,000 people died in the camps from malnutrition and disease."
Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
#ICEDetention #IllegalDeportations #SecretPolice #HumanRightsViolations #ConstitutionalRights #HumanRights #SCOTUSIsCompromised #SCOTUSIsCorrupt #USPol #ForcedDisappearances #MemoryHoled #1798AlienEnemiesAct #PrivatePrisons
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Reading about awful detainment and deportation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/ice-detention-centers-immigration-asylum
Geo Group is one of the big companies running these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group
The founder of the company is an immigrant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zoley
Geo Group is publicly traded NYSE: GEO and a S&P 600 component. Their stock value increased wildly when Trump won last November.
Here's who owns Geo Group: https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nyse/geo/ownership
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The Guardian · ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish
One of the private prisons used by ICE in New Mexico, the Torrance County Detention Facility is run by CoreCivic. Estancia, NM #photography #NewMexico #nm #Estancia #CoreCivic #privateprisons #ice #immigration #detention
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If that was you, sorry that happened to you, but if not, please edit to put quotes around the "headline".
I agree the US is a mess, and has put the profits of corporations like private prison operator Geo Group ahead of human rights. It sicken me that ICE is operating on their behalf to keep the jails full, because that's how they profit.
Canadian woman #incarcerated entering the country to go to a professional conference, despite holding all the appropriate paperwork.
And she's still there, eleven days later, in horrible conditions this country usually only reserves for the poor, the Black, and the brown.
The only upside here is that the improper #arrest of an attractive young white Canadian woman for imaginary #immigration violations might start to open some people's eyes.
#immigration #detention #Canada #resist #Ω #refugees #asylumseekers #tourists #incarceration #privateprisons #impeach47 #deportElon
https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility
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vancouversunB.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chainsHer mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.
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And just what does that rapid expansion of the fascist police state look like even in the infancy of the Trump administration? As this March 9th piece published on Truthout notes, it's already a fascist nightmare where migrants are kept in inhumane conditions and their human rights are routinely violated in violent, even lethal ways - and Downmarket Mussolini's regime is only getting started:
As Mass Incarceration of Immigrants Rises, Detention Centers Eye New Contracts
"That crisis is set to grow as detention expansion continues. Last week, ICE signed a $1 billion, 15-year contract with the private prison company GEO Group to reopen an empty jailhouse in Newark to incarcerate up to 1,000 immigration prisoners at a time, the first large detention expansion under Trump’s crackdown.
GEO Group pushed hard for the contract and sued New Jersey in 2024 to successfully overturn a state law originally supported by racial justice activists that banned private companies from contracting with ICE to house immigrants. Now, GEO Group reportedly has plans to increase the facility’s capacity to incarcerate people and potentially generate an additional $500 to $600 million in annual profit. The company has faced multiple lawsuits after immigrants were subjected to what attorneys describe as underpaid and forced labor. Most recently, a federal court upheld a ruling requiring GEO Group to pay $23 million in damages after the company paid ICE detainees $1 a day for labor at a detention center in Tacoma, Washington."
Like most honest reporting about America's horrifying migrant carceral complex, this is a hard story to read for folks who aren't already familiar with the cruelty, depravity, and casual disregard for human life with which Americans conduct their one-sided war on migrants. The testimony from formerly-incarcerated individuals provided in just this single story should be enough for most people to understand that this has nothing to do with so-called responsible policing, or keeping anyone safe, while the dollar figures involved make it clear that broadly speaking the US government is heavily-funding a whole lot of odious people in the business of torturing migrants for profit. Furthermore, as Trump works to expand the hunting, detention, and deportation of migrants, the piles of money, flow of human rights violations, and atrocities committed in the name of protecting Americans from the lady who works at your local nail salon, will only expand correspondingly.
Truthout · As Mass Incarceration of Immigrants Rises, Detention Centers Eye New ContractsOne attorney warns of a “humanitarian crisis” in detention centers as a jail notorious for abuse reopens to ICE.
#PortlandME - The American Civil Liberties Union of #Maine says dozens of federal detainees are currently being held at the #CumberlandCountyJail and many others are being held at the #FederalPrison in #BerlinNewHampshire.
"Last week, the #ACLU of New Hampshire said it confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was already holding prisoners in Berlin. The Los Angeles Times has reported more than 500 detainees could be held at #FCIBerlin.
"As of Monday, March 10, 2025, at ACLU says there were 61 people held in ICE custody at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland."
Read more:
https://www.wmtw.com/article/federal-detainees-held-maine-jail-nh-federal-prison/64148626
#HumanRightsViolations #ICEDetention #IndefiniteDetention #PrivatePrisons #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ResistICE #ImmigrantsRights
#MaineACLU Denounces ‘Cruel’ Use of #NewHampshire #FederalPrison to Hold #ICEDetainees
By Edward TomicMarch 11, 2025
"The #Maine American Civil Liberties Union (#ACLU) has issued a statement denouncing the use of a New Hampshire federal prison by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain suspected illegal aliens.
"Last month, media outlets began reporting on a leaked memo, signed Feb. 6, that indicated ICE was intending to use #FCIBerlin, a medium-security prison in Berlin, N.H., to hold immigration detainees in custody.
"That memo noted that the units at FCI were not currently available due to there being a 'substantial amount of preparation and resources' needed before the prison could accept detainees, such as additional funding for staffing, food, utilities, clothing and other items.
"The memo also indicates that the federal Bureau of Prisons or warden at each locally designated prison may approve or reject a request by ICE to hold an ICE detainee for any reason, such as for lack of space, or medical, mental health, safety or security reasons.
"ICE lodges immigration detainers against unlawfully present noncitizens who have been arrested on criminal charges or who the agency has probable cause to believe are deportable from the U.S.
"'The government should not be using federal prisons to support the president’s #MassDeportation efforts,' said Carol Garvan, legal director of the ACLU of Maine, in a Monday statement.
"'The federal government itself acknowledged that FCI Berlin would require a ‘substantial amount of preparation,’ yet just weeks later they have already begun detaining people there,' Garvan said. 'We have strong concerns about the #inhumane treatment of people in ICE custody, and we will not stand by while our region is used to carry out these cruel policies.'"
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/03/maine-aclu-denounces-cruel-use-of-new-hampshire-federal-prison-to-hold-ice-detainees/
#HumanRightsViolations #ICEDetention #IndefiniteDetention #PrivatePrisons #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ResistICE #ImmigrantsRights
The Maine Wire · Maine ACLU Denounces 'Cruel' Use of New Hampshire Federal Prison to Hold ICE DetaineesThe Maine American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a statement denouncing the use of a New Hampshire federal prison by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain suspected illegal aliens. [RELATED: Maine ACLU Vows to Resist ‘repression and totalitarianism’ of Second Trump Administration…] Last month, media outlets began reporting on a leaked memo,
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) main story on ICE Detention!
#GeoGroup! https://tube.fede.re/w/834XCxW9XxYvKnuD5ASXNu
#LastWeekTonight #LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver #ICEDetention #IndefiniteDetention #PrivatePrisons #CoreCivic #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #JohnOliver
#ICE Secretly Hauled #MahmoudKhalil to #Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege
By moving the campus #activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.
by Jonah Valdez, March 11 2025,
"Mahmoud Khalil’s wife watched as agents from the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed her husband and whisked him away from their New York City apartment in an unmarked vehicle on Saturday evening.
Agents ignored the pleas of Khalil’s wife who tried to show them legal papers proving her husband was a green card holder. They wouldn’t heed her requests to share where they were taking him, according to court filings. Eventually, one of the agents offered a terse response: Check the local immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.
"By next morning, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator indicated Khalil was no longer in New York. Instead, it showed him at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. When Khalil’s wife visited the jail, she was turned away.
"Without warning to Khalil’s wife or his immigration attorney Amy Greer, who the same morning had filed a petition to challenge her client’s arrest as a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights, ICE agents had transferred Khalil to a different facility. This time, they moved him thousands of miles south of his New York home to a facility in Louisiana. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Khalil’s exact whereabouts were updated in the ICE online system: the #LaSalleDetentionFacility in #JenaLouisiana, a #PrivateJail operated by the #GEOGroup.
"Attorneys for Khalil allege the move from the New York metropolitan area to Louisiana was a '#RetaliatoryTransfer' intended to restrict his access and to lawyers and family, and position what has grown into a closely watched #FirstAmendment case in a jurisdiction more friendly to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies.
"Three days after his detention, Khalil still has not been charged with a crime. The Department of Homeland Security has said it arrested Khalil, a lead negotiator for Palestine solidarity protesters at Columbia, for having “led activities aligned to Hamas.” President Donald Trump, who campaigned on deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, pledged that Khalil’s arrest is 'the first arrest of many to come' and that his administration would continue to target for deportations 'more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.'
"Although a Manhattan federal court ordered a temporary halt preventing the Trump administration from immediately deporting Khalil, attorneys remain concerned for his well-being and ability to access proper legal counsel. In a motion filed Monday evening by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at the City University of New York School of Law, attorneys seek to reverse the ICE decision and to transfer Khalil back to New York."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7uhSa
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #FloodingTheZone #ShockAndAwe #FirstAmendment #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #Censorship #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestinian #Protests #FreeKhalil #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #CenterForConstitutionalRights #TrumpRegime #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #PrivatePrisons #IndefiniteDetention
The Intercept · ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege
>>He added that the company is expected to activate all of its idle facilities across the country by the end of the year to meet . . . mission of mass deportation of people in the United States without legal authorization. An idle facility means it’s currently unused, but it can be up and running within 60 to 90 days, Zoley said.<<
#OklahomaVoice #Oklahoma #Immigration #Deportations #ICE #GEO #PrivatePrisons
https://oklahomavoice.com/2025/02/27/repub/ice-awards-1b-contract-to-private-prison-firm-for-major-immigrant-detention-center/
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#MassDeportations #ICE #DonaldTrump
Tracking monitors on all #undocumented who were arrested. Who are the contractors who is making $$$ from these tens of thousand of devices being used? #Privateprisons #Devicemoitoring
https://www.businessinsider.com/private-prisons-profit-trump-executive-order-immigration-deportation-geo-corecivic-2025-2
#Politics #Discourse #Economy #donald-trump #private-prisons #executive-orders #immigration #immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice #deportations #tyler-le #bi-illustration
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Business Insider · Trump's secret weapon in his war on immigration: private prisons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdVNHMpWjE
#Racist #Texas Teacher Invites #ICE to Deport His Students, Regrets it IMMEDIATELY
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@fortyseven private prisons are an abomination but members of congress profiting off private prisons is literally hell
The #LakenRileyAct abolishes some basic human rights for migrants. I don't think the US is ever coming back from this, especially since #democrats seem to be supporting this bullshit.
#migration #uspol #HumanRights #privateprisons #deportation
Article 2: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/laken-riley-act-democrats-immigration-hypocrisy
@AlSweigart
This one is real close to coming true as more governments, federal, state and local, #criminalize
being homeless and poor.
These folks will be filling up #privatePrisons and providing cheap labor to #bigCorps with no regulations or oversight.
#democracy is more than how we vote!