Because most immigrants detained by ICE are jailed in privately-operated facilities, the Trump regime’s goal to balloon detention capacity to 100,000 beds will result in financial windfalls for private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group, which were major donors to Trump in 2024.
GEO Group actually became the first corporation to max out to Trump during the 2024 campaign, @citizensforethics.org said last July. That same month, GEO then used a subsidiary, Geo Acquisition II, to donate an additional $500k to a pro-Trump super PAC: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/private-pr...