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highplainsdem

(52,579 posts)
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 09:38 PM Nov 7

Private Prison Companies Call Trump's Deportation Plans 'Unprecedented Opportunity'

Source: HuffPost

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Key Trump advisors have also openly discussed building mass deportation camps along the border capable of detaining tens of thousands of people at a time as judges process their deportation orders, attached to “constantly” operating runways with deportation flights around the world. While Democratic presidents have also massively expanded the immigration incarceration and deportation system in recent years, Trump is proposing his own generational escalation.

That sort of thing is music to the ears of private prison operators ― whose stock prices soared upon the projections of Trump’s second term in the White House. (On Wednesday, GEO Group was “the single biggest winner in the U.S. stock market — among companies of any size,” according to the investment news site Sherwood News, which is owned by Robinhood.)

On the earnings calls, two of the largest players in the private prison industry ― GEO Group and Core Civic ― demonstrated broad agreement on the implications of a second Trump term, saying it was likely to increase government funding of private contracts for immigration detention, electronic tracking devices, and the transport of detainees within the United States and to other countries.

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“We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more expansive approach to monitoring the several millions of individuals who are currently on the non-detained immigrant docket,” GEO Group President and COO Wayne Calabrese also said on the call. “We have assured ICE of our capability to rapidly scale up our capabilities to monitor and oversee several hundreds of thousands, or even several millions of individuals, in order to achieve the federal government’s immigration law compliance objectives.”

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-deportation-plans-private-prisons-opportunity_n_672d3faae4b01e5999fc97c0

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Dem2theMax

(10,335 posts)
3. I do not want to live in Trump's hate-filled world.
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 10:15 PM
Nov 7


How I wish I could afford to leave. But if they cut my Social Security and my healthcare, I will be leaving anyway. Feet first.

HappyLarge

(17 posts)
4. And they'll run them with the same malignant incompetence they run the current prison systems at.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:33 AM
Nov 8

I can only hope the second administration spends so much time and energy shiving each other, (just like the first) they can’t get anything done.

King_Klonopin

(1,341 posts)
5. Immigrants aren't real people -- they are chattel, a commodity that can be a means for profit. n/t
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 02:57 AM
Nov 8

For-profit prisons
For-profit health insurance (gotta love United Health Care)
For-profit hospitals (gotta love Steward Health and HCA)
For-profit mercenary paramilitary
For-profit elementary education

ananda

(30,852 posts)
6. Like buzzards descending on roadkill USA
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:32 AM
Nov 8

Our country is being run and taken over by
vultures and bottomfeeders now.

And the gullible masses who voted for it
have turned into prey.

What a fubar mess!

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