FLORIDA’S GEO GROUP PLAYS CENTRAL ROLE IN TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION PLAN
Few companies have made a bigger killing from the administration’s turbocharged efforts to detain and deport undocumented migrants.
Ten days after Trump won last year’s presidential election, the company hired top Trump advisor and former Florida state congressman, Carlos Trujillo as a lobbyist. Trujillo’s firm, Continental Strategy, employs the daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff.
The company contributed more than $500,000 backing President Trump’s election effort last year and then chipped in an additional $500,000 to support Trump’s inauguration this year. It’s been money well spent…
Immigration is typically a civil — not criminal — matter under U.S. law but facilities that hold undocumented migrants remain places of confinement. Critics argue that the profit-driven model prioritizes occupancy over the welfare of detainees.
“No matter how you spin it, these are prisons,” said Faisal Al-Juburi of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas-based immigrant rights group. “There is no way to humanely detain people, especially families.”
