Boca's Private-Prison Giant GEO Group Gets More Money From ICE Than Any Other Company
The Trump era has been horrible for many of us, but few have suffered more than immigrants and those seeking asylum from oppressive regimes.
However, Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown has been fantastic for South Florida's massive private-prison corporation, Boca Raton's GEO Group.
According to a breakdown of current ICE contracts by the independent investigative website Sludge, no single company is making more money off the federal deportation machine than GEO. Per Sludge's data, GEO holds $471 million — nearly half of $1 billion — in federal ICE contracts.
Under Trump's administration last year, ICE dished out more money to federal contractors — $1.7 billion — than in any year since 2008, according to data from usaspending.gov. Sludge reports that spending in 2018 is poised to rocket past that 2017 figure.
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