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dlilafae

(255 posts)
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 10:11 PM Saturday

For those so inclined, your entire existence can be boiled down to one objective...

... profitability!

Border Czar Tom Homan as the Top Architect of Donald Trump’s Immigration Agenda previously received Thousands of Dollars from GEO Group, who are currently Raking in Millions from Deportations. ~ Now, there's some damn swamp draining in action, huh?

◘ GEO/Core Civic Groups


Chairman George Zoley of the GEO said the company stands to gain up to $1 billion in additional revenue from surveilling and detaining undocumented immigrants. Zoley calls the mass deportation plans from the TSF’s administration an “unpresidented opportunity.”
Feb. 27, 2025: On today’s quarterly earnings call, for-profit prison operator GEO Group’s new CEO (David Donahue) announced that this is an “unprecedented time in our company’s history.” “We believe the scale of the opportunity before our company is unlike any we’ve previously experienced.”

For-profit prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group are primed to benefit from Trump’s white supremacist agenda to round up, detain, and deport millions of immigrants. In January, Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which requires mandatory detention of undocumented immigrants who are charged with low-level offenses, including shoplifting, as well as more serious crimes. Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is a former GEO Group lobbyist. 

GEO Group estimated that based on public statements from ICE, implementation of the Laken Riley Act would require at least an additional 60,000 detention beds. Some estimates have put that number at over 110,000 beds. Zoley said the new law will also require a “significant ramp up” in electronic monitoring services. In addition, they “expect the upside potential from all these opportunities could represent as much as $800 million to $1 billion in incremental annualized revenues.” The company is currently $1.7 billion in debt.  “This is a unique moment in our company’s history.” “We believe we are well positioned to scale up our diversified segments in secure housing, transportation, electronic monitoring to meet the changing needs of this new administration, and to continue to enhance value for our shareholders.” Zoley said GEO Group is “the single largest contractor to ICE” and the “largest provider of secure transportation services for ICE.” 
But the White House says that there's nothing wrong with this situation. ~ Scary Stuff!

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Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/27/border-czar-ethics-consulting-fees/

https://www.wishtv.com/news/politics/hegseth-camp-atterbury-to-be-used-for-immigrant-detention/

https://americasvoice.org/blog/private-prisons-are-set-to-massively-profit-from-stephen-millers-mass-detention-agenda/

https://theappeal.org/geo-group-earnings-mass-deportations/







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For those so inclined, your entire existence can be boiled down to one objective... (Original Post) dlilafae Saturday OP
Nauseating. Heartbreaking. Appalling. pat_k Saturday #1
" Value for our shareholders " Hey Joe Sunday #2
"Mumbles" Homan is a disgrace to the human species. In a past decade he could've been allegorical oracle Sunday #3

Hey Joe

(117 posts)
2. " Value for our shareholders "
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 12:38 AM
Sunday

Down to the very essence of what America has come to represent. Sadly

allegorical oracle

(5,376 posts)
3. "Mumbles" Homan is a disgrace to the human species. In a past decade he could've been
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 09:03 AM
Sunday

a compliant Nazi. Never understand people who will sacrifice their souls for money, especially when the job demands cruelty.

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