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Private prison company GEO Group has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against immigrant detainees who protested working conditions inside a California facility.
Geo Group Inc. is being accused by the US government of violating federal labor law by retaliating against immigrant detainees who supported work stoppages.
As the new Trump administration promises mass deportations of people who entered the U.S. illegally, a private prison company is staffing up with former officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be.
The Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, the only privately owned detention center in Washington, can hold up to 1,575 people.
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld rulings requiring private prison operator GEO Group to pay more than $23 million to the state of Washington and hundreds of immigrant detainees who were paid $1 a day to participate in a work program.
One of the biggest hurdles to carrying out Trump's mass deportation plans is where to house the millions of people who are in the country without legal status. As many prisons and detention centers are already overcrowded,
The for-profit company operating the facility has invested $70 million to "meet the anticipated requirements" of federal immigration enforcement under Donald Trump.
The 42-year-old father of three now works as a lieutenant for the GEO Group, the private contractor that runs the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora.
In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department's positions on immigration with President Trump's executive actions — and threatens local officials who don't cooperate.
The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be. However, an estimated 11.7 million people are living in the U.S. illegally, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently has the budget to detain only about 41,000 people.