Trump plans to expand immigrant detention boosts private prison companies: report

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 07/03/18 01:06 PM EDT

President Trump’s plan to establish more detention centers for undocumented immigrants will give a boost to private prison companies that backed Trump’s presidential campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

CoreCivic and Geo Group both saw their shares spike last month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it likely add 15,000 new beds for families, after Trump’s executive order to detain undocumented immigrant families together, according to the newspaper.

The Trump administration is also pushing to increase the number of beds for immigrants to 52,000 from 40,000, requesting $2.8 billion for the 2019 budget year to fund the effort.

Geo Group declined to comment to The Journal. The company’s CEO, George Zoley, said during an earnings call in April that he anticipated the possibility of new contracts “as the president will be asking for a significant increase in the detention bed capacity for ICE," the outlet reported.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/395377-trump-plans-to-expand-immigrant-detention-boost-private-prison

[sakabatou]

1. And he'll probably make money off of this

[maxrandb]

4. He'll make sure they only use Donnie Short Fingers Mattresses and serve Donnie Shit for Brains steak

[ck4829]

2. Hit them where it hurts. Flag their job ads.

Here's one example.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:craigslist.org+%22corecivic%22

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Follow the money. $770/day instead of $5/day for 99.6% effectiveness w ankle bracelets. . . . nt

[stuffmatters]

6. Dems need to megaphone this:Trump is throwing away billions of your taxpayer dollars/resources

300,000 dollars each per year cost to taxpayers to imprison a refuge whose "crime" is simply seeking asylum established thru US international treaties or even undocumented entry (a misdemeanor like a parking ticket) Not to mention the enormous taxpayer funded resources Trump is diverting from actually violent border crime arrests prosecutions incarcerations.

Repugs seem to have no conscience about the atrocities Trump is creating. With them money is all that talks.

I have been disgusted that Dems & the MSM have been so silent to tepid attacking the exploding economic taxpayer burden of this atrocity over a system that was in place (case mgmt ankle bracelets) and was so unilaterally effective & successful and with at least a modicum of human/political decency.

[bronxiteforever]

5. Who is George Zoley-u won't believe

George Christopher Zoley was born in Florina, Greece on February 7, 1950.

Zoley has received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zoley

Oh the turns of America politics! An immigrant will lock up other immigrants for profit. Zoley,like the Con, has an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.