Former GEO Group Executive Takes Over ICE as Detention Contractor Reaps Huge Gains
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Updated · NPR · Jun 3
Former GEO Group Executive Takes Over ICE as Detention Contractor Reaps Huge Gains
3 articles · Updated · NPR · Jun 3
Summary
ICE’s new acting director began this week after previously serving as an executive at GEO Group, the private prison contractor deeply tied to U.S. immigration detention.
GEO Group has posted major financial gains as the Trump administration expands immigrant detentions, putting a former company insider atop the agency overseeing that system.
The appointment underscores how closely government immigration enforcement and private detention contractors are intertwined as detention operations grow.