Fourteen people died in ICE custody by August 2025, with 11 deaths occurring since the start of the Trump administration. Nearly 90% of ICE detainees are held in facilities run by private companies GEO Group and CoreCivic. Reports documented widespread medical neglect, overcrowding, lack of food, …
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ICE agents arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on May 9, 2025, while he attempted to join three Democratic members of Congress conducting an oversight visit to the Delaney Hall ICE detention center. Over 20 armed ICE officers surrounded and arrested Baraka on public property after he had already left …
Major corporations donated millions to Trump’s 2025 inauguration, with private prison firms CoreCivic and GEO Group contributing $2.8 million, and Carrier Global Corporation donating $1 million, while holding significant government contracts
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Daniel Bible, ICE’s top career official responsible for immigrant detention for nearly 15 years, left the agency on October 31, 2024, to become executive vice president at GEO Group, ICE’s largest private detention contractor. This move is part of a systemic ‘revolving door’ …
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The Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ family separation policy forcibly removed over 5,500 children from their parents at the border, detaining them in cages at facilities described as ‘concentration camps’ by historians. Children as young as 4 months were taken, …
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Private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group saw their stock prices surge 100% and 98% respectively after donating nearly $2.8 million to Trump’s campaign and inauguration. Attorney General Jeff Sessions immediately reversed Obama’s order to phase out private prisons, declaring …