The private detention facilities holding immigrants, which were not part of the Obama-era phasing out plan, is another overlooked subject of human rights violations. Most detainees have committed no crimes other than a misdemeanor for crossing the U.S. border without proper documentation. The are segregated and kept in jail indefinitely and many are treated worse than criminals with practically no medical or legal help available to them. If keeping prisoners locked is more profitable than releasing them, then there is the crux of private prisons and the detriment to America.
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Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws
A lawsuit against one of the largest private prison operators in the country reached class-action status this week. Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all – a violation of federal anti-slavery laws – a lawsuit claims.The lawsuit, filed in 2014 against one of the largest private prison companies in the country, reached class-action status this week after a federal judge’s ruling. That means the case could involve as many as 60,000 immigrants who have been detained.
Company that runs immigration detention centers is top donor for three Texas congressmen
One of the country’s largest operators of private immigration detention facilities has made significant contributions to several Texas members of Congress. The GEO Group’s PAC and executives have given $32,900 to Houston Republican Rep. John Culberson’s campaign this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org. GEO is Culberson's largest donor.
Investigation Finds at Least $800M in Taxpayer Money Went to Funding For-Profit Immigrant Prisons in 2018
While President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda has been disastrous and deadly for asylum-seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, a Daily Beast investigation
published on Thursday found that the White House's xenophobic policies
have been a major boon for the private prison industry—at the expense of
American taxpayers.
Migrant Children Moved Back to Troubled Texas Border Facility
At the squat, sand-colored concrete border station in Texas that has
become the center of debate over President Trump’s immigration policies,
a chaotic shuffle of migrant children continued on Tuesday as more than
100 were moved back into a facility that days earlier had been emptied
in the midst of criticism that young detainees there were hungry, crying
and unwashed.