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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's where she and other foreign students are being held: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CcqyBM48EW2MyNzz8

It's a privately run ICE detention center owned by Geo Group.

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They were trying to pay their prisoners $1/day for work AKA slave labor.

https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage

The GEO Group runs private prisons and detainee centers and gets paid by the government to house prisoners and detainees.   They get paid about $70 per day for each detainee and they need to keep their "enrollment" up in order to make a profit.

[quote]GEO Group owns and/or manages 28 immigration jails on behalf of ICE and USMS, with a total capacity of approximately 30,500 people. ICE contracts accounted for 42.7% of GEO Group’s annual revenue in 2023. ICE pays the company a per diem rate based on the number of immigrants it imprisons. [b]In 2022, for example, a contract between ICE and GEO Group for the company’s operation of ICE’s LaSalle Processing Center stipulated a guaranteed minimum of 1,170 jailed immigrants at a rate of $76.64 per bed each day (approximately $2.7 million a month)[/b].

ICE is the single largest client of GEO Group, accounting for 42.7% of the company’s total revenues in 2023. Following the Trump administration’s announcement in 2018 of its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy and plans to add 15,000 more beds to facilitate family detention, GEO Group’s stock prices increased by 1.79%. In 2020, just before Biden took office, ICE awarded the company a new 10-year contract for the continued operation of its South Texas ICE Processing Center. Organizers and advocates have observed that ICE deliberately extended this contract by an unusually long period of time in order to extend “the harm of this administration far beyond Trump’s term in office.”

While the Biden administration’s executive order regarding private prisons does not apply to contracts with ICE, GEO Group has stated that changes in federal immigration policies and changes in federal immigration policies may impact the government’s use of public-private partnerships with prisons and immigration jails and therefore negatively affect the company’s contracts with ICE. The company has also identified “declines in crossings and apprehensions along the Southwest border” as a risk to its shareholders.

GEO Group has lied about its involvement in family separation. Since 2014, the company has managed the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, an ICE jail designed to hold up to 1,328 people. The immigration jail previously held up to 830 migrant families with children until 2021, when ICE announced it would instead begin using it as a short-term “reception center” for detained immigrants. The company claimed that it “has never had any involvement, in any way” with the separation of families.

Like its other prisons, GEO Group’s immigration jails have been implicated in numerous human rights abuses, including sexual abuse, forced labor (see below), medical neglect, spying, excessive use of solitary confinement, deprivation of food and recreation time, and other inhumane conditions that have resulted in deaths and self-deportations.
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https://investigate.afsc.org/company/geo-group

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