Washington-Die US immigration and customs authority has awarded a private prison company a 15-year contract worth $ 1 billion in order to record up to 1,000 immigrants in New Jersey.
“This detention center is the first to open as part of the new administration,” said Caleb Vitello, deputy ICE deputy in a statement on Wednesday. “The location near an international airport led logistics and facilitates the timely processing of people in our care while we pursue President (Donald) Trump's mandate to arrest, arrest and remove illegal extraterrestrials from our communities.”
On Thursday, the executives reported one of the largest private prisons, Geo Group Inc., the investors that they expect “unprecedented opportunities” as part of the immigration of the Trump administration by providing deterior bed capacity and increasing the electronic surveillance services from immigrants.
The Newark detention center, Delaney Hall, will be the largest ice processing facility and detention center on the east coast, said George Zoley, founder and executive Chairman from Geo.
Geo opened a contract with ICE to reopen this facility as an internment camp and even sued New Jersey because of his state law, which prevents private and public companies from receiving ICE to hang immigrants.
Increase in the bed capacity
Zoley said that Geo is planning to increase the capacity of the bed dream from 15,000 to 32,000. He said that these additional 17,000 beds could “achieve incremental, annualized income of $ 500 million and $ 600 million”.
He added that the company should activate all its idle institutions across the country by the end of the year in order to fulfill Trump's mission of the mass deportation of people in the United States without legal approval. An inactive facility means that it is currently not being used, but can be in operation within 60 to 90 days, said Zoley.
According to Zoley, there are some idle Geo facilities in Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina. Geo is currently operating ice systems in California, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Texas and Washington State.
He said that the federal government had expressed interest in these institutions, especially after the congress had passed a legislative template that would require mandatory detention by immigrants who would be charged or accused due to theft of property, which is called Riley Act.
Due to this law, said Zoley, it is estimated that ice would need up to 60,000 detention beds. ICE currently has a bed capacity of 41,500 across the country.
Immigration lawyers and experts warned that Trump's law would promise to issue mass shifts by asking the US Ministry of Homeland Security to keep a non-citizen about an arrest, indictment or conviction of minor theft-a reaction to the 22-year student student is named.
When Trump signed the bill, which was his first in his second term, he announced his plans to head the Ministry of Defense to use the naval base in Guantanamo Bay to accommodate up to 30,000 migrants.
According to a new analysis of the non -profit thought factory -migration policy institute, there are around 13.7 million people in the United States in the United States.
Zoley said he would expect an opportunity for Geo to offer more government contracts in half of the year after the congress has passed a massive package through reconciliation that could be enforced billions for border security and immigration.
The house and the Senate first have to adopt a household solution before containing the reconciliation process in order to promote these political goals.
The Senate voted last week for the approval of its budget solution after a change of marathon change in the change. The house narrowly passed his own verison on Tuesday.
Geo investment
According to Zoley, the company expects to invest around 38 million US dollars in the renovation of existing GeO institutions. He also added that the company also plans to invest $ 16 million for additional GPS tracking devices for immigrants in the not detailed docket.
An undetected docket is an alternative to the detention and enables you to monitor an immigrant electronically while waiting for legal proceedings.
The main actions program, which is an alternative to imprisonment, is known as an intensive surveillance program or ISAP. There are about 184,000 people under Isap, but Zoleey told investors that the number of people in this program could easily double to enforce immigration within the country within the focus of the Trump government.
He said that he could achieve sales of around 250 million US dollars on more than 300,000 people as part of ISAP.
According to ICE, around 7.6 million people are located on the not detailed docket for the 2024 financial year.
“In view of the size of this population, it is in our opinion that the requirements of the Federal Immigration Act in the Riley Act sheet require significant demands on electronic monitoring in addition to increased detainment capacity in order to ensure the proper persecution of people on the non -defined docket and their compliance with the requirements of their immigration court,” said Zoley.
Last updated at 3:54 p.m., February 27, 2025
