Private Prison Companies Are Absolutely Thrilled Donald Trump Won The Election
from the shitbirds-of-a-feather dept
Well, these entities deserve each other. The problem is we really don’t deserve either of them.
Trump spent a lot of his campaign touting a logistical nightmare of a policy that sounded a lot like an collapse-of-the-Weimar-Republic sort of thing: the mass detention and deportation of immigrants, whether they’re here legally or not. All that’s missing now are the rail cars and the genocide.
It’s an ugly plan that’s going to have extremely ugly outcomes, all based on bigotry and demonstrably false claims about the inherent “danger” posed by undocumented immigrants. Ignorance and hatred are going to be weaponized to tear apart families, destroy communities, and undermine the ideals this country used to hold dear.
More prisons, more beds, more detention facilities, more logistical support, more transport of detained immigrants — what looks like a horror show to many of us is being greeted with unrestrained glee by the CEOs of this country’s two largest private prison companies. Presumably, many of their shareholders are equally thrilled with this development as well, making them equally complicit in what’s to come.
Listening in on earnings calls was Matt Shuham, who has detailed the contents of these calls for the Huffington Post. It’s pretty harrowing to see something this awful being greeted with this much joy.
“The GEO Group was built for this unique moment in our company’s– country’s history, and the opportunity that it will bring,” George Zoley, GEO Group’s founder and executive chairman of the company’s board of directors, said on the call.
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Elsewhere in the call, he referred to a potential “sea change” in interior and border enforcement ― an “unprecedented opportunity” to assist with what he described as the “much more aggressive” policy framework from the incoming Trump administration. Speaking generally, he said, “We’re looking at a theoretical potential doubling of all of our services.”
Yep, sounds truly fantastic. The head of CoreCivic, which is infamous for running understaffed and under-supervised facilities that create dangerous situations for inmates, was equally thrilled to be a part of Trump’s nihilistic mass deportation plans.
“It feels like with this election this year, we’re heading into an era that we really haven’t seen, maybe only once or twice in the company’s history, where the value proposition of the private sector for both our state partners and our federal partners are going to be not only strong today, but even stronger as we go in the next couple of years,” Damon Hininger, CEO of CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, said on that company’s own earnings call.
It’s truly inspiring to hear private prison company CEOs gloat about their contribution to the misery of millions of people. In between the gloating are the details: just how much “growth” they can expect to profit from as Trump moves back into the Oval Office and his compliant party starts putting this plan in action.
GEO Group says it expects to increase the number of beds it supplies to ICE to jump from 13,500 to “over 31,000 beds,” with an expectation that number may hit as high as 85,000 once the program is fully implemented.
CoreCivic will also see its profits increase greatly, since it will possibly now be able to get into the ankle-monitor market now solely handled by GEO Group. ICE appears to believe it can’t rely on a sole source to handle the amount of monitoring it will be doing and is asking around (with its freshly posted Request for Information) to see what other companies might be able to contribute monitors and monitoring services to the mass deportation program. Presumably, ICE expects enough of an increase in need that it simply won’t be possible for GEO Group alone to handle it.
But it’s GEO Group that claims the prize for the most chilling response to what are likely to be some of the nation’s darkest days in American history:
“We believe we have the capabilities to expand the provision of these services to assist ICE in moving several hundreds of thousands of additional individuals if needed.”
Several hundreds of thousands of people being detained, moved, and ejected against their will solely because the incoming president and his administration believes they shouldn’t be here. And the response from these companies is that they’re excited they’re going to be able to profit directly from a program that’s based on nothing but vibes emanating from a cadre of extremely powerful bigots. Fuck them. And fuck Donald Trump. It’s great to know that if this country accelerates its slide toward fascism, it will partially be due to GEO Group and CoreCivic pushing the nation from the back.
Filed Under: donald trump, immigration, mass incarceration, private prisons
Companies: corecivic, geo group
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Fact Check
Because the LAW believes they shouldn’t be here, and because the VOTERS agree with enforcement.
Re: And those here legally?
Because Trump wants to deport ALL immigrants. Even those here legally who went through the effort to immigrate here.
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Balderdash, I mean it’s not like Couch-Fucker Vance argued on live tv in response to someone pointing out that those in Springfield were here legally that if he doesn’t agree with the legal method someone attained their citizenship they should be seen as and treated as here illegally or anything, I’m sure that so long as anyone jumped through the legal methods they’ll be super-duper safe from the leopards.
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The law doesn’t believe anything. It doesn’t have agency or consciousness. Making an appeal to arbitrary human decisions in a complex system as if it’s the same thing as a moral system that can tell you what is the right thing to do is absurd.
Re: Not just illegals
From Stephen Miller;
“We started a new denaturalization project under Project 2025, expect it to be turbocharged.”
This means they will strip legal immigrants of their citizenship.
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So, everyone except Native Americans? Do they even realize how crowded Europe would become?
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“Because the LAW … ”
The law says Donald belongs in prison.
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You couldn’t even make it through the parking lot before sucking off a fascist.
You must buy mouthwash like Diddy bought baby oil.
Competition creates efficiency. If you don’t like the private prison you were sent to, you can always choose another.
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“Competition creates efficiency.”
Hard to believe.
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A central myth of capitalism-as-practiced-as-a-faith.
A slightly higher myth is the one that there is competition in the first place.
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It’s funny that there’s all this fake concern about Musk’s undue influence on Trump when we have no idea who has been making actual presidential decisions for the past 3 years.
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“actual presidential decisions”
I was unaware that actual presidential decisions (whatever that means) were ever made available for public perusal, I imagine that many of them are classified in some manner. Why do you feel entitled to view such documents?
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You must have arms like Dhalsim to make a reach like that.
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No, YOU have no idea, coz you’re very gullible.
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Clue’s in the term ‘Presidential decisions’, numbnuts.
Would it be funny if all the immigrants were forced out? Not native american? Goodbye. Of course they immigrated here from somewhere else depending on who you ask.
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what would be funny is if “they” banned all the foreign money first, how may millionaires would there still be that were american? no elon money, banned. no saudi money, banned. no foreign money allowed, oh no, those damn foreigners had most of the money..
Sounds expensive, is that in the non-existent budget? As we all know, things are not done unless they are paid for in advance.
Who is going to pay for all these FEMA death camps they have been talking about forever?
Is the Donald administration planning on invading Texas? This ought to be fun and exciting to watch on TV. Governor Pissbaby might even have to tell his followers to not shoot at the nice soldiers marching along.
'Look at how profitable these camps for the Undesireables are!'
You can tell a lot about a person by what news they consider good, and what news they consider bad. ‘We could have hundreds of thousands more people in cells!’ is good news only for immoral monsters, the sort that sees human suffering as at best irrelevant because all that matters is how much they can make from it, and being less generous great news because the suffering of others is the goal.
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It’s not just the numbers, it’s also time. These CEO’s probably understand that once all these people have been scooped up it’s going to be a lot harder to actually deport them legally, so they’ll be held in these camps potentially for years. They wouldn’t be nearly as excited if this were a short-term thing.
I wonder how Elon’s immigration status will affect his new Whitehouse appointment.Annoy the Orange blob and he might find himself being exported via one of the new detainment facilities.
Don’t fret folks. Before the ‘denaturalization’ gets put in place legally, the fascists will start a real war in somebody else’s nation – a big one – in order to allow all the real fascist laws to be created and installed.
Nothing lets the shit-heads do their thing better than a war on foreign soil.
So, “look over there” once again America, cuz this time you might just end up in a place that is a lot like ‘over there’.
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Oh come now, Republicans are the anti-war party, just like Georgian Dream and Fidesz.
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“the fascists will start a real war ”
It’s right there in the Dictators Handbook.
This is how it was 90 years ago...
…in Germany. Companies were happy to receive contracts in service of the Reich, and they profited handsomely from fulfilling those contracts. They didn’t concern themselves with the consequences for those people, no, they counted their money and then went home at night, content, to their houses and their families, not even sparing a moment to think about what they’d done and the horrors they’d facilitated.
And so it will be here, because — to adapt a line — there are always men like this.
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Did these very rich oligarchs also fall out of windows easily?
Don’t worry folks. The Trump administration knows rounding up the people that did all the work nobody wants to do will tank the economy. That’s why they’ll force all the prisoners they just rounded up to do all the work they just did along with a few extras because who can tell one from another.
Bonus outcome will be that tax revenue they were generating will be diverted to private prisons so everyone will have to chip in more to offset the deficit.
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We’re all private prisoners now.
These “people” (trump, the prison ceos) are evil, I don’t see them as americans anymore they are traitors.
And I invite whatever misfortunate that visits them, you know that July event should’ve ended the other way now millions of innocents of going to suffer instead.
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It’s not just Donald, he is merely a symptom of the disease.
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“mass detention and deportation of immigrants, whether they’re here legally or not. All that’s missing now are the rail cars and the genocide.” This is where I stopped reading. If you don’t like the deportations, there are many arguments you could make against it without telling lies to your readers. Trumps never claimed that he was deporting legal immigrants and misleading your readers like that just killz the rest of your story. This seems to be a concept the MSM doesn’t get either which is one reason their ratings have fallen off a cliff. There’s barely anybody watching news stations such as CNN, NBC, CBS, etc. anymore. A lot of people aren’t buying the Trump hating propaganda anymore. That’s one reason they’re leaving the Democrat party for the Republican party.
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Perhaps removal of blinders would allow a wide view of activities in the news?
Donald has, on multiple occasions, said he would like to deport anyone who does not tow the line for his whimsical desires which change on a daily basis.
“Trump hating propaganda ”
Like what for instance?
– When donald made fun of a disabled person? That was propaganda? Or was it the many folk who were offended by it – that was propaganda? Please explain.
What are some other instances in which one might be offended by The Donald? Hmmmm there are so many to choose from. Are they all propaganda to you?
It must e a bit strange living in your alternate reality. Have you sought professional help? I doubt it.
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Trump has literally proposed ending birthright citizenship. He literally wants to deport people born in this country, which is beyond just deporting legal immigrants. You’re not decrying a lie. You’re downplaying the severity of the truth.
Turn that gaslight up nice and bright!
Who cares?
I love that you see hate where everyone else sees tacit support. The big media companies have sane-washed and carried water for Trump. They pretended he wasn’t an incoherent racist grandpa. They refused to call his lies what they were. Sure, a few people here or there were explicit, but the big media companies aren’t the anti-Trump machine you pretend them to be.
“They didn’t lick my balls, they must hate me!”
The irony of you decrying propaganda and then using a propaganda term yourself! There’s no “Democrat Party.” That tells us where you get your media from and that tells us you’re full of shit.
Wouldn’t be a need for mass deportations if Biden/Harris hadn’t destroyed our border security and let them all in without vetting them properly. They also stopped the wall being built the first day they got in office and even tried to fight Texas in court to stop them from protecting their own citizens since the Feds wouldn’t do it. They’ve let in murderers, rapists, thieves, gang members, and even terrorist from every corner of the globe. The left wants to say “This is who we are” and “We’ve always welcomed migrants” but they don’t mention that we’ve always welcomed legal migration into our country, not invasions of millions of people coming in between entry points. There’s so many in fact that Democrats have misplaced hundreds of thousands of children because they can’t keep track of them. A lot of them are no doubt being sold in the sex trade. But of course, when the right has to clean up the mess, we’ll never hear the end of the lefts complaints about Trump putting the in jail until they’re deported. Trump will be accused of separating families and everything else and that’s why people are leaving the Democrats for the Republicans. The left is concerned with the persons rights that illegally came into our country robbing and raping people and the right is more concerned about protecting our citizens from this craziness. People aren’t buying the lies from the left anymore. They’re finally waking up
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“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Stop sucking on the echo chamber propaganda pipe and get a clean algorithm that doesn’t just tell you what you want to believe already.