The American Prospect - Independent news and political analysis [Unofficial]California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves
NonilexThis month, #NewJersey sued #GeoGroup for refusing to allow #state #health inspectors full access to its #DelaneyHall facility, in #Newark, where the state says detainees have staged hunger strikes to protest being fed spoiled or rotten food & not being given access to basic #hygiene products. Geo’s lawyers have said in court filings that only #ICE can grant state inspectors access to the facility [wrong, #Congress can too].
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As the #Trump admin has ramped up arrests of #immigrants, it has relied on #GeoGroup to help it significantly expand the nation’s capacity for holding #ICE detainees. Advocates for immigrants & some #state regulators say poor #oversight at many of these facilities has led to the mistreatment of migrants.
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Geo’s input in the new “standards”, which has not been previously reported, highlights the #ICE contractor’s influence over the agency that is both its #regulator &, corporate filings show, its biggest customer.
2 of the #Trump admin’s top #immigration ofcls — border czar #TomHoman & ICE’s acting director, #DavidVenturella — previously worked for #GeoGroup….
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The new national #detention standards, which #ICE posted to its website Monday, include some of #GeoGroup’s requested changes. The document says detainees are not employees & “are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable #wage #laws or #labor #regulations.”
The revised rules no longer say detainees must be paid at least $1 per day, & no longer include several references to contractors having to comply with #state or local laws.
#GeoGroup maintains that the work is “voluntary” & that it operates the program at the direction of the #government.
Geo asked that #ICE remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state & local #laws around the treatment of detainees & that ICE amend language to support its #legal position in these cases…. The company also asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work.
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When #ICE was revising the federal #standards that govern #immigration #detention centers, one of its top contractors privately asked for changes that could benefit its business, acc/to a person briefed on the discussions.
#GeoGroup, which oversees more than a dozen ICE detention facilities, has faced #lawsuits in 3 states alleging it violates #MinimumWage #laws by paying some #immigrant detainees $1 a day to work.
WTAF??
#ICE removed detainee #protections after outreach from top #private contractor
In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit #GeoGroup’s legal defense.
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MusiqueNow 🇵🇸 ✡️#GEOGroup retaliates against #hungerstrikers in concentrationcamps
Daily Memo: Another Death In Detention As GEO Group Punishes Hunger Striking Detainees ~ L.A. TACO
Welcome to year two of the ICE Siege of L.A. Yes, it’s still happening, and we’re still on it. Let’s get into the raids, an update on the Hunger strikes, and unfortunately, another death in ICE detention.
Peter Riley