Here's the kicker: Geo’s chairman, George Zoley, is an immigrant himself. He arrived here as a child from Greece. @michaellinhorst.bsky.social looks at the company—and man—at the heart of Trump’s hard-line immigration machine. 6/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

Last year, Geo took in about $1 billion from its contracts with ICE—41% of its annual revenue. That’s set to skyrocket alongside ICE’s budget, which is earmarked to receive an additional $75 billion through 2029 via the One Big Beautiful Bill. 5/6

But under Trump, Geo is evolving from a background player in federal enforcement into something closer to a government appendage. U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi worked as a lobbyist for Geo in 2019. The company paid consulting fees to Tom Homan before he joined the administration. 4/6

Geo is a key partner in the government’s efforts to detain, monitor, and deport immigrants: It runs detention facilities, operates deportation flights, and provides electronic surveillance of immigrants awaiting deportation decisions. 3/6

Geo Group runs the Georgia center where Salvadorian journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested covering a No Kings protest in June, was held for more than three months before his deportation today. It runs the Louisiana facility where Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Khalil was held. 2/6

“…What will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.”

"We will erase the national debt by selling illegal green cards to millions of extremely wealthy foreigners who (1) definitely exist and (2) want to move to our budding police state" is the kind of delusional nonsense that only this country's stupidest billionaires could come up with