Private prisons are expecting that business will be booming when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated and begins his program of mass deportations. The illegal immigrants won’t be flying home the second they are arrested and will have to be detained somewhere.
“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” George Zoley, executive chairman of the GEO Group, a private prison company, told his investors right after Trump was elected, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The scale of the looming deportations is mind-boggling. At a Turning Point USA conference Sunday in Phoenix, incoming Border Czar Tom Homan estimated that the Biden administration alone had allowed eight million illegal immigrants into the US. Homan has already acknowledged the depth and the breadth of the task ahead as he has pledged to move Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) desk officers into the field and promised to start deporting “public safety threats, national security threats and fugitives” first.
