Source: TomDispatch
by Todd Miller
“It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. ‘We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement,’ explained the GEO Group’s executive chair, George Zoley, ‘and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.’ In other words, the ‘largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history’ was going to be a moneymaker. As it happens, that Bloomberg piece was a rarity, offering a glimpse of immigration enforcement that doesn’t normally get the attention it deserves by focusing on the border-industrial complex. ” (02/04/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-mass-deportation-handoff-biden-to-trump/