The rapid-turnaround requests arrive as current operating agreements near expiration and newly released inspection reports detail safety failures at targeted facilities.
This is extremely bad. This explains why ICE is trying to offload those warehouses they were going to convert. This new plan of contracting existing facilities that are already running eliminates the need for a number of regulatory steps (public announcements of properties purchases, and environmental impact studies and construction permit applications that had to be submitted to local planning and zoning boards, etc.) that alerted the public that a detention center was about to be opened in their back yard. This will make it much easier for ICE to hide how many detention centers they have and how many people are incarcerated. It is no coincidence that these calls for contracts went out specifically in regions where the contracts for existing GEO group facilities are about to expire between Aug and Oct this year. These are essentially no bid contracts that will be awarded to Geo Group as noted in the article:
"Rather than simply selecting the lowest bidder, ICE plans to use a “best-value” evaluation model that prioritizes operational readiness and management experience over cost alone."
As a reminder GEO Group runs the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, where its employees are responsible for a multitude of atrocities against detainees and peaceful protesters.
"For ICE, federal ownership could offer a tempting legal shield, potentially insulating these high-stakes facilities from state-level crackdowns on private immigration detention." Yup, this sums up the reason for these buyouts, and I've already read (possibly through SaltBox)that George Zoley is delighted. This way, the only oversight on ICE will be....ICE. And GEO group will still rake in millions with no pesky congressfolk looking in at the misery and horror.
That explains why Core Civic just sold two California camps to DHS. $1.2 Billion profit for Core Civic, they still run the camps, and DHS gets some shielding from a blue state's system.
This is extremely bad. This explains why ICE is trying to offload those warehouses they were going to convert. This new plan of contracting existing facilities that are already running eliminates the need for a number of regulatory steps (public announcements of properties purchases, and environmental impact studies and construction permit applications that had to be submitted to local planning and zoning boards, etc.) that alerted the public that a detention center was about to be opened in their back yard. This will make it much easier for ICE to hide how many detention centers they have and how many people are incarcerated. It is no coincidence that these calls for contracts went out specifically in regions where the contracts for existing GEO group facilities are about to expire between Aug and Oct this year. These are essentially no bid contracts that will be awarded to Geo Group as noted in the article:
"Rather than simply selecting the lowest bidder, ICE plans to use a “best-value” evaluation model that prioritizes operational readiness and management experience over cost alone."
As a reminder GEO Group runs the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, where its employees are responsible for a multitude of atrocities against detainees and peaceful protesters.
This lack of transparency cannot be tolerated.
Send ICE to Iran, no, send them to Russia no, send them to North Korea!
"For ICE, federal ownership could offer a tempting legal shield, potentially insulating these high-stakes facilities from state-level crackdowns on private immigration detention." Yup, this sums up the reason for these buyouts, and I've already read (possibly through SaltBox)that George Zoley is delighted. This way, the only oversight on ICE will be....ICE. And GEO group will still rake in millions with no pesky congressfolk looking in at the misery and horror.
That explains why Core Civic just sold two California camps to DHS. $1.2 Billion profit for Core Civic, they still run the camps, and DHS gets some shielding from a blue state's system.
Who are the individuals who run these terrible companies GEO and the rest? Name and shame.
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Gearing up to accommodate all the "dissenters".
I hope that the governor of PA can contest these aviation activities.
In winter🥶
I have been at University Park Airport outside State College, PA. It is tiny. You can see everyone and everything in it at a glance.