U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, led a tour this week of its new immigrant detention center in Texas. The detention center, which will be managed by Florida-based private prison industry corporation The GEO Group More…, has raised concerns from immigrant advocates.
Residents Against SW Ranches ICE Detention Center wrote last night:
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Plans for a new immigration detention facility in South Florida have attracted two of the largest players in the private prison industry, both of which are partnering with different local governments to offer competing proposals.
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The National Institute on Money in State Politics took a look at the numbers. Prison firms and companies focused on prison health care gave nearly $1 million to Florida politicians in 2010 — the most the industry has given over the last decade. #
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More than four-fifths of that came
The GEO Group, a Boca Raton-based prison firm, is partnering with at least one Florida municipality on a proposed immigration detention center in South Florida. #
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The GEO Group and Florida City are working on an application to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bring the detention center to southern Miami-Dade
