Private Prison Companies Call Trump’s Deportation Plans ‘Unprecedented Opportunity’
On earnings calls Thursday, private prison groups expressed a nearly unrestrained glee over what one called the “unprecedented opportunity” that a second Trump administration brings.
Trump made mass deportation of undocumented immigrants ― and even some immigrants who are here with legal protections ― a cornerstone of his 2024 campaign, building on years of racist and dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants, speaking affectionately for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s mass deportation program, and even invoking an 18th-century law that could give him broad powers to pursue deportations.
Undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes, including violent crimes, than American citizens; massively contribute to the economy; and oftentimes have spent years or decades establishing lives, families and communities in the United States.
