THE DEPORTATION BUSINESS

PLACE OF BIRTH IS NOT A CHOICE

In August 2025, the Trump administration had ramped up pressure on ICE agents to arrest, detain, and ultimately to remove 3,000 people per day.

Private companies, such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group, have profited billions from this system. These corporations provide ground transportation and flights to for-profit prisons and detention centers under government contracts. After spending months in detention, without hope of asylum, detention facilities pressure detainees to sign voluntary departure agreements.

The White House’s mass deportation is stripping immigrants of the right to due process. Masked agents without warrants have grabbed students, professors, kidney specialists, scientists, artists, tourists and citizens for detention, imprisonment or/or deportation. So far, these victims are primarily from Latin America, (more than half of the immigrants in the U.S. are Latino), but victims are also from India, China, Iran, Somalia, Turkey, the West Bank, South Korea, Gambia, Britain, Wales, Lebanon, Canada, and Germany. Seventy percent of deportees have committed no crime, barring traffic violations.

The Trump administration has moved to end or is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Syria, South Sudan, Venezuela, and potentially others, affecting over a million people.

Some of these detained immigrants are deported to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Guantanamo, South Sudan, Myanmar, Mexico, and Libya. Their destinations are sometimes “classified.” The annual ICE budget is $28 billion larger than the FBI, DEA, AFT, U.S. Marshall’s Service and prisons combined.