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These Nonprofits and Businesses Are Making Millions From Detaining Immigrant Children

Dozens of nonprofit shelter groups and several for-profit companies have made enormous amounts of money from detaining and transporting migrant kids.

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Who Is Making Money From CBP in Your State?

By Alex Kotch Immigration Primary category in which blog post is published

GEO Group Donated to the Trump-Tied Turning Point USA, Then Got Rave Review

By Alex Kotch Private Prisons Primary category in which blog post is published

Conservative Democrat Continues to Take Koch Cash

By Alex Kotch Koch Primary category in which blog post is published

Members of New Border Security Committee Took Money from Private Prison PACs

By Alex Kotch Private Prisons Primary category in which blog post is published

Private Prison Companies Spend Big to Boost Republican Brian Kemp in Georgia Governor’s Race

By Alex Kotch 2018 Midterms Primary category in which blog post is published

Florida Rep Sells Stock in Private Prison Company After Report Reveals Investments

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ICE Foundation Directors Run Companies with ICE Contracts

Five out of the 10 directors and officers of a charitable foundation supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement are affiliated with companies that have received funding from ICE or the foundation itself.

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Thurgood Marshall Jr. Is Giving Thousands to a Private Prison PAC

Marshall, Jr., has been on the board on the second largest private prison company in the United States since 2002. In just 2016, he received $221,000 in compensation for working on the board.

Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reads "Political and Civil rights in the United States" to his son, Thurgood Jr., at home.
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Who Is Making Money from ICE in Your State?

Hundreds of for-profit and nonprofit corporations have pulled in billions of dollars worth of ICE contracts in recent years. See where these ICE operations take place and where the corporations are headquartered.