{"id":19339,"date":"2025-04-14T20:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-geo-groups-surveillance-tech-is-aiding-trumps-immigration-agenda\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T20:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:18:32","slug":"how-geo-groups-surveillance-tech-is-aiding-trumps-immigration-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-geo-groups-surveillance-tech-is-aiding-trumps-immigration-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"How Geo Group\u2019s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump\u2019s Immigration Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/04\/14\/us\/trump-news-tariffs\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Follow live updates on the Trump administration.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the United States in 2022, officials ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an immigration surveillance program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At least once a week, the immigrant, a former police officer in Honduras who was living in Louisiana, would take a selfie through the facial-recognition powered app to confirm his identity and location. By trading some of his privacy, he avoided being put in a detention center and obtained a work permit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In February, he received a message: report to an immigration office so the tracking technology could be updated. When he arrived, federal agents were waiting. They handcuffed him and put him on a vehicle bound for a detention center, where he has been ever since, according to an account from his wife and Jacinta Gonz\u00e1lez, the head of programs for the advocacy group MediaJustice who is working with the detained immigrant. He and his wife declined to be named for fear of harming his legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The maker of the app he had used was Geo Group, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/private-prisons-immigrants-detention-trump.html\" title=\"\">largest private prison operator<\/a> in the United States. Over the past decade, the company has also built a lucrative side business of digital tools \u2014 including ankle monitors, smart watches and tracking apps \u2014 to surveil immigrants on behalf of the federal government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those products are now aiding <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html\" title=\"\">President Trump\u2019s deportation efforts<\/a> by providing the whereabouts of unauthorized immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to legal aid groups and immigration organizations. No figures have been released about the number of arrests made from the digital monitoring program, but legal aid groups estimated it was at least in the hundreds. More than 30,000 immigrants were arrested in Mr. Trump\u2019s first 50 days in office, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese are the people who are precisely being monitored,\u201d said Laura Rodriguez, a lawyer with American Friends Service Committee, a legal aid organization in New Jersey with several clients in the monitoring program who were detained. \u201cIt\u2019s just easy pickings.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The use of Geo Group\u2019s technology has made the company one of the Trump administration\u2019s big business winners so far. Even as Mr. Trump slashes costs across the federal government, his agencies have handed Geo Group new federal contracts to house unauthorized immigrants. And D.H.S. is weighing the renewal of a longtime contract with the company \u2014 worth about $350 million <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/publication\/fy-2024-budget-brief\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a> \u2014 to track the roughly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/detain\/detention-management#stats\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">180,000 people<\/a> now in the surveillance program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Republican lawmakers and administration advisers have also called for more surveillance of immigrants, including expanded location tracking and stricter enforcement of curfews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s immigration policies have sent Geo Group\u2019s stock price soaring and kept its share price afloat even as the stock market gyrates. While digital monitoring generates only about 14 percent of its $2.4 billion in annual revenue, the company, which is based in Boca Raton, Fla., has said its immigrant surveillance could more than double. Profit margins on the monitoring business hover at around 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Geo Group was built for this unique moment in our country\u2019s history and the opportunities that it will bring,\u201d George Zoley, the company\u2019s founder, said on an investor call days after Mr. Trump was elected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The tracking program that Geo Group oversees, called Alternatives to Detention, was set up to keep tabs on unauthorized immigrants who face potential deportation. Rather than being placed in detention centers or released into the country without supervision, immigrants receive location tracking devices. They must quickly respond to alerts sent to the gadgets in order to confirm their whereabouts, or risk punishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The program highlights technology\u2019s growing role in guarding borders, with demand for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/25\/technology\/trump-immigration-deportation-surveillance.html\" title=\"\">muscular digital tools<\/a> opening lucrative avenues for private industry while expanding government authority. The boom has benefited companies like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/21\/magazine\/palantir-alex-karp.html\" title=\"\">Palantir<\/a>, Anduril and Cellebrite, which have won government contracts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Supporters praised the effectiveness and cost savings of Geo Group\u2019s tools, but critics warned that the technology usage might lead to deeper surveillance of immigrant communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe government bills it as an alternative to detention,\u201d but \u201cwe see it as an expansion to detention,\u201d said Noor Zafar, a senior lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, Geo Group\u2019s products have been glitchy and expensive, according to more than a dozen current and former employees and government officials, as well as a review of the company\u2019s federal contract and other records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Each time an immigrant sends a selfie to check in through the company\u2019s SmartLink app, which can happen millions of times a year, the federal government pays roughly $1, according to portions of Geo Group\u2019s government contract obtained by The New York Times. The company charges $3 a day for any immigrant wearing its VeriWatch smartwatch. If the watch is lost, Geo Group bills the government $380, more than the cost of an Apple Watch SE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ICE said in a statement that the monitoring program \u201ceffectively increases court appearance rates and compliance with release conditions.\u201d The White House did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Attempts to modify the program and open the contract to rival bids have been stymied by Geo Group\u2019s lobbying and connections on Capitol Hill and within ICE, according to senior D.H.S. officials and congressional staff members. Some senior ICE employees have gone on to work at the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Geo Group referred questions about how its monitoring technology is being used by the Trump administration to ICE. In a statement, Geo Group said it had \u201cnever advocated for or against, nor have we ever played a role in setting immigration enforcement policies.\u201d The company added that its services are \u201cclosely monitored in accordance with strict government contract standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-12022b0c\">From Prisons to Surveillance<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zoley, whose family moved to the United States from Greece when he was a child, started Geo Group in 1984 as a division of a security guard business. When the prison population exploded in the 1980s, the company expanded into running private prisons. It now has about 100 facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1986, Geo Group won an ICE contract to build an immigrant processing facility in Aurora, Colo., to hold up to 150 people. By the 2000s, immigration had become a major business, which fluctuated based on who was in the White House and which party controlled Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To diversify, Geo Group turned to digital surveillance. In 2011, the firm paid $415 million for Behavioral Interventions, a Colorado company founded in the 1970s to track cattle and which had expanded to monitoring parolees. Behavioral Interventions had an exclusive contract with ICE to digitally monitor thousands of recently arrived immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zoley called the acquisition \u201ctransformative.\u201d He was proved right when the government plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into remote surveillance of immigrants over the next decade, especially during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The idea was that remote surveillance of immigrants facing removal proceedings would reduce the burdens on already-packed detention centers, relieve ICE officers of grunt work and save money. Digitally monitoring an immigrant costs about $4.20 a day, versus about $150 a day in a detention center, according to ICE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe program is meant to make sure we know who these people are and that they are on an adequate level of supervision,\u201d said Deborah Fleischaker, the ICE chief of staff during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By 2022, more than 300,000 immigrants were enrolled in the program. Geo Group\u2019s sales soared, but revenue fell in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The company lobbied to expand the surveillance, said Jason Mor\u00edn, a political science professor at California State University, Northridge who studies Geo Group. Ahead of the 2024 election, a Geo Group subsidiary gave more than $2 million in campaign contributions to Republican candidates, with the bulk going to groups supporting Mr. Trump and those running for Congress, according to Federal Election Commission records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wall Street analysts included Geo Group, which has about 18,000 employees, in ideas for stocks that would perform well if Mr. Trump were elected. With no real competition, some estimated the company\u2019s digital monitoring business would generate nearly $700 million in revenue cumulatively through 2026. Its biggest shareholders include BlackRock and Vanguard.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-46288779\">Living in a Radius<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many unauthorized immigrants who are not detained at the border, the perilous journey to the United States ends inside Geo Group\u2019s surveillance system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After turning themselves in to immigration officers, they are given an ankle bracelet, a smartwatch or a smartphone with the company\u2019s monitoring app. Rather than be overseen by ICE officers, they are watched by Geo Group case specialists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the program, immigrants live more freely in the United States during a legal process that can play out over years. The trade-off is constant monitoring. Geo Group\u2019s app has permission to continuously track a user\u2019s location, according to a Times analysis of its code.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One Geo Group case worker in the Northeast, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, described using a Google Maps-like software to check immigrants\u2019 locations. If immigrants were not home or lied about their whereabouts during a check-in, they received a strike. If an immigrant received three strikes, the case specialist would inform an ICE agent, who could increase monitoring, detain the person or expedite the person\u2019s deportation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Geo Group employees at field offices from Massachusetts to Alabama said they had often struggled to monitor up to 300 immigrants simultaneously. The case worker in the Northeast recalled being asked to make 12 home visits to immigrants in a single day. Each was limited to five minutes, despite requirements to do a full report on the immigrant\u2019s living conditions, she said. Geo Group charged D.H.S. up to $88 a visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those under surveillance are limited in where they can travel, lawyers and immigration rights groups said. If immigrants leave a set area of where they can be, the software alerts case officers. Because many check-ins must happen from home on a prescribed day \u2014 say on a Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. \u2014 people are often stuck waiting, affecting their ability to work or perform certain day-to-day tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhatever radius is imposed, that becomes the size of their life,\u201d said Laura Rivera, a senior lawyer for Just Futures Law, which focuses on tech usage for immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Geo Group stores data collected from the surveillance program on its private servers, making it more cumbersome for the government to access and analyze, current and former ICE officials said. Former company employees described technical problems, such as relying on outdated servers that frequently crashed, weak batteries in the company\u2019s smartwatches and a bug in which the app occasionally failed to tell an immigrant to check in, which could result in a penalty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6cf97331\">Keeping the Contract<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2022, as Geo Group\u2019s digital monitoring business ballooned, some Biden administration officials in the Department of Homeland Security questioned the cost and effectiveness of the tracking program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The D.H.S. officials met to draft a plan to change it, including standards for assessing each immigrant\u2019s risk of committing a crime or fleeing and what surveillance that merited, said six people familiar with the conversations who requested anonymity in order to discuss internal deliberations. The officials wanted to break up the contract into three parts to solicit new bids, the people said. Around the same time, D.H.S. tech workers were asked to develop cheaper alternatives to Geo Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u200bThe moves threatened Geo Group\u2019s involvement in the monitoring program, with major financial implications for its bottom line. The company began lobbying to disrupt the plans, according to agency officials and Capitol Hill staff members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Conservatives and some career ICE officials joined in. Thomas D. Homan, who was then working for a conservative immigration group and is now Mr. Trump\u2019s border czar, wrote a Breitbart editorial attacking the plans and the midlevel Biden administration official responsible for them. A conservative group created a website dedicated to attacking the official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Daniel Bible, ICE\u2019s head of enforcement and removal operations at the time, also stalled the changes by ordering lengthy reviews and delaying approvals, two people said. Last year, he joined Geo Group as an executive. He did not respond to a message for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The efforts eventually died and plans to develop cheaper alternatives to Geo Group\u2019s tech never went beyond testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Geo Group said allegations that it had blocked changes to the surveillance program \u201care part of a politicized effort by open borders groups to interfere with the federal government\u2019s immigration enforcement efforts and to abolish immigration enforcement writ large.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since Mr. Trump took office, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/16\/world\/americas\/mexico-trump-migration.html\" title=\"\">fewer immigrants have crossed the border<\/a> as the president has signed legislation like the Laken Riley Act, which mandates increasing detentions of immigrants with criminal histories in facilities like those owned by Geo Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new law could also require \u201csignificant ramp-up in the electronic monitoring,\u201d Mr. Zoley said on an earnings call in February, adding that his company was ready to scale up its surveillance \u201cby several hundreds of thousands and upward to several millions of participants as required.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-14\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Geo Group\u2019s technology has repeatedly helped ICE officers carry out deportations, legal aid groups said. In January, ICE agents in Georgia tracked an immigrant to a job site and detained him, while another was grabbed outside a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/churches-schools-no-longer-safe-061356253.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">church<\/a>, the groups said. More recently, an immigrant in New Jersey received a call from a Geo Group employee asking him to step outside his home because the tracker was not getting a signal. Agents were waiting for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Legal aid groups said they feared that the surveillance would soon be used for larger raids. In 2019, during the first Trump administration, agents in Mississippi used data harvested from Geo Group\u2019s tools to help secure a warrant for a raid on a chicken processing plant. The ensuing sweep, which included workplaces across the state, led to the detention of 680 immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Alexandra Berzon<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/technology\/trump-immigration-tech-geo-group.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow live updates on the Trump administration. 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