The Math

WHAT DETENTION COSTS

$0 Cost per detainee per day DHS FY2025

0 Peak detainees (record high, Jan 2026) TRAC/DHS

0 Planned detention capacity (3x current) Big Beautiful Bill Act / Brennan Center

$0 Annual cost at 125K beds Calculated: 125K x $165 x 365

WHAT DEPORTATION COSTS

$0 Average cost per deportation (arrest to removal) ICE (2025)

$0 Military deportation flight cost per person (5x commercial) TPR/Military Times

$0 Cost per person deported to Rwanda (7 deportees, $7.5M + flights) Senate Foreign Relations Committee

$0 Average cost per third-country deportation (80%+ have returned) Senate Foreign Relations Committee / Bloomberg

$0 Cost to meet stated goal of 1M deportations/year Calculated: 1M x $17,121

WHAT IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE

$0 State & local taxes paid annually ITEP (2022)

$0 Social Security contributions (never collected) ITEP/SSA (2022)

0 Share of U.S. labor force CIS/Pew (2025)

$0 Total federal, state & local taxes paid ITEP (2022)

WHO PROFITS

The Companies

GEO Group 2025 revenue: $2.63B (+8% YoY). Record $254M quarterly profit. $520M in new contracts in 2025 (largest year in company history)

CoreCivic Doubled ICE revenue: $120M (Q4 2024) to $245M (Q4 2025) 2025 profits: $116.5M (+70% YoY)

90% of immigration detainees are held in for-profit facilities.

The Donations

$0 Combined donations to Trump campaign, inaugural committee & PACs FEC / OpenSecrets

$0 GEO Group donation to Make America Great Again PAC FEC

$0 GEO + CoreCivic donations to 2025 inaugural (2x their 2017 amount) OpenSecrets

0 Of GEO Group donations to federal candidates going to Republicans (since 2016) OpenSecrets

The Contracts

$0 Total ICE funding ($10B base + $75B Big Beautiful Bill supplement) NPR / Brennan Center

$0 Of that $85B earmarked for new detention centers alone Congressional Budget

$0 ICE mega-center expansion: 8 facilities, 7,000-10,000 detainees each Internal ICE memo (Feb 2026) / Washington Post

$0 CoreCivic contract for 2,400-bed Dilley, TX facility ($75K/bed/year) The Intercept

Many contracts awarded without competitive bidding. ICE cited "compelling urgency." GEO Group was the first corporation to max out donations to Trump's presidential campaign.

The Personnel

Tom Homan Border Czar Former GEO Group consultant

Pam Bondi Attorney General Lobbied for GEO Group in 2019

The Returns

0 CoreCivic ICE revenue growth Q4 2025 YoY ($120M to $245M) SEC Filing

0 CoreCivic profit growth (2025 full year) SEC Filing

$0 GEO Group new/expanded contracts in 2025 (company record) SEC Filing / Common Dreams