Compared to the recent November notice, ICE provided more detail about its 2025 plans in another notice released last year. This earlier notice indicates that ICE is preparing stronger immigration policies in the near future, regardless of who ultimately wins the election.
In its 2023 notice, ICE says it will rebrand ISAP’s parent program, Alternatives to Detention, to Release and Reporting Management. The new program includes monitoring all, but not some, detainees awaiting court hearings or deportation. At the time the notice was issued, ICE said 5.7 million people were eligible for surveillance under the new program. That means if implemented, the scale of ICE’s remote monitoring would increase by about 3,000 percent.
BI Incorporated has been ICE’s ISAP contractor since at least 2005, according to government contract databases. The company is a subsidiary of GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies in the United States.
According to Sherwood News, an investment news site owned by Robinhood, while the overall stock market rose the day after President Trump’s victory, the rise in GEO Group’s stock price made GEO Group “the only company of any size in the U.S. stock market.” It was said to be the biggest winner. The five-year contract to run ISAP, valued at $2.2 billion, is set to expire next year.
HuffPo reports that during GEO Group’s post-election earnings call, CEO Brian Evans said the company could increase its ISAP capacity by “hundreds of thousands of participants, up to millions if needed.” He said it was sexual. Wayne Calabrese, the company’s chief operating officer, added that he has already notified ICE that it is ready to do this.
“We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a broader approach to monitoring the millions of individuals currently on non-custodial immigration records,” Calabrese said by phone. mentioned in.
According to HuffPo, GEO Group’s competitor CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America) held its own earnings call after the election, during which CEO Damon Hininger mentioned that the Nov. 6 ICE notice The timing is “probably not coincidental,” he said.
“We took this as a very encouraging sign,” Hininger said.
