Institute Index: Profiting off deportation

Number of U.S. residents the Trump administration plans to deport in 2025: 1 million

Number of people in U.S. immigrant detention centers, where they are held pending deportation or as their immigration status is being decided, as of April 16, 2025: 47,928

Market value of The GEO Group, Inc., a private prison company based in Boca Raton, Florida: $4 billion

Market value of CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison company based in Brentwood, Tennessee: $2.4 billion

Percent of The GEO Group’s revenue that comes from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency contracts related to detaining immigrants, according to a 2023 internal report: 43%

Percent of CoreCivic’s revenue that come from ICE detention contracts: 30%

Percent that The GEO Group’s stock price increased the day after President Trump was elected in 2024: 41%

Percent that CoreCivic’s stock price increased: 29%

Value of new contracts ICE recently announced to build or expand immigrant detention facilities to accommodate “the President’s Declaration of a National Emergency at the Southern Border”: $45 billion

Value of three ICE contracts already received by The GEO Group in 2025 for immigrant detention facilities in New Jersey, Michigan, and Texas: $209 million

Estimated annual revenue CoreCivic will receive from a new ICE contract to build a 2,400-bed family detention center in Dilley, Texas: $180 million

Amount that The GEO Group and CoreCivic each donated President Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee: $500,000

Amount that The GEO Group and its subsidiary GEO Acquisition II, Inc. gave to the Trump’s Make America Great Again super PAC: $2 million

Amount that GEO Group founder George Zoley and CEO Brian Evans each donated to Trump’s Save America fundraising committee: $11,600

Percent of the $784,974 in campaign contributions made by CoreCivic PACs and employees in 2024 that went to Republican candidates and committees: 84%

Amount that U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi received from The GEO Group to represent them as a lobbyist in 2019: $390,000

For more on The GEO Group, CoreCivic, and the money surrounding for-profit immigrant detention, see Indy Scholten’s dispatch in Open Secrets here.