The geological group, the largest individual private contractor to enforce immigration and customs (ICE), said she was building monitoring work to be able to monitor hundreds of thousands or millions of immigrants more than they already do.
GEO Group, a private prison company and the mother company BI Inc, has contracted with ICE for nearly 20 years to manage the agency’s electronic monitoring program. It currently tracks about 186,000 immigrants using devices such as ankle screens, smart watches and applying face recognition, according to general ice data. Because of the increased demand from the Donald Trump administration, which promised mass deportations, the company’s executive officials said they expect this number to grow from its previous peak, which amounted to 370,000 to 450,000 migrants during the next year. The notes were made during the fourth company profit call in the quarter on Thursday.
“A little more than two years ago, the use of the ISAP contract reached its peak at about 370,000,” George Zoli, CEO of the Geographical Group, said in a profit call on Thursday, in reference to the agreement between ICE and Geo. “Return to this level of use would generate gradual revenues of $ 250 million and even more if the contract exceeds the precedent for use.”
Although the company is still intensifying its production of additional GPS units in anticipation of the expanded ICE contract, executive officials said they are able to monitor “hundreds of thousands of people” and try to put themselves to be able to monitor millions of people. Zolly said that the GEO group, its competitor in Special Prison Administration and detention centers, is in urgent discussions with ICE to expand the current contracts for detention facilities as well as electronic monitoring.
“It is a liquid, but it rises, if I may say,” he said. “We have moved from conceptual proposals … to objective prices and operational discussions. But the purchase is moving at an unprecedented speed. We haven’t seen anything like this before.”
The company’s vast electronic monitoring program has been created as an alternative to detention in 2004 and has been assigned to the GEO Group Bi Inc branch since then. Many of those who were forced to wear ankle screens, designed and produced by BI, have complained that the devices can heat, shock or tightly put. The company has settled the Watch Smart follower and the smartphone application, called Smartlink, as a lower level of monitoring from the screen. Executive officials in a profit call said Thursday, though, they expect to return to dependence on the material ankle screens.
“I think there will be a preference at the beginning of the ankle screens that represent the level of high security monitoring,” Zoli said.
Although the company has not yet received a signal from ICE about the time when the agency expects to release a new contract for the electronic monitoring program, the emergence of intensive supervision program is called, executive officials say they believe that the agency focuses on expanding the number of people who are traced through the current program. Geo Group invests $ 16 million in building its stock of ankle screens in order to “be in a position to increase the use of the ISAP federal government by several hundreds of thousands to several million participants as required,” Zolly said.
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The company’s executive officials also said they believed that under Laken Riley, which requires the detention of non -documented immigrants for violent crimes or theft, the detainees will be asked to monitor it under the ISAP program “indefinitely” if there is not enough ability in detention facilities. Executive officials indicated their intention to expand the company’s monitoring program so that they can monitor an estimated 7 to 8 million people on the unlikely list who entered the United States through unauthorized paths and then launched in the United States. They are also building capabilities to monitor between 9.5 and 10 million people in the United States who do not have documents otherwise in anticipation of ICE requests.
“Given the size of the population, our view in addition to increasing the capacity of detention … Laken Riley will require a significant increase in electronic monitoring services to ensure a proper trafficking of people who do not exceed and comply with the requirements of their immigration court procedures,” Zuli said.