In a rare moment of economic justice, immigration raid profiteer GEO group saw its stocks plunge last week as accounts of conditions in its concentration camps circulated widely. The company, long a separator of children from families, denier of medical care, starver and abuser of those confined in its terrible facilities, maintains its flagship “staging facility” in Alexandria, Louisiana. Equipped with its own airport, Alexandria is a central hub for the deportation machine, processing up to 7,000 people a day.

The Alexandria facility has become notorious for its abuses, which are widespread in the detention centers maintained by GEO Group and its counterpart profiteer, Core Civic. Georgetown scholar Bader Khan Suri, detained there last year despite his legal visa, described it as a place with “no rights at all.” Another detainee, Amilcar Lisser-Posadas, a Honduran father and former DACA recipient, described being locked in Alexandria for 12 days, sick with fever and chest congestion but denied care until just before his deportation flight. “It was just not a place for human beings,” he told The Guardian.

As ICE’s largest contractor, GEO Group reported total second-quarter 2025 revenue of $636.2 million, a 5% increase from the second quarter of 2024.

But the circulation and consequence of reports of abuses at Alexandria is a success for our movements. It means that the media and the public are listening, and we need to keep up the pressure!

Action item: Learn more about the struggle for immigrant rights in Louisiana by reading about the state’s ACLU task force.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)