Compared to its recent November notice, ICE provided more detailed information about its 2025 plans separate notice Was released last year. This earlier notice suggests that ICE was preparing for a more intensive immigration policy on the horizon, regardless of who ultimately won the election.
In a 2023 notice, ICE says ISAP's parent program, Alternatives to Detention, will be rebranded as Release and Reporting Management. This new program will include monitoring of every non-detained person who is awaiting a court hearing or deportation, as opposed to just a few people. At the time the notice was published, ICE said 5.7 million people were eligible for monitoring under the new program – meaning that if implemented, the scale of ICE's remote monitoring would increase by nearly 3,000 percent.
According to a government contracts database, BI Incorporated has been ICE's ISAP contractor since at least 2005. The company is a subsidiary of GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies in the United States.
Although the stock market rose the day after Trump's victory, the surge in GEO Group's stock made it “the biggest winner among companies of any size in the U.S. stock market,” according to the Robinhood-owned investment news site. . Sherwood NewsIts five years ISAP running contract, price $2.2 billionDue to expire next year.
On a post-election earnings call for GEO Group, CEO Brian Evans said the company could expand its ISAP capacity to “many hundreds of thousands of participants and up to several million if necessary.” Reported by HuffPoThe company's COO, Wayne Calabrese, said it has already informed ICE that it is prepared to do so.
“We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a more comprehensive approach to monitoring the millions of individuals who are currently on the non-detained immigration docket,” Calabrese said on the call.
according to huffpoGEO Group competitor CoreCivic (formerly called Corrections Corporation of America) had its own post-election earnings call, during which CEO Damon Hininger said the timing of the November 6 ICE notice was “probably not a coincidence.”
“We took it as a very encouraging sign,” Hininger said.