A commentator historically used by the Miami press to attack Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and any target of U.S. policy, has lent his usually subversive column in El Nuevo Herald to reveal the inner workings of President Donald Trump's immigration chaos.
It is not an investigative finding, but like the tycoon's nuclear submarines, the journalistic revelations of the reactionary Andrés Oppenheimer, on the present and immediate future of the manhunt in the northern nation, confirm the fascistic and racist course of plans, budgets and actions that are announced or leaked daily in a sea of intimidations, lies, warnings, attacks, manipulations or false news generated from the White House.
From the title itself, it is denounced that behind the fever of massive deportations, which keeps millions of immigrants in that country in suspense, "the powerful industrial complex of private prisons" is enriching itself, a group that is happy, and continues to fill its multimillionaire accounts with the panic and the evil of others.
Experts on the subject consider that the measures imposed by Trump create a system of massive detentions, which will be very difficult to dismantle after the departure of the tycoon from power. It is said that the giant private prison companies -and their suppliers in the transportation, health, electronic control and food industries- will have a permanent interest in lobbying in Washington, so that deportations continue, even if that harms the U.S. economy or generates humanitarian crisis.
Although the figures of the real amount of the profits of this racist industry are not public, what did come to light is that their future will be assured with the 170 billion dollars that Trump's recently approved Big and Beautiful Act allocates to capture and deportation over the next four years.
It also includes $45 billion to build new immigrant concentration camps, to which will be added funds that different states are devising for those purposes.
This means that the private prison industry, corporations that profit from mass deportations and other profiteers of the current immigration chaos in the U.S., will have at their disposal budgets greater than those designated for the FBI (11 billion) or the CIA (15 billion), according to what was reported.
According to the Prison Policy Initiative think tank, around 4,000 U.S. companies currently benefit from mass incarceration, and 70% of detained migrants are in centers run by private corporations.
Further evidence of the cruel business is that the shares of major private penitentiary companies have skyrocketed with the Trump presidency. Proof of this are Geo Group and CoreCivic, which grew with the magnate's immigration policies by more than 61% and 41%, respectively, confirming that "the prison industrial complex is in full expansion", while the confinement economy grows, under the protection of neo-fascism.
It is no coincidence that geo Group, based in Florida, has contributed, for decades, to the political career of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. At the same time, it is a corporation that has spent millions lobbying Congress on behalf of the most conservative and reactionary causes.
In 2016, geo Group contributed almost $190,000 to its presidential candidacy, after having received a state contract for $110,000,000, coinciding with the period in which Rubio presided over the House.
The truth is of growing concern, and the international press, even the U.S. ally, is echoing the denunciation by insisting that the oligarchy of Trump's deportation machinery is enriching itself at the expense of the suffering of immigrants, because behind every new detention center and every raid, there are powerful economic interests that profit from the pain of the people.
