Trump promised to drain the swamp and end corrupt revolving-door politics between government and corporate power brokers. Instead, he just handed a GEO Group private prison executive the keys to ICE, where he’ll oversee deportation operations and detention contracts that will pad his former employer’s pockets. Hundreds of millions in taxpayer money flowing to the private prison industry—and Trump supporters got played.

Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ice-dhs-david-venturella-geo-group-private-prisons/