Overview

• A May 27 Department of Homeland Security ethics filing shows Tom Homan received over $5,000 from GEO Group for consulting in the two years before his January appointment as border czar.
• This year the administration awarded GEO Group contracts valued at roughly $130 million to reactivate empty detention centers in New Jersey, with a similar Michigan facility set to reopen.
• Homan has pushed to expand the nation’s immigration detention capacity from about 41,500 beds to at least 100,000 to support planned mass deportations.
• At least three current GEO Group executives—Matthew Albence, Daniel Bible and Daniel Ragsdale—previously held senior roles at ICE, highlighting ongoing personnel exchanges between the agency and private detention firms.
• Lawmakers and immigrant rights groups warn that Homan’s private-sector ties and the influx of funds to GEO Group risk conflicts of interest and could incentivize detention over due process.