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      As President Trump pushes an unprecedented plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, billions in taxpayer dollars are pouring into the private companies tasked with carrying it out — a gold rush of secretive contracts, swelling budgets, and record profits. As corporate executives tout their earnings from deals with ICE, Scripps News discovers a darker reality at immigration detention centers around the country in a Scripps News Investigates initiative, “ICE Inc.”

      • A general view of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark on Monday, June 16, 2025, in New Jersey.

        ICE Inc

        Immigrant dies one day after arriving at ICE detention center

        Patrick Terpstra
        Cesar, an immigrant father from Colombia, who was detained by ICE.

        ICE Inc

        Exclusive: Father detained by ICE outside FIFA soccer game speaks out

        Patrick Terpstra
        Migrants wearing face masks and shackles on their hands and feet sit on a military aircraft at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Jan. 30, 2025, awaiting their deportation to Guatemala.

        ICE Inc

        Immigrant detainees accuse guards of excessive force and neglect at Texas lockup

        Patrick Terpstra
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        ICE Inc

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        Patrick Terpstra
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        ICE Inc

        As ICE puts immigrants in 'Lone Star Lockup,' companies quietly cash in

        Patrick Terpstra
        Immigrant Detention Leavenworth

        ICE Inc

        Private prisons see record revenue growth under government's immigration surge

        Patrick Terpstra
      • Immigrants play soccer at a new U.S. government holding center for migrant children.

        ICE Inc

        ICE is detaining children with their families beyond limit set by federal judge

        Patrick Terpstra
        A sign outside the Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

        ICE Inc

        Immigrant detainees reported mistreatment at private jail before suicide

        Patrick Terpstra
        In this photo taken Sept. 10, 2019, detainees walk toward a fenced recreation area at the GEO Group’s immigration jail in Tacoma, Wash.

        ICE Inc

        Immigrant arrests create 'unprecedented growth opportunities' for private jails

        Patrick Terpstra
      • People stand handcuffed after being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

        ICE Inc

        'Absolute hell hole': Private prisons set to house ICE detainees bring problems

        Patrick Terpstra
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