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Miles Archer

(24,308 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:05 PM Jun 2025

Border Douche Tom Homan "paid thousands by a company making money from deportations" before joining the Trump Cabal

Tom Homan's financial ties to private prison locking up immigrants raise questions
New disclosure forms revealed by The Washington Post show Trump's border czar was paid thousands of dollars by a company making money from deportations before he joined the administration.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-border-tom-homan-private-prison-immigrants-rcna209544

The Washington Post was the first to publish disclosure forms filed last week showing Homan earned at least $5,000 as a consultant for Geo Group over the two years before he joined Trump’s second administration.

Before he joined the administration, border czar Tom Homan earned an undisclosed amount in fees consulting for a division of the Geo Group, one of two companies that operates the vast majority of the nation’s immigrant detention facilities, according to the disclosure, which was released last week. The filing, which has not been previously reported, did not specify what work Homan performed. The document said Geo paid him more than $5,000 during the two years preceding his government appointment in January. Ethics rules do not require any more specific disclosure, and the amount Homan received could be far higher.


Geo Group also gave $1 million dollars to the Make America Great Again PAC which backed Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Last year, after Trump was elected, the company’s CEO, Brian Evans, estimated that Geo Group could make an additional $400 million annually as a result of Trump’s planned deportations. And indeed, the company is one of multiple private prison companies making a profit from locking up immigrants for the administration. So much so, that on a conference call earlier this year, the company’s executive chairman said “we’ve never seen anything like this before” while referencing the speed with which the Trump administration has sought to procure contracts with Geo Group.

So the order of events is as follows: Tom Homan and Pam Bondi consult and lobby for Geo Group, Geo Group helps elect Trump in 2024, Homan and Bondi join Trump's administration in 2025, and then Trump’s administration helps Geo Group make profits. At a minimum, that raises questions about a conflict of interest.
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Border Douche Tom Homan "paid thousands by a company making money from deportations" before joining the Trump Cabal (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2025 OP
Prisons for profit should be banned here & internationally SheltieLover Jun 2025 #1
Tom Homan... GiqueCee Jun 2025 #2
Grift Away Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #3
Literally thousands of various k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #4

Kid Berwyn

(25,073 posts)
3. Grift Away
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:16 PM
Jun 2025

Gimme the fees that’ll feed my roll, gotta get lost in the lock n load…’n grift awaaa-a-yyy…repeat ad nauseous.

 

k_buddy762

(638 posts)
4. Literally thousands of various
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:27 PM
Jun 2025

NGOs were making money over the last 4-8 years. Its a pandemic.

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