For every $1 that the three largest immigration deportation and prison companies donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private contractors stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue in 2026, according to damning new research.

This epic payout, thanks to GOP leaders’ accelerated taxpayer spending on border enforcement and imprisonment, comes as a sweeping new congressional research report finds that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has for years failed to ensure that such contractors provide standard medical care for detainees.

From August 2023 to August 2024, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s independent, nonpartisan research arm, found that “57 percent of adults with a potential illness or injury and 20 percent of pregnant individuals did not receive medical assessments” during their detentions at Border Patrol–contracted facilities — a violation of the agency’s policies. Additionally, the research office found that CBP “had not provided agents and officers training on recognizing medical distress in children.”

The Trump administration, as of October, has reportedly paused paying providers for migrant health care costs altogether, even as the number of individuals held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increased more than 75 percent in the last year — a move that could exacerbate what health advocates say are already unsafe circumstances.

Only 40 percent of medical services for detainees are administered directly by the federal government, leaving the majority of care in the hands of local officials and private contractors.

Sometimes these include ancillary medical providers contracted by the Department of Homeland Security, but other times, detention center operators are responsible for administering health care. That’s the case for most GEO Group centers: the $2.2 billion company boasts that it provides “around-the-clock access to medical care” as part of its typical contract.

A lawsuit filed this Monday by a coalition of immigrant rights activists accuses GEO Group of medical neglect at its ICE processing center in Adelanto, California, citing two recent deaths at the facility.

According to a new report from Our Revolution, a progressive advocacy group, during the 2024 election cycle, GEO Group, fellow private prison company CoreCivic, and flight deportation firm CSI Aviation donated a combined $4.7 million, most of which went to Donald Trump’s and other Republicans’ election efforts. GEO Group doled out more than $3.5 million, and CoreCivic gave more than $740,000 — and 90 percent of this money went to Trump and Republican candidates. CSI Aviation donated more than $442,000 solely to Trump and GOP candidates.

These companies “stand to receive $5.2 billion in increased revenue and $520 million in estimated profit in [fiscal year] 2026” based on their contract awards, Our Revolution notes — an over 11,000 percent increase on their investment.

Reports of inhumane and inadequate treatment inside migrant detention facilities have continued to grow. Sen. John Ossoff (D-GA) released a report on Tuesday compiling “human rights abuses in U.S. immigration detention.” The report highlighted how immigration detention officials separated a breastfeeding mother from her infant child for months and that a newly postpartum detainee was unable to shower for weeks, among other findings.

Ossoff’s report follows a June 2025 investigation by Wired into 911 calls from ten of the largest detention centers in the country, including facilities run by GEO Group and CoreCivic. That report uncovered multiple incidences of sexual abuse and an account of a woman suffering from pregnancy complications who failed to receive adequate treatment.

Additionally, the recent death of a Cuban immigrant held in a Texas immigration detention center operated by the private firm Acquisition Logistics was ruled a homicide on January 22. A witness told the Associated Press that the man was handcuffed and held down by five guards, with one putting an arm around the man’s neck and choking him until he was unconscious.