1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

Come out publicly against ICE detention and use every legal tool available to shut it down. What's happening in these facilities isn't immigration enforcement — it's a captive labor scheme. For-profit corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic are paying detained people $1 a day, sometimes for 14-hour shifts, to run their facilities. GEO's profits jumped from $32 million to $254 million in a single year. That's not a coincidence. That's the business model. Seventy percent of people in these facilities have no criminal record. They're held on civil charges while corporations extract their labor at 12.5 cents an hour — less than what prison inmates earn. When detainees refuse to work, they face solitary confinement. The NLRB filed a formal complaint against GEO Group for exactly this in January 2025, then the complaint was quietly withdrawn after political interference. This system is designed to be unaccountable. There is no reform that fixes this. The profit motive is the abuse. Close the detention centers, end the contracts, and use the law to pursue the companies that built their revenue on forced labor. I expect you to take a clear public stand and act on it.