For the last year, private prison companies and corporate interests have been quietly lobbying to place millions of immigrants under electronic surveillance, according to records uncovered by The Lever.
Trump's latest pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is a former lobbyist for the GEO Group, one of the world's biggest prison companies, another sign of the influence the industry may wield under the new administration.
A core profit driver for longtime immigration vendors like the GEO Group is electronic monitoring: the ankle bracelets, GPS trackers, and facial recognition technology that the government deploys on tens of thousands of immigrants across the country.
Advocates warn such an expansion would intensify the harms that surveillance can inflict, often with little oversight.
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