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New Bill Would Tax 50% of Profits From Private ICE Detention Centers in California
Assemblyman Matt Haney’s AB1633 targets private detention centers’ profits to reduce immigration detention and prevent reopening of facilities like FCI Dublin.
- On Monday, Assemblyman Matt Haney introduced AB1633 to impose a 50 percent tax on profits of private immigration detention centers operated by ICE-funded corporations in California.
- After national outrage over recent ICE-involved shootings, Assemblyman Matt Haney and advocates cited reports of immigrant deaths and abusive conditions at private detention centers as drivers for the bills.
- The GEO Group, Florida-based private prison corporation, operates four ICE detention facilities in California, with ICE data showing 6,280 detainees in seven centers as of Jan. 8, 28% of whom are criminals and 18% are 'Threat Level 1'.
- Haney says the bill aims to dissuade companies from opening new detention centers and stop operators profiting, while his organization opposes reopening FCI Dublin; both bills are expected to move to committee.
- By targeting profits, the bill seeks to undercut private detention corporations earning hundreds of millions, amid controversy over reopening FCI Dublin, former federal women's prison with documented abuses, Haney's office called the proposal 'first-in-the-nation'.
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A bill in California seeks to impose taxes on the profits of companies operating immigration detention centers.
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Bay Area assemblyman introduces bill that would tax 50% of profits from private ICE detention centers in California
As the country reels from another fatal shooting by immigration authorities over the weekend in Minnesota, a Bay Area legislator says he has a plan that will help keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement from expanding its efforts in California. Assemblyman Matt Haney on Monday introduced a bill that would levy a 50% tax on the profits of private immigration detention centers in the state. “ICE is engaged in a reign of terror across the country …
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