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A man holds his hands behind his head.The news has been filled with allegations of forced labor at Texas CoreCivic ICE facilities and other immigrant detention centers throughout the U.S. Employees and volunteers who might have witnessed forced labor at CoreCivic facilities could have valuable information that could help affected detainees seek justice.

News Investigation Reveals Profitability of Migrant Labor Force

According to a Daily Beast investigation, detention for migrants is a very profitable business. The migrants being placed in certain locations allegedly worked for pennies despite the fact that over $800 million in taxpayer funds went to those private detention centers where the detainees were held.

For-profit immigrant detention was allegedly a $1 billion industry in 2018, with a variety of different problems reported in the media and by whistleblowers, such as minimal oversight, slave labor, and suicide claims. It is a misdemeanor offense for most people to enter the United States illegally, which means that immigration detention becomes a matter of civil concern rather than a criminal one.

Today, detention has reached an all-time high average with ICE activity, and some believe that this is being promoted by the government as a way to carry out slave labor by packing these facilities with more detainees.

Existing Detention Standards

Currently ICE has an internal detention standard system, which states that immigrant labor is voluntary and must be paid only $1 per day. Increasingly, lawsuits have targeted labor issues in private prisons, indicating that the labor requirements are not indeed voluntary and instead force people to accept the low daily wages for completing painful, difficult, dirty, and long hours filled with work.

Some advocates claim that use of slave labor at Texas CoreCivic detention centers enables profiting off of a labor force that is voluntary only in name. CoreCivic has already faced more than one civil lawsuit accusing the company of these practices. It is possible that more lawsuits might be filed in the future. Many of these lawsuits might rely on insider information shared by witnesses who can provide testimony and documentation of forced labor practices.

Defining Forced Labor

The major content of government agencies right now is that the labor is optional, but gives prisoners the choice to earn money while in detention for immigration issues. However, as the outcry has spread, it appears that the labor might not be voluntary at all, and that detainees are being forced into poor working conditions with little pay.

According to AntiSlavery.org, forced labor refers to any activities that a person has been forced into doing as a result of threats from another party and for which that person did not choose to participate on their own. According to those advocates, forced labor affects millions of people all over the world.

Join a Free CoreCivic Class Action Lawsuit Investigation

If you were detained in one of CoreCivic’s detention facilities as an immigration detainee with pending immigration status or deportation within the past year or you witnessed forced-labor practices, you may qualify to participate in an immigration detainee labor lawsuit investigation.

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