$1, John.
That’s the day rate immigrants are paid for their labor while detained in government contracted, privately run detention centers.
And that $1 a day rate is the only way the over 60,000 people in detention centers can earn any money at all while detained. On that wage, it would take more than 2 days to buy a bar of soap. More than 3 days to buy a can of tuna.
Let me be clear — this cruelty is a business model. A business model lining the pockets of the same greedy corporations funneling money directly into Trump’s campaign.
GEO Group, the largest ICE detention contractor in the country, made over $254 million in 2025. And while immigrant detainees can hardly afford a bar of soap, the CEO took home $11.3 million this year.
The more Trump escalates his mass detention campaign, the more these corporations make, the more they invest in making sure he never stops.
That is egregious. No one should be able to profit off of immigrant labor, and no president should be able to weaponize our government to use human beings as a revenue stream.
That’s why I introduced the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act — to shut down for-profit detention centers and require DHS to treat anyone detained by our government with basic human dignity, starting with a minimum wage.
I refuse to let this administration outsource suffering to the highest bidder. It’s inhumane, and I will not stop fighting until we put an end to it.
Thank you,
Pramila Jayapal
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