Deportation Oligarchs & Trump: An 11,050% Return on Investment
Trump campaigned on a promise to massively increase the arrest, imprisonment, and expulsion of immigrants. The Republican Congress has delivered the tens of billions of dollars he needs to make that happen.
 board in February 2025 unanimously handed Zoley a stock grant worth roughly $5.5 million, the biggest award he’s received since it went public. In 2021, he was awarded a lucrative retirement bonus that’s already worth more than $7 million and will rise to an eight-digit sum if he stays on for another five years.” [17] Right now, Zoley is excited by the current surge in business, telling investors: “We’ve never seen anything like this before.” [18]
GEO has aggressively worked the revolving door between government and contractors. Daniel Bible moved from head of ICE’s deportations division to GEO just before Trump’s reelection, after blocking competing of GEO’s electronic tagging contract under Biden, Pam Bondi lobbied for GEO in 2019. Matthew Albence, the former acting director of ICE during the first Trump administration is head of client relations. Henry Lucero, who once oversaw deportation officers during Trump’s era, and Daniel Ragsdale, a former ICE leader during the Obama administration, are also on the company payroll. [19]
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Allen Weh Founder, CSI Aviation
Total public political donations in 2024 cycle: $442,826
Allen Weh is CEO of the main company providing air charter flights for ICE deportations. Weh was previously the chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party and ran for Republican nominee for US Senate in 2014 and New Mexico Governor in 2010.
CSI hosted a Trump campaign event at Albuquerque in July 2024. [20]
Weh’s company CSI Aviation was awarded $1.6 billion in federal contracts to manage deportation flights for ICE, which it subcontracts out to multiple charter airlines. ICE used one of these flights to ship detainees to El Salvador’s CECOT prison camp in violation of a federal court order. [21] CSI Aviation’s major subcontractors include Avelo Airways which has attracted controversy and protests for becoming the first commercial airline to participate in ICE expulsions. [22]
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