Name: 川普遣返政策帶來的暴利！這些公司狂賺數十億美元！ (The biggest companies making billions from Trump's deportations)
Uploaded: 2026-02-12T06:25:27.000Z
Duration: 13 min 11 s

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Have you seen these massive warehouses ICE is reportedly trying to buy and then detain people in?

你有看到 ICE 據說正在試圖購買並用來拘留人的這些大型倉庫嗎？

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Maybe you've also seen that some of those deals are falling apart because companies don't want to be associated with or potentially profit from mass deportation.

也許你還聽說，有些交易因為公司不想被牽扯進去，或是可能從大規模遣返中獲利而破局。

But there are plenty of companies that already have billions of dollars in contracts with the Department of Homeland Security.

但有很多公司已經跟國土安全部簽訂了數十億美元的合約。

Call it the deportation industrial complex or just regular old government procurement.

你可以稱之為遣返產業複合體，或是就一般的政府採購。

Either way, they stand to gain from the most ever put towards deporting migrants with potentially more money to come.

不管怎麼說，他們都能從史上用於遣返移民的鉅款中獲利，而且未來可能還有更多錢。

But between redacted contracts, private charter flights, and

layers of subcontractors, it's not easy to figure out where all that money is going.

以及層層分包商之間，要搞清楚這些錢到底都花到哪裡去了，並不容易。

So here's the big ticket ways your tax dollars are being spent on max deportation and a few of the biggest companies cashing in.

所以，這就是你的稅款在最大規模遣返上花費的重點項目，以及幾家大賺特賺的公司。

I'm going to focus on two Detention and transportation.

我會聚焦在兩個方面：拘留和運輸。

Because other than paying and equipping federal agents, those are the biggest costs.

因為除了支付和配備聯邦探員之外，這些是最大的開銷。

DHS is detaining a record number of people.

DHS 正在拘留創紀錄人數的移民。

According to DHS's most recent numbers, it costs around $187 to detain one adult for one day.

根據 DHS 最新的數字，每天拘留一名成人大約需要 187 美元。

And even though most people detained by DHS haven't been convicted of a crime, many are housed in facilities that were or still are prisons.

而且，儘管大多數被 DHS 拘留的人都未被判有罪，但許多人卻被安置在過去或現在是監獄的場所。

Most recent estimates find a vast majority of immigration detainees are held in facilities run or owned by private prison companies.

最近的估計發現，絕大多數的移民拘留者都被關在由私人監獄公司經營或擁有的場所。

The Geo Group and CoreCivic are the two biggest.

Geo Group 和 CoreCivic 是兩家最大的公司。

So they're obligated to tell their shareholders at least some information about how they make profits.

所以牠們有義務向股東透露至少一部分關於牠們如何獲利的資訊。

And they're not exactly shy about how mass deportation boosts their bottom line.

而且牠們一點都不避諱大規模遣返如何能增加牠們的營收。

Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment.

我們的業務完全符合當前的需求。

And here's the Geo Group CFO giving a little bit more detail about their profit margins.

這是 Geo Group 的財務長，他稍微詳細說明瞭牠們的利潤率。

Our facilities designed to enhance the delivery of these programs during the second quarter of 2025.

我們的場所旨在加強在 2025 年第二季這些計畫的執行。

He's talking about all facilities the Geo Group owns, immigration and otherwise.

他指的是 Geo Group 擁有的所有場所，包括移民場所和其他。

像是紐澤西州紐華克的 Delaney Hall。

It reopened in early 2025 after signing a 15 year, $1 billion contract with DHS.

它在簽訂一份為期 15 年、價值 10 億美元與 DHS 的合約後，於 2025 年初重新啟用。

They really typically range from about one to five years.

牠們通常的期限大約是一到五年。

That is very worrisome because this spans technically four presidential administrations.

這點非常令人擔憂，因為這實際上橫跨了四個總統任期。

What's the problem with a company like Corecivic or Geo Group being the beneficiary of this policy priority?

像 Corecivic 或 Geo Group 這樣公司成為這項政策優先事項的受益者，有什麼問題嗎？

So when journalists, when advocates do see these contracts, if they FOIA them, a lot of the contract data is actually redacted.

所以當記者、當倡議人士看到這些合約，如果他們透過 FOIA 取得，合約資料很多都被塗改了。

It's an acronym for the Freedom of Information Act, a law that allows anyone the right to get records from executive branch agencies.

這是「資訊自由法」的縮寫，這項法律賦予任何人向行政部門機構索取紀錄的權利。

Here's a contract between ICE and the Geo Group, the aclu, foia, all terms and pricing amounts are redacted.

這是 ICE 和 Geo Group 之間的一份合約，ACLU、FOIA、所有條款和計價金額都被塗改了。

See, what's the justification for redacting so much?

這樣，塗改這麼多東西的理由是什麼？

The companies will say that their firms, they have trade secrets.

這些公司會說，他們的企業有商業機密。

Trade secrets when they bid for these contracts, it's a competitive bidding process and they might not want to reveal their staff ratios, how they make a profit.

商業機密，當他們競標這些合約時，這是一個競爭性的招標過程，他們可能不想透露他們的人員比例、他們如何獲利。

Now, federal agencies don't always have to hold competitive processes.

現在，聯邦機構不一定總是要經過競爭性程序。

Federal law lets them give out no bid contracts in special circumstances.

聯邦法律允許他們在特殊情況下給予「不經招標」的合約。

But according to government watchdogs, no bid contracts can be a problem because folks in charge of where the money goes could potentially steer those funds to whomever they want.

不過，根據政府監督者說法，「不經招標」的合約可能會是個問題，因為負責金流的人，可能會把錢導向他們想給的任何人。

Good morning, it's Tom Homan, the border czar.

In August 2025, House Democrats sent him a letter pointing out that in his ethics disclosure, he said he was a consultant for the Geo group from 2023 to 2025.

在 2025 年 8 月，眾議院民主黨人寄了一封信給他，指出在他的道德聲明中，他表示自己從 2023 年到 2025 年是 Geo Group 的顧問。

They also claimed that after he joined the second Trump administration, he played a key role in hiring this man, David Venturella, a former Geo Group executive.

他們還聲稱，在他加入第二任川普政府後，他在聘用這位前 Geo Group 高管 David Venturella 方面扮演了關鍵角色。

Now he manages contracts for immigrant detention centers for dhs.

現在他負責 DHS 移民拘留中心的合約管理。

House Democrats wrote they were concerned that Homan is uniquely positioned to help your former business client reap a huge windfall now because Homan works for the White House and Venturello for dhs.

眾議院民主黨人寫道，他們擔心 Homan 處於一個獨特的有利位置，可以幫助你以前的商業客戶現在大賺一筆，因為 Homan 在白宮工作，而 Venturello 在 DHS 工作。

We reached out to both about the House Democrats letter.

我們就眾議院民主黨人的信聯繫了他們兩人。

The White House contested the allegation, writing, Homan continues to adhere to the federal ethics and conflicts of interest rules and that he has no involvement in the actual awarding of a government contract.

白宮反駁了這項指控，寫道 Homan 仍遵守聯邦道德和利益衝突規定，並且他並未參與政府合約的實際簽發。

DHS responded that Venturella complied with all ethics requirements.

DHS 回應表示 Venturella 已遵守所有道德規範。

They told us Venturella's former employment at the Geo Group triggered a one year restriction from doing certain work with the company, but

他們告訴我們，Venturella 之前在 Geo Group 的任職，觸發了一年內不得與該公司從事某些工作的限制，但

that ICE leadership granted him authorization for some work to meet the critical needs of the agency.

ICE 領導層已授權他進行部分工作，以滿足該機構的關鍵需求。

There's a revolving door which is typical with any industry, the defense industry.

就像國防產業一樣，這是一個常見的旋轉門現象。

And you will see people on the board of directors of both companies or in leadership that have served in federal administrations.

你會看到這兩家公司董事會成員或領導層中，都有曾在聯邦政府任職過的人。

Okay, so now we're gonna talk about transportation and specifically air travel.

好的，接下來我們要來聊聊運輸，特別是航空旅行。

DHS calls it ICE Air Operations, and it's more flights than you might realize.

DHS 將其稱為 ICE Air Operations，其班機數量比你想像的還要多。

One Venezuelan asylum seeker told CNN he was detained at Delaney hall in Newark, then flown to a facility in Louisiana, then to Virginia, then to Texas, and

一位委內瑞拉尋求庇護者告訴 CNN，他先在紐華克的 Delaney hall 被拘留，然後被飛往路易斯安那州的一處場所，接著飛往維吉尼亞州，再到德州，最後

then to California, where he is now detained.

飛往加州，他現在就被安置在那裡。

That's four flights for one that tracks with larger numbers.

這對一個人來說就有四趟班機，而且這還只是較大數量中的一小部分。

Most of the detainees arrested in the first 10 months of 2025 were held in more than one facility, and

在 2025 年前十個月被逮捕的移民拘留者，大多被安置在一個以上的場所，

nearly half were shuffled between three or more.

而且將近一半的人在三個或更多場所之間被調來調去。

And information about IceAir is even harder to track down than detention facilities.

至於 ICE Air 的資訊，比拘留場所的資訊更難追蹤。

So I decided to go see for myself which companies are profiting from flying detainees around and how.

所以我決定親自去看看，是哪些公司從運送移民拘留者搭飛機往返中獲利，以及是如何獲利的。

We're at Minneapolis St. Paul Airport, and thousands of people come through this airport every day.

我們現在在明尼阿波利斯聖保羅機場，每天有數千人進出這個機場。

But also at this airport, there is a private terminal that immigration detainees are loaded onto planes and shipped to various different detention centers across the country.

但就在這個機場，有一個私人航廈，移民拘留者會在那裡被送上飛機，運送到全國各地不同的拘留中心。

And believe it or not, people on the ground looking at airplanes provide some of the best information out there on how ICE Air works.

你可能不敢相信，在地面上觀察飛機的人，提供了關於 ICE Air 如何運作的許多寶貴資訊。

So I've got a little flight tracker setup that has a filter on it that's going to show us all of the flights that are working in the domestic shuffle here in the United States.

我這裡設了一個飛行追蹤器，裡面有個篩選器，會顯示所有在美國境內調動的班機。

If it weren't for you setting up here, watching these planes and then sending out alerts, we wouldn't know how many planes are going where, how many people are on each of those planes, and

如果不是你在這裡觀察這些飛機，然後發出警報，我們根本不知道有多少飛機飛往哪裡，每架飛機上有多少人，

what these sort of deportation shuffle flights are all about.

以及這些所謂的「大規模遣返」班機到底在做什麼。

That makes me sound a lot more important than it should, but

這樣說好像我本人很重要一樣，但其實沒那麼嚴重。

I don't know who else would be out here doing it if I hadn't gotten the ball rolling on it.

如果不是我開始做這件事，我也不知道還有誰會在這裡做。

And as far as numbers go, DHS and ice, it's kind of a black box.

至於數字方面，DHS 和 ICE 就像個黑盒子。

Once in a while we'll get an update on however many people they've arrested or whatever, but

偶爾我們會收到一些關於他們逮捕了多少人或類似的更新，但

While DHS and ICE do provide yearly stats on detainment, ICE flights are not publicly disclosed, either in real time or yearly.

雖然 DHS 和 ICE 會提供每年的拘留人數統計，但 ICE 的班機資訊，無論是即時還是年度的，都不會公開。

House and Senate oversight committees who could ask DHS to make those flight stats public, haven't used their subpoena power to do so.

眾議院和參議院的監督委員會本可以要求國土安全部公開這些班機數據，但他們並沒有動用傳票權力來這麼做。

But data collected by folks like Benson and online flight trackers show the numbers are growing significantly.

但像 Benson 和線上班機追蹤者這樣的人收集到的數據顯示，數字正在顯著增長。

FAA regulations mandate that airplanes use call signs to identify their aircraft to air traffic control and on publicly accessible real time maps.

FAA 的規定要求飛機使用呼號向空中交通管制員以及在公開的即時地圖上識別其飛機。

But in spring 2025, Nick Benson noticed something was changing.

但在 2025 年春天，Nick Benson 注意到有些東西正在改變。

These flights would not be coming through in that FAA data because they're using something called the LAD list.

這些班機不會出現在 FAA 的數據中，因為他們使用的是所謂的 LAD 名單。

And that's the same privacy program that like Taylor Swift and Elon use to prevent eccentrics like us from keeping track of what they're doing.

這和 Taylor Swift 和 Elon Musk 使用的隱私計畫一樣，用來防止像我們這樣的怪人追蹤他們在做什麼。

But traditionally, these charter airlines that operate these ICE flights, you know, up until this spring, that was always publicly available information, it's an extra step they took to obfuscate things further.

但傳統上，這些經營 ICE 班機的包機公司，你知道，直到今年春天為止，這些資訊一直都是公開的，他們採取額外的步驟來進一步混淆視聽。

Neither DHS nor the FAA has thus far issued statements confirming these security measures or offering an explanation.

國土安全部和 FAA 至今都未發表聲明證實這些安全措施或提供解釋。

In response to our query, a spokesperson wrote, the DOT and FAA have and will continue to coordinate with our law enforcement partners and to ensure agents and any passengers are safe while they conduct security operations.

在回覆我們的詢問時，一位發言人寫道，交通部和 FAA 過去以及未來都會繼續與我們的執法夥伴協調，並確保聯邦探員和任何乘客在進行安全行動時的安全。

And that's really when I started getting, like, keenly interested in what was going on.

這也正是我開始對正在發生的事情感到非常好奇的時候。

Because if they didn't want us to see what they were doing, why was that, you know?

因為如果他們不想讓我們看到他們在做什麼，那是為什麼呢？

All right, the app says that the plane's at 1600ft.

好的，App 顯示飛機在 1600 英尺的高度。

It took off from El Paso about a couple hours ago, and it's landing here in St. Paul.

它大約在兩個小時前從 El Paso 起飛，現在正降落在 St. Paul。

All of the ICE deportation flights that have operated out of Minneapolis that I've seen are operated by charter airlines like this one.

我所見過從 Minneapolis 起飛的所有 ICE 大規模遣返班機，都是由像這樣的包機公司營運的。

Global Crossing is another airline that operates a lot of these flights here at Minneapolis.

Global Crossing 也是一家在 Minneapolis 營運許多這類班機的航空公司。

So then how does the charter airline make money?

那麼，包機公司是怎麼賺錢的呢？

They are billing for their services that are done here.

他們是就這裡提供的服務開立帳單。

Generally, when you're chartering a flight, you're looking at the origin and destination, and

一般來說，當你包機時，你會考慮起飛地和目的地，以及