Company handling Australia’s immigration detention playing key role in Trump’s ICE migrant crackdown
by Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle from World news | The Guardian on (#736Z5)
Albanese government awarded contracts to MTC despite allegations of gross negligence' in the US involvement with ICE
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The Australian government's main immigration detention contractor is playing a key role in Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown and has attracted a string of complaints over its treatment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees.
In recent years, the Albanese government has awarded lucrative immigration detention contracts to the local subsidiary of Management and Training Corporation, a major US private prison company, to operate offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Australia's onshore detention network.
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