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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle

Company handling Australia’s immigration detention playing key role in Trump’s ICE migrant crackdown

Donald Trump speaking from a lectern
Management and Training Corporation is closely involved with US president Donald Trump’s hardline immigration programs enforced by ICE. An Australian subsidiary has won major contracts from the Albanese government. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

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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