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Pedro Camacho

Ethics Watchdog Raises Flags Around Border Czar's Ties to Private Detention Giant

Thomas Homan, Trump's "Border Czar" (Credit: Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Ethics experts and immigrant rights advocates are raising concerns over newly disclosed financial ties between Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar," and GEO Group, a major private prison company poised to benefit from the administration's push to expand immigrant detention.

According to a federal ethics disclosure obtained by The Washington Post, Homan received more than $5,000 in consulting fees from GEO Care, a division of GEO Group, in the two years prior to joining the Trump administration in January.

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