Desert View Annex, Dec 2024 order Copy link

An order for detention at the Desert View Annex in Adelanto, California, for the year from December 2024, under a 2019 contract (70CDCR20D00000009); recorded as competed. USAspending shows $34,270,827.48 obligated.

Awarded to GEO Group by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Tie Zoley founded GEO Group, the private-prison company, and became its chairman and CEO again in March 2026 after five years as executive chairman. A GEO subsidiary, GEO Reentry Services, gave MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, $1 million each in October 2025, March, April and July 2026, $413,000 at the end of July 2026 and another $1 million on September 1, 2026, and the company's PAC gave $500,000 to Trump's inaugural committee in December 2024, FEC filings show.

GEO has run this facility since before the 2024 election; this order continues that business, and orders like it were also placed under earlier administrations.

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