Australia’s immigration contractor MTC involved in Trump ICE migrant crackdown
The Australian government’s main immigration detention contractor, the local subsidiary of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), is playing a key role in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the United States while continuing to run offshore processing on Nauru and Australia’s onshore detention network under contracts awarded by the Albanese government in recent years.
MTC is one of a handful of private prison operators running Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities and holds detainees at the Bluebonnet and IAH Polk facilities in Texas, the Otero County Processing Center in New Mexico, and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in California.
The American Civil Liberties Union said MTC has been the subject of a string of complaints about its treatment of ICE detainees, including allegations of assault at Bluebonnet, complaints of severe overcrowding at IAH Polk and Otero, the use of solitary confinement as a punitive measure at Otero, and the death of a detainee at Imperial in September.
The company’s US track record has also drawn allegations of "gross negligence" and "egregious" security failures, and a claim by the state of Mississippi that it engaged in "a conspiracy scheme" of kickbacks, fraud and money laundering, paying bribes to state officials in exchange for contracts.
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