GEO donations coincide with expanding ICE detention and biometric monitoring contracts A subsidiary of GEO Group, whose ICE business spans detention, biometric monitoring and location intelligence, gave more than $1.4 million in July to a political committee supporting President Donald Trump. The payments by GEO Reentry Services came within days of GEO announcing two new ICE detention contracts expected to generate a combined $165 million in their first full year of operations. A Biometric Update review of ICE procurement records found that one of those agreements is substantially larger than GEO’s public description suggested. The government estimates the five-year requirement for GEO’s Rivers Facility in North Carolina at nearly $457.1 million and awarded it without full and open competition after receiving seven responses to earlier market research. Another wholly owned GEO subsidiary, BI Incorporated, operates ICE’s nationwide Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) using electronic monitoring, biometric reporting and case management to supervise people on the agency’s non-detained docket. BI also holds one of ICE’s new skip-tracing contracts, allowing it to use government case information and commercial data to help locate people ICE is trying to find. The political spending was first reported by The Lever and subsequently by The New York Times after MAGA Inc. disclosed its July receipts to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). GEO Reentry gave MAGA Inc. $1 million on July 16, three days after GEO announced a five-year agreement for the 1,188-bed Big Horn Facility in Hudson, Colorado. It gave another $413,000 on July 31, two days after GEO announced its agreement for the 1,320-bed Rivers Facility in Winton, North Carolina. The July payments were not GEO Reentry’s first to MAGA Inc. FEC records and campaign finance disclosures show the subsidiary gave the committee $1 million in October 2025, another $1 million in March and another