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

<p>Albanese government awarded contracts to MTC despite allegations of ‘gross negligence’ in the US involvement with ICE</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/us-private-prisons-operator-paid-790m-to-hold-100-people-on-nauru-in-quiet-expansion-of-contract">operate offshore processing facilities on Nauru</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/11/secure-journeys-onshore-detention-operator-us-prisons-albanese-government-ntwnfb">Australia’s onshore detention network</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/29/australia-immigration-detention-company-involved-trump-ice-migrant-crackdown">Continue reading...</a>

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