Immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings at a Denver facility are suing Florida-based GEO Group Inc. on grounds of violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, a federal law that prohibits forced labor. GEO, one of the largest contractors used by the federal government for the detention of immigrants headed towards deportation, is accused of profiting from immigrant labor by making detainees work janitorial and food service jobs for $1 a day. Attorneys hope to expand the scope of the lawsuit to class-action status, saying that while the lawsuit in Colorado is the first of its kind, thousands of immigrants in private detention centers around the country are often forced to labor at a congressionally-set daily wage that’s been unadjusted for inflation since 1950.
See "Detained immigrants sue over getting $1 a day for work", Ivan Moreno, July 10, 2015