Trump's New ICE Director Is Already In A SHOCKING Scandal

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]We are seeing yet another fox  being hired to guard the hen house.

[00:00:07]And actually, you know what? I I take that back  because that metaphor doesn't go far enough.

[00:00:13]A fox guarding a hen house, it's bad. This story  is about a fox who used to own the hen house, sold his shares before taking the job,  and is now standing at the gate smiling, holding a clipboard, asking each individual  chicken, "Are you uh here legally?"

[00:00:30]And look, this week, the Sultan of Spray Tan,  Donald Trump himself, and his regime announced that the new acting director of ICE starting June  1st is going to be a man named David Venterella.

[00:00:43]And on paper, Mr. Venturella looks like a career  civil servant. He worked for ICE under George W.

[00:00:48]Bush. He worked for ICE under Obama and he came  back to ICE under Trump. But the telling part here is his quick little detour from 2013 to 2023, a  decade where he was an executive at the GEO Group.

[00:01:06]The GEO Group, for those who are unfamiliar, is  the largest private prison company in America.

[00:01:12]They run private detention centers. They run  ICE detention centers. And they run currently about 26,000 beds of ICE capacity. So their  entire business model here is quite literally lock up immigrants for money. In 2025,  the GEO group's net income jumped 800%.

[00:01:36]It's not a typo. 800%.

[00:01:42]Their net income for that year was $254 million  when it was just 32 million the year before.

[00:01:51]The CEO in 2025 called it the most successful  period for new business wins in our company's history. And what's their projection for 2026?  Three billion dollars in revenue. Yeah. With a B.

[00:02:08]revenue from locking people up for the  federal government, which is now run by the same federal government that just  put their former executive vice president in charge of the entire federal agency  that's going to hand them the contracts.

[00:02:24]I mean, always be closing, right? The GEO  group business model. And David Ventella looks to be the ultimate closer here. And look,  this isn't even a clever grift. There's no planning montage here like Oceans 11. There's no  plot twist. There's no was it all a dream? No.

[00:02:43]The Trump administration is standing in front  of you in broad daylight in May of 2026 saying, "Yep, we took the executive from the company  that makes billions off of ICE detention and we put him in charge of ICE." And yes, he will  be deciding who gets detained. And yes, his former company will be paid to detain them. Yes, he held  GEO stock. We know what this looks like and no, we don't care. And this story goes from just  simple cynicism to pure dystopian nightmare when you start to look at the staffing  situation underneath this guy at ICE.

[00:03:24]Under the previous ICE director, the agency hired  12,000 new employees in a single year. 12,000.

[00:03:32]And they have leftover money. They're spending  what's left of a $75 billion appropriation from last summer with about half of it dedicated to  expanding detention space, more prison beds.

[00:03:48]Now, fortunately, the public isn't backing  this up. The mood from the public, it's soured.

[00:03:53]If you look over a year ago, mass deportation  pulled fairly well. But now, after seeing the ICE raids in Chicago, after the shooting deaths of  two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis, after the countless detention deaths hitting  their highest total since the DHS was founded, Americans, including Republicans, are saying,  "This got out of hand. Let's pump the brakes."

[00:04:21]And what's Donald Trump's response to us asking  him to pump the brakes? to install the guy who designed the brakes. And the only reason the  only reason this grift works is because all of us are exhausted. They are betting that you're going  to see this this headline, you're going to sigh, you're going to scroll, and you're going to  forget about it. That's the formula from the Trump administration. One thing after another.  Outrage, forget. Outrage, forget. outrage forget.

[00:04:57]And that's why it's your job. Your job is to not  forget because the day after Venturella starts, GEO Group stock is going to go do  something. And it's probably going to go up.

[00:05:09]And six months from now, when a new detention  facility gets a billion dollar 15-year contract, you need to remember the name  David Venturella. And then you need to scream about it to all of  your elected officials as loud as you