The American Supreme Court agreed on Monday to listen A case involving Geo Groupone of the largest private immigration prisons in the country, which Look for immunity in a demand for labor slavery from foreigners arrested in a Colorado center.
Last January Geo Group asked the maximum court to intervene in the litigation presented in 2014 by immigrants arrested in a migratory center in Aurora, Coloradowho claimed violations of the company of federal laws By paying a daily dollar as part of a program of volunteer workers and force them to clean the cells where they were housed without compensation.
The judicial complaint, headed by Alejandro Menocal, also argues that Geo supposedly threatened to put in isolation those who refused to work without remuneration In said center of Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE, in English).
The company’s lawyers have asked the Supreme to analyze a technical issue that supposedly would give them “immunity” for being contractors of the federal governmentso they cannot be sued.
Geo Group has taken advantage of an old ruling of the maximum court in the Yearsley file against WA Ross Construction Co, in which case in which A contractor was exempted from responsibility in a work ordered by the US Congress.
The company has lost several of its attempts to dismiss the demand of the migrants arrested in Aurora, and now seeks to shelter Under a doctrine known as collateral orderwhich allows the immediate appeal of certain judicial orders considered “definitive”, even if they do not constitute the final sentence of the case.
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