These activities by Dream Defenders pose a serious and immediate threat to the safety of GEO's operations, employees, and all individuals (including detainees) located within its facilities. Indeed, GEO's facilities have become a target for the very harmful behavior that Dream Defenders is advocating. In recent weeks, large groups have damaged GEO's property, hindered GEO's ability to fulfill its obligations of providing safe and secure transport of detained individuals, and threatened the lives of employees within GEO facilities. Dream Defenders' actions only further incite this unlawful and dangerous behavior.

The letter outlines a few points that they say are “false:”

• Blatantly false allegations that GEO "separates" families;

• Blatantly false allegations that GEO "cages" children;

• Blatantly false allegations that GEO "puts Black, Latino and poor White people into jail;" and

• Blatantly false accusations that GEO asserts improper influence over the United States political system and an incorrect publication of a list of individuals to whom GEO supposedly made political contributions.

And to that last point, the letter argues that any and all “influence” that the GEO has made is “legal.” The group responded to the letters, reminding the GEO that “improper influence” doesn’t mean that it isn’t legal—just immoral. In response to caging children:

You hold children behind bars, fences, and/or in locked facilities. GEO’s own website details facilities across the country used to detain children for federal and state governments. Your own promotional materials refer to “standard GTI security equipment such as steel cages” in your transportation fleet. Just this week, conditions in your Karnes County, TX facility have forced hundreds of children and fathers into a strike to protest what they describe as “being treated like animals.” Furthermore, GEO maintains specially outfitted busses for field trips, brief respites from confinement, for children as young as four years old.

They also remind GEO that the company makes big profits by gouging incarcerated kids and adults who want to talk with their loved ones via phone. The Dream Defenders also remarked that arguing that you are only following orders hasn’t been a viable argument since the Nuremberg Trials. One of the group leaders told this to Think Progress:

“Many quotes from their cease-and-desist were pulled from a video of an 8-year-old Dream Defender named Yaya who broke it down in very plan lainguage what GEO Group does, in elementary-school language,” Gilmer said. “They literally feel threatened by an 8-year-old girl who’s making it clear to her peers what GEO Group does.”

You can watch Yaya’s terrifying attack on GEO below. Enjoy Yaya. She’s so much smarter than our current country’s leadership. I want more Yaya!!!!