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. 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 operate offshore processing facilities on Nauru and Australia’s onshore detention network. Sign up: AU Breaking News emailThe company has since become closely involved in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. MTC is one of a handful of private prison operators running ICE detention facilities, holding thousands of detainees caught up in the agency’s mass arrest campaign. “It should raise serious questions for any government entity considering a contract.”Local advocates and politicians have called for a review of MTC’s immigration detention contracts with the Australian government.