A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld rulings requiring private prison operator GEO Group to pay more than $23 million to the state of Washington and hundreds of immigrant detainees who were paid $1 a day to participate in a work program.

Private prison company GEO Group has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against immigrant detainees who protested working conditions inside a California facility.

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As the new Trump administration promises mass deportations of people who entered the U.S. illegally, a private prison company is staffing up with former officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Geo Group Inc. is being accused by the US government of violating federal labor law by retaliating against immigrant detainees who supported work stoppages.

The Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, the only privately owned detention center in Washington, can hold up to 1,575 people.

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be.

One of the biggest hurdles to carrying out Trump's mass deportation plans is where to house the millions of people who are in the country without legal status. As many prisons and detention centers are already overcrowded,

The for-profit company operating the facility has invested $70 million to "meet the anticipated requirements" of federal immigration enforcement under Donald Trump.

The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

U.S. attorneys’ offices were told to investigate any official who defies federal immigration enforcement efforts and consider prosecuting them.

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be. However, an estimated 11.7 million people are living in the U.S. illegally, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently has the budget to detain only about 41,000 people.