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An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. Itâs Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage
_Locking In Profits: Top ICE Officials Leave Agency to Serve Its Top Contractor_
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/locking-in-profits-top-ice-officials-leave-agency-to-serve-its-top-contractor -
_Locking In Profits: Top ICE Officials Leave Agency to Serve Its Top Contractor_
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/locking-in-profits-top-ice-officials-leave-agency-to-serve-its-top-contractor"In April 2018, Tracey Valerio, the top official in charge of âall agency contractingâ at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, resigned. Within months, she was recruited as a paid expert witness in a lawsuit to defend ICEâs biggest contractorâa large, private prison and immigrant detention company known as the GEO Group."
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"In April 2018, Tracey Valerio, the top official in charge of âall agency contractingâ at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, resigned. Within months, she was recruited as a paid expert witness in a lawsuit to defend ICEâs biggest contractorâa large, private prison and immigrant detention company known as the GEO Group."
_U.S. Border Patrol Uses Wild Horses Tamed by Prisoners_
https://www.insidehook.com/culture/us-border-patrol-uses-wild-horses-tamed-prisoners -
_U.S. Border Patrol Uses Wild Horses Tamed by Prisoners_
https://www.insidehook.com/culture/us-border-patrol-uses-wild-horses-tamed-prisoners_How Private Prisons Profit from Forced Labor_
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/10/how-private-prisons-profit-from-forced-laborDuring his incarceration, he worked in the facilityâs kitchen, making between $1 and $4 per day as part of the ironically named âVoluntary Work Program.â Barrientos explained that in prison, he faced an âimpossible choiceâ: he could either work for pennies, or attempt to live without necessities such as soap and toilet paper, which were not provided to detainees and had to be purchased.
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_How Private Prisons Profit from Forced Labor_
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/10/how-private-prisons-profit-from-forced-laborDuring his incarceration, he worked in the facilityâs kitchen, making between $1 and $4 per day as part of the ironically named âVoluntary Work Program.â Barrientos explained that in prison, he faced an âimpossible choiceâ: he could either work for pennies, or attempt to live without necessities such as soap and toilet paper, which were not provided to detainees and had to be purchased.
... Barrientos is not alone. On any given day, there are about 50,000 immigrants being held in detention, most of them in private prisons. Just to be clear, these immigrants are not incarcerated as punishment for a crime; rather, they are being held in whatâs called âcivilâ detention until their deportation cases can be heard by an immigration judge or an appeals court. Under the law, âcivilâ detention is supposedly non-punitive ...
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... Barrientos is not alone. On any given day, there are about 50,000 immigrants being held in detention, most of them in private prisons. Just to be clear, these immigrants are not incarcerated as punishment for a crime; rather, they are being held in whatâs called âcivilâ detention until their deportation cases can be heard by an immigration judge or an appeals court. Under the law, âcivilâ detention is supposedly non-punitive ...
_Stephen Miller Has Financial Stake in Company Helping ICE With Deportations: Report_
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-miller-financial-stake-palantir-ice-contractor-1235371343/He owns $100,000 to $250,000 worth of stock in Palantir.
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_Stephen Miller Has Financial Stake in Company Helping ICE With Deportations: Report_
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-miller-financial-stake-palantir-ice-contractor-1235371343/He owns $100,000 to $250,000 worth of stock in Palantir.
Here is his disclosure
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25976892-miller-stephen/#document/p5He earned about 800k a year from political orgs. America First Legal the biggest. He is founder. What better way to get paid by oligarchs.
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Here is his disclosure
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25976892-miller-stephen/#document/p5He earned about 800k a year from political orgs. America First Legal the biggest. He is founder. What better way to get paid by oligarchs.
"Technically, the Palantir stock is in a brokerage account for one of Millerâs young children, but that does not legally matter, according to the Office of Government Ethics, which says âan asset that is owned by a spouse or minor child is analyzed under 18 U.S.C.
208 [the criminal conflict of interest law] as if the employee owns it." "Trump's kids run his businesses to avoid *conflicts" but this obviously does nothing to alleviate the conflicts.
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"Technically, the Palantir stock is in a brokerage account for one of Millerâs young children, but that does not legally matter, according to the Office of Government Ethics, which says âan asset that is owned by a spouse or minor child is analyzed under 18 U.S.C.
208 [the criminal conflict of interest law] as if the employee owns it." "Trump's kids run his businesses to avoid *conflicts" but this obviously does nothing to alleviate the conflicts.
It's a poster about identifying ICE agents. On left is a picture of a bona fide ICE agent. At right, a kidnapper. They are the same picture.
"Tom the Dancing Bug" by Ruben Bolling (July 4, 2025 comic)
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It's a poster about identifying ICE agents. On left is a picture of a bona fide ICE agent. At right, a kidnapper. They are the same picture.
"Tom the Dancing Bug" by Ruben Bolling (July 4, 2025 comic)
Trump said the drop in immigration across the border is because of the wall he built but he only built 52 miles of new wall (about 450 including replacement & secondary well)
More lies.
"The original plan was to erect a barrier stretching 1,000 miles along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border.
[When] Trump left office in Jan 2021, only about 450 miles of barrier had been built â much of which replaced or reinforced existing structures rather than creating new walls."
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/what-happened-to-the-trump-border-wall-385881/
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Trump said the drop in immigration across the border is because of the wall he built but he only built 52 miles of new wall (about 450 including replacement & secondary well)
More lies.
"The original plan was to erect a barrier stretching 1,000 miles along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border.
[When] Trump left office in Jan 2021, only about 450 miles of barrier had been built â much of which replaced or reinforced existing structures rather than creating new walls."
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/what-happened-to-the-trump-border-wall-385881/
Pleading for release does not work. They only understand power.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11280145/canadian-woman-detained-ice-family/
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Pleading for release does not work. They only understand power.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11280145/canadian-woman-detained-ice-family/
Actually thinking about it, offer Trump money.
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Actually thinking about it, offer Trump money.
Swiss woman tried to visit New York but instead got thrown in jail then sent home.
She will no doubt now have fond memories of the U.S.A. which she will recount to anyone who will listen for the rest of her natural life. Wonderful goodwill that Trump is cultivating here.
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Swiss woman tried to visit New York but instead got thrown in jail then sent home.
She will no doubt now have fond memories of the U.S.A. which she will recount to anyone who will listen for the rest of her natural life. Wonderful goodwill that Trump is cultivating here.
"A New Zealand woman and her six-year-old son have been detained by US immigration officials after she tried to return to America from a trip to Canada.
Sarah Shaw had taken her two older children to Vancouver so they could catch a direct flight back to New Zealand on July 24 to visit family, and she then planned to travel back to her home in Washington state with her younger son."
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"A New Zealand woman and her six-year-old son have been detained by US immigration officials after she tried to return to America from a trip to Canada.
Sarah Shaw had taken her two older children to Vancouver so they could catch a direct flight back to New Zealand on July 24 to visit family, and she then planned to travel back to her home in Washington state with her younger son."
"That ICE is an agency rife with allegations of sexual abuse against detainees is not surprising. âHe grabbed my breasts,â a detainee named Maria told the New York Times in 2018, describing an assault by a male guard. âHe put his hands in my pants and he touched my private parts. He touched me again inside the van, and my hands were tied. And he started masturbating.â "
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/
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"That ICE is an agency rife with allegations of sexual abuse against detainees is not surprising. âHe grabbed my breasts,â a detainee named Maria told the New York Times in 2018, describing an assault by a male guard. âHe put his hands in my pants and he touched my private parts. He touched me again inside the van, and my hands were tied. And he started masturbating.â "
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/
200 billion is basically buying white supremacists into ICE.
ICE is currently running ads with white supremacist dog whistles and video of its trucks in Trump's plane's colour, because ICE are his goons.
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200 billion is basically buying white supremacists into ICE.
ICE is currently running ads with white supremacist dog whistles and video of its trucks in Trump's plane's colour, because ICE are his goons.
"Critics argue that phrases like âAmerica has been invaded by criminals and predatorsâ and âDefend Your Cultureâ echo nationalist rhetoric historically tied to extremist movements. The meme-inspired van ad and the âabsolute boysâ tagline, they warn, risk attracting applicants drawn more to political ideology than to the professional responsibilities of federal law enforcement.
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"Critics argue that phrases like âAmerica has been invaded by criminals and predatorsâ and âDefend Your Cultureâ echo nationalist rhetoric historically tied to extremist movements. The meme-inspired van ad and the âabsolute boysâ tagline, they warn, risk attracting applicants drawn more to political ideology than to the professional responsibilities of federal law enforcement.
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"... Award-winning journalist Radley Balko points out that some imagery mirrors symbols used by white supremacist groups, raising concerns about the ideological profile of future recruits. Lower hiring standards, he argues, only heighten the risk of politicization."
_some imagery mirrors symbols used by white supremacist groups_
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"... Award-winning journalist Radley Balko points out that some imagery mirrors symbols used by white supremacist groups, raising concerns about the ideological profile of future recruits. Lower hiring standards, he argues, only heighten the risk of politicization."
_some imagery mirrors symbols used by white supremacist groups_
Font used in ICE advertisement is very similar to that used on the cover of Mein Kampf
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nazi-font-in-ice-recruitment-clip_l_689b7a07e4b0196f49c523d7
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Font used in ICE advertisement is very similar to that used on the cover of Mein Kampf
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nazi-font-in-ice-recruitment-clip_l_689b7a07e4b0196f49c523d7
DOGE used Nazi imagery, multiple times.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Olive Cotton - Skeleton Leaf, 1964.
#photography #photo #blackandwhite #photo@diggita.com
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moment I realized weâre collectively holding a traumatic story. I didnât have many details. I did not yet know her name: Renee Nicole Good. Or that she was a mother of a kid just about my daughterâs age. I didnât know Reneeâs motherâs description of her daughter as âloving, forgiving and affectionate.â
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Honoring The Many Responses To Renee Nicole Goodâs Murder - PopularResistance.Org
https://popularresistance.org/honoring-the-many-responses-to-renee-nicole-goods-murder/
> I was leading the afternoon session in a room of Black clergy. I had been planning to announce happier news that our pressure on Avelo forced them out of the deportation business. But this breaking overshadowed it. I told them that an ICE observer in Minneapolis had been shot. They gasped. Somehow, the gasp was the first
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@valhalla @sabrinaweb71 @phabrizio no, adesso è un lusso
Le poche volte che lo faccio poi mi resta il senso di colpa per aver preso un lusso che non mi posso permettere, e allora al diavolo
Ă diventato una cosa per signori
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"Eau de Mèlons":
> @NoveltyBot đ https://mastodon.social/users/NoveltyBot/statuses/115880367103286412
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Foul Smelling Stink Spray
only $3.98 from Things You Never Knew Existed (1991)
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@CapitalB Ok I didn't expect it going the way it went
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@SeanCasten đł
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Cosmic Clau (@cosmicclau.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/cosmicclau.bsky.social/post/3mc5azgcv3k2a
> For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago, Charlie Brown
