1. The Trump administration is not conducting its deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis alone
Major corporations, including @amazon, @CitizensBank, and @ATT, are enabling — and profiting from — the operation.
@amazon @CitizensBank @ATT 2. @Amazon powers much of the technological infrastructure that the Trump administration uses to target immigrants.
Amazon hosts the ICM database used by ICE which "integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants"
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3. Hours after Alex Pretti was fatally shot at point-blank ranger, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attended a screening of "Melania," a documentary about the First Lady, at the White House.
Amazon is paid Melania $40 million for rights to the vanity project and is spending another $35 million to promote it
@amazon @CitizensBank @ATT 4. The number of people in ICE detention has exploded over the last year. This has created a huge demand for new private prisons. 8 major banks have stopped working with the private prison industry. But @CitizensBank provided hundreds of millions in financing to the industry.
5. In September 2024, @ATT inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, DHS, to “provide mission-critical communications services.” In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with “data analytics and support services.”
@amazon @CitizensBank @ATT 6. More details on how all three of these companies enable ICE in today's newsletter:
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@amazon @CitizensBank @ATT 7. None of these companies responded to a request for comment on their relationship w/ICE
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