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Kolten Parker @KoltenParker
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We’ve been watching ICE in Texas.

In January, @bova_gus got records showing ICE actually arrested nearly 3 times as many people as it previously said during a 2017 Austin operation texasobserver.org/ice-arrested-n…

Prompting a letter to DHS from @RepLloydDoggett: texasobserver.org/ice-raids-immi…
During last year’s #txlege session, GOP state Rep @MattRinaldiTX called ICE on immigrant activists at the Capitol texasobserver.org/texas-republic…
We’ve also looked at how Texas state troopers and ICE agents turn routine traffic stops into deportations texasobserver.org/texas-state-tr… #txlege
This week, @jlbuch broke the story of 19 ICE regional supervisors asking DHS Secretary Nielsen to dissolve the current structure of ICE because the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is making it hard to investigate threats to national security: texasobserver.org/ice-hsi-letter…
Also this week: A conservative county that, in the face of activist pressure, voted to end a contract with ICE to detain immigrant mothers: texasobserver.org/williamson-cou…

And another county working with ICE to resurrect one most notorious detention facilities: texasobserver.org/new-1000-bed-i…
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People,

Do NOT fall into the Fish Bowl Effect on Twitter

I see people get their thinking warped by assuming their feed represents larger reality

It doesn’t

You are single voice in a tiny subgroup

I am a single voice in a very small network
“ XYZ subject is out of control!!”

Why? Because 6 people are talking about it?

“This has already been talked about before!!”

Really, is the audience for information that zero sum?
Human beings have this behavioral tendency where we take our personal reality and then extend it to representing the entire world at large

It’s not the entire world

It’s your world

whether it is limiting or expensive comes down to how you think about it
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With the horrible treatment of immigrant/refugee children in private prisons being revealed, it's worth reposting this thread from my old account, showing how the prisons #ICE uses are filled with abuse; and that ICE is both unwilling and unable to fix it
#AbolishICE
ICE’s Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements
oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
Summary:
-ICE doesn't comply w/ detention standards
-Contracted inspections not thorough; don't fully examine conditions/identify issues
-ICE inspections thorough but rarely happen
-ICE doesn't work to correct issues after they're identified, leaving problems remaining for years
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#QAnon #QArmy #QAlert #Winning #ItsTime #WalkAway #WhoIsQ/ @realDonaldTrump #GoodbyeDemocrats #WWG1WGA #SundayMotivation #RussiaWorldCup
#QAnon #QArmy #QAlert #Winning #ItsTime #WalkAway #WhoIsQ/ @realDonaldTrump #GoodbyeDemocrats #WWG1WGA #SundayMotivation #RussiaWorldCup
It looks like the push for violence is rapidly accelerating. We must not engage
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So this thread on #abolishICE took off, and clearly hit a nerve. Mostly of people open to learning, just like I did. And since I'm not the expert, I wanted to share a few nuggets shared with me. 1/
The first is this piece showing that #ICE investigators are flagging the problem too. They can't work on the issues that are a thread to national security. 2/
texasobserver.org/ice-hsi-letter…
This made me 😳. They site that their mission, though separate from detention and removal is impacted by the politics. THAT is making us less safe. 3/
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The ICE manual for undercover agents describes how agents & informants are allowed to break the law & can use "proceeds" from illegal businesses to fund their own operations in the field. Profits can also be paid to other agencies and foreign governments unicornriot.ninja/2018/icebreake…
ICE can also use profits from illegal business activity by undercover agents and/or informants to buy evidence, to pay themselves overtime, and pay for travel expenses unicornriot.ninja/2018/icebreake…
ICE provides cover to undercover agents and informants, as well as fake businesses for use during infiltration, using a variety of methods. One passage reveals how they are provided with fake social security numbers by the Social Security Administration unicornriot.ninja/2018/icebreake…
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THREAD showing evidence I've come across that suggests the recent murder of a young Jewish man in California was committed by a neo-Nazi, possibly as a politically motivated killing. (Sat on this for a week waiting on editors but now bits of the info are already out, so fuck it).
On January 2nd a 19-year-old Jewish man went missing in southern California. He turned up dead on Jan 9th, buried in a shallow grave in Borrego Park (wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=3…). A former class-mate was arrested on suspicion of the murder on Jan 12th.
The deceased is Blaze Bernstein and the suspected killer--now charged with the murder--is Sam Woodward, 20. (Referred to here on out as Blaze and Sam). See the next tweet for the LA Times story.
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