An incomplete list of companies working with ICE (thread):
Ingenesis (@InGenesisInc): a “workforce solutions provider” which was the recipient of a contract worth up to $388,492,301 to provide “medical staffing support services” for ICE. usaspending.gov/#/award/238197…
Classic Air Charter Inc.: The same company that helped the CIA "extraordinary rendition" torture program was awarded a contract worth up to $704,198,361 to help ICE deport suspected undocumented immigrants. usaspending.gov/#/award/8288537
B.I. Incorporated: Owned by GEO Group, the company that owns and operates many ICE concentration camps, B.I. Incorporated develops and sells "electronic offender-tracking equipment and services" and received a contract with ICE worth up to $137,474,424. usaspending.gov/#/award/677561…
Trailboss Enterprises, Inc.: The transportation company received a contract worth $107,676,347 to provide detention transport services to ICE. usaspending.gov/#/award/238221…
Asset Protection & Security Services, L.P.: ICE apparently needs even more jackbooted thugs to herd prisoners in and out of its concentration camps, awarding this company a contract worth $105,649,915 for "guard services and transportation." usaspending.gov/#/award/238226…
MVM, Inc. (@MVMINC): This private security contractor transports unaccompanied children to and from ICE concentration camps. They received $84,124,557 for work in 2017-2018 (usaspending.gov/#/award/238229…) and $73,204,159 for work through this September (usaspending.gov/#/award/686323…)
Phacil, Inc. (@Phacil_Inc): This intelligence tech company won a contract worth up to $76,805,663 to help ICE transport children to and from the concentration camps. usaspending.gov/#/award/626286…
Qbase-McNeil Integrated Solutions: This company boasts on their website that they provide ICE with "mission-critical IT service support and program management both domestically and internationally." $137,474,424 contract. usaspending.gov/#/award/238445…
The GEO Group, Inc.: This company owns and operates many ICE concentration camps and received $64,095,066 for "detention, food and transportation services." usaspending.gov/#/award/669669…
STG International, Inc. (@STGi_Corporate): This corporation was awarded a contract worth up to $447,139,706 to provide "medical staffing services" to ICE concentration camps. usaspending.gov/#/award/623370…
CoreCivic (@CoreCivic): This company owns and operates several ICE concentration camps and was awarded a $55,843,992 contract for work through the end of this month. usaspending.gov/#/award/669164…
Akima Global Solutions, LLC: From their website: "AGS provides the people, equipment, and processes that safeguard federal buildings, military bases, and detention centers and detainees." ICE paid them $55,085,457 this year for their concentration camps. usaspending.gov/#/award/658664…
Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc. (@MaximHealthcare): This corporation provides medical staffing for ICE concentration camps. They were awarded a $54,156,048 contract for their troubles. usaspending.gov/#/award/238227…
HP Enterprise Services LLC: A company owned by @HP, it received a contract worth up to $79,120,921 from ICE for helping with DHS data centers. usaspending.gov/#/award/238495…
Ahtna Support And Training Services, LLC (@AhtnaInc): ICE paid this Alaska-based security firm $49,159,169 for providing "guard and food services" for its concentration camps. usaspending.gov/#/award/238228…
CSRA LLC (@CSRA_inc): A subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (@GDIT), this infotech company was awarded a contract from ICE worth up to $55,387,367. usaspending.gov/#/award/238445…
CACI-ISS, INC.: A subsidiary of CACI International (@CACIIntl), this security company was awarded a contract of up to $97,118,164 to help ICE with "tactical communications engineering, maintenance and support." usaspending.gov/#/award/238343…
Global Precision Systems, LLC: Awarded a contract worth up to $44,369,838 for "detention and transportation services" supporting ICE concentration camps. usaspending.gov/#/award/681847…
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.(@BoozAllen): A huge infotech company which received a contract worth up to $100,457,166 for advising ICE with their ethnic cleansing campaign and concentration camp system. usaspending.gov/#/award/238222…
Palantir Technologies (@PalantirTech): This famously evil company got a $39,340,901 contract from ICE for building and helping to run FALCON, "a database and analytical platform [...] to track immigrants and crunch data on forms of cross-border criminal activity." (1/2)
By the way, if you’re shocked by any of the companies when you click on their handle, just know that I triple-checked before posting them and omitted when I wasn’t sure. Some of them genuinely are shocking.
Savantage Solutions (@SavantageUS): Won a $58,329,825 contract with ICE for assisting with Palantir's FALCON software system. (The contract webpage says "...for Palantir Government" which I really hope is a typo.) usaspending.gov/#/award/238445…
Dev Technology Group, Inc. (@devtechnology): This IT services company is helping ICE maintain its concentration camps and ethnic cleansing campaign after receiving a contract worth up to $67,010,230. usaspending.gov/#/award/238445…
Native Energy & Technology, Inc. (@nativeenergyTX): This company won a contract worth up to $57,737,948 for "Facilities Maintenance and Management" at ICE concentration camps. usaspending.gov/#/award/238323…
Dell Federal Systems, LP (@DellEMCFederal): A subsidiary of @Dell, one of the big corporate collaborators with ICE, this company won a contract worth up to $49,781,752 for providing infotech support. usaspending.gov/#/award/238510…
U.S. Bancorp: The parent company of @usbank, the 7th-largest bank in the country, Bancorp won a $29,151,120 contract providing "fee collection" services for ICE, probably bilking undocumented immigrants out of their money. usaspending.gov/#/award/238292…
A lot of these contracts are awarded to subsidiaries, LLCs or other offshoots of larger companies trying to protect their reputations, but quite a lot of them actually brag about their involvement with ICE and DHS on their websites. Absolutely shameless psychopaths.
Capgemini Government Solutions, LLC: A wholly-owned subsidiary of @Capgemini, this company received a contract worth up to $27,076,640 for providing administrative management and management consulting services to ICE. usaspending.gov/#/award/238339…
360 IT Integrated Solutions: This infotech company won a contract for up to $24,733,182 for providing data processing, hosting, and related services to ICE. usaspending.gov/#/award/238443…
That's it from me tonight, but you all can keep searching. This website is a great resource for government contracts, and I've even queued up the search for you to filter contracts awarded by ICE that include fiscal year 2019: usaspending.gov/#/search/fa319…
None of the ghouls getting rich from US concentration camps deserve a moment's peace, and their information is all over the Internet. All these companies have addresses. Boycott, protest, shame, whatever the fuck it takes.
Btw this is why we talk about rainbow capitalism. I’m sure there’s more but you get the idea.
Trans women are dying in the concentration camps these companies have helped build, fill and maintain, but they’ll still take our LGBT cash.
Oh and feel free to add companies not already listed in the replies! This is a good article from 2018 by @SuperJulia (and I’d be surprised if any of these companies have stopped their lucrative business arrangements with ICE since then). amp.timeinc.net/time/money/531…
In the interest of getting the info out there (you should still read the article) here are fifteen more companies who were working with ICE as of last year:
To my knowledge none of the companies I’ve tagged in this thread have responded, but please let me know if you see them do so!
H/t @blkkatie for this tip: Salesforce (@salesforce) also works with ICE, specifically allowing them to use their cloud and analytic services to recruit new ICE pigs into the fold and monitor border crossings. techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/pro…
I’ve noticed that a lot of liberals are retweeting this—and that’s good!—but please be aware that all of this has been going on since well before Trump. Obama deported more people than any other president. Bill Clinton ramped up border militarization to an unprecedented level.
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The most helpful thing I’ve done for my mental health has been trying to treat myself like I’d treat a friend, to give myself the same benefit of the doubt, the same encouragement, the same pride in my accomplishments. Being nice to others comes naturally so... turn that inward.
I say this to patients all the time when they’re beating themselves up. “What would you say to a close friend who’s going through the same thing? I bet you’d support them and wouldn’t think less of them because of it.” Almost always helps. Being a friend to yourself is crucial.
Some things we routinely say/think about ourselves would be relationship-ending insults if we said them to someone close to us. It’d be unimaginable, but we freely berate and insult ourselves like we’re frustrated to be sharing a body. View yourself through your friends’ eyes.
I’m been feeling so great and fulfilled the last few weeks, I finally feel like I’m living my life now instead of waiting for it to start. Everything is exciting and new but also doable and my anxieties have all but disappeared. I’m so grateful for the pretty amazing life I have.
I’ve come out of depressive episodes before, this isn’t that. It’s something else and it feels like it’s here to stay because my self-concept is so different and I’m not going to forget how to think of myself in this way. My efforts at improving my mental health finally paid off.
I owe the change mostly to a romantic relationship that blossomed recently but that seems like more the catalyst than the sole reason I feel this way. And it’s true that the reason it’s blossoming now is because of how good I’d already started to feel, so I think it’s really me.
Political debates usually bore me now because most mainstream political issues are just clear-cut moral decisions about what and who we choose to value, so people on the other side of the issue tend either to be too uninformed or too morally bankrupt to be worth talking to.
I know people are still learning and that’s okay but they can hear about why it’s bad to kill people from someone with a little more patience.
I’m only 29 and I’ve already been around long enough to know that the debates around these issues don’t change, the talking points hardly change, which means that nobody engaged in those debates is ever actually learning new information. That’s a sign that I’m wasting my time.
My spirituality is mostly just the belief that we really won the cosmic lottery to get to experience consciousness in a universe filled with so many fascinating things and one way we express our appreciation for the world is by soaking it in as much as we can while we’re alive.
Pessimistic philosophies are so repugnant to me. Denigrating life is the opposite of what philosophy should be. There’s plenty to be happy about without making stuff up lol.
“What is the good life” presupposes that life can be good and I think that’s necessary because if it can’t then who gives a shit?
The Democrats need you to believe they’re feckless and incompetent because otherwise people would see they actually don’t want to do any of the shit they’re not doing for us. When they want to do something they do it.
When Democrat after Democrat wins and nothing changes they have to convince us that their ideals are just being hindered by other political forces so that we don’t hold them accountable for how they actually govern.
Like these are some of the most powerful people in the world. When they want something badly enough it usually happens.