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NEW at @Sludge: I mapped out the headquarters of every nonprofit & for-profit entity making $$ by locking up & transporting immigrant kids.

Ongoing "unaccompanied alien children" grants, and contracts signed since Trump took office, total $3.8 BILLION. readsludge.com/2019/07/03/the…
@Sludge One for-profit company is making hundreds of millions detaining kids in the Homestead, Florida tent camp. Former DHS Sec. Kelly is on the board of its parent company.

The camp is very crowded & very noisy, & kids have made sexual abuse allegations. readsludge.com/2019/07/03/the…
I found out which co. made the tents for Homestead, which many presidential candidates visited last week in FL: California-based American Canyon Solutions dba Brookstone Emergency Services ($31.3 million in ongoing "unaccompanied alien children" contracts) readsludge.com/2019/07/03/the…
There are 61 nonprofits & companies making money from the immigrant child crisis after the kids survive living hell in CBP detention centers. A number face abuse allegations. These conditions aren't good, either.

See which entities are based in your state readsludge.com/2019/07/03/the…
At @Sludge we've now mapped CBP vendors, ICE contractors (June 2018), and HHS/immigrant children contractors. Get you some data:

HHS/children: readsludge.com/2019/07/03/the…

CBP: readsludge.com/2019/06/27/who…

ICE: readsludge.com/2018/07/06/who…
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Everyone who chided @AOC for comparing these to concentration camps needs to delete their accounts.
@AOC Prophetic: "[Meghan] McCain [complained] that the use of terms like 'concentration camp' and 'torture center' is 'when you get people to stop paying attention' to the issue." thedailybeast.com/meghan-mccain-…
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Not only is this totally humiliating, but it's a perfect example of just how out of touch the Democratic Party is with its voters, especially the young people whose votes they desperately need to beat Trump.
Candidates who do an outside debate on climate change WON'T BE INVITED TO FUTURE DNC DEBATES holy shit
If, say, 3-5 major candidates went ahead and did a climate debate anyway, 100% chance the DNC would still invite them to its debates.

Imagine the DNC being like, nope, sorry, Sanders, Warren, Harris and Booker can't be in our debates.
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The Biden campaign plagiarized parts of its new climate plan. And I didn't realize that his 1988 presidential campaign tanked in part due to plagiarism. 😕businessinsider.com/joe-biden-clim…
This is pretty amazing. Biden plagiarized a British political candidate in a 1988 speech...and in doing so, he lied about his family. Nice! businessinsider.com/plagiarism-sca…
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“Unaccompanied alien children” (UACs) by law are children who cross our borders (1) w/o lawful immigration status in the US, (2) under 18 YO, and (3) have no parent or legal guardian (regardless of status) in the US available to provide care and take custody. 6 U.S.C. § 279(g)(2)
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