Thread by @chooseidentity

Check out this Thread showing how the Trump administration, the @GOP and companies running for-profit detention centers have all worked together to ensure mass profits could be made off of the mistreatment of immigrants seeking safety and economic security in the United States.

"Federal government contractors are prohibited from making contributions or expenditures in connection with federal elections...However, employees, individual stockholders and officers of federal contractors may make contributions or expenditures from their personal assets." -FCC

GEO group is using above loophole, getting their employees to make donations to their PAC, to throw money at candidates they believe will further their cause (raise profits) without explicitly being government contractors contributing to federal elections. opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.…

CoreCivic is also getting people employed for them to donate to their pac, sidesteping regulations about federal contractors not being allowed to contribute to federal elections, to lobby/pay off federal candidates to maintain support & federal contracts.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.…

GEO:
@SenRickScott @johnculberson @RepCuellar @SenMikeLee @RepTomGraves @carloslcurbelo @RepMikeCoffman @JohnCornyn @HawleyMO @Scotttaylorva @Robert_Aderholt @SenMcSallyAZ @SenDeanHeller @MarshaBlackburn @pastormarkburns @tedcruz @MikeBishopMI @RepBuddyCarter @BillCassidy

CoreCivic:
@MarshaBlackburn @RepJohnRose @SenMcSallyAZ @johnculberson @RepMarkGreen @JudgeCarter @tedcruz @SenJohnHoeven @RepChuck @SenBobCorker @MikeCrapo @JeffFlake @SenDeanHeller @RepHalRogers @SenatorWicker @kevinyoder @SenatorBraun @RepCuellar @LindseyGrahamSC @senatemajldr

Geo gave Trump 700k in 2016
"After President Trump’s election, GEO’s stock prices soared...the Trump administration awarded GEO a $110 million, 10-year federal contract”THIS IS WHY IT'S ILLEGAL FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO CONTRIBUTE TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS!
campaignlegal.org/cases-actions/…

GEO Group and CoreCivic Inc. are the largest for-profit prison companies in the US. They are spending big money (millions) to ensure they get to keep warehousing immigrants seeking entry into our country for years to come.
opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.p…

Definition of lobby...
: to conduct activities aimed at influencing public officials and especially members of a legislative body on legislation." -Merriam Webster
These two groups spent $5.34 million on lobbying from 2017-2018.
opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.p…

The Trump Administration is pausing its hiring of immigration judges, as well as slowing its procurement of support staff...The pause will likely further delay immigration court proceedings, which already are backlogged, in some cases, by years."

fortune.com/2019/03/07/imm…

"latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to make it more difficult for immigrants, including children, to seek asylum"..
"Unaccompanied minors are currently exempt from the standing one-year deadline to file asylum applications"
(cite link below too)
latimes.com/politics/la-me…

"The new procedures may put legal clinics that work with these minors in a tough position...some of their clients are released from federal custody very close to their 18th birthday, and attorneys may not have enough time to file their application before they become adults."

"As the case backlog in immigration courts swell and detention beds fill with asylum-seekers waiting for a day in court, so do the pockets of private prisons, security contractors and tech firms."

ICE contracts 250 for-profit detention centers in the US.
opensecrets.org/news/2019/04/d…

Newest attack on migrants in for-profit prisons
"an interim final rule that will sharply restrict access to the U.S. asylum system for anyone who did not seek protection from other countries through which they transited before reaching the United States."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

Cite above
“We have a principle enshrined in law and derived from our adherence to international human rights documents: It’s the idea that the United States will grant a fair hearing to anyone who is fleeing horrific conditions and presents himself at our border to seek refuge”

We must do something to stop companies from being able to buy our legislators. It is far past time for our representatives to represent the people they serve not the companies that bought their loyalty. Call your representative and tell them it isn't okay! house.gov/representative…

Here is my thread showing how for-profit prison companies are manipulating our laws and how @GOP legislators are happy to be paid accomplices pushing their agenda.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1150917…