Here are five key takeaways from today’s #FourHorsemen hearing before the @HomelandDems with the CEOs of GEO, CoreCivic, MTC, and LaSalle.
1️⃣All 4 committed to post daily, facility-level #Covid19 inspection data IF ICE will let them. ICE isn’t publishing that data right now. /1
1️⃣All 4 committed to post daily, facility-level #Covid19 inspection data IF ICE will let them. ICE isn’t publishing that data right now. /1
2️⃣CoreCivic, which is under the same guidance and ICE PRR as the other 3 of the #FourHorsemen, admitted it doesn’t require detained immigrants in its facilities to wear masks. They either don’t get what the CDC has said, don’t understand what the CDC advises, or don’t care.
3️⃣The #FourHorsemen all categorically (almost) denied what their press folks and ICE have categorcially admitted: There have been pepper spray, OC, and rubber bullet uses of force since #COVID19 began. To be clear, this wasn’t factually in dispute before their testimony today.
4️⃣When a lot of tests are administered, a lot of positive results come back. One of the #FourHorsemen basically admitted that the reason Otero was at 142 and is now at 2 is bc they haven’t tested everyone since. Horrifyingly negligent in like of today’s 4th #COVID19 ICE death.
5️⃣The assurances of compliance with ICE this or adherence to ICE that are hollow window-dressing. Read the @GovAcctProj letter to see why court after court, failed inspection after failed inspection, whistleblower after whistleblower, immigran after immigrant tell a diff story.
🎦Here’s the full video. c-span.org/video/?473795-…
@RepKathleenRice & @BennieGThompson deserve a ton of credit for organizing this during #Covid_19, as did the Ranking Member @RepClayHiggins in calling on ICE to join soon.
@RepKathleenRice & @BennieGThompson deserve a ton of credit for organizing this during #Covid_19, as did the Ranking Member @RepClayHiggins in calling on ICE to join soon.
