When you understand the sweeping illegality and wrongdoing throughout the agency's operations -- from arrests in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the illegal deportation of American citizens, from medical abuse and neglect to cover-ups -- "Abolish ICE" is actually a tame ask
1️⃣ admitting in an internal report that the agency’s transfers are spreading #COVID19 inside its jails.
At least 7 people have died of COVID i ICE custody.
2️⃣ and knowing this, still using movement of the imprisoned migrants bodies as the predicate to amass troops in DC, triggering a widespread outbreak at a facility in Virginia that appears to have claimed at least one life.
Late last night at the Irwin County Detention Center a woman had an asthma attack and passed out. She’s still in really bad shape and needs urgent assistance. Meanwhile, LaSalle Corrections, which gets paid every day she’s there, and ICE are lying to Congress about her condition.
Guess who else has #COVID19? People inside ICE prisons.
They've got limited access to masks, virtually no ability to socially distance, and inadequate access to meaningful medical care. Which is why so many have perished in these places.
Spare a thought for them this weekend?
Imagine feeling the fear and uncertainty that comes with believing you might have contracted a deadly respiratory disease inside a prison that WON'T EVEN TREAT YOUR ASTHMA.
Imagine having to choose between reporting your #COVID19 symptoms to the facility (because ICE refuses to engage in universal testing for fear what it might reveal), only to be thrown into the Hole for a 14-day "quarantine" where you're neglected and denied actual medical care.
If you can’t financially support your municipality without harvesting profits from BIPOC folks’ bodies — whether through private prison payoffs or through medical monetization of vulnerable populations — perhaps you should raise taxes on ppl w vacation homes and side hustles.
Telling people you’ve refused to help support, educate, and empower that their best shot at economic opportunity is to be private prison guards (w none of the public pension benefits or rights) is an admission of failure.
Caging people for profit is not in line w Christianity.
If you’re at 100% free and reduced lunch and you’re twice the state unemployment rate, a private prison isn’t going to solve your revenue problem.
Many of your residents can’t even apply for the jobs because your cops have spent years criminalizing and fining them for $$.
Virtually every major news outlet in the Western Hemisphere has reached out to lawyers and organizations who've been describing these allegations since the @ProjectSouth report broke.
Not a single person I know has heard from ICE, IHSC, DHS-OIG, or any other investigator.
What is more, Dr. Rivera REFUSES to say how many surgeries IHSC approved for Dr. Amin, how many depo provera shots IHSC paid him to give immigrant women, or how many detained people at #ShutDownIrwin have not receive care because of the high return of gyn referrals.