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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
acquisition.gov/far/subpart-22…
TVPA Contractor Notifications to OIG Pursuant to 48 CFR 52.222-50(d) muckrock.com/foi/united-sta… via @muckrock
S1 Overview of Voluntary Work Program Records muckrock.com/foi/united-sta… via @muckrock
Here is evidence of the records DHS claims do not exist.
And here is what the appeals office said when we pointed out this evidence.

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12 Oct
It’s Indigenous People’s Day so I’ll share that the paternal side of my family from whom I draw my name moved to occupied land in the mountains of North Georgia following the Trail of Tears and then benefited from an economy that extracted the world’s purest gold from the land.
Some of that gold lines the dome of the Georgia State Capitol today. The American President who murdered and forcibly relocated the Cherokee Nation—to whose people I’m told I relate by least one blood relative—had his portrait prominently displayed in the Oval Office in 2017.
If Indigenous People’s Day is to mean anything for white people, including those, like me, who also hail from Italian immigrants (many of whom would qualify as refugees by today’s standards), it must include a personal reflection of what was taken and where we’d be if it wasn’t.
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10 Oct
The @nytimes piece unpacking the authoritarian kleptocracy we live under offers new insight the world’s leading purveyor of for-profit human cages.

Some key takeaways, and two questions in this 🧵 1/4
Takeaway 1: GEO and its execs steer corporate money into private businesses of the regime’s leader while also paying its favorite lobbyist to seek contracts and policy changes that steer taxpayer $ into the company’s coffers. Quids meet quos via Ballard pros. We knew this.
Takeaway 2: GEO’s CEO allegedly acknowledges the “transactional” nature of this relationship, and his patronage. He’s refused to testify about a meeting he had with ICE officials in DC in 2018 where GEO asked them for $$ and help killing lawsuits against the company.
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5 Oct
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
The executive-level awareness, endorsement, and in some cases, active involvement in these wanton abuses makes the factual scenario one in which it's actually more appropriate to say "Prosecute ICE" than simply calling disband this broken, abusive agency.
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.
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4 Oct
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.
Follow @SomosSouth @GaDetWatch @ProjectSouth and @GLAHR_ for the latest on this life-threatening example of rampant medical abuse and neglect.
Retaliation is now in full swing against the people attempting to seek a lifeline.

The guards are fulfilling every bit of the narrative folks argued so strenuously against during the debate on @RepJayapal’s #HRes1153

They think the cameras don’t work. They’re counting on it.
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3 Oct
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.
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3 Oct
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 $$.
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