In Dec. ‘18, Jalisco New Generation Cartel kidnapped, tortured, & murdered refugee children from a shelter in TJ. Days earlier, CBP refused to accept kids from that shelter, kicked them off US soil, and called INM bc “capacity.”
The human beings who’ve survived these horrors are going to have Truth and Reconciliation.
The movements fighting back against these genocidal policies are going to keep demanding forms of accountability that aren’t readily available from our current justice system. #AbolishDHS
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The record these advocates and professionals built assisted @RepJayapal with building a coalition to introduce, debate, and pass #HRes1153. @HispanicCaucus went to #ShutDownIrwin & heard directly from women. @JacksonLeeTX18 intervened to protect and free an Amin surgery survivor.
According to Dr. Amin's lawyer, women in ICE custody at Irwin can't expect to get their medical records of the treatment he gave at his office and the surgery he does at the hospital from the federal agency that's paying for it because it's legally responsible for their med care.
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.
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.
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.