Thread by @matt_cam

Do not stop reading this tweet until you've read the text below, and do not finish your day until five people around you know this

#AbolishICE

This devastating report from @DetentionWatch is the starkest example I've ever seen of how white supremacy so often harms white people directly. Take some time to read it today if you can.

detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/…

There are 221 ICE detention facilities, and most of them are not in dense urban areas. ICE's homicidal insistence on arresting and detaining people for civil administrative offenses in the middle of a deadly global pandemic is the only explanation for this deadly fact.

CBP & ICE are a major source of jobs and revenue in some rural areas in which the local detention center is one of the only options for a regular income. ICE knowingly exported #covid19 to these localities, many of which are no doubt full of committed #MAGA Trump voters.

The American detention and deportation machine has knowingly immiserated at least 250,000 people in this country, the majority of them likely U.S. citizens or residents. ICE absolutely knew that this would inevitably happen if they kept at it... but white supremacy never sleeps

Hard to miss that 5 of the top 10 states here are red

ICE stopped arresting all but the highest-priority targets for a few months at the beginning of the pandemic, but has been right back to full speed so far as I can see. It's been 15 years since this many detainees died in custody, and the year's not over

theintercept.com/2020/12/03/eto…

Everyone I've repped in ICE custody this yr has been exposed to #COVID19; the majority have contracted it. No one cares. I led here with the novel # of how many ppl *outside* the facilities were harmed bc I hadn't seen that before, but it can't compare to what is happening inside

Just close these places and never reopen them. #AbolishICE and don't replace it. Teach CBP & ICE's treatment of non-citizens in custody in this period in American history the same way we teach the Trail of Tears and Japanese internment