Thread by @ImmCivilRights

#SunshineWeek 🧵on e-carceration, profiteering, and how long ICE has known about allegations and criminal convictions of its largest (and often, only) gps ankle shackle contractor, courtesy of DHS-OIG #FOIA
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https://twitter.com/raicestexas/status/1504217474736271365

Since Congress started funding “Alternatives to Detention” for migrants in the US, in the mid-2000s, ICE has received allegations of serious criminal misconduct by this contractor’s personnel. documentcloud.org/documents/2141… / 2

Allegations like this one in Miami dating back to 2007. 3/

Another BI Miami office case, with allegations and investigation starting in 2011 and culminating in conviction seven years later. 4/

So, when @RAICESTEXAS notes the high reported rates of actual harm from digital incarceration, that is literally the tip of the iceberg. 5/

https://twitter.com/RAICESTEXAS/status/1504217480222453766

Here’s another sexual assault allegation OIG investigated involving a BI contractor who resigned from his ISAP position in Marlton, NJ before the allegation was made. 6/

Fmr BI guy told the IG during a voluntary interview that he’d always behaved professionally.

His office mate told IG she was shocked

BI told the IG he’d been counseling for sexually harassing comments twice, and wasn’t written up the 2nd time bc he said he was leaving. 7/

Humble request to Miami #ImmigrationTwitter bar for anyone who can help track down this migrant’s counsel. He and his clients were apparently unable to offer enough evidence to convince the IG something was very wrong with BI in Miami.

This is a detailed, credible account.
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Roughly 10 years before a court sentenced Miami BI contractors based on the IG’s undercover investigation in 2018, the migrant’s attorney in prior tweet gave them the whole thing in a nutshell. 8/

(Obligatory #FOIA LOL at the poor contractor who thought federal district judges’ names or charged and sentenced criminal BI contractors’ names are subject to that b6b7C redaction. You’re getting nominated for next year’s @MuckRock #FOIAFollies)
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What is the cost of lengthy, delayed response by oversight bodies?

Who benefits from their failures?

Time, for anyone in business with the world’s largest-ever carceral state, is expansion, revenue, and deeper intwining in budgets and economies. 9/

https://twitter.com/raicestexas/status/1504217477693251588

We must center and uplift the racialized nature of exploitation and profiteering at play in these records. It’s the anti-Blackness @GuerlineMJozef and @HaitianBridge teach us serves as the system’s most unchanging feature. Racially disparate ISAP= racially disproportionate effect

As we consider the present and look at what today’s decisions to electronically cage an unprecedented number of migrants for so-called “civil” reasons, we have to understand that for all of these allegations, there are demonstrably untold numbers of other people being harmed. /10

https://twitter.com/raicestexas/status/1504217487877025799

It isn’t just migrants and refugees being electronically tethered.

It isn’t just people ensnared in the legalized slavery that constitutes the US criminal punishment system who file inside digital prisons.

It’s people being prosecuted by Other Companies.
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https://twitter.com/sdonziger/status/1498682537064992772

So, as hard as this may seem, given your personal perception of proximity to these system, you must understand that what you’re reading about in this investigative records could and is happening to “people like me”.

And it’s growing. You can help stop it.
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