Alert: Today @NBCNews reported that the Biden admin is planning to send Haitian migrants trying to seek safety in the US to a third country and/or to the ICE detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This should be setting off alarm bells (thread) nbcnews.com/politics/immig… The US has sent people from Haiti to Guantánamo since the 90s, before it created the adjacent “war on terror” GITMO prison known for torture. Read @NIJC’s “offshoring asylum” report for history on the the creation of the Migrant Operation Center (MOC) immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/…

New: ICE paid $15 million to private prison giant GEO group for expulsion flights of 15,000 #Haitians. Contract was no-bid, goes through 10/6.

GEO group is profiting off the biggest racist mass expulsion in recent history sam.gov/opp/91706b03fe… To put in in comparison - the UN sought $15 million for relief in Haiti in August. Instead, the Biden admin gave GEO group $15 million for mass expulsion flights.

GEO’s proposed price of $7.8 million for 44 flights over a two-week period was determined "fair and reasonable"

There are 1,181 people in ICE detention with active COVID cases under isolation or monitoring. That's a terrifying increase from around 400 when Biden took office (thread 1/10) Numbers of people detained by ICE have gone up. They were as as low as 13,890 at the end of Feb, now more than 15,000 people are detained in ICE jails & facilities across the country (2/10)

Today, there was a hearing in Oregon’s district court, challenging the constitutionality of §1326 (illegal reentry) arguing the law violates the 5th Amd b/c the law was originally enacted with a discriminatory purpose and still has a disparate impact (thread 1/12) .@NIJC released a report in July 2020 examining the history of the racist roots of migration prosecution laws and how they have fueled systems of mass incarceration (2/12) immigrantjustice.org/research-items…