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DoomsdaysCW<p>No-Bid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Being Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job </p><p>The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to a company whose executives are accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker.</p><p>Sam Biddle, April 17 2025</p><p>"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a contract worth $73 million with a firm whose executives are accused of taking part in a scheme to manufacture evidence against a co-worker during their time working at the Department of Homeland Security. </p><p>"According to a contract document reviewed by The Intercept, federal contractor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UniversalStrategicAdvisors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalStrategicAdvisors</span></a> will provide services pertaining to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a>’s 'non-detained docket,' a master list of millions of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/noncitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noncitizens</span></a> believed to be removable from the United States but not yet in the agency’s custody. </p><p>"The contract cites President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s declaration of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalEmergency</span></a> on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USMexicoBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USMexicoBorder</span></a>, an overwhelming glut of potential <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportees</span></a>, and a shortage of officers to process them all as justification for hiring a private vendor to assist with the collection of biometric data, coordinating removals, and monitoring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> populations. </p><p>"The document says that with a fleet of new outsourced employees, ICE can reassign hundreds of officers to tasks that better align with Trump’s recent executive orders aimed at maximizing the agency’s detention and deportation operations. With the contractors onboard, the document says at least 675 ICE officers 'will be able to take all appropriate actions to comply with the EO’s by prioritizing conducting at-large arrests, removals, and detention related activities.'</p><p>"A former ICE official, who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity, said they were concerned by this plan to further privatize the agency’s operations at the same time as the Trump administration has dramatically slashed its workforce and gutted important oversight bodies like the Office for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a>, as well as the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. 'I certainly take issue with them firing career feds and demolishing whole offices, just to hire contractors to do the same work, many of them who are former ICE employees now retired,' the official said."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/DjRAG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/DjRAG</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkerRetaliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkerRetaliation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deportations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAbuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsAbuses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cronyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cronyism</span></a></p>
:startrek: Ted<p>"As part of a deal reached between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Trump, the United States is paying the Central American country $6 million to hold the Venezuelan deportees and others it claims are gang members."</p><p><a href="https://www.context.news/money-power-people/inside-trumps-6mn-deportee-deal-with-el-salvador-mega-prison?utm_source=pocket-newtab-android" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">context.news/money-power-peopl</span><span class="invisible">e/inside-trumps-6mn-deportee-deal-with-el-salvador-mega-prison?utm_source=pocket-newtab-android</span></a></p><p><a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/elsalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elsalvador</span></a> <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportees</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>'In a court filing, <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> officials acknowledged that “many” of the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportees</span></a> “do not have criminal records in the United States.” Relatives said they had been tagged as gang members based on tattoos representing favorite flowers, the Real Madrid soccer team, and, on one man, an autism acceptance ribbon dedicated to his brother.' </p><p><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/30/in-trumps-dragnet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nybooks.com/online/2025/03/30/</span><span class="invisible">in-trumps-dragnet/</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/BSm4i" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/BSm4i</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEraids</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ICEdetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICEdetention</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/massDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/civilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilRights</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/immigrantRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrantRights</span></a></p>
Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportees</span></a></p><p>"Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez have called the United States home since 1989. Their three daughters, now grown, were all born and raised in California.</p><p>The couple led Bible studies at their Southern California church and volunteered at food pantries during the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p>'For nearly four decades, they have built a life here — raising three daughters, giving back to their community, and recently welcoming their first grandchild,' their daughter Stephanie Gonzalez wrote on a GoFundMe page for the family. 'Now, they are being treated as criminals.'</p><p>Last month, the parents checked in at an immigration court in Santa Ana, just 'like they have been doing since 2000,' Stephanie wrote in an email to CNN.</p><p>But this check-in ended with a much different outcome.</p><p>The couple was arrested and handcuffed during their February 21 appointment and put in federal custody, where they spent three weeks before being deported to Colombia.</p><p>'They did expect that they would need to depart and were planning to do so, but not in the way that it happened,' said Monica Crooms, an Orange County-based immigration attorney who started working with the couple in 2018.</p><p>'We didn’t expect that they would be apprehended and held in custody. And again, it’s not really unique to them anymore. It’s happening across the country,' Crooms told CNN, pointing to recent immigration policy changes in the US two months into the current administration."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/us/colombia-immigrants-deported/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/03/24/us/colombia</span><span class="invisible">-immigrants-deported/index.html</span></a></p>
Led By Fools<p>Actively repeating history. And Fox News was applauding this.</p><p>There is absolutely no reason to trust US statements in any way, not even head counts. If anything the working assumption should be that, unless and until otherwise identified, they are all US citizens guilty of no crime. This situation is reprehensible regardless of their actual nationalities, and compounded by the regimes actions in court we shouldn't at all dismiss the possibility that the US has gleefully deported it's own citizens, and sold them into slavery</p><p><a href="https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/7269604/el-salvador-p</span><span class="invisible">hotos-venezuelan-detainees/</span></a></p><p>From <a href="https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/114212025306574952" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@mcnado/114212025</span><span class="invisible">306574952</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deportees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Prisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prisoners</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slaves</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Detainees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Detainees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a></p>
libramoon<p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/rubio-says-el-salvador-offers-to-accept-u-s-deportees-of-any-nationality-including-violent-american-criminals" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/politics/rubi</span><span class="invisible">o-says-el-salvador-offers-to-accept-u-s-deportees-of-any-nationality-including-violent-american-criminals</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rubio</span></a> says <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> offers to accept U.S. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportees</span></a> of any <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationality</span></a>, including violent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> criminals</p><p>..."The State Department describes El Salvador’s overcrowded prisons as “harsh and dangerous.” Its country information webpage says, “In many facilities, provisions for sanitation, potable water, ventilation, temperature control, and lighting are inadequate or nonexistent.”...</p>
S. Grisham<p>Contact form for the <a href="https://union.place/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> State Department. <a href="https://union.place/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportees</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a></p><p><a href="https://register.state.gov/contactus/contactusform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">register.state.gov/contactus/c</span><span class="invisible">ontactusform</span></a></p>
geographile<p>&quot;And all they will call you will be <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/deportees" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deportees</span></a>.&quot;<br /><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=mmN2nodeHuk&amp;feature=share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=mmN2nodeHu</span><span class="invisible">k&amp;feature=share</span></a><br />Please get to know this song. <br /> <br />Back story:<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Los_Gatos_DC-3_crash" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Los</span><span class="invisible">_Gatos_DC-3_crash</span></a></p><p>Current reality:<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/110906125514040353" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/110</span><span class="invisible">906125514040353</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/joanBaez" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>joanBaez</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/IndigoGirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigoGirls</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/maryChapinCarpenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>maryChapinCarpenter</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/refugee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>refugee</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rioGrande" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rioGrande</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanRights</span></a></p>