The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
每条大街小巷，每个人的嘴里，见面第一句话，就是：Abolish ICE 🐴✨️🏮🍊🧧♥️
Update:
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
You aren't safe until all of us are safe
📍WE ARE IN TRENTON FOR THE FINAL VOTE ON THE IMMIGRANT PROTECTIONS PACKAGE!
💥Our powerful coalition has PACKED the Senate + Assembly chambers to show legislators that we are HERE.
New Jerseyans need protections now! Our data, communities and trust depend on it.
#njforall
📍 POV: you’re part of a powerful coalition of advocates PACKING TRENTON to pass crucial protections for New Jersey’s most vulnerable communities.
That’s right — we’re back, and we won’t quit until bills A6308/S5036, A6309/S5037, and A6310/S5038 are LAW 💥
Mets please 2025 has been hard enough
After tonight’s Governor’s debacle— I mean debate—I’ll kick off @wnyc.org’s “30 Issues in 30 Days” tomorrow.
Sanctuary policies are the first issue up for debate. Yes, including the Immigrant Trust Directive!
Call in and say hi 🌞
📞212-433-9692
⏰ 10 AM
📻 WNYC.org / 93.9 FM
Also as an incredibly queer person who loves my queer kasama, Mikie: being trans is not a mental health issue @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
As someone who has received violently threatening phone calls and targeted for immigration work, it is incredibly out of touch for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social to suggest political violence only happens to politicians like her.
@njaij.bsky.social closed our office last week due to credible threats.
The internet kinda sux
Labubu is Gen Z’s Funko Pop. So excessive and wasteful.
@hankjohnson.house.gov took a moment during today’s House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight hearing to demonstrate the strong support for @replamonica.bsky.social
Great to see @njaij.bsky.social @maketheroadnj.bsky.social + other orgs and advocates 👏
#IStandWithMcIver
We ask ALL Members of Congress to stand with @replamonica.bsky.social and against the posturing of the DOJ.
We all have rights. And Congress has a right and authority to conduct oversight.
📝Write your rep NOW
🗽From NJ to beyond, we are calling for all #EyesOnICE
🔗 njaij.org/eyesonice
📣 EXPLAINING DELANEY HALL:
One week ago today, @rasjbaraka.bsky.social was arrested by ICE outside of Delaney Hall — a newly reopened immigrant detention center operated by multibillion-dollar private prison company GEO Group.
🧵 Learn more about Delaney Hall, GEO, and why this matters:
Today’s citation was issued by the city’s business administrator and health inspectors.
Immediately behind the gates?
Heavily armed guards who yesterday, took pictures of protestors and their cars.
#ICEOUTOFNJ
BREAKING: Supreme Court blocks some Alien Enemies Act removals in Texas-based case.
The late-night order from the Supreme Court came amidst fears the Trump administration was preparing for more flights to El Salvador as soon as Saturday.
New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...
Born to tonk, forced to Tony
Now in my adult years, I have lived in NJ for a smidge longer than I lived in west TX where I was born and raised.
One constant reminder of this is that my phone now autocorrects “honky tonk” to “honky TONY” — arguably one of the most Texan words subbed for the most Jersey word.
Just reminding the deadline — regardless of reason, no voter should miss out :)
Last remarks to @ryanphaygood.bsky.social, probs the actually most popular person in the room.
“Democracy is not a single action. Even if these candidates sound progressive, the accountability comes after Election Day. Hold that gov accountable, bc once in office they are the gatekeeper to change.”
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, our moderator, closes: “trickle down justice has never existed.”
Quoting MLK: “the white backlash is nothing new, it’s the old prejudices that have always been there.”
“There is a way out, we have a choice to make in June.”
It’s over yall. But the call to action doesn’t end.
Tonight is the last day to change your party affiliation.
NJ has closed primaries. We are 1 of 2 state races happening this year.
If you saw this thread, no excuse not to check and update your affiliation: voter.svrs.nj.gov/register/per...
Spiller: echoes Fulop’s comments on city leadership and municipal perspective, says he had the legislative Trenton experience as a labor leader too.
“It’s not just understanding, it’s about trying to fundamentally change the dynamics and systems that prevent good work from happening.”
Bramnick: “Let me address the throngs of republicans in the audience,” he quips to audience laughs.
In all seriousness, we are at a threshold. We have to stand together to show respect and love.
Sweeney: I know how to do sh*t in Trenton, no one else on this stage does. Neglects to mention he was part of the Trenton dynamic.
“What’s going on is not ok, we need to stand up and speak out.”
Sherrill: in the spirit of defiance, I leave you with words of the caged bird sings. This makes the second Maya Angelou quote from Sherrill who was explicitly asked about the well being of Black women in NJ… so…. 😒
“This is unconventional times, we need an unconventional approach”
Baraka: “I agree with Fulop about JC’s renaissance, I just believe that they are second best to Newark.”
Anecdote about ICE kidnapping a Newark student, with the City’s advocacy, he was returned and is now a Newark public school teacher. Lists off ways he believes Newark leads NJ and the country.
