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Old 03-19-2025, 11:05 AM   #8972
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These are the little things people don't notice in politics and policy that make me go crazy. An interesting piece from last week.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-imm...ntion-facility

A German tourist was recently held in an ICE detention facility (even while she had a return flight back to Germany booked). She was held for over a week in solitary confinement.

While egregious, that's not even the interesting part.

These ICE facilities, like I've harped on before about conservative policies, are contracted to privatized entities, in this case Core Civic. Trump's attorney general Pam Bondi was a lobbyist, who lobbied for that very industry, private prisons for the GEO Group (a private prison company) that stands to gain billions in ICE contracts through the Federal government. Let me also add, she failed to disclose her lobbying positions as a conflict of interest to her now current AG role.

The best part, check both of these company's stocks:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GEO/...pILQvXhURbs9Ax
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GEO/...pILQvXhURbs9Ax

See something interesting that happened in November (right after the election), both of their stocks doubled in price.

This is the corruption that is happening behind the scenes that people aren't tracking, it's these little things that I love digging around and looking at.

There's so many moving parts in this grift that it can make your head spin.
Interesting, The Guardian is now reporting about what I was harping about a few weeks back, regarding that Canadian woman who was recently detained.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...jasmine-mooney

“The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts”


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