“The main source of power in this country is people with cardboard signs.”
So true. Ask Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska after his recent town hall.
A woman asked what she called a fiscal question. She said: “With 450 million FEMA dollars being reallocated to open Alligator Alcatraz, and 600 million taxpayer FEMA dollars being used to now open more concentration camps, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” The crowd cheered wildly.
By the end of Flood’s town hall chants of ‘Vote him out!’ threatened to drown out his closing comments.
You know by now that the Trump administration’s immigration policies are deeply unpopular. And reports like the following won’t help.
Reporting by NBC South Florida went national as a former corrections officer for a private contractor who worked at the detention center in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” said the detainees “have no sunlight. There’s no clock in there. They don’t even know what time of the day it is. They have no access to showers. They shower every other day or every four days…. The bathrooms are backed up because you got so many people using them.”
Also, the GEO Group, a private prison and services provider, reported a better than expected second quarter. Thanks in part to two ICE contracts that, together, it expects will produce $145M annually. The company announced a $300M stock buyback, increasing the value of the stock held by remaining shareholders.
Gulag America. Capitalism at its finest.
Even with the enthusiastic Fascist exhortations of “Serve your country! Defend your culture” DHS is having trouble recruiting new ICE agents. Even after offering a signing bonus of up to $50,000 and help repaying student loans.
Now it has eased requirements for new recruits, removing age limits and posting “no undergraduate degree required!” And now probationary employees of the FEMA have been ordered to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.
And y’all might be next for mandatory ICE service…
Reporters noticed that the online US Constitution, maintained by the Library of Congress, was missing parts of Article I, the part of the Constitution that lays out the rights and duties of Congress. Parts of Section 8 and all of Sections 9 and 10 were gone.
Those include Congress’s control over DC, Congress’s power to make the laws, the promise that habeas corpus would not be suspended, the stipulation that no money can be used by the government unless Congress has appropriated it, the requirement that no president can accept gifts from foreign countries, and the specification that only Congress can levy.
Officials say “coding error.” Cynics might say “test run.”
But who or what do you think will protect you if they come for you?
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