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nullagentA 64yo Seattle woman was recently detained at SeaTac airport after returning from a trip to visit family in the Philipines.Lewelyn Dixon has lived in the US for 50 years, is a green card holder and works at UW Medicine. She's been detained at ICE's notorious prison, the NW Detention center.<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/lewelyn-dixon-green-card-detained-ice-2049154" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/lewelyn-dixon-green-card-detained-ice-2049154</a><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seattle</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/SeaTac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaTac</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PNW</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/NWIPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NWIPC</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CBP</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/GeoGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoGroup</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/acab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acab</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/UW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UW</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/UWMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UWMedicine</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philippines</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenCard</a>

Gray Beard"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.The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.This is not just my story. It is the story of thousands and thousands of people still trapped in a system that profits from their suffering. I am writing in the hope that someone out there – someone with the power to change any of this – can help do something."<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ice</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportation</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/corecivic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corecivic</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/geogroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geogroup</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney</a>

DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠MechanicAs usual, follow the money. Just reprehensible🤬<a href="https://vmst.io/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a businessCompanies like <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/CoreCivic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoreCivic</a> and <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOGroup</a> receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Immigration</a> policiesIt’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560M and GEO Group made more than $763M from Ice contractsThe more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quicklyWhat I had experienced was finally starting to make sense <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canada</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/jasminemooney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jasminemooney</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> battle has national repercussions as the number of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> detainees…rises to its highest level in 5 yrs. The vast majority are held in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/private" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#private</a> facilities run by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOGroup</a> or corporate competitors like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CoreCivic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoreCivic</a>. If following state <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MinimumWage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MinimumWage</a> becomes the norm, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> crackdown could cost the country even more than it otherwise would—unless private detention centers absorb the cost themselves or…cut back on cleaning, which…detainees…already accused GEO of doing.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

NonilexThis year, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEOgroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOgroup</a> & Washington are back in court — for a third time — as the company tries to reverse the earlier decision that sided w/the state. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEO</a> has brought in contract cleaners at the Tacoma facility while the case plays out, keeping detainees there from *paid* work & from having a way to earn commissary money.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slavery</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/forprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forprofit</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prison</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a>

NonilexAt the 1,575-bed detention center GEO runs for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> in Tacoma, Washington, detainees once prepared meals, washed laundry & scrubbed toilets, doing jobs that would otherwise require 85 full-time employees…. The state’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MinimumWage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MinimumWage</a> at the time was $11 an hour. (It’s now $16.66.) In 2017, Washington sued GEO to enforce it, & in Oct 2021 a federal jury ruled unanimously in the state’s favor.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slavery</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/forprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forprofit</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prison</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOGroup</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/forprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forprofit</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prison</a> company <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOGroup</a> has surged in value under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>. Investors are betting big on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#detention</a>. Its stock price doubled after Election Day.But despite its soaring fortunes, the $4B company continues to resist having to pay detainees >$1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slavery</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage</a>

Led By Fools<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase" class="u-url mention">@Nigel_Purchase</a> If that was you, sorry that happened to you, but if not, please edit to put quotes around the "headline". I agree the US is a mess, and has put the profits of corporations like private prison operator Geo Group ahead of human rights. It sicken me that ICE is operating on their behalf to keep the jails full, because that's how they profit.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Geogroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Geogroup</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Privateprisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Privateprisons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Border" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Border</a>

Martha 🌊 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇪🇺<a href="https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@theguardian_us_news</a> I am writing in the hope that someone out there – someone with the power to change any of this – can help do something… <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoreCivic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoreCivic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOGroup</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kidnapping</a>

DoomsdaysCWLast Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) main story on ICE Detention! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeoGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GeoGroup</a>! <a href="https://tube.fede.re/w/834XCxW9XxYvKnuD5ASXNu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://tube.fede.re/w/834XCxW9XxYvKnuD5ASXNu</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LastWeekTonight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LastWeekTonight</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ICEDetention</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndefiniteDetention</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivatePrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivatePrisons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoreCivic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CoreCivic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CharacteristicsOfFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnOliver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JohnOliver</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://ohai.social/@robchapman" class="u-url mention">@robchapman</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GEOGroup</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ICE</a> Secretly Hauled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MahmoudKhalil</a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege By moving the campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#activist</a> to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.by Jonah Valdez, March 11 2025,"Mahmoud Khalil’s wife watched as agents from the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed her husband and whisked him away from their New York City apartment in an unmarked vehicle on Saturday evening. Agents ignored the pleas of Khalil’s wife who tried to show them legal papers proving her husband was a green card holder. They wouldn’t heed her requests to share where they were taking him, according to court filings. Eventually, one of the agents offered a terse response: Check the local immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan."By next morning, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator indicated Khalil was no longer in New York. Instead, it showed him at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. When Khalil’s wife visited the jail, she was turned away."Without warning to Khalil’s wife or his immigration attorney Amy Greer, who the same morning had filed a petition to challenge her client’s arrest as a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights, ICE agents had transferred Khalil to a different facility. This time, they moved him thousands of miles south of his New York home to a facility in Louisiana. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Khalil’s exact whereabouts were updated in the ICE online system: the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaSalleDetentionFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LaSalleDetentionFacility</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JenaLouisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JenaLouisiana</a>, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateJail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivateJail</a> operated by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GEOGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GEOGroup</a>. "Attorneys for Khalil allege the move from the New York metropolitan area to Louisiana was a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RetaliatoryTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RetaliatoryTransfer</a>' intended to restrict his access and to lawyers and family, and position what has grown into a closely watched <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FirstAmendment</a> case in a jurisdiction more friendly to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies."Three days after his detention, Khalil still has not been charged with a crime. The Department of Homeland Security has said it arrested Khalil, a lead negotiator for Palestine solidarity protesters at Columbia, for having “led activities aligned to Hamas.” President Donald Trump, who campaigned on deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, pledged that Khalil’s arrest is 'the first arrest of many to come' and that his administration would continue to target for deportations 'more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.'"Although a Manhattan federal court ordered a temporary halt preventing the Trump administration from immediately deporting Khalil, attorneys remain concerned for his well-being and ability to access proper legal counsel. In a motion filed Monday evening by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at the City University of New York School of Law, attorneys seek to reverse the ICE decision and to transfer Khalil back to New York."Read more: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/7uhSa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://archive.ph/7uhSa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CharacteristicsOfFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FloodingTheZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FloodingTheZone</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShockAndAwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ShockAndAwe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FirstAmendment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ColumbiaUniversity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Palestinian</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Protests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FreeKhalil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CenterForConstitutionalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CenterForConstitutionalRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TrumpRegime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAreNeverWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivatePrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivatePrisons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndefiniteDetention" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndefiniteDetention</a>

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