DEPORT ICE!

In case I haven’t mentioned this a zillion times already, and I know I have, NOTHING from this facist fucking administration can be trusted.

I know. Like…DUH!

The governor of New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill, Senator Andy Kim, and U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez went to check out the reports of wickedly substandard conditions at the Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark, New Jersey. Prisoners had organized a hunger strike to protest the disgusting, befouled food and inadequate, woefully subpar medical "care."

Detained migrants said they found live worms in their meals of beans and salad. They also complained of crowded rooms with no air conditioning, and they told stories of their cases being ignored by judges or bonds being denied, all in an attempt to force them to self-deport. (source) 

The people protesting, despite what the apparatchiks are spewing, were peaceful (NOT rioters!). Then the ICE goons started shooting pepper balls and mace at people and into the crowds. Why?

Cover. Homeland Securities thugs were trying to smuggle out Martin Soto, the leader of the hunger strike. His pregnant, American citizen, wife was one of the protest organizers. ICE needed a distraction so, naturally, they turned to violence. They tried to incite a riot.

Anne Telnaes

ICE and the concentration camp’s for-profit operator, GEO Group, want to transfer strike leaders to out-of-state facilities (Louisiana or Texas) in order to deflate annoying protests. Also, in doing this, they separate prisoners from their lawyers. If prisoners can't access their lawyers or the courts, they’re kept in the for-profit prison longer. The longer they’re locked up, the more money GEO Group makes. This is, basically, state sponsored human trafficking. Oh and if/when prisoners die due to contaminated/tainted food and lack of or substandard medical care? BONUS for Stephen Nosferatu Miller and his oafish, potato-brained, henchman MarkWayneBobRayRonFred, who want all insufficiently white right-wing fascists offed posthaste.

ICEholes got a bit carried away in their orgy of barbarism though – they pepper sprayed a senator. That’s gonna make for some nasty,  unavoidable, and embarrassing headlines, eh?

Kim initially tried to broker a temporary agreement between the demonstrators and federal agents, in which the agents would scale back tactical teams and immigrant advocates could inspect cars leaving the facility to see if detainees were inside.

But in the meantime, agents began pushing the crowd backward, firing less-lethal rounds containing an irritant toward the protesters and making several arrests.At times, Kim stepped between the protestors and agents putting his arms up in a “stop” motion as the scene grew chaotic.

“I tried to find a way through this … to be able to have this happen non-violently,” the senator said in a phone interview a few hours later.

“I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."

Kim said his eyes and throat were still “burning” and his hand “hurts a lot” but added: “It’s not about me.” (source) 

Sounds like they shot at him directly. Targeted him, in fact. ICE – they don’t exactly hire the best and brightest, do they? We all knew that though. They hire desperate, emotionally stunted, intellectually unburdened, barbarity prone moldy turnips with poor impulse control.

What’s happening with the Martin Soto, the targeted prisoner? An emergency petition for his release has been filed in federal court.

Mike Luckovich

“At this point, petitioner’s detention no longer resembles ordinary civil immigration custody,” the filing by attorney Alexandra Minogue argues. “It has evolved into escalating punitive confinement marked by retaliatory termination of all family visitation, threats of solitary confinement, deteriorating detention conditions, allegations that detainees were served food containing worms, attempted movement during active federal habeas proceedings, and profound psychological harm inflicted upon a pregnant United States citizen spouse and medically vulnerable children.”

Soto was deceptively, heinously, brutally moved to another concentration camp in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Minogue was able to talk with him there on Monday.

“[Martin] appeared visibly ill and substantially underweight and displayed bruising to his arms, wrists, and ankles consistent with forceful restraint,” Minogue declared in the filings.

At the time the emergency motion was made, according to the filing, “[Martin] remains housed in solitary confinement conditions and wildly restricted to access to counsel as well as terminated visitation for his family.” (source) 

DEPORT ICE – KEEP THE IMMIGRANTS!!!

Spending tens of billions of dollars from American families to perpetrate cruelty against people who aren’t violent criminals or felons is a waste of money and wrong…. Our government should focus on helping Americans afford their lives, not lock people up in for-profit detention centers where corporations like GeoGroup and CoreCivic make billions. No profiting off of human misery.
~ Senator Andy Kim