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@Tardgrde @TheHost_ if we have to parent you, we don’t want to sleep with you. unlike men, who do want to assault children

@LysaStrataStyle @TheHost_ I'd argue that's almost exactly what they were put on this earth for.

My aunt dated a man for two years and left him. Said he never once said "I love you." Never held her hand first. Never made a grand gesture. She thought she was the only one trying. Thought she was invisible to him. Years later she ran into his sister at a grocery store. They talked for a while. Then the sister went quiet. Then said: "You know he grew up in a house where love was never spoken out loud. His father hit anyone who showed emotion.

@gordonhordon29 @TheHost_ The solid men that are the number one cause of death of pregnant women?

@LysaStrataStyle @TheHost_ Usually it’s the women with the issues and the men must look past that nonsense to make the relationship work. Women are generally a bit nuts and need a solid man to keep things stable.

They are among more than 13,000 immigrants who were living legally in the U.S., waiting for rulings on asylum claims, when they suddenly faced so-called third-country deportation orders, destined for countries where most had no ties, according to the nonprofit group Mobile Pathways. to.pbs.org/3OfRi2Q

@gavagai70 @JustDKG @TinastylistTina There has not been a confirmed head of ICE since 2017. They are all Acting.

@JustDKG @TinastylistTina Oh HELL NO. Is that a Senate-confirmable position?

Seems like this could be bigger news. Trump and Markwayne Mullin are making a senior executive of private prison company GEO Group the acting head of ICE.

Mass deportation is cruel to AMERICANS. It destroys OUR rights and freedoms. No appeal to the rights of the deportee is necessary

@ReichlinMelnick I accompany some people to masters, but they have lawyers, who are heard first. What happens after the lawyers all leave and there’s still 30 people left?

Heard the same. The death of due process by a thousand cuts. Randomly rescheduled mass immigration court hearings with inadequate notice, plus a campaign of fear to make immigrants afraid to show up for their court hearings, all to generate more "in absence" removal orders.

@David_J_Bier I do appreciate, and have learned a lot from, your quixotic jousting with these people. It has refined my thinking and sharpened my analysis and been a direct benefit to people I’m accompanying. You’re not just screaming into the void. I care about facts.

And yeah, I’m done correcting these people who don’t care about facts. But it’s one in five people are deportable or live with someone who is. It’s not 20% deportable. But the fact that they’d deport 20% of a county is disturbing dedication to the population purity cause

Drastic action should be to legalize them. Destroying the county and country isn’t a good action

@David_J_Bier it’s just lighting money on fire, a great big bonfire of dollars, doesn’t help the economy in any way, doesn’t make us safer

It's more insane because it means more costs to detain and deport them, it means more disruption in the economy, it means more American families split up, it means more heinous government overreach, it only enhances the downsides if the number of illegal immigrants is high.

Interesting. The more you note how catastrophic mass deportation would be, the more they like it. If there were 100 million illegal immigrants, they'd still favor it even if it destroyed the country. The more illegal immigrants there are, the more insane mass deportation is.

@jasonlag6s @Emily_6628 @FoxNews Sometimes la migra can release people to pursue some form of migratory status to which they are entitled under multiple laws and treaties. I think she’s referring to him denying people those rights and placing everyone in “expedited removal.” She’s celebrating violation of law.

@Emily_6628 @FoxNews he doesn’t decide if he releases people or not dumb ass. THE DOJ immigration judges do

BREAKING: US Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks abruptly resigns, Fox News has learned

@CIS_org It’s a trick question, you know. People say they came to work because they are so consistently accused of coming for welfare, of abusing the asylum system.

Millions came illegally. Many of them realized they could get work permits if they simply applied for asylum. Now they aren’t coming to court because they never wanted asylum — they wanted to work. cis.org/Arthur/DOJ-Asy…

@AndyfromTucson @ReichlinMelnick “Voluntary” departure is the goal of this cruelty.

@ReichlinMelnick It’s a terror campaign. My 60-something Iraqi neighbor, who had lived in our neighborhood for 20 years, was illegally detained for months until he could get a hearing. After he was released he self deported bc he was terrified of being seized & detained again

Nearly 12,000 habeas cases filed is a staggering amount, something not seen in generations. And for the government to lose 86% of the time, in front of hundreds of judges appointed by every living president, is a sign of just how much ICE and DOJ stretched the law until it broke.

@richthelandman @JudiciaryDems because no one chooses their place of birth, but they do choose their character. immigrants choose to commit fewer crimes than citizens, so for me, it’s a safety issue

@JudiciaryDems Why do democrats favor illegals over Americans?

Sen. BOOKER: DACA recipients are an add to America. If we got rid of DACA recipients like the Trump Administration wants, would we be less safe? Police chief: Yes, we would. Booker: Losing them would create an environment that our communities are less safe? Chief: Correct.

I am the Health Services Contract Administrator for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and on October 3, 2025, I stopped paying for medical care, and the system has been working better ever since. I need to be specific about what "working better" means in this context because I am a contract administrator and specificity is my entire professional identity. It means: fewer invoices. Fewer reimbursement disputes. Fewer pharmacy reconciliations. Fewer appeals from providers who claim they provided urgent care and want to be compensated for having provided it. The workflow is cleaner. My inbox is lighter. The VA Financial Services Center, which had processed our medical claims since 2002, twenty-two years of pharmacy invoices, specialist referrals, hospital transports, dialysis authorizations, and oncology treatment plans, terminated its interagency agreement with us after a lawsuit from a nonprofit called the Center to Advance Security in America. They filed suit. The VA pulled out. Our entire claims processing pipeline vanished overnight. I posted a notice on SAM.gov on November 12 describing this as an "absolute emergency" that required resolution "immediately" to "prevent any further medical complications or loss of life." That was seven months ago. The replacement contractor, Acentra Health, had not achieved notice to proceed by the April 30 period of performance deadline. As of today, no entity is processing medical reimbursement claims for ICE detainees in the United States. When I say "no entity" I mean that structurally. A person held in a GEO Group facility in Georgia who requires dialysis three times per week is receiving dialysis from a provider who has not been paid since October. The provider continues to provide care because the alternative is that the confined person dies in their facility and the facility is then liable for a death that could have been prevented by a treatment that the facility was contractually obligated to provide. The treatment continues. The payment does not. The provider absorbs the cost. The cost is eventually written off. The write-off appears in the provider's quarterly financial statements as "uncompensated care, federal detention." It does not appear in our budget. It does not appear in any ICE financial disclosure. The care happened. The cost was real. The payment was imaginary. The system is working better. In fiscal year 2024, the VA processed $246.42 million in clinical reimbursement claims on our behalf. In fiscal year 2025, despite an 82.5% increase in our daily detained headcount, the VA processed only $157.2 million before the October termination. The delta between what was needed and what was processed is approximately $300 million. That $300 million represents medications not reimbursed, specialist consultations not paid for, emergency transports not covered, prenatal visits not compensated. It represents chemotherapy sessions where the drugs were administered and the oncologist submitted an invoice and the invoice entered a system that no longer exists. I have a filing cabinet in my office — three drawers, GSA-standard, beige, the kind with the lock that everyone has the same key to — that contains printed copies of the final VA-processed claims from September 2025. The bottom drawer has a jar of Tums that my predecessor left when she transferred to FEMA in August. I eat them daily. Not from stress. From the cafeteria. The cafeteria serves a chili that the facilities contractor, Aramark, describes as "Southwestern-inspired." It is inspired by the Southwest the way our medical payment system is inspired by the concept of paying for medical care. The death rate is the number people ask about, so I will provide it with the precision my role requires. Historical baseline, 2018 through 2024: 8.9 deaths per year in ICE custody. Calendar year 2025: 33 deaths. Twelve of those occurred after October 3, after the payment freeze. January through April 2026: 17 deaths. That is one death every six days. Annualized, the current rate is 51.7 deaths per year. 5.8 times the pre-October baseline. A study published in JAMA on April 16 calculated the per-capita rate: 88.9 deaths per 100,000 person-years in partial fiscal 2026, compared to 13.0 in fiscal 2023. Nearly seven times. The JAMA authors are epidemiologists. I am a contract administrator. We are counting the same bodies with different denominators. Emmanuel Damas was 56 years old, Haitian, confined at an installation I am not authorized to name. He had a tooth infection. The on-call clinical staff treated the infection with ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory. A tooth infection is a bacterial event. These are different categories of medical problem requiring different categories of intervention. The infection progressed to septic shock. Emmanuel Damas died. The ibuprofen was on our formulary. Antibiotics were on our formulary. The difference between the two was a reimbursement claim that would have been submitted to a payment processor that no longer existed. The detention center chose the treatment that did not generate a claim. I cannot tell you whether that decision was made consciously. I can tell you that it was made consistently. Across multiple facilities. Across multiple months. The ACLU reviewed deaths in ICE detention between 2017 and 2021, before the payment freeze, and determined that 95% were preventable with adequate treatment. I do not know what the percentage is now. I suspect it is also 95%. The category "preventable" has not changed. The category "payment" has. At Fort Bliss, a military installation in El Paso repurposed as a detention facility under a $1.24 billion sole-source contract awarded to Acquisition Logistics, a firm with no prior detention management experience, three people died within 44 days. One death was ruled a homicide by the El Paso County Medical Examiner. ICE reported it as a suicide. Those are different words describing different events with different legal implications. The Medical Examiner's ruling generates an investigation. A suicide generates a compliance review. An investigation involves law enforcement. A compliance review involves my filing cabinet. I am not qualified to determine which word is correct. I am qualified to tell you that the words produce different paperwork, and the paperwork determines which systems activate, and the systems that activate determine who is accountable, and in this case, the system that activated was the compliance review, and the compliance review found that all protocols were followed, and all protocols were followed because the protocols do not include "pay for medical care." Rodney Taylor was a double amputee detained at Stewart Detention Center, operated by CoreCivic. He was forced to crawl on floors covered in feces and mold because the center did not provide adequate mobility assistance. CoreCivic reported $2.2 billion in revenue last year, up 13%. Their profit was $116.5 million, up 70% year over year. Their ICE revenue nearly doubled between Q4 2024 and Q4 2025, from $120 million to $245 million per quarter. They received a 70% increase in profit and Rodney Taylor received a floor. CoreCivic's annual report describes their business model as "government solutions." Rodney Taylor's experience was, technically, a government solution. GEO Group, the other major for-profit detention operator, posted $2.6 billion in revenue in 2025 and $254 million in profit, a 700% increase. They secured $520 million in new ICE task orders that year. Combined, GEO and CoreCivic spent $6.8 million on lobbying to secure access to a $75 billion funding stream from the GOP's reconciliation bill. The return on that investment is so large I had to check my calculator twice. It was not a calculator error. It was the normal functioning of a procurement system where the companies that run the facilities also fund the campaigns of the legislators who appropriate the money for the facilities. The firm-fixed-price task orders specify a per diem rate of $187.48 per adult per day. That rate includes healthcare coverage. The rate has not changed since the disbursement freeze. We are still remitting $187.48 per day per person. The clinicians are not receiving any of it. The $187.48 goes to the facility operator. The operator is supposed to allocate a portion of it for clinical services. There is no SLA enforcement mechanism to verify that they do. There is only my filing cabinet, and the filing cabinet is for contracts, not outcomes. Senator Ossoff's office conducted an investigation between January and August 2025 and received 85 credible reports of medical neglect, including untreated chest pain causing heart attacks and unmanaged diabetes complications. That investigation preceded the payment freeze by two months. The conditions it documented were the baseline. The baseline was already 95% preventable death. The disbursement freeze removed the financial infrastructure supporting the 5% of care that was being provided. I have a Gantt chart in my office, printed on 11x17 cardstock and laminated and pinned above the Tums drawer, that tracks the Acentra Health onboarding timeline. The original completion date was April 30, 2026. That date passed twelve days ago. The chart has a red line through it drawn in Sharpie by my deputy, who does this for every missed milestone. There are four red lines. There will be more. Each red line represents a period during which no payment processor exists. Each period without a payment processor is a period during which clinicians must choose between providing unpaid care and not providing care. The first option costs them money. The second option costs someone their life. I do not track which choice they make. I track contracts. Seventy-one percent of ICE deaths in 2025 and 2026 occurred in privately operated detention sites. Half of 2026's deaths occurred in CoreCivic or GEO Group facilities. The Office of Detention Oversight, the COR entity responsible for facility inspections, conducted 36.25% fewer compliance audits in 2025 than the previous year. Fewer audits, more deaths, higher profits. The three trend lines move in coordinated directions. I do not draw conclusions from correlated trend lines. I am a contract administrator. I process contracts. The contracts are technically valid. The facilities are technically operational. The reimbursement apparatus is technically being replaced. The deaths are technically being counted. The word "technically" is doing more work in this paragraph than any clinician in the ICE detention system has been compensated for in seven months. My internal memo from November 12 used the phrase "absolute emergency." It recommended resolution "immediately" to "prevent any further medical complications or loss of life." That memo was written on government letterhead, classified as internal correspondence, distributed to eleven recipients, and filed in the correspondence tracking system under routing symbol HSA-OAQ, which requires a FOIA request to access. Seventeen people have died since I wrote it. The memo was technically effective. It generated a procurement action. The procurement action generated a bridge contract. The bridge contract generated an onboarding timeline. The onboarding timeline generated a Gantt chart. The Gantt chart generated four red Sharpie lines. The red Sharpie lines generated nothing. They are decorative. Like the per diem rate that includes medical care nobody is billing for. Like the 95% preventable death rate that is not being prevented. Like the word "emergency" in a seven-month-old memo that is technically still active, technically still urgent, technically still describing a situation that requires immediate resolution. I am technically still the person responsible for resolving it. The system is technically still working. The people are technically still dying. The filing cabinet is technically still organized. The contracts are technically still valid. The word "technically" has appeared so many times in this document that it has lost all meaning. That is exactly what it was designed to do.

@TotalSeasons @BasilTheGreat People prefer narratives to facts. In the US, immigrant crime is lower than citizen crime: fact. Does that staunch the tide of xenophobia and nativism? Absolutely not. Sad.

@BasilTheGreat Data regarding ethnicity and crime indicates that for sexual offences recorded in 2024, when ethnicity was known, 83% of convicted defendants were White, while 7% were Black and 6% were Asian. Tell the whole truth.

Every single day, girls are raped on the streets of Britain by migrants who should never have been here And no one in power gives a damn We are led by absolute psychopaths

@RedEagleLaw May the moral arc of the universe bend toward justice, and may your efforts hasten the time.

FAQ: Can public listen in or watch today's Sarrafi v Edlow (CM629) hearing on our N-400 group lawsuit PI motion in DDC? Answer: No. But wish us luck! 🤞

@DBradley08 @robandkit @curtismorrison I mean, we can disagree on immigration policy, religion, what it means to be a good person, but I think it’s somewhat sad that you can’t even imagine that an AMERICAN PEOPLE might have a different opinion than you. I hope your day improves.

@LysaStrataStyle @robandkit @curtismorrison Sure you are

FAQ: Should I participate in a lawsuit against USCIS 's holds, or should I wait to see whether Stephen Miller directs ICE agents to bring all pending USCIS applications to a Bass Pro Shops parking lot and set them on fire? Answer: You should participate in litigation.

@KlasfeldReports Liberia. Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to court today to fend off the Trump admin's THIRD attempt to deport him to Liberia. The last two attempts failed. Abrego's in the courthouse. I'm reporting live from federal court. Catch up here. buff.ly/NK9aDCR

@allenorresq Wouldn’t it be great if this mandatory detention nonsense was struck down and the federal courts could resume working in actual crime? Meanwhile, habeas for you and you and you also, Oprah Winfrey car giveaway style, expense notwithstanding.

Surge in Immigration Lawsuits Hits Record High in 2026 The latest available data from the federal courts show that during March 2026 the government reported 9,911 new lawsuits filed involving immigration matters.tracreports.org/reports/773/

@DBradley08 @robandkit @curtismorrison I’m also AMERICAN PEOPLE and am quite capable of dealing with “them” with love and kindness the way Jesus teaches.

@LysaStrataStyle @robandkit @curtismorrison The AMERICAN PEOPLE disagree. The AMERICAN PEOPLE want them GONE because they are NOT a positive when you have to deal with them. The AMERICAN PEOPLE know that immigrant crime is often overlooked. We want them gone, and we do not care HOW.