Thomas Kennedy

Advocacy at Florida Immigrant Coalition. PhD student researching immigration and surveillance. Argentino.

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Study: Trump policies could push 300,000 asylum seekers out of Miami metro workforce https://t.co/UJ4GV819G7

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

According to a financial analysis, the cost to keep a detainee at Alligator Alcatraz was $3,571 a day, per detainee. The total cost for the facility is now estimated to be $1.2 billion.
https://t.co/Tz9sr1f78E

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Argentine President Javier Milei’s Cabinet chief and close ally, Manuel Adorni, has resigned following a spiraling corruption scandal. Federal prosecutors are investigating Adorni for illicit enrichment.
https://t.co/AxrjHvrsxm

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Miami Commissioners told SCOTUS has given green light for 350k Haitian immigrants to lose legal protections, many living in South Florida. Commissioners discussed the city’s 287g police-ICE collaboration agreement, hearing hours of testimony from residents urging them to end it.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Speaker from Guatemalan Mayan Center shares with City of Miami commissioners how small children, including a three-year-old, a one-year-old, and a six-year-old, had parents were deported and had to eventually be sent out of the country to reunify with their parents.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Miami leaders face mounting pressure to exit controversial pact between ICE and city police
https://t.co/i3eyrJ4s98

[海外の万国反応記 @all_nations2]

定期的に見たくなる日本代表vs小学生100人

[Churchill Ndonwie @ChurchillNdonwi]

‘Failure by every measure’: Advocates demand accountability for Alligator Alcatraz https://t.co/o4QD5wSTBQ

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Hard to parody how stupid and petty this level of corruption is.

[Bloomberg @business]

Argentine President Javier Milei’s embattled cabinet chief used staffers’ credit cards to purchase video game equipment that cost far more than his government salary, newspaper La Nacion reported Friday https://t.co/CyULrAIe8q

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

A Cuban-born commissioner in City of Miami spoke about his fear of ICE — why is Miami still upholding its agreement deputizing its police to collaborate with ICE?
https://t.co/qTtxJs8jgd

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Miami’s elected officials heard a tsunami of opposition urging them to ‘do the right thing’ and exit the city’s police-ICE collaboration agreement.
https://t.co/XblnCbKRYz

[Lawrence Mower @lmower3]

DeSantis has railed against data centers, but pushed for a sales tax break exclusively for *large* ones last year.

The Legislature passed it, but only after one of DeSantis' top deputies lobbied the bill sponsor.

Great reporting by @mahoneysthename:
https://t.co/uyXi201Scy

[Miami New Times @miaminewtimes]

It's still unclear who's going to cover more than $500M spent on contractors and vendors.

🔗 https://t.co/u2CXv4isEY

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

@MegynKellyShow You are a disgusting person. Shame on you.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Escalona shared that immigrant residents face the same fear due to the city's 287g contract that deputizes police to collaborate with ICE.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Miami Commissioner Escalona addressed the fear that immigration enforcement is causing our community, sharing that his own family was scared when his wife had an immigration related appointment recently.

[Eliott Rodriguez @ERodforCongress]

Today I urged the City of Miami Commission to reject the 287(g) agreement. Policies that separate families and discourage victims and witnesses from reporting crimes make our community less safe. We can support secure borders while treating people with dignity and humanity.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

You wasted more than one billion dollars of Florida’s emergency response fund on a failed PR stunt that hurt people and destroyed families. You should never be anywhere near public office again.

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

Immigration enforcement has been a state priority since I’ve been governor.

We stood up Alligator Alcatraz to help address the failures of the Biden administration on immigration enforcement and bolster the Trump administration’s efforts to resume interior enforcement and removal operations.

Florida led the way in increasing much-needed detention capacity and working with our federal partners to streamline deportations, removing thousands of the most dangerous criminal aliens from our country.

Our detention operations support has led to nearly 30,000 additional deportations and Florida accounts for more than 40% of all state/local immigration arrests nationwide.

Alligator Alcatraz has fulfilled this mission. Detainees who are still awaiting deportation have been transferred to other federal facilities, and demobilization efforts are underway.

The Biden border crisis caused an emergency. When it comes to emergency management, Florida is second to none. The success of Alligator Alcatraz demonstrated our state’s leadership in launching critical infrastructure, surging resources, and managing complex operations.

Along with our partners in the Trump Administration, we will continue the mission to make our communities safer by deporting illegal aliens and ensuring that our nation’s immigration laws are enforced.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

@FrancisSuarez @OutnumberedFNC @kayleighmcenany You literally caused an exodus of residents leaving Miami because your tenure as mayor left the city one of the most unaffordable in the country.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Now time to hold state officials accountable for human rights abuses and using Alligator Alcatraz to grift and steer more than one billion dollars of Florida’s emergency funds to private vendors.
https://t.co/EfFTl0Pol1