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ICE just gave a "child welfare" contract to MVM Inc. -- a contractor that has been accused of torture and enforced disappearance to track down undocumented children.

They've also been sued for physically separating thousands of children from their parents using unmarked vehicles and makeshift detention centers.

In one instance, they locked an immigrant woman and her baby inside a Chicago hotel for five days.

ICE gave them a "child welfare" contract anyway, with the dollar amount redacted.

Government agencies like ICE use contractor arrangements specifically to create distance between policy decisions and the consequences of those decisions.

When something goes wrong with a private contractor, the accountability chain gets murky fast.

Who gave the order? Who had authority? Which agency is responsible?

That fog is a feature. And it's a pattern across ICE's shadow detention system.

GEO Group, CoreCivic, CSI Aviation, now MVM.

Each contract adds another layer of insulation between the people making these decisions and the children bearing the consequences.

Eighteen companies bid for this contract.

MVM won because it had the infrastructure to physically locate and abduct children at scale.

Taxpayers are fronting the bill, but children are paying the price.

Source: The Guardian

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In a letter reviewed yesterday by L.A. Taco, 150 hunger strikers at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center expressed the horrific conditions they are forced to endure inside ICE captivity.

Today is the 16th day of their hunger strike in protest of the violations of their constitutional and human rights.

Meanwhile, CEO George Zoley of GEO Group, the private prison company profiteering off of their inhumane and illegal detention, said on their Q1 earnings call (where they boasted huge increases in revenue from holding immigrants captive):

"Through federal ownership there are more protections from unwarranted litigation that infringes upon the activities of ICE Processing Centers. There has been litigation regarding oversight of medical services, food services, general cleanliness, etc. It is really unprecedented and, I believe, 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥."

GEO Group is cashing in from imprisoning immigrants in horrific conditions without due process.

And their CEO, who is himself an immigrant, believes that any lawsuits concerning GEO Group's treatment of the people they hold captive are "unconstitutional."

Not the refusal of due process so more profit can be wrung out of each person's arbitrary detention.

Not the cruel and inhumane treatment.

Not the preventable deaths.

No. What GEO Group believes is truly unconstitutional is them being called out for their abuses in court.

Swipe to see part of the letter signed by the 150 people bravely on hunger strike inside Adelanto while enduring violent retaliation and horrific abuses of power by prison guards and the state.

Sources: L.A. Taco Daily Memo 6.2.26, GEO Group Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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UPDATE: We are reposting this map we posted last week to include the current hunger strikes at:

- North Lake Processing Center in Michigan

- Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania

This brings the total tally of people currently participating in a hunger/labor strike inside ICE captivity to almost 1,000.

For reference, between 2015 and 2020, approximately 1,600 people held captive by ICE participated in a hunger strike.

We are now seeing nearly 1,000 people on hunger strike in just the past few weeks.

Abolish ICE. Free them all.

Disclaimer: This map may be incomplete, and only depicts current hunger strikes. Several additional strikes not depicted on this map have occurred since Jan 2025.

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This week, the Trump White House released an official page, 'Aliens', that is disgusting, dehumanizing propaganda.

It also loads terribly slowly and barely works.

But the data behind it is a useful aggregate record of ICE's arrests by town from January 20, 2025 to May 21, 2026. ResistMap Investigations pulled and reconstructed it in full, so you can use it without visiting the White House page.

Zoom in, search a town, and switch between heatmap and markers. The dataset you can download is complete and unaltered, exactly as released; we don't vouch for its accuracy or endorse its contents.

Explore the map at 🔗 https://t.co/mCzDaLzTtV

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The White House just spent tax dollars on a website that dehumanizes immigrants.

It uses UFO imagery and horror movie language, describing immigrants as "[arriving] under the cover of darkness and [embedding] themselves directly into our society." They insidiously refer to a kidnapped human as “it”

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500 people held captive by ICE are bravely on hunger/labor strikes across the country, persevering despite enduring assaults and brutality from ICE officers, retaliation, the abduction of strike leaders to other facilities, weakened physical health and illness from inhumane detention conditions, and illegal threats.

It is Day 9 of 300 people hunger & labor striking at Delaney Hall. For the last 10 days, roughly 120 people have been on hunger strike at the Adelanto Processing Center and Desert View Annex in Adelanto, California.

In addition, people are on hunger strikes at the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, Torrance County Detention Center in New Mexico, and Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington (L.A. Taco, The Stranger). Here are some of the strikes' demands:

Demands of Delaney Strikers:

- An immediate in-person meeting with Governor Mikie Sherrill at Delaney Hall so she can directly observe conditions and hear testimony from detained individuals.

- The immediate release of all prisoners including vulnerable detainees, including elderly people, pregnant women, young people, and individuals with serious medical conditions.

- Meaningful and fair review of immigration cases and habeas petitions.

- An end to what detained individuals describes as coercive pressure to sign deportation or voluntary departure documents.

(Source: American Friends Service Committee)

Demands of Adelanto Strikers:

- Bond reform: A fair, transparent, and legally justified bond system.
Improved conditions: Remediation of mold, repair of water infrastructure, clean water, functioning facilities, and habitability across all units

- Adequate medical and mental health care

- Nutritious food: A diet that sustains basic physical health

- Accountability for ALL deaths

- Right to organize and communicate: The ability to meet collectively, speak with outside advocates, and communicate with family and the public without interference or retaliation

(Source: IE Immigrant Youth Collective)

Now is a moment where every single action matters. Please call the governors, Congresspeople, and state reps in these states and echo the demands of those bravely on strike.

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🚨ALERT: An ICE Air flight JUST LANDED in Newark, New Jersey. This is the location of Delaney Hall, the ICE internment camp where 300 immigrants trapped inside have been on a hunger and labor strike for a week.

This is happening simultaneously to ICE agents brutalizing hunger strikers INSIDE the facility today in an attempt to start a riot.

The NJ Alliance for Justice reported today that people are being beaten with batons and pepper sprayed inside the facility. They attest that 40 guards entered Unit 2A 2B using brute force, and that they have "broken a boy's face."

@hereswhykevin reported that a wife told him someone was knocked unconscious, and that many people are injured and bleeding. What's more, the use of pepper spray inside an enclosed facility is making it difficult for people to breathe.

Outside the facility, activists have been assaulted by ICE officers over the course of the last week. ICE pushed an unarmed man into an 18-wheeler, crushing his foot. Activists are being brutalized, pepper balled, and pepper sprayed.

Sen. Andy Kim was pepper-sprayed when he tried to enter the building for an inspection that he had clearance to conduct by ICE. The NJ Department of Health was also denied entry.

Family members outside the facility have called 911, but they say they refused to intervene.

Sources: Here's Why Kevin, Status Coup, JJ in DC

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BREAKING: Pepper spray, Pepper Balls and Massive Barricade Clashes between Anti-ICE Protesters with Shields and Federal Agents at Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center

Protesters built barricades and used cement blocks to reinforce their line blocking facility as ICE pushed back

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Latif Hafraoui spent 108 days in ICE detention last year, primarily at Delaney Hall in New Jersey, where hundreds are hunger striking the cruel conditions inside.

This article is a look inside Delaney's walls from his perspective.

https://t.co/HhK3xQwAHT

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The Trump DOJ spent last week scrubbing its own website of every news release related to January 6th prosecutions, calling the charge sheets, conviction records, and sentencing documents “partisan propaganda”.

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1 in every 1,000 Americans will be in Indianapolis this weekend for the Indy 500 (the largest single-day sporting event in the world). So we coordinated with Indiana organizers to put up this billboard.

Our message?

Republicans are pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into caging children, kidnapping innocent people off the street, tearing families apart, and building internment camps. These decisions have made it impossible for everyday Americans to afford groceries, rent, medical care, and gas.

The billboard is located on I-465 S, 500 feet east of Emerson Ave.

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The day after ICE agent Christian Castro shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a ResistMap analyst pieced together a live-streamed video of the aftermath of the shooting and 911 call.

We verified the geolocation of the video, which was within 200 feet of the location of the shooting, and released the evidence with blurred faces and redacted segments that would have compromised privacy.

We also filed requests to the Police Department for footage related to the shooting, including from Flock surveillance devices, in an effort to prevent this egregious act of state-sactioned violence from being swept under the rug.

Video evidence released last month from a city-owned security camera corroborated the evidence in the video we analyzed, and was substantial enough for a state prosecutor at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to place charges.

Now a nationwide warrant is out for Castro’s arrest, yet his location is unknown, and he is not yet in custody.

Castro was one of two agents who ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted had lied about the shooting. Yet the press release containing dozens of false statements remains on DHS’s website. Castro has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.

He is the second federal agent to be criminally charged for their actions during Operation Metro Surge.

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In San Diego yesterday, three lives were lost while taking heroic actions to save their community members when two active shooters targeted the Islamic Center of San Diego.

This was a hate crime.

Today the FBI revealed that the two teenage shooters had met online and shared a "broad hatred" toward people of other religions and races. The Police Chief said the two shooters engaged in "generalized hate rhetoric.”

The AP obtained writings from the shooters that included hateful rhetoric toward Muslims. The documents also included symbols associated with white supremacy and Nazis. They referred to themselves as the “Sons of Tarrant,” after the shooter who attacked mosques in New Zealand and killed 51 people.

This act of hate took the lives of three beloved community members: Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha (who also went by Abul Ezz), and Nadir Awad. These brave men put their lives on the line to protect their community.

Amin Abdullah, a security guard and father of eight, slowed the shooters and protected 140 school children who were mere steps away. Even after he was shot, he reached for his radio to issue a lockdown.

Mansour Kaziha, who went by Abul Ezz, helped draw the shooters away from the building and toward a parking lot. Kaziha called 911 before he was fatally shot. He had been a community leader since 1986.

Nadir Awad, who lived across the street and was the husband to a teacher at the school, rushed to the Center when he heard the shooting. He also distracted the shooters, luring them away from the building before he and Kaziha were cornered and killed.

The families of these heroes and the Islamic Center of San Diego community are grieving the unthinkable loss of these three brave men.

To support the families, please visit https://t.co/iEuoL9Kuz4
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CW: Murder of a child, description of violence before the murder

Orlin Hernandez Reyes was two years old when ICE deported his mother, Wendy Hernandez Reyes, to Honduras without him. 

He begged to go with her and she begged to take him. 

ICE loaded her onto a plane anyway and left him in the care of an uncle who beat him, burned him, and killed him. 

He was just three years old when he died.

The week after Orlin's death, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons put out a press release saying his mother had abandoned her child to a violent murderer. 

Court records and her own account contradict that directly. 

She had no criminal record. 

She repeatedly asked to be deported with her son and ICE ignored every request and then blamed her for the consequences.

We have seen this playbook from DHS more times than we can count.

ICE told us Geraldo Lunas Campos died of medical distress. An autopsy called it homicide by asphyxiation. 

ICE told us Renée Good's and Alex Pretti’s killers fired in self defense. The video evidence told a different story. 

The official story always lands first and it is almost always a lie.

This isn't bending the truth. It's shattering it.

ICE is fully responsible for the death of Orlin Hernandez Reyes.

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CoreCivic is the for-profit company that runs the Dilley internment camp, where ICE pays them to cage kids.
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On May 7th, CEO Patrick Swindle said:

"The corrections and detention beds that we provide are the most humane, most efficient logistically, most compliant, most secure, readily available, and provide the best value to the government."

At Dilley, there have been RSV, Covid-19, and measles outbreaks. They deny kids medical care, edible food, and safe drinking water, and toothbrushes.

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The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:

https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ

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Last fall the Trump administration used backroom pressure on big tech companies like Apple and Google to kill ICE tracking tools.

A federal judge just confirmed it.

A court order filed last week found that DOJ and DHS officials effectively threatened Apple and Meta with prosecution if they did not pull a Chicago-based ICE monitoring app and Facebook group offline.

At the time, Pam Bondi went on Fox News and bragged that Apple had taken down the app in response to the DOJ's demand.

The group had 70,000 members when Facebook disabled it.

The judge called the government's threats thinly veiled and ruled they constituted a First Amendment violation.

We watched this happen in real time and we built ResistMap specifically so it could never happen to us.

ResistMap does not live in the Apple App Store, Google Play, or on Meta's servers.

We built and maintain our own infrastructure, which means no tech executive with a phone call from the White House can flip a switch and make us disappear.

The government cannot threaten our platform's existence the way it threatened Eyes Up and ICE Sightings Chicago because we maintain our infrastructure independently.

The court ruling last week vindicated the decision we made from day one to build this thing as a website, not an app.

We're still growing and scaling our platform to be as helpful as possible for communities at risk of ICE violence or detention.

If your rapid response group is interested in learning more about our tool and seeing if it would be a good fit for your community, let us know. We're here to help. >> [email protected]

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Republicans are trying to rig elections across the country. Their tactics include:

1. Take away the electoral representation of marginalized groups.

This is what we're seeing in Tennessee, where state legislators demolished the only majority Black congressional district in the state. After raising dissent, Democrats were removed from all committees and subcommittees -- a further denial of representation in government. This is an egregious violation of Americans' right to representation and the principle of 'no taxation without representation.'

A recent SCOTUS decision allowed this racist redistricting law to pass.

The court fast-tracked its April 29th decision in Louisiana v. Callais, essentially killing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They forewent the normal 32 day period between issuing an opinion and finalizing it so that Republicans could manipulate the upcoming primary elections. This decision is a "license to reinstitute Jim Crow" as The Nation puts it.

2. Intimidate progressive voters by threatening ICE presence at polling locations.

Just yesterday, Trump said he'd "do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections” when asked about deploying ICE and the National Guard to polling places.

3. Create poll taxes and hurdles to voting that primarily affect groups who are largely progressive.

The SAVE Act would require every voter present physical citizenship documentation that matches their current legal name. Birth certificates and passports with former names would not be accepted. Replacing a passport to showcase a legal name change costs over $100. Birth certificates can also cost a substantial fee to reissue.

This is a poll tax on millions of voters, such as married women, military families, seniors, rural voters, people without easy access to their documents (such as houseless people & survivors of DV), and everyone who has undergone a name change.

We're witnessing a nationwide Republican strategy of dismantling free and fair elections. The recent events in Tennessee perfectly encapsulate it.

Republicans are acting like they'll never need to win a fair election to remain in power. Because they don't plan on there being one.

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The Indiana University Hoosiers track and field team just flew to their championship on the exact same plane that deported innocent father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to CECOT, the torture prison in El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has built a life in Maryland with his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, and their three American children. Two of their children have autism. A third has epilepsy. He worked as a union sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore.

In October 2019, an immigration judge granted Garcia "withholding of removal," finding he faced a clear probability of persecution in El Salvador. That order legally barred his deportation to El Salvador. It remained in effect on March 12, 2025, when ICE arrested him in a parking lot while he was with his five-year-old son.

Three days later, on March 15, GlobalX flight N630VA carried Garcia from Harlingen, Texas, to CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison, in direct violation of the 2019 court order. The government later said this was an "administrative error."

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on April 10, 2025, that the government must facilitate Garcia's return. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland traveled to El Salvador to see him. Garcia was returned to the United States on June 6, 2025, and was immediately indicted on charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in which he had received only a warning.

A federal judge found a "reasonable likelihood" that the prosecution was vindictive, noting that the charges were filed 903 days after the traffic stop and only after Garcia prevailed at the Supreme Court. The government has since attempted to deport him to Uganda, Eswatini, Ghana, and Liberia, countries with no connection to him.

His legal battle to remain in the U.S. is still ongoing today.

Just yesterday, Abrego Garcia was back in court fighting to remain in the U.S. as the DOJ plans to deport him to Liberia "within a matter of weeks."

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After the Civil War, the South turned to "convict leasing" as a legal way to continue enslaving Black people.

White Southerners would wrongfully imprison Black people for made-up offenses and then lease them for profit. The "offenses" included loitering, vagrancy, breaking curfew, and not carrying proof of employment.

These laws, called “Black Codes," explicitly only applied to Black people.

Not even children were exempt.

Children and adolescents who had been convicted of arbitrary crimes were bought by white people, including plantation owners, to perform unpaid labor up until the 1940s. Many authors have termed convict leasing as "slavery by another name" (Equal Justice Initiative).

It was a loophole made possible by the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery and forced servitude -- but only for people who have not been convicted of a crime.

This loophole still exists today and is the reason why incarcerated people are forced to do hard labor for pennies or no pay at all.

This system became “just another form of chattel slavery that would function to keep the black race in a subordinate position," according to UNLV professor Dr. Randall Shelden.

Now Louisiana legislators and the Governor are pushing a new convict leasing bill.

Their scheme is simple: make being houseless a crime, and sentence people caught sleeping outside with years in prison. Second offenders would be subject to two years in prison with unpaid hard labor.

The bill would also try defendants in specific “homelessness courts.” Defendants, if not sent to prison, would be sent to private 'treatment' programs. The catch? They'd have to repay the costs of that treatment program at the end of their probation -- or perform unpaid labor 'for the benefit of the community' until the costs of their court-mandated 'treatment' is paid off.

It is important to note that 60% of houseless people in Louisiana are Black, despite Black Louisianans only making up 30% of the state's population. In addition, the median income for Black residents is only $20,000 annually. The average rent in New Orleans is $19,200 per year (Capital B).

This is what modern day Jim Crow looks like.