Insanity.

Also, with all the typos in the title, you can be sure I'm haphazardly hand-jamming these bleats into the void ;)

And just weeks after CBP awarded a contract to hunt down deportees for unpaid fines. They really want to get their money’s worth.

NEW: A federal request for information posted today shows ICE is looking for an AI surveillance system to watch ICE detainees say, who they walk to, and how they behave.

Anyway, like I said. Federal fascism is already here.

Looking for a lawyer with expertise in immigration policy and immigrant rights who can look a document over and potentially comment on its implications. Bonus points if you're tech savvy. [email protected] or mwriston.410 on Signal.

When Project NINJA told us about the Dover raid, we filed a FOIA request with ICE for CCTV footage from the Roxbury warehouse that day. ICE closed it within days and told us to ask GSA. We appealed. GSA doesn’t own the warehouse or its security system. ICE, not GSA, carried out the raid.

UPDATE: ICE would not confirm office locations for $51.2 million in San Antonio leases that federal records link to the agency, citing a fear of public violence. In a statement, ICE asked: “Is it really news that when a federal agency hires more personnel that they need more space?”

Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball as he takes questions about the latest ICE shooting

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NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

UPDATE: A federal document posted Wednesday says the temporary structure planned at the Batavia, N.Y., detention center will hold up to 100 people in double bunks. ICE is giving the work to Akima without competition and calls it temporary until longer-term plans are in place.

I wrote back in the first week of January that this would be "the century-long year," and I regret to inform you that the mayhem will likely be even worse this month. So buckle up to get through it, and let's make sure these are the death throes of Trumpism and everything it stands for.

Circling back at the end of today to say: it’s telling where we are as a country that two sources *confirming Miller’s direction to make immigration detention as inhumane* as possible doesn’t take top billing _as most insane thing reported today.

Did you know that DHS is currently colluding with GardaWorld, a private company, to rapidly transport individuals and families to ICE detention facilities? 🧵