Memo Torres breaks down ICE-related news in Southern California today. Below, you’ll find links and references to everything discussed in the video, allowing you to take a closer look at each topic.
It’s day 47.
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Why does ICE target so many day laborers and farm workers? According to Lulac, private prisons like GEO and CoreCivic are using them for cheap labor to maintain their prisons, paying them $1 for a day of labor. Net profits from the prisons are then being contributed back to the republican PACs to help their re-election campaigns. Meanwhile, detainees are being charged $1 minute for a phone call, $11 for toothpaste, and $3.50 for a can of tuna.
L.A. Times story: Javier Diaz Santana, 32, is deaf, a DACA recipient, that was shipped to Texas when masked ICE agents raided his San Gabriel Valley workplace. He thought that presenting his Real ID driver’s license would keep him safe. Instead, Diaz was arrested and sent to an immigration detention center in El Paso, where he stayed for nearly one month. When he was finally released, officers put a black monitor on his left ankle.
Lulac reports that the government is proposing using military bases now to hold detainees due to current detention centers being overwhelmed. They are considering building tents similar to Alligator Alcatraz.
The federal agency maintains it did not violate any court order, saying officers spent time on surveillance, checking license plates two days before and looking up people’s immigration history on federal databases. “100%, we wouldn’t have done the operation if we felt what we were doing was violating any standing orders,” David Kim, assistant chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol El Centro Sector, told The Sacramento Bee on Friday.
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