Lots of ICE procurement activity this week. Several companies added to the map and some HUGE new contracts. Details to follow 🧵 bit.ly/3TgUZEq
Lots of ICE procurement activity this week. Several companies added to the map and some HUGE new contracts. Details to follow 🧵 bit.ly/3TgUZEq
How about all the Dems taking over ICE, and dismantling it?
Sure. It works like that.
Our feckless Congress needs to work to cancel every possible contract. They don't even talk about it.
You need to know about this group too. I want to boycott every single member of this ‘secret’ society!!!! balleralert.com/profiles/blo...
We could have nice things that make people's lives better instead, but we can't have both.
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Hope Ice knows only the oligarchy are going to get a piece of the pie and you will be the first expendables, Your bosses aren’t to keen on Human Rights
Something appears to be wrong with this post. Can to a screen that ask me to continue to a site, the site was a map of the area I am in.
Expand the map to larger. The country is covered in dropped pins.
Better headline.... WHO'S STEALING FROM AMERICAN TAXPAYERS....
Are the colors significant on this map?
Here's the key--you can expand it on the left side of a desktop browser, or at the bottom of a mobile browser. Click pins for more details about an org's involvement. Sometimes the link opens the Google Maps app, which doesn't show the info well. Copy/paste the link in a browser in that case.
It doesn’t work. Can someone tell me which companies in Phoenix metro?
Sorry to hear that. Pasting it into a browser usually seems to work, but there may be some that aren't compatible with it. Here are the AZ companies. If there are any you're specifically curious about, let me know & I'll be happy to reply with the links to their USAspending contract summaries.
First up, two massive advertising contracts for ICE recruitment: $25M to People Who Think, LLC for "media content creation support services" $15M to Safe America Media, LLC for "media dissemination buys/ad placement support services"
Both of these companies have already received tens of millions from DHS this year and are projected to get even more. People Who Think founder Jay Connaughton has ties to Corey Lewandowski, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's—ahem—"gatekeeper."
With this contract, DHS has now committed $51.7 million to People Who Think this year alone. The additional planned expenditures The Daily Beast reported could bring that total to OVER $100 MILLION in a single year.
DHS has now awarded Safe America Media over $142 million this year. As is the case with People Who Think, most of that money has gone to DHS's "Stronger Borders, Stronger America" international campaign.
The next eye-popping purchase: Nearly $1.5M in Chevy Tahoes. We saw nearly $700k go to cars and customization for ICE's very cool promo video last week, and this week WaPo reported ICE will be spending millions on more of the same.
Any idea why ICE is purchasing from Hendrick Motors and not a regular dealer (or direct from Chevrolet/GM)?
ICE wrote in contract documents that the Mustangs purchased earlier this month would aid in recruitment “by serving as a bold, high-performance symbol of innovation, strength and modern federal service." A symbol of modern federal service, indeed.
Also noteworthy: $36,630 to Marriott for lodgings for three HSI agents "in support of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City."
Last year, ~1,200 HSI agents supported the Secret Service at the UN General Assembly, according to Congressional testimony. Republicans like Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas were critical of that support. www.congress.gov/event/118th-...
None of those sound like legitimate enterprises!
Final thoughts on this week's ICE procurement activity: Lots of taxpayer money going out the door on expenses that IN NO WAY make anyone safer. This is a massive scam.
MUSTANGS? Fuck right off. They need four wheeled machismo to do their job? I bet even Jeremy Clarkson would find that preposterous.
Her nasty hair matches her nasty face
I said before it happened, follow the Money trail back to who’s profiting. What ice facilities charge taxpayers to house kidnapped victims, could put them up at a Trump hotel cheaper. It’s all about raping taxpayers the way Trump and Epstein raped little girls
@Boycott Citizens Bank Thank you for continuing to do this for us…(I appreciate you) Gaby
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