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#DemocracyNow: #NewYork Mayor Eric Adams Orders #RikersJail to Reopen ICE Office

Headline, Apr 09, 2025

"Here in New York, Mayor #EricAdams is reopening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office inside the #RikersIsland jail complex. Adams first signaled the move after he met with Trump’s so-called border czar #TomHoman in February. The #NewYorkCivilLibertiesUnion slammed the Adams administration for 'selling out New Yorkers for Trump’s dangerous deportation regime.' The group said in a statement, '#ICE’s presence on Rikers serves no legitimate purpose, and opens the door to unlawful collusion between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials in violation of our city’s well-established sanctuary protections. … New Yorkers see this for what it is: Mayor Adams skirting the City Council, cozying up to Trump, and putting immigrant New Yorkers in harm’s way.'"

Watch / listen / read transcript:
democracynow.org/2025/4/9/head
#NYCLU #ICE #ICEDetention #RikersIslandPrison #MayorEricAdams #USPol #ViewerSupportedNews

Democracy Now!New York Mayor Eric Adams Orders Rikers Jail to Reopen ICE OfficeHere in New York, Mayor Eric Adams is reopening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office inside the Rikers Island jail complex. Adams first signaled the move after he met with Trump’s so-called border czar Tom Homan in February. The New York Civil Liberties Union slammed the Adams administration for “selling out New Yorkers for Trump’s dangerous deportation regime.” The group said in a statement, “ICE’s presence on Rikers serves no legitimate purpose, and opens the door to unlawful collusion between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials in violation of our city’s well-established sanctuary protections. … New Yorkers see this for what it is: Mayor Adams skirting the City Council, cozying up to Trump, and putting immigrant New Yorkers in harm’s way.”

"We need to get better at treating this like a business,” acting ICE director, Todd Lyons, said.
Lyons said that he wanted to see a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”
Reminder to Lyons: Adolf Eichmann, the technocrat behind Hitler's death camps, ran his operation like a business, and also shipped human beings.
It's already been done in real life, not on the Simpsons.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a
#ICE #Deportations #USPolitics #ToddLyons #TuckersBalls

The Guardian · Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’By Marina Dunbar

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plate reader data, and more.

404media.co/inside-a-powerful-

404 Media · Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport PeopleThe database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plate reader data, and more.

Sick

#Trump #immigration ofcls tout expanding the #AlienEnemiesAct while courting private contractors for mass removals

The head of #ICE said he’d like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up #immigrants for #deportation in a system similar to how #Amazon delivers packages.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” acting ICE dir, Todd Lyons, said. He wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings”

azmirror.com/2025/04/08/ice-di

Arizona Mirror · ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings'ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations

Margaret Sullivan: The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in the US

"Series of actions this week including at #Princeton and in a tiny town, offer #hope that courageous voices can make a difference"

#law #AP #journalism #ICE #deporation #immigration #academicfreedom
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in the USBy Margaret Sullivan
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@heidilifeldman

It's been said before, but I'll beat the dead horse again:

(one of) Smilin' Joe #Biden's biggest mistakes was not performing a complete house-cleaning at #ICE (and really U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as a whole) to root out the #Racist #Bigots who were running the entire lawless enterprise

ICE has been a rogue "agency" pretty much operating as its own law enforcement agency and private government, making its own policies and procedures that have only one purpose:

Terrorize any and all non-#Caucasians within the United States and either force them to leave, or arrest, imprison, and deport them as slave labor

"The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

"Melanie Krause, who had served as acting head since February, will step down over the new data-sharing document signed Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The agreement will allow ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records.

"The IRS has been in upheaval over Trump administration decisions to share taxpayer data. Acting Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell announced his retirement from the agency after roughly 40 years of service in February as furor spread over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gaining access to IRS taxpayer data. Krause replaced him."
apnews.com/article/irs-ice-imm

"In Baltimore, #ICE is arresting people so quickly it can’t transfer them out fast enough, forcing ppl to stay in squalid cells for days; cells designed only for a short stay under 12 hrs.💔No beds. No bathroom privacy. No showers.

Here’s what one grandmother experienced."
-A Reichlin-Melnick

The conditions in which undocumented #immigrants are held are starting to rival CECOT in SLV. Most of these ppl held in det are NONCRIMINALS.

#Resist #Sadism #Deportations #USPol typeinvestigations.org/news/20