“With its intention to destroy the black community and anti-war peace activists, which has certainly been ‘successfully’ achieved for the black community, the shamefulness of the War on Drugs is elevated to a much higher level of despicably, evil immorality.”
“The policy of criminally prosecuting all who cross the border illegally is creating a new category of residents at these holding centers, young boys and girls who are grappling with the trauma of being unexpectedly separated from their mothers and fathers.”
“Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, was found on May 13 in his Texas jail cell, ‘in a pool of blood with an item of clothing twisted around his neck.'”
“These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top.”
“The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls ‘re-education centers.'”
“Lonsdale and Luckey argue that building cheaper, more efficient systems is a virtuous pursuit, saving taxpayer dollars. Anduril’s Palantir pedigree may have prepared it for criticism.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/
“Prosecutors claim the police framed the teen so that the department could boast perfect burglary arrest statistics.”
“There are now over 10,000 migrant children in government custody in 100 U.S. shelters in 14 states. All 10,000 of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents.”
“The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/immigration-family-separation-children/
“The number of migrant children locked up by the federal government has surged by more than 20 percent and left designated detention facilities at near-capacity.”