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Another video talking about how Palantir and ICE is using y/our targeted data and how this whole system is rigged into immigration detainment. And a reminder, Stephen Miller owns Palantir stock. That’s not a conflict of interest at all as he was helping to shape immigration policy. And speaking...

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Steven Miller owns LOTS of stock in Palantir‼️ Palantir works with ICE collecting data to aid in deportation‼️Miller is shaping immigration policies that benefit private prisons‼️ CONFLICT OF INTEREST& ETHIC CONCERNS ‼️
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Steven Miller owns LOTS of stock in Palantir‼️ Palantir works with ICE collecting data to aid in deportation‼️Miller is shaping immigration policies that benefit private prisons‼️ CONFLICT OF INTEREST& ETHIC CONCERNS ‼️

Meidas_Charise Lee

38,050 views • 1 year ago

Ansari: So in the budget that Trump just signed into law, there is $170 billion for the DHS. And about 70 billion of that is going to ICE. One of the major issues with this administration is all of the companies and special interests that are benefiting. Two major private prison companies gave a lot of money to get Trump elected to office. They have made record profits since January, and it is expected that detention center capacity may quadruple with the quotas that Donald Trump has in place
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Ansari: So in the budget that Trump just signed into law, there is $170 billion for the DHS. And about 70 billion of that is going to ICE. One of the major issues with this administration is all of the companies and special interests that are benefiting. Two major private prison companies gave a lot of money to get Trump elected to office. They have made record profits since January, and it is expected that detention center capacity may quadruple with the quotas that Donald Trump has in place

Acyn

77,609 views • 11 months ago

🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller Profits from Deportation Machine He Helped Build Explosive financial disclosures reveal that Stephen Miller—architect of Trump’s most hardline immigration policies—holds up to $250,000 in Palantir stock, the same company powering ICE’s mass deportation system. 📊 Palantir, a surveillance tech firm, rakes in millions from federal contracts used to track, detain, and deport immigrants. Miller, the man who designed the system, now profits directly from its execution. 🧨 Conflict of interest? Ethics watchdogs say yes. The Trump advisor shaped immigration raids—and stands to *cash in* on every one. This isn’t policy. It’s profiteering off pain. The man who caged children is now making money off the data tools keeping families apart. #DeportationForProfit #Palantir #StephenMiller #ICEFiles 🔗 References [1] Truthout – “Stephen Miller Owns Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock, Report Finds” [2] Rolling Stone – “Stephen Miller Holds Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir” [3] La Voce di New York – “Stephen Miller: The Trump Strategist Profiting from Deportations” [4] Project on Government Oversight (POGO) – “Stephen Miller's Conflicts of Interest” [5] Democracy Now – “Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Holds Six-Figure Investment in Tech Firm Profiting from Deportations” [6] The Independent – “Stephen Miller’s Palantir Investment Raises Deportation Conflict Concerns” [7] The Bulwark – “Stephen Miller, ICE, and Palantir: Profiting Off Mass Deportations” [8] Migrant Insider – “Stephen Miller’s Palantir Connection” [9] Axios Denver – “Palantir Profiting from ICE and Immigration Enforcement” [10] IBA – “Palantir and the Rule of Law” [11] – “ICE Awards ImmigrationOS Prototype Contract to Palantir” [12] NYU Stern BHR – “Palantir Profiting from Trump’s Deportation Surge” [13] Immigration Policy Tracker – “Palantir Awarded $30 Million to Build ICE Surveillance Platform” [14] U.S. Senate Finance Committee – “Wyden, Ocasio-Cortez Demand Answers from Palantir on IRS Data Plans” [15] Yahoo News – “Stephen Miller Owns Stock in ICE Contractor Palantir” [16] TheStreet – “Veteran Trader Boosts Palantir Price Target on Defense Spending Outlook” [17] Migration Policy Institute – “ICE, Trump, and Data Surveillance” [18] WIRED – “Inside ICE’s ‘ImmigrationOS’ Platform Built by Palantir”
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🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller Profits from Deportation Machine He Helped Build Explosive financial disclosures reveal that Stephen Miller—architect of Trump’s most hardline immigration policies—holds up to $250,000 in Palantir stock, the same company powering ICE’s mass deportation system. 📊 Palantir, a surveillance tech firm, rakes in millions from federal contracts used to track, detain, and deport immigrants. Miller, the man who designed the system, now profits directly from its execution. 🧨 Conflict of interest? Ethics watchdogs say yes. The Trump advisor shaped immigration raids—and stands to *cash in* on every one. This isn’t policy. It’s profiteering off pain. The man who caged children is now making money off the data tools keeping families apart. #DeportationForProfit #Palantir #StephenMiller #ICEFiles 🔗 References [1] Truthout – “Stephen Miller Owns Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock, Report Finds” [2] Rolling Stone – “Stephen Miller Holds Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir” [3] La Voce di New York – “Stephen Miller: The Trump Strategist Profiting from Deportations” [4] Project on Government Oversight (POGO) – “Stephen Miller's Conflicts of Interest” [5] Democracy Now – “Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Holds Six-Figure Investment in Tech Firm Profiting from Deportations” [6] The Independent – “Stephen Miller’s Palantir Investment Raises Deportation Conflict Concerns” [7] The Bulwark – “Stephen Miller, ICE, and Palantir: Profiting Off Mass Deportations” [8] Migrant Insider – “Stephen Miller’s Palantir Connection” [9] Axios Denver – “Palantir Profiting from ICE and Immigration Enforcement” [10] IBA – “Palantir and the Rule of Law” [11] – “ICE Awards ImmigrationOS Prototype Contract to Palantir” [12] NYU Stern BHR – “Palantir Profiting from Trump’s Deportation Surge” [13] Immigration Policy Tracker – “Palantir Awarded $30 Million to Build ICE Surveillance Platform” [14] U.S. Senate Finance Committee – “Wyden, Ocasio-Cortez Demand Answers from Palantir on IRS Data Plans” [15] Yahoo News – “Stephen Miller Owns Stock in ICE Contractor Palantir” [16] TheStreet – “Veteran Trader Boosts Palantir Price Target on Defense Spending Outlook” [17] Migration Policy Institute – “ICE, Trump, and Data Surveillance” [18] WIRED – “Inside ICE’s ‘ImmigrationOS’ Platform Built by Palantir”

P a u l ◉

17,578 views • 1 year ago

HUGE ‼️ For everyone doubting Donald Trump and Tom Homan’s plan to actually carry out mass deportations you need to hear this Multiple private prison CEO’s speak during earnings calls - They’re massively scaling up after speaking with ICE about new contracts - MILLIONS of incoming illegal migrants are being made room for in private prisons to be used as temporary detention facilities - They will not lose track of anyone, they’re preparing for “Digital and physical surveillance, things like ankle bracelets and cell phone apps for people who are inside the country going to immigration court hearings” - “We have assured ICE of our capability to rapidly scale up our capabilities to monitor and oversee several hundreds of thousands or even several millions of individuals in order to achieve the federal government's immigration law compliance objectives” “Trump administration is going to put a lot of pressure on police departments, sheriff's offices, city and county governments to cooperate with ICE if someone who's arrested locally happens to be an undocumented person” The scale of this mass deportation operation working with the private prisons is said by the CEO’s is described in the call as “We're heading into an era that we really haven't seen maybe only once or twice in a company's history” The audio from all these calls are in this video, you can listen to it all yourself!
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HUGE ‼️ For everyone doubting Donald Trump and Tom Homan’s plan to actually carry out mass deportations you need to hear this Multiple private prison CEO’s speak during earnings calls - They’re massively scaling up after speaking with ICE about new contracts - MILLIONS of incoming illegal migrants are being made room for in private prisons to be used as temporary detention facilities - They will not lose track of anyone, they’re preparing for “Digital and physical surveillance, things like ankle bracelets and cell phone apps for people who are inside the country going to immigration court hearings” - “We have assured ICE of our capability to rapidly scale up our capabilities to monitor and oversee several hundreds of thousands or even several millions of individuals in order to achieve the federal government's immigration law compliance objectives” “Trump administration is going to put a lot of pressure on police departments, sheriff's offices, city and county governments to cooperate with ICE if someone who's arrested locally happens to be an undocumented person” The scale of this mass deportation operation working with the private prisons is said by the CEO’s is described in the call as “We're heading into an era that we really haven't seen maybe only once or twice in a company's history” The audio from all these calls are in this video, you can listen to it all yourself!

Wall Street Apes

936,356 views • 1 year ago

Catherine Austin Fitts: "I think Palantir is in partnership with the Netanyahu syndicate... [and] they have the treasury data, the IRS data, [and] they have the Social Security data... [and they're] building a complete biometric surveillance [grid] of the entire population." This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts), is taken from an interview with Gary Heasley, et al. of The Conservative Voice (The Conservative Voice) posted to X on July 8, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "I think Palantir is in partnership with the Netanyahu syndicate and the breakaways. I don't, you know. But they have contracts with Health and Human Services. They have contracts. The government pays them massive amounts. Massive amounts of money. Massive amounts of money. "And so if you look at the Doge theft, what you've done is you've moved between the government contracts. You know, there's a new sole source ICE contract on the way to Palantir as well. That's just announced. I just found that last night. So you've got, you know, you. Basically, they have the treasury data, they have the IRS data, they have the Social Security data. [And now] they're going to have all the ICE data. "And then, Trump has announced he wants to privatize Freddie and Fannie, but Palantir is going to underwrite all the packages before they come into Freddie and Fannie. So they're going to have all the housing data. And we know HHS has said they're organizing all the health, public and private health data, so I'm assuming that's going in as well. And basically you're talking about that data being managed and, and I think at this point, basically privatized into AI. "So the Doge operation, if I'm right, and this is my hypothesis, if the Doge operation did what I think, they transferred all the data. And, and, and they did it when an XAI announced a partnership with Palantir. And then the government turned around and Palantir had a lot of contracts with those agencies anyway. But, but then they gave them additional contracts, and so they have plenty of money, especially the ICE is going to be sole source, so you can just do pretty much whatever you want. So they have plenty of money to manage that data. And yes, I think they have it on a private basis. "And what's interesting, I have somebody, a professional that I work with who has for, for his business, has to do income verification. And, magically, two weeks after, Doge got the Treasury, Social Security and irs, suddenly the income verification service he uses announces they have 100% of Americans now complete data on everyone. Magically. "[Also,] the ICE story is complicated because there are multiple things going on, but there's no doubt the primary thing going on is building a complete biometric surveillance of the entire population."
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Catherine Austin Fitts: "I think Palantir is in partnership with the Netanyahu syndicate... [and] they have the treasury data, the IRS data, [and] they have the Social Security data... [and they're] building a complete biometric surveillance [grid] of the entire population." This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts), is taken from an interview with Gary Heasley, et al. of The Conservative Voice (The Conservative Voice) posted to X on July 8, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "I think Palantir is in partnership with the Netanyahu syndicate and the breakaways. I don't, you know. But they have contracts with Health and Human Services. They have contracts. The government pays them massive amounts. Massive amounts of money. Massive amounts of money. "And so if you look at the Doge theft, what you've done is you've moved between the government contracts. You know, there's a new sole source ICE contract on the way to Palantir as well. That's just announced. I just found that last night. So you've got, you know, you. Basically, they have the treasury data, they have the IRS data, they have the Social Security data. [And now] they're going to have all the ICE data. "And then, Trump has announced he wants to privatize Freddie and Fannie, but Palantir is going to underwrite all the packages before they come into Freddie and Fannie. So they're going to have all the housing data. And we know HHS has said they're organizing all the health, public and private health data, so I'm assuming that's going in as well. And basically you're talking about that data being managed and, and I think at this point, basically privatized into AI. "So the Doge operation, if I'm right, and this is my hypothesis, if the Doge operation did what I think, they transferred all the data. And, and, and they did it when an XAI announced a partnership with Palantir. And then the government turned around and Palantir had a lot of contracts with those agencies anyway. But, but then they gave them additional contracts, and so they have plenty of money, especially the ICE is going to be sole source, so you can just do pretty much whatever you want. So they have plenty of money to manage that data. And yes, I think they have it on a private basis. "And what's interesting, I have somebody, a professional that I work with who has for, for his business, has to do income verification. And, magically, two weeks after, Doge got the Treasury, Social Security and irs, suddenly the income verification service he uses announces they have 100% of Americans now complete data on everyone. Magically. "[Also,] the ICE story is complicated because there are multiple things going on, but there's no doubt the primary thing going on is building a complete biometric surveillance of the entire population."

Sense Receptor

123,222 views • 1 year ago

The private, for-profit prison corporations that donated millions to help Trump get elected are now reaping the profits. This admin and ICE are funneling them billions of dollars in contracts to detain record numbers of immigrants — most of whom have no criminal record.
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The private, for-profit prison corporations that donated millions to help Trump get elected are now reaping the profits. This admin and ICE are funneling them billions of dollars in contracts to detain record numbers of immigrants — most of whom have no criminal record.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal

11,819 views • 7 months ago

Palantir is one of the companies with the closest ties to the Trump admin. They have countless contracts with the Pentagon and ICE—including a product called ImmigrationOS. What do they want to do with all this power? Own a "central operating system" for the entire government.
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Palantir is one of the companies with the closest ties to the Trump admin. They have countless contracts with the Pentagon and ICE—including a product called ImmigrationOS. What do they want to do with all this power? Own a "central operating system" for the entire government.

More Perfect Union

96,539 views • 1 year ago

We're seeing a revolving door between ICE and the private prison industry. The new head of ICE is a former VP at GeoGroup, the company that runs over a dozen detention centers, including Delaney Hall. This is corruption using taxpayer dollars, and we need to stop it.
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We're seeing a revolving door between ICE and the private prison industry. The new head of ICE is a former VP at GeoGroup, the company that runs over a dozen detention centers, including Delaney Hall. This is corruption using taxpayer dollars, and we need to stop it.

Andy Kim

40,246 views • 1 month ago

My jaw dropped listening to this Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says ICE asked the illegals they’ve detained if they were receiving Medicaid. HALF SAID THEY HAD BEEN SIGNED UP The illegals that don’t have it say they just go to hospitals and it’s always 100% free “What we found since President Trump came into office is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to migrants that are in our country, oftentimes from places like Somalia. So as an example, ICE recently asked a group of illegal immigrants that were in detention, whether or not they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hands and volunteered that they were on Medicaid. Just volunteered that these aren't the ones who are hiding it They also ask legal aliens how they pay their medical bills, and they said that if they don't have Medicaid, they go to hospitals, they get free care there, and they bill it to the taxpayers. So they aren't paying for any of their own healthcare in this country. — We've seen this over and over and over again.“ Democrats need to go to prison
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My jaw dropped listening to this Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says ICE asked the illegals they’ve detained if they were receiving Medicaid. HALF SAID THEY HAD BEEN SIGNED UP The illegals that don’t have it say they just go to hospitals and it’s always 100% free “What we found since President Trump came into office is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to migrants that are in our country, oftentimes from places like Somalia. So as an example, ICE recently asked a group of illegal immigrants that were in detention, whether or not they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hands and volunteered that they were on Medicaid. Just volunteered that these aren't the ones who are hiding it They also ask legal aliens how they pay their medical bills, and they said that if they don't have Medicaid, they go to hospitals, they get free care there, and they bill it to the taxpayers. So they aren't paying for any of their own healthcare in this country. — We've seen this over and over and over again.“ Democrats need to go to prison

Wall Street Apes

1,127,710 views • 3 months ago

“We set out to partner with Palantir to completely redesign this workflow and rethink the way we do business, and it's been an incredible journey. In just about a year, we've already unlocked millions—tens of millions—of dollars of value.” At AIPCon 8, Anne Moroni, American Airlines’ VP of Operations, highlights how they are using Palantir to unlock invisible inefficiencies continuously and dynamically as the world evolves.
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“We set out to partner with Palantir to completely redesign this workflow and rethink the way we do business, and it's been an incredible journey. In just about a year, we've already unlocked millions—tens of millions—of dollars of value.” At AIPCon 8, Anne Moroni, American Airlines’ VP of Operations, highlights how they are using Palantir to unlock invisible inefficiencies continuously and dynamically as the world evolves.

Palantir

59,283 views • 9 months ago

Palantir $PLTR CTO, Shyam Sankar on $30M ICE contract What kind of Data is available to enforcement? "encounters at the border, asylum applications, benefit applications" Important to note that this is all lawful data collected BY THE government. Remember, Palantir does not collect any data. Instead of agents having to source all of this across different DHS agencies, Palantir is integrating it and saving thousands of hours in manual searching
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Palantir $PLTR CTO, Shyam Sankar on $30M ICE contract What kind of Data is available to enforcement? "encounters at the border, asylum applications, benefit applications" Important to note that this is all lawful data collected BY THE government. Remember, Palantir does not collect any data. Instead of agents having to source all of this across different DHS agencies, Palantir is integrating it and saving thousands of hours in manual searching

Brett Krieger

26,521 views • 5 months ago

A group of Latino family and friends were targeted by ICE yesterday as they enjoyed a nice day at a river in Dover, Arkansas. ICE was forced to release everyone after they detained them, since they were all documented. This is racial profiling in Arkansas.
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A group of Latino family and friends were targeted by ICE yesterday as they enjoyed a nice day at a river in Dover, Arkansas. ICE was forced to release everyone after they detained them, since they were all documented. This is racial profiling in Arkansas.

Gunther Eagleman

402,643 views • 10 months ago

Here’s the reason that ICE is going after day labors and farm workers that will be detained in these Private Prisons like GEO group where allegedly Stephen Miller and other members of Trump’s Administration have a financial stake in! 🤬
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Here’s the reason that ICE is going after day labors and farm workers that will be detained in these Private Prisons like GEO group where allegedly Stephen Miller and other members of Trump’s Administration have a financial stake in! 🤬

Suzie rizzio

53,869 views • 11 months ago

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to PAY Corey Lewandowski. The big allegation in this piece is about the private prison company GEO Group. It is one of the biggest private prison companies in the country and is a key part of ICE’s system of detention centers across the country. A senior DHS official…told NBC News that after Trump was elected, during the transition, Lewandowski told the founder of GEO Group that he wanted to ‘be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group’s DHS contracts.’”
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#BREAKING: Psaki: “Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to PAY Corey Lewandowski. The big allegation in this piece is about the private prison company GEO Group. It is one of the biggest private prison companies in the country and is a key part of ICE’s system of detention centers across the country. A senior DHS official…told NBC News that after Trump was elected, during the transition, Lewandowski told the founder of GEO Group that he wanted to ‘be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group’s DHS contracts.’”

Emoluments Clause

66,784 views • 3 months ago

LA does not want to work with ICE to detain illegal immigrants from jail where it's safe and controlled. Then they get outraged when ICE tracks them down in homes or workplaces. They claim to care about safety and law, but block enforcement in private and protest it in public. It’s hypocrisy. They don’t actually want the law enforced at all. But they act like they do for optics.
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LA does not want to work with ICE to detain illegal immigrants from jail where it's safe and controlled. Then they get outraged when ICE tracks them down in homes or workplaces. They claim to care about safety and law, but block enforcement in private and protest it in public. It’s hypocrisy. They don’t actually want the law enforced at all. But they act like they do for optics.

Jeffery Mead

65,363 views • 1 year ago

One of Kamala's top fundraisers wondering how the campaign blew through a billion dollars, and a Super PAC blew through another billion dollars: Lindy Li: "There is no introspection, no postmortem as to how we blew through $2 billion in just 100 days. And to be perfectly clear, it wasn't just 1 billion through the campaign, it was another billion through the super PAC. And we spent millions or spent on greedy consultants, celebrities, private jets, ice cream. $450,000 is spent on this sphere putting your face on a giant ball. I mean, how is that supposed to be helpful? And then $500,000, who recently learned was given to Al Sharpton right before he interviewed her? So all of these things, we have to be accountable for that. And there's been no sense of responsibility, no accountability. I feel like all these consultants are just going to fail upwards time and time again and just move on to the next campaign as though this disaster didn't unfold." 'Failing upwards' was how Kamala got into the position in the first place.
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One of Kamala's top fundraisers wondering how the campaign blew through a billion dollars, and a Super PAC blew through another billion dollars: Lindy Li: "There is no introspection, no postmortem as to how we blew through $2 billion in just 100 days. And to be perfectly clear, it wasn't just 1 billion through the campaign, it was another billion through the super PAC. And we spent millions or spent on greedy consultants, celebrities, private jets, ice cream. $450,000 is spent on this sphere putting your face on a giant ball. I mean, how is that supposed to be helpful? And then $500,000, who recently learned was given to Al Sharpton right before he interviewed her? So all of these things, we have to be accountable for that. And there's been no sense of responsibility, no accountability. I feel like all these consultants are just going to fail upwards time and time again and just move on to the next campaign as though this disaster didn't unfold." 'Failing upwards' was how Kamala got into the position in the first place.

Eric Abbenante

21,812 views • 1 year ago

Rep. Brandon Gill FIRES BACK at Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner who vowed to arrest ICE agents at airports. “First of all, Larry Krasner’s a THUG who ought to spend the rest of his life in prison for what he’s to done to that city.” GILL: “Democrats are doing anything they can to defund and delegitimize ICE agents and immigration enforcement, and Senator Schmitt’s exactly right, this is about demoralizing them, stopping anybody from wanting to join the force.” “What we’re going to make sure, as Republicans in Congress, is that ICE has the tools that they need to continue carrying out president’s immigration agenda.” “We would like to see that funded through the Department of Homeland Security.” “There may be other ways, perhaps reconciliation, to get that money where it needs to be.” “Otherwise, without the kind of strings attached that the left would like to put on it.” “But what you’re seeing right now is so incredibly disgusting, the way that Democrats, and the media and in Congress and, I mean, elected officials who are attacking ICE agents.”
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Rep. Brandon Gill FIRES BACK at Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner who vowed to arrest ICE agents at airports. “First of all, Larry Krasner’s a THUG who ought to spend the rest of his life in prison for what he’s to done to that city.” GILL: “Democrats are doing anything they can to defund and delegitimize ICE agents and immigration enforcement, and Senator Schmitt’s exactly right, this is about demoralizing them, stopping anybody from wanting to join the force.” “What we’re going to make sure, as Republicans in Congress, is that ICE has the tools that they need to continue carrying out president’s immigration agenda.” “We would like to see that funded through the Department of Homeland Security.” “There may be other ways, perhaps reconciliation, to get that money where it needs to be.” “Otherwise, without the kind of strings attached that the left would like to put on it.” “But what you’re seeing right now is so incredibly disgusting, the way that Democrats, and the media and in Congress and, I mean, elected officials who are attacking ICE agents.”

Overton

30,357 views • 3 months ago

"It's a question of where’s that money's going? And you've handed over our private patient data to Palantir, a company with far-right connections. If that money was instead going into the front line, we might all have a better chance of having a better NHS" Caroline Lucas on the NHS and Palantir on #BBCQT
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"It's a question of where’s that money's going? And you've handed over our private patient data to Palantir, a company with far-right connections. If that money was instead going into the front line, we might all have a better chance of having a better NHS" Caroline Lucas on the NHS and Palantir on #BBCQT

The Green Party

18,908 views • 3 months ago

TODD SCHULTE of FWD.us on Republicans circumventing Democrats to fund ICE through reconciliation: Yeah, look—our understanding is that if they choose to move forward with a reconciliation bill, there are three things that are really important. Number one, it’s a party-line vote, and it’s something you have to pay for with offsets. Number two, DHS already has $150 billion for ICE and CBP, and now they’re talking about adding tens of billions more on top of that—for three years, along with funding for the war in Iran. So third, you’re talking about a couple hundred billion more for ICE and CBP, a couple hundred billion more for Iran—paid for at a time when costs are skyrocketing—with what, half a trillion dollars in cuts to healthcare, to Medicaid, to Medicare? Look, that’s bad policy, but the politics couldn’t be more clear. The public does not want hundreds of billions of dollars spent on ICE, paid for by cuts to their healthcare. And I think it’s important to understand the difference between this reconciliation package and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was also a reconciliation bill. People may remember last year’s bill—it was a party-line vote that only needed 50 votes. Last time, it was about big tax cuts paid for by roughly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid. It wasn’t popular, but it passed. There was $191 billion for DHS in that bill—it didn’t get a lot of attention, but it should have. Vice President Vance said that was actually the most important part of the bill—the funding for ICE and CBP. But now, this is going to be about ICE and Iran, paid for by healthcare cuts. At a time when the public is outraged after events in Minneapolis and Los Angeles—when places like Home Depot, churches, and schools are being described as deportation sites—this is going to be a huge, nasty political fight. And I hope Republicans abandon it.
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TODD SCHULTE of FWD.us on Republicans circumventing Democrats to fund ICE through reconciliation: Yeah, look—our understanding is that if they choose to move forward with a reconciliation bill, there are three things that are really important. Number one, it’s a party-line vote, and it’s something you have to pay for with offsets. Number two, DHS already has $150 billion for ICE and CBP, and now they’re talking about adding tens of billions more on top of that—for three years, along with funding for the war in Iran. So third, you’re talking about a couple hundred billion more for ICE and CBP, a couple hundred billion more for Iran—paid for at a time when costs are skyrocketing—with what, half a trillion dollars in cuts to healthcare, to Medicaid, to Medicare? Look, that’s bad policy, but the politics couldn’t be more clear. The public does not want hundreds of billions of dollars spent on ICE, paid for by cuts to their healthcare. And I think it’s important to understand the difference between this reconciliation package and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was also a reconciliation bill. People may remember last year’s bill—it was a party-line vote that only needed 50 votes. Last time, it was about big tax cuts paid for by roughly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid. It wasn’t popular, but it passed. There was $191 billion for DHS in that bill—it didn’t get a lot of attention, but it should have. Vice President Vance said that was actually the most important part of the bill—the funding for ICE and CBP. But now, this is going to be about ICE and Iran, paid for by healthcare cuts. At a time when the public is outraged after events in Minneapolis and Los Angeles—when places like Home Depot, churches, and schools are being described as deportation sites—this is going to be a huge, nasty political fight. And I hope Republicans abandon it.

Pablo Manríquez

40,070 views • 3 months ago