Letter from Paul Mendelson
ICE Must Be Held Accountable
Congress, having appropriated $75 billion of our tax dollars to ICE (more than the entire military budgets of most countries) is now considering further funding in the budget, due January 30.
How is this money being spent? No-bid contracts to for-profit, sub-standard jails with no regulation. Representatives entitled to inspect them frequently turned away. No accountability for violent, often random arrests by masked and unidentified men, frequently without a judicial warrant. U.S. citizens arrested. Bystanders attacked. No due process. People randomly deported to strife-torn countries where torture is common, where they have no connection and don’t speak the language. Thirty-two deaths last year.
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