According to a recent DHS press release, President Biden’s “Executive Order to Advance Effective, Accountable Policing and Strengthen Public Safety” has forced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reconsider how they treat Americans and immigrants.
Immigrants claim ICE retribution for hunger strike over poor conditions:
“Since the hunger strike began, defendants have denied or restricted plaintiffs’ access to the law library, family visitation, church, yard time, and recreational activities,” the immigrants say in the complaint.
“Defendants’ retaliatory actions go far beyond the measures that would be necessary to accomplish legitimate institutional goals. Instead, defendants’ actions are intended to punish individuals for their peaceful protest and chill First Amendment-protected expression,” they say.
The plaintiffs also detail hostile attitudes on the part of facility staff and say that GEO staff are “selectively targeting plaintiffs with threats of discipline and displaying increasing contempt for them.”
“I don’t know why you’re starving yourself when ICE doesn’t care what happens to you,” one staffer told a hunger striker.
China used former DHS employee-turned private investigator and federal agents to spy on dissidents:
In some cases, the private detectives offered their contacts in federal agencies wads of cash but they also got by with gifts of expensive cigars and a good bottle of tequila, according to a federal indictment unsealed in 2022.
Derrick Taylor, a California-based private investigator who used to work as a federal agent with the US Dept of Homeland Security, allegedly asked an unnamed co-conspirator for information on “immigration status” for an unnamed dissident who lived in the US in July 2021, according to the indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court.
Taylor, who worked for 25 years for the Department of Homeland Security, had also claimed to work as a “security specialist” for Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his company web site.
He is alleged to have destroyed evidence and lied to investigators when confronted with claims that he accessed and distributed sensitive information from a restricted federal database related to dissidents living in the US. The data included their passport information, residences, flight records, and photographs, according to the court documents.
When Taylor contacted an unnamed government agent to obtain passport information about one dissident’s passport and status in the US, he allegedly gave the agent, known in court records as “Co-conspirator 2” the dissident’s birth date and asked for his “status and passport departure.”
Immigrants claim ICE retribution for hunger strike over poor conditions:
“Since the hunger strike began, defendants have denied or restricted plaintiffs’ access to the law library, family visitation, church, yard time, and recreational activities,” the immigrants say in the complaint.
“Defendants’ retaliatory actions go far beyond the measures that would be necessary to accomplish legitimate institutional goals. Instead, defendants’ actions are intended to punish individuals for their peaceful protest and chill First Amendment-protected expression,” they say.
The plaintiffs also detail hostile attitudes on the part of facility staff and say that GEO staff are “selectively targeting plaintiffs with threats of discipline and displaying increasing contempt for them.”
“I don’t know why you’re starving yourself when ICE doesn’t care what happens to you,” one staffer told a hunger striker.
https://www.courthousenews.com/immigrants-claim-ice-retribution-for-hunger-strike-over-poor-conditions/
China used former DHS employee-turned private investigator and federal agents to spy on dissidents:
In some cases, the private detectives offered their contacts in federal agencies wads of cash but they also got by with gifts of expensive cigars and a good bottle of tequila, according to a federal indictment unsealed in 2022.
Derrick Taylor, a California-based private investigator who used to work as a federal agent with the US Dept of Homeland Security, allegedly asked an unnamed co-conspirator for information on “immigration status” for an unnamed dissident who lived in the US in July 2021, according to the indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court.
Taylor, who worked for 25 years for the Department of Homeland Security, had also claimed to work as a “security specialist” for Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his company web site.
He is alleged to have destroyed evidence and lied to investigators when confronted with claims that he accessed and distributed sensitive information from a restricted federal database related to dissidents living in the US. The data included their passport information, residences, flight records, and photographs, according to the court documents.
When Taylor contacted an unnamed government agent to obtain passport information about one dissident’s passport and status in the US, he allegedly gave the agent, known in court records as “Co-conspirator 2” the dissident’s birth date and asked for his “status and passport departure.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/chinas-spies-have-used-local-private-investigators-for-years-to-watch-dissidents/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-agents-hire-private-eyes-to-harass-dissidents-in-u-s-officials-say-11648845889
DHS Agents Indicted in Alleged Chinese Effort to Spy in US (2022)
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-charges-2-homeland-security-workers-in-chinese-spying-scheme/6649456.html