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"Just on Friday, the agency posted a notice looking for a company to provide 'armed and unarmed transportation' to sites throughout the East Coast. And regardless of how long the current partial government shutdown lasts, ICE still has access to the billions of dollars that Congress allocated last summer. Its money won’t run out anytime soon."

Kim Perales (@KimPerales@toad.social)

Even as #ICE🚨sparks rising public horror with its tactics & KILLINGS,🚨cos *never before worked with the fed govt *signing up: 🚨Assault training. Blast-resistant wdw film. Sniper programs. Iris scanners. With 10s of $Bs in new funding.🚨1st-time contractors➡️💰cash bonanza, offering ICE... *often scant internet presence or public track record, offer critical tools & training to help ICE rapidly expand.🚨👿Americans are still looking to cash in. #DHS #Corruption #Protest #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/206426/small-time-contractors-helping-ice

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"The firm BI2 Technologies agreed in September to provide ICE access to its 'iris biometric recognition technology.'"

"The technology connects to what the company describes as the nation’s only iris biometric database, which holds highly detailed data on the eyes of millions of people, including American citizens."

"The $4.6 million contract provides ICE with hundreds of iris scanners and access to the database."

Kim Perales (@KimPerales@toad.social)

Even as #ICE🚨sparks rising public horror with its tactics & KILLINGS,🚨cos *never before worked with the fed govt *signing up: 🚨Assault training. Blast-resistant wdw film. Sniper programs. Iris scanners. With 10s of $Bs in new funding.🚨1st-time contractors➡️💰cash bonanza, offering ICE... *often scant internet presence or public track record, offer critical tools & training to help ICE rapidly expand.🚨👿Americans are still looking to cash in. #DHS #Corruption #Protest #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/206426/small-time-contractors-helping-ice

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"Another first-time contractor, Target Down Group, was awarded $30,000 in September to provide sniper training to ICE’s Special Response Teams. It was an SRT agent, Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last month. Target Down Group’s president is Dan LaLota, retired Marine and self-described 'scout sniper instructor,' who is also the brother of Nick LaLota, the Republican congressman from New York."

Kim Perales (@KimPerales@toad.social)

Even as #ICE🚨sparks rising public horror with its tactics & KILLINGS,🚨cos *never before worked with the fed govt *signing up: 🚨Assault training. Blast-resistant wdw film. Sniper programs. Iris scanners. With 10s of $Bs in new funding.🚨1st-time contractors➡️💰cash bonanza, offering ICE... *often scant internet presence or public track record, offer critical tools & training to help ICE rapidly expand.🚨👿Americans are still looking to cash in. #DHS #Corruption #Protest #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/206426/small-time-contractors-helping-ice

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RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/116092388854047864

"Castle Hill Partners inked its first ever contract with ICE in September 2025. The company, run by husband and wife Michael Hill and Leonora Castillo, won a $2.2 million no-bid contract to customize more than two dozen ICE vehicles."

"The couple seem like an odd choice for a contract involving ICE vehicles. Besides never having signed a federal contract before, they have no apparent experience with vehicle customization, and their recent ventures seem to be focused on real estate investments."

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Attached: 1 image Passport Ownership by US State (2024)

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"The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years...."

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

AP: Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications Politics Feb 13, 2026 7:51 PM EST NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years.... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nonprofit-libraries-ordered-by-state-department-to-stop-processing-passport-applications #passports #libraries

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Summary of the "Save America Act" voter suppression bill.

In only 21 US states do more than 50% of the population own a passport.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has announced she will back the bill, giving Republicans 51 votes in the Senate. Expect a pressure campaign to end the filibuster.

Via @jennycohn.bsky.social

"The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to strip some foreign-born Americans of their citizenship, with a target of 200 cases a month, according to a report.

In December 2025, guidance was provided to offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency within the Department of Homeland Security, requesting that they “supply the Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in 2026."

Trump aims for 200 cases a month to strip foreign-born residents of citizenship

The plans to supply the Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 dentauralization cases per month are now in motion, according to a report

The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

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