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Journalist @propublica | say hello on signal: aaschapiro.20 | email: [email protected]

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During the first Trump admin, Nathan Albers' firm got caught hiring undocumented workers & hiding it from the feds. Now, Albers is getting paid to build the largest immigrant detention camp in the US. My latest w/ @JeffErnsthausen
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Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to...
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RT @AASchapiro: We're looking at the figures cashing-in on immigrant detention. Nate Albers is a Florida GOP donor who spends time w/the T….
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Just learned that the American Federation of Teachers has nearly $2 billion invested in Valor, the Private Equity firm run by Elon Musk ally & sometimes DOGE operative Anthony Gracias. That's more than 10% of the fund!
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ICE seems to have embraced an aggressive tactic under the Trump administration: breaking the car windows of suspects, even if there are young children or pregnant women in the car. ProPublica documented 50 instances in the last six months.
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a...
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RT @JasonLeopold: NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled. The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at….
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RT @propublica: The Department of Defense announced a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest migrant detention center. Unmenti….
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RT @propublica: Disaster Management’s share of the Fort Bliss detention center contract could rank among the company’s largest. It has spen….
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I grew up on Tom Lehrer. He lived in my hometown. They don't make them like that anymore. May his memory be a blessing.
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Tom Lehrer, the popular music satirist who taught musical mathematics at UC Santa Cruz among other universities, died Saturday at the age of 97 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Associated...
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We're looking at the figures cashing-in on immigrant detention. Nate Albers is a Florida GOP donor who spends time w/the Trumps. He owned a firm caught using undocumented workers. And now he's helping build the country's largest detention camp.
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RT @humeyra_pamuk: SCOOP: In early July, the US embassy in Pretoria asked Washington if non-whites can apply for Trump’s refugee program g….
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RT @propublica: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hu….
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RT @asmamk: If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working inte….
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Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
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The Trump administration is building a massive immigrant detention camp on a Texas military base. One of the people being paid to build it is Florida businessman—with ties to the Trump family—who also owned a company caught using undocumented labor.
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RT @micarosenberg: Important addition to our reporting on who is profiting on the plans to dramatically ramp up immigration detention acr….
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RT @propublica: New: Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation's largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It'….
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RT @micarosenberg: You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and call….
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