Holy fucking shit.
The 54-year-old was detained in October at the Southern California processing centre following a routine check-in with ICE. This came after ICE forced Herman to wear a VeriWatch — a device that monitors his location — in May of last year.
Herman told the courts the VeriWatch device "was glitchy from the start”
It connects through cellular towers, but the reception in the Ojai area is poor and it often dropped connections.
“(Herman) also received multiple troubleshooting calls from the contractor operating the VeriWatch device late at night,” said the judgment.
At an immigration check-in in October, ICE officers accused Herman of violating his VeriWatch supervision conditions. They arrested him and took him to Adelanto.
And then further down:
The device and monitoring are provided by BI Electronic Monitoring and Supervision Services, a subsidiary of the Geo Group — the company that owns the Adelanto detention centre.
“That’s just a horrible way to run an imprisonment system because there’s incentives, obviously, to have more people detained,” Durham said.
Herman has volunteered to wear a GPS ankle monitor or have other release conditions instead of the VeriWatch.
I damn near want to accuse them of burying the lede, but I guess it’s not a huge surprise just how deeply corrupt we are as a country. holy shit lmao
That’s literally how ICE functions, through private corporations.
https://freecapfinancial.substack.com/p/ice-contracts-explained-the-companies
That’s why deportation numbers were crazy high and even legal residents were deported.
The whole point was to maximize their bottom line so they can get more funding from DHS/ICE
Oh wow that’s fucked.
Add to this the fact that they’re refusing due process to these people, and in many cases, not allowing them to visit an attorney.
Give them a broken watch, then arrest them when it doesn’t work correctly with no way of really fighting it because their lawyer doesn’t even know where they are
Damn near? Just accuse them because in the US this shit has been normal for decades now
I feel like stories like these need more light than they’re currently getting. The United States is free to do what they want and far be it from me to tell them what is morally correct as a Canadian, but more Canadians need to be aware that the US is a safe destination for day visits like shopping, but that’s it.
This is typical of the garbage from the CBC. They get some guy and just listen to his side of the story, with lazy journalism. He had multiple border violations in the past and was illegally working in the country.
He kept fucking around until he found out.
I honestly don’t give a single shit. Fuck ICE.
I’m sure some of the Jews in the camps had a shady rap sheet. Still don’t need to know the fucking “other side” of what the Nazis had to say.
ICE are Trump’s paramilitary, engaged in ethnically cleansing the US from the “poisoning of the blood”. The problem is not folks failing to follow Draconian and Kafkaesque made up rules governing the crossing of made up lines on the map. The problem is the fascism.
