Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Ortez (D-N.Y.) in an April 3 interview with Emma Vigeland of TYT Politics. By Jonathan Larsen Newsmax host John Cardillo isn’t the only Republican attacking Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. On Sunday, Republican pundit Steve Deace tweeted the following: A “socialist” from an elite neighborhood pimping a product line, while running for office on “power to the …
Bases for Migrant Detention Contain Nuclear Waste, Other Toxins
The entrance to Fort Bliss in Texas. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. By Ken Klippenstein On Monday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that migrant detainees would be housed at two U.S. military bases: Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss. What he didn’t mention was that toxic contaminants have been blamed for health problems at these locations. The Trump …
Dems Oppose Private Prisons But Take Cash From the Industry
An immigrant detainee reads through paperwork at the Adelanto Detention Facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention center in Adelanto, California. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Update: A spokesperson for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) tells TYT that his campaign rejected a donation from the GEO Group PAC. GEO Group PAC has acknowledged …
ICE Paid Famous Motivational Speaker for ‘Leadership Training’
By Ken Klippenstein At the same time that the Trump administration authorized its controversial border separation policy, morale at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have received a boost from an unlikely source: a famous motivational speaker with a history of criticizing President Trump. ICE awarded a $98,000 no-bid contract for “customized Simon Sinek leadership training” to take place between …
As DHS Puts Children in Cages, Guess Where They’re Putting Dogs
By Ken Klippenstein In light of the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is placing undocumented children in literal cages to sleep on mats under tin foil–colored space blankets, you might think its accommodations for dogs would be even worse. But you’d be wrong. Instead of space blankets, dogs in the custody of Customs and Border Protection, a …
Sources: Wealthy Founder of Nonprofit Housing Migrant Children Asks Staff for Money
By Alex Kotch Roughly two weeks ago, Antar Davidson’s superiors at a Tucson, Arizona, shelter operated by Southwest Key Programs called an all-staff meeting. The founder and CEO of the nonprofit corporation, Juan Sanchez, had arrived, and he wanted to address his employees. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pays Sanchez’s nonprofit hundreds of millions of dollars a …
Veteran CIA Interrogator Training ICE Officers
Former CIA interrogator Barry McManus, who spoke to TYT about his work training ICE officers, as seen in a 2006 interview. (Screenshot: CNN). By Ken Klippenstein Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has contracted a private security firm run by a former top CIA interrogator to train ICE officers in “intelligence collection” and “counterterrorism elicitation,” federal documents show. The documents indicate …