Congress gave ICE $45 billion last year in a single bill. Here's where that money is going and who is cashing in on the largest expansion of immigrant detention in American history. 🧵
Closed my Citizens Bank account and asked the tellers to please tell the management that I closed it because of Citizens' support of ICE. They were very polite and nodded understandingly. Very easy.
Black-and-white still from a classic episode of The Twilight Zone: an alien with an oversized, bulbous head and tired expression stands beside a person holding a clipboard that reads “TO SERVE MAN.”
Screenshot of Cambridge Day article: Citizens Bank faces broader ICE protests
“We have been really happy customers of Citizens [...] Now I’m finding out to my horror that Citizens has, for a long time, been supporting these [private] ICE prisons.”
Full story: www.cambridgeday.com/2026/03/09/c...
Want to understand why dozens of groups are working to shine a light on Citizens Bank's ties to ICE detention companies?
Read this piece out today in the Philadelphia @inquirer.com.
"We’ve seen DHS amassing a wide range of surveillance software but the way it’s being deployed is new. Cellphone location data and tracking tools, license plate readers, social media monitoring software, and systems like Palantir that bring all of these together in one easily searchable place.”
This is important info for Californians, especially organizers.
Quietly expanding its private bank biz in CA is a huge part of Citizens Bank's strategy. Don't let private prisons companies' favorite bank fly under the radar—their brand should be synonymous with the harms they're helping enable.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
Aerial photo of a protest by families detained at Dilley Family Detention Center, overlayed with the words "End Family Detention" and the logo for Families Belong Together.
Conditions at the Dilley Family Detention Center are abhorrent: parents and children face neglect and cruelty. Over a decade of research and experience show that family detention is inherently inhumane. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to jail children and families.
@fams2gether.bsky.social
Maybe that's why Salus got this massive contract, and why so much of the Erik Prince scheme has been put into action.
It's not just corruption. It's also, of course, incompetence. 3/3
GEO & CoreCivic are used to being told what DHS wants, and accommodating their plans. But this admin doesn't actually seem to know what it wants, so contractors who pitch their own plans have an advantage. 2/3
This story highlights an interesting dynamic that I suspect is part of why GEO Group & CoreCivic haven't been as dominant as expected in the mass detention plans.
They certainly donated plenty of money, and have plenty of admin connections. So what's the deal? 1/3
NEW: Kristi Noem's exit doesn’t undo the massive deals that DHS struck with a vast array of contractors - incl. one where DHS acknowledged "an appearance of favoritism"
the latest @pogo.org/@motherjones.com collab by me & @dfriedman.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Come for the "fuck plane" innuendo we just dutifully denote. Stay for the court filing in which DHS admitted an "appearance of favoritism" in giving a huge contract to a firm seemingly involved in providing that aircraft. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How taxpayers are *still* getting screwed on Kristi Noem’s big fancy plane. And maybe via related contracts revealed here. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
![Researching ICE contracts, March 26, 2026, 7pm-8:30pm ET. Learn how to use the USASpending database to find out who has contracts with ICE and how much they are making off of the detention and deportation machine. Register: littlesis.org/trainings/ [case sensitive link in all lower case]. The LittleSis logo is pictured on the bottom right corner. A screenshot of a power map depicting the various corporate connections of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is pictured at the center of the graphic. The background is black and the text is red and white.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eymmxnashedpt6yjtnqj6bju/bafkreigxg2ouypg43gfnkdadtvkvgobmx7plbxy2xoufkzk77pw2umpfbu)
Researching ICE contracts, March 26, 2026, 7pm-8:30pm ET. Learn how to use the USASpending database to find out who has contracts with ICE and how much they are making off of the detention and deportation machine. Register: littlesis.org/trainings/ [case sensitive link in all lower case]. The LittleSis logo is pictured on the bottom right corner. A screenshot of a power map depicting the various corporate connections of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is pictured at the center of the graphic. The background is black and the text is red and white.
From airlines to telecommunications to construction and engineering, a host of private, for-profit businesses are cashing in on the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants.
Join us for this training on the 26th to learn how to research ICE contracts.
littlesis.org/training/res...
Thank you @maddow.bsky.social for highlighting the De-ICE Citizens Bank movement! The momentum is building as people are finding out about @citizensbank.bsky.social financing ICE terror. Join the movement! Follow @de-icecitizensbank.org @boycottcitizens.org for information.
Via @fiona-murphy.bsky.social: Deportations surge, aid collapses and faith groups in Latin America struggle to respond —> religionnews.com/2026/03/08/a...
Map of the United States labeled “National Reach.” Most states are shaded dark green to indicate commercial banking and national retail lending and deposit coverage. Several Northeast and Midwestern states are light green, indicating a regional branch network, while Virginia and Florida are gray for a light branch network. Black location markers indicate private bank locations in California (Bay Area and Southern California), New York, Boston, and South Florida. Text notes that Citizens Access accepts deposits in all 50 states and that the bank has approximately 5 million retail customers nationwide.
No, they don't have any retail branches in WA.
Haven't looked at Anovaeon, but SK2 is something. If y'all have dug in on it, you probably know all this, but just in case: bsky.app/profile/boyc...
"a pregnant woman still eating when a guard took away her food, leaving the expectant mother sobbing."
Abundant cruelty at facility run by GEO Group.
Oh, yeah—that company is also...interesting 🧵
Friendly reminder: Banks are FOR-PROFIT. Banks are not interested in your local community, they are only interested in making your money make money for them.
Credit unions are NON-profit and will usually have direct ties to your community! Credit unions are where it's at.
"On March 7th over 71 protests were held in 13 states around the northeastern and midwestern United States calling upon the Citizens Bank administration to end ties with CoreCivic and the GEO Group immediately."
For more info & to take action:
www.de-icecitizensbank.org
@de-icecitizensbank.org
