Pet peeve: Numbers without Context > 2018 $3.076 billion dollars on DHS Custody Operations
about 4% of the budget I couldn’t find Custody numbers before 2018 numbers... 2012 $60 2013 $61 2014 $60 2015 $64 2016 $66 2017 $67 2018 $74 $3.0 - about 4.1% of the budget 2019 $74 $3.5 - 4.7% 2020 $92 $3.7 - 4.0% (clever way to reduce "costs"…) Numbers are from the "budgets in brief" for the years 2014, 17 and 20, on: https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget <https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget> Also, 40,000 people detained is about 1.7% of the number incarcerated in the US, about 2.3 million (2016), about 1% of the population… (snide comment elided) 200 deaths/year for 40k people seems to be about twice the death rate of state prisons. (https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcrp/tables/dcst07spt3.pdf <https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcrp/tables/dcst07spt3.pdf> says for all state prisoners, it was about 250/100k people 2001-2007) It might just be the poor medical care that makes the difference... Note that 40,000 people per year at $3B is $75/k per person. The average annual cost of incarceration is $20k-$40k. (Maybe the lousy medical care is more expensive?) -r > On Jan 30, 2020, at 7:29 AM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > > On any given day, 40,000 people are detained by ICE in unsafe and unsanitary > conditions with substandard medical care and sporadic, if any, access to > legal counsel. > > These conditions have led directly to nearly two hundred detainee deaths at > the hands of ICE. > > And if the human costs are not enough to persuade you, consider the financial > ones. In 2018, taxpayers spent $3.076 billion dollars on DHS Custody > Operations. A budget four times greater than the Department of Education's > English Language Acquisition programs. > > In addition to the cruelty of ICE and the financial costs to taxpayers, ICE > is the public face of the United States’ ever-expanding domestic surveillance > apparatus. How? Through lucrative contracts with privately held technology > companies like Palantir, Microsoft, and even darling GitHub. > > Are we complicit? > > At present, Palantir has 188 repositories hosted on GitHub, which rely on > thousands of open source projects. Every dependency in use by ICE and > Palantir contributes to human rights violations. Each dependency is a stone > in the wall between reality and the dream of open source as a champion of > freedom, liberty and equality. > > What can we do? > > Students across the country are organizing to stop Palantir from recruiting > on their campuses. Whistleblowers are risking everything to go public > detailing how their companies are complicit. International human rights > groups are investigating ICE. And immigrant rights activists are working > tirelessly to protect vulnerable people from the evils of the current > anti-immigrant policies put in place by the Trump administration (and other > administrations before his.) > > It's time for software developers to step up, too. > > So what can you as a developer do? > > You have a tech industry salary. You can probably afford to donate $100 a > month to #NoTechForICE causes. > Support and participate in #NoTechForICE protests and programs. > Keep your code from being used by ICE by adopting an Ethical Source license. > If all else fails, pull your public code. > Tear Down The Wall! > > This is the wall that open source has built for ICE. Every open source > dependency listed here (updated nightly) is used in Palantir's software and > supports ICE in its systematic human rights violations. > > > <https://links92.mixmaxusercontent.com/5e196044087550002eab97f3/l/NtUXLEpjQaBJGgA0E?messageId=bTHAvSrEN5e6v2AQo&rn=gIUxkI&re=IyZy9mLoNWZ052bpRXYyVmYpxmLzR3cpxGQ0xmI&sc=false> > > ICE Uses Open Source to Violate Human Rights. > > <https://links92.mixmaxusercontent.com/5e196044087550002eab97f3/l/lg38jmW45GdtmMhMY?messageId=bTHAvSrEN5e6v2AQo&rn=gIUxkI&re=IyZy9mLoNWZ052bpRXYyVmYpxmLzR3cpxGQ0xmI&sc=false> > Every open source dependency listed here (updated nightly) is used in > Palantir's software and supports ICE in its systematic human rights… > > <https://links92.mixmaxusercontent.com/5e196044087550002eab97f3/l/0uTKXUuQz5QjKOvwk?messageId=bTHAvSrEN5e6v2AQo&rn=gIUxkI&re=IyZy9mLoNWZ052bpRXYyVmYpxmLzR3cpxGQ0xmI&sc=false> > ICEBREAKER.DEV > > <https://links97.mixmaxusercontent.com/5e196044087550002eab97f3/l/TQlkumd7u8MI6Jwk9?messageId=bTHAvSrEN5e6v2AQo&rn=gIUxkI&re=IyZy9mLoNWZ052bpRXYyVmYpxmLzR3cpxGQ0xmI&sc=false> > <https://mixmax.com/r/5e196044087550002eab97f3?ref=Website%20preview> > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt > <https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt>. Unsubscribe, change to digest > mode, or change password by emailing [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>.
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