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50 144 Trump plans massive increase in federal immigration jails Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 11:34 a.m. CT Oct. 17, 2017 | Updated 4:24 p.m. CT Oct. 17, 2017 Play 0:11 0:50 Fullscreen Trump admin. plans massive increase in federal immigration jails (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images) CONNECTTWEET 50 LINKEDIN 144 COMMENTEMAILMOREThe Trump administration is planning an increase in federal immigration jails across the country for the thousands of additional undocumented immigrants its agents are arresting. In recent weeks, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has put out requests to identify privately-run jail sites in Chicago, Detroit, St. Paul, Salt Lake City and southern Texas, according to notices published on a federal contracting website. It did not publicly announce its plans to house 4,000 more detainees at the facilities. The detention expansion would represent the latest step in President Trump's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. From Jan. 22 through Sept. 9, the agency arrested 97,482 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a 43% increase over the same time period in 2016 under President Barack Obama, according to the latest ICE figures. During the same span, ICE arrested 28,011 undocumented immigrants without a criminal record, a 179% increase from the same period in 2016, when the Obama administration mainly went after those who committed serious offenses. Currently, ICE houses anywhere between 31,000 and 41,000 detainees each day in federal prisons, privately-operated facilities and local jails. In a statement, ICE said the requests for new jails are far from finalized. But the agency said they are in line with the White House's request for an additional $1.2 billion in the 2018 budget to increase detention capacity to 48,000 detainees a day. "The administration is doing everything it can on all fronts to detain and deport as many people as possible, and to criminalize as many people as possible," said Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, which advocates against incarceration for immigration violators. It is "a very nativist and xenophobic position." Trump supporters say the new jails are necessary to tackle an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which backs Trump's immigration enforcement, noted that four of the cities identified for new jails — Chicago, Detroit, St. Paul and Salt Lake City — are all "sanctuary cities." More: Private prisons back Trump and could see big payoffs with new policies More: Analysis: Trump immigration priorities dash hopes of compromise More: Trump's crackdown on 'sanctuary cities' blocked nationwide That term refers to more than 300 local governments that limit their cooperation with federal immigration agents. The Trump administration has tried to withhold federal funding from those cities, which have fought back in court. One of the core disputes is that some cities refuse to detain undocumented immigrants in their local jails for federal immigration agents. "ICE cannot rely on local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with them in holding deportable criminal aliens, so they have to acquire their own space that they control," Vaughan said. "This is very encouraging." ICE still has a long way to go before it can open any facilities. The notices invite private companies to provide information on possible locations, and whether it would be necessary to build new facilities or renovate existing ones. The notices, known as Requests for Information, represent the start of the federal contracting process, and do not yet ask for cost estimates. But a jail contract announced in April provides some context. The federal government announced that it had awarded a $457 million contract to GEO Group, one of the leading private prison contractors in the country, to build and operate 1,000-bed immigration detention center outside of Houston. Carl Takei, a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Prison Project, said that kind of price tag means that ICE will most likely need new funding from Congress to build any more prisons. "To me, this is a signal that ICE wants to be ready, pen in hand, to sign new detention contracts as soon as Congress appropriates more money for detention," Takei said. The push to expand detention space in the Midwest shows how the administration is not solely focused on undocumented immigrants crossing the southwest border with Mexico. Last month, ICE conducted a nationwide sweep dubbed "Operation Safe City" that resulted in more than 450 arrests of people living in Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Massachusetts. "The Obama administration focused heavily on apprehending people on the border, but the Trump administration is targeting people in U.S. communities very far from the border," Takei said. "And because they are targeting cities far from the border, they are looking for detention space in areas where historically they haven’t had as much detention space." The most likely candidates to land any new contracts are two private prison groups that have dominated the market and donated heavily to Trump. Florida-based GEO Group donated at least $475,000 to Trump's inauguration festivities and a Super PAC that supported Trump's presidential campaign. Tennessee-based CoreCivic, the other major private prison contractor in the U.S., gave $250,000 to support Trump’s inauguration. The prospect of new prisons has driven up the value of both companies since Trump's election, partly because 65% of detainees held by the Department of Homeland Security are in privately run facilities. Since Election Day, GEO Group's stock price has increased 63% and CoreCivic's has risen 81%. Fasting can be a safe way to lose weight as many studies have shown that intermittent fasting – fasting that is controlled within a set number of hours – allows the body to burn through fat cells more effectively than just regular dieting. Intermittent fasting allows the body to use fat as it’s primary source of energy instead of sugar.
Fasting has shown to have a positive effect on insulin sensitivity, allowing you to tolerate carbohydrates (sugar) better than if you didn’t fast. A study showed that after periods of fasting, insulin becomes more effective in telling cells to take up glucose from blood. Intermittent fasting gives your digestive system a rest, and this can energise your metabolism to burn through calories more efficiently. If your digestion is poor, this can effect your ability to metabolize food and burn fat. Intermittent fasts can regulate your digestion and promote healthy bowel function, thus improving your metabolic function. Believe it or not, the less you eat the longer you will live. Studies have shown how the lifespan of people in certain cultures increased due to their diets. However, we don’t need to live amongst a foreign community to reap the benefits of fasting. One of the primary effects of ageing is a slower metabolism, the younger your body is, the faster and more efficient your metabolism. The less you eat, the less toll it takes on your digestive system. Just think about this, can you actually experience real hunger if you eat a meal every 3-4 hours? Of course you can’t. In fact, to experience the true nature of hunger, this would take anything from 12 to even 24 hours. Fasting helps to regulate the hormones in your body so that you experience what true hunger is. We know that obese individuals do not receive the correct signals to let them know they are full due excessive eating patterns. Think of fasting as a reset button: the longer you fast, the more your body can regulate itself to release the correct hormones, so that you can experience what real hunger is. Not to mention, when your hormones are working correctly, you get full quicker. Fasting can be a helpful practice for those who suffer with binge eating disorders, and for those who find it difficult to establish a correct eating pattern due to work and other priorities. With intermittent fasting going all afternoon without a meal is okay and it can allow you to eat at a set time that fits your lifestyle. Also, for anyone who wants to prevent binge eating, you can establish a set time in where you allow yourself to eat your daily amount of calories in one sitting, and then not eat till the following day. Fasting has shown to improve brain function, because it boosts the production of a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF.) BDNF activates brain stem cells to convert into new neurons, and triggers numerous other chemicals that promote neural health. This protein also protects your brain cells from changes associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Intermittent fasting improves the immune system because it reduces free radical damage, regulates inflammatory conditions in the body and starves off cancer cell formation. In nature, when animals get sick they stop eating and instead focus on resting. This is a primal instinct to reduce stress on their internal system so their body can fight off infection. We humans are the only species who look for food when we are ill, even when we do not need it. Fasting has helped many people feel more connected to life during the practices reading, meditation, yoga and martial arts etc. With no food in the digestive system, this makes room for more energy in the body – the digestive is one of the most energy absorbing systems in the body. Source: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-of-fasting-that-will-surprise-you.html As National Socialists it is important to maintain a healthy body and mind, especially since we are getting physically assaulted at rallies by terrorists such as the antifa.. I encourage all party members to exercise regularly. LearnMission The mission of The Satanic Temple is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will. Politically aware, Civic-minded Satanists and allies in The Satanic Temple have publicly opposed The Westboro Baptist Church, advocated on behalf of children in public school to abolish corporal punishment, applied for equal representation where religious monuments are placed on public property, provided religious exemption and legal protection against laws that unscientifically restrict women's reproductive autonomy, exposed fraudulent harmful pseudo-scientific practitioners and claims in mental health care, and applied to hold clubs along side other religious after school clubs in schools besieged by proselytizing organizations. There are seven fundamental tenets One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own. Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs. People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word. Canon Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France Ultimately a meditation on the corruption of power, Anatole France’s Revolt of the Angels (1914) utilizes the theological metaphor of Satan as a force favoring free inquiry, the War in Invocation "Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the Tree of Knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old. Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations. Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of One or All. That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is Done. Hail Satan." |
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