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RT @andresegura: New @USGAO report proves what we warned from start. PACR/HARP - Trump's secret asylum policy that holds people in CBP jail… — PolitiTweet.org

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Welcome news for the fight to end mass incarceration! — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden made a commitment to reduce our country’s prison population significantly. Clemency is key to making that happen. https://t.co/room6nPodI — PolitiTweet.org

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At least two journalists tested positive for COVID-19 after witnessing federal executions. Once again, the Bureau of Prisons didn’t even try to contract trace. The Trump administration’s killing spree has resulted in continued illness and trauma. https://t.co/SSeIHzBeUN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @VICENews: EXCLUSIVE: On Thursday morning in Guam, two doctors, represented by the ACLU, sued the island’s attorney general because anyo… — PolitiTweet.org

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You can learn more by reading our report. And you can tell @BlackNorthCA that Prem Watsa’s role as a lead in the fight to end anti-Black racism rings hollow as he props up the predatory bail industry. https://t.co/Ugk2BHTXFj — PolitiTweet.org

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We have teamed up with @ColorOfChange to send Watsa letters asking him to divest. 40,000 of our combined members sent him personal messages asking him to do so. His team has been noncommittal. This is unacceptable. — PolitiTweet.org

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For-profit bail is a tiny part (.16%) of Fairfax’s insurance business. It could easily divest. In the last two years, 3 of the 4 largest companies in the space have done so. Fairfax is the only company left. https://t.co/VRTMWMwRop — PolitiTweet.org

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Once in jail, Black people are more likely to remain incarcerated while awaiting trial. Bail amounts assigned to Black men average 35% higher than those for white men, even when controlling for the seriousness of the offense. — PolitiTweet.org

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For example, Black and white adults use marijuana at similar rates, but a Black adult is 3.6 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. https://t.co/dJQnxTEdoD — PolitiTweet.org

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The bail bond industry is not just economically unjust. It is also deeply racist. Black people are much more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested due to racist policing and prosecution. — PolitiTweet.org

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Prem Watsa’s commitment to anti-Black racism is necessary and laudable. But it rings hollow in the face of his company’s role as the larger backer of for-profit bail bonds. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fairfax’s CEO, Prem Watsa, is a vocal anti-racism advocate. He co-chairs the Canadian Council of Business Leaders Against Anti-Black Systemic Racism and the @BlackNorthCA initiative. — PolitiTweet.org

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The predatory bail industry is propped up by insurance companies, a $2 billion a year industry. And the biggest bail underwriter by far is Canada-based Fairfax Financial. — PolitiTweet.org

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Far too many people are forced to choose between paying an exorbitant cash bail or sitting in jail. Bail bond companies hold people’s freedom hostage. People turn to bail bond companies to help buy their freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

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People end up owing thousands of dollars to the bail bond company — even if charges are later dropped or they are found not guilty. This system is designed to be exploitative and predatory. — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2020, people around the country took to the streets to demand an end to racism in the criminal legal system and in our country more broadly. We won’t be able to achieve this goal until we end for-profit bail. — PolitiTweet.org

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The moratorium is temporarily blocked, but that is not the last word. And the stakes are life and death, which is why we’re fighting on behalf of @RAICESTEXAS and @FIELHouston. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING: We and @ACLUTx are going to court to defend the 100-day deportation moratorium. Voters rejected Trump’s disastrous immigration policies, but Texas is now seeking to keep Biden from turning the page. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden must end the PACR/HARP program, which jails asylum seekers without access to lawyers, before removing them. Immigrants deserve due process. https://t.co/uXkgcEZj9h — PolitiTweet.org

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Guamanians have the same constitutional right to abortion as anyone else in the United States. Our ability to access it shouldn't depend on which state or territory we live in. Abortion is health care. Abortion is a right. — PolitiTweet.org

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The lack of abortion access also creates unique burdens for US servicemembers and military dependents who live on the island, and are subjected to federal laws designed to push abortion out of reach. — PolitiTweet.org

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Making people fly thousands of miles to exercise their rights perpetuates second-class citizenship, a legacy of US colonialism too often imposed on those in territories. And it's an Indigenous and racial justice issue: these restrictions disproportionately harm Chamorro people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Travel restrictions and quarantines in Hawai'i and Guam make accessing care even more difficult. Every day escalates the risk of COVID and cost of travel, requires more time off work and away from family, and makes it more difficult to keep one's abortion decision private. — PolitiTweet.org

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In Guam, where the poverty rate is higher than anywhere in the 50 states and DC, these obstacles can be insurmountable, forcing people to forgo the care they need. We're suing to ensure that these restrictions don't prevent anyone else in Guam from accessing abortion care. — PolitiTweet.org

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Because of these laws, people in Guam are being forced to leave the island just to exercise their constitutional rights. They have to fly 4,000 miles each way to Hawai'i — often a multi-day journey, for which airfare alone is over $1,000 — just to access abortion. — PolitiTweet.org

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These laws prevent people in Guam from being able to obtain medication abortion via telemedicine — a safe and common method of delivering reproductive care that has proven critical during the current pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Led by Chamorro women, the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, Guamanians have long fought to ensure access to safe and legal abortion on the island. But two outdated, medically unnecessary laws are currently blocking access to abortion in Guam. — PolitiTweet.org

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The last 400 years of Guam's history have been marked by colonization by Spain, Japan, and the United States. Guam is currently an unincorporated, organized territory of the United States, and Guamanians are US citizens. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING: We're joining the fight to restore abortion access to people in Guam. Today we filed a lawsuit challenging two laws that are blocking abortion care on the island. — PolitiTweet.org