DHS Labels a Mom’s Website a “National Threat” for Tracking ICE Profits
By: AlterNet America and Corinne Straight
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The Department of Homeland Security wants you to believe that the most dangerous weapon in America is a spreadsheet.
Laura Berlin, a mother of two with a background in nonprofit communications, built an interactive map called “Who is Profiting from ICE?” after watching footage of men being deported to a Salvadoran prison without due process. The map plots the contractors, companies, and politicians across the country who take federal money to help carry out the administration’s deportation policies.
Some of the contractors include AT&T, Comcast, Dell, Deloitte, FedEx, Motorola, and Palantir. Activists have used the database to organize hundreds of protests targeting the companies, pressuring them to cut ties with ICE. In one case, an East Coast bank severed ties with two prominent detention center contractors after account holders threatened to pull their money.
The Department of Homeland Security responded by issuing a secret intelligence bulletin to local and federal law enforcement agencies in February, specifically naming Berlin’s website as information that could be used by “anarchist extremists.” The bulletin warned that protest activity could escalate to vandalism or the use of incendiary devices.
A DHS spokesperson said that gathering such information from local partners “helps sharpen the national threat picture.” Berlin’s website is entirely composed of publicly available government contract data.
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You mean the national security threat that makes you look stupid?
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