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Sixty-five-year-old Kristy Madden works to coordinate government-funded assistance for disabled people and others in need of in-home care. But while she loves her job, she worries that, if the Trump administration has its way, access to this essential aid may be eliminated. “I have muscular dystrophy (MD) and live with my younger sister who also has MD,” Madden says.
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Working together under the name Project Salt Box, a group of data analysts have been combing through bureaucratic records and contracts to expose the government’s terrifying plans for executing President Donald Trump’s mass detention and deportation campaign. At a live event at Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and Cafe in Baltimore, Maryland, on Feb 28, the Project Salt Box team discussed how they uncovered plans to convert a massive warehouse in Western Maryland into an ICE detention center, and how Marylanders can resist the ICE surge that’s expected to come to the state.
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Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses”
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Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Michael Wriston:
Our newsletter sort of got a lot of subscribers kind of unexpectedly because we were doing a very boring thing, which was going to the Maryland Land Records website, MD Land Rec, and going through the plat book page by page for about three hours until we landed on the deed for a warehouse in Williamsport, Maryland that ICE had bought for $102.4 million on January 16th. Boom. Yeah. That warehouse was built in 2021 for the purpose of holding freight. It used to be on a farm or it is sitting on what used to be a farm in a very lovely plat of Western Maryland. It is now an 823,000 square foot empty shell with minimal air conditioning, minimal insulation. It has four toilets, two water fountains, a shower, and one drain.
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A teenager who was arrested in January after being stopped for a traffic violation in Florida is now believed to be the youngest person to have died in immigration detention under the second Trump administration, after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified Congress of the 19-year-old’s death this week. Royer Perez-Jimenez was found unresponsive by a detention officer at Glades…
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