‘Something I Said’ Archives
War on Humanity
from the series Something I Said... Dwight Hobbes By DWIGHT HOBBES Correlations between Donald Trump’s presidency and his hero Adolf Hitler’s regime continue. Dachau and other early concentration camps included abandoned factories, breweries and warehouses. These are places you stock and store materials – things, not human beings. ICE had such plans for migrant detainees. Until community unrest and state lawmakers put a halt to them. A vacant commercial building on Emery Way in Shakopee was going to hold up to 1,500 people. The local developer, Opus, decided not to finalize a lease. In Woodbury a half-million- square-foot facility off I-94 was in the works but has not panned out. The Department of Homeland Security had, in fact, reportedly targeted several industrial properties for Trump’s mass deportation goal, but hell raising locals scuttled those sites as well. Yet again, Minnesota’s resolve is not in the Third Reich playbook. On all fronts, fromguerilla [...]
Who is the GEO Group?
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes President Trump’s order of the day continues to be bald faced corruption. He appointedformer GEO Group executive David Venturella to run ICE. A la one hand washing the other,GEO Group and subsidiaries donated just under $2 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign. GEOGroup, in fact, holds numerous government contracts for detention facilities and saw seriousprofit increases as the administration ramped up mass deportations. GEO was more than $250 million in the green for 2025, up almost 700% from 2024.They certainly aren’t spending that profit on justice advocates, journalists and investigatorsdocumented substandard ICE conditions. Added to which, their snout is deep in Trump’s trough.Half the corporation’s conflict of interest revenue is ICE contracts, a clear all for Trump's massdeportation agenda: it runs nearly two dozen detention facilities and provides transportationservices and electronic [...]
Damage Done
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE, the curse that keeps on giving. Operation Metro Surge was ostensibly called off, though as of June, hundreds of agents stayed, keeping a lower profile than committing outright assault and cold blooded murder. The damage is still done. On top of lousing up immigrant lives, actually dragging people away from work and worse, ICE cost Minnesotans somewhere around 5,700 hospitality jobs and 4,400 construction jobs from December of last year to this February alone. This is verified by federal data. North Star Policy Action researcher Aaron Rosenthal told The Minnesota Reformer early estimates for the same period were $46 million and $106 million in lost wages across Minneapolis and St. Paul. This is not just about dollars and doesn’t make the first bit of common sense. Nor does Minnesota GOP lawmakers refusing state aid to compensate Minneapolis’ revenue losses. They cited DFL pro-immigrant policies for [...]
