‘Something I Said’ Archives
Absence of Accountability
from the series Something I Said... Dwight Hobbes By DWIGHT HOBBES An absence of accountability is the core evil at the heart of ICE’s nightmarish assault on humanity, driven by President Donald Trump’s ruthless abuse of power. He has never taken responsibility for any wrong doing, most conspicuously egging on, then pardoning the January 6, 2021 White House rioters who committed wanton violence against law enforcement and everyone else in their wake of wholesale destruction. Accordingly, ICE heeded his lead, beating, locking up, even killing citizens with impunity. The worst of it is this stemmed from a legitimate, quite lawful premise. Even affirmative action icon President Barack Obama oversaw upwards of 3 million deportations over his two terms - 400,000 in 2012. It wasn’t, however, characterized by atrocities, but carried out via due process not persecution. Importantly, it was a matter of diligently pursuing illegal immigrants, not outright [...]
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 [...]
