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ICE triples its orders to the private firms hunting immigrants
The first skip tracing orders, placed in December of last year, ran through May 14. Yesterday’s orders are each almost exactly three times the size. Constellation was ordered $767,468.75 in work the first time and $2,302,406.25 this week. Enprovera, the smallest firm, went from $34,552 to $103,656. Continue reading
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CBP Formally Hires Contractors to Collect Fines From People It Has Deported
The $36 million effort, spread across four companies, relies on firms already working to locate immigrants for the government’s deportation surge. Continue reading
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ICE Awards GardaWorld $17.3 Million to Convert San Antonio Warehouse Into a Service Processing Center
Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded GardaWorld Federal Services $17.3 million on Thursday to renovate an agency-owned building in San Antonio into an immigration processing and detention facility, using the Navy contracting program the Department of Homeland Security said in June it had stopped using for detention work. The award record was posted to SAM.gov, the federal contracting database. Continue reading
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THE ALLIED FLOOR
This document is a work of AI invented satire produced by the Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire. Warburg Pincus, Allied Universal, and G4S are real entities referenced solely to ground a fictional premise; every executive, analyst, financial figure, contract, lawsuit, and quotation appearing below is invented and does not describe any actual statement, transaction, or event. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or to actual corporate communications, is coincidental and unintended. No portion of this document should be relied upon for investment, legal, journalistic, or operational purposes. Continue reading
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Blood Money: How UAE Support and Foreign Mercenaries Enabled the Fall of El Fasher
Blood Money: How UAE Support and Foreign Mercenaries Enabled the Fall of El Fasher April 2026 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
UAE-backed Colombian mercenaries provided support to Sudan paramilitary, report says
The paramilitary RSF group has been fighting Sudan’s regular army since 2023
A network of Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided critical support to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enabling it to capture the western city of el-Fasher last year, a new report says.
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AIR DEFENSE PREMIUM+
Now, for one low monthly payment, your critical infrastructure can enjoy the peace of mind formerly reserved for sovereign states, integrated air-defense commands, and people who own several aircraft carriers. Continue reading
The Philippines’ Security Trap
Ever since the failure of postwar industrialization, the Philippine has built one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated labor-export systems. Recruiters, overseas employment networks, remittance channels and millions of workers accustomed to migration have created infrastructure that is now exploited by military recruiters and traffickers. Continue reading
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Russia finds new source of ‘cannon fodder’ on Indonesian islands, intelligence says
Russia finds new source of ‘cannon fodder’ on Indonesian islands, intelligence says Thu, August 27, 2026 – 19:45 3 min Intelligence obtained secret documents Daryna Vialko Photo: Russia is massively recruiting… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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THE MOUTAI ANALYSIS
Rain again. Beijing does its best noir impression maybe four nights a year, and the private room at the Nine Dragons had drawn one of them — low light, lacquered table, a lazy Susan turning like it had somewhere better to be. Six chairs, six scholars, one bottle of Moutai reserved for a toast nobody had earned yet.Song Bowen poured first, because Song Bowen always poured first. It was less hospitality than choreography — he liked to have something in his hand before he started dismantling an argument, the way other men like a cigarette.
loud, in the same room, what the Western literature gets wrong about us. And to enjoy ourselves while we do it.” Continue reading
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