New Data Shows Wall Street and Pension Funds Investing in ICE Contractors with Over $80 Billion ft. Richard Brooks w/ Stand.Earth (G&R 484)

About this episode

The episode discusses the significant investments made by major financial institutions in companies that contract with ICE, featuring insights from Richard Brooks of Stand.Earth.

In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have heavily invested in and financed companies that have profited from contracts with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and enabled the deportation crisis and the surveillance, violence and repression of U.S. citizens resisting the Trump administration. These financial institutions have put over $80 billion into these companies. The corporate ICE contracrtors include Palantir, CoreCivic, Geo Group, General Dynamics, CACI, L3Harris and AT&T. In our latest, we talk with Richard Brooks about new data that Stand.Earth has released about financial players funding ICE contractors like Palantir, Geo Group, CoreCivic and others. Guest Bio-- Richard Brooks is the Climate Finance Director at Stand.Earth. -------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links 🌐 Major US banks and public pensions attempt to profit from sinking $80 billion into ICE contractors (https://bit.ly/47Ja8Gb) 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕ One-time donation…

People in this episode

Guest: Richard Brooks

Topics covered

• Wall Street investment
• pension funds
• ICE contractors
• deportation crisis
• financial institutions
• surveillance
• political resistance

Keywords

• Wall Street
• pension funds
• ICE
• deportation
• surveillance
• financial data
• Stand.Earth
• Richard Brooks
• investment
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stand.Earth, CalPERS, CalSTRS, New York State Common and Teachers Funds, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, Palantir, CoreCivic

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