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On Friday, December 6th, the Feast of Saint Nicholas, kindergarten students from Mary, Mother of the Redeemer (MMR) School in North Wales played Santa by stuffing stockings with treats and making Christmas cards for troops serving overseas. The children worked hard to collect hundreds of snacks and self-care items for the troops. Mary, Mother of the Redeemer students hear from U.S. Army National Guard members about the donated stockings they stuffed with treats for troops. (Photo courtesy of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer) U.S. Army National Guard Specialist Liam Lynch helps a Mary, Mother of the Redeemer students fill up a donated stocking stuffed with treats for troops. (Photo courtesy of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer) U.S. Army National Guard Specialist Liam Lynch, Air National Guard 1st LT Tim Kirby, and Army National Guard PFC Katelyn Lynch, pose with Mary, Mother of the Redeemer students who donated stockings stuffed with treats for troops. (Photo courtesy of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer) U.S. Army National Guard Specialist Liam Lynch helps Mary, Mother of the Redeemer students fill stockings stuffed with treats for troops. (Photo courtesy of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer) U.S. Army National Guard PFC Katelyn Lynch and Air National Guard 1st LT Tim Kirby, help Mary, Mother of the Redeemer students fill stockings stuffed with treats for troops. (Photo courtesy of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer) Mary, Mother of the Redeemer students hear from U.S. Army National Guard members about the donated stockings they stuffed with treats for troops. (Photo courtesy of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer) Guests of honor included PFC Katelyn Lynch, Army National Guard; Specialist Liam Lynch, Army National Guard; and 1st LT Tim Kirby, Air National Guard as well as Blue Star mothers and military wives. Guests joined the little patriots in their mission to spread holiday cheer across the globe. To cover shipping costs, MMR sponsored a patriotic dress down day. As part of this experience, the kindergarten children learned about veterans and discussed ways they can be good citizens in their school and in their communities.(All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Dec. 30 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 3 p.m. BTN — W. Michigan at Michigan St. 5 p.m. BTN — Columbia at Rutgers 7 p.m. BTN — New Hampshire at Iowa CBSSN — Cincinnati at Kansas St. SECN — Presbyterian at South Carolina 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Oakland at Arkansas 9 p.m. BTN — Southern U. at Nebraska People are also reading... Lincoln native purchases Michael Jordan's iconic Chicago mansion for $9.5 million Here's a list of Lincoln restaurants open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day Inside Matt Rhule's 'pretty insane gesture' of getting former Huskers to the Pinstripe Bowl Teenage brother charged as adult in Christmas Eve shooting death Man killed by brother in Lincoln apartment complex shooting, police say Nebraska's Matt Rhule: 'Total overhaul' of special teams coming after Pinstripe Bowl disaster Honor walk pays tribute to Lincoln man who made organ donation Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen sustained fractured ribs, lacerated spleen in fall from horse 'Multiple wins for me': Lincoln North Star rallies from double-digit deficit hours after coach's son is born Sound waves: What others are saying about Nebraska's bowl win vs. Boston College Transfer tracker: The latest on the Nebraska football roster Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen hospitalized at UNMC after falling from horse Isaiah Neyor reportedly changes plans, now aiming to transfer for seventh season How a young Matt Rhule found a passion for football in baseball-crazed New York Amie Just: Playing with a heavy heart, Rahmir Johnson delivers an MVP performance CBSSN — Iowa St. at Colorado SECN — Bethune-Cookman at Mississippi St. COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2:30 p.m. ESPN — The TransPerfect Music City Bowl: Iowa vs. Missouri, Nashville, Tenn. IIHF HOCKEY (MEN’S) 1 p.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship Group Stage: Slovakia vs. Kazakhstan, Group B, Toronto 2:30 p.m. NHLN — World Junior Championship Group Stage: Germany vs. Latvia, Group A, Ottawa, Ontario NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. NBATV — New York at Washington 10 p.m. NBATV — Dallas at Sacramento NFL FOOTBALL 8:15 p.m. ABC — Detroit at San Francisco ESPN — Detroit at San Francisco NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m. NHLN — N.Y. Rangers at Florida SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. USA — Premier League: Newcastle United at Manchester United TENNIS 6 a.m. TENNIS — United Cup: Group Stage TBD; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Hong Kong-ATP, Auckland-WTA Early Rounds 6:30 p.m. TENNIS — United Cup: Group Stage TBD; Brisbane-ATP/WTA, Hong Kong-ATP, Auckland-WTA Early Rounds The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive TV listings provided by LiveSportsOnTV .
The Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team has gotten off to a fast start this season in more ways than one. The No. 16 Bearcats have raced to a 5-0 record while outscoring their opponents by more than 31 points per game, with just one team (Northern Kentucky) coming within 16 points. Cincinnati is averaging a robust 87 points per game with one of the more efficient offenses in college basketball. Cincinnati will look to continue that hot streak when it plays host to Alabama State in nonconference action Wednesday evening. Cincinnati has punished opposing defenses in a variety of ways this season. Despite being the No. 14 offense in the nation in Ken Pomeroy's efficiency ratings, the Bearcats aren't among the nation's leaders in pace. Still, they take advantage of those opportunities when they are there. "Us playing fast is something we want to do," Cincinnati forward Dillon Mitchell said. "When I was being recruited here, that was something Coach (Wes) Miller wanted to do. "There could be games where we're not making shots or something is off, but one thing is we're gonna push the ball, play hard and play fast. That's something he preaches. We'll be in shape and get rebounds." Mitchell is fresh off a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds in Cincinnati's 81-58 road win at Georgia Tech Saturday. He is one of four Bearcats to average double figures in scoring this season. That balance was on display once again against the Yellow Jackets, with Connor Hickman and Jizzle James also scoring 14 points each and Simas Lukosius contributing 12 points. In that game, Cincinnati sank 51.6 percent of its shots while regularly getting out into transition with 16 fastbreak points, while winning the rebounding battle 36-29. "Any time you get a road win over a quality, Power 4 team, you're gonna feel good about it," Miller said. "I was pleased with our effort." Lukosius is scoring 16.6 points per game, while James is at 14.0 points, followed by Mitchell at 12.4, while he also grabs a team-best 8.6 rebounds. Alabama State (3-3) has a tough task ahead, especially when considering its 97-78 loss at Akron Sunday, which ended a three-game winning streak. The Hornets allowed the Zips to shoot 46.4 percent from the field and were 53-32 in the rebounding battle. Alabama State gave up a season high in points, after playing the likes of LSU and UNLV earlier this season. Akron standout Nate Johnson lit up Alabama State for 25 points, as the game got away from the Hornets in the second half to keep them winless in true road games. Alabama leading scorers CJ Hines and TJ Madlock still got theirs against Akron, scoring 19 and 17 points, respectively. They were joined in double figures by reserve Tyler Mack (18 points), but recent history says they'll need more help to keep up with the Bearcats. Hines leads the Hornets with 15.7 points per game, while Madlock contributes 14.5 points. In previous Akron Basketball Classic wins last week against Omaha and Lamar, Alabama State featured at least four double-digit scorers in each game. --Field Level Media
WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Pat Verhaeghe didn’t think highly of Donald Trump as a leader. Then Verhaeghe began seeing more of Trump’s campaign speeches online and his appearances at sporting events. There was even the former president’s pairing with Bryson DeChambeau as part of the pro golfer’s YouTube channel series to shoot an under-50 round of golf while engaging in chitchat with his partner. “I regret saying this, but a while ago I thought he was an idiot and that he wouldn’t be a good president,” said the 18-year-old first-time voter. “I think he’s a great guy now.” Verhaeghe isn't alone among his friends in suburban Detroit or young men across America. Although much of the electorate shifted right to varying degrees in 2024, young men were one of the groups that swung sharply toward Trump. More than half of men under 30 supported Trump, according to AP VoteCast , a survey of more than 120,000 voters, while Democrat Joe Biden had won a similar share of this group four years earlier. White men under 30 were solidly in Trump’s camp this year — about 6 in 10 voted for Trump — while young Latino men were split between the two candidates. Most Black men under 30 supported Democrat Kamala Harris, but about one-third were behind Trump. Young Latino men’s views of the Democratic Party were much more negative than in 2020, while young Black men’s views of the party didn’t really move. About 6 in 10 Latino men under 30 had a somewhat or very favorable view of the Democrats in 2020, which fell to about 4 in 10 this year. On the other hand, about two-thirds of young Black men had a favorable view of the Democrats this year, which was almost identical to how they saw the party four years ago. “Young Hispanic men, and really young men in general, they want to feel valued," said Rafael Struve, deputy communications director for Bienvenido, a conservative group that focused on reaching young Hispanic voters for Republicans this year. “They're looking for someone who fights for them, who sees their potential and not just their struggles.” Struve cited the attempted assassination of Trump during a July rally in Pennsylvania as one of the catalyzing moments for Trump’s image among many young men. Trump, Struve said, was also able to reach young men more effectively by focusing on nontraditional platforms like podcasts and digital media outlets. “Getting to hear from Trump directly, I think, really made all the difference," Struve said of the former president's appearances on digital media platforms and media catering to Latino communities, like town halls and business roundtables Trump attended in Las Vegas and Miami. Not only did Trump spend three hours on Joe Rogan's chart-topping podcast, but he took up DeChambeau's “Break 50” challenge for the golfer's more than 1.6 million YouTube subscribers. Trump already had an edge among young white men four years ago, although he widened the gap this year. About half of white men under 30 supported Trump in 2020, and slightly less than half supported Biden. Trump's gains among young Latino and Black men were bigger. His support among both groups increased by about 20 percentage points, according to AP VoteCast — and their feelings toward Trump got warmer, too. It wasn’t just Trump. The share of young men who identified as Republicans in 2024 rose as well, mostly aligning with support for Trump across all three groups. “What is most alarming to me is that the election is clear that America has shifted right by a lot,” said William He, founder of Dream For America, a liberal group that works to turn out young voters and supported Harris’ presidential bid. With his bombastic demeanor and a policy agenda centered on a more macho understanding of culture , Trump framed much of his campaign as a pitch to men who felt scorned by the country’s economy, culture and political system. Young women also slightly swung toward the former president, though not to the degree of their male counterparts. It's unclear how many men simply did not vote this year. But there's no doubt the last four years brought changes in youth culture and how political campaigns set out to reach younger voters. Democrat Kamala Harris' campaign rolled out policy agendas tailored to Black and Latino men, and the campaign enlisted a range of leaders in Black and Hispanic communities to make the case for the vice president. Her campaign began with a flurry of enthusiasm from many young voters, epitomized in memes and the campaign's embrace of pop culture trends like the pop star Charli XCX's “brat” aesthetic . Democrats hoped to channel that energy into their youth voter mobilization efforts. “I think most young voters just didn’t hear the message,” said Santiago Mayer, executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, a liberal group that engages younger voters. Mayer said the Harris campaign’s pitch to the country was “largely convoluted” and centered on economic messaging that he said wasn’t easily conveyed to younger voters who were not already coming to political media. “And I think that the policies themselves were also very narrow and targeted when what we really needed was a simple, bold economic vision,” said Mayer. Trump also embraced pop culture by appearing at UFC fights, football games and appearing alongside comedians, music stars and social media influencers. His strategists believed that the former president’s ability to grab attention and make his remarks go viral did more for the campaign than paid advertisements or traditional media appearances. Trump's campaign also heavily cultivated networks of online conservative platforms and personalities supportive of him while also engaging a broader universe of podcasts, streaming sites, digital media channels and meme pages open to hearing him. “The right has been wildly successful in infiltrating youth political culture online and on campus in the last couple of years, thus radicalizing young people towards extremism,” said He, who cited conservative activist groups like Turning Point USA as having an outsize impact in online discourse. “And Democrats have been running campaigns in a very old fashioned way. The battleground these days is cultural and increasingly on the internet.” Republicans may lose their broad support if they don't deliver on improving Americans' lives, Struve cautioned. Young men, especially, may drift from the party in a post-Trump era if the party loses the president-elect's authenticity and bravado. Bienvenido, for one group, will double down in the coming years to solidify and accelerate the voting pattern shifts seen this year, Struve said. “We don’t want this to be a one and done thing,” he said. Associated Press writer Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan, and AP polling editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux contributed to this report.No. 16 Cincinnati tests efficient offense vs. Alabama State
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Intech Investment Management LLC boosted its holdings in Hanmi Financial Co. ( NASDAQ:HAFC – Free Report ) by 1.1% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 37,706 shares of the bank’s stock after purchasing an additional 414 shares during the period. Intech Investment Management LLC’s holdings in Hanmi Financial were worth $701,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company grew its position in shares of Hanmi Financial by 8.5% during the 2nd quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company now owns 11,568 shares of the bank’s stock worth $193,000 after buying an additional 911 shares during the period. Royce & Associates LP grew its holdings in Hanmi Financial by 0.6% in the third quarter. Royce & Associates LP now owns 192,802 shares of the bank’s stock worth $3,586,000 after purchasing an additional 1,089 shares during the period. Point72 Asia Singapore Pte. Ltd. increased its stake in Hanmi Financial by 47.0% in the second quarter. Point72 Asia Singapore Pte. Ltd. now owns 3,773 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $63,000 after purchasing an additional 1,207 shares in the last quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC raised its holdings in shares of Hanmi Financial by 13.3% during the second quarter. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC now owns 19,887 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $333,000 after purchasing an additional 2,328 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Performance Advisors LLP bought a new position in shares of Hanmi Financial during the 3rd quarter worth about $49,000. 88.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Hanmi Financial Stock Down 1.1 % HAFC stock opened at $26.45 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $798.68 million, a PE ratio of 12.72 and a beta of 0.84. The company has a quick ratio of 0.99, a current ratio of 1.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.58. Hanmi Financial Co. has a twelve month low of $14.45 and a twelve month high of $27.59. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $22.33 and its 200-day moving average is $19.27. Hanmi Financial Announces Dividend The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, November 20th. Investors of record on Monday, November 4th were issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.78%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, November 4th. Hanmi Financial’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 48.08%. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of brokerages recently commented on HAFC. Piper Sandler raised Hanmi Financial from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their target price for the company from $20.00 to $25.50 in a research report on Thursday, October 24th. Wedbush restated a “neutral” rating and set a $21.00 price objective on shares of Hanmi Financial in a report on Wednesday, October 23rd. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods upgraded Hanmi Financial from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $20.00 to $22.00 in a report on Wednesday, October 2nd. Janney Montgomery Scott upgraded shares of Hanmi Financial from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, November 15th. Finally, DA Davidson raised their price objective on shares of Hanmi Financial from $20.00 to $22.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Hanmi Financial presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $22.63. Get Our Latest Analysis on HAFC Hanmi Financial Profile ( Free Report ) Hanmi Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for Hanmi Bank that provides business banking products and services in the United States. It offers various deposit products, including noninterest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Further Reading Want to see what other hedge funds are holding HAFC? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Hanmi Financial Co. ( NASDAQ:HAFC – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Hanmi Financial Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Hanmi Financial and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
ATHLETICS Bendigo Region's rising stars were in great form across last weekend's Australian All Schools field and track championships at Mt Gravatt near Brisbane. or signup to continue reading An outstanding haul of two gold, four silver and a bronze was collected across the three-day meet which involved hundreds of students. Two Bendigo residential records were also broken on the track at the titles. Six schools in central and northern Victoria were represented in the Big V team. Gold was struck by Bendigo South East Secondary College's Jordyn Lewis in the under-14 pole vault final. The year 7 seven student who competes for South Bendigo in AV Shield League cleared a mark of 2.75m. It was a one-two result in the under-17 girls 2000m steeplechase as Girton Grammar's Abbey Reid charged to victory in 7:13.40. Silver went the way of Sarah Fitzpatrick from Sacred Heart College Kyneton in a season-best 7:17.98. Reid competes for Bendigo University, and Fitzpatrick with South Bendigo. Silver and bronze were won by Bendigo South East's Avery McDermid in the under-17 1500m and 800m. A great meet for the BSE Dragons' gun began with second placing in the 1500m in 3:52.53. The University Pride athlete then ran the 800m in 1:52.55 to claim bronze and also broke the Bendigo under-17 residential record. A great track season for BSE's Chelsea Tickell kept rolling as she adapted to the hot conditions and fast pace in the under-16 1500m final to be runner-up in 4:34.89. The South Bendigo athlete set a Bendigo under-16 residential record in a season-best time. Bloods' clubmate Kai Norton excelled in the under-16 hammer and javelin finals. The Weeroona College student marked a season-best of 54.58m to claim silver at javelin. Norton's best of 48.68m with the 4kg hammer earned fourth place. Sacred Heart Kyneton's Hailey Stubbs hurled the hammer to a mark of 46.96m to be fifth in the under-17 contest. A great competitor in various field disciplines, Stubbs represents Bendigo Harriers in Shield League. Girton Grammar's Kate Wilson achieved a season-best of 1.63m to be fifth in the under-16 high jump. Wilson is a member of the strong Eaglehawk Athletics Club. A season-best time of 8:14.76 by Marist College Bendigo's Charlise McQueen in the 2000m steeplechase earned fourth place in the under-15 category. McQueen will be a key player in Eaglehawk's quest to again be number one at next month's Victoria Country field and track championships at Lar Birpa in Bendigo. St Joseph's College Echuca's Scarlett Southern ran in the under-18 400m. A season-best of 58.12 earned third place in her heat. Now racing for Echuca Moama in AVSL, Southern ran the final in 58.53 to be fifth. Sacred Heart College's Tyler Fynch will be in Brisbane this Saturday to contest the 3000m for the under-15 boys class. Meanwhile, University's Michael Fanning "wiped out" the opposition as he won the 5000m leg in the latest round of the Parker Electrical-backed Tuesday Night Series for athletes at Lar Birpa in Flora Hill. A race of 12 1/2 laps drew eight starters in which Fanning powered away to take honours in a time of 16:58. Runner-up was Eaglehawk's Trevor Kelly, 19:47, as Bendigo Harriers' Thomas Hobson clocked 19:57 to be third. In the 3000m it was University's Mitch Fitzgerald who won a closely-fought first heat. Fitzgerald crossed the line in 10:58 as Daniel Ryan, racing on invitation basis, was next best in 11 minutes. Third placegetter was University's Lee McCullagh in 11:56. Fastest female and fourth overall was Vansessa Garry in 12:23 on another great night for University Pride. Heat two of the 3000m was led by invitation runners, David Stevens and Ryan Hon. Victory went to Stevens in 9:44 as Hon clocked 9:46. Third placegetter was University's Shaun White in 9:50. South Bendigo's Jake Hilson warmed up for this weekend's Zatopek 10 challenge by winning the first of the 1000m races in 2:33. Hilson will make his way to Lakeside Stadium this Saturday to team up with Bloods' clubmate Oliver Muggleton and Eaglehawk's Angus McKindlay and Fletch Watchman in the open 4 x 400m final. Runner-up in the first of Tuesday night's 1000m heats was University's Milanke Haasbroek in 3:28 as clubmate Lyla Edwards ran the 2 1/2 laps in 3:33 to be third. It was a Bendigo Little Athletics treble in heat two as Chloe Jackson led the way from Pippa Coleman and Airlie Intamanon. Another leg in the Tuesday Night Series will be run next week from 7pm at Lar Birpa in Flora Hill's Retreat Road. Meanwhile, round four in the Bendigo Athletics Club's distance series will be run on Thursday night at the Tom Flood Sports Centre in Barnard Street. Athletes will race 1000 metres as the BAC teams up with the Bendigo and District Cycling Club to continue the long-running tradition. 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While immigration officials have used the tech for years, an October letter from the Department of Homeland Security obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how those tools — some of them powered by AI — help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled. One algorithm, for example, ranks immigrants with a “Hurricane Score,” ranging from 1-5, to assess whether someone will “abscond” from the agency's supervision. The letter, sent by DHS Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Eric Hysen to the immigrant rights group Just Futures Law, revealed that the score calculates the potential risk that an immigrant — with a pending case — will fail to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The algorithm relies on several factors, he said, including an immigrant’s number of violations and length of time in the program, and whether the person has a travel document. Hysen wrote that ICE officers consider the score, among other information, when making decisions about an immigrant’s case. “The Hurricane Score does not make decisions on detention, deportation, or surveillance; instead, it is used to inform human decision-making,” Hysen wrote. Also included in the government’s tool kit is a mobile app called SmartLINK that uses facial matching and can track an immigrant’s specific location. Nearly 200,000 people without legal status who are in removal proceedings are enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program, under which certain immigrants can live in the U.S. while their immigration cases are pending. In exchange, SmartLINK and GPS trackers used by ICE rigorously surveil them and their movements. The phone application draws on facial matching technology and geolocation data, which has been used before to find and arrest those using the app. Just Futures Law wrote to Hysen earlier this year, questioning the fairness of using an algorithm to assess whether someone is a flight risk and raising concerns over how much data SmartLINK collects. Such AI systems, which score or screen people, are used widely but remain largely unregulated even though some have been found to discriminate on race, gender or other protected traits. DHS said in an email that it is committed to ensuring that its use of AI is transparent and safeguards privacy and civil rights while avoiding biases. The agency said it is working to implement the Biden administration’s requirements on using AI , but Hysen said in his letter that security officials may waive those requirements for certain uses. Trump has publicly vowed to repeal Biden's AI policy when he returns to the White House in January. “DHS uses AI to assist our personnel in their work, but DHS does not use the outputs of AI systems as the sole basis for any law enforcement action or denial of benefits,” a spokesperson for DHS told the AP. Trump has not revealed how he plans to carry out his promised deportation of an estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally. Although he has proposed invoking wartime powers, as well as military involvement, the plan would face major logistical challenges — such as where to keep those who have been detained and how to find people spread across the country — that AI-powered surveillance tools could potentially address. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump, did not answer questions about how they plan to use DHS’ tech, but said in a statement that “President Trump will marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation” in American history. Over 100 civil society groups sent a letter on Friday urging the Office of Management and Budget to require DHS to comply with the Biden administration’s guidelines. OMB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Just Futures Law’s executive director, Paromita Shah, said if immigrants are scored as flight risks, they are more likely to remain in detention, "limiting their ability to prepare a defense in their case in immigration court, which is already difficult enough as it is.” SmartLINK, part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, is run by BI Inc., a subsidiary of the private prison company The GEO Group. The GEO Group also contracts with ICE to run detention centers. ICE is tight-lipped about how it uses SmartLINK’s location feature to find and arrest immigrants. Still, public records show that during Trump’s first term in 2018, Manassas, Virginia-based employees of BI Inc. relayed immigrants’ GPS locations to federal authorities, who then arrested over 40 people. In a report last year to address privacy issues and concerns, DHS said that the mobile app includes security features that “prohibit access to information on the participant’s mobile device, with the exception of location data points when the app is open.” But the report notes that there remains a risk that data collected from people "may be misused for unauthorized persistent monitoring.” Such information could also be stored in other ICE and DHS databases and used for other DHS mission purposes, the report said. On investor calls earlier this month, private prison companies were clear-eyed about the opportunities ahead. The GEO Group’s executive chairman George Christopher Zoley said that he expects the incoming Trump administration to “take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.” “In GEO’s ISAP program, we can scale up from the present 182,500 participants to several hundreds of thousands, or even millions of participants,” Zoley said. That same day, the head of another private prison company told investors he would be watching closely to see how the new administration may change immigrant monitoring programs. “It’s an opportunity for multiple vendors to engage ICE about the program going forward and think about creative and innovative solutions to not only get better outcomes, but also scale up the program as necessary,” Damon Hininger, CEO of the private prison company CoreCivic Inc. said on an earnings call. GEO did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement, CoreCivic said that it has played “a valued but limited role in America’s immigration system” for both Democrats and Republicans for over 40 years.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100
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