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“GEO strongly disagrees with these baseless allegations, which are part of a long-standing, politically motivated, and radical campaign to abolish ICE and end federal immigration detention by attacking the federal government’s immigration facility contractors,” a GEO Group spokesperson said in a statement.

Gen. Harmeet Dhillon, seven senators — including Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California — cited reports that Dhillon had emailed directives changing long-standing enforcement goals to employees, including in sections that are “meant to protect voting rights, prevent discrimination by federal funding recipients, investigate illegal bias in housing, prohibit discrimination in education, and defend the rights of those with disabilities.”

Others warned that Dhillon would ignore the division’s long-standing principles and recast it in her own image by focusing on ways to limit rights instead of protect them — especially for vulnerable groups such as transgender people.

In the first few months of the Trump regime, the administration has terminated over 250,000 federal civil servants and tossed out long-standing collective bargaining agreements.

"Spain has a lot of experience of wind and solar, and a long-standing system of forecasting weather and its impacts," he said.