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HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

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WHY is Omni the worst of the worst? Because they do all the large-jet ICE removals to Africa and Asia. A) Everyone onboard is shackled at the wrists, ankles and waist for the duration. Sometimes as long as 82 hours. Yes EIGHTY-TWO HOURS. That is torture and can be deadly. 2/

B) Omni has done at least 31 third-country deportations since Stonepeak bought them in April 2025. They've flown hundreds of migrants to countries they've never even been to, including: -South Americans to DR Congo in April -Syrians, Afghans and Iranians to Central African Republic (last week!) 3/

Plus, chain refoulements and third-country removals of legal asylum-seekers with no criminal records to: Cameroon, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kuwait, Israel, Moldova, Poland, Qatar, Sierra Leone, and Uzbekistan. 4/

A bunch of Omni flight attendants have quit recently because it has gotten so bad. One told me they were on a third-country removal flight to Ghana where ICE-contracted GEO Group guards onboard tied a guy up in a full-body straitjacket, who started screaming, "I'm already dead! I'm already dead!" 5/