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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/

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/

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/

What did he do to get WRAP? He asked for his heart medication. Here are some links with info you can take to your aldermen ASAP. First, my Mother Jones story on Omni and Stonepeak from January: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...