Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That`s because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants.

Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.

The Dallas Morning News(dallasnews.com): The university is facing a projected $45 million shortfall as international student enrollment falls (P)

Trump`s illegal rule preventing legal immigrants from holding commercial driver’s licenses has taken effect.

Almost 200,000 drivers will have their income ripped away.

We`re suing to stop this rule and ensure immigrant truck drivers can keep our country running.

Damaris Bello’s mom, #DACA recipient Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, was deported after 25 years in the US. She was detained at a green card appointment.

Bello said she struggles to understand “how something like this can happen in a country that talks so much about fairness and justice” 👇🏽

Gabe Ortíz(tusk81.bsky.social): Dreamers are Americans, period.
And they deserve permanent relief, now.

“No daughter should have to live like this,” said the daughter of one recently-deported #DACA recipient. “No family should be torn apart like this.”

(americasvoicecnn.substack.com)

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame.

We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

Mike Walker(newnarrative.bsky.social): Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody.
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

(independent.co.uk)

📍 𝐋𝐀𝐒 𝐕𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐒, 𝐍𝐕:

A woman married to a U.S. Marine veteran was arrested five minutes into her green card interview – after waiting five years for the appointment – despite being eligible for a green card through her U.S. citizen spouse.
(newsnationnow.com)

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:

“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

“As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”

Immigrants in Minnesota have been released from detention centers without work permits, Social Security cards, licenses, and other documents that prove their status.

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

(motherjones.com)

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
(theguardian.com)

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year.

Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

Despite what Trump says, human trafficking is mostly a homegrown offense. 96% of ppl charged were for US citizens. Just 2% were undocumented immigrants.

96 percent of people charged with human trafficking are U.S. citizens
Just 26 undocumented immigrants faced federal trafficking charges in 2023.

(reason.com)

“I feel like while our eyes are on Minneapolis, people tend to forget that they’ve never left Los Angeles.

I’ve even had to clarify to different people who believe that Border Patrol and ICE left LA a long time ago, and that’s never been the case.“

As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind
As the Trump administration aims to deport millions of people over the next four years, “Reveal” tells the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.

(revealnews.org)

US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap
Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

(newyorker.com)

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋:

Cardinal Blase Cupich, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, shares that priests in the archdiocese have been stopped by federal agents and asked to prove their immigration status — demands he said were “because of their color.“ #AbuseofPowerWatch

Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof
“I`ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they`re citizens. That`s not America,“ the Chicago card...

(ncronline.org)

A Missouri grandma spent months in detention for a decade-old misdemeanor.

Her story underscores just how far the Trump administration is willing to go in its quest to boost deportations, extending its dragnet to people who are legally present in the country. https://wapo.st/4cqbLvn
(wapo.st)

“Violent Criminals Make Up Tiny Fraction of Immigrants Targeted By Trump Admin,“ “A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho,“ “These are people’s livelihoods’: Minnesota’s economy in crisis amid ICE surge,“ and more must-read #immigration news.
(americasvoice.org)

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social (irishtimes.com)

ICE`s decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

Daniel Silliman(danielsilliman.bsky.social): A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Ilan Wurman`s anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won`t mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone`s favor, but certainly not a scholar`s.

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...
(twincities.com)

“Trump has imposed executive orders blocking travel from nationals of more than three dozen countries, including four which have qualified for the World Cup....“ One of those 4 is Senegal, which is the current reigning champion of Africa. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
(politico.com)

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: “We`re hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they`re here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop“

As of today, 90% of African legal immigration has been banned. Overall, half of all legal immigrants are banned. These people are pro-illegal immigration. They want immigration to be illegal. (cato.org)

This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
(wfaa.com)

This is such an important point. That 5-year-old and his dad should never been detained in the first place! That`s because they were already in the system and going through the legal process to seek asylum — and their arrest was seemingly just to juice ICE`s numbers.

Greg Sargent(gregsargent.bsky.social): This kid and his father entered via CBP One app. It`s just absurd and monumentally unfair for people who availed themselves of lawful channels when they existed by following government processes to suddenly get detained and deported to a third country.

newrepublic.com/article/2056...

This article, in which @gregsargent.bsky.social points out that Vance is play acting Goebbels to Miller’s Himmler, is spot on

The propaganda is casting an immigrant, who entered legally under the law at the time, as an illegal, due to a change under Trump that stripped him of protection

Read it ????

Greg Sargent(gregsargent.bsky.social): It`s now very clear that JD Vance is consciously taking on the role of putting a softer face on Stephen Miller`s fascism. Vance is becoming chief propagandist for ICE`s violent paramilitary warfare against Americans.

Some thoughts on that in this piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
(washingtonpost.com)

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.”

This is Nick’s story.
(thehandbasket.co)

Trump officials insist they are focused on deporting hardened criminals.

In reality, despite the unprecedented $75 billion Congress approved to help ICE arrest and detain people, there probably aren’t a million unauthorized immigrants with criminal records to target.
(motherjones.com)

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions

ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. ICE records first detention death of 2026.
(austinkocher.substack.com)

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular.

Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.

On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. (nytimes.com)

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.
(washingtonpost.com)

This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention:

A veteran, Trump-voting spouse
9 US descendants
Letter signed by 18 Senators
30 character witnesses
(star-telegram.com)

“`I have my ID!` Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond.“
(mprnews.org)

Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.
(n.pr)

“The Trump administration’s barrage of measures in its assault on legal immigration will face challenges in the courts, but as the back-and-forth continues, the damage to individuals, families, communities, and the economy is real and palpable,“ writes Maribel Hastings this week.
(americasvoice.org)

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student`s arrest.
(nytimes.com)

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn`t do this for wanted criminals.

Hamed Aleaziz(haleaziz.bsky.social): SCOOP: T (www.nytimes.com)

My electrician is a green card holder who`s been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he`s been locked up for a month.

Today with @haleaziz.bsky.social :
Most of the Korean workers detained during an ICE raid on a Ga. battery plant last week were on short-term businesses visas. In at least one case, ICE acknowledged a worker hadn`t violated his visa, and forced him to deport anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
(nytimes.com)

Trump has stripped, or moved to strip, Temporary Protected Status from over:

- 605,000 Venezuelans
- 330,700 Haitians
- 51,200 Hondurans,
- 8,100 Afghans
- 7,100 Nepalese
- 4,900 Cameroonians
- 2,900 Nicaraguans

These figures don`t even count the hundreds of thousands of parole terminations.

will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he`s been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.

“What documents?“ agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.

“The ones in your hands!“ witnesses yell back.

Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

Donald Trump’s policies on foreign students are harming America’s universities. Innovation and entrepreneurship will also suffer as a consequence
(econ.st)

They said ICE would go after criminals. They are arresting cops.

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I`ve heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt(royalpratt.bsky.social): NEWS: IC (www.chicagotribune.com)

Trump said he`d focus on the “worst of the worst,“ but he`s mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who`s lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel. 

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she`s finally home.
(thebanner.com)

It’s wildly unacceptable to crack down on LEGAL immigration and people getting their green cards the right way. My office is looking into this.
(10news.com)

President Donald Trump`s administration will not permit supporters from Haiti to enter the United States next summer after the nation qualified for the World Cup.

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country`s doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
(n.pr)

Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US

Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.

Will Stancil(whstancil.bsky.social): Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...

“Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony“
(people.com)

A new Senate investigation led by @blumenthal.senate.gov finds that federal immigration agents unlawfully detained and brutalized at least 22 American citizens, contradicting Sec. Noem’s claim that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained.”

#AbuseOfPowerWatch
(migrantinsider.com)

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.

If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

Trump promised to go after the “worst of the worst.” He lied.

ICE has arrested 75,000 people with no criminal record. That includes green card holders, people with valid visas, and even U.S. citizens.
(nbcnews.com)

ICYMI: Here is a pair of troubling #immigration headlines coming from Florida

1) Florida Atlantic Univ. (FAU) police would be able to stop, question, and detain students they believe might be undocumented. It’s part of the ICE 287(g) program, which delegates that authority to local police agencies
(nbcmiami.com)

NEW: @elfaroenglish.bsky.social identified a SECOND man sent to El Salvador and imprisoned who is married to a US citizen.

Jesús Ríos entered the US at a port of entry in 2023 seeking asylum. His wife started the green card process in January.

Like most sent to CECOT, he has no criminal record.

ICE arrest U.S. citizen father of 4—locking him up in jail for almost a week.

"One of the agents pointed at me and said, 'Just get him, he's Mexican,'" he explained.

Security camera footage proved he didn't "resist" agents—but they still tackled him to ground bloodying his arm.

His attorneys are worried because the charges were dropped "without prejudice"—so prosecutors can still refile charges at any time.

Javier Ramirez says he has been traumatized—constantly looking over his shoulder in his hometown of Montebello, California.

"They are literally racial profiling us. If you even look Latino, they will come and get you," he concluded.

This is fucking insane—NBC is reporting ICE deported a four-year-old with stage-four kidney cancer to Honduras despite him being an American citizen. I don’t know if they’ll ever face justice in this life, but I pray to God they get it in the next. Absolute ghouls.

Despite being American citizens, three children — a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 kidney cancer, his 7-year-old sister and a 2-year-old girl — were swept up along with their families by immigration authorities in Louisiana and quickly sent to Honduras, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the families.

The suit alleges that despite the government’s own directives, the parents “were never given a choice as to whether their children should be deported with them and were prohibited from contacting their counsel or having meaningful contact with their families to arrange for the care of their children.” The mothers, named in the suit as Rosario and Julia, allege they wanted their children to remain in the U.S.

(nbcnews.com)

Calling for the deportation of an American citizen for saying something you don't like is 100000x more un-American than criticizing the government--the right to do so being a foundational principle of our nation.

Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl): UCLA student Jamie Han curses at ICE and at the Trump administration during her disgraceful graduation speech. Han is a Chinese-American actress with a degree in hating America. She wants our country ruined by illegals.

Deport her back to China.

You’re watching masked federal agents assault and disappear an American citizen into an unmarked van.

Her name is Amanda Trebach—an ICU nurse and a U.S. citizen.

She was lawfully participating in a community observation patrol near an ICE staging area, monitoring unmarked vans believed to be participating in immigration raids.

For that, she was kidnapped, thrown face-down, cuffed, and hauled off in an unmarked van.

If they can do this to a nurse on a public street, they can do it to you.

This is America under Trump.

Wilmer Chavarria, a US citizen, Global Entry member, and Vermont school superintendent, was detained returning to the US from a trip abroad with his husband. CBP told him he had "no Constitutional rights," took his phone and laptop, and revoked his Global Entry.

(m.sevendaysvt.com)

Judge Crenshaw orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia released pending trial, finding that he is not a danger to the community and writing that the Trump administration’s key allegations again him “border on fanciful.”
h/t @cristianfarias.com

These representations of Abrego's conduct, while undoubtedly serious, are not enough in conjunction with Agent Joseph's limited testimony about guns and drugs to carry the Government's burden. Nor does the Government's poor attempts to tie Abrego to MS-13 get it there. Of the three witnesses Agent Joseph testified about that discussed Abrego's purported affiliation with MS-13, the closest any of them come to stating that Abrego is a member of MS-13 is two witnesses stating he was "familial" with gang members and a third witness stating she "believed" him to be a member. Entirely absent from the record, however, are any indications that such "belief" is rooted in fact or that such "familial" nature came from his actual membership in or support of MS-13 rather than the simple fact that he, like many members of MS-13, is El Salvadorian. For instance, there is no evidence before the Court that Abrego: has markings or tattoos showing gang affiliation; has working relationships with known MS-13 members; ever told any of the witnesses that he is a MS-13 member; or has ever been affiliated with any sort of gang activity. To the contrary, Agent Joseph presented testimony based on statements from cooperating witnesses that Abrego transported both Barrio and MS-13 members alike, and was cordial with both during those trips. This cuts against the already slim evidence demonstrating Abrego is a member of MS-13. Based on the record before it, for the Court to find that Abrego is member of or in affiliation with MS-13, it would have to make so many inferences from the Government's proffered evidence in its favor that such conclusion would border on fanciful.

Judge Crenshaw also prohibits ICE from taking Abrego Garcia into custody upon his release from jail and bars the government from expelling him to a third country without due process. (storage.courtlistener.com)

These are the Afghans that American promised to help, and Trump is sending back to the Taliban.

The Afghans include: A woman whose husband the Taliban regime killed after he fought alongside the U.S. military. A man who worked with NATO in Afghanistan, then spent nearly a year living like a "prisoner" in Qatar. A woman in Pakistan whose young son was killed while she waited for the U.S. to process her asylum claim.

(washingtonpost.com)

ICE abruptly stops car in middle of road—pulls out gun or taser & rushes to confront woman driver.

Agents know exactly who the woman is—a well known activist who's been filming ICE for weeks.

This is retaliation against a U.S. citizen—just for exercising their First Amendment right to film law enforcement in public spaces.

The incident took place in Ventura County, California.

A Mexican TOURIST with a valid visa is now being held in the Everglades detention camp.

The racist targeting of Latinos by the State of Florida is sending shockwaves internationally.

Mexican tourists are the third largest group of international visitors to the Orlando area.

"The brothers’ detention has become an international incident, with the Mexican Consulate issuing a warning to its citizens about visiting Orlando and Mexico’s president demanding they be returned home 'immediately.'"

"Central Florida broke records in 2024 for tourism, and 6.5 million visitors came from outside the U.S. Mexican tourists made up the third-largest group of international visitors, according to recent data from Visit Orlando."
(orlandosentinel.com)

Naturalized citizen, separated from his husband, interrogated for hours, and told he had no rights at a point of entry into the US. His global entry has been revoked for unspecified reasons

Chris Morran (themorrancave.bsky.social): “I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."

(wmtw.com)

ICE arrest U.S. citizen in Florida for "looking illegal"—his camera recorded what agents say if they think nobody's listening.

Agent 1: "We're going to end up shooting someone."

Agent 2: "Just remember, you can smell that with a $30,000 bonus."

Agent 1: "Yeah!" (agents laugh)

Kenny Laynez, 18, was detained for 6 hours—despite proving he is a U.S. citizen.

He was traveling in a van to a landscaping job in Palm Beach, Florida.

His mother was driving—she is legally present in the U.S. but not a citizen.

ICE disappears a U.S. citizen without formally booking him for 10 hours—just for filming them.

Man filming "told the border patrol agent he was short and it hurt his feelings."

"You threatening me?" the agent yells back in response to wisecrack about his height.

That's when the witness started recording the video on her phone—according to Gwen Filosa Media in Key West, Florida.

Dan Mathers was observing the ICE raid from a safe distance—with a very large row of hedges between them—not in any position to interfere with the arrest.

He was finally able to contact his family at 2:00am the next morning.

AWFUL scenario. Border Patrol agents raided a car wash and arrested a DACA recipient working there. He has a REAL ID, but they didn't even let him show his ID, they just grabbed him and threw him in a van.

He was then detained for a MONTH before getting bond.

Andrea R. Flores (@Arosaflores): This is a terrifying case. DHS did not recognize DACA as a protective status, & proceeded to arrest & detain Diaz. With the massive increase in enforcement that is about to start, are DACA recipients also enforcement targets?

(latimes.com)

ICE just ripped a father from his car outside his child’s PRESCHOOL in Beaverton, Oregon.

Masked thugs shattered his window like a SWAT raid—while his child, a toddler, was in the car.

Mahdi Khanbabazadeh is married to a U.S. citizen and mid–green card process. This wasn’t about law—it was about cruelty, fear, and power.

ICE has become a rogue force, snatching parents in front of kids. Schools aren’t safe. Homes aren’t safe. We must ABOLISH ICE.

Raise hell. Share this story. Call your reps and demand action. End family separation. End this war on immigrants.
(opb.org)

ICE detain U.S. citizen outside grocery store—beat him with baton, shove his head into the ground & give him a concussion.

"I told them where I was born, I had an ID, a social, a birth certificate," he said. "They didn't' care about none of that."

Now in the hospital after his family says he passed out twice & couldn't stop vomiting—video evidence shows he must have been given a concussion by agents during arrest.

Angel Pina was racially profiled for arrest during an ICE raid at a Stater Bros. Markets store in Ontario, California.

"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?
(theatlantic.com)

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador:
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings

These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
(propublica.org)

Everyone I saw detained at 26 Fed last week, like the young man below, followed the rules by attending their court dates. Judges granted them hearings on their asylum applications, signaling they were safe for the time being, before masked and armed agents ambushed them.

A New Hampshire man is not being allowed to return home after taking a family trip to Canada.

Chris Landry is a legal U.S. resident and has lived in the Granite State since he was 3 years old. He has a partner, five children and a job in manufacturing.

He was stopped Sunday at the border in Houlton, Maine, while returning from a family vacation. “They denied me re-entry and said, ‘Don’t come back or we will detain you,’ and the only way for me to get back in was to see an immigration judge,” he told NBC10 Boston from New Brunswick.

In 2004 and 2007, Landry faced charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license, but he says he’s had no criminal record since then. He was given a suspended sentence and paid his fines.

Landry, who lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, was with three of his children (all citizens) when he was stopped at the border. Landry says he goes to Canada at least once a year and has never had a problem until now.
(nbcnews.com)

The MLB Players' Association has urged non-U.S. born members, which include some @tigers.bsky.social, to carry documentation to avoid confusion over immigration.
(freep.com)

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran who has been held in federal custody since Thursday, was released without charges this evening.

Mr. Retes was wrongfully arrested while driving near the chaotic and deadly raid targeting farm workers near Camarillo, CA on July 10. His wife was unable to contact him and located his abandoned vehicle with the windows smashed and a smell of chemical agent inside.

Irish tourist jailed 100 days by ICE after overstaying US visit by 3 days — because he was too sick to fly: report

The visitor, a father of three from Ireland identified as Thomas, was visiting his girlfriend in West Virginia last fall when he fell sick, the newspaper reported. He overstayed the 90 days he was allowed to be in the country under the visa waiver program by three days,

Specifically, per the report, "He had initially planned to return home in October, but badly tore his calf, suffered severe swelling and was having trouble walking." The report stated that a doctor had ordered him not to travel due to a risk of blood clots.

He was only three days overdue to leave, had medical paperwork confirming his condition, and had proactively reached out to both the Irish and American embassies and the Department of Homeland Security to explain the situation, the Guardian reported.
(rawstory.com)

ICE detains mom & 4 U.S. citizen children—just for hugging her sister on Canada border.

Accidentally taking 1 step over the line saying goodbye "triggered this unfounded accusation."

Family has been locked up for over 2 weeks "in windowless cell without access to legal counsel"

Peace Arch State Park in Washington state has long been considered a neutral to visit on the U.S/Canadian border—something Kenia Jackeline Merlos & her family have routinely done without incident.

"It is wholly unprecedented to detain any individual for weeks without cause—let alone four U.S. citizens," said Congresswoman Maxine Dexter.

"This is what authoritarianism looks like. Citizen children abducted. Community members disappeared. We cannot look away. We cannot back down."
(kgw.com)

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.

This man has no citizenship now. (austinchronicle.com)

It is no secret that I have profound disagreements with Zohran Mamdani. But every Democrat - and every decent person - should speak out with moral clarity against the despicable Islamophobic attacks that have been directed at him.
Demanding the deportation of an American citizen simply because he is Muslim - or simply because he holds political views different from your own - is not only bigoted. It is profoundly unAmerican. Bigotry in every form should be rejected unequivocally.

Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles): Zohran "little muhammad" Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings. Attached is my letter to @AGPamBondi.

🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.

If this action is not blocked in court, this would mean that by this fall, the Trump admin would have "de-documented" over ONE MILLION PEOPLE, stripping their ability to work legally and subjecting them to possible deportation.

Hundreds of thousands of them entered legally.

As the Trump admin claims Haiti is safe now, here are multiple articles from the last 48 hours showing how much that is a complete lie! The gang still control large parts of Port-au-Prince, the international security force is failing, and displacement has hit record levels.

The Trump administration is 100% lying when they claim Haiti is safe, as even their own government agencies say it is not. Below is what the US government itself still says about Haiti. This is NOT a safe place to send people. It's a death sentence.

Trump's animus against Haitians is extremely well-documented.

The economic impacts of terminating TPS for Haiti is dramatic, and will be heavily felt by red states too; Ohio, Florida, Kansas... lots of those states have tens of thousands of Haitians living and working there legally right now. We're talking hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in a single day. (travel.state.gov)

The Trump administration wants to take away citizenship from naturalized Americans on a massive scale.

While a recent Justice Department memo prioritizes national security cases, it directs the department to “maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence” across 10 broad priority categories.

The Trump administration’s “maximal enforcement” approach means pursuing any case where evidence might support taking away citizenship, regardless of priority level or strength of evidence. As our earlier research documented, this has already led to cases like that of Baljinder Singh, whose citizenship was revoked based on a name discrepancy that could easily have resulted from a translator’s error rather than intentional fraud.

The Supreme Court, in Afroyim v. Rusk, was focused on protecting existing citizens from losing their citizenship. The constitutional principle behind that decision – that citizenship is a fundamental right which can’t be arbitrarily taken away by whoever happens to be in power – applies equally to how the government handles denaturalization cases today.

The Trump administration’s directive, combined with court procedures that lack basic constitutional protections, risks creating a system that the Afroyim v. Rusk decision sought to prevent – one where, as the Supreme Court said, “A group of citizens temporarily in office can deprive another group of citizens of their citizenship.” (yahoo.com)

Just so we’re clear about what’s happening here:

ICE has been instructed to leave cases of ACTUAL CRIMINALS alone (drug smugglers, etc.) so they can go after hardworking farmers and child care workers.

It’s not even about crime. It never was. This is about racism.

At ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division, which has long focused on cartels and major drug-trafficking operations, supervisors have waved agents off new cases so they have more time to make immigration-enforcement arrests, a veteran agent told me. "No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation," the agent said. "It's infuriating." The longtime ICE employee is thinking about quitting rather than having to continue "arresting gardeners."

(theatlantic.com)

Ho Nguyen is facing deportation after an ICE arrest at his immigration court check-in this week. He came to the U.S. from Vietnam at age 13 as part of the Amerasian Homeland Act, for kids fathered by American G.I’s.

His family says he lost his green card due to an illegal gambling charge as a young man. He remained in the U.S. under a work visa, eventually marrying and raising two step kids.

The family told @dylantbrown that restoring his green card is a daunting legal cost and they haven’t located his biological father. They also showed him a letter from his employer, vouching for his work history. As you would expect, his family is devastated.

"Dao said that Ho came to America through the Amerasian Homecoming Act. That specifically allowed Amerasians (those born to at least one American parent) born between 1962 and 1976, along with their immediate relatives, to apply for U.S. residency. The act was a response to the social and economic hardships faced by Amerasians in post-war Vietnam."
(kfor.com)

Immigration attorneys say they’re seeing a growing number of green card holders detained for past criminal convictions, some for cases that are years old.
by Kevin Eagleson (readfrontier.org)

The Trump administration acknowledges in court that sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was a “one-off mistake,” which contradicts the White House’s position and also the fact that two others were erroneously sent to El Salvador and ordered back. (storage.courtlistener.com)

NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people

Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.

TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua are now set to be terminated on September 6, 2025, which is 60 days after the Federal Register notices publish tomorrow.

The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
(404media.co)

One of the plaintiffs is a U.S. citizen working at a car wash that has been raided by Border Patrol multiple times. He gave them his ID but they demanded a passport.

Because he didn’t have one, they detained him and drove him to a different location to check his status.

These people are out of control.

Stone was at the court to observe proceedings and how the federal agents act, which is legal and, according to Ruth Mendez of Detention Resistance, is a 1st Amendment right.

“The fear is very, very real here," Mendez said, "and the volunteers that are showing up today are now coming, knowing that there might be a risk of our own detention.”

No charges have been pressed against Stone, but her family said her phone was confiscated.

Mendez worries there will be invisible impacts — like people deciding not to volunteer. In fact, an officer in the video can be heard suggesting that more people could get detained.

“The message that it sent was very clear: For us to be afraid to come back and do the work that we're doing,” Mendez said, adding that “all Americans should know that this is how their taxpayer money is being spent, and that it is really a crying shame. The people who are actually suffering are the people who are seeking asylum.”

(nbcsandiego.com)

First, you will think how outrageous it is that masked anonymous armed men thought they could just walk into private property and do whatever they want at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Then, you’ll remember that Puerto Ricans are American Citizens and these fools aren’t looking for undocumented immigrants at all.

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni turns over his emails to Congress! Here's one showing how the admin tried to paint Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a "a leader of MS-13," which was shot down since it was clearly made up.

Reuveni says he was fired for telling the truth to a judge.

BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as dangerous criminal & gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued.
DOJ insider Erez Reuveni filed whistleblower complaint in June which you read about. Buried in complaint is also damning info on Abrego Garcia case

Reuveni has now supplied emails. Here's an exchange about admin's effort to paint Abrego as MS-13 "leader"

None of this stopped the smears. In one case, JD Vance told @DouthatNYT that Abrego Garcia was a "high-level" member of MS-13, long after top officials had internally debated this and knew they had no evidence he was a gang leader, as these emails show.

This whistleblower says he pressed Trump officials for evidence of Abrego Garcia's MS-13 ties. He refused to sign a brief that he said contained falsehoods. He was fired.

The whole case stinks from top to bottom in many other ways, too. Here's a rundown:

(newrepublic.com)

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Citizens being assaulted, arrested, and sent to jails. Military-style sweeps of Hispanic neighborhoods. This is what Congress just gave President Trump $150 billion to do to Americans in every state. (aclusocal.org)

Fabian Schmidt says that he still feels "shook" and afraid.

He’s still reeling from his unexpected two-month detention that he described as “dehumanizing.”

The legal permanent resident, who has lived in NH since 2022, was stopped at Logan Airport on March 7 after visiting family in Europe.
(youtube.com)

I was detained at Logan airport after I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos.

When I moved to America from Russia to join a biology lab at Harvard Medical School in 2023, it felt as if I found my dream job. America was a paradise for science. Everything was flourishing. There was freedom of discourse; conferences, seminars. It was nothing like the environment I had left behind in Russia, where international sanctions meant there weren’t enough supplies to do experiments and I once declined a job offer that was contingent on me no longer protesting the war in Ukraine. After I was arrested for taking part in a protest, I fled the country, knowing that I could not continue to live or work as a scientist there. (nytimes.com)

ICE arrests daughter of U.S. Navy veteran—locked in jail over a month.

She was separated from lawyer & detained without medicine—agents crashed her wheelchair into the wall in the process.

Born in Philippines while her father served in Navy—she has lived in U.S. for 48 years.

"She’s an American citizen. That has been clearly established," explained her lawyer.

"In spite of this fact, the U.S. government has refused to recognize her citizenship."

ICE is not permitted to assert its civil immigration enforcement authority to arrest or detain U.S. citizens—even if they have been convicted of a crime.

Alma Bowman is daughter of U.S. Navy veteran who fought in Vietnam.

Listen to her lawyer detail how she was separated from her client—all the while ICE agents were joking around & singing along to "Back That Ass Up" on the radio.

Her lawyer proved she had credible claim to U.S. citizenship—but ICE detained her anyway.

Alma Bowman is still locked up in a federal detention center 1 month later.

Remember when Republicans were losing their minds about leaving Afghans who worked with US troops to be killed by the Taliban?

Well, Trump has revoked their asylum and is planning to send them back to be murdered.

Heartbreaking! Reporting suggests that ICE's Krome facility is operating almost 200 PERCENT above capacity, with 1,700 people crammed into a facility with a maximum capacity of 600.

The conditions have gotten dramatically worse under Trump, threatening health and safety of all.

Immigrants detained at the Krome Detention Center in Florida are protesting being held in deplorable conditions by making a giant SOS sign that can be seen from above.

I don’t know if Americans realize how often ICE arrests US citizens, and how long those citizens can spend detained. I spoke to Davino Watson, who spent 3.5 years in a detention center. He was a citizen every minute of that time. If you get arrested by ICE, could you prove you’re a citizen? Often agents quickly correct their mistake.

But sometimes they don’t:

If Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests you for an immigration-related offense, and you tell the agency you are a citizen, it might not release you. Citizenship isn’t something that you wear on your body. Maybe you pull an ID, a passport, or even a birth certificate, but agents frequently assume these are fake. In that case, you will be taken to a detention center run by a private prison company. You can tell the guards there that you’re a citizen, but they’ll likely respond with some version of “tell it to the judge.” Your immigration-court appearance could be weeks, or even months, away. You will wait behind bars. There’s no right to counsel in immigration court — if you can’t afford a lawyer, you’ll have to represent yourself. When you finally see the inside of a courtroom, it could be what ICE calls a “mass removal” hearing with dozens of other defendants. You won’t have a chance to talk to a judge.

(nymag.com)

Despite legal resident status and having been charged with no crime, Georgetown Peace Scholar Badar Khan Suri has been designated a 'high risk' prisoner and for that reason gets only two hours of outdoor time PER WEEK. His traumatized son "cries all the time" and has ceased speaking. (democracynow.org)

A college student in Georgia who has lived in the US since age four faces a month in prison and then possible deportation after a traffic stop for turning right on a red light.

"DALTON, Ga. — After a traffic stop for turning right on a red light in Dalton on Monday, a 19-year-old Dalton State student is now facing possible deportation.

Friends say Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who has lived in Whitfield County since she was 4, was taken to the Stewart Detention Center wearing chains around her wrists and ankles. There, she'll wait a little over a month before she appears before a judge. That facility is near Columbus about 3 and a half hours away."
(newschannel9.com)

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. Only a day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four who lived on a family farm in Sturgis, Mississippi. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled to the sterile white seats of a detention shuttle in Tennessee, headed southwest, barely able to wriggle.

Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime. He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua. What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was, to the best of his knowledge, a single document. Form I-751, appropriately clinical, a “Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence,” was just one of the endless documents he needed on his decade-plus journey to American citizenship.

Kasper and his wife, Savannah Hobart Eriksen, never submitted that form, which was due all the way back in 2015. She had suffered a stillbirth, losing their first child, and in the days of grief that followed, the deadline slipped right past them. But Kasper’s naturalization continued unimpeded. He corresponded with immigration officials numerous times over the next 10 years, and says agents never warned him that a critical document was missing. He paid taxes each year, reliably contributing a portion of his labor to the nation he already felt a part of.

Authorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as “fake” during an arrest operation targeting undocumented people on Wednesday under the direction of the Trump administration, according to a viral video and reporting by Telemundo.

Washington Post: “many of the immigrants sent to El Salvador had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules.”

The true criminals are in the administration.

ICE caught on video kidnapping man from his home—no uniforms, no ID, no warrant—starts at 55 sec.

"Agents came onto my property, tackled my husband, assaulted him," said wife. "Dragged him to unmarked vehicle."

His I-130 petition was granted recognizing marriage to U.S. citizen as "qualifying relationship" for visa application in 2024.

Martin Diaz was brought to U.S. when he was just 1 & 1/2 years old by his parents fleeing gang violence—he even has a letter from the Michoacan government explaining the dangers his family faced.

A federal database shows he previously had an immigration case that was dismissed in 2012—he does have past criminal record.

However, his wife explained: "Last year we filed our I-130 through our marriage and it was accepted. Then we received a letter in the mail just last week requesting his application for his visa."

Why would they send Martin Diaz a letter asking him to apply for a visa—and then deport him 1 week later?

Martin Diaz was driving to work when he noticed he was being followed.

He returned home—and after exiting his vehicle—was chased, tackled and arrested by unidentified agents.

He was detained by the plainclothed ICE agents just days after receiving notice requesting his visa application following approval of their I-130 "Petition for Alien Relative."

Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler and is married to a U.S. citizen—they live together in Spokane, Washington.

A new WaPo investigation reveals more brazen lawlessness from the Alien Enemies deportations. They found:
-Many of the kidnapped men were in this country legally
-At least 2 were vetted and approved to resettle as refugees
-At least 4 had protections against removal.

This is just of the roughly 50 cases they were able to examine!

We must get these people back. We cannot allow the Trump admin to kidnap people and send them to rot for life in a foreign dungeon!

It keeps getting worse. Two of the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had been approved as refugees and gone through extensive vetting. Others had a legal right to be here.

They don’t even have the idea that they’re illegals to hide behind. It is clear that anyone still defending the administration at this point would have no problem with a mass roundup of political opponents.

Some were political opponents to the Venezuelan regime. This is what we do to dissidents against authoritarian governments now. The moral depravity of the MAGA movement has somehow reached a new low.

The parents at the heart of this story say that ICE is outright lying; they say that the agency refused to give them any choice, actively prevented them from speaking to family, and interfered with their right to consult with their attorney. (nbcnews.com)

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there and completely different people were now living in the house, the ICE arrest team STILL took the family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to even leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back!

(kfor.com/news/)

Wow, finally we get some answer as to what happened! They really did just run all foreign students through law enforcement databases and terminate SEVIS for anyone with a match, no matter the circumstances of the "offense" (including speeding tickets and even dropped charges).

Kyle Cheney (@kyledchene): HAPPENING NOW: DHS official tells court that agency leadership diverted 10-20 employees to run *1.3 million* names of foreign students through database that tracks criminal charges. Took 2-3 weeks.
There were fewer than 6,400 hits (0.004%). But thousands were for charges that never led to convictions or were dropped.
This is the group whose F1 status was revoked by ICE, many of whom also had their State Dept. visas revoked.
ICE/DOJ says State Dept. is who recommended that ICE terminate the students' records in the SEVIS system.

20 armed ICE agents detain mom & 3 daughters dressed only in underwear outside in the rain for hours—they are all U.S. citizens.

Agents took their phones, laptops & life savings in cash—even after proving they weren't suspects.

"They wanted me to change in front of all of them - in all of between them," said the mother.

"My husband has not even seen my daughter in her undergarments—her own dad, because it’s respectful. You have her out there, a minor, in her underwear."

The family had just moved into the Oklahoma City home from Maryland—perhaps ICE was looking for the previous owners—but agents refused to answer any questions.

ICE agents did not even leave a business card—the family has no idea how to get back their phones, electronics, and cash.

"What if I would have been armed," the mother said. "You’re breaking in. What am I supposed to think?"

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. (rollingstone.com)

The story actually gets WORSE
ICE knew this 2 year old girl was a US citizen
And knew there was a guardian who’d keep her in the US
Yet they held her in detention anyway
Using her AS BAIT to get to her father
Only after that failed did they then deport her-without meaningful process
Despicable

They deported a 10 year old girl with brain cancer and birthright citizenship in mid-March and nobody said a word in the press or in government. (nbcnews.com)

This morning ICE deported 3 more US citizen children held incommunicado.

The families were disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well (link)

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ (politico.com)

A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

The judge on Friday scheduled a hearing for May 16, which he said was “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

Doughty’s sharp criticism of the Trump administration is particularly notable because he issued a series of major decisions in favor of Trump and his allies in recent years, most notably backing conservatives in legal challenges to the Biden administration’s efforts to rein in what it claimed was misinformation on social media platforms about vaccines and certain politically charged topics.

SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in (theatlantic.com)

Some international students are suing the U.S. government after their visas have been cancelled. Many of them say they have never been convicted of a crime.

The State Department is revoking international student visas over alleged campus activism. But universities report the cancellation extends far beyond these cases, with many other students now facing deportation. Many students tell NPR, their visas were canceled without explanation, raising questions about the true scope and scale of the government's crackdown. NPR's Emily Feng reports.

SECOND JUDGE IN SECOND CASE ORDERS ADMINISTRATION TO BRING A SECOND ILLEGALLY DEPORTED MAN BACK FROM EL SALVADOR

A Federal judge in a case that is *not* the Abrego Garcia case has ordered the administration to bring back a 20-year-old man (alias for the case is "Cristian") who was deported to El Salvador in direct violation of a Court-endorsed settlement that had been reached 5 years earlier.

In 2019 Cristian was determined to be an unaccompanied alien minor; in a class action lawsuit the Court entered a settlement by which the minor immigrants would NOT BE DEPORTED, but instead would get to remain in the U.S. and apply for asylum when they each turned 18.

When he turned 18 he filed a claim for asylum. He was part of that class action settlement which, again, included that the class (including Cristian) would NOT be deported while their asylum applications were pending, and not until (if at all) their asylum claim had been *fully processed*.

Cristian is now 20, and his asylum claim still has not been processed. Instead, they deported him to El Salvador in direct violation of the Court order (settlement).

Yesterday Judge Gallagher ordered the administration to bring him back, and, having clearly paid attention to the Abrego Garcia case and the Supreme Court order, she made clear what "facilitate" means (see screenshot).

At least three Venezuelan men who were seeking asylum in New York are now being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in northern Texas and are at risk of being removed from the country, possibly to a notorious detention camp in El Salvador, court documents reveal.

Their New York City-based lawyers said they have been denied due process and are in danger of being sent to an El Salvador prison camp.

According to Lee, both of Legal Aid’s clients were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New York and had been held in different ICE detention facilities around the country. Neither of them have a criminal conviction, Lee said, and at least one of them was a so-called “collateral arrest” – the term used when ICE doesn’t have a specific warrant to arrest someone but just takes them into custody because they come across them randomly.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.
(documentedny.com)

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.

On Monday morning, Mr. Mahdawi turned up for an interview he had been told was related to his naturalization. Instead, immigration officers, some with their faces covered, placed Mr. Mahdawi in handcuffs and arrested him, according to a statement Monday from Vermont’s two senators, Bernie Sanders, an Independent, and Peter Welch, a Democrat, and Representative Becca Balint, a Democrat.

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Now it’s Wendy Brito. New Orleans mother taken by ICE.

Wife, mother, school volunteer.
Legal resident. No charges. No criminal record. No explanation.
Routine ICE check-in & she never came home.

3 weeks detained. No reason given. No answers.
This is not due process.

(link)

ICE detains Trump voter celebrating Palm Sunday—says he was "treated like a criminal."

Bachir Atallah has been a U.S. citizen for 10 years.

"I really thought things would change when we have Mr. Trump in office—change to the better," he said. "Things actually changed to worse."

On his way home from celebrating Palm Sunday with his family in Canada, he was stopped while crossing the border into Vermont

An ICE agent told him to exit the car while reaching for his gun. They handcuffed him while twisting his arm and wrist, and then dragged him inside.

"Then I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my privileged information, and he made me write a statement, signed by me, saying that I gave him permission to look through the email."

Bachir Atallah was allowed to call his sister many hours later—she is an immigration attorney.

He is supposed to leave for Lebanon in a few days but is not sure if it's going to be safe to travel—even though he's a U.S. citizen.

[Has Video]

The Trump administration will end temporary protections for more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon, putting them on track for deportation in May and June, Department of Homeland Security officials said on Friday.

Many of the Afghans affected by the decision had been allowed into the United States after the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from their country in 2021. Now, the Trump administration could send them back to a country under Taliban rule.

Revoking T.P.S. for Afghans would be a stark reversal in the country’s treatment of Afghan allies who fought and worked alongside the U.S. government.

BREAKING: This is the moment just minutes ago when Mohsen Madawi a Columbia University student was apprehended by HSI agents in the middle of his appointment to become a U.S. citizen. He is a Palestinian-born green card holder. Video was taken by his friend ⁦
@ChrisHelali
⁩
(link)

Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

(joycevance.substack.com)

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us
(insidehighered.com)

Amazing. Even the Trump administration's own lawyer can't explain the legal basis for deporting the Salvadoran man who was removed in "error."

Is JD Vance going to do some snide little tweets about this DOJ lawyer now?

(washingtonpost.com)

60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.”

Moral bankruptcy
(link)

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.”

A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.


(ccrjustice.org)

Guys, we're in trouble. This is only going to get worse.
Please be aware of your surroundings.
Help your neighbors.
We need to stick together

This is a public service by Danielle Harlow, but by god it's depressing.

Map and tracker of people taken by ICE and either deported, rendered to El Salvador or in US detention.

(public.tableau.com)

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.
((via @disappearedtracker.bsky.social) [public.tableau.com])

Mahmoud Khalil: Columbia’s “singular concern has always been the vitality of its financial profile, not the safety of Jewish students. This is why Columbia was all too happy to embrace a superficial progressive agenda while still disregarding Palestine, & this is why it will soon turn on you, too.”
(Columbia Spectator)

The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.

Court filings show that Abrego Garcia came to the United States at age 16 in 2011 after fleeing gang threats in his native El Salvador. In 2019 he received a form of protected legal status known as “withholding of removal” from a U.S. immigration judge who found he would likely be targeted by gangs if deported back.

Abrego Garcia, who is married to a U.S. citizen and has a 5-year-old disabled child who is also a U.S. citizen, has no criminal record in the United States.

“ICE was aware of this grant of withholding of removal at the time [of] Abrego Garcia’s removal from the United States. Reference was made to this status on internal forms,” the government told the court in its filing.

Abrego Garcia’s family has had no contact with him since he was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador, known as CECOT. His wife spotted her husband in news photographs released by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on the morning of March 16, after a U.S. district judge had told the Trump administration to halt the flights.

“Oopsie,” Bukele wrote on social media, taunting the judge.

- By Nick Miroff

Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
(democracynow.org)

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

Aaron Rupar (atrupar.com): Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."

[Includes Video]

Just heard a grad student at University of Alabama got picked up by ICE yesterday and is now being held in Louisiana.
(NYT)

ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said.

He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
(propublica.org)

This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless.

That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
(miamiherald.com)

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS.

He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check.

Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.
(miamiherald.com)

Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted
(link)

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

One of the grievous charges brought against George III was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of [immigrants], and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court.

Can you hear, with judicial calmness and composure, this demand of despotism, countenanced and supported by all the Executive authorities of the United States, though not yet daring to carry it into execution?

(1841 opinion yale.edu)

"A tourist held in the US for 19 days was removed in chains like Hannibal Lecter ...

Parents Paul and Andrea Burke, of Portskewett, Monmouthshire, said their daughter was "traumatised" after being taken in "leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs".

There are just no words.
(bbc.com)

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
(politico.com)

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.

(immigrantjustice.org)

In Chicago, a U.S. citizen was arrested, handcuffed, and spent most of the night at an ICE processing center.

After buying pizza, he says, ICE agents "handcuffed me and pushed me into a white van where other people were handcuffed as well."

Other people arrested are still detained.
(link)

Second unexplained logan detention (and deportation) BostonGlobe

They're here legally. They have SSNs, a driver's license, jobs cleaning hotels. They gave immigration officials their address. On Monday, federal agents took them from their home in handcuffs as their children screamed @teoarmus.bsky.social @mariasacchetti.bsky.social Steve Thompson
(WashPo)

A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. (jsonline.com)

There was a flight carrying 3rd country nationals from US to Uganda today and it’s totally unclear what the agreement is between the two governments and how they will be treated when they arrive.
Just part of the Trump admin’s effort to undermine asylum and humane treatment of migrants globally.

She helped the authorities deport her abuser. Then they deported her back to him.

She helped the authorities deport her abuser. Then they deported her back to him.
Immigrants in her situation “were given a promise that they would be protected as long as they were vulnerable.“

(motherjones.com)

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally.

San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody

Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence.

(daylightsandiego.org)

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn`t get facts from ICE to present in court.

A look at this emerging trend.
(politico.com)

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.

13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

ICE is ignoring rules put in place to avoid family separations, researchers say.

“We`ve been tracking significant levels of family separation, in violation of the policies that the US government has to protect family unity.“

ICE is ignoring rules put in place to avoid family separations, researchers say
Many mothers “had no contact with their children...for days or weeks.“

(motherjones.com)

BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention.
(talkingpointsmemo.com)

All of these `concessions` are really just:
“We will stop breaking the law. We pinky swear!“

Burgess Everett(burgessev.bsky.social): The White House sent Sens. Collins and Britt this letter detailing the immigration enforcement changes they are willing to make to fund DHS
-body cameras
-limit enforcement at sensitive locations
-oversight
-visible officer identification
-no deporting US citizens

(cdn.sanity.io)

Little is known about the exact whereabouts of Salvadorans who were deported from the U.S. and are now imprisoned in CECOT.

Relatives and lawyers say they have had no contact with their detained loved ones and have been unable to confirm where they are being held.

Deportees sent by Trump to Salvadoran prison are still stuck a year later
Little is known about the status or whereabouts of the Salvadorans deported by President Donald Trump to CECOT, an infamous megaprison.

(washingtonpost.com)

UPDATE: Judge Nelson has ordered the release of a man “shockingly“ described in a public post by DHS as “the worst of the worst“ based on criminal charges that hadn`t yet been filed and were later dropped.

That post may complicate his deportation too.
(storage.courtlistener.com)

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

(theguardian.com)

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
(politico.com)

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the “kid.“

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he`ll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

The people of Springfield, Ohio, are exhausted.

The Haitians of Springfield are under attack yet again
First Trump claimed they ate cats. Now he aims to send them back to a violent place.

(motherjones.com)

I wrote about the background to this case last year.

It’s a grim story, but also an inspiring one. One lawyer literally stood next to the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
(lawfaremedia.org)

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren`t supposed to do

They kept him from his parents -which they aren`t supposed to do

They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren`t supposed to do.

Then they *lost* him.
(startribune.com)

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Kyle Cheney(kyledcheney.bsky.social): 👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE`s tactics.

“It is an assault on the constitutional order,“ Judge Goodwin says.

(storage.courtlistener.com)

People are being disappeared from Massachusetts jails

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.

After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.
(cbsnews.com)

last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

(nytimes.com)

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
(reuters.com)

Blumenthal on administrative warrants: “This is not a warrant. It`s a permission slip. It`s a green light from another ICE agent to go bash down a door, smash into a home, detain and arrest someone without a judge finding probable cause.“

Body camera footage of a Border Patrol agent shooting an American citizen five times was finally released after months of court battles. (cnn.com)

Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.

IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS
The tax agency only recently discovered it improperly disclosed tax information on thousands of the wrong people to immigration enforcement.

(washingtonpost.com)

“The husband & wife before this court are charged w/civil violations of our country`s immigration laws. Civil. Not criminal. That distinction is not a technicality or a formality. It’s the line the law draws betwn regulation & punishment. Yet these working parents appear in unmistakable prison garb.

Kyle Cheney(kyledcheney.bsky.social): Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

“This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law.“

(storage.courtlistener.com)

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It`s worth a read.
(storage.courtlistener.com)

Lawyers can`t reach clients in ICE detention. I`ve heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes “bleak“ situation for justice and rule of law.
(news.bloomberglaw.com)

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.

“The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED.“

“Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster.“

Minnesota’s chief federal judge warns that “ICE is not a law unto itself.”

Minnesota Live Updates: Pressure Builds on ICE After Judge Said It Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
(nytimes.com)

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
(nytimes.com)

New from 404 Media: ICE`s facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.

ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
(404media.co)

Host: A Minnesota man is fighting a legal battle after federal agents unlawfully detained him twice. Garrison Gibson says armed agents broke down his door. Officials sent Gibson to a facility in Texas and threatened to deport him. A judge released him, but the next day he was detained again by ICE.

This shows that the actions we`ve all seen are policy: ICE is ignoring the 4th amendment and violating constitutional and human rights.

The Associated Press(apnews.com): BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says (h)

Since July, I`ve tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out: (storage.courtlistener.com)

This is illegal. As we have seen in New York, judges have ruled against this Trump administration policy issue orders soecifically requiring access to ICE facilities for congressional oversight. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
(talkingpointsmemo.com)

BREAKING: In response to Judge Boasberg’s order in the Alien Enemies Act case that DOJ submit a proposal for “facilitating a meaningful opportunity” for those deported under the AEA “to contest their designation and the Proclamation`s validity,” DOJ—after getting an extension—provides no proposal.
(storage.courtlistener.com)

Trump: “Starting February 1, we`re not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities“

NEW: More than 300 judges — including 33 appointed by Trump himself — have now rebuffed the Trump administration’s bid to dramatically expand efforts to lock people up while they fight deportation.
(politico.com)

This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump`s folks have made clear they want “deportation judges.“ Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
(theguardian.com)

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman`s bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. “Pull up your pants,“ says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn`t have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

DHS now says it`s aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.
(motherjones.com)

Another flight of third-country deportees has now landed in Eswatini, a small country in Southern Africa. Via @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
(nytimes.com)

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades.

Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
(politico.com)

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification “crumbled like a house of cards,“ he also says the admin was not engaging in “conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith.“

1/ South Korea`s government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States` ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico.

Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico.

He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law.

W/ @haleaziz.bsky.social:
(nytimes.com)

ICE has not yet fired him. Gotta make sure he has due process and all. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
(washingtonpost.com)

“The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said.“
(chicago.suntimes.com)

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates. (chicago.suntimes.com)

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Margy O’Herron(margyoh.bsky.social): Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for “deportation judges.“ join.justice.gov

Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
(reuters.com)

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Julie DiCaro(juliedicaro.bsky.social): BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “

Beyond depraved: “Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day.“

‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
(dlvr.it)

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge`s order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
(storage.courtlistener.com)

This is immoral. “3-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court. More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump admin. ramps up removal proceedings.“ coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
(coppercourier.com)

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man`s rights, and it illustrates a few things we`re seeing broadly:

- DHS officers are ignoring peoples` IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co`s reports of use of DHS`s facial recognition app.

On Reddit, a post shows the ways in which 287(g) agreements, combined with ICE`s mass deportation efforts are making a total hash of the the basic functioning of a fair system — a man in Florida was pulled over for a traffic stop on his way to an asylum interview and is now detained in Colorado!

The bottom line here is that if the Supreme Court decides that the Trump administration can disappear Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration can effectively disapper anyone ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
(ballsandstrikes.org)

The five migrants on the latest flight, all from different countries, were sent to Eswatini, a small nation in southern Africa.

The Trump administration sent five migrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to a small African nation on Tuesday, resuming the practice of third-country

Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials released internal guidance allowing for such deportations to occur quickly if the State Department received assurances that the migrants would not be persecuted in the third country. Even without such assurances, officials could still deport migrants in as little as six hours in certain circumstances.
(nytimes.com)

Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

Ramirez then allegedly ran towards the agent, who was standing near the entrance of the parking lot, and collided with them. The impact of the collision allegedly threw the border patrol agent “off balance” and caused the agent’s phone to fall to the ground.

When the agent questioned Ramirez about his citizenship, the feds claimed that Ramirez refused to talk to them, despite video footage showing that Ramirez repeatedly told agents he had his passport on him.

The agent also accused Ramirez of resisting arrest and biting them on their left thigh, according to the complaint.

Ramirez was eventually taken into custody and transported to the Federal Detention Center on Alameda Street in Downtown Los Angeles. During processing, the federal agent who arrested Ramirez confirmed that he is an American citizen, according to the complaint.

On June 16, Ramirez was released on bond.

Three weeks later, on July 6, the United States Attorney’s Office filed a motion to drop the charges against Ramirez.

(lataco.com)

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.

Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.

We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

"Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was pronounced deceased by the Miami Fire Rescue Department June 23 at 1:36 p.m. The cause of death is still under investigation.

Noviello was being detained at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center pending removal proceedings when he was found unresponsive June 23, at 12:54 p.m. Medical staff responded immediately and began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation, automated external defibrillator shock and called 911.

Noviello entered the United States Jan. 2, 1988, in a legal visa status. He became a lawful permanent resident Oct. 24, 1991."
(ice.gov)

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. (substack.com)

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

Seen in Utah.

ICE is now marching through suburban neighborhoods, conducting home raids.

Their budget is now bigger than that of the Marines, and the entire military budgets of Israel and Russia.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

If you think ICE raids in neighborhoods are bad, just wait until they start "rooting out illegals" at polling booths next fall.

A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. (seiuca.org)

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

A country built by immigrants is now treating its newest class of immigrants like second-class citizens. From Ellis Island to ICE raids, the flag waves the same, but the welcome mat keeps getting pulled.

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.

One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (50501movement.bsky.social): People in Alligator Auschwitz describe the inhumane conditions in the concentration camp—insufficient water, scarce and unsanitary food, lack of medicine, denial of religious rights, etc.

“They're not respecting our human rights. We're human beings—we're not dogs. We're like rats in an experiment."

"We've been here at Alcatraz since Friday. There's over 400 people here. There's no water to take a bath, it's been four days since I've taken a bath.”

“They only brought a meal once a day and it had maggots. They never take off the lights for 24 hours. The mosquitoes are as big as elephants.”

(cbsnews.com)

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC.

No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. (gothamist.com)

Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/
(ufw.org)

CBP has seized a legal permanent resident musician from an OUTBOUND international flight and detained him, his bandmates report. A person just about to voluntarily leave the country. (austinchronicle.com)

In a hearing in federal district court earlier in the day, a government lawyer told a federal judge that the Trump administration intends to deport Ms. Petrova back to Russia, a country she fled in 2022, despite her fear that she will be arrested there over her history of political protest.

Ms. Petrova has admitted that she failed to declare the samples, but her lawyer has argued that this would ordinarily be treated as a minor infraction, punishable with a fine. Instead, the customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s J-1 visa on the spot and initiated deportation proceedings.

Christina Reiss, chief judge of the United States District Court in Vermont, repeatedly quizzed the government lawyers about their grounds for canceling Ms. Petrova’s visa and detaining her.

“Where is that authority?” she asked. “Where does a customs and border patrol officer have the authority on his or her own to revoke a visa?” she said. “It’s got to be somewhere. Because there is no way that person has kind of an unlimited determination.”

Judge Reiss noted that she had reviewed the statute laying out the grounds for customs officers to find someone inadmissible to the United States, and “I don’t see anything about customs violations.” (nytimes.com)

Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

The student, Yunseo Chung, is a legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school. The Trump administration is arguing that her presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy agenda of halting the spread of antisemitism.

But the attempted arrest of Ms. Chung, like the detention of Mr. Khalil, appears to be part of a new front in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — targeting immigrants who are farther along in their paths to citizenship. (nytimes.com)

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

ICE arrest Pasadena mother without warrant—turns out they abducted wrong person.

Only 2 of 3 agents had a badge—none were in uniform.

"I didn’t know if I was witnessing a hate crime or a kidnapping," said witness.

Video cuts off just as daughter begs, "Call the police."

"And because they might have been law enforcement, I wasn’t even sure whether to call the police."

Jillian Reed did end up calling 911—reporting what she thought was a possible kidnapping.

Rosalina Luna Vargas was eventually taken into custody despite her 2 children's best efforts.

After inflicting all of that trauma—ICE later admit they arrested the wrong person by mistake in the first place.

Told the family they had just been "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Just because someone is Brown doesn't give ICE reasonable suspicion to make an arrest."

L A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis wants to explore a legal counterattack against federal government’s "unconstitutional immigration enforcement practices."

She is co-sponsoring a motion asking the county’s attorney to explore "all legal remedies available to the County to protect the civil rights of our residents and prevent federal law enforcement personnel from engaging in any unconstitutional or unlawful immigration enforcement."

Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris issued a statement—emphasizing that local police did not assist ICE in the arrest.

ICE detained tje mother in front of her 2 children on Saturday morning in an incident that prompted a 911 call about a suspected kidnapping.
(pasadenanow.com)

ICE kidnapped a woman and kept her in their custody for 3 months even though she's had permanent legal status in the US for 50 years

Lewelyn Dixon, a 64-year-old University of Washington lab technician, was released on Thursday from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, after a judge ruled that she does not qualify for deportation.

Dixon, who’s had legal permanent status in the U.S. for 50 years, had been in ICE custody since late February, when she was detained after coming back from a visit to the Philippines. (nbcnews.com)

Since President Donald Trump's inauguration in January, his administration has ruthlessly prosecuted his promises of mass deportations. He has sent deportees to Guantanamo Bay and a “terrorist” prison in El Salvador. He has placed control of the southern border in the hands of the military. And, despite promising to focus on hardened criminals, the administration has widened its immigrant dragnet by targeting documented and undocumented immigrants alike.

Internal Project 2025 documents obtained by CRN and New Times clearly state that targeting these alleged immigrant “terrorists” has been a vital part of a proposed communications strategy. The aim of that strategy: to galvanize political support for a broader plan to dramatically restructure and militarize law enforcement, nationwide, under the command of President Trump.

A significant portion of the documents discuss domestic counter-intelligence. The draft proposals contain recommendations to investigate, prosecute and even seize the assets of non-governmental organizations, along with state, municipal and federal agencies that provide services to immigrants and refugees.

Documents describe some NGOs and specific government agencies as potential targets because they are perceived to oppose the priorities of the president, and because they are "accomplices to immigration crime."

Already, surrogates of the president have suggested prosecuting people — including lawmakers — who distribute “Know Your Rights” material or post about the whereabouts of ICE officers. (phoenixnewtimes.com)

Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation.

It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.

Waldo Jaquith (waldo.net): ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse.

(dailyprogress.com)

Any sentient being knows this is blatant collusion between Trump and Bukele to violate due process and defy court orders. Trump said YESTERDAY he could return Abrego Garcia with one phone call. That was true.

How stupid does the Trump Admin think people are?
(nytimes.com)

I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri.

Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children.

Dr. Suri is not charged with a crime, the Administration is targeting him to instill fear on campuses and clamp down on free speech.

What that they've done to Dr. Suri is wrong, and he should be released. I will continue to speak up about his case as courts consider it in the days ahead.

New: We interviewed six detained Venezuelans who the Trump admin accused of being gang members and likely nearly sent to El Salvador this month without due process.

They—and their relatives—insist they are innocent and provided extensive evidence to support that.

A Mother Jones investigation based on firsthand accounts from ICE detainees in Texas reveals how Venezuelans were nearly removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act without a chance to contest the allegations against them. (motherjones.com)

Andrea Pitzer writes for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps. (nymag.com)

NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo.

Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court.

"“My son isn’t one of Tren de Aragua,” his mother, Daniela Camargo, declared in a tearful Facebook video. “Anyone who knows my son knows he’s innocent.” Lozano-Camargo’s lawyers did not answer questions about their client. His mother and girlfriend did not immediately respond to inquiries.

Crucially, Lozano-Camargo was also covered by a 2024 legal settlement that barred immigration authorities from deporting him while his request for asylum was pending. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, the Trump-appointed judge who approved that settlement, ruled last month that Lozano-Camargo’s deportation violated the agreement.

Gallagher ordered the administration to “facilitate” Lozano-Camargo’s return, but the Trump administration is resisting that demand. In a court filing released Monday, the Justice Department called Lozano-Camargo a member of “a violent terrorist gang” and said that disqualifies him from asylum in the U.S.

Under those circumstances, bringing Lozano-Camargo back to the U.S. “would no longer serve any legal or practical purpose,” DOJ lawyers wrote." (politico.com)

She came here as a toddler, and would have been eligible for DACA if the program was not ended. Now she is in ICE detention because she took a right turn on a red light.

Her father is in the same detention center, arrested for a traffic violation two weeks prior. (link)

According to litigators, on Tuesday, at one detention center in Texas, ICE gathered together 1 Vietnamese, 1 Lao, and 4 other people in detention and ordered them to sign paperwork agreeing to be sent to Libya.

All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.

Full firsthand account of the ICE kidnapping in Worcester this morning:
"An ICE agent opens the door and the woman's daughter shrieks—an unforgettable noise of agony. Her mother is about to disappear, into the purposefully vague bureaucratic world of forced removal. The opening of that door, to this shrieking girl... it must look like a life torn apart. Her family fractured. And for what? No one bothers to explain that to her. Perhaps they’re not allowed to. The rules."
(welcometohellworld.com)

Nashville man disappeared by ICE after 12 hour shift at Walmart—wife forced to sell car for legal fees.

His wife has documentation of husband's work permit, driver’s license, and asylum paperwork—his case isn’t scheduled until March 2027.

"We're doing everything right," cried his wife. "God is watching what is happening and knows who they truly are."

She only knew that ICE took her husband after seeing his face in a social media picture—she still has no idea where he is, even after 2 days.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of Leugim Romero—please contact News Channel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee.
[Has Video]

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation

Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

2. A gas station attendant asked Jackson to talk to an immigrant family fearing deportation. He agreed and met w/them for an hour. Two days later, two plain-clothes officers came to his home and accused him of obstructing an immigration investigation

3. Jackson told his story to journalist Radley Balko. At Jackson's request, Balko did not identify Jackson's employer in the piece. The story was published on April 23. Later that day, Jackson was fired.

4. The owner and founder of the company, billionaire Bill Foley, is a major Republican donor and Trump supporter. Foley gave 500K to Trump in 2020 and 2024. And millions more to other Republican causes.

5. FNF told Jackson he was fired for "unsatisfactory performance and violations of company policy." The company did not detail what policies Jackson allegedly violated. FNF did not respond to a request for comment.

6. The targeting of Jackson is consistent with a larger effort by the Trump administration to harass and intimidate lawyers who assist undocumented immigrants.

(popular.info)

This is STUNNING. One of the plaintiffs in the Alien Enemies Act case who did get taken off of a plane had a court hearing just 48 hours later — and ICE didn't even offer ONCE PIECE OF EVIDENCE that he was part of Tren de Aragua. They had literally nothing to show it.

David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier): WOW. One of the Venezuelans who Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.

(dailyprogress.com)

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all!

(borderreport.com)

BREAKING: A U.S. citizen was detained by immigration officials in Arizona for 10 days, according to AZPM.

Born here. Legal. Still detained.

This isn’t border security. It’s the erosion of civil rights under the banner of nationalism. When even citizens aren’t safe from ICE, the Constitution becomes a suggestion, not a safeguard.

(azpm.org)

“They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years on that route, this was a first. In all his decades of service, federal agents have never boarded his train like this.”

Bruno J. Navarro (brunojnavarro.bsky.social): A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

(link)

The Attorney General of the United States blatantly lied—not once, but four times in a matter of seconds.
1) No court has ever ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13. Not one. The accusation came from a single informant. No judge confirmed it. No charges were ever filed. No conviction. Nothing.

2) No court has ever ruled that Abrego Garcia was in the U.S. illegally.

3) Prior to deportation he also was not here illegally. An immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal” status. That legally allowed him to live and work in the U.S. because returning him to El Salvador posed a serious threat to his life.

4) The Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling didn’t say “only if El Salvador agrees.” That’s pure spin. The Court ordered the government to facilitate his return. There was no stipulation saying “but only if El Salvador feels like it.”

"Disgraced liar" cop blamed for sending "innocent" gay Venezuelan makeup artist to hellhole El Salvador prison

A former Milwaukee police officer with history of alleged drunk driving and lying signed the deportation warrant that sent a gay Venezuelan makeup artist to a hellish El Salvador prison.

[He] was once put on a list of cops allegedly known to lie and break the law by Milwaukee prosecutors.

His presence on what is known as the Brady List essentially was a reminder that he shouldn't be allowed to testify for the state during trials due to his credibility issues.

Whitehouse spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

Reporter: The president of El Salvador said he would be willing to take American citizens in federal prison population.

Trump: "I love that"

A reminder: the Trump administration has revealed NO DETAILS of the pact with El Salvador. We literally know nothing about it, other than we're paying them $6 million.

No law in the United States authorizes us to pay another country to imprison people. And yet! They're doing it.

NONE of these people should have been deported without due process.

The 5th Amendment clearly says “No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

Not “no citizen.” No PERSON. Bring them all back and give them their rights.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (elizabethjacobs.bsky.social): Update on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man with protected status who was illegally deported to El Salvador.
1. A DOJ lawyer admitted in court on Friday that Mr. A-G should not have been deported; expressed frustration with White House.
2. So, a judge ordered Mr. A-G’s return by Monday.
3. The DOJ lawyer was placed on administrative leave on Saturday for admitting to the facts around this illegal deportation.
4. On Saturday, the Regime filed for a stay to avoid bringing Mr. A-G back.
5. On Sunday, the stay was denied.

Thacker: "the Govt made no argument whatsoever that it would suffer irreparable harm in the absence of a stay ... Perhaps for good reason—the Govt is not irreparably harmed by facilitating and effectuating the return of a person within its control who was wrongfully removed from the United States."

"If the Government wanted to prove to the district court that Abrego Garcia was a "prominent" member of MS-13, it has had ample opportunity to do so but has not — nor has it even bothered to try."

Judge Thacker (Obama), joined by Judge King (Clinton), wrote that first concurrence. Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), then, wrote his own concurrence.

Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that ths is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."

Don’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happening
Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country. This is America today. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
(msnbc.com)

The lawyer for the deported man also argues that if there's no recourse for deportations in "error," then who is safe from that?

“There’s no limiting principle to that lawlessness. We’re asking the court to reaffirm the supremacy of law over power.”


(newrepublic.com)

Y'know, the idea that government authorities have a cheat code by moving people out of the jurisdiction would have just a bit more persuasive force were it not a specific offense of the crown listed in the Declaration of Independence.

southpaw (nycsouthpaw.bsky.social): Look how sneaky this is. She was taken at roughly 5:45p and by 6:36p an ICE transport was already on the road carrying her out of MA into another federal district. No arrival time is listed in that 2nd district, but she was already on her way to a 3rd by 9:30p. (documentcloud)

The government makes what seems to be a shocking legal argument that once the planes left US airspace, the people onboard could be seen as no longer being subject to the Alien Enemies Act, but instead being renditioned to El Salvador under inherent presidential authority.

That's a WILD claim.

This argument suggests the existence of some kind of foreign policy loophole whereby the Executive could disregard the law to bring anyone accused of a national security threat outside of US territory, at which point he, as President, could do whatever he wants to them on national security ground.

(courtlistener.com)

You know that Trump has truly gone off the rails when John Yoo, of 2002 Torture Memos infamy, declares his administration’s treatment of aliens unlawful.

Yoo was the key legal mind behind America’s use of torture at Guantanamo & Abu Ghraib. Even he calls Trump’s treatment of foreigners unlawful.
(nationalreview.com)

These men were not just deported, they've been incarcerated without trial in a brutalist megaprison.

What is the plan for them now? Are they awaiting trial? Where? Are they facing sentences? How long?

"One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, 'I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber.' I believed him. *** He "began to whimper," as his head was roughly shaved, "folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell." He "asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again."

(time.com)

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

New Hampshire Public Radio (nhpr.bsky.social): The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation." (link)

UPDATE: Lawyer for govt, Drew Ensign, cited 'grave national security issue' in declining to discuss current state of the deportations in a public hearing, so judge took it private. But looks like one El Salvador-bound flight took off during a break in the hearing www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
(link)

SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: Judge blocks Trump from deporting 5 Venezuelan alleged gang members without immigration hearings, apparently under Alien Enemies Act. Trump admin just appealed Judge James Boasberg's order to DC Circuit. via @kyledcheney @MyahWard www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
(link)

“Children`s entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention”

“Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”

Children`s entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention
Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.

(nbcnews.com)

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

(apnews.com)

NEW: The Dilley family detention facility disabled video calls on tablets after detainees’ call recordings were shared on social media, according to a document viewed by ProPublica. 1/

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

Austin Kocher, PhD(austinkocher.com): Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

“After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer “poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read.“

Nashville journalist arrested by ICE granted bond, remains detained while feds considers appeal • Tennessee Lookout
Estefany Rodríguez, the Nashville reporter arrested by ICE, was granted a $10,000 bond Monday but remains detained in Louisiana.

(tennesseelookout.com)

Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access. n.pr/4ujkO80

Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004
Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

(n.pr)

“This child has been dragged from detention center to detention center, to places that are not meant for children. They are definitely not built for children with severe disabilities. It’s inhuman, illegal, and unconstitutional.”

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn`t let him have them back
Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

(motherjones.com)

📍 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐋𝐄, 𝐆𝐀:

ICE plans to convert a massive industrial warehouse into a detention center that could hold up to 10,000 immigrants — potentially doubling the population of the small town where it would operate.

#AbuseOfPowerWatch

How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse (Gift Article)
Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.

(nytimes.com)

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. (tucson.com)

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

(propublica.org)

Trump's urban occupations and violent campaign of mass deportations constitute his Forever War. It has its own arms buildup, its own war profiteers, and (like after 9/11) its own metastasizing public-private bureaucracy, which is growing harder to constrain.

The MAGA terror state is growing. Schiff's report documents huge contracts for things like "an AR style rifle with military specifications."

"ICE and CBP have together placed orders to purchase thousands of new high-powered lethal weapons at taxpayer expense.”

ICE has long been an overmilitarized agency, including under previous presidents. But under Trump it's unshackling itself with warrantless arrests, expanded surveillance and massive new prison camps.

This is the post 9/11 madness supercharged and turned inward.

Trump`s mass deportations really are a Forever War. It`ll take 3 presidential terms at current pace. The prison camps are a new carceral state. It has its own growing public-private bureaucracy: Contractors, mercenary army, etc.

(h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
(newrepublic.com)

A blind Burmese refugee named Nurul Shah Alam had been missing since Thurs. after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons, leaving him to find his own way home.

His family & lawyers weren't notified.

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Here`s a story about his death

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

(investigativepost.org)

As ICE moves to massively expand immigration detention through the purchase of warehouses around the country, the best example of what these places might look like comes from Camp East Montana, which opened in August and now holds over 3,000 people per day in terrible conditions.

Read more below!

What`s more shocking than ICE`s plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history`s worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

(inquirer.com)

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry. (kptv.com)

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.

ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.

We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

New in @dmagazine.bsky.social

“In June 2025, DHS waived the original 12-hour limit on holding people at field offices, increasing it to 72 hours...between July and October 15, at least 336 people were held at the Dallas ICE field office for more than 72 hours.“
(dmagazine.com)

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

The Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) program was created so the Navy could quickly respond in the wake of international natural disasters, pandemics, etc.

There were 26 designated regions—until last year when they added #27: TITUS (Territorial Integrity of the United States)

“WEXMAC TITUS allows ICE to treat immigration enforcement like a national security operation rather than a standard civil immigration one,” Michael Wriston, a 20-year veteran military analyst who is now a researcher and reporter with @projectsaltbox.bsky.social told me.

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they`re leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

(thehandbasket.co)

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

“I feel so much sadness and depression of not being able to leave, its really sad to hear that peoples cases are being denied and getting send back to their countrys.”

-14 year-old imprisoned for 20 days in Texas concentration camp

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.”

- 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp

At the same Texas concentration camp:

“There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“

Extreme child abuse as state policy.
(propublica.org)

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.

Two-month-old baby `choking on his own vomit` while detained in Dilley
`His life is in danger,` U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...

(sacurrent.com)

“The Trump administration is seeking to expand and intensify this archipelago of torture,“ writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

“Mass illness, abuse, immiseration and death will be the inevitable result. How will we live with the shame?“

ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into camps | Moira Donegan
The Trump administration has bought warehouses across the US that could hold thousands. But resistance is growing

(theguardian.com)

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

(washingtonpost.com)

The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America`s history.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the Trump administration’s controversial and costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.

(washingtonpost.com)

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”

A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they`ll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
(ajc.com)

And here`s a fine PBS report on the Dilley concentration camp.

Doing the work so no one can say, “We didn`t know.“
()

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

ProPublica(propublica.org): 1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

(propublica.org)

Remarkable: Trump`s planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia`s partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.

Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/

(new piece) (newrepublic.com)

Diana is being held at a facility with a measles outbreak.

A facility holding a 2 month old baby.

A facility that held Liam Ramos and made him sick.

A facility where kids scream “let us out!”

They’re denying a Congresswoman entry.

What are they hiding?
(bsky.app)

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who`s been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She`s been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
(sahanjournal.com)

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.
(themarshallproject.org)

When hospitalized detainees can’t be found by family members or attorneys, advocates say, it leaves patients vulnerable to abuse and isolation and deprives them of their constitutional right to counsel.
(kffhealthnews.org)

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

????
(popular.info)

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

The Marshall Project(themarshallproject.org): Analysis (www.themarshallproject.org)

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Adam Serwer(adamserwer.bsky.social): Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

Please note this is only the deaths we have been told about - and does not include however many people have died in overseas gulags.

Asawin Suebsaeng(swin24.bsky.social): Is this (www.axios.com)

????WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE`s “Camp East Montana“ tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a “struggle“ after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
(nytimes.com)

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Former detainees say people held at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention camp were punished by being locked in “the box,” a small outdoor cage exposed to heat, humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.

@amnesty.org has condemned the practice as “extreme forms of punishment and torture.”
(notus.org)

Or you might call them “camps“ where people are to be “concentrated“ until they are deported. (washingtonpost.com)

In April, I wrote an essay for @nymag about Trump`s deportations to CECOT, describing how they mark the genesis of an international concentration camp network and rise out of the long US history of spurring extrajudicial violence under right-wing dictatorships in Central and South America. [2/5]
(nymag.com)

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration`s largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.

In World War Two, the same site was called the “Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station.“

Read the declarations here: (aclu.org)

The DHS Secretary says Florida will receive funds from FEMA to build immigration prisons.

Depraved af.

Scoop: Florida is building a detention facility for migrants nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” in the Everglades designed to help the Trump administration`s immigration crackdown.

DHS will help pay for the detention facility with money from FEMA.
(nytimes.com)

The government’s explanation that it simply wanted to “reunite” parents and children “crumbled like a house
of cards,” Kelly writes.

“There is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children
sought their return.”
(storage.courtlistener.com)

5 of the 12 Coast Guard C-27s were in the air today (0000-0000 UTC, Thursday 06 November 2025).

3 were participating in ethnic cleansing for ICE.

The USCG is part of DHS, run by Kristi Noem. She uses these planes daily to transport ICE abductees.
(globe.adsbexchange.com)

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.

We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.

Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.

He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.

He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
(nbcnews.com)

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
(brennancenter.org)

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he`s in custody, alone. ICE won`t say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

They`re using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
(forever-wars.com)

I’ve been notified of two more deaths in ICE custody in the last 24 hours — meaning that 25 people have now died in detention since Trump returned to office.

That’s the most in more than two decades. The cruelty and inhumanity of this administration must end.

Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies (open.substack.com)

A top aide to Ron DeSantis just admitted that the administration is breaking the law by hiding contracts connected to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention facility it built in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

This came up at a press conference Ron DeSantis held this morning at the Everglades detention facility, where Florida is now locking up hundreds of immigrants in cages and tents. During the press conference, DeSantis was asked why his administration recently removed electronic copies of contracts and purchase orders connected to Alligator Alcatraz from a public transparency website.

The administration has since replaced the original purchasing records – which total more than $200 million in taxpayer spending on Alligator Alcatraz – with one-page summaries that don’t provide nearly as much detail about what exactly taxpayers are paying for DeSantis’ emergency management director, Kevin Guthrie, defended the move. Guthrie said the purchasing records his agency initially posted included “proprietary information” that had to be redacted. Specifically, Guthrie said the purchasing records his agency originally posted included the rates that Florida is paying certain Alligator Alcatraz vendors. Guthrie said that was proprietary, because other vendors might be able to exploit that info in future procurement bids. So Guthrie said his agency replaced the original purchasing records with what he called “summary sheets".

There are two clear problems here. First, Florida is required by law to post certain information to this transparency database. That mandatory information includes both “electronic copies of the contract and procurement documents" *and* the “applicable contract unit prices and deliverables". This is spelled out clearly in in 215.985.

But that's not all. Let's say you buy Kevin Guthrie’s claim the rates the DeSantis administration is paying vendors at Alligator Alcatraz are somehow proprietary information and not covered by the requirement to disclose unit prices. The administration is STILL breaking the law. That’s because you can’t just remove the original records completely and replace them with “summary sheets.”

The same statute is explicit about this. If state officials want to redact information from these records, they must then post “a property redacted copy of the contract or procurement document." Not a "summary sheet".
(leg.state.fl.us)

Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said.
(ncronline.org)

There was really no need to ever repeat Abu Ghraib...

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them.

Degrading treatment by guards is commonplace in all three jails, the groups say. At the Krome North service processing center in west Miami, female detainees were made to use toilets in full view of men being held there, and were denied access to gender-appropriate care, showers or adequate food.
(theguardian.com)

Conditions for children in Texas Concentration Camps are getting worse. There is already not enough water and babies and toddlers are denied medical care. The trump regime is making efforts to keep these families there indefinitely.

(latimes.com)

“2/3 of the people in DeSantis’ concentration camp in Everglades have no criminal background and some are in the US legally, seeking asylum.”
@emptywheel.bsky.social

“Nationally, half of people in ICE custody… did not have a criminal conviction or charge.” @miamiherald.com
(miamiherald.com)

One thing is quickly becoming clear about “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigrant detention camp that the state of Florida just opened in the middle of the Everglades: The politicians running the place are bigger lawbreakers than many of the immigrants they’re locking up.

The DeSantis administration, for instance, is staffing the facility with private correctional officers who haven’t had to submit to fingerprinting, pass a physical exam, or pass background checks...

WHEREAS, strict compliance with section 943.13(5)-(8), Florida Statutes, as it relates to required documentation for contractor-employed correctional officers, would subject the Agency to delay in taking action to facilitate the mitigation, response, and recovery necessary to respond to this emergency.

It has also suspended truck-safety laws and portable toilet permitting rules...

WHEREAS, strict compliance with the provisions of Rule 62-6.0101(3), Florida Administrative Code, regarding information which must be affixed to portable restrooms and portable or stationary holding tanks, would subject the Agency to delay in taking action to facilitate the mitigation, response, and recovery necessary to respond to this emergency; and
WHEREAS, strict compliance with section 943.13(5)-(8), Florida Statutes, as it relates to required documentation for contractor-employed correctional officers, would subject the Agency to delay in taking action to facilitate the mitigation, response, and recovery necessary to respond to this emergency.

The governor has even given himself and his aides freedom to hand out no-bid contracts, pay overtime to senior managers, and buy boats, planes and cars...

WHEREAS, strict compliance with the provisions of sections 287.055(3)(a) - (e) (4)(a)-(c), 5(a)-(c), (7), Florida Statutes, sections 287.057(1)(a)-(c), (3), (17), (21), and (26), Florida Statutes, and rules 60A-1.002(4), 60A-1.021(2), and 60A-1.043(1)-(3), Florida Administrative Code, which pertain to the procurement of personal property and services, would subject the Division to delay in taking action to facilitate the mitigation, response, and recovery necessary to respond to this emergency; and
WHEREAS, strict compliance with the provisions of section 273.055, Florida Statutes, which pertains to the disposition of state-owned tangible personal property, would subject the Division to a severe shortage of space for storing essentials and thereby would cause delay in taking action to facilitate the mitigation, response, and recovery necessary to respond to this emergency; and
WHEREAS, strict compliance with the provisions of section 215.422(3)(a)-(b), Florida Statutes, would impose an unreasonable burden on the Division in processing the large volume of invoices and other documentation associated with responding to this emergency.
WHEREAS, strict compliance with the provisions of section 287.15, Florida Statutes, which pertains to the procurement of motor vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft, would subject the Division to delay in taking action to facilitate the mitigation, response, and recovery necessary to respond to this emergency;

Suspending those procurement laws has helped the DeSantis administration rapidly issue more than $150 million worth of contracts and purchase orders connected to the detention camp at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport (aka TNT)...

Altogether, DeSantis has suspended more than half a dozen state laws and rules using powers he gave himself when he declared a statewide state of emergency over immigration in January 2023 — a declaration initially only supposed to last for 2 months but is now in its 3rd year.

DeSantis also used those expansive emergency powers to seize the land itself – commandeering the TNT airport from its owner, Miami-Dade County, after his administration made a lowball offer to buy the site that county leaders rejected.

And where the DeSantis administration hasn’t suspended laws, he has simply chosen to flout them. Like when a group of Democratic lawmakers showed up to inspect the camp, citing state laws that permit members of the Florida Legislature to visit detention facilities “at their pleasure.” DeSantis administration officials denied them entry without citing any legal basis to do.

Then there’s the state law — a law DeSantis himself signed — that requires Florida’s Auditor General to audit all expenditures and contracts entered into any state of emergency that extends beyond one year.

(3) Once an emergency exceeds 1 year, the Auditor General shall conduct a financial audit of all associated expenditures and a compliance audit of all associated contracts entered into during the declared emergency. The Auditor General must update the audit annually until the emergency is declared to be ended.

But the Orlando Sentinel’s Jeff Schweers revealed last week that not a single such audit has ever been done during the two-and-a-half years that DeSantis has kept Florida in a state of emergency over immigration... orlandosentinel.com

The DeSantis administration has even been pushed the Trump administration to suspend federal detention center standards — so immigrants can be put camps like Florida’s, where detainees have reported worms in the food, feces on the floor, and delays in accessing medication...
(jasongarcia.substack.com)

Here it is:

A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it.

From Andrea Pitzer, drawing from her global history of concentration camps, a history of how humanity turned to camps and what it takes to turn away from them.

This episode features one of my favorite Pitzer lines ever, and I'm going to steal it to be the first sentence of my Russian novel.

History is full of moments in which hindsight provides the only clear view. This is not one of them.

(youtube.com)

The food problems come amid overcrowding at ICE facilities tied to the Trump administration’s push to quickly ramp up immigration arrests. While capacity data isn’t publicly available for every ICE detention facility, nationwide figures on the availability of beds show a system beyond its overall capacity. As of mid-June, ICE was detaining nearly 60,000 people, almost 45% above the capacity provided for by Congress.

Although many of ICE’s detention centers are run by private contractors, the problems are happening all over the country regardless of who’s running a given facility, advocates say. A former ICE official told NBC News it is difficult for a facility to stay stocked with the right amount of food when, on any given day, it may face an unexpected surge of new detainees.

“He tells me many are given two spoonfuls of rice and that many are still hungry,” Rubimar said in an interview before Jose was deported to Venezuela.
(nbcnews.com)

This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny.

Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED.

Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN.

This has to stop. People are going to die.

The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495, or 72% of whom had no criminal convictions. So much for the “worst of the worst.”

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.

The remote facility, composed of large tents, and other planned facilities will cost the state around $450 million a year to run, but Florida can request some reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.

Immigrant advocates criticized the move, saying that it was creating a new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government. Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, said it amounted to an “independent, unaccountable detention system.”

“The fact that the administration and its allies would even consider such a huge temporary facility,” he said, “on such a short time line, with no obvious plan for how to adequately staff medical and other necessary services, in the middle of the Florida summer heat is demonstrative of their callous disregard for the health and safety of the human beings they intend to imprison there.”

“It simply shocks the conscience,” Mr. Fleming said.

The FEMA money will be drawn from a fund that was created during the Biden administration to pay organizations and local jurisdictions that help house and care for migrants going through the immigration court system in the United States. (nytimes.com)

@DHSgov: "Unfortunately, the Congresswoman did not give sufficient notice to facilitate a visit, which is essential to keep staff and detainees safe.

For visits to detention facilities, requests should be made with sufficient time to prevent interference with the President’s Article II authority to oversee executive department functions—a week is sufficient to ensure no intrusion on the President’s constitutional authority. To protect the President’s Article II authority, any request to shorten that time must be approved by the Secretary."

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.”

I have some thoughts:

On Tuesday morning, my staff notified ICE of my intention to conduct oversight at the Montana Ave facility the next day.

This is the process we have gone through innumerable times since I was elected, through both the Trump and Biden admins, including less than a month ago.

ICE responded informing me and my staff about their new procedures - we informed them of the law.

I would have preferred to quietly conduct my oversight responsibilities as I always have, but ICE chose not to follow the law.

These ‘guidelines’ are illegal, and that deserves public scrutiny.

I have every intention of continuing my oversight responsibilities and fighting back against the lawlessness of this administration every chance I get.

Plus, the Department led by a Secretary best known for cosplaying that she’s in a war zone should perhaps not lecture anyone on publicity stunts.

In 1933, before the ovens, Germany opened a facility at Dachau. It was called a "protective custody center". People were held without trial, were separated from their families, were kept behind barbed wire. At first, the government insisted it wasn’t that bad.

In 2025, the USA built #AlligatorAlcatraz. It is called a "processing center". People are held without trial, separated from their families, kept behind chain-link fences in tents surrounded by swamp. The government insists it isn’t that bad.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Things are so bad at the Krome immigration detention center in South Florida that people have to take turns sleeping because they are packed so tightly in their cells that some have to stand up so others can lie down.

All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps

(usatoday.com)

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle.“ (trib.al)

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Brennan Center(brennancenter.org):
The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights.

(brennancenter.org)

‘[HHS] told Congress on Monday that it planned to withhold about $600 million in grant funding allocated to the four states: California, Colorado, Illinois & Minnesota. Their attorneys general argue the cuts are backlash for the states’ opposition to Trump’s immigration crackdown.’

Democratic-led states sue to stop Trump from withholding $600M in health grants
Four Democratic-led states that have become frequent targets of President Donald Trump have sued to block his administration from cutting off hundreds of millions in public health grants.

(apnews.com)

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
(on.wsj.com)

This is how they expand the deportation machine into a system that stomps dissent.

Extremely important report from @velshi.com that Democrats must also understand as an attempt to sway the 2026 elections.
(youtube.com)

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack.“

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop`s owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
(bit.ly)

This is huge. Trump has successfully prosecuted a state official for bucking his racist war on immigrants. If they can get a judge, they can get anyone. Gift article.
(nytimes.com)

Newly unsealed docs show DOJ moved to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling only after it became clear Trump might not be able to deport him. Sure looks driven by a desire to punish him for fighting back against Trump/Miller lawlessness. Trump had to be right.
(cbsnews.com)

So, the actual Heritage Americans sued about the placement of an immigration facility in the Everglades and are now being punished by the Trump administration

States Newsroom(statesnewsroom.com): In his v (www.newsfromthestates.com)

ICE snatched a human rights hero.

Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China`s mass detention practices.

On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

Alison Killing(alisonkilling.bsky.social): Our ex-BuzzFeed team has provided a testimonial to the immigration court about the value of Guan`s work and his incredible bravery. I hope that this man - who I am in absolute awe of - is granted the asylum he needs and deserves. You can read more here: hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi.. (b)

This also should be viewed in context together with Trump admin trying to make naturalized citizenship (and thus voting rights) conditional on having a social media feed that they like and that shows “moral character“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
(nytimes.com)

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

The United States could begin requiring visitors from countries on the visa waiver program to provide up to five years of their social media history, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposal.
(wapo.st)

SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk`s Twitter.

The move would mark one of the admin`s first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
(zeteo.com)

We`re tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We`ve confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you`ve got information you`d like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
(insidehighered.com)

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
(ajc.com)

Judge Sessions: “The court finds that Ms. Öztürk has sufficiently established all three factors" required for her release.
Judge Sessions says the only evidence the government produced for the detention is the op-ed.

"That literally is the case. There is no evidence here as to the motivation absent the consideration of the op-ed."
Judge: “These are very substantial claims of First Amendment and due process violations.”
This is a thundering ruling. He hasn't formally issued it yet, but it's clear where it's going.
Sessions: "Her continued detention chills the speech of the millions and millions of people who are not citizens."

The court finds "her continued detention cannot stand."
Judge: "This is a woman who is just totally committed to her academic career," in a "caring" and "compassionate" way.

"There is no evidence that she has engaged in violence or advocated violence."
If the govt asked for a stay, it would be denied, he adds.

He'd like to know immediately when she's released.

Immigration officers arrested a Columbia University graduate for helping lead campus protests against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. President Trump said the case was “the first arrest of many to come.”

Mahmoud Khalil, 30, who graduated in December from Columbia with a master’s degree from its School of International and Public Affairs, was arrested by immigration officers in New York on Saturday and sent to a detention center in Louisiana. Mr. Khalil, who has Palestinian heritage, holds a green card and is married to an American citizen who is eight months pregnant.

A Michigan attorney was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone

(freep.com)

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
(link)

Penalties for foreign students who write critical op-eds: high.

Penalties for top government officials who chat about secret attack plans on Signal: low.
(theatlantic)

These Are the Students Targeted by Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Over Campus Activism

(Time.com)

AAUP and Middle East Studies Association sue to block the Administration from targeting students and faculty for deportation based on their political views.
(AAUP Update)

So.. I told my students about Mahmoud Khalil at the end of class today and assured them that in case I disappear, I will leave plans for their class with the department head.

I, too, am a green card holder.

I, too, publicly oppose the genocide in Palestine.

I, too, fear disappearance.

1/n
(link)

Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
(link)

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick?

New video shows they were lying about that one, too.
(nytimes.com)

“ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps.“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.

(nbcnews.com)

During the ICE occupation in Minneapolis, media flocked to cover the massive protests and mutual aid networks that had been built—and rightfully so. Less attention has been paid to the small farming and meatpacking towns in the rest of the state. buff.ly/8thSNSd

When ICE Blows Through Rural America
As the surge in Minneapolis winds down, small communities in Minnesota (like Willmar) fend off more arrests and lasting impacts.

(buff.ly)

NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side.

I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.

Border Patrol agents ignored orders to end car chase before gassing Chicago neighborhood
DHS claimed federal agents intentionally hit a fleeing vehicle to try to stop the driver in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood last October—but videos of the 18-minute high-speed pursuit show they actua...

(unraveledpress.com)

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 (propublica.org)

ICE agents in Oregon testified under oath that they used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods and people to target & had daily arrest quotas they sought to meet during operations

✏️ @theguardian.com

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

(theguardian.com)

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

“He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger.“ (bbc.com)

Former Customs and Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino’s use of chemical irritants during the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota is among 17 criminal investigations now underway in Hennepin County.

Gregory Bovino is now under criminal investigation
Video shows the Border Patrol`s former “commander-at-large“ throwing a gas canister at protesters and observers in Minneapolis in January.

(motherjones.com)

NPR: ICE has spun a massive surveillance web

Agents are using various DHS surveillance tools in real time. Activists and journalists spoke of agents... calling them by name; or leading them to their homes. One ICE agent, testified about an app that showed the home addresses of people

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, ap...

(npr.org)

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.”

NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

“All adults and some children on ICE flights are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists for the duration of the flight. Shackling for more than a few hours can cause fatal blood clots, permanent nerve damage, bruising, chafing, swelling and excruciating pain“

Gillian Brockell (gbrockell.bsky.social): 🧊✈️ SHACKLED & STRANDED ⛓️😲

👉 An Omni 767 (tail: N378AX) on an ICE mission to Asia stops at Pease Airfield in New Hampshire, and gets stuck in a blizzard.

The captives will remain shackled for the duration of the voyage 👀

(gillianbrockell.ghost.io)

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

(theguardian.com)

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don`t know officers` names.

We don`t have footage.
(nytimes.com)

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
(newsweek.com)

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father.“ ...

Attorney John Hayden: “This whole campaign of just going out and finding vulnerable people, good people, people who are following rules, it's just another example of blowing the pretext of this whole operation.”

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities...

(mprnews.org)

“An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained.“ (gift link)

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

(nytimes.com)

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.

(wtoc.com)

ICE is arresting people at school dropoffs, on the way to church, and at routine check-ins at immigration offices as the Trump administration pursues its goal of deporting millions of people.

🎧 Listen on Reveal:

As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind
As the Trump administration aims to deport millions of people over the next four years, “Reveal” tells the human stories of those caught up in ICE raids.

(revealnews.org)

“The Trump administration’s new policies have forced schools to adopt new safety protocols beyond the standard fire drills and tornado drills — safety protocols to be activated ‘in case our own government shows up to hurt or kidnap our students.’”
(truthout.org)

Like in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS might have gotten away with its false claims about Martinez were it not for the video evidence that contradicted its account.

DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.
“It’s time to get aggressive,“ a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.

(motherjones.com)

“Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by the 74 reveals.”

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump`s immigration crackdown
Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

(theguardian.com)

Host: Today members of Congress are raising serious questions about this Ace of Spades card that they say is being placed by ICE agents on the abandoned vehicles of people who have been detained. The Ace of Spades is also known as the `death card,` often associated with psychological warfare.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

ProPublica showed former police and immigration officials videos of incidents that occurred within in the past year involving immigration agents. The former police and immigration officials said agents are out of control: “the kind of action which should get you fired.”

#FundHealthcareOverICE

Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of paramilitary tactical units—including ICE’s two Special Response Teams (SRT), CBP’s one SRT, and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC)—whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
(wired.com)

“Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials.“ (startribune.com)

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:
(thehandbasket.co)

ICE has more funding than all the other federal law enforcement agencies combined.

They`re not going to stop at Minneapolis.

They`re going to continue unleashing evil and cruelty on the streets of American cities until Congress puts a stop to this.

Wait, what the hell is this? Bullet holes in the front windshield, rear windshield blown out, tires blown out, still running with money in the cup holder? Did ICE or CBP murder someone and take the body? This is nuts.

Molly Ploofkins(mollyploofkins.bsky.social): Activists responding to reports of an ICE abduction in Minneapolis found an abandoned car with flat tires, riddled with bullet holes (1/30/26)

“There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.”

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents initially claimed Alberto Castañeda Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and "purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall," according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release.

But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.

"It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."

(abc7ny.com)

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Dumb Runner(dumbrunner.bsky.social): I saw it too:

Thousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos` school.

Trump isn`t deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run.“ www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
(huffpost.com)

I don`t like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn`t Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

As I noted here, ICE`s masks have given them impunity to inflict harm without consequences, just like the Klan.

And just like the Klan, when they`re unmasked by new laws, they`ll be weakened across the board.
(campaign-trails.ghost.io)

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

“They were obviously not trained at all. I`ve known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets.“

“They had the professional demeanor of criminals.“

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

my friend was maced by ICE agents outside of the coffee shop where I do my homework. she was just standing there filming them and they maced her directly in the eyes and fled the scene. our communities are being terrorized.

????“This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it`s only immigrants—it`s f*cking anybody!“ -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

His 6 month old stopped breathing!

HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!

A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!

His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

City of Minneapolis(minneapolismn.gov): Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City`s impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.

Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746

Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...
(minnesotareformer.com)

More Immigrants Detained by ICE Recount Harsh and Cruel Treatment

One man targeted at home says agents took “trophy pictures” of him on their personal phones.
(motherjones.com)

A witness posted this to FB along with video of Saly being violently taken by ICE:

It`s cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment`s hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting “fuck you“ to them.

Elliott Payne(elliottpayne.org): This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

A man is comes to the US fleeing war, makes his life here, becomes a citizen. Years pass, and armed paramilitary troops bash in his door and haul him, nearly naked, out of this house and into the freezing cold. For no good reason. Maybe, just maybe, it`s ICE who are the “worst of the worst“

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
(washingtonpost.com)

MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can`t say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn`t board/TBD detained.

“They took trophy pictures with their personal phones,” a man detained by ICE says.
(motherjones.com)

The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...
(kare11.com)

Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.”

With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared.

No one has been convicted.

Jon Seidel(jonseidel.bsky.social): #BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.

The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her.

Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.

Julie DiCaro(juliedicaro.bsky.social): This ICE observer had her TSA-Pre-check revoked.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047...

“Three days after the interaction, on January 13th, I received an email notice that my Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check privilege for passing through airport security had been revoked.“

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.

Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
(startribune.com)

Federal immigration agents arrested and detained a Gresham family, including a 7-year-old child, outside a Portland hospital last week as the girl’s parents sought emergency medical care for her.

via @oregonian.com
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

He was trying to help someone else they`d knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him.

He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

CW: EXTREME VIOLENCE

I`ve synced up videos from both perspectives about as well as I can

Audio from both is included

They are both slowed down to ~.5x, zoomed in, and have their colors enhanced

The captions are from the pink lady`s video on the left

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
(slate.com)

These three stories were all published this week. Abolishing ICE is a reproductive justice issue

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Matt McDermott(mattmfm.bsky.social): Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.

When DHS`s official feed rhapsodized about 100 million deportations, that was a message to defenders of immigrants. Ask yourself this: Why haven`t officials done more to assure us that there won`t be more Renee Good-type killings?

(h/t @jamellebouie.net)

newrepublic.com/article/2053...
(newrepublic.com)

There will be more of this until we stop ICE, because this isn’t about immigration enforcement.
(washingtonpost.com)

Palantir is providing ICE “confidence scores” on the likely neighborhoods where potential deportation targets live. Their app compiles data from many sources to link suspects to neighborhoods. One officer stated in court records, “It’s kind of like Google Maps.” www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
(404media.co)

by @democraticwins.bsky.social CNN just aired a devastating compilation of all the times ICE brutally attacked Americans. Remember, Donald Trump sponsored this. This is done at his command.

Unacceptable behavior from ICE in Salisbury, NC today. Attempting to intimidate U.S. citizens is a major abuse of power. 1/5/26

Today ICE murdered a woman in cold blood in Minneapolis.

In a democracy, this insane act of violence would get a full investigation. Firings. Jail.

In fascism, innocent victims are merely labeled “enemies of the state.“ No investigations needed.

Thus, state-sanctioned violence against the people.

The New York Times states it plainly in display type:

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
(nytimes.com)

The most chilling thing to read.
“The bottom line is this: When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life,” Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas said on Newsmax.“
(nytimes.com)

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him “Shame on you.“

The agent responds, “Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?“

“Learned what?“ she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.

everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
(wsj.com)

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Prem Thakker ツ(premthakker.bsky.social): JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on.

1/2

Trump`s thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)

“a damning Wall Street Journal report finds that since July, there have been 13 examples of federal agents firing into civilian vehicles, with eight people shot and two confirmed dead.“

Greg Sargent(gregsargent.bsky.social): Note this: ICE agents are already used to acting with little oversight as their targets are powerless. Now with Trump, Noem, Vance saying Renee Good`s killing was okay they`ll think they have full impunity.

On the pod, @timdickinson.bsky.social explains this so well:
newrepublic.com/article/2052.. ()

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

This is part of a pattern of ICE agents intentionally causing accidents with ICE observers and then accusing them of assault.

“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.”

ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, keeping kids out of school, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
(motherjones.com)

📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐒, 𝐌𝐍:

New video shows ICE agents shattering a car window and violently detaining an Ecuadorian couple during a chaotic traffic stop.

“Agents deployed chemical irritants, and at one point an agent used a taser before yelling to the crowd, `Who wants more?`“ #AbuseOfPowerWatch
(cbsnews.com)

Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled.

ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.

Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
(latimes.com)

A joint investigation by ProPublica and FRONTLINE identified more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using “less lethal“ weapons in ways that appear to flout the government`s own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
(pbs.org)

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
(mprnews.org)

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.

Denise Wheeler(denisedwheeler.bsky.social): ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.

Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.

They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.

Another horrific story.

More details below.

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.

The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.
(seiuca.org)

If this is what they are willing to do surrounded by cameras (!) imagine what they do when no one is watching.

Brad Lander(bradlander.bsky.social): I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois.

Never mind the videos…

📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.

Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: https://propub.li/3IbPftA
(propub.li)

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

“ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids“
(chicago.suntimes.com)

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn`t sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.”

Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

“Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states“ according to an FBI bulletin.

Which, of course, gives ICE cover to commit the same crimes.

“It wasn`t us, it was different thugs, dressing up as us.“
(wired.com)

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
(latimes.com)

I`m shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried “HELP ME“ and pled for her child.

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.
(huffpost.com)

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids` (including toddlers) eyes out.

A pastor recorded footage of the U.S. citizen family, the baby struggling to breathe, after being pepper sprayed. Immigration response: It didn’t happen. apnews.com/article/immi...
(apnews.com)

It`s not even 11am yet, and federal agents have gassed the northwest side of Chicago twice this morning.

Just before 10, NWSRR reports they detained two people in Irving Park, one of them known to be a US citizen: www.instagram.com/p/DQPKhmDEd4W/
(instagram.com)

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun,“ Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. “[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

EMS called to ICE facility bc protestor has broken collar bone (!). ICE agents then refuse to let EMS ambulance leave. EMS driver puts ambulance in park, which makes the vehicle lurch slightly. ICE agent then get up into the cab threatening to shoot driver in the head (wweek.com)

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the “libtard“ who filmed them.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here`s their story.
(mississippifreepress.org)

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit
(reddit.com)

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.
(bit.ly)

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was “filled with TdA terrorists.“
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents

From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.

More on ICE/CBP trespassing at a church to abduct a father in front of his family while the congregation did landscaping work, from an eyewitness. Reporting by @charlotteobserver.com
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

FOX: Here`s a viral video of landscapers who were being addressed by a CBP agent. What do you say to people who say that falls outside the purview of getting criminals out?

GREG BOVINO: Martha, do we know the criminal records of those so-called landscapers?

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their “widespread misrepresentations call into question everything“ they “say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening.“ She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

Jon Seidel(jonseidel.bsky.social): U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

It`s the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.

It`s 233 pages.

Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina?

None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution. (charlotteobserver.com)

ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
(esquire.com)

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
(oregonlive.com)

ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.
(oregonlive.com)

Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.

Becca Esche(beccasaintpaul.bsky.social): Gas

A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Representative Adelita Grijalva went to lunch and came across an ICE raid. Even after telling them she was a member of congress, the thugs pepper sprayed her.

Her question: if they treat a member of congress this way, how are they treating the defenseless people they kidnap?

Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
(mprnews.org)

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
(mprnews.org)

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn`t matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * (nytimes.com)

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
(propublica.org)

In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney.

More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...

More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...
(ap.org)

I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.”

Must-read.
(apnews.com)

JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
(storage.courtlistener.com)

EXCLUSIVE: Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.”

Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.
(theintercept.com)

“There is simply no celebrating the 2026 Winter Olympics without also celebrating the immigrant roots of Team USA – just look at the numbers,“ writes @tusk81.bsky.social.

Nearly 17% of Team USA has direct immigrant ties, according to research from the Institute for Immigration Research at GMU.

Nearly 17% of Team USA Has Direct Immigrant Ties, Research Shows
“... Beyond medals and achievement, the Olympics shine a light on how talent and opportunity transcend borders.”

(americasvoicecnn.substack.com)

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn`t: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That`s 2%!

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

(huffpost.com)

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point.

But now anti-immigrant animus is being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.
(bit.ly)

BREAKING: Judge Cobb (DC/Biden) blocks recent ICE policies on Congressional visits, lifts 7-day advance notice requirement & ICE attempt to exclude field offices. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
(ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov)

This is a general warrant and it`s specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick(reichlinmelnick.bsky.social): WOW.
@haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

(nytimes.com)

“Doing the right thing has been a mantra of the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office for generations. Let it remain so.”

Reflections of a magistrate judge as Operation Midway Blitz cases fall apart: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
(chicago.suntimes.com)

NEW — Despite a last-minute effort to extend time for occupants to find other housing and receive housing assistance, residents of the South Shore apartment building raided by ICE must move out by Friday.
(thetriibe.com)

At this hearing, @padilla.senate.gov asked me whether mass deportation is making us more safe. Here was my response.

“U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’”

Their accounts mirror Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s descriptions of torture at CECOT. via WaPo🎁🔗
(wapo.st)

ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law.

Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇

News reports suggest that the Trump administration has shared confidential data of Medicaid enrollees such as SSNs and race/ethnicity information with ICE for immigration enforcement despite federal and state laws prohibiting this type of data sharing.
(kff.org)

ICE GOONS hanging out in the lobby of Glendale Memorial Hospital

NBC News fact check:

Of those arrested, 752– or 0.4%—were convicted of murder and 3,390–or 1.8%—were convicted of or facing pending sexual assault charges. Via
@strickdc

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
(washingtonpost.com)

The travel ban revives an effort from President Trump’s first term that led to chaos and court battles.

President Trump on Wednesday signed a travel ban on 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, reviving an effort from his first term to prevent large numbers of immigrants and visitors from entering the United States.

The ban, which goes into effect on Monday, bars travel to the United States by citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Mr. Trump has long railed against migration from Muslim-majority countries. During his first presidential campaign, he proposed a full ban on Muslims entering the country. In his video message on Wednesday, Mr. Trump alluded to increased migration into Europe in the last decade, which was driven by migrants fleeing Syria and other Muslim-majority countries. He claimed his first term’s travel ban helped protect the country from terror attacks.

During Mr. Trump’s first term, he tried to enforce two versions of a travel ban, but courts blocked them. The Supreme Court eventually permitted a rewritten ban — one that affected citizens from eight nations, six of them predominantly Muslim — to take effect.

Mr. Trump justified the travel ban as necessary for national security, but critics say it discriminates against people based on their ethnicity alone.

“The proclamation is another example of the president making a mockery out of immigration and national security laws in order to punish races, religions and ideas he doesn’t like,” said Becca Heller, head of the International Refugee Assistance Project. The group led a lawsuit against the first travel ban in 2017.
(nytimes.com)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finalized a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on April 7, 2025 to share sensitive taxpayer information to aid in deportation efforts.

This unprecedented agreement represents a drastic shift away from the IRS’s longstanding commitment to taxpayer privacy. Taxpayer information is strictly confidential, with IRS privacy laws only permitting information-sharing with law enforcement authorities in very specific and narrow circumstances to help in certain criminal investigations. Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause, who was appointed by President Trump earlier in 2025,resigned in protest over the signed agreement. Other top IRS officials, including chief privacy officer Kathleen Walters and chief privacy officer Teresa Hunter, also resigned over concerns the MOU likely violates taxpayer privacy law. (immigrationforum.org)

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration’s travel and visa restrictions.
The U.S. is projected to face a physician shortage in the next 11 years, per the Association of American Medical Colleges, and foreign medical residents fill critical gaps in the health care system. More than 6,600 foreign-born international medical residents matched into U.S. programs in 2025 — the highest on record — and another 300 filled positions that were vacant after the match process was complete.

Foreign medical residents work in specialties that U.S. applicants aren’t as eager to apply to. For example, international candidates make up almost 40% of residents in internal medicine, which specializes in the prevention and treatment of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease. (pbs.org)

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work.

She orders the agencies to stop.

Amendment to the Constitution and denying access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. What the federal government would have this Court believe-in the face of a mountain
of evidence presented in this case-is that none of this is actually happening. Most of the questions before this Court are fairly simple and non-controversial, and both
sides in this case agree on the answers.
. May the federal government conduct immigration enforcement-even large scale immigration enforcement-in Los Angeles? Yes, it may.
. Do all individuals-regardless of immigration status-share in the rights guaranteed by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution? Yes, they do.
. Is it illegal to conduct roving patrols which identify people based upon race alone, aggressively question them, and then detain them without a warrant, without their consent, and without reasonable suspicion that they are without status? Yes, it is.
. Is it unlawful to prevent people from having access to lawyers who can help them in immigration court? Yes, it is.

There are really two questions in controversy that this Court must decide today. First, are the individuals and organizations who brought this lawsuit likely to succeed in proving that the federal government is indeed conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers? This Court decides-based on all the evidence presented-that they are.

And second, what should be done about it? The individuals and organizations who have brought this lawsuit have made a fairly modest request: that this Court order the federal government to stop. For the reasons stated below, the Court grants their request.

(storage.courtlistener.com)

BREAKING: A judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.
Judge Maame E. Frimpong also issued a separate order barring the federal government from restricting attorney access at a Los Angeles immigration detention facility.

She wrote in the order there was a “mountain of evidence” presented in the case that the federal government was committing the violations they were being accused of. (apnews.com)

This man did the overnight neonatal chaplaincy shift at Cincinnati Children’s hospital, ministering to parents and babies facing their worst nightmares. So forcing him out of the country, possibly to face torture or death, makes us great how?

Kevin Reuning (reuning.bsky.social): Federal immigration officials detained a former Cincinnati Children's Hospital chaplain Wednesday, about seven months after revoking his asylum status.

Friends and supporters of Imam Ayman Soliman said officials with ICE took him into custody after a scheduled meeting with ICE in Blue Ash.

(cincinnati.com)

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance." [video]

The Trump administration continues to target foreign nationals looking to attend U.S. universities. Here's a closer look at who these students are, where they come from and what they study.
(npr.org)

Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S.

García Harfuch confirmed the family members’ crossing in a radio interview and said it was clear to Mexican authorities that they were doing so after negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. government. (apnews.com)

A huge portion of this, from on the ground reports, is judges “pretermitting” asylum applications — denying them without allowing them the hearing they are entitled by law.

The Trump admin told judges they could do this and they’re off to the races. I’ve heard *infuriating* stories of it so far.

Austin Kocher, PhD (austinkocher.com): Immigration Judges Closed and Denied More Asylum Cases in March Than Any Month on Record

In a record-breaking month, immigration judges fast-tracked asylum denials at a record pace, raising questions about the future of the asylum system.

(austinkocher.substack.com)

I don't think we're talking enough about how this Big Dumb Ugly Bill expands ICE by a factor of 20. ($2.2B to $45B)

That's 20 times more agents. 20 times more arrests, plus illegal detention centers.

Trump is using the bill to create his own paramilitary gestapo.

If you think ICE will stop at targeting undocumented people and not become a force to suppress political dissent you are high af.

The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

“Keeping President Trump’s promise to deport illegal aliens is something the administration takes seriously,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson wrote in an email. “We are committed to aggressively and efficiently removing illegal aliens from the United States, and ensuring our law enforcement officers have the resources necessary to do so." (washingtonexaminer.com)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last week began standing inside and outside of immigration courts across the United States in an effort to detain certain migrants who are appearing for scheduled hearings. Immigration lawyers said ICE officers — from San Diego and Los Angeles to Boston and Miami — were targeting migrants shortly after their cases were dismissed by judges. Government lawyers are requesting that the cases be dismissed in order to place the migrants in expedited deportation proceedings.

ICE appears to be using the new strategy to place the apprehended migrants in deportation proceedings that can be fast-tracked and don’t require court hearings, an escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to meet the president’s deportation goals.

“Dylan entered the United States with permission to seek asylum, and his detention robs him of the opportunity to seek that relief with the full protections offered to him under the law,” the New York Legal Assistance Group, an organization that provides free aid to low-income clients and is representing him, said in a statement. “He works, goes to school, has friends and was fully complying with immigration proceedings. All this does is disrupt communities and unnecessarily put people in chaotic and potentially harmful situations.” (nytimes.com)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a cable ordering a pause as the department expands its review of applicants’ social media accounts.

Many universities in the United States rely on foreign students to pay full tuition. Those students are responsible for a substantial portion of the annual revenues of many American universities. On some campuses, foreign students make up the majority of researchers in certain disciplines, mainly in the sciences.

In March, Mr. Rubio boasted about revoking the visa of a Turkish doctorate student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, Rumeysa Ozturk. The only protest action she had taken of any note was to co-write an essay in a student newspaper calling for university support of Palestinian rights and divestment from Israel. A judge this month ordered immigration officers to free her from a detention center. (nytimes.com)

AWFUL. A Brazilian guy, father of a US citizen (with no criminal record) was arrested by ICE after he honked at a car with undercover ICE officers inside.

He was waiting to get his day in court — yet his lawyers say he was just deported after an ICE officer FORGED HIS SIGNATURE.
"Even though his client refused, Lattarulo stated that ICE informed Ferreira-De Souza that they had signed the document on his behalf.

“When my client questioned it, they said, ‘we already signed for you. You’re going back.’” Lattarulo said. “They didn’t even let him talk to us the last few days he was incarcerated.”"
(masslive.com)

Federal agents are also ensnaring individuals with no criminal records and some who show up at ICE offices as required. Both of those were true for the Trejo Lopez brothers. The check-in can be an easy way for the agency to juice deportation numbers, says Camille Mackler, the CEO of Immigrant ARC, a collaborative of legal-service providers in New York. She also notes that lawyers are seeing more immigrants without criminal histories being detained. “When they can deport, they’re deporting,” she says.

In another merciless aspect of the new deportation regime, immigrants can be at risk even while they seek other forms of relief. The brothers were pursuing green cards under what’s known as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, granted to those under 21 who have suffered abuse, abandonment, or neglect by a parent. Their father had seen them exactly once since they were toddlers in a brief encounter at a barbecue. In March, after they were detained, New York Family Court found that they had been abandoned and neglected by their father and that it was not in their “best interests” to be returned to El Salvador, according to court filings. Yet they remained in custody. (nymag.com)

Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States."

Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!

This also means the basis for sending dozens of men, without due process, to be tortured in El Salvador's slave prison is bogus and that falsehood has been understood inside the administration. (full report)

If you listen to Trump voters, they all believe the myth that immigrants get money for not working from the government.

Now Trump is actually claiming he will pay them not to work here. (reuters.com)

Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.

ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her.

It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. (rollingstone.com)

Shaughnessy v. U.S. (1953): "It is true that aliens who have once passed through our gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law."

Stephen Miller (@StephenM): The right of “due process” is to protect citizens from their government, not to protect foreign trespassers from removal. Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.

WOW. El Salvador’s vice president exposes the Trump admin for lying in court about the status of people imprisoned there by ICE: he says, contrary to the DOJ’s official representations, that the United States controls what happens to people locked up in CECOT without trial.

Max Granger (@_maxgranger): El Salvador's vice president on serving as Trump's penal colony for immigrants: "We're providing what we might call prison accommodation... It's a service, like when someone visits for medical treatment... Any country can request the services of El Salvador’s prison facilities."

(legrandcontinent.eu)

On Facebook, Sara Baruth shares that she voted for Trump... and he's deporting her partner and father of her children who has been here since he was a kid. Her full message:"

I voted for Trump
And it cost me immensely.

16 years ago, I met a boy. We were in high school. He became my first love, my first boyfriend and the father of my first child.
He was many things but at the top of the list was a superb father. That man would go to the ends of the earth to look for the last pencil if that’s what I told him our daughter needed.

He wasn’t JUST the father of my child. He became my bestest friend. He was my family.

His biggest fault? He wasn’t legal.
-Despite being here before he could even walk……..
-Despite not having any criminal record……
-Despite making multiple trips to DC (as an adult) to acquire the paperwork to be here the “right way”; papers his mother should have taken the responsibility to get for him when he was just a child…….
-Despite hiring immigration lawyers……

The father of my oldest child is being extradited. My oldest child is loosing her father because of Trumps immigration policies.

Do I feel like I made a mistake? Possibly. Ask me again when I’m not so emotional. What I do know is it has cost me (and my oldest daughter) GREATLY. I’m in a very dark place right now, reeling from this. I didn’t post this for sympathy. But yall need to know it’s not just “bad” people with a criminal record being deported. These people are fathers……providers. Head of the household. The enemy wins by destroying the family unit with this policy.


And this is where it’s going to get controversial…..

The past few days as I’ve pleaded, begged, absolutely bawled my eyes out to the Lord to reveal to me the benefit in this, He told me one thing. “My Hand isn’t in this daughter. When the Heavenlies are at war, there are going to be casualties. This is that.” And here is where imma give y’all something to argue about.

I don’t believe this immigration policy is in the Will of the Lord. I don’t believe in my heart that this is something Jesus would celebrate were He here.

Now you may wanna say “He is the exception and not the norm Sara.” But he was everything to me and my daughter. And even though him and I together have overcome generational and family traumas so our child didn’t have to walk through them, the enemy has still won here. That’s not something I’m ever going to celebrate. EVER. "

The importance of a Trump-appointed judge ruling his use of Alien Enemies Act illegal can't be overstated. It's a direct rebuke to his project of declaring that he can label anyone subject to rendition by fiat.

On the pod, @leahlitman.bsky.social is so good on this: (newrepublic.com)