Melissa del Bosque

Ramiro Osorio Cristales, massacre survivor, after his testimony in Canada in 2024. Photo: Loubna Chlaikhy/La Converse

I testified in Sosa’s Ottawa trial, along with other experts and one of the only living massacre survivors and witnesses, Ramiro Osorio Cristales.

Click on @nsarchive.bsky.social ‘s website to see the ruling + US and Guate declassified documents used in the case.

I don't know why the federal government has declared war on my state, but this is clearly because their attempt to conduct an invasion was thwarted. So they're now retaliating economically.

Tohono O'odham tribal leaders denounce plan to extend Arizona border wall Tohono O'odham leaders reiterated their opposition to extending a physical border wall on tribal lands in Arizona, arguing it is ineffective.

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection told [Tohono O’odham] officials that guidance from Washington, D.C., was to complete the wall in Arizona — including construction on the tribe’s land. Tribal officials pushed back on those plans.” www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

How does Trump’s extraordinary self-enrichment since retaking office compare to historic instances of political corruption?

To learn more, read our latest Money in Politics Roundup: 1/3 bit.ly/3MSYmBN

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.

Kudos to @nickturse.bsky.social for following up on this Noem whopper. She is truly "flooding the zone."

After 'heartbreaking' visit with elderly ICE detainee, Rep. Grijalva advocates for her release Rep. Adelita Grijalva visited with a detained asylum seeker with dementia, age 79, after learning about her from an Arizona Daily Star investigation.

After a "heartbreaking" visit with Julia Benitez, the 79-year-old asylum seeker known as "la abuela" among Eloy detainees, U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-AZ, said Wednesday she will advocate for Benitez's release from ICE detention on humanitarian grounds. tucson.com/news/local/b...

We found ample evidence of racial profiling in Nashville by state troopers working in tandem with ICE and a 400 percent increase in high-speed chases in Memphis after deployment of state and federal agents. Also, numerous people in the pipeline to become legal residents were arrested and deported.

We worked with @nashvillebanner.bsky.social @newschannel5plus.bsky.social The Institute for Public Service Reporting in Memphis, @motherjones.com and Nashville Noticias and examined thousands of pages of ICE documents. 50-plus hours of police dashcam and bodycam footage, on-the-ground reporting.

License to Profile: How Tennessee Invited ICE to Target Residents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed that nearly 200 people, “the worst of the worst illegal criminal aliens” were arrested in Nashville. Records reveal that Tennessee Highway Patrol and I...

Super proud of this @lighthousereports.com led collaboration in Tennessee out today. A lot of states are trying to keep ICE out and demanding accountability. But what happens when your state invites ICE in with open arms? www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Tennessee said yes to ICE—and turned into a deportation state How the feds worked with state troopers to terrorize Nashville’s immigrants.

As one community organizer put it, "In many ways, Tennessee has been a testing ground for a lot of these things." It could be a new playbook for how red states treat immigrants—particularly in their blue cities. (14/14)

For more, read @mdelbosque.bsky.social's piece here:

Tennessee said yes to ICE—and turned into a deportation state How the feds worked with state troopers to terrorize Nashville’s immigrants.

NEW from @mdelbosque.bsky.social and @lighthousereports.com, in partnership with @motherjones.com:

How ICE partnered with Tennessee state troopers to terrorize Nashville’s immigrants, thanks to the state's Republican supermajorities

Top Trump Homeland Security spokesperson to depart with immigration crackdown under scrutiny U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin will leave the administration, an agency spokesperson said, a move that comes as public support for President Donald Trump's immigrat...

Conservative commentator Katie Zacharia will join DHS as a spokesperson following Tricia McLaughlin's departure, a Trump administration official told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/us/dhs...

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights Poet Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his chi...

What does it mean to grow up where the Wild West is a daily tourist show? Poet Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, AZ. His new book Reckon explores masculinity, myth & memory. New podcast episode out now.

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How AI Surveillance Tech is Creeping From the Southern Border Into the Rest of the Country Surveillance technology has long been part of policing the border. ICE’s growing raids are bringing it to many other areas.

“Today’s technologies— high-definition cameras, microphones, digital data harvesting & AI-driven analysis— are being used to create an environment of mass surveillance that ensnares almost all individuals within the US,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @themarshallproject.org.

Covering Immigration Safely and with Care - Journalism Institute With immigration enforcement directives among the most politicized and contentious topics in the U.S., reporters on the beat face growing threats on the ground and online. Local and national journalis...

Join us next week for an important conversation on covering immigration safely and with care. We'll hear from experienced reporters & editors about their experiences on the ground.

With @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social, @jcollins.bsky.social, Michelle Zenarosa

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 6 Just abolishing ICE misses the bigger point, and a deep look at the history of cotton in the borderlands.

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Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis pointed out that Martinez is "presumed innocent of any offense of which she has not been convicted." Martinez's attorney said the text messages and other evidence ...

DEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...

Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations acr...

Todd Miller and Melissa Del Bosque on why just abolishing ICE missing the point @mdelbosque.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com/abolishing-j...

Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations acr...

New Podcast Episode🎙️: Melissa del Bosque & Todd Miller on why abolishing just ICE misses the point. Border Patrol's extraconstitutional powers are expanding nationwide, the border can be anywhere, guns pointed at anyone. But people have had enough.

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JUST IN: In a new court filing, attorneys for Marimar Martinez call Chicago's U.S. attorney's office "active enablers of an out-of-control client."

They cite reports from @chicago.suntimes.com and @npr.org in which DHS refuses to back down on claims that Martinez is a "domestic terrorist."

“Today, the United States appears to be entering a new phase of expanded border policing—similar to the Operation Gatekeeper deterrence of the 1990s or the sweeping powers and massive budgets that followed 9/11.”

From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago

The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

All Eyes on Minneapolis: Lessons on Resisting Authoritarianism In this bonus episode, PRA researchers discuss the deadly ICE crackdown in Minneapolis and the powerful resistance we’ve seen on the streets. ICE continues to kidnap thousands with impunity, and the b...

We explored the decades-long rise of the anti-immigrant movement; how MAGA uses intimidation & fear to consolidate authoritarianism; why solidarity is the antidote; what we expect moving forward, & more

https://politicalresearch.org/2026/02/03/all-eyes-minneapolis-lessons-resisting-authoritarianism

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

Death on Sevenmile Road - Type Investigations

This is a section of border where the State of Texas authorized state police to shoot from helicopters at vehicles, and they killed two people. The shooter, also from the RGV, got a promotion. This region is steeped in militarization and impunity. That's where agents like these get their training.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

Two Border Patrol agents have been identified in the Alex Pretti shooting. Both are from South Texas. At least one of them from the Rio Grande Valley. The most heavily surveilled and militarized section of the Texas-Mexico border for years.