Tinker Schmitt

yet-5 minutes later-Trump imposed tariffs.

Opinion | Measles Just Hit an ICE Facility. I've Seen What Happens Next. When infectious disease and incarceration collide, the outcome is predictable

Measles Just Hit an ICE Facility. I've Seen What Happens Next. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

How I wish Paul Farmer was still alive to speak on this. He famously studied and treated Tuberculosis in prisons.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

DHS says Venezuela is safe for immigrants to return; State warns Americans to leave State Department says that Americans should leave Venezuela ASAP. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s safe for Venezuelan immigrants to return there

The irony is real. 🙄

DHS says Venezuela is safe for immigrants to return; State warns Americans to leave
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Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking immigration parole Court grants two-week reprieve for more than 10,000 immigrants set to lose legal status next week.

How many temporary blocks are in force right now? Temporary winning by immigrants is not the same as permanent fairness.

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Comment of the week award. 🥇

I hear you.

Two things are NOT true at the same time.

Truth
1. Maduro was an unelected, unsafe leader and needed to be removed. The US government is involved in leadership change there.

False
2. Venezuela is a safe place for 600,000 previous holders of TPS to be deported home, immediately. (TPS revoked)

Do we care about the safety of oil more than the safety of a half a million Venezuelans holding legal TPS status in the USA? #immigration

Well said. Truth!

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions

FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

The US Government thinks they will be controlling the Venezuela government for years?

Venezuelan TPS holders need a good group of lawyers-because they deserve to be here in the United States. #immigration

DHS wants Venezuelans to return home, but fears remain as long as Maduro regime is in power Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have been in limbo since the Trump administration removed their temporary protected status late last year. That uncertainty has intensified as U.S. immigration off...

This NPR piece explains the oxymoron between the US government taking #Maduro and at the same time, insisting Venezuelans under TPS go home.

You cannot apply for refugee status from inside the USA and all asylum is on hold.

www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

I live in a state where voters down ballot elected a Democratic governor and attorney general. But, somehow those same ballots didn’t vote for the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

Make it make sense.

Yet, Kristi Noem declared Venezuela safe to return to for Venezuelan TPS holders and made them all undocumented with a sweep of her pen.

In One Year, Trump’s War on Immigration Alters the Face of America (Gift Article) The crackdown and detentions swept from one coast to the other: day laborers in Los Angeles, a flower seller in Chicago, immigrants in New York courtrooms.

Pictorial by the NYT.

I still can’t imagine how 500,000 Haitians will suddenly become undocumented in a few weeks. TPS is ending for all. What will happen?

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DHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries The Department of Homeland Security is pausing immigration applications from 20 additional countries following increased scrutiny on people who seek legal pathways for immigrating to the U.S.

These pauses are affecting every path to legal residency in the USA. #immigration

DHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries

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Now that Maduro is out of Venezuela, all Venezuelans who are fighting in the courts for #TPS ought to receive it. They have perfect evidence of qualifications to stay in the USA.

Rubio said the military wasn’t focused on a regime change. (while everyone else said it was going to happen).

Happy New Year! Congress officially lets Obamacare subsidies lapse Lawmakers are still holding out hope for a deal even as premiums have officially skyrocketed.

Millions of Americans who purchase their health insurance through Obamacare are ringing in the New Year with an unwelcome gift: health care premiums that are more than doubling in most cases, thanks to Republican lawmakers who failed to agree on a plan to extend the enhanced tax credits.

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Anyone else locked out of Blue Sky for the last few days?

Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem

Miller views immigration as a cultural threat to his whiteness.

Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

You are so right.

DHS increases offer for undocumented migrants to $3,000 if they voluntarily leave by end of 2025 The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its "exit bonus" offered to undocumented migrants who voluntarily leave the United States by Dec. 31, 2025.

How do these DHS people sleep at night? share.google/DHP089TJ0sTB...

Federal judge denies another request to shut down Alligator Alcatraz The ruling is the latest blow to the civil rights groups that have been trying to shut down the facility.

Inhumane conditions continue.

Federal judge denies another request to shut down Alligator Alcatraz
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Judge blocks ICE from requiring members of Congress to provide prior notice before detention center visits A federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that sought to require members of Congress to submit requests a week before visiting ICE detention facilities.

Maybe now we will see what is happening in ICE detention centers.

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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

How ICE raids and tariffs can hurt Hispanic business in South Florida “Support your local businesses because they contribute to the community as well as give back to the community.”

Certainly this is the intention of ICE raids. It’s not about public safety.

How ICE raids and tariffs can hurt Hispanic business in South Florida
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Trump administration ends family-reunification parole program for Cubans and Haitians The Trump administration is terminating the family reunification parole programs for Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras

The saddest part of this is DHS is ending the program for those who have already arrived and gone through the legal steps. Work permits are being taken.
#familyreunification

Trump administration ends family-reunification parole program for Cubans and Haitians
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