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Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention

#immigration
Pressure on all sides on New York.

Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown in New York: More Arrests, Longer Detention www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...

Governor Abbott Orders Arrest of Absent Texas House Democrats Democrats accused of abandoning duties amid legislative standoff

The fascists are on the march. They are going to do whatever it takes to rig the midterms. meidasnews.com/news/governo...

State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

What the what?? I can think of a dozen reasons this won’t work. Basically, it will keep people from developing countries from traveling. #travelvisas

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Maybe. . .or just maybe less reporting on how the democrats were assisted?? We want the governor to be safe.

America is finally waking up to Trump's cruelty toward immigrants | Opinion Every president deports immigrants, but President Donald Trump has done something different. He's normalized cruelty and stripped away due process.

I think some of us were already WOKE, but ok. . .

America is finally waking up to Trump's cruelty toward immigrants | Opinion

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👂🏼🆙 The story about CA’s TRO. Any evidence that it was honored by ICE/HSI? No.

A 10-day hunger
strike persists at
Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living
conditions

We should express our moral outrage that ICE is holding 65,000 immigrants in “detention,” while POTUS demands at least 3,000 more detentions per day. Of the 65,000 men, women and children now in custody, 72% have zero felony convictions.

The Turmoil of an ICE Courthouse Arrest

Expanded NYT article on the ICE courthouse arrest system. Low hanging fruit.

The Turmoil of an ICE Courthouse Arrest www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/n... #immigration

After a reference to Trump's impeachments is removed from a history museum, complex questions echo The Smithsonian’s removal of a reference to the 2019 and 2021 impeachments of President Donald Trump from a panel in an exhibition about the American presidency comes in the wake of Trump administrati...

If we’re only going to display great things about the Trump presidencies-the exhibit is going to be quite tiny.

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Who needs a bit of levity? 🙋🏻‍♀️
🔥🎯🎯🎯 DICE 🎯🎯🎯🔥

Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda

Profiling people who are in the country legally are being rounded up in this dragnet without probable cause.

Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

This is important. We must stop these modern era concentration camps.

Federal judge delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese The Trump administration has said the conditions in the three countries have improved, therefore the immigrants can return back to their homelands. But federal Judge Trina Thompson suggested Trump's m...

We need to support TPS for every unstable country.

Federal judge delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese

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Judge extends migrant status protections for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal A California judge is extending migrant status protections ended by the Trump administration for more than 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal.

Thank you to this judge.

Judge extends migrant status protections for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal

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‘They didn’t vote for this’: Support erodes as ICE targets noncriminal immigrants ‘There is no line’

Most didn’t have even the right to vote-so no one heard their voice.

‘They didn’t vote for this’: Support erodes as ICE targets noncriminal immigrants
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ICE arrested these immigrants in San Francisco and sent them 2,400 miles away—to Hawaii One may be mentally impaired, said a judge who granted him a continuance prior to his arrest.

ICE doesn't even have a detention center in Hawaii. The men have been put in a federal prison there. Very far from home, and presumably their lawyers. Via @missionlocal.org

‘We came to contribute’: End of Venezuelan TPS threatens South Florida economy Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s authority to end deportation protections for Venezuelans, businesses in South Florida, home to the largest Venezuelan populati...

#Venezuela
This employer is a hero.

‘We came to contribute’: End of Venezuelan TPS threatens South Florida economy
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🚨 This! 🚨

Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

NYT article on the resistance in LA.

They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Why is it so hard for so many people to condemn pedophilia and/or genocide?

Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene “This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...

The Federal government must give an immigration court jurisdiction over the temporary
pop up facility.

Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene
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Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.

Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.

Who’s in charge at Alligator Alcatraz? ‘We’ve gotten a lot of runaround’ “What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,”  said one attorney.

This is a crazy article. Surely someone is paying the bills?

Who’s in charge at Alligator Alcatraz? ‘We’ve gotten a lot of runaround’
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Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways A diverse group of volunteers from faith leaders to grandmothers to retired lawyers have been escorting people to immigration courts across the country.

Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways

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Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card.

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U.S. restores Haitian TPS protections, work permits until early February after court ruling Tens of thousands of Haitians living and working in the United States with temporary protections from deportation will now be allowed to remain until at least February 2026 with employment authorizati...

Amen!!!!! #Haiti

U.S. restores Haitian TPS protections, work permits until early February after court ruling
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'Escalation:' Federal agents now detaining people with active immigration cases Advocates describe courthouse arrests as a "Catch-22." Migrants have to come to court but are arrested when they do.

Leave out the 22 part. It’s just “catch” at this point. Absolute cruelty.

'Escalation:' Federal agents now detaining people with active immigration cases

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I was in Texas during the pandemic years and we couldn’t even vote by mail. They even tried to ban drive thru voting at the library for disabled people and almost succeeded.
I hope to see mobile voting in my lifetime.