@anneofavonlea.bsky.social
disability, immigration, shiny objects
As @people.com reported yesterday, more than 30,000 children in just one North Carolina district alone skipped class on Monday due to immigration raids: people.com/more-than-30...
19.11.2025 21:44 — 👍 122 🔁 68 💬 3 📌 7
New ORR rules are reshaping the family reunification process - & not for the better - by demanding increasingly invasive & burdensome documentation even when reunification is clearly in a child’s best interests. The result: prolonged custody for children who have loving family ready to receive them.
20.11.2025 00:12 — 👍 11 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
19.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 2802 🔁 584 💬 59 📌 20You can read my reporting on the NC raids today. People of course are terrified, with many undocumented & mixed-status families staying home or otherwise laying low. But all around them community organizers, educators, faith leaders, and local residents are mobilizing to help. It is deeply moving.
19.11.2025 16:39 — 👍 325 🔁 89 💬 3 📌 0Probably second only to nukes are the long-tail risks of playing with the Fed.
19.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1A lot of ink will surely be spilled in the coming decades about why the US voting public took a look at the strongest Covid-recovery economy in the world and decided to drag it behind the shed, but it probably boils down to the stupidest possible answer, which is that no one understands anything
19.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Eswatini says it received $5.1M from the U.S. to accept deportees under a quiet third-country deal. Only 15 men have been flown in, now held without charge as courts review the detentions. Even the finance minister says he wasn’t told.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
As the NY Times reported this weekend, ICE has drastically reduced its sex trafficking investigations, and I guess at least one ICE employee may have seen an opportunity. Note it was the locals who arrested him.
18.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 90 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 2“North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein condemned the raids across the state on X on Monday night.”
“Stop targeting people simply going about their lives because of the color of their skin, as you are doing in Charlotte,” Gov. Stein wrote.
Quote graphic with a red and blue gradient background with white waves. Black text that says, "They are standing in solidarity with immigrant communities and the majority of Americans who reject the harms of mass deportation." Vanessa Cárdenas Executive Director of America’s Voice
Faith leaders offering “moral clarity and sharp contrast” against mass deportation
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
BREAKING: After a relentless two-week legal fight, our incredible legal team secured the release of Mr. Carlos Chalco, a blind Ecuadorean New Yorker who had been unjustly detained in isolation by ICE.
We celebrate this win and continue the fight to ensure the release of our clients.
¡Sí se puede!
300 federal agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex, rappelling from helicopters, zip-tying people, and parading them in front of cameras.
They arrested 37 people. But no one was charged with a crime.
ICE doesn’t protect our communities — it tears them apart.
https://bit.ly/3JVVlPx
E.B. White's granddaughter condemns the use of "Charlotte's Web" in association with immigration enforcement operations in NC.
“[My grandfather] certainly didn’t believe in masked men, in unmarked cars, raiding people’s homes and workplaces w/o IDs or summons... He didn’t condone fear-mongering.”
The Trump Department of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over the holiday season.
17.11.2025 21:16 — 👍 78 🔁 47 💬 9 📌 38
NBC’s new tracker shows what’s happening under Trump: ICE arrests have doubled, detention is at a record high, and border crossings are down.
Full data: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
“Multiple prominent Protestant leaders say that two pastors close to Trump [Paula White-Cain and Mark Burns] have given their approval of the plan.”
18.11.2025 03:04 — 👍 82 🔁 47 💬 15 📌 8Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.”
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
“Tom Homan isn’t exactly a model of Catholic virtue. Last year, federal investigators caught Donald Trump’s hand-picked ‘border czar,’ accepting a $50,000 cash bribe stuffed in a Cava restaurant bag.”
15.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired
16.11.2025 03:10 — 👍 438 🔁 123 💬 2 📌 88Blending personal finances and government funds
16.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 41 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0“Agents didn’t arrest anyone Sunday morning. They rolled down their windows, ‘grinning’— it was ‘the same grin they had when they pinned a teen to the ground,’ Han said.
‘Even though I knew my rights,’ Han said, when agents with guns and masks stormed into his store ‘I still felt helpless.’”
Monsters
17.11.2025 01:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Data indicates that CBP has far more allegations and arrests for abuse and corruption than other agencies and very little oversight … CBP personel have been arrested for corruption, sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and sex crimes against children.”
16.11.2025 22:20 — 👍 271 🔁 144 💬 6 📌 6
It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
ICE isn’t just targeting the border. They’re now arresting adults who sponsor unaccompanied children, parents, relatives, etc. Nearly 3K arrests this year.
When a Chicago day-care worker was detained days after her sons arrived, the message was clear: caring for a child is now a risk.
Kavanaughed
15.11.2025 02:01 — 👍 48 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0When a “whole of govt” approach is directed to the expulsion of minors who’ve been abandoned or neglected or worse, because of their national origin.
I preferred when govt was massively flawed but run by people not entireLy wicked.
What would Jesus do? See the photo below.
14.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 103 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 1
Longtime immigration officials, led by President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and Todd Lyons, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, want to rely on traditional methods including using police research to develop target lists, and to give priority to people with criminal histories, according to people familiar with their thinking. ICE is typically the primary agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws inside the U.S. Their approach has collided with that of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and top adviser Corey Lewandowski, who have opted for large, attention-grabbing operations such as the one in Chicago that are meant to push migrants to self-deport, according to people familiar with the matter. While Homan has the ear of the president and remains influential at the White House, Noem and Lewandowski have direct authority over personnel and policy decisions, those people said. As the administration looked for ways to boost deportations, Noem elevated Greg Bovino, a U.S. Border Patrol veteran, to lead the department’s mission in Los Angeles and then Chicago. His displays of militarized enforcement and clashes with protesters, which he documents in social-media videos, have earned plaudits from the pair, who have given him wide latitude to run his own operation.
This is from a few days ago, but worth emphasizing: in the current scenario, Tom Homan is the "moderate."
From www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Is this the kind of sacred decision making SCOTUS had in mind when it wrote Trump v United States?
12.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
