This is the worst case scenario occurring at almost all turns.
- Tased and struck over misunderstanding
- Stays in jail for a year because of slow wheel of justice and ICE fears
- PD screws up in releasing him
- Border Patrol release catastrophically screwed up
- PD blows off missing persons report
As ICE moves to vastly expand the footprint and blueprint of immigration detention, I can't wait to read this exciting collection: Carceral Architecture, to help us more deeply understand how this built environment can be transformed into something else. www.amazon.com/Carceral-Arc...
25.02.2026 06:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: Thanks to pressure from residents and local advocates, bipartisan opposition from local state leaders, and opposition from people across the Granite State, plans for an ICE human warehouse in Merrimack have been officially stopped.
24.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 174 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 8
Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...
20.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 2942 🔁 1742 💬 269 📌 563I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
17.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 21753 🔁 7745 💬 299 📌 638Huge congratulations on this truly excellent win--the court's order is a model for so many others going forward!
13.02.2026 05:46 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
We’re in court challenging ICE’s denial of access to legal counsel to people held at the detention center cruelly dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz."
Access to an attorney is a right, not a privilege.
This is not great
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Thanks to John Carlos Frey for having me on his new podcast, The Raid, to discuss the expansion of ICE detention, and ICE's abusive treatment of pregnant individuals in custody. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUhe...
30.01.2026 20:51 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1New GAO report finds significant issues with medical care to detainees provided by Customs and Border Protection at the southwest border: www.gao.gov/products/gao...
30.01.2026 20:46 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
Another immigrant detainee's death at the Fort Bliss, Texas, ICE detention facility, this time reportedly at the hands of guards: wapo.st/49FW4NG
15.01.2026 23:02 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
New from POGO INVESTIGATES:
ICE facility inspections plummeted as detention rates surged in 2025.
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NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
11.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 4469 🔁 2254 💬 361 📌 225
Organizing works. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/a...
08.01.2026 19:43 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
MINNEAPOLIS, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 7: Gregory Bovino (R), the Commander-at-Large stands around the scene where ICE agents fatally shoot a woman earlier in the day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, on January 7, 2026. A US woman was killed Wednesday after being shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during an enforcement operation in the US city of Minneapolis, triggering conflicting accounts by local and federal authorities. (Photo by Christopher Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)
From Getty Images:
"Gregory Bovino (R), the Commander-at-Large stands around the scene where ICE agents fatally shoot a woman earlier in the day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, on January 7, 2026."
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.
Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.
Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
03.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 2817 🔁 1357 💬 40 📌 105
Horrifying. Local communities must organize to resist ICE’s new, cruel plan to detain and literally detain immigrants in warehouses designed for goods and property: wapo.st/4axtwZ4
24.12.2025 17:45 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
"I know they killed him"
Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3.
I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.
