Matt Shuham

Yeonsoo Go, daughter of Episcopal priest Rev. Kyrie Kim, was arrested by immigration agents in Manhattan Thursday following a routine visa hearing. A rally was held today at 26 Federal Plaza to call for her release, & in support of others detained there. Photos from the Episcopal Diocese of NY:

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

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Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Trump sent Jerce Reyes Barrios to CECOT without charge, indefinitely, over a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock&roll" hand signal. Jerce told us his story. (& he wants the world to know: “I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid”)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-872 (JMC) V. KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as jecretary of Homeland Security, et al Defendants. ORDER For the reasons stated in the accompanying memorandum opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion for a Stay of Agency Action under 5 U.S.C. § 705, ECF 22, is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that, to preserve status or rights pending conclusion of the review proceedings, the effective dates of implementation and enforcement of the January 23 Huffman Memorandum, February 18 ICE Directive, and March 25 Parole Termination Notice for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) are immediately postponed and stayed insofar as they subject individuals who have previously been granted parole at ports of entry to expedited removal. SO ORDERED. Quall.Cot JIA M. COBB United States District Judge

NEW: a federal court in DC has barred DHS from using “expedited removal” to strip those people who entered the country legally through humanitarian parole of a right to a court hearing.

Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here's our full report:
>> Dozens Arrested Protesting New York Democrats’ Support Of Arming Israel

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Here is footage of NY State Assembly Member Claire Valdez and NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán being arrested from inside the building housing Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand's NYC offices, ~1:35pm. Cabán's was "demanding that Israel stops starving Gaza," her office told me.

Just spoke outside the building to Alexa Avilés, who left earlier and was not arrested. But Cabán and Valdez are still inside and do likely face arrest

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(Press have been kicked out now as well, including myself. Someone from DCPI gave the order.)

Police gave a warning that remaining protesters face arrest, and arrests have begun. Most of the protesters left voluntarily before arrests began, but dozens remained seated

“No genocide, let Gaza live, let aid in now”

I can’t get a good look from where I’m standing. But according to organizers, NYC council members Tiffany Caban and Alexa Avilés, as well as State Assembly Member Claire Valdez, are here and expect to potentially be arrested.

“Not in our name, not on our dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes”

Police are starting to arrive

Protestors brought pots and pans with them and they’re making it… very loud in here. Chanting:

“From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever”
“We will not comply, Gaza we are by your side”
“Never again for anyone, never again is now”
“The whole world is watching”

“Let aid in now. Let Gaza live. Stop genocide.”

Footage from just now:

Breaking now: hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers stage a sit in at the Manhattan office building where Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have offices. They’re calling for an arms embargo and for food relief in Gaza. Jewish Voice for Peace organized the protest.

“Liberation, not starvation!”

>> For two weeks, three reporters knocked on more than 200 doors in four boroughs and interviewed more than 100 people. In some buildings, the majority of the people we spoke with said their signatures had been forged.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

A must-read from @alannavagianos.bsky.social:

>> “I felt like a sitting duck,” Andrea told HuffPost. “There was no type of privacy anywhere. You’re not human when you’re in there.”

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Wow: 1/4 of US senators now oppose more American weapons to Israel.

Context: until 9 months ago Congress had *never* voted on blocking weapons to Israel.

Ada and Her Family Fled El Salvador. She Died Alone in the New Mexico Desert Hundreds of migrants’ bodies have been found in the past three years in the Sunland Park Triangle, where New Mexico borders Texas and Mexico.

Heartbreaking reporting on the journey to reach the US, and its casualties:

>The Montoya family waited for two years for confirmation of Ada’s death, delivered through a collective effort between Battalion Search and Rescue, the Armadillos search group, and me.

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Rabbis Arrested In John Thune’s Office For Praying For Food Aid To Gaza

More than two dozen rabbis were arrested this morning for sitting down on the floor in Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office and praying for food aid for people in Gaza. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

🚨 Senators will vote tomorrow on whether to stop US weapons packages for Israel over starvation in Gaza

Key:
-Whether the bid gets > the 19 votes among Democrats & allies a similar bid won in November 2024 (only 15 this April)
-If the seeming MAGA shift on Isr translates to any Republican votes

Nothing about the national discourse around his candidacy would lead you to believe that Zohran Mamdani is the most popular mayoral candidate among NYC Jews. And this is another example of why the national discourse about American Jews are so misleading.

For 9 months, I’ve asked Sullivan, directly and through assistants, to speak with me for my upcoming book—a historical record of the Biden admin’s approach to Gaza, for which I’ve interviewed >120 other officials+sources to reflect on policy-making + what could have been done differently. Crickets.

Trump Is Gutting The State Department And Dragging Diplomats ‘Through The Mud’ Secretary of State Marco Rubio "succeeded [in creating] an environment where people wake up and don’t want to come in to work," a still-serving State Department official told HuffPost.

NEW—Trump's State Dept is "a ghost town..people wake up & don’t want to come in to work"

As Gaza starves, there's no Israel-Palestine director. Economic experts were fired amid the trade war. And long run damage could turn the agency into "Heritage Foundation 2.0."
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing killing of children and elderly people, forced displacement and starvation likely to add to pressure for action

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I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like. "This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.

New: Five days in immigration court.

I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.

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'Sensitive' Memo Reveals How Many Border Agents Trump Is Using For Immigration Raids The president's deportation campaign is pulling officers from U.S. ports and borders, and putting them in operations outside their expertise.

We got hold of a memo revealing how many CBP and border patrol agents Trump has pulled from the ports and borders to do immigration raids with ICE. It's around 2,000.

He's diverting manpower from the ports of entry -- that's where the fentanyl actually comes in.

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I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like. "This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.

New: Five days in immigration court.

I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.

www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...