Michael Kagan

ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants

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As border ogre Tom Homan described it, “ICE and Border Patrol are detaining people ‘based on the location, their occupation, their physical appearance …’”

One in Five ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order New data obtained from ICE drives home how frequently Latino immigrants are arrested off the streets without any recent prior contact with law enforcement.

"ICE agents are deliberately targeting workers in heavily Latino jobs and neighborhoods, sometimes based on its community tip line where residents claim to “see” illegal immigrants in their areas, but more often based on nothing at all."

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There Are Now Officially Nine Ways To Be A "Sanctuary" The Department of Justice is out with a list of alleged “Sanctuary Jurisdictions.” They actually included a 9-point definition, which is progress of a kind.

DOJ dropped a hot new definition of a sanctuary city/state, and I wrote up a little review.

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U.S. Sanctuary Jurisdiction List Following Executive Order 14287: Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens

Nevada is a sanctuary state, apparently www.justice.gov/ag/us-sanctu...

Movie idea tho

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Trump Is Hiring ICE Agents to Arrest Immigrants Coast to Coast, Border to Border ICE is hiring in 25 cities, suggesting where Donald Trump may be ramping up deportations and detentions.

Donald Trump is looking to hire 10,000 officers to help carry out his administration’s widespread detention and deportation of migrants with tens of billions of dollars in funds from his “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Fear and Cowardice in Las Vegas What the Mayor might have said, what she meant, and why it's a dangerous folly

Is ICE really targeting NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago because they are Democrat-led? Or is it because those are America’s biggest cities with the most immigrants? Stay up with the latest in wishful thinking. open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

Fear and Cowardice in Las Vegas What the Mayor might have said, what she meant, and why it's a dangerous folly

What the Mayor meant when she said there’s no ICE in Las Vegas
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Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
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LA taco shop with controversial name closes downtown Vegas location The taqueria occupied a spot in Downtown Container Park, the urban renewal complex backed by the late Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.

Las Vegas taco shop closing - citing “economic factors, including decreased visitation, tariffs, and immigration concerns”
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At least during the Red Scare there were hearings.

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Bending the knee one after the next

Congressman Steven Horsford denied entry to ICE detention center in Pahrump, NV, the largest ICE detention center in Nevada, where many of our clients are detained. www.facebook.com/share/r/1B7g...

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Congratulations to Jacky Rosen and @cortezmasto.senate.gov for their only political achievement of any consequence

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

I’m alive today in large part due to NIH funding for cancer research so IMHO this is bad www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Looking forward to being part of this on Thursday

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is First Republican Lawmaker to Call Gaza Crisis a ‘Genocide’

What do they say about a stopped clock? Marjorie Taylor Greene is an antisemite and even if she takes the right position on this, anyone who is committed to human equality and dignity should be eyes open and extremely wary about any enduring alliance with her. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

DHS's proposal for what to do with the children of people here on temporary statuses (including TPS and DACA) if the illegal birthright citizenship EO ever goes into effect is a bizarre plan to grant the same status to the children held by parents — which seems itself obviously an illegal plan.

Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West." Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about. In fact I know you do." Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."

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In which Marco Rubio supports freedom of expression 🧐

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

One of the reasons I hate the Phillies is that today they are making me cheer for the Yankees. #LFGM

They’re so close to getting it