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Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

The bonus program that ended on Tuesday almost as quickly as it began had been described as a 30-day pilot, according to documents reviewed by The Times. Under its terms, ICE would hand out $200 bonuses for each immigrant deported within seven days of being arrested and $100 for those deported within two weeks, according to an initial memo signed by Ms. Castano that was sent to the directors and deputy directors of ICE’s field offices across the country. Editors’ Picks The Changing Politics of Masks Books for Kids Starting Preschool How Your Diet Influences Your Colorectal Cancer Risk It was meant to motivate officers to reduce a backlog of people awaiting deportation, “reducing overall removal costs and decreasing strain” on the agency’s detention resources, the memo stated. To “maximize” their bonuses, the memo instructed ICE agents to deport eligible immigrants through a fast-track process known as expedited removal, which allows immigrants without legal status to be deported without court proceedings. It also said that agents could offer detainees the option of leaving the country voluntarily.

The bonus program sent to ICE officers was a due process nightmare waiting to happen. Officers would ONLY get bonuses if the people they arrested were rapidly deported through expedited removal or by officers pressuring people into "voluntarily" agreeing to deportation.

Samuel L Jackson said this Two
Years ago........

A brown graphic with tan text that reads: “When ICE agents come into our communities, we need to know who is behind the mask.” Below this text is a smaller graphic containing two images: on the left, an image of a person holding a sign that reads “immigrants are welcome here” with a blue overlay, and on the right, an image of an ICE officer wearing a mask and helmet with a tan overlay. The ACLU logo is featured in tan in the bottom left corner.

The VISIBLE Act would require federal agents to wear visible ID and ban their use of ski masks and other non-medical face coverings.

Urge your members of Congress to support this critical bill at aclu.org/pass_visible.

May we never forget. 🪑
#blacksky

I might have to commission you to make one of these for me.

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.

Definition of terms:

“these people” = Latino migrants

“Inner city people” = Black people

“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

🔥🔥

Oh he definitely is

Looks like you did an amazing job

Big Freedia takes bounce music to church on new album, 'Pressing Onward' NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music.

Trump plan to end free elections in 2026 and 2028 revealed NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections...

Shocking.

peoplesworld.org/article/trum...

Good morning beautiful people☕️
I hope your day is off to a great start and that the tendrils of evil remain so very far away from you.
Just a quick reminder:
You are enough. You always have been. ❤️

Triple H looks beyond filthy right now. He’s going to definitely have himself a week.

such a lovely place.

Seriously!

Slave-catcher energy here

Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion Believers like Garry Tan are flipping the script in the venture capital world, making faith matter just as much as the ability to turn a fortune. Says one entrepreneur, “There are people that are leve...

Speaking of serious journalism, its the likes of Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair that are doing serious journalism on Silicon Valley because other so-called serious news outlets are doing a press-releases-as-journalism service to maintain their access.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

What do you think of them bringing back Brock ?

yeah it is

Exactly this.

They spent their political capital on the orange demon and l will never trust them again 🤷🏾‍♀️

She’s definitely NOT going to win.

Natasha's on the grill today.
#canecoso #canecorsopuppy
#dogpics #bigdogs #brooklyn

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.

Is it safe to say we're cooked yet?

apnews.com/article/stat...

Or maybe it just takes a piece of your soul every time you use it.

This is a great idea

Found my old D60, an old 85, 40 and 18-35mm
lenses. Haven’t shot on a DSLR in a few years.
Today that might change.
#photography

yessss

Today’s weapons.
#photography

Ready to roll.
#photography #photography 🟡 #streetphotography #eastcoastkin
#photographersofbluesky #nyc #brooklyn