Uriel J. García

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.

How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly (Gift Article) The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.

Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up.

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A Houston mother held by ICE must choose: indefinite detention or be deported without her family Margarita Avila, a Houston mother of nine, was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Her close-knit family weigh their futures if she is deported.

Excellent feature by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social for the @texastribune.org

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

Commentary: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low “José” is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn't know their anti-Latino history.

"'José' is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn’t know their anti-Latino history." @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com

After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.

Story by me, @patricklohmann.bsky.social & @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social. Incredible photos by @justinhamel.bsky.social

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

Since El Paso joined Texas’ border mission in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the El Paso sector have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other part of the border

From Jan. 2023 to Aug. 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border. That’s more than double the number of cases reported during the 20 months prior.

Many were found in Doña Ana County, New Mexico

By 2024, the El Paso sector had become the deadliest place for migrants to cross along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

That changed in late December 2022, when the city of El Paso joined forces with Gov. Greg Abbott to participate in his signature border mission, called Operation Lone Star.

Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.

Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso • Source New Mexico From January 2023 to August 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border.

As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it.

by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social

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Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso • Source New Mexico From January 2023 to August 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border.

As deaths continue to mount, New Mexico’s border counties & state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it.

by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social‬ / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social‬

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I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...

After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.

After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged

www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…

"[F]ederal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to [MS-13] as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes and reduced homicide rates."
#USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration

U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.

The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low.

www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

Last month, ICE announced that it had arrested 48 people in a sweep in New Mexico. But local & state officials, and immigrants-rights advocates, can’t get any information about who was arrested or where they are. What actually happened? My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Screenshot of first page of the decision. Relevant portion highlighted: "FURTHER ORDERED that the emergency motions for stay be denied. Separate concurring statements of Judge Henderson and Judge Millett and a dissenting statement of Judge Walker are attached. "

NEW: The DC Circuit has DENIED the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Boasberg's halt on the use of the Alien Enemies Act! The decision is 2-1, with Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.

Judge contends Nazis got more due process than Trump deportees did The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.

“‘Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here,’ D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Millett said during a hearing at the court on Monday.”

After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decides it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for mass shooter The new DA campaigned on seeking the death penalty for the 2019 massacre, but said he offered the gunman a plea deal of life in prison to avoid dragging out the case for several more years.

After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decided it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for the mass shooter who in 2019 killed 23 people in a local Walmart and said he wanted “to shoot as many Mexicans as possible.”
via @ujohnnyg.bsky.social
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Texas lawmakers have filed dozens of bills that could further cement the state’s role in immigration enforcement — long the sole responsibility of the federal government — should they become law.

here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social -->

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More than 100 arrested in Colony Ridge immigration raids, ICE says The development outside of Houston has long drawn the ire of Texas Republicans who claim it’s a haven for undocumented people.

ICE said 118 people were arrested during an operation Monday in Colony Ridge outside of Houston but only released information about one of the arrests. ICE has not responded to requests for a list of the names, ages and charges against those who were arrested.

www.texastribune.org/2025/02/25/t...

The owners of a South Texas bakery were arrested and charged with harboring undocumented workers, a relatively rare incidence of federal agents pursuing business owners for allegedly employing undocumented immigrants.

via @beregarcia.bsky.social
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Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.

In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.”

"The border has been secured,” he declared.

Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration.

www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...

Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death The 27-year old Spanish-language reporter died while on assignment to cover the Super Bowl in New Orleans, less than a year after his wife's death. The couple leave behind a toddler.

Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death

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In red text: WE ARE BACK! Previously trac.syr.edu Now serving the public from our new domain. tracreports.org Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

TRAC is back.
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Story has been updated w: U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks on Thursday morning told a Fox & Friends host that Border Patrol agents are not going to "target school buses and children ... It's absurd."

UPDATE: Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd”

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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

ICE has updated the timestamp for many old enforcement action press releases, allowing them to top internet search results

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