Saira Hussain

Putting aside Kilmar Ábrego García’s fate in immigration court, which is not a real court:

He has been winning at every step of the federal judiciary, in a maze of criminal and civil cases, and that’s why the Trump administration is throwing everything at him.

This streak continues in Tennessee:

If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages

Always remember that Brad Karp decided it wasn’t worth standing up for the rule of law when his firm of Paul Weiss was targeted. Never forget it, not for a minute.

Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.

Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.

Let's call this out for what it is: a kidnapping. This is every parent's worst nightmare.

Massachusetts federal court will allow @aaup.bsky.social First Amendment challenge to Trump administration's unwritten policy targeting noncitizen "speech that could be construed as pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel" to move forward. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You Don't Have To Carry Proof Of U.S. Citizenship. But Amid ICE Detainments, You Might Want To. Just last week, a U.S. citizen was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

US citizens aren't legally required to carry citizenship documents, but “the law is divorced from reality,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffpost.com - the practical reality is that DHS, CBP, and ICE “may not necessarily be following case law at the moment.”

AXIOS Trump administration officials are suggesting their immigration crackdown could expand to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens and charging anyone — not just immigrants - who criticizes Trump's policies.

this is, by definition, not an "immigration crackdown"

This drives me mad. If polls say voters don’t disapprove of disappearing people to gulags, then the voters are fucked up and need to be persuaded or shamed into decency. You can’t just treat a view like that as an unshakeable given. There’s no modus vivendi with a fundamentally indecent electorate.

How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García?

Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.”

(That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.)

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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article) Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

Mahmoud Khalil's baby arrives:

"My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family in an attempt to silence Mahmoud’s support for Palestinian freedom.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/n...

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13.

I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war."
We didn't come close to holding them accountable.
We're seeing the cost of that now.

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
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As the Trump administration doubles down on refusing to return Kilmar Abrego García, flooding the zone with contextless court documents, soundbites, and other demonization, we have yet another reminder of why insisting on innocence is a fools’ errand.

When no one is safe, innocence won’t save you.

per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style

Boasberg doing the work that Roberts should be doing.

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest.

If you pay attention: everything they say they don’t like for Black people: affirmative action, diversity hires, quotas, identity politics, ideological litmus tests, they are trying to mandate and enforce for white people.

Now over 1,000 student visa revocations by Rubio. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Announcing EFF’s New Exhibit on Border Surveillance and Accompanying Events EFF has created a traveling exhibit, “Border Surveillance: Places, People, and Technology,” which will make its debut at the Angel Island Immigration Station historical site this spring.The exhibition...

EFF is launching an exhibit on border surveillance technology at the Angel Island Immigration Station historical site in San Francisco Bay, opening Wednesday and on display until late May.

In light of all the Signalgate noise, it’s crucial we don’t lose sight of what US DoD policy of "more lethality" means to civilians. Luckily, @airwars.bsky.social is monitoring the situation. Early indications point to this as the operation in question: airwars.org/civilian-cas...

A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.

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Also take note of their masks - as the administration demands that Columbia et al ban masks on campus, so they can identify protesters more easily.