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Kate Huddleston

@khuddleston.bsky.social

Immigrants' rights lawyer; views my own

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We're in court today challenging ICE and CBP's racial profiling and warrantless arrests, which have been sowing fear and chaos in Minnesota communities.

Federal agents are bound by the Constitution, and we will hold them accountable for their lawless actions.

17.02.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 704    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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The Taken: Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents From Minnesota to Texas We document these patterns through the use of sworn declarations and court filings.

The Taken

Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents from Minnesota to Texas

By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi

www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-m...

11.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
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ICYMI: @justsecurity.org created a searchable database of statements from Minnesota residents subjected by DHS agents to suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests without probable cause.

The declarations are from our @aclu.org Hussen v. Noem lawsuit.

www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

09.02.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Alleged Constitutional Violations The ACLU and partners sued over alleged racial profiling and unlawful arrests in Minnesota. Read sworn declarations and case details.

Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Tracking Alleged Constitutional Violations in Court

A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them.

www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

#RacialProfiling #ICE

05.02.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7
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Lesson of tonight's #txlege election: Book banning is unpopular

At Patriot Mobile, Leigh Wambsganss was behind push to take over Southlake, Keller, Grapevine, & Mansfield ISD school bds - leading to book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies, & censorship of curriculum on race

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

01.02.2026 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Black quote graphic reading "β€œI am very worried that the President's consistent degrading comments about Somalis will encourage ICE agents to harass people for no reason other than that they look Somali, much like they did to me and my mother, regardless of citizenship status.” -M.E., ACLU client and Minneapolis resident challenging ICE’s unlawful actions.

Black quote graphic reading "β€œI am very worried that the President's consistent degrading comments about Somalis will encourage ICE agents to harass people for no reason other than that they look Somali, much like they did to me and my mother, regardless of citizenship status.” -M.E., ACLU client and Minneapolis resident challenging ICE’s unlawful actions.

It is illegal for ICE to detain U.S. citizens, full stop.

We’re in court reminding the Trump administration of our fundamental rights to due process and to live free from racial profiling.

31.01.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 951    πŸ” 326    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 10
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Today we remember the Porvenir massacre and the lives that were lost. Read more here: refusingtoforget.org/porvenir-mas...

28.01.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Exclusive: Greenland β€˜Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north It is described as 'a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation.'

From April 2025:

"Silicon Valley tech investors are promoting Greenland as a site for a so-called freedom city with minimal corporate regulation"

One "advocates for building a city in part because its harsh environment could provide a test site for colonizing Mars"

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

20.01.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe message that it sends is that the people impacted by racial discrimination and harassment don’t matter,” said Paige Duggins-Clay, an attorney with a Texas nonprofit (IDRA) that has worked with families who’ve filed racial harassment complaints with OCR.

19.01.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawsuit accuses federal agents of racial profiling in Minneapolis immigration operation Legal challenges continue to mount for the Trump administration over its ongoing immigration crackdown in Minnesota, where the shooting death of an unarmed U.S. citizen last week triggered days of sometimes violent protests

Masked federal agents are ignoring people's basic constitutional rights in Minnesota.

We're taking the Trump administration to court to put a stop to it.

16.01.2026 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 570    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.

16.01.2026 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4089    πŸ” 1591    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 69

*stopping without reasonable suspicion, detaining without probable cause, and engaging in racial profiling

15.01.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Move fast and break vulnerable human beings.

29.12.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated due process by deporting Venezuelan men after invoking the Alien Enemies Act.

This is an important ruling for these men who were tortured, and for the rule of law.

23.12.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1038    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
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Federal courts have unanimously rejected President Trump's unconstitutional attempt to end birthright citizenship.

ACLU National Legal Director Cecillia Wang will be defending birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court.

22.12.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

American public collectively getting a typical FOIA response - heavy, clearly wrong redactions; entire pages blacked out; lots of already-public information (public court filings, the 100s of pages of news articles from the agency's daily email blast)

20.12.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ACLU claims Cuban detainees were beaten for refusing removal to Mexico The group claims that attempted "third country" deportations are part of the threats migrants have to endure at a large ICE detention center at Fort Bliss.

People detained at the nation’s largest ICE detention center report that officersβ€―have beaten them and used the threat of violence and criminal charges to coerce non-Mexican immigrants into crossing the border into the Mexican desert.

We're demanding that the facility be shut down immediately.

08.12.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 443    πŸ” 211    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
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Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

07.12.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 46
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ICE conduct in Colorado "unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state The ruling is a win in federal court for ACLU, Colorado law firms who sued ICE to stop β€œindiscriminate” arrests and detentions

A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social.Β 

The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas.Β 

01.12.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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Texas data center expansion raises blackout risk during extreme winter weather Texas' supply and demand balance can become tight during winter and potentially fall into deficit as data center demand grows.

Texas has become a major data center hub, and these projects could increase the risk of blackouts in the winter when the Texas grid is already strained.

24.11.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 14

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

20.11.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8395    πŸ” 3542    πŸ’¬ 172    πŸ“Œ 274

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

17.11.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8486    πŸ” 1941    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 34

I ate at Cava for the first time last night, and it was delicious

Sadly no bonus $50,000 in my bag from the FBI

15.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look at all the β€œcompetitive authoritarianism” and β€œauthoritarian playbook” cases around the world. Nearly everywhere, the β€œfeckless opposition party that fails to meet the moment” is a major character in the story.

10.11.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout. Building a professional women’s soccer venue was seen as brash. Now the Kansas City Current’s is a blueprint for others.

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games.
www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

06.11.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3016    πŸ” 556    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 35
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Feels like Roy Cooper could run on a single issue and handily win North Carolina

06.11.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThey were careless people, Tom and Daisyβ€”they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

01.11.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5906    πŸ” 1662    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 35

Overlooked a bit: Ingrassia was admin official outside DC jail on Inauguration Day announcing release of people convicted for Jan. 6. Here he is w someone from DOGE, also involved πŸ‘‡

Ingrassia has publicly called for Jan. 6 nat'l holiday - & obv privately for "eviscerating" MLK Day, Juneteenth

22.10.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Christopher Wells starts for the state of Illinois:

"Rebellion. Invasion. Insurrection. War. These are heavy words. The people who wrote our constitution understood the weight of these words. The people who wrote our constitution had lived these words."

09.10.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 186    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0