Noah Hurowitz

YouTube video by The Intercept CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up #politics #trump

Trump disappeared immigrants with tattoos to the notorious CECOT prison, alleging they were gang members.

But Border Patrol agents are allowed to have literal gang tattoos, as long as they're covered?

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CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up U.S. immigration officials have sent people to CECOT because of what they deemed gang tattoos. CBP grooming standards allow them.

The double standards are not just maddening, they’re evil. Timely reporting by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social

NY Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Adriano Espaillat are here at 26 Federal Plaza for an unscheduled attempt to visit the 10th floor detention facility where ICE has been holding detainees — sometimes for weeks — after arresting them outside immigration court

🚨Border Patrol detained a nursing mother in Watertown, NY Thursday, separating the woman from her 6-month-old infant daughter.

The baby is now “inconsolable” and the mom, unable to nurse, has suffered from extreme pain, according to Workers Center of Central New York

If you are an immigration attorney who had a client detained this week before, during, or after a hearing, I'd like to speak with you!

ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.

ICE agents camped outside immigration courtrooms across the country yesterday, pouncing on people as they left their hearings, with reports of arrests in NYC, AZ, FL, IL, CA, TX, WA, and more.

@theintercept.com by @akelalacy.bsky.social, Jose Olivares, and me theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

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“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody

Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory

My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case. Must-read reporting by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social byhttps://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ice-raid-farm-labor-union-new-york-ufw/

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Family Detained in Immigration Raid in Tom Homan’s Hometown Is Released Residents of Sackets Harbor, New York, protested the detention of a mother and her three school-aged children.

NEW: A mother and her three school-aged children detained by ICE/CBP on March 27 in Sackets Harbor, NY, have been RELEASED after an outpouring of anger from locals in northern New York theintercept.com/2025/04/07/t...

“We defeated ISIS in Kobane, but they burned down everything…Now Turkey is doing the same. They want to annihilate the Kurds here.”

Reporters w/ @theintercept.com, spent 12 days in Kobane, a majority-Kurdish Syrian city on the brink of siege by Turkey theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and its militias have cut off the Kurdish city of Kobane from the rest of Syria.

A City on the Brink:

Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey.

Great reporting from Patrick Hilaman,
@noahhurowitz.bsky.social & others theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and its militias have cut off the Kurdish city of Kobane from the rest of Syria.

Kobane is cut off from power and running water and surrounded on three sides by enemies

I wrote this story in collaboration with Patrick Hilsman, Henri Sulku, and Maryam Ashrafi, who did incredible reporting under extremely difficult conditions
theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

“We defeated ISIS in Kobane, but they burned down everything…Now Turkey is doing the same. They want to annihilate the Kurds here.”

Reporters w/ @theintercept.com, spent 12 days in Kobane, a majority-Kurdish Syrian city on the brink of siege by Turkey theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

Syrian Activists Feared Assad’s Retaliation. His Fall Frees Them to Speak Openly. The Syrian regime’s ouster unleashed a collective unmasking across the country and its vast diaspora.

For the first time in their lives, exiled critics of the Assad regime can speak openly with family in Syria, without fear

I wrote for @theintercept.com about what Assad’s fall means for families long separated by war and surveillance theintercept.com/2024/12/12/a...

Silencing Dissent: Attacks on Free Speech and Nonprofits Are Already Ramping Up Trump may soon have a new weapon to target critics: the ability to label any nonprofit “terrorist-supporting” and take away its tax-exempt status.

For this week's @theintercept.com Briefing, I talked to @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social about the ways Congress is poised to give Trump sweeping powers to crush non-profit groups (H.R. 9495) and silence critics in the press:

theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...

The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill Attacking civili society is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes — and the House, including some Democrats, just gave Trump the power to do it.

Here's my story on the passage of H.R. 9495, which critics say would empower President-Elect Trump to target his political foes.

Via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/11/21/g...

Dems who voted "Yes" on H.R. 9495:

BREAKING: The House has PASSED H.R. 9495 by a vote of 219-184, with the vote breaking down roughly along party lines.

A total of 15 Democrats voted in favor of the bill, which is way down from the 52 who supported it last week. See below for full list!

This comes after intensive pressure from civil-society groups like @aclu.bsky.social, as well as opposition from a wide array of faith groups, including 55 Jewish orgs

I've also heard that a number of Dems who voted "yes" have been flooded with calls from constituents asking them to reconsider.

This bill failed to pass the House last week, despite 52 Democrats voting in favor (it required 2/3 majority then — now it just needs a simple majority to pass).

I'm hearing that a significant number of those Dems who voted "yes" last week intend to vote "no" today.

TODAY: The House is set to vote on H.R. 9495, the "nonprofit killer" bill designed to target pro-Palestine groups — and which could empower Trump to go after other political foes

Debate starts at 9am, voting to follow at 10 am. I'll be updating here, with story tk at @theintercept.com

How a House bill could let Trump label enemies as terrorists “Donald Trump says you’re a terrorist, so you’re a terrorist.”

Meet HR 9495: The nonprofit killer.

Rep. Angie Craig, one of 52 Democrats to vote YES on "nonprofit killer" bill H.R. 9495 last week, now says she will vote NO, citing Trump's cabinet nominees.

"I've become increasingly concerned that H.R. 9495 would be used inappropriately by the incoming Administration."

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House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats — giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.

My main focus right this moment is covering the progress of H.R. 9495, the so-called “nonprofit killer” bill, for @theintercept.com.

You can see my most recent reporting on that here! theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...

Hello Bluesky! I am a freelance reporter focusing on organized crime, government malfeasance, protests and social movements, and really anything that interests me.

I do work for The Intercept, New York Magazine, Hell Gate, Rolling Stone, and others.

Looking forward to getting to know you on here!

Update: this passed committee by a 9-3 vote and is headed to a floor vote later this week, likely Thursday morning

good luck!