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Kristi Noem promises to terrorize kids this Halloween Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rejected a request from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to pause immigration raids on Halloween so children can trick-or-treat in peace, dismissing concerns over ...

Noem, Trump’s handpicked anti-immigrant enforcer, has led raids that target families, veterans, & U.S. citizens alike.

Even kids’ Halloween celebrations aren’t safe under this administration’s mass deportation agenda.

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Pritzker stated: “No child should be forced to inhale tear gas while trick-or-treating in their own neighborhood.”

But Noem responded: “We’re absolutely not willing to pause any work that we’re doing.” She also called Pritzker’s request “shameful.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has rejected Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s request to pause immigration raids on Halloween.

Even after tear gas was used near children at a Chicago trick-or-treat event, Noem refused to halt “Operation Midway Blitz.” 🧵

ICE is removing more people from Austin’s jails. Sometimes coming twice a day. Data shows a growing number of people in Travis County jails find themselves facing deportation after sometimes routine run-ins with the police.

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Analysts use metrics to display how aggressively detentions under ICE have escalated, particularly in Texas.

To meet their inflated quota, ICE agents are snatching people from Austin-area jails, sometimes at rates of twice a day.

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Lawsuit seeks to block expansion of California’s largest ICE detention facility The California City facility’s population has grown to 746 people as of Oct. 25, according to the warden.

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As the Trump administration continues to circumvent legal procedures to accomplish its horrid deportation agenda, advocates are exploring every legal method to hold them accountable.

“It wasn’t ready to open, plain and simple,” affirmed Jehan Laner, one of our senior staff attorneys.

Just last week, the Dignity Not Detention coalition filed a lawsuit to hold the city and private prison company accountable to California law after rushing the opening of a former prison there to begin housing immigrants.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

In addition to the ongoing community action to bring light to the atrocities at the California City CoreCivic facility, legal advocates are holding the private prison company and California City accountable via litigation.

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Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

These tactics deepen fear + destroy trust

“Most people aren’t used to interacting w/ federal law enforcement on our streets,” said Huizar of @caimmigrant.bsky.social

Untraceable vehicles = unaccountable arrests

Ppl deserve transparency & know WHO is detaining them

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Former ICE director Darius Reeves told NPR: “The agency wants to appear like a ghost.”

Federal law allows unmarked cars only if IDs would hinder an investigation, but ICE appears to be using them routinely.

Illinois’ Sec of State called plate-swapping illegal, warning:
📢 “No one is above the law.”

In cities like Chicago + LA, videos show agents in tactical vests jumping into cars w/out plates or using different ones day to day

Some vehicles even had Mexican flags or plates, tactics that leave ppl unsure if an arrest is real or staged

🎥 Witnesses say “la migra” has become harder to identify

ICE + Border Patrol agents are using unmarked cars, fake or swapped license plates, and even foreign decals while carrying out immigration arrests.

Agents are also masking their faces - part of Trump’s mass-arrest campaign that’s blurring accountability + due process 🧵

On this National Immigrants Day 💪,we should unapologetically celebrate who we are.

With that celebration, however, must come widespread SOLIDARITY-- solidarity with others who share the newcomer experience and shoulder the challenges of trying to survive, support a family, and live with dignity.

Standing defiantly against state repression is already a dangerous effort and one that is exponentially more treacherous when your pigment or class of people are the target.

The truth is clear 🗣️ : When white supremacy is the LAW, mere existence as an immigrant is defiance!

There is courage and then there is immigrant courage 🧵

Stan State social justice conference designed as “counterbalance through the insidious” times This year's event is dedicated to social justice issues affecting Central Valley residents in light of Trump anti-diversity efforts.

Stanislaus State College is disrupting inhumane narratives coming from the Trump admin by hosting educational resistance efforts in the Central Valley.

“It’s insidious…and what we’re trying to do is a little counterbalance through the insidious (times)”

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Dozens of detainees held at Stockton ICE facility after reporting for check-ins - Stocktonia News At least one protester was reportedly maced outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Stockton this weekend.

As vans left the facility, protesters surrounded the lot, w 1 person reportedly maced.

Advocates called the detentions “unusual,” since Stockton ICE normally doesn’t operate on wknds or hold ppl overnight.

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Dozens of immigrants were detained this wknd after showing up for routine check-ins at ICE’s Stockton office, an unusual wknd operation that sparked community outrage + protest.

Witnesses say around 24 people were detained after reporting to ICE on Saturday 🧵

Trump calls off immigration deployment to Bay Area: What to know if ICE shows up at your door We've compiled a resource guide of what to do if ICE shows up to your door.

Resources to help protect your rights:

🟥Print red Cards → ilrc.org/redcards
📞 Find your local rapid response hotline → ccijustice.org/carrn
⚖️ Find legal help → immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/le...

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“The Trump strategy is to instill fear — and unfortunately, that’s happened,” said Bill Hing, director of the Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic at USF.

“Stay silent. Don’t open the door unless ICE has a judge-signed warrant.”

❌ Don’t carry foreign documents or fake IDs.

The agents were set to operate out of Coast Guard Base Alameda, targeting “pre-identified” locations including workplaces + Home Depots where day laborers gather.

Imm advocates stress that even w/out this deployment, ICE raids & arrests continue nationwide.

🚨Trump’s Bay Area immigration deployment PAUSED but fear remains 🚨

After a late-night call between Trump & SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, a planned Border Patrol deployment of ~100 agents to the Bay Area has been called off 🧵

Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

The Trump admin continues abusing power by exploiting enforcement to attack communities — next in line is Coast Guard Base Alameda, per sources via @sfchronicle.com

San Francisco and Bay Area neighbors are bracing themselves for increased action this week:

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ICE windfall from Trump megabill fuels surveillance juggernaut "The fact that I don't have facts makes me very uncomfortable," said Sen. Gary Peters.

Congress gave ICE 💰$75 billion 💰 through Trump’s megabill.

Now we’re seeing the result: mass data collection, surveillance, + detention on an unprecedented scale.

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‣ Civil liberties experts warn this tech isn’t just aimed at immigrants. “It could enable targeted surveillance, even of U.S. citizens,” says Cooper Quintin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

‣ Not only is ICE hiring agents & adding detention beds, ICE is pouring millions 💰 into:

- Facial recognition (Clearview AI)
- Spyware once banned under Biden (Paragon Solutions)
- Real-time phone location tracking (Penlink)

🚨ICE’s $75B Surveillance Windfall 🚨

‣ The government is shut down, but ICE is on a surveillance spending spree 💰 — using Trump’s 'One Big Beautiful Bill' to expand biometric ID, phone tracking & spy tech 🧵

Alexandria residents press City Council to oppose sheriff’s cooperation with ICE | ALXnow More than a dozen Alexandria residents packed City Council chambers Saturday morning to demand elected officials publicly condemn what they described as Sheriff Sean Casey's voluntary collaboration wi...

"Sheriff Casey claims he’s obligated to transfer people to ICE. This is false,” said Oliver Merino.

“He’s only required if ICE has a judicial warrant.”

Sheriffs can deny transfers. Plain & simple.

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Alexandria residents packed City Hall, demanding that city leaders condemn Sheriff Casey’s voluntary cooperation with ICE.

ICE Out of Alexandria speakers urged the council to denounce the sheriff’s ICE holds and “courtesy calls” about releases 🧵

Cafes, restaurants across Chicago put up signs barring immigration agents For restaurant and cafe workers, many of whom are immigrants, the looming threat of unannounced visits by ICE has created anxiety and uncertainty about their future.

Communities make waves as fascism invades their cities, proving that grassroots coalitions strengthen us.

Solidarity signs are also popping up in places like Chicago, ensuring folks know their locales are an ICE free zone.

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