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He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Today on #DíaDeLosMuertos, we're outside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center honoring the lives lost in immigration detention.

Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

Despite the early police violence, protesters are still rallying in their free speech area.

Singing, "this is for the people who are locked inside. Together, we can abolish ICE!"

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

Here's the Religion News Service report on the ICE shooting of a Presbyterian pastor in Chicago.

What Extreme Poverty Looks Like Ten percent of humanity struggles to live on under $2 a day. That, and the gap between the extremely poor and the more privileged, is important to see.

Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.

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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

ICE sealed off Beach Street with an unlawful fence which forces protesters to be at a driveway that is ripe for kettling. Yesterday, they shot pepper balls, flash bangs, tear gas, and rubber bullets at 9 AM.

It will almost certainly be worse tonight. And used as an excuse for ICE overreach. 3/6

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

“We do not have the luxury of getting tired,” said 95-year-old Huerta. “Every single one of us has to become a patriot.” www.kxan.com/hidden-histo... #HispanicHeritageMonth

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Me, in a nutshell:

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

As expected: DHS lied to cover up the fact that ICE murdered someone in cold blood as they were trying to drive away.

Another life lost to immigration detention: Last month Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, died while in ICE custody on August 31 in AZ. ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, AZ and has reported that the cause of his death is currently known.

Supreme Court ruling could affect upcoming ICE operations across US A Supreme Court ruling on how federal immigration enforcement operations are run eases up on a previous legal decision.

I am quoted here on the impact of today’s SCOTUS decision on immigration enforcement operations nationwide. TL;DR, this (further) legalizes racial profiling in immigration arrests.

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Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO, Respondent Decided September 5, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Board of Immigration Appeals Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond requests or to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

Table 1. Countries Designated for TPS, as of March 31, 2025 Country Recent Decisions Required Arrival Datea Expiration Dateb Approved Individualsc Afghanistan Termination September 20, 2023 July 14, 2025 8,105 Burma Extension and redesignation March 21, 2024 November 25, 2025 3,670 Cameroon Termination October 5, 2023 August 4, 2025 4,920 El Salvador Extension February 13, 2001 September 9, 2026 170,125 Ethiopia Extension and redesignation April 11, 2024 December 12, 2025 4,540 Haiti Partial vacatur of extension, termination June 3, 2024 February 3, 2026 330,735 Honduras Termination December 30, 1998 September 8, 2025 51,225 Lebanon New designation October 16, 2024 May 27, 2026 140 Nepal Termination June 24, 2015 August 5, 2025 7,160 Nicaragua Termination December 30, 1998 September 8, 2025 2,910 Somalia Extension and redesignation July 12, 2024 March 17, 2026 705 South Sudan Extension September 4, 2023 November 3, 2025 210 Sudan Extension August 16, 2023 October 19, 2026 1,790 Syria Extension and redesignation January 25, 2024 September 30, 2025 3,860 Ukraine Extension August 16, 2023 October 19, 2026 101,150 Venezuela (2021) Extension March 8, 2021 September 10, 2025 252,825 Venezuela (2023) Termination July 31, 2023 April 7, 2025 (or October 2, 2026)d 352,190 Yemen Extension and redesignation July 2, 2024 March 3, 2026 1,380 Total 1,297,635

Trump has stripped, or moved to strip, Temporary Protected Status from over:

- 605,000 Venezuelans
- 330,700 Haitians
- 51,200 Hondurans,
- 8,100 Afghans
- 7,100 Nepalese
- 4,900 Cameroonians
- 2,900 Nicaraguans

These figures don't even count the hundreds of thousands of parole terminations.

My husband and I just agreed that we would literally spend it all on food.

Fancy food. Street foods. Food everywhere. All of it.

Judge Sparkle (the best name in the world, imo) is not fucking around.

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing How To Fight Trump's Occupation With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

DC's night patrols watch over the city to ensure that people are protected from state violence, false arrest, abduction, and harassment. Failing that, they document the occupation forces' constitutional violations, write Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano.

Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days "The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com
- 1 meal a day = a single burrito
- some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete
- Some held as long as 7 days
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The coolest future mayor.

Ms. Rachel has a message for children in Gaza and around the world.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

So speaking Spanish in places named Los Angeles, San Bernadino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Santa Barbara can get you stopped, harassed, arrested.

‘A death sentence’: a young mother grappling with addiction dies in a drug-plagued prison In the second of a three-part special report, the ‘remarkable’ number of deaths of people in custody at the Cibola correctional center

Cibola is dangerous for everyone and needs to be shutdown

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