📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”
Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
04.08.2025 03:01 — 👍 2123 🔁 963 💬 52 📌 47
5 Ways that Trump Rapidly Ramped Up Immigration Detention
Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain immigrants.
After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...
01.08.2025 16:39 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.
24.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 150 🔁 59 💬 2 📌 9
Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
How to tell if someone is a criminal, according to the Department of Homeland Security
irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
17.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 360 🔁 97 💬 13 📌 5
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
15.07.2025 17:17 — 👍 4557 🔁 1955 💬 341 📌 372
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
09.07.2025 20:21 — 👍 10467 🔁 5014 💬 161 📌 234
HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
10.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 2601 🔁 1445 💬 162 📌 298
Sure, Arpaio needed to expand his jail and used the cheapest way to do that while honing a tough-guy image. Never mind the people at his jail, included people waiting for their trial, or those on work release.
The tent-like facilities in Florida in the other hand, are expensive.
01.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.
It's a lie.
27.06.2025 00:37 — 👍 3399 🔁 1385 💬 97 📌 91
Arpaio used old canvas military tents for the jail. There’s a significant difference between them.
01.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
A stunning scoop from @mariasacchetti.bsky.social: Despite pledging to target criminals, the Trump administration has freed a three-time felon from prison in exchange for his testimony against Abrego, a wrongly deported man who has not been convicted of a crime www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
29.06.2025 01:20 — 👍 1263 🔁 563 💬 30 📌 33
Bisbee Pride marred by Border Patrol detainments
Just minutes before the start of the 21st annual Bisbee Pride Parade on Saturday, Border Patrol agents detained several individuals on Main Street where the Parade took place, startling residents and ...
Interesting story from @lookoutnews.bsky.social
"Just minutes before the start of the 21st annual Bisbee Pride Parade on Saturday, Border Patrol agents detained several individuals on Main Street where the Parade took place, startling residents and visitors gathered for the celebration."
19.06.2025 19:04 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Sean Parnell
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At the order of the President, the Department of Defense is mobilizing an additional 2,000
California National Guard to be called into federal service to support ICE & to enable federal law-enforcement officers to safely conduct their duties.
🚨 Department of Defense says that it took command of 2,000 additional California National Guard troops (bringing to total to 4,000) “to support ICE,” raising serious Posse Comitatus Act questions.
Does this mean the National Guard will be will deployed to back up ICE worksite raids? No answers yet.
10.06.2025 01:03 — 👍 377 🔁 133 💬 26 📌 16
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
08.06.2025 21:54 — 👍 47613 🔁 14774 💬 3041 📌 1413
Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
08.06.2025 02:12 — 👍 2521 🔁 1089 💬 163 📌 85
🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:
- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
05.06.2025 00:41 — 👍 2945 🔁 1521 💬 158 📌 94
Migrants, and a Pastor, Arrested Inside Manhattan Immigration Courthouse
Dozens of masked agents in plainclothes searched for targets exiting the elevators.
Dispatch from 26 Federal plaza where plain clothes federal agents detained at least 7 people leaving immigration court, plus a priest attempting to observe the arrests. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...
28.05.2025 19:21 — 👍 722 🔁 447 💬 37 📌 51
It is very unsettling to see total fire suppression be so enthusiastically embraced despite the voluminous scholarship on the enormous and ongoing harms of decades of suppression-first wildfire policy. www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/le...
23.05.2025 17:48 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.
22.05.2025 20:14 — 👍 4811 🔁 2463 💬 825 📌 734
“Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.” @hassan.senate.gov
“50 of the 240 Venezuelan men that [Trump exiled without due process] to the CECOT megaprison have been identified as legal U.S. residents.” @newrepublic.com
22.05.2025 18:59 — 👍 361 🔁 202 💬 10 📌 1
"This tax bill's enormity is being underplayed ... [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined," Jessica Riedl, a budget specialist at the conservative Manhattan Institute, told Yahoo Finance.
21.05.2025 14:46 — 👍 296 🔁 146 💬 4 📌 13
Question: Why are House Republicans trying to kick nearly 14 million people off their health insurance?
Answer:
14.05.2025 00:15 — 👍 56 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
Members of Congress were also there, but were not arrested. One reason why? It's literally illegal for DHS to bar any member of Congress from entering an immigration detention facility for the purposes of conducting oversight.
09.05.2025 19:41 — 👍 2906 🔁 1012 💬 92 📌 37
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