Bekah Hinojosa

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About to watch Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein in 35mm on Dia de los Muertos!
Sometimes life is good.

Alejandro Juarez was mistakenly deported to Mexico despite a pending court hearing, @nytimes.com reports. On Sept. 20, we tracked an Eastern Air Express flight from Newark, NJ to Harlingen, TX — we believe this was the plane carrying Mr. Juarez prior to his wrongful removal to MX.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was beaten, choked, and subjected to racial slurs by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Houston, who did not identify themselves before tackling him and his father to the ground.

Lithium Universe unveils Texas refinery plan to expand North American footprint Lithium Universe Ltd (ASX:LU7, OTC:LUVSF) has unveiled plans for a second lithium carbonate refinery in Brownsville, Texas — a move that expands its North...

Australian company announces lithium refinery plans at the Port of Brownsville

“The timing is ideal to establish a foothold in Texas,” the company chairman said

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Group claims ICE ignores claims of sexual assault of immigrants in custody Ultimately, in an internal affairs review, ICE's own deportation and detention agents concluded there was insufficient evidence to support Menjivar's allegations, according to a one-page letter of...

While Menijivar was held at the Corley facility facing possible deportation, another detainee sexually assaulted him twice with the help of an accomplice, he said in an official complaint and in interviews with me this year, and other media in 2017:

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Menjivar, a 50 yo master mechanic originally from El Salvador, had lived in the US for most of the last twenty years.

He spent 2013 to 2015 in immigrant detention, including at the Houston-area Joe Corley Detention Center, operated by the for-profit prison contractor GEO Group.

Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country. Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

A decade ago, Douglas Menjivar became a whistleblower and activist after he was raped in ICE detention.

He married a US citizen, but wasn't able to get a green card.

In June, agents arrested him just before his 50th birthday. 🧵

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Review: Guillermo del Toro's longtime passion project 'Frankenstein' is its own marvelous monster Jacob Elordi's yearning creature breaks spines and hearts in a violent, kinetic adaptation that co-stars Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz and Mia Goth.

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Gov. Abbott Admitted to Purging ‘Leftist’ Professors. People Are Calling It the ‘Definition of Fascism.’ Students and professors have protested firings of “leftist” professors at major universities in recent weeks.

Gov. Greg Abbott admitted in an X post that Texas is purging professors with “leftist ideologies” — and people are not happy.

“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity After a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two “antifa” protesters.

This is the first time federal terrorism charges have been deployed in association with the “antifa” label…The Prairieland case has so far provided a convenient testing ground for state repression. Latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/17/a...

With every launch, SpaceX dumps pollution on our beaches: Playa Bagdad and Boca chica beach. SpaceX desecrates sacred lands. That's why we're out here resisting SpaceX & the technofascist Elon Musk

South TX EJ Network is with Matamoros organizations on a boat flotilla off the coast of Playa Bagdad to protest the SpaceX launch that just happened

¡fuera SpaceX, fuera Elon musk!

A photo of a sign offering families help locating their relatives hanging outside of an immigrant detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Oct. 2, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention," and the DEK, "The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions."

“This is the first time I’ve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,” said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project. interc.pt/48WWErA

Ten years and five months apart

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Under- cover Operations to Infil- trate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time

Organizers told me they're watching out for federal agents harassing people in Memphis

My Uber driver, a black woman, told me her daughter was driving her car & was randomly pulled over by the National Guard

At the march in Memphis happening now.

From the Rio Grande Valley to Memphis, no more Elon Musk, ICE, & National Guard in our communities. ¡Fuera!

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

In April, the Trump admin deported “Rosario” & her two US citizen children, one of whom is being treated for stage 4 kidney cancer.

The case drew national and international attention. Rosario shares her story for the first time with @theguardian.com - another chapter in our Ice Air investigation:

State prosecutors in Texas seek to make anti-Israel graffiti a hate crime Two activists in Texas are facing hate crime charges for graffiti criticizing Israel. Their lawyers say these cases represent extreme government overreach and could set a dangerous precedent for Pales...

READ: Two activists in Texas are facing hate crime charges for graffiti criticizing Israel. Their lawyers say these cases represent extreme government overreach and could set a dangerous precedent for Palestine activists nationwide. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/stat...

President Trump’s sweeping national security memo directs feds to investigate and prosecute any person, non-profit, or entity displaying what Trump calls political violence: anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, and “extremism” on race, gender, and migration.
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Judge orders the immediate release of El Paso DACA recipient The El Paso federal judge said the Trump administration is violating the constitutional rights of Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for two decades.

New: A federal judge has ordered ICE to immediately release 28-year-old Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a Mexican immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, because she is protected from deportation under DACA.

Where Are The Detainees? Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a Miam...

Where are the "Alligator Alcatraz" detainees?

How can 17 people face charges for the alleged actions of a single shooter? How can an officer sustain shots from a rifle to the neck and torso and be released from the hospital in 24 hours? Are anarchist zines evidence of a plan to commit an ambush?

There are many questions still unanswered.

"He was flown back to the U.S. and is being detained in El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago.

Earlier today, federal agents unleashed chemical weapons on protesters, elected officials, a local congressional candidate, and a local mayor.

Defiant anti deportation activists remain. Another protest is planned for 7pm.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

I’m at the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, where a group of protesters are attempting to block agents from transferring detainees held inside.

Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:

"What really kept me strong was my anger."

In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.

NYC Panel: Frontlines Resist Elon Musk and SpaceX Colonization Hear from a panel of directly-impacted South Texans and members of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas about resisting Elon Musk’s colonization of the region, including his company town of “…

Rio Grande Valley folks will be in NYC next week. come check out our panel about resisting Elon Musk & SpaceX Colonization during #NYCclimateweek at The People's Forum

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