a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a living room . ALT: a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a living room .

Happy Lunar/Chinese New Year, Mardi Gras and Ramadan!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 big celebrations all around! Hope it brings everyone good energy, which is much needed rn. 🤎🫶🏽

As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes.

Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes.

Chart showing a staggering jump in habeas petitions in US court in January, far outpacing all other types of cases.

NEW: ICE is crashing the US court system in Minnesota. Thanks to Trump's push to detain an unprecedented number of people, and its attempt to kill bond hearings, petitions to secure people's release from custody have skyrocketed. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

What a compliment coming from him. She must be bursting with pride.

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1 More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI. Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up, twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all. See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id. The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes, the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary, Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A. As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section IV.B.2.b. Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

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Minnesota is turning out. Target stores packed with people Trump never expected—older white liberals, calm, organized, immovable. No chaos, no fear. Just deliberate bodies applying steady pressure. Protect them. This is disciplined, defiant resistance.

Ayer, Liam, de cinco años, y su papá Adrian fueron liberados del centro de detención de Dilley. Los recogí anoche y los acompañé de regreso a Minnesota esta mañana.

Liam ya está en casa. Con su gorra y su mochila.

Officials in Minnesota allege Bovino used language offensive to Jews on conference call Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino allegedly used language offensive to Jewish federal officials on a recent call, sources said.

Greg Bovino, the controversial Border Patrol leader who helped oversee the immigration surge in Minnesota, allegedly used language offensive to Jews on a recent conference call, according to multiple sources.

Bovino was told that Minnesota US Attorney Daniel Rosen could not attend that meeting because he observes the Sabbath.

Bovino responded with audible frustration, replying, "Do Orthodox criminals also take off on Saturday?"

Antisemitism seems to be the only Trump admin criticism Bari will allow.

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“if you raise your voice I will erase your voice” is an unlawful threat. PAXIS.app confirms this violates the 4th and 5th Amdt and a color of law offense (18 U.S.C. § 242).

Act:
• Document details
• Record if safe
• Report to DHS OIG
• Contact a civil rights att

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Meanwhile, Politico is reporting that Noem’s pick for acting cybersecurity chief was caught uploading sensitive CISA documents to the public version of ChatGPT 🤡

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Woman shot by CBP in Chicago wants evidence disclosed to public An attorney for a Chicago woman shot and wounded by a CBP agent is asking a judge to allow the disclosure of evidence to "combat the continuing harm to her reputation."

Marimar Martinez is the Chicago woman shot 5 times by a Border Patrol agent after they rammed her car and one of them said, “Do something, b*tch” before shooting her.

She's fighting to get the evidence released that Bondi and Noem are blocking.

Body-cam footage, communications, photos, and more.

Noem and Miller

Sickos! lol. So third grade 🙄
The prez says we are sickos.
Heaven help us all

Happy update: One of these folks just received approval of their permanent resident status.

Why don’t you tell us (and prove) the violent crimes committed by people you’ve already detained?

Dang! We sure need some Mitch today and your gorgeous photo too.
Thank you

So tired of all the lying nonsense.

Came here to say the same. They’ll be on it tomorrow when there are maximum people available to watch it. 🙄

“If we are to have another contest in the future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixon . . . but between patriotism & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other."

—U.S. Grant

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

At Sacramento’s immigration court, these volunteers have their eyes on ICE “Even though we can’t stop it I think it makes a difference to be there and document and support,” a volunteer said.

“Even though we can’t stop it I think it makes a difference to be there and document and support,” a volunteer said.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

This happened this morning in Sacramento in a Home Depot parking lot.

No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.

I’ve got a new bill to rein in what looks like corruption in plain sight.

Giant companies (and even a foreign country) are dumping roughly HALF A BILLION dollars into Donald Trump’s presidential library — while they might be looking for favors from Trump.

Here are just a few:

Corrected flier Thursday July 17

Next up: sue this administration!

A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen.

• Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms
• Told them he was a citizen
• No charges. No phone call. No lawyer.
• No care after chemical exposure