Make The Road States

Make The Road States

@mtrstates.bsky.social

National organization that works alongside state-based Make the Roads to build power of immigrant & working-class communities of color. maketheroadstates.org

223 Followers 96 Following 34 Posts Joined Jan 2025
3 weeks ago
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ICE's Use of AI Will Lead to Big Mistakes. Maybe That's the Point Cybersecurity experts say that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be indifferent to how their artificial intelligence tools work.

"ICE uses Palantir’s tools to process and summarize tips sent to the department, as well as a Palantir system called ELITE that sources and collates information from government agencies to create neighborhood maps that lead them to probable deportation targets."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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1 month ago
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Children’s Advocates to Congress: “There is No Appropriate Amount of Time for Children to be Detained” - Children Thrive Action Network FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org  Washington, DC, February 10, 2026—As ...

[1] As Congress’s deadline approaches to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), growing numbers of children and families continue to suffer in immigrant family detention.
childrenthriveaction.org/2026/02/chil...

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1 month ago

Powerful quote from @maketheroadnj.bsky.social:
"We want to make sure we are not forgetting the conversation about the data infrastructure, the backbone, that holds up ICE … The state should not be giving one dollar to Palantir.”

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“State violence can dehumanize us all. But you aren’t powerless.”
A powerful new LA Times op-ed by our Co-Executive Director, Pablo Alvarado, on how repeated cruelty breeds numbness — and why solidarity and compassion restore our shared humanity.
https://lat.ms/49Nj9iP

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1 month ago

Palantir is spending its revenue from ICE contracts on our elected officials.

The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350

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1 month ago

This is a full-on violation of our rights.

The government cannot break into our homes without a judicial warrant. To meet its self-imposed, cruel deportation quotas, the Trump administration is flagrantly violating the Fourth Amendment and allowing ICE to terrorize our communities in the process.

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Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding! We need you to take action NOW! Coming into the New Year the House and Senate are proposing to expand immigration detention. Currently the proposal on the table includes funding to detain an additiona...

NO MORE FUNDING FOR ICE!

Tell Congress to vote NO and stop funding ICE. We've seen agents terrorize and invade our communities, go after citizens and non-citizens alike, and detain and deport our neighbors. actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...

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1 month ago
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The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers | CLASP CLASP’s new timeline, “The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers,” provides a clear illustration of just some of the ways that President Trump and his administrat...

As CLASP releases “The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers,” a new timeline showing how the Trump Admin remade the federal landscape in 2025.
www.clasp.org/publications...

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1 month ago
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How Many People Has Trump Deported So Far? In the first year of the Trump administration, it was the nature of the deportations, rather than their number, that changed the most, an analysis of government data reveals.

The removal of immigrants without a criminal record has gone up more than SIX times.

Trump's mass deportation agenda isn't public safety—it's chaos and trauma inflicted on everyone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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1 month ago

While Big Tech CEO's like Alex Karp rake in billions, our communities are being tracked, spied, and detained on behalf of their technologies.

Palantir is profiting from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism. Read how their technology powers ICE raids⬇️

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1 month ago
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government…

"One of the citizens whom agents put in a chokehold was 16 years old."

Yet another example of why ICE and Border Patrol agents do not belong in our communities. The harm and violence have gone unchecked for far too long—and the people now demand accountability.

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2 months ago
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Data Center Watch Report Q2 2025 UPDATE — Data Center Watch

$98 billion in planned AI data center development was derailed in a single quarter last year by community organizing and pushback, more than all disruptions tracked since 2023.

www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025

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2 months ago

From @maketheroadnj.bsky.social: “The tragic loss of Jean Wilson Brutus is a prime example of the deadly reality of immigrant detentions. This loss reverberates far beyond detention walls: it sends a message to immigrant families across the country that their lives are treated as expendable.”

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2 months ago
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Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs

As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.

But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?

This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.

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2 months ago
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Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations

At 16 years old, Joel, like thousands of other young migrants, has become a target of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Dissolving long-established protections aimed to help young people like him isn't safety—it's cruelty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...

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2 months ago
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Dirty data centers will drive up our utility bills  • Nevada Current If your family is anything like mine, you dread opening up your NV Energy bill every month. Over the summer and fall, I thought I was seeing double; my bill was so high. All across the country, rate p...

From @maketheroadnv.bsky.social: All across the country, rate payers are facing eye-popping increases. What is to blame for the sudden increase in costs? Big tech’s AI-fueled data center frenzy—and it’s about to get even worse.

nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/d...

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2 months ago

“I don’t know how I’m going to explain it to my daughter one day — that she got pepper-sprayed on our way to buy Pampers and milk.”

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3 months ago

Help us reunite Allan & Matthew! Allan is an LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who was wrongfully detained by ICE following his marriage-based green card interview at 26 Federal Plaza.

Over 1,200 New Yorkers have signed the petition demanding his immediate release. Help us #FreeAllan: bit.ly/FreeAllan

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3 months ago

This is an example of what those in power can do to protect their communities, especially immigrant communities facing this administration's harsh enforcement policies.

No one should fear that a routine court check-in, school drop-off, or emergency hospital visit can result in being deported.

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3 months ago

While billionaires like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp embed their technology into our government and profit from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism, communities are being detained, disappeared, and deported—all while footing the bill.

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As DACA endures unprecedented attacks, Congress has now reintroduced the DREAM Act, a bipartisan solution that provides long-overdue stability and permanent protections for immigrant youth.

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3 months ago
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We, the #BraveOfUS – Americans of all races, genders and backgrounds – are joining together to march, protect our neighbors, and keep our loved ones safe in the place we call home.

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4 months ago
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All across the country, immigrants & U.S. citizens alike are being approached by armed, masked men on the streets, violently mistreated, put in handcuffs, & put in the back of unmarked vehicles. Look out for your neighbors, to keep one another safe. Know your rights & stay informed. #NoSecretPolice 

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4 months ago
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Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

“There is a total lack of oversight...The lack of communication and lack of access to counsel for people in these sites is a way of preventing oversight, transparency and accountability.”
--Paige Austin, attorney at @maketheroadny.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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4 months ago
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Immigrant Advocates Are Targeting Tech — and Palantir Is Public Enemy No. 1 Activists and immigration advocates are seeking to bring Palantir's elusive digital infrastructure into the public eye and are urging states to divest from the company.

“If Palantir is able to move forward with ImmigrationOS, all of the information that we have given over — that we’ve trusted the state with — could be used to separate families,” said Nedia Morsy of @maketheroadnj.bsky.social. documentedny.com/2025/10/27/p...

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4 months ago

"Now, as President Donald Trump rolls out increased immigration arrests, detentions and deportations, migrants displaced by hurricanes, floods and droughts are at risk of being sent back to places hollowed out by climate change."

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4 months ago
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2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants Nearly all of ICE’s detention centers are run by privately owned companies and have been criticized for overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions.

Since October 1, 2024, at least 21 people have died in ICE custody.

This is what happens when an immigration system values quotas over human lives. It’s unacceptable — and we refuse to stay silent.
https://bit.ly/4nfuFXJ

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5 months ago

naturally.

these arrests were a disturbing infringement on their First Amendment right and we’re glad to see the court uphold these very rights.

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5 months ago
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We’re kicking off the #MRSTHROWDOWN25 in New Jersey! Compas from across the states are coming together to build power and community 🦋✊🏽

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5 months ago
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Nearly 20 DACA recipients & dozens more immigrant youth have been snatched from their families and detained by immigration agents in recent months.

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