Jack Norton

‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Broadview ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.

Give this a read. ICE’s Broadview facility was never designed to hold people overnight.

Now ICE is keeping people here in an overcrowded space, for days at a time, no beds, no showers, and little to no food.

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Chicago::

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Obscure and Ill-Fated | Rachel Kushner “One doesn’t marry in order to write about women nor have children to write about children nor teach in a prison to write about prisoners,” John Cheever

Rachel Kushner on prisons & writing & prisoners. On Balzac, Jack Henry Abbott, Foucault, RWG. & delightfully, for me, letting a little air out of M. Kakutani's reputation::

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“The raids are part of a 500-year anti-colonial struggle, Gochez said. ‘We know we’re going to take losses, but in the end, we’re going to win.’”

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Data from May 2025 showing that in states like California and Massachusetts, which have sanctuary policies limiting collaboration with federal immigration authorities, field operations have been the source of the majority of ICE arrests. In Florida and Texas, where state and local officials have enthusiastically collaborated with federal authorities, most ICE arrests have taken place in local jails.

Sanctuary cities, counties, and states are not immune from ICE's arrest & deportation agenda – but these policies DO make a difference in limiting the criminalization of immigration:

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Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’ Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

“If they’re able to crush the LA resistance, that means they’re going to be able to do it anywhere else. That’s why LA as a frontline has been a critical space to show that the community is organized, and we’re not backing down.”

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Looking forward to reading this when I get home. (On the road today). @jkangbrown.bsky.social is a treasure.

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graphic pie chart showing the scope of immigrant incarceration in the US. While ICE detention data recorded 57,200 people on average in June 2025, a broader count of people detained shows the overall crimmigration system is 45% larger, at around 83,400 people.

So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda

The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump

New report on deportation and local jails from @jkangbrown.bsky.social and @prisonpolicy.org

www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

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this just arrived & looks incredible::

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