Laura Barrera

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

What to know about 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Florida migrant detention center in progress Florida's attorney general says the facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can repeat history and stop the project.

Florida is taking steps to build its own immigration detention center in the Everglades calling it “Alligator Alcatraz."

People will be held in a facility "surrounded by alligators and snakes in dangerous heat with NO oversight," our Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social says in @npr.org ⤵️

Pause for a moment to process this; ICE is arresting literally 1,100% more immigrants with no criminal records than in his first term.

This is *extremely* dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily.

Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is such a good point I'm frustrated I didn't see it. If the gov issues a clearly illegal order that applies to millions and it is losing in every individual case, why would it ever appeal the losses? So what if they can't enforce it as to a dozen people if they can still do it for millions?

once-fringe and still-fringe

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:

“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”

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Local News 12-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts boston By Updated on: May 13, 2025 / 8:53 AM EDT / CBS Boston A 12-year-old boy was left behind on a street after an immigration raid in Waltham, Massachusetts. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were seen on camera leaving the boy by himself on a sidewalk after arresting the person he was with on Felton Street recently. Neighborhood Watch volunteers were able to get the boy home safely.

You can't make this up.

ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with.

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NEW at SCOTUS: Trump deportations to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act returns to the emergency docket

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.

He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.

Bring them back!

I’m out of words for how depraved and chilling their glee for human suffering is

Why are we now using the words “abducting,” “kidnapping,” and “disappearing” for ICE arrests of educated English speakers? I’m glad to see the brutality called out, but I wish there were the same outrage when Mexican laborers are detained at home in front of their kids.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.

At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. March 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski... • 1d Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela. He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he is Tren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.

Solanyer said an ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to Tren de Aragua, a violent gang with Venezuelan prison origins that has spread through the Americas. She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas. "He thought it looked cool, looked nice, it didn't have any other significance," she said, stressing that he is not a gang member.

Caraballo had multiple tattoos including ones of roses, a clock with this daughter's birth time, a lion and a shaving razor, said his wife. "I've never seen him without hair, so I haven't recognized him in the photos," she said. "I just suspect he's there because of the tattoos that he has and right now any Venezuelan man with tattoos is assumed to be a gang member", she added, citing also the fact that he has effectively gone missing. Sanchez said her husband has never been a member of Tren de Aragua.

taseenb @taseenb People have started identifying some of the 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to Bukele's torture dungeons by the U.S. fascist regime. The brother of one of them posted that his relative is a barber with no criminal record and no links to any criminal organisations. Anahi انائي @ANAHI1938-1d Sebastián García Casique publicó en Instagram que, es hermano de uno de los 238 venezolanos deportados a El Salvador señalado de pertenecer a la banda Tren de Aragua. "Nunca había estado preso, nunca ha cometido un delito, ni en Venezuela u otro país".

The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison:

- A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally.
- A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool.
- A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang.
- A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.

Can I just say that I love these mass booings so much.

Even more than money these fascists want the fearful respect of the people who have historically disrespected them.

Refusing them that respect is a meaningful show of resistance, especially in places that traditionally fetishize decorum

"illegal" wasn't about legal status, it was about a narrow, nativist vision of US society, and we built a deportation machine that the public has largely tolerated and imagined as "fair" to help accomplish it

Venezuelan couple is arrested and charged with illegal entry — two years after crossing into the U.S. The couple, who live in Washington, D.C., have temporary deportation protections and pending asylum claims. Advocates say the case could set legal precedent.

🚨This is utterly unprecedented. As far as anyone can tell, no one in the last 100 years has EVER been charged with misdemeanor improper entry under 8 USC 1325 years after they entered the country, and certain never for asylum seekers who have legal permission to be here (Temporary Protected Status).

Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.

Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history."

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Judge blocks Trump’s executive order on transgender prisoners A small number of transgender women in women’s facilities cannot be transferred to men’s prisons, the judge ruled.

A federal judge tonight blocked Donald Trump’s executive order transferring transgender women in federal prisons into men’s facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Help ProPublica Reporters Investigate the Immigration System We need your help to find productive ways to examine the country’s immigration system — what’s working and what isn’t. We especially want to hear from federal workers, attorneys, employers, labor advo...

things are changing quickly on the immigration beat. don't forget @propublica.org is still investigating the immigration system

Right now, I'm looking for info on citizens & others w/legal status caught up in raids & workplace enforcement issues
Contact info here: www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

We need to know who exactly these “migrants” are and how they came into custody to begin with. Makes a world of difference legally.

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.

When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

Among other reasons this statement is wrong, a criminal record is a list of arrests and/or convictions. Having one time done something illegal does not = a criminal record or make someone a criminal. If I jaywalked but was not arrested, I don’t have a criminal record nor would I be a criminal.

Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico's assistance.

When speaking to experts in Latin America, I've been told that the use of military planes by the United States could be seen as an insult. And now it seems they were right; Mexico's president just refused to accept a deportation flight for the first time in years.
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Trump administration just ordered a blackout on public communications by agencies across government, multiple officials tell me.

Here's a memo from HHS I obtained describing the comms blackout.