Darrell Silver

1/ Very moving interview.

Coach of a college prep baseball team on UWS NYC speaks about half dozen armed ICE agents approaching and harassing the kids (Latino and black youth, all U.S. citizens).

"I am willing to die today" to protect the kids.

Describing an ICE attempt to raid a youth baseball practice in New York City

From NY Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal -

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

DOJ plan to prioritize revoking citizenship includes

Cases a US Attorney refers "or in connection with pending criminal charges if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities"

"Any other cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division determines to be sufficiently important"

We, the USA in 2025, put 25,000 four year olds in court then Trump says they can’t have a lawyer. And the kid rarely speaks English not that it would change anything.

Article from March, screenshot from today since the Supreme Court ruling makes it less stoppable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

This is physical bravery. This guy is a patriot.

At Graduation Time, ICE Targets Young Dreamers As young people are celebrating graduations, ICE has been ramping up enforcement. One new tactic: arresting teenage students.

“As young people and their families are celebrating graduations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been ramping up enforcement across the country. One new tactic: arresting teenage students.”

immigrationimpact.com/2025/06/12/g...

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

DHS Is Considering Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship “This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” says the producer behind the pitch.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Specifically, discouraging taking children from detention + tracking and deporting passport holders who try.

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Policy on Migrant Children Kids who enter the US alone have spent longer in federal custody since new policies made it harder for caregivers to sponsor them.

Part of why @theyoungcenter.bsky.social is so busy this year (gift article)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Challenges Migrants’ Due Process Rights, Undercutting Bedrock Principle White House officials are eschewing normal legal processes as they rush to ramp up deportations, saying there is no time to afford unauthorized immigrants any rights — and that they don’t deserve them...

"The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment says no person can be ‘deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ It doesn’t say ‘citizen.’”

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

When Trump says he’s not doing family separation what he means is he’s deporting US Citizen children without due process.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.

"Perhaps it is because they have hit a wall deporting so-called criminals, so now they are going after children and their families in an effort to bump up their deportation statistics”

Original reporting today from @jherrerx.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Trump admin hasn’t funded legal help for unaccompanied immigrant children, despite judge’s order Attorneys say the funding cutoff has caused chaos, with kids as young as 5 facing judges alone in immigration courts. Some are victims of sexual abuse and trafficking.

We said it once, we said it again, we'll keep on saying it.

No child should have to navigate complex immigration proceedings on their own.

Migrants in Arizona receive notices from government: 'It is time for you to leave' The federal government is using its discretion to revoke parole status for migrants allowed in under the Biden administration. What does that mean?

Legal asylum seekers are told to gtfo in 7 days www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Early Edition: April 7, 2025 A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the weekend.

Today's news roundup:
-Govt deportation of Maryland man to El Salvador "wholly lawless," judge rules
-Rubio cancels visas for South Sudan citizens over deportation dispute
-DOGE to make cuts at DHS this week
-Israel now controls 50% of Gaza, rights groups say
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www.justsecurity.org/110097/early...

Trump administration admits ‘error’ in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador The Department of Justice says it has no recourse now that the man is in his home country, where he’d previously feared torture and persecution.

Trump administration admits ‘error’ in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador now says it has no recourse now that the man is in his home country.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared. Deportation proceedings are often shrouded in secrecy. But lawyers say the lack of information about the Venezuelan migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act is nearly unprecedented.

“This looks like the kind of things we thought only happened in other countries, and it’s happening to people who come from those places and came here to get away from it. You’re not supposed to have people disappear in the United States.”

Via @arelisrhdz.bsky.social & @marialuisapaul.bsky.social

Virtual Book Talk "Kids in Cages: Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention" 1:00 - 2:30 PM CST

#HappeningToday at 1:00 pm CST: Join a conversation today, March 19, with editors and authors from "Kids in Cages."

The event will include several Young Center staff and alumni!

Attend here: elmhurst-edu.zoom.us/j/93492998353

Purchase book here: uapress.arizona.edu/book/kids-in...

It’s not all about money. Last week DHS began preventing asylum seekers in custody from knowing their rights under existing US law.

These services are offered by non profits, are authorized by federal law, and at no cost to tax payers.

Newark mayor: ICE raided business without a warrant, detained U.S. citizens U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-10th District, said her office had asked agency officials for answers.

The owner told CBS News that his manager tried to show his veteran’s card, but the [ICE] agents did not accept it.

“A couple of the guys couldn’t show their identification,” the owner said. “Twenty-six years in business, I never seen anything like this.”
www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...

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