YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Woman wrongfully detained in immigration raid describes what she endured

“She’s mine.”
Watch this whole interview with Andrea Velez, a US citizen arrested by ICE while on her way to work. youtu.be/AmfpngmLIzQ?...

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house.

It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

The Deportation Machine in Downtown Manhattan A cycle of ICE arrests, anguish, and protest at 26 Federal Plaza.

“It feels like they’re turning 26 Federal Plaza into a de facto, short-term detention center,” said Daniel Coates, our Policy Director.

Our communities are being targeted by this cruel federal mass deportation plan & we’re fighting it every step of the way. See how 👇
www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.

Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

Los Angeles. Just wow.

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."

www.wnep.com/article/news...

Bronx HS student Dylan’s first public statement from ICE detention - where he remains: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

“He will be able to replicate this militarized approach to Los Angeles across maybe dozens of American cities.”

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

a photo of foley square full of protesters

NOW — I’m at the ICE OUT OF NEW YORK protest in Foley Square.

I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.

Congressmembers Barred from ICE Lockup in Lower Manhattan Nydia Velazquez and Adriano Espalliat were seeking to inspect holding cells inside 26 Federal Plaza, as concerns have grown among advocates about conditions inside amid a surge of arrests.

Yesterday, Congress members Nydia Velazquez and Adriano Espalliat tried to visit an ICE holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza as concerns about conditions inside are mounting...

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/08/v...

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

So to review:

1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that.

2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied.

3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their break-up, DOGE shows no signs of slowing down—and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.

While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their breakup, DOGE shows no signs of slowing down—and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.

Families in Tears and Panic Outside Immigration Office as ICE Accelerates Round-Ups Over the course of Wednesday, THE CITY witnessed at least 15 people arrested at routine, mandatory check-ins with the agency as the Trump administration escalates its crackdown.

Hour by hour, outside the ICE check in office today, for @thecity.nyc

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...

Joni Ernst says “we’re all gonna die” so we shouldn’t worry about Medicaid. Easy to say when YOU get taxpayer-funded health care, Joni.

As a US Senator, she enjoys top-level private insurance that’s 70–75% subsidized by you and me.

Her cost for a family plan? Approx $250/mo.

(She earns $174K/yr)

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.

A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.

Does that sound fair to you?

I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor.

I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

There’s a protest today for Dylan.

⏰ 5pm
📍 Tweed Courthouse (52 Chambers St)

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

Now PBS Is Censoring a Film About Free Speech A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.

PBS insisted on removing a 90-second segment from a documentary about Art Spiegelman that was critical of Donald Trump. Daniel Engber reports on a worrying trend in public television: