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A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."

While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”

➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV

Judge Farbiarz becomes the latest judge to see enormous daylight between DOJ and ICE, who he says is uniquely responsible for the rampant violations of court orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

UPDATE: DOJ files its motion to dismiss the law firm EO case appeals. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

Some local reporting background from @amelianews.bsky.social on the West Virginia jails at issue from earlier this month: westvirginiawatch.com/2026/02/05/a...

As a threshold matter, the government’s claimed concern about the victim/agents’ “dignity and privacy” and the risk of doxxing is eyebrow-raising, to say the least. On January 28, 2026, at 12:53 p.m., Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly posted a tweet on X announcing, to a national audience, that Ms. Flores was arrested along with 15 other people as “rioters” who “have been resisting and impeding our law enforcement officers.” See Mandy Taheri and Jason Lemon, Trump’s DOJ Announces Arrest of 16 Minnesota Protesters: Full List of Names, Newsweek (Jan. 28, 2026), https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-protesters-arrested-list-donald-trump-doj11432818. In publicly posting that information, the government failed to respect Ms. Flores’s dignity and privacy, exposed her to a risk of doxxing, and generally thumbed its nose at the notion that defendants are innocent until proven guilty. The post also directly violated a court order sealing the case (ECF No. 6), which was not lifted until the Court conducted initial appearances later that day (see ECF No. 7). Notwithstanding, the government now seeks an accommodation from the Court that it blatantly failed to give Ms. Flores and her codefendants.

DOJ tried & failed to impose protective order on 1 of 2 defendants charged with assaulting some of Greg Bovino's goons at Roosevelt High the day of Renee Good's shooting, in part bc Pam Bondi violated sealing order by treating the defendant like a trophy.

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JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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As expected, the ACLU has sued over Kansas SB 244 (the drivers license/bathroom bounty hunter bill). Petition linked here; motion for TRO also filed, and hopefully the court moves quickly. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

I hear people say to "make lying bad again" and the place to start is law enforcement, a class of people who lie on the regular and it is perfectly legal. Nothing happens to police and prosecutors when they lie. Where we are now was paved with the impunity of law enforcement.

Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored “law and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Depressingly common anecdotes about medical care at Dilley and an example of why so many of us have fought against family detention since 2014.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

🧵 CoreCivic execs & investors are monetizing kids in detention at ICE's Dilley

Patrick Swindle, CoreCivic CEO, led efforts to reactivate idle facilities prepping for "windfall of immigrant detainees under the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown"

#DIVEST

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Homan might want to read our story.

A few months ago, we counted at least 170 Americans detained.

They were *almost all Latino.*

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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

The government has struggled to keep up with the pace at which it's being sued, and the pace at which it's losing.

Reuters found more than 700 Justice Department lawyers now assigned to immigration detention cases.

And we found five DOJ attorneys who each appeared in more than 1,000 cases.

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

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The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.“

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)

They lie