2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

UPDATE: New footage and info from the chaotic scene in New York City today, where an ICE officer violently shoved a desperate woman to the ground as she pled for the safety of her husband, who had just been arrested without warning as he attended a court hearing. Read the thread ⬇️

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This brought me to tears. To some family separation can often feel like an abstract policy, but in reality, it is painfully real. This story highlights that.

The Trump administration is offering cash to local law enforcement in exchange for "locating" our immigrant neighbors through the 287(g) program. Taxpayer dollars are better spent investing in programs that actually keep our communities safe — not fueling mass deportations.

ICE continues to terrorize our communities in NJ. Imagine calling your wife, your kids, your family—telling them you love them, and that you won’t be coming home tonight because you’re being hunted down at work. This is not “homeland security,”this is persecution. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...

From this month's edition of The Onion.

🚨 OUTRAGE: The Third Circuit just struck down NJ’s ban on private immigrant detention, siding with CoreCivic and putting profit over people. This ruling guts AB5207 and opens the door to more detention camps in our state! 🔗 www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/232... #NoMoreCages #AbolishICE #NewJersey

🚨‼️3RD CIRCUIT FEDERAL COURT OVERTURNS NJ DETENTION BAN This decision allows for private prison companies to continue doing business in NJ, overriding our state values. But let’s be clear, IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT FOR SALE 💥MASS RALLY AT ELIZABETH DETENTION CENTER, TODAY @ 3:30 PM #njforall

Want the know the numerous ways that OBBBA terrorizes immigrants? -Taking away health care and food aid -Unaffordable fees -Unprecedented funding for ICE and detention camps -Raising taxes We have it all in our new explainer

In case you missed this July 4th anthem, let me fix that for you right now. 🔥✊🏽🎤🇺🇸 #ImmigrantJustice #ImmigrantsBuiltTheUS #July4th #BadBunny #NewJersey #Nuevayol youtube.com/watch?v=KU5V...

"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This is exactly what happened in Congress today. “We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others.” - Iain Banks #BigUglyBill #GOP #Medicaid #Midterms

🚨 Today Reps. Van Drew (NJ-02), Smith (NJ-04), and Kean (NJ-07) betrayed New Jersey and its communities. We won’t forget. And we won’t forgive! The midterms can’t come soon enough. #NJDeservesBetter #BigUglyBill #NewJersey #MidtermElections

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The House has passed H.R. 1, the one big ugly bill. The final vote is 218-214, with all Democrats plus Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) voting no and all other Republicans voting yes.

🚨HAPPENING NOW 🚨 House Floor Vote on Big UGLY Bill: punchbowl.news/article/hous...

Trump v. CASA is out, and it’s bad. SCOTUS ruled that lower courts can’t issue nationwide injunctions. That means U.S.-born children of undocumented parents not named in the lawsuit are left unprotected. No injunction. No recognition. No citizenship.

Big, big news!!

Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday. “No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.

These ICE goons are completely out of control. Arresting US Citizens, elected officials, and terrorizing our communities. Comptroller Lander was simply asking for the warrant.

Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE

📍Newark #NoKings Rally w/ @replamonica.bsky.social and Mayor Baraka. 💪 NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice 📢 Today was about everyone showing up and making their voices heard. Power is with the people and there is nothing that we can’t achieve - together.

Today @njaij.bsky.social and the People’s Organization for Progress (www.popnj.org) anchored a NO KINGS March in Newark, New Jersey. Hundreds showed out in protest on this national day of defiance. No thrones! No Kings! #NoKings #NoThrones #ICEOutofNJ #ImmigrantJustice #Newark #NewJersey

The conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark are untenable. With serious security lapses, numerous reports of mistreatment by staff of detainees, complaints of persistent food shortages, and a troubling lack of transparency from facility administrators…

My statement on the situation unfolding tonight at Delaney Hall:

Delaney shouldn’t be open. No permits. No safety inspections. People packed in overcrowded cells, fed at irregular hours, boiling water leaking, frozen meals, riot agents unleashing teargas. This isn’t a broken system—it’s working as designed. #CloseDelaney www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/n...

If it wasn’t clear before, it should be now: we are living under an authoritarian regime. Arresting a senator for dissent is fascist state violence. Democracy cannot coexist with it.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled there's no legitimate basis for Mahmoud Khalil's continued detention, and that it's unconstitutional for the Trump administration to use vague foreign policy grounds to deport people. This is a win for free speech. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is released.

I stand with @replamonica.bsky.social!

Los Angeles is the example. ICE will violate your rights, ICE will arrest and harm you, ICE will break the law, ICE will use violence. Your citizenship status does not matter. ICE is the problem.

Breaking: Musk v. Taco was just filed on Twitter at 3:10 PM. Stay tuned.

Trump Targets 19 Countries on New Travel Ban www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

New Jersey: let’s make one thing clear. 💥This is a hollow attempt at intimidation and nothing more 💥 Sanctuary policies are already in compliance with federal law. A change in immigration law does not change the constitution. www.dhs.gov/sanctuary-ju...

New Jersey: let’s make one thing clear. 💥This is a hollow attempt at intimidation and nothing more.💥 Sanctuary policies already comply with federal law. A change in immigration law does not change the U.S. Constitution. Our full statement: www.njaij.org/department_o...

Kean, Van Drew, and Smith need to explain to us why they voted to slash Medicare on top of everything else. 👇

We ask ALL Members of Congress to stand with @replamonica.bsky.social and against the posturing of the DOJ. We all have rights. And Congress has a right and authority to conduct oversight. 📝Write your rep NOW 🗽From NJ to beyond, we are calling for all #EyesOnICE 🔗 njaij.org/eyesonice

Georgia Rep. Johnson at today’s House Committee on the Judiciary: “This administration has targeted judges, students, law firms, mayors, and now MoCs. Who’s next—you? In threatening her, they threaten us.” #IStandWithMcIver #NewJerseyFour #DefendOversight LIVE NOW: judiciary.house.gov/schedule

It seems that any form of dissent challenging this administration’s unchecked power is swiftly branded as criminal. The tactic is predictable—and frankly, exhausting. Vigils, prayers, and protests are not crimes. They are constitutionally protected expressions under the First Amendment.

📍NJAIJ is BACK in Washington DC 🗽We are live posting our day, starting with the Senate Homeland Security & Gov Affairs Committee where NJ’s own @andykimnj.bsky.social will pose questions to witness Secretary Kristi Noem. 🧵Follow along here or at www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the...

Senator Hassan just asked Sec Kristi Noem: What is habeas corpus? Her reply: It is a constitutional right the President has to deport people from the U.S. No, Kristi. Not even close. Tune in: www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/s...

My statement on the charges filed against me:

Charges against @rasjbaraka.bsky.social were dropped because there was no case, just a stunt to undermine oversight. Now they’re targeting @replamonica.bsky.social while Habba courts Trump for a permanent appointment. This isn’t justice—it’s a power grab. #DefendOversight #IStandWithMcIver

🚨 We don’t know what GEO Group is hiding behind those gates. But if neither the City of Newark nor the families of community members in detention can get in — what does that say about the conditions inside? Members of Congress, you have to act NOW. We need your #EyesOnICE 💥 bsky.app/profile/make...

I’m incredibly proud to serve at an org that fights every day to defend, uplift, and stand shoulder to shoulder with our immigrant communities. This work isn’t easy, but it’s necessary. In NJ, we don’t just talk about change—we organize it. #NJAIJ #ImmigrantJustice #DefendDignity #FreeThemAll

📢 We the people have the power! For over a century, May Day – or International Workers’ Day – has inspired social justice movements as workers advocate for rights they’ve historically been denied. 📚 Read more about the history of May Day and its impact: www.aclu-nj.org/en/news/lega...

It’s happening: Trump is deporting—abducting, incarcerating, and exiling—U.S. citizens. www.aclu.org/press-releas...