Even among Trump's core constituencies, opposition to ICE is strong. Turns out that most people don't like living in a police state. From @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2062...

I wrote about these warehouses in the context of Friday's Fifth Circuit mandatory-detention ruling over the weekend here: www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circ...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

SCOOP: Immigration courts rapidly scheduled and rescheduled Somali asylum seekers to have hearings suddenly within the next four weeks. The move could fast-track their deportation and limit due process, multiple lawyers with over 100 cases affected tell me. www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...

And, again, the agent-doxxed-and-then-attacked scenario the masks ostensibly are intended to prevent has never actually occurred. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

In highlighting a CBS reporter's story debunking the Trump admin's lies on immigration enforcement, Bari Weiss appears to briefly forget that she now works for CBS and tweets that his story was for The Free Press.

Throughout this clip, Rep. Steil says over and over again that masking wouldn't be necessary if local governments cooperated with ICE. But that's nonsense. ICE is masking even in red states, even in places where there are 287(g) agreements, and even hiding their faces in photos taken at prisons!

This is such an embarrassing interview. Good for CNBC for asking the most straightforward questions.

A Brutal 5th Circuit Ruling Promises More ICE Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

1. Trump has launched a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants, calling them "garbage" and demanding they be kicked out of the country Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them We've uncovered the details of the scheme

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says. The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Two days after Trump posts a racist video, he now attacks Bad Bunny: "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying." He adds: "There is nothing inspirational about this mess." FYI: The billboard behind Bad Bunny read: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show

I laughed so hard at that joke. Really funny.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Love the universal “is that Pedro Pascal?!” reaction.

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

Concentration camps: "I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."

I am anti-monopoly and take no pleasure in reporting this.

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Some of my thoughts on the state of the labor market in this @wsj.com article: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

best owl photo i ever took.

What *about* that 5-year-old US citizen? Finish the sentence, Congressman. What does that hypothetical child have to do with Liam Ramos? Spell it out. Don’t just say “but what about our kids” and stop there. Explain your logic.

Best response to our study yet: The nativist equation is: Not hearing Spanish > infinite $$.

If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

In lighter news, just picked up Cairn and it's incredible. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Contrast this with the WSJ ed board, which semi-trollingly framed it as vindication for John Roberts for taking the federal courts out of gerrymandering. Pros versus amateurs.

This whole thing is so heartbreaking. Praying her mom is safe and sound, it’s over swiftly and whoever did this is brought to justice.

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

THIS. Every time bozos in the interior voted to give more weapons to the largest LE agency in the country terrorize people at the border and hold them in incommunicado detention in exchange for less enforcement in the interior, we only made today’s nightmare more possible.

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

1,000 reskeets and it's totally made up, that's a photo from Los Angeles, stop sharing this disinfo-spreader

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

He pleaded with them to stop but they just “laughed at me and hit me again.” “They were very racist people,” he said. “No one insulted them, neither me nor the other person they detained me with. It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.”

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Under current law, ICE doesn't have to report detainee numbers at "hold rooms" or administrative offices. What the public knows about overcrowding comes from local reporting and then later from case records obtained via FOIA. www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...

These federal buildings have cells designed to hold a few people for a brief period; like a holding cell at a police station. Supposed to be 12 hours max, usually less. People are being held in them for 7-10 days, jammed in like sardines. It’s a nightmare.

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

The part I want to add is that oral argument on this case was on Wednesday. So, I’d guess this was all written up already.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...

Judge Dana Douglas's dissent sets up the unusual circumstances of this appeal, the stakes of this case, and the error of the majority very well from the start. "Straining at a gnat, the majority swallows a camel."

Aaron is right, and, what's more, the procedural irregularity Douglas details here shows that not only was that the Trump administration's goal here — but that Jones and Duncan helped them along (if it not directly being their goal as well).

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.