DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up. I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.

For @motherjones.com, criminal justice/immigration reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social asked legal experts about the prospect of recruiting JAGs as immigration judges, and they found it pretty damned problematic.

I’m currently at the entrance to Coast Guard Island where National Guard troops and ICE agents are being housed prior to their deployment on the Bay Area. Couple hundred people are here blocking access in and out. Lots of faith leaders here who are praying at the edge of the property line.

Read this on the plane. Really strong work, drawing connections for people too overwhelmed to keep track of the many important narratives. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I dug into the backstory of that horrific apartment raid in Chicago—a lot more to this story than meets the eye www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse. Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

Did you hear about the tiny company based out of a random house in Virginia that won $1.3 billion to build an ICE detention center? How did it get that deal? Turns out a lot of the money is going to a bigger firm—whose owner is friendly with the Trump fam. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds. Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood. ✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

"Why should we sit by while you take our money, defund our priorities, and shit on our values?" @clarajeffery explores “soft secession”: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

I wrote about how only 13 percent of the personnel carrying out Trump's deportation agenda are employed by ICE's primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs, primarily crime-fighting jobs in other law enforcement agencies. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A new study shows that more than 400 people nationwide were charged for crimes related to their pregnancies, pregnancy losses, or even live births from June 2022 to June 2024. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's pardon of January 6ers put the Marshals Service in uncharted territory. New records show how the agency was trying to navigate the situation—sometimes in unusual ways. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wow...the photos from today's Chicago area ICE protest www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

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ICE is putting more people into solitary confinement, and the conditions are brutal. Important reporting from the Marshal Project www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.

At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Pentagon is sending military attorneys to work as immigration judges. But military legal experts I spoke with think this plan is probably illegal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It was fascinating to talk with Isabelle Brourman, the courtroom illustrator who became famous at the Trump trial. She's now documenting ICE arrests (and went to Mar-a-Lago to paint Trump). Here, she shares behind-the-scenes stories and some of her stunning work www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨: The Trump administration is planning citywide sweeps of dozens of homeless encampments in DC starting tonight. “Arrests will occur at night, in an effort to avoid news cameras,” Jesse Rabinowitz, communications director at National Homelessness Law Center, said via email.

DC officials cited a 30-year low for violent crime in January. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Even a Trump 1.0 border official is raising alarm about how dangerous this is www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some good news: Hawaii, parts of California, NYC, and other places are starting to prove that it's possible to stop incarcerating girls. I wrote about some of the strategies they're using to do it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” I wrote about the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan TPS holders losing legal status overnight as a result of the Trump administration's mass deportation push.

Over & over & over The response to the sexual assault becomes the survivor’s “new nightmare.” Cops. Courts. Companies. Schools. It’s always the same story. Read Sam’s latest. I wish there wasn’t cause to publish stories like this year after year after year.

“We were kidnapped”: On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans who disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador started their journey home. The horror stories are already emerging. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @nlanard.bsky.social spoke with some of their families and here's what they said happened👇

When the Golden State Killer was arrested in 2018, law enforcement suggested that the nightmare for his survivors was finally over. My latest investigation is about a new nightmare that emerged for the survivors who cops dismissed. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

Brett Hankison has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights during the no-knock raid that ended her life. Hankison is the only officer convicted in connection with the raid that killed Breonna.

Trump's Board of Immigration Appeals just argued that women are not a distinct social group, in order to prevent women fleeing violence in other countries from gaining asylum in the United States. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump lawyers are asking for a 1-day prison sentence for a police officer who helped kill Breonna Taylor. (He's eligible for a life sentence.) What a slap in the face to Breonna's family. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

I was talking with women who volunteer at a courthouse in Sacramento, and their stories about how ICE agents are treating folks there are wild. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE agents are harassing women who are asserting their legal right to show up and peacefully observe immigration court hearings www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The "big beautiful bill" that Trump just signed allocates a staggering $45 billion towards ICE's detention of immigrants over the next 4 years. Compare that to the $3.9 bn that ICE currently spends annually on detention, per @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump said he approves of a plan to use National Guard officers as immigration judges in Florida. But former military lawyers told me they don't think that's legal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Senate Democrats introduced a bill today to stop immigration officers from masking and hiding their identities during public arrests www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Congress is allocating $45 billion to expand immigrant detention. Even Trump's former chief of prisons describes that as an "astronomical amount" of money. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The US murder rate has been falling quickly and could very well hit a record low this year. Meanwhile, while Americans overall are killing less, American police are killing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

California state senators just introduced a bill to ban cops from masking like this. sfstandard.com/2025/06/16/c...

The irony of Trump demanding the arrest of masked protesters while immigration officers are out there looking like this. Here's my primer on the rules around masking and how we got to this moment. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

It's impossible to read this story about a mom dying after childbirth and not be devastated and furious about everything that @h-lev.bsky.social found in her jaw-dropping investigation about America's biggest for-profit hospital operator www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

1/ I spent the past few weeks talking to immigration experts, asking what stories they think deserve more attention right now. Again and again, they said: Children are quietly stuck in immigration facilities, with no end in sight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com

Congrats to the IRE award winners today! Honored that a documentary I worked on was selected as a finalist. www.ire.org/announcing-t...

A judge just found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court. Reminder that the agency responsible for arresting defendants held in contempt, if it comes to that, is...the Marshals Service, which has been acting strange lately. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...