Hi! We made a show for you about what’s been happening at immigration court: www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

López Alvarado said that she tried to tell agents that her baby was due soon. “OK, your baby is going to be born here, but you're from Mexico, right?” they responded. "I was born here," López Alvarado later told Spanish-language media. "I was born in Los Angeles; I was born in Hollywood Hospital.”

On Thursday, House Democrats held a shadow hearing titled “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Assault Destroys U.S. Families and Communities" to discuss many issues surrounding the White House’s mass deportation policies. A story you will only get here. open.substack.com/pub/extremea...

‘Crumbled like a house of cards’: Judge slams DOJ claims about deporting migrant children www.newsfromthestates.com/article/crum...

I can’t watch because I’m on a deadline but strongly recommend this thread bsky.app/profile/reic...

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

Happy burning of Zozobra to those who celebrate! www.youtube.com/live/6NfsnBO...

“For the third time in slightly more than a week, grand jurors in Washington have rejected efforts by federal prosecutors to obtain an indictment against a resident accused of a felony assault against a federal agent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

POGO's David Janovsky is in CNN warning that further domestic deployments to cities is "an inherently escalatory situation that puts … the folks who live in these cities and service members who are sent in in a dangerous and volatile situation.”

And how many are they holding at unauthorized facilities?!

Our profile of Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief leading the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

Border Patrol document--OPR preliminary summary of investigation (such as it was) of the death of Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (RIP). www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat.... No mention of OPR agents reviewing body camera footage. Did they not wear or not activate their cameras?

The CBP officer who was hit with the sandwich heard round the world looks to be a Border Patrol agent who was serving in Yuma sector in 2022? www.army.mil/article/2535...

DHS took DNA from immigrant children and stored it in a database. "The agency’s aggressive DNA collection is but one node in a broader effort to redefine policing through vast use of biometric and behavioral data." This is what massive genetic surveillance looks like.

Account from local DC elected official of an aICE/CBP arrest in DC www.instagram.com/p/DN2Keab2Fg...

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

“Reports of mistreatment have been widespread and have included disturbing details of overcrowding, food shortages, lack of adequate medical care, and unsanitary conditions.”

"Federal judge blocks Trump from swiftly deporting immigrants granted parole" The decision could present a major hurdle for the Trump admin & bar federal immigration officers from summarily deporting hundreds of thousands I talked to the @washingtonpost.com about yesterday's ruling

"This decision is further confirmation that the administration's paramilitary invasion of Los Angeles violated the Constitution and caused irreparable injury across the region." More on our win from this evening: www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

Here is one of ~50 cases we documented of federal agents--usually masked and unidentified--smashing car windows to grab the person inside. “She is pregnant!” a man screamed, as his citizen wife sat, terrified The agents break three windows and grab the man projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act handed ICE $45 billion to expand ICE detention. A rural hospital costs ~$80-120 million each year. The amount handed to ICE is enough to run 50 rural hospitals for more than a decade.

“According to the post, Kim spent more than seven days at an SFO detention center without daylight, sleeping in a chair and having no access to an attorney.”

ICE just dropped updated detention statistics through July 27. ICE reports detaining a total of 56,945 on that date. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Just days ago, Relevant Research released DetentionReports.com and already news outlets are finding it to be a powerful tool for reporting and transparency. 👀 Congrats to Adam & Sunita for getting this done! Learn more at: austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One ICE official who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.

Immigration twitter question: where have ICE body cameras been deployed? (I know a fair bit about CBP body cams, much less about ICE)

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

I've studied the immigration enforcement system for 15 years. Democrats may express outrage at Republicans over Trump's immigration policies now, but the truth about who to blame is much more complicated. austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-immigr...

Latest: I got the medical examiner report on Marie Blaise, who died of a heart attack in ICE custody Blaise's son told an investigator that he spoke with her on the phone the day of her death, and she complained of chest pains and said staff wouldn't let her see a doctor reason.com/2025/07/30/w...

Watch three of the more than 230 men the Trump administration sent to #ElSalvador talk about the moment they arrived at #CECOT, how they say the guards tortured them and beat them daily: youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI from ‪@g-dvalle.bsky.social‬ and the entire team @propublica.org‬ and in Venezuela.

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

A half-dozen Maryland Congress members Monday were unlawfully denied access to a federal immigration field office used to temporarily hold people facing deportation: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

My colleagues and I from @relevantresearch.bsky.social have developed a tool that provides updated ICE detention population estimates for facilities in the US and territories. Introducing DetentionReports.com

NEW: Border patrol made false claims about Los Angeles protesters it jailed, misrepresenting basic facts of events that were filmed. I obtained records of officers acknowledging + "apologizing" for errors The DOJ is now dismissing cases, an embarrassment for Trump-appointed US attorney Bill Essayli

NEW: The United States government has subjected immigrants detained in three Florida facilities to abusive, degrading, and in some cases life-threatening conditions. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Did Border Patrol commit an ‘egregious violation’ of UFW injunction in Sacramento arrests? www.sacbee.com/news/califor...

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent Bart Yager, of Willcox, has been indicted on 24 felony charges, including 10 counts of child sex trafficking. He's the 4th in a series of CBP agents and officers in Arizona to be arrested on sexual misconduct charges in the last 4 years. tucson.com/news/local/s...

From yesterday. The number of people at that facility in the Everglades should have been reported.

A sister as well as a friend of Neri Alvarado Borges confirm that he is now back in Venezuela. Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.

“‘There is no sanctuary city. Sacramento is not a sanctuary city. The state of California is not a sanctuary state. There is no sanctuary anywhere,’” the El Centro sector’s chief patrol agent said. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

Thread re CECOT prisoner exchange: bsky.app/profile/krha...

Immigration court felt like a murderous reality show today. The judge granted two gentlemen asylum hearings in 2029. But it was all a sham—They were abducted by ICE before they left the building. There is more the City & the State must do. We cannot allow the rule of law to be eroded case by case.

This happened this morning in Sacramento in a Home Depot parking lot. No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.

🚨 NEW: Both @bloomberg.com and @reuters.com are reporting that the United States is in the process of completing a prisoner swap, deporting all or potentially nearly all of the Venezuelans imprisoned in CECOT to Venezuela in exchange for American political prisoners. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

"One of the officials said El Salvador would send 238 Venezuelans held in its maximum security CECOT prison to Caracas and that the Venezuelan government would release five U.S. citizens and five permanent residents to U.S. custody."

OMG. Incredible reporting from Mica, finding more than 50 entered legally. "At least nine had been granted temporary protected status, which gives people from countries affected by disasters or other extraordinary conditions permission to live and work in the U.S."

Migrants deported by the US to Eswatini being held in solitary confinement