Occasionally, we get good news on a Friday…

Great piece that cites the practice advisory and thorough case tracking on this issue being done by my colleagues at @immcouncil.org

The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook. We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities. @daralind.bsky.social explains 👇

Our legal team helped uncover this document, and has been fighting against the Trump admin's plans to detain and deport thousands of unaccompanied migrant kids. Proud to work with them. Check out this story below!

Felipe Mendez lost his wife & son when tornadoes swept through Nashville in '23 A May traffic stop landed him in ICE custody, where the single dad was given a choice: "self-deport" or lose his surviving 2 sons to state custody Story by John Partipilo & @friedmanadam5.bsky.social bit.ly/49v0U1T

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

#BREAKING: Iowa’s anti-immigrant law, SF 2340, stays blocked! The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together. A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.

BREAKING: DC District Court just granted our emergency motion, filed with @immigrantjustice.bsky.social, stopping ICE from locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention centers once they turn 18.  Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care. The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

The state is fighting to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps earlier this year in an argument that mirrors one from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.

Proud to stand with @tirrcvotes.bsky.social and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social to challenge this law.

🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend. What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

NEW: @reuters.com got its hands on a document from the Guatemalan government further undermining the claims the Trump admin made publicly (and to a federal judge) that the attempted deportation of 600 children in the dead of the night was requested by parents.

Public health is under assault. The purge of CDC leadership, people with decades of experience guiding the nation’s response to health threats, dismantles the very programs and direction that keep Americans safe from infectious diseases, chronic illness, injuries, and violence.

Today is a good day to #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼. ➤ Journalist #MarioGuevara has been detained for over 70 days. ➤ He is the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S. ➤ He faces no charges and resides legally in the U.S. ➤ ICE keeps him imprisoned for livestreaming law enforcement. cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...

The federal immigration case against a jailed, Spanish-language journalist has been bolstered by the help of a metro Atlanta sheriff’s office, public records show. Mario Guevara’s two-month confinement in immigration detention has drawn outcry from free press and immigration advocates.

The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane

CDC shooter expressed discontent with coronavirus vaccines before firing hundreds of bullets at headquarters Friday, officials say The attack has left many CDC employees angry at RFK Jr’s criticism of the agency and false claims about vaccines.

The CDC shooting is just one in a line of attacks by right wing radicals fueled by hate talk from President Trump and his allies. They fill up dangerous people with anger and lies (like the COVID vaccine is "poison") and then arm them with military weapons. A toxic combination.

NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement the day of the shooting. Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.

Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences

I want to live in a country that funds CPB and not CBP.

You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst." But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵

Powerful new report from my colleagues on immigration during the first 6 months of Trump 2.0 -- and what it means for our democracy.

1/ After 125 days in El Salvador’s notorious “megaprison” #CECOT, our client Edicson Quintero Chacón has been released and returned to Venezuela—alongside Jose Manuel Ramos Bastidas and 250+ others whom the U.S. paid to detain at CECOT. This should never have happened.

🚨 BREAKING: NIJC @democracyforward.org ‬ @raicestexas.bsky.social & LCCRSF filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Immigrant ARC, @americangateways.bsky.social & immigrants arrested at their court hearings. ICE's actions are an attack on due process & democracy immigrantjustice.org/press-releas...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

“This bill is a force multiplier for ICE,” Nayna Gupta, Policy Director of the pro-immigrant American Immigration Council, tells Rolling Stone. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

What happens if the order ending birthright citizenship in some states were to go into effect? "We'll have a situation...where your constitutional rights and your rights as a citizen depend on which state you're born in," our Legal Director @michlapointe.bsky.social tells @texastribune.org.

What happened when ICE delivered free pizza boxes as part of a Border Patrol campaign to a pizzeria in a deeply liberal metro Atlanta town … #gapol ajc.com/politics/202...

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

TIRRC is dedicated to building power and advancing the rights of immigrants and refugees in Tennessee, which means we have to use every tool in our toolbox, including recourse to the courts, to challenge attacks on our communities. ✊🏽 Read more: https://tirrc.info/SB392

To demand both absolute power and absolute impunity is the demand of a tyrant. New from me in the NYT, on the Trump administration’s attempt to zero out noncitizens’ rights, and how that inevitably implicates citizens as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

Shortly after the Atlanta #nokings event kicked off at 10, organizers said Liberty Plaza near the state Capitol had already reached maximum capacity of 5,000.

The workers who feed us are not criminals. Most have been here for decades. We need to protect the workers who are already here from being hunted down in the fields.  If President Trump is in charge, these raids against farms will stop immediately.

BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's unlawful asylum shutdown policy, with partners at @alotrolado-org.bsky.social, @haitianbridge.bsky.social, @immcouncil.org, @democracyforward.org, and @ccrjustice.org. Our joint statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/asylum-...

Just in: Immigration advocates filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday over the Trump administration’s use of a proclamation that effectively put an end to being able to seek asylum at ports of entry to the United States. apnews.com/article/immi...

Wow this is wild.

A video of a citizen's ICE arrest at a worksite in Foley, Alabama (his name is Leonardo Garcia, he gave this Spanish interview last night m.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_o...) is making the rounds. But the video recorded just before that is also disturbing.

Today we blocked the Trump administration from deporting our client who was baselessly accused of being a member of Tren de Aragua. Our client has no criminal history—just some tattoos—yet faced deportation to El Salvador's top security prison. Thanks to today's ruling, that won't happen for now.