please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison today--far more than most people convicted of trafficking CSAM, among other serious offenses. He and the other Prarieland defendants were punished not for anything they did but for the things they believe (all of which I also believe)

In the last 4 months this client has been in 6 detention facilities. In the last four days they have been in TX, MS, OH and VA.

Launched a kid!

In Louisiana, which has more ICE lockups than almost any state, a crisis of prolonged detention is accelerating. Data suggests that the number of immigrants in ICE custody for more than a year has spiked five-fold since 2024. Our story with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...

Today is Juneteenth and we are also potentially days away from a public charge reg that aims to stop non-white immigrants from existing in the U.S. So I recommend reading my colleague Kat Lundie's new piece on how slavery and public charge are historically intertwined www.nilc.org/articles/the...

Louisiana’s whole economy is ICE detention.

Fun(?) fact: “crime involving moral turpitude” is still a real concept in immigration law.

🧊 PRISON FOR TODDLERS ⁉️ Kaleth stopped eating for nearly two weeks while he and his mother were held at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas…

Please take the time to read this. People at the ICE concentration camp in Tacoma are asking to be heard. They are living in horrible conditions and the state is not doing anything to stop it. ICE has refused to let state health inspectors in multiple times. #seattle #tacoma #ice

🚨 Here we go -> Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan denied entry to the US. This referee, who was due to be first official from his country to be involved in a World Cup game, had a diplomatic passport but was turned away in Miami. www.thetimes.com/article/f565...

All current immigration policy is just retaliation for any effort to make the immigration system work on behalf of immigrants.

Juneuary

Just over here wracking up district court admissions as the government transfers detained clients all over the country.

Tried some eye contact at the bus stop. It did not go well.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The American people should understand that Trump is spending massive taxpayer resources to needlessly detain families who pose no threat, including CHILDREN. This is disgusting, inhumane, and must stop immediately.

Me, hearing bird: “Oh who is that? I feel like I knew that one, but can’t remember.” Spouse: “So now it’s just some birdy that you used to know?”

so here's something that flew under the radar this week: The Supreme Court is quietly helping Trump silence immigration judges who want to speak up in their personal capacity about, well, * gestures broadly * ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ICE hides flight info because if they can get detainees to detention hubs in the south before lawyers and family can locate them, they face harsher courts. But jurisdiction doesn’t change until the flight lands. That’s where this tracking tool comes in. 1/ gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

"No country can guarantee safety if it lacks functioning asylum laws, honest courts, impartial officials and the will to protect people from detention, coercion, disappearance or onward removal," write James A. Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester.

ICE transferred the leaders of a hunger strike at Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center to unknown locations just hours after the strike began, according to immigrant-rights group La Resistencia, which says the moves were retaliatory.⁠

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Dr. Alan Lifson, a retired Bellingham physician specializing in public health, writes that the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the county are akin to a threat to public health and well-being.

My spouse is a US citizen and I’d like to adjust status: No, follow laws for consular processing and go apply abroad. OK I’ll do the process set out in law where I get a provisional waiver and then go consular process abroad. Can you not arrest/deport me while USCIS processes the applications?: No

This innocuously-titled USCIS memo about how receiving residency in the US is a matter of "administrative grace" is a sadistic exercise of administrative violence designed to arbitrarily keep mixed-status families apart for what could quickly add up to *thousands of years.* Very quickly:

Is Louisiana’s whole economy just ICE contracts at this point?

Saw this w/ some friends last night. Go see it if you have the chance. I’m sure it is not what you remember, even if you were there. youtu.be/tpV0V3aniDY?...

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Too hot, no hair clip.

WA immigration lawyer Alexandra Lozano sued for alleged malpractice www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

we spent generations bipartisanly building an immigration system that is maximally cruel and burdensome whose only safety valve is discretionary enforcement, thus guaranteeing that when a Nazi came to power all the infrastructural legwork for concentration camps and race laws had been done for him

Just read Chief Justice as Grief Justice, so there you have it.

I know I’ve already reposted but…Trump I demolished a global refugee resettlement infrastructure in the name of vetting. Biden, somehow, genuinely rebuilt it. Trump II hasn’t just redemolished it but made a farce of it, by building an active recruitment pipeline which is the opposite of vetting.

Each habeas case I’ve filed over the last few months has had different govt respondents. They just keep changing up.

Looks like this guy had a rough one. #caturday

WA Attorney General Nick Brown filed a motion against the GEO Group today, asking the court to stop the GEO Group from barring health dept inspectors from entry to Tacoma's ICE detention center. Apparently the Dept of Health has been turned away 10 separate times.

Making the laws more restrictive is the go to move when it’s an immigrant.

This dude was trying to crash the middle school sleepover last night. The trash pandas are out of control.

ICE detained Hayam El Gamal and her 5 children for nearly 10 months at Dilley. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The moment Natasha Hiedeman realizes her new city of Seattle contains multitudes, including both skyscrapers and a “big ass mountain, volcano, thingymabober.”

“state-imposed violence”

In the weeds of Spokane’s federal conspiracy case: The ins-and-outs of the legal arguments made at yesterday’s hearing for three Spokane protesters charged with federal conspiracy. Art by Jake Gillespie.

Mid week rendition of baking through it.

In 2003, US citizen Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers using a US-provided bulldozer. Her parents are calling on senators to vote yes today to block $295 million worth of these bulldozers to Israel. Join them by calling your senators TODAY:

2 immigration judges fired after dismissing high-profile deportation cases against international students who advocated for Palestinians ✏️ @nytimes.com

Need to talk to these kids about all the hair in the drain. This is getting out of control. #caturday

Jawermy Hanson