The Intercept reports on the companies that are making millions as ICE bounty hunters: theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.

Activists in LA photographed immigration officers wearing Halloween masks of horror movie villains while conducting raids. When a citizen journalist asked DHS for comment, a spokesperson replied, “Happy Halloween.” trib.al/6h1Tuwk

If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism.  #holdfast www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

Someone died in ICE custody at the Moshannon detention center. Advocates responded by blocking roads in Clearfield County to make sure the death wasn’t ignored. radio.wpsu.org/2025-12-22/d...

concentration camps.

This is how pressure works. Advocates say Jeanette Vizguerra may not have to stay in ICE detention while her case moves forward. ICE detention is often framed as inevitable. In reality, it’s discretionary. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/immigr...

Holy shit! On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE's Deadly December: Record-Setting Detained Population and Detention Deaths Record detention population of 68,442 coincides with seven December deaths in ICE custody, the deadliest month of 2025. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-deadl...

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

A huge thank you to these brave souls. It was windy AF on Saturday. I live about 90 miles due east of Minneapolis, and I about froze to death just walking to & from my car. Good on them. fightbacknews.org/articles/tho...

WHOA. I am genuinely *shocked.*

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

As we finish up the year, 404 Media will have stuff publishing over the holidays. Some horrible (you'll see on Xmas day), some fun. Subscribers will still get a story each day. In the meantime, here's some of our best coverage this year, starting with Flock + ICE: www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

From GDH Cole, The Simple Case for Socialism.

Abolish ICE soon to be the moderate majority position.

Last week, Alaa convinced the Grand Chamber to set new rules on evidence in all Frontex pushback cases. Judges found his account ‘sufficiently detailed, specific and consistent’ and sent the case back. Continuing this litigation is costly. If you can, help us pursue Alaa’s case

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Erik Prince played a key role in pitching this plan earlier this year. This week, his company got a huge contract to help ICE track down immigrants. Omniplex World Services, a subsidiary of his firm Constellis, received an initial order for $1.5 million on a contract worth up to $113.2 million.

Stephen Miller Loses It as Jury Acquits Man Who Towed ICE Agent’s Car flip.it/eClEv4 😂😂😂😂😂

I also recommend Jonathan M. Katz’s fantastic article “Not Every Concentration Camp is Auschwitz” for an understanding of the history and how such inhumanity is allowed to grow slate.com/news-and-pol...

Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

President Trump and his administration aren't above the law of the land. This is a victory for our clients and due process.

“For me, this is a joke. You don’t even treat an animal this way.” Dispatch from Delaney Hall, now the largest ICE detention center in the northeast, where visitors often have to wait more than hour to get inside, no matter the weather.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

More people have died in ICE detention in 2025 than any year since 2004. The government has a legal and moral obligation to provide people in its custody with medical care and livable conditions.

"Misrepresentations" and "bad faith." That’s how a federal judge once again described the conduct of Trump Admin lawyers in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case. They need to stop lying to the judge & the public and protect his due process rights. That is what this has always been about.

NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“Bishop of San Diego Michael Pham dedicated ‘Angels Unawares,’ a new sculpture on the campus of the University of San Diego” and “is a scaled version of one in St. Peter’s Square in Rome … and depicts 140 migrants of varying backgrounds on board a boat w/a pair of angel wings in their midst.”

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

“The testimonials presented in this report represent only a subset of the likely hundreds of American citizens who have been unlawfully detained under the Trump admin,” the Congressional investigation said👇🏽

In @newrepublic.com, I try to take a substantive look at the issue of local prosecutors bringing charges against federal immigration agents, partly via Zephyr Teachout, who started talking about it almost eight years ago. Also chatted with CO AG candidate David Seligman, who's taken up the mantle

ICE whistles work.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

Scary shit.

Ignoring violations against immigrant workers drives down standards for all workers. #Bestof2025 @ceciliamunoz.bsky.social's essay argues that without a clear, just immigration vision, exploitation flourishes—and the whole workforce pays the price. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/on-immi...

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

ICE’s cruelty is tearing our neighbors apart during the holiest time of the year. As faithful Americans, we demand that ICE stop attacking our neighbors. Watch our new ad with @protectdemocracy.org and then head over to LoveNotICE.org to add your name to our letter. #LoveNotICE

The old view of skilled emigration as a 'brain drain' has collapsed after a generation of research. Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—> doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

Agree this ruling appears rather waffly. It’s discrimination if the national court decides it’s discrimination…?