Top brass at DOJ personally oversaw the post hoc effort to slap criminal charges on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia after he’d been deported to a Salvadoran prison. Latest from @josepagliery.bsky.social www.notus.org/courts/abreg...

SCOOP: House Democrats suspected a few in their caucus would support a bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans youth So Sarah McBride reached out to Republicans Four Rs — Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Kennedy, Evans — joined Dems in opposing the bill www.notus.org/congress/mcb...

NEWS: White House suggested to me that they’re dismantling the nation’s most important weather research institute bc Trump is mad at CO Gov. Jared Polis “If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”

NEW: Family members of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who were authorized to enter the country will now be at risk of deportation in 30 days. www.notus.org/immigration/...

ICE must immediately release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from detention, a federal judge ordered Thursday. www.notus.org/immigration/...

I got documents that give insight into the Tennessee car magnate who - donates liberally to MAGA + Christian evangelical causes - owns the DC townhouse Mike Johnson lived in - Trump nominated for a utility board seat, despite having no energy experience

EXCLUSIVE look into ICE’s secretive plans for a 200-person detention center on the coast of Oregon. Contractors told @notus.com they worry the facility is too small to meet detention standards. www.notus.org/immigration/...

EXCLUSIVE: @notus.com‬⁩ obtained a transcript of a recent meeting between ICE and building contractors at the potential site of an Oregon detention facility. It didn’t go well. — via @taylorgiorno.bsky.social and @llanosjackie.bsky.social:‬⁩ www.notus.org/immigration/...

As the Trump administration cancels visas for Afghans and moves to review the status of those already in the country, some Republicans lawmakers aren’t so eager to exclude people who worked with U.S. troops. www.notus.org/congress/rep...

NEW: Democrats feel confident about their chances in red areas In TN-5, Dem Chaz Molder outraised GOP Rep. Andy Ogles in Q3 $790K vs $61K — and some Republicans are concerned Ogles isn't taking his race seriously "He’s raising like no money," one GOP strategist said www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Per the DHS notice to end TPS for Myanmar: It’s safe to return to the country because of a ceasefire China brokered in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war and its military chief’s announcement that the country planned to hold elections in December and January. www.notus.org/immigration/...

DHS is terminating TPS designation for Burma.

More than 65,000 people are in immigration detention, a 67% increase from the average daily population in detention centers of 38,990 last November. www.notus.org/immigration/...

Until recently, the EPA had a pretty legendary group of scientists using cutting-edge computer science to speed up chemical toxicity research. This team helped with East Palestine, w/ GenX, etc. I found that at least 16 of them have now left for a single private lab.

Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla lambasted the training standards for newly hired immigration agents in a scathing letter to the Trump administration on Thursday. Deatils on the letter first reported by @notus.com www.notus.org/immigration/...

6,100 Syrians were set to lose TPS in two days. A federal judge blocked that decision. www.notus.org/immigration/...

SCOOP: Mario Díaz-Balart, a top House GOP appropriator, tried to add guardrails against pocket rescissions to an appropriations bill — something Democrats have been wanting for months But then Russ Vought intervened, and Díaz-Balart quietly got rid of the provision www.notus.org/congress/mar...

Read my latest on a little-noticed $112 million verdict a jury out of NY awarded last week to 674 immigrants that could have nationwide implications for local police working with ICE. www.notus.org/immigration/...

“I’ve had death threats and wishes of harm on me and my children. I had the FBI call me one week saying that my name and my children’s names had shown up on dark websites.” I wrote about the challenges facing the MAHA resistance: www.notus.org/health-scien...

Palantir CEO on Q3 earnings call this evening says if 60k Yale grads died every year of fentanyl overdoses instead of working class people, the country would be dropping nuclear bombs on whoever sent the drugs from South America.

ICE hasn’t updated its removal operations statistics dashboard since January. (That dashboard details arrests, detention and removals broken down by information including criminal history.) Story by @llanosjackie.bsky.social www.notus.org/immigration/...

During the shutdown, DHS has posted more than 200 times on X. Last shutdown, the agency put out fewer than 10 posts. Read @christadutton.bsky.social and my latest in agencies’ use of social media www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Democrats’ grassroots supporters are happy with their lawmakers — for once They’re glad Dems haven’t caved to pressures to end the shutdown Dems are finally “maximizing leverage points that they have,” one grassroots leader said w/ Avani Kalra, @evanmcs.bsky.social www.notus.org/democrats/sh...

Local officials know they can’t completely stave off ongoing ICE raids, but they’re taking new approaches to push back as much as they can. www.notus.org/immigration/...

Trump admin moving to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as Oct. 31, per new filing in federal court. www.notus.org/immigration/...

A federal judge stopped ICE from enacting a policy to transfer immigrant detainees from children shelters to adult detention as soon as they turn 18. But in at least one case, ICE took custody of a young man living in a shelter on his 18th birthday. www.notus.org/immigration/...

CoreCivic announced 3 contracts worth nearly $300 million this week that will boost the Trump admin’s capacity to hold immigrants in detention centers across the country. Details here: www.notus.org/immigration/...

New: The Supreme Court tentatively green-lit Trump's pocket rescissions, which will make ending a shutdown hard — and the *entire* approps process harder "What’s the point of passing a bill if they just do whatever the hell they want to do anyway?," one Senate Dem said www.notus.org/courts/scotu...

First story for @notus.com about the Trump admin's departure from previous shutdown procedures relating to immigration courts. www.notus.org/immigration/...

Today's my last day at Florida Phoenix. Covering politics in Florida has been an extremely rewarding way to start my career. I've met so many inspiring people in the Capitol press corps. Thank you to everyone who has trusted me to share their stories over the past 2 years!

Deportation flights have started at the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday. 100 people held at the notorious site in an old airstrip have been deported, DeSantis said. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/25/d...

ICE arrests of people without criminal charges or convictions in Florida rose by more than 450% this June compared to last year. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/24/i...

Gov. Ron DeSantis this week has been promoting his commitment to Everglades restoration amid the backlash and legal challenges to his construction of an immigrant detention center on an airstrip in the wetland ecosystem. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/18/d...

People in Florida's immigrant detention center sued Trump and DeSantis admins yesterday, demanding access to their attorneys. DHS says: "No lawbreakers in the history of human civilization have been treated better than illegal aliens in the United States, and yet all they do is complain."

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams is now presiding over the suit to halt Florida's detention center in the Everglades. The previous judge recused himself today. This means Williams could order a stop to the detention center that AG Uthmeier has been at the forefront of.

DeSantis appears to be cooling off, for now at least, on a plan to build a second state-run immigrant detention center at Camp Blanding. He said he won’t consider building another temporary detention facility until the one in the Everglades reaches capacity. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/16/i...

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida asked Monday to join a lawsuit to stop the further construction and operation of the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/15/m...

Miami Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia is one of the state lawmakers who plans to tour the immigrant detention center in the Everglades this Saturday. "I've come across some complaints in the media that I'd like to investigate for myself," she told me via text.

Fla. AG James Uthmeier had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to remove a temporary block on enforcement of the state's entry and re-entry law, which police and state troopers carried out even after the judge barred it. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/09/s...

Florida is moving to solidify its renaming of the training airport where the detention center in the Everglades is located to “Alligator Alcatraz.” But immigrant and environmental advocates and indigenous leaders have criticized the name. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/03/p...

The feds are disavowing responsibility for the Everglades immigration center the morning after people awaiting deportation arrived. DHS didn't fund or authorize the detention center, counsel for the department wrote in a filing opposing a suit to halt the site. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/03/f...

Trump urged additional states to build immigrant detention centers following his tour Tuesday of the 3,000-capacity tent and trailer Everglades facility the DeSantis administration built in eight days. floridaphoenix.com/2025/07/01/t...

U.S. judge Kathleen Williams finds AG James Uthmeier in contempt of court after he disobeyed her court order blocking a new state immigration law. She quotes Humpty Dumpty.

Petition “no drama” llama to attend all protests 🙋🏻‍♀️

The majority of the crowd has left the #NoKingsProtest in Tallahassee, but hundreds are still chanting and holding signs in front of the Florida Historic Capitol. More than a thousand showed up starting at 10 a.m.

Timelapse showing the crowd of thousands in Tallahassee for #NoKingsProtest. No arrests at this time, police tell me.

Brizeida Patiño, 19, told me she came to the #NoKingsProtest in Tallahassee on behalf of her parents, who immigrated from Mexico.

This is easily the largest protest in Tallahassee since President Donald Trump took office. #NoKingsProtest started in front of the Florida Historic Capitol at 10 a.m. with over 1,000 in attendance.

In an early blow to groups attempting to get amendments on the ballot for the 2026 election, a federal judge declined on Wednesday to temporarily block most of the new restrictions on citizen-led initiatives. floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/04/f...

Full story: floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/30/c...