This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.

Due process and equal protection claims in every immigration court proceeding going forward

Maybe in 2027 but sure as hell not in 2026. And meanwhile, thanks to a stupid, ill-conceived law from 1996, challenging any of this crap on a systematic basis is nearly impossible. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov

We'll see if they actually mean it, but this announcement after one week confirms that Charlotte was impeccably well organized for this moment. www.cbsnews.com/news/charlot...

fwiw, when the district court judge in this same case blocked trump from deploying the guard in chicago, she based her reasoning in part on several instances in which a grand jury declined to indict protestors whom ice/cbp claimed attacked them

Bovino is building a record as a fabulist that has been noted by federal judges and at least one jury which acquitted a protester that Bovino testified against.

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

The 2025 Kentucky Law Journal Symposium was a fantastic success. So grateful for all of the speakers, students, and members of the community who came to discuss immigration law. www.kentuckylawjournal.org/symposium

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Very excited for the Kentucky Law Journal symposium this Friday. A full list of our oustanding panelists is available here: lnkd.in/eY2TSj-7. A schedule of the panels is below.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.

When the U.S. government decides to vindictively make an object lesson out of some random person because of the government’s own prior unlawful incompetence.

A federal judge issues a GAG ORDER barring Trump's DOJ and Department of Homeland Security from violating Kilmar Abrego Garcia's right to a fair trial, citing a record of "troubling" statements that are "exaggerated if not simply inaccurate." Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Looking forward to this panel!

Goodness…

What?!?!

I started keeping tabs after the election on headlines declaring the death of the resistance. There were a lot of them. And they were premature. Resistance 2.0 is more grizzled, and more local. But it is still cringe, in the sense that it believes in things—like community, and America

It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

“third-country deportation,” like South Sudan/Ghana, are actually just extended chain refoulements, where the third country takes over returning them to their country of origin, or the conditions in the third country are so bad that they’ll be coerced into returning to their country of origin.

Deportations are happening in a matter of hours through a little known authority called expedited removal In our latest @migrationpolicy.bsky.social article, we looked at this potent tool for speeding deportations & limiting access to asylum bit.ly/expedited-re...

BREAKING: Federal judge in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case finds that "there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego to discovery" in response to his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive or selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that. Shameless!

This is *excellent* hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

A new writing project--please check it out. Subscriptions are welcome but not necessary and all content will be free. un-disappearing.ghost.io

Sup Brett Kavanaugh

Three weeks ago, Brett was justifying the #KavanaughStop by saying: "Plaintiffs have no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future based on the prohibited factors—and certainly no good basis for believing that any stop of the plaintiffs is imminent"

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

This is true, & backed by the best peer-reviewed research. @kevinshih.bsky.social of @ucrchass.bsky.social uses large shocks to international student supply in the past to test the hypothesis that they crowd out natives. They crowd *in* natives, via tuition revenue—> doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

In other words, the real story of 2025 so far is a drop in far-right terrorism, NOT the rise in far-left terrorism. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio explained it best: "We won. We’ve got what we wanted."

JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture. He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

Policy process: 1) Issue legal pronouncement without adequate legal or policy review. 2) Read legal pronouncement for the first time. 3) Consider policy implications for the first time. 4) Begin issuing clarifications. 5) Begin (maybe) an interagency legal and policy review of underlying issues.

Very cool and very free speechy, no notes

Here’s a literary palate cleanser: the first page of Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year. It’s a book about community & vulnerability & resilience. It’s the best thing I’ve read this year.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor

“Mr. Rubio did not answer a reporter’s question on Wednesday about whether the Trump administration had a legal basis for the boat strike. The Trump administration has not put forth a legal rationale.”

RAND PAUL IS RIGHT

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️