In the days before the admin. tried to deport unaccompanied Guatemalan children in the pre-dawn hours of Labor Day weekend, many of their immigration cases were abruptly closed. I'm now hearing that this is happening to some Honduran kids. This says 300 kids may be vulnerable:

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

Looking back at Charlie Kirk's political commentary, his importance as an organizer, and his potential legacy in the MAGA movement: www.huffpost.com/entry/charli...

President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda has a surprising stakeholder: Bill Gates. The multibillionaire tech mogul and philanthropist owns a large portion of a key service provider for immigration flights. w/ @gnobes.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

🚨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."

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

Yesterday’s raid at an LA Home Depot, dubbed “Operation Trojan Horse,” suggests that DHS may not be complying with court orders blocking indiscriminate arrests based on race, language or place of work, immigration advocates told me and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

NEW: An Alabama teenager was prosecuted and convicted of murder over the death of his friend, whom he didn't shoot or kill. Bolts worked on this important read by the Yale Reporting Lab to illuminate the little-understood ramifications of the 'felony murder' doctrine: boltsmag.org/alabama-felo...

utterly barbaric — Byron Black's lawyers unsuccessfully fought in court for his defibrillator to be disabled before his execution, arguing it could cause painful shocks as he died. Witnesses to the execution say he groaned in pain and said, "It's hurting so bad." www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Trump sent Jerce Reyes Barrios to CECOT without charge, indefinitely, over a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock&roll" hand signal. Jerce told us his story. (& he wants the world to know: “I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid”) w/ @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

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FCI Dublin, a CA federal prison, closed in 2024 amid allegations of rampant sexual abuse. 10 prison guards, including warden & chaplain, are charged w sexually abusing inmates; many weaponized immigration status to abuse inmates. Now, Trump is reportedly looking to reopen Dublin as an ICE facility.

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

I’m certainly not an expert on this story but for months now, people who are experts have said again and again and again that the plans to replace UNRWA with the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” were unacceptable, and they have been tragically correct again and again.

I think it’s important for Americans to understand that the current famine in Gaza is a joint US-Israeli production. We are not “failing to stop this”. We did this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

unfathomable www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

New: Five days in immigration court. I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees. www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...

“Starvation forces the body to consume its own muscle and organs for energy... It also destroys communities by turning people against each other in their desperation for food and forcing them to do shameful, humiliating or violent things to survive.”

Mahmoud Khalil: “They wanted to make an example out of me. They wanted me to be intimidated so I wouldn’t speak for the rights of the Palestinian people ... I really can’t justify anyone’s silence when such atrocities are happening under our nose." www.huffpost.com/entry/mahmou...

An Iranian national who is married to a US citizen and is in the pipeline for a green card was pulled over by ICE while driving his child to daycare in the suburbs of Portland. They broke his car window in the day care parking lot and he’s now being detained in Tacoma. www.opb.org/article/2025...

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.

We interviewed Ysqueibel's mother Ydalys (and, briefly, his little sister Valentina) last month after connecting via @immdef.bsky.social. Tonight they confirm that all of their former CECOT detainee clients have been returned to Venezuela – including Andry Hernández Romero. bsky.app/profile/immd...

Maria Quevedo, the mother of Eddie Adolfo Hurtado Quevedo, told us she was feeling relieved but still scared. “Happy because God gave me the gift of seeing my son free on my birthday. Scared because my son is going to Venezuela, where he was threatened by the [paramilitary group] colectivos.”

the moment Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos reunited with his family after 125 days in CECOT, shared with me and @mattshuham.bsky.social by his mom, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco

ImmDef confirms that on 7/18/25 Andry Hernández Romero & 250+ Venezuelan men -- who were denied due process and were disappeared by the U.S. govt to El Salvador’s maximum-security CECOT prison on 3/15/25 -- were released from CECOT & sent to Venezuela. Our statement: www.immdef.org/blog/andryre...

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

"I see how evil this country is, really — all I see is evil. And it’s sad that I’m part of it.” — Angie Gonzalez, whose husband was rendered to CECOT

Trump disappeared hundreds of Venezuelans to an infamous mega prison in El Salvador. Now a reported prisoner swap could release them from CECOT — but send them back to the country many had fled out of fear of violence/persecution w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW: “At least one family [of a Venezuelan CECOT detainee] confirmed that the [Venezuelan] government confirmed to her that her son was on the plane." -Michelle Brané, executive director, Together and Free w @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

After a FL state trooper arrested a U.S. citizen under an immigration law that a federal judge had blocked from being enforced, I filed a public records request with the FL Highway Patrol to find out how many other arrests they had made www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...

So-called "third-country" deportations could soon spike: Trump now has the Supreme Court's blessing, billions in new funding from Congress, and a new ICE policy that says people can be deported to countries other than their own with zero notice. Read more: www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tru...

New: Trump's immigration agenda is stopping domestic violence survivors from seeking help. The threat of detention or deportation by ICE has left many domestic and sexual assault victims too scared to seek help from police or the legal system.

Trump has sent hundreds of people to El Salvador's CECOT for indefinite detention, without charge, trial or sentence. DHS has dismissed dozens of their immigration cases in absentia: "essentially rid itself of its opposing party," an immigration judge wrote recently: www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has moved to schedule Tremane Wood's execution on or after Sept. 11 — despite a recent evidentiary hearing revealing that prosecutors withheld info about incentives offered to their witnesses at trial www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump admin's new identification requirements for sponsors of unaccompanied minors, ruling that the government likely acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

Significant ruling by Judge Boasberg for men sent to CECOT prison. "The Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act." Important moment for the rule of law and against government lawlessness. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Texas midwife Maria Rojas was arrested in March for allegedly performing an illegal abortion. Nearly three months later, Rojas has not been indicted for any crime -- putting her in excruciating limbo by the state.

“Dr. al-Farra said that most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest.”

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Last week, when a soldier emerged from one of the 50,000-pound, eight-wheeled armored vehicles President Donald Trump has sent to the US-Mexico border, armed with a pair of binoculars and a grimace, he briefly turned his attention away from the border – and to me. www.huffpost.com/entry/milita...

NEWS: Video game workers at Microsoft have just reached a tentative contract with the company, the first in the industry in the U.S. after lots of union organizing over the past few years.

under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...