TOMORROW: The Council's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social will be testifying at a shadow hearing on holding ICE accountable. She's going to help explain what's happening at ICE over the last years and how the agency's rising lawlessness can be addressed. www.youtube.com/live/TmAgyj6...

🚨 Tomorrow 9 am I join Renee Good’s attorney, a Minnesota police chief, a MN reverend & a U.S. marine in LIVE testimony to House Democratic Leader Jeffries & other members of Congress on ICE abuses. Log on to listen as we fight for accountability!👇🏽 youtube.com/live/TmAgyj6...

Operation PARRIS is one of the most heinous things this administration has done yet. Trump’s people ordered ICE to round up 5,600 legally present refugees, people who have done NOTHING wrong, with no warning, and jailed them in Texas to be interrogated about their status.

We are horrified by today’s shooting in Minneapolis. CBP and ICE are operating without any meaningful guardrails. What we're seeing in Minneapolis are politicized, militarized, and unaccountable agencies creating chaos.

Horrifying NEWS: “These are incredibly straightforward cases,” attorney Rebekah Wolf, who is desperately fighting to save her clients from being sent to torture or death by getting a federal judge to stay the removal before tomorrow’s flight, told me this afternoon. www.advocate.com/news/iranian...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

"Experts in dealing with children" don't treat children as targets of immigration enforcement actions. Family separation under the first Trump administration didn’t happen by accident, it was a deliberate choice. And the playbook behind family separation is a warning for our present moment.

The Trump administration claims that ICE is targeting "the worst of the worst." But 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, taken from his home with only a Spider-Man backpack and bunny hat, is not a threat. This isn't about safety. It's about deporting as many people as possible.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

Congressman Moulton will be joining @naynagupta.bsky.social and me on Thursday to discuss ICE detention over the last year and the findings from @immcouncil.org’s latest report on the Trump admin’s unprecedented growth of immigration detention over the last year. Register at link in the next post.

Excellent investigative work!

@hispaniccaucus.bsky.social Chair @repespaillat.bsky.social: ICE is an aggressive, violent weapon. In fact, it has turned to be a deadly weapon. ICE must be DISMANTLED.

ICE detention has expanded rapidly under Trump, both in terms of the number of facilities and people held.

This is all from "Immigration Detention Expansion in Trump’s Second Term" a new report from @immcouncil.org out today: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/immig...

Since Trump took office in Jan 2025: - Deadliest year on record for ICE detention - Detention facilities nearly doubled - Detainees rose by ~75%, - 2,450% increase in number of people with no criminal record held in ICE detention on given day - 87% drop in discretionary release

🚨Check out our 🔥 new report on the shocking and unprecedented expansion of immigration detention under Trump’s mass deportation agenda. We estimate that w funding given by Congress the system is on track to expand to a size that would be larger than the federal prison system.

ICE’s aggressive enforcement tactics aren’t making our communities safer. They’re making them more dangerous. The tragedy in Minneapolis is the predictable result of a mass deportation agenda that treats immigration enforcement like a show of force instead of a matter of safety.

Last week, our Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social joined @phillavelle.bsky.social on @aljazeera.com’s Centre Stage to break down how ICE operates, the legal questions surrounding its authority, and the real impacts on immigrants and Americans alike. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBr...

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to Gauri Bahuguna, Setareh Ghandehari, @naynagupta.bsky.social, and @paromitashah.bsky.social about the rise of the immigration enforcement economy and how this system evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry.

The Trump administration's mass deportation agenda isn't making our communities safer. As @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social told @padilla.senate.gov, it's making our communities LESS safe.

This week the Trump administration reported FOUR new deaths in immigration detention, bringing this year’s total to 30—the highest in ICE's history, worse than during the COVID pandemic. We must ensure humanity and dignity for those detained and rebuild accountability and oversight of this system.

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to Gauri Bahuguna (@situ-research.bsky.social), Setareh Ghandehari (@detentionwatchnetwork.org), @naynagupta.bsky.social, and @paromitashah.bsky.social about the rise of the immigration enforcement economy. youtu.be/tHVmAEd7_H0

Two more deaths in immigration detention—-taking us to highest ever number of deaths in a year. It sounds so basic but: It is possible to enforce civil immigration laws without locking up people who pose no safety threat & without subjecting ppl to possible death.

For decades the U.S. govt has deported military veterans who proudly served the country they call home. Trump/Noem are not the first to betray immigrant veterans but with congressional action they can certainly be the last.

Dept of Veterans Affairs is going to collect info on citizenship status of any employees & contractors and share that info w DHS for mass deportation. A slap in the face to the thousands of immigrant veterans who proudly serve this country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is too much.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

When communities view ICE, federal agents, and local police who collaborate with ICE as a political weapon, trust collapses. People become more afraid to report crime & everyone becomes LESS safe esp survivors of domestic violence. A 🧵 w data & examples (1/4) 👇🏽:

A Babson College freshman was detained at Logan Airport and deported without warning. Our Policy Director, Nayna Gupta, has been working with the family and local attorneys to piece together what went wrong. Like so many others, this young woman had an old removal order she never knew existed. 1/2

Excellent explanation by @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social of the breadth and extremism of Trump’s attack on immigration and immigrants, of where we are and of where it seems to be going and why it’s unlikely to let up. www.youtube.com/live/fKeiTXa...

This week at Logan Airport, the Trump admin detained a Babson College freshman heading home as a holiday surprise.They deported her in 48 hrs to Honduras which she left at six. She got no calls to her famlawyer & was deported on a removal order she didn’t know abt www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...

Thrilled that Coded Justice is on @npr.org's Books We Love list for 2025. 🎁 Grab your copy in time for the holidays! bit.ly/4jvx2V7

🚨 House democrats just launched a website that tracks abuses inflicted by ICE and CBP including use of force, arrests of U.S. citizens or raids near schools or courthouses. If you see such abuses, you can report them directly to Congress: x.com/nayna_gupta/...

Trump & Miller’s sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein immigration force with NO accountability, dedicated only to political stagecraft—making Americans less safe. Former senior ICE official on the latest sweeping & scary changes at ICE www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Kristi Noem has claimed that "no American citizens have been arrested or detained" by immigration agents, despite copious evidence to the contrary. Immigration policy expert @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social says the Homeland Security chief "is either ignorant of the facts or not telling the truth."

🚨 Further proof that mass deportation makes Americans LESS safe: ICE’s chaotic & indiscriminate crackdown is leading to federal agents ramming & crashing cars. High speed chases of ppl who pose NO safety threat places all drivers at risk. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/u...

“Sanctuary cities” aren’t lawless — they’re practical. Local police are balancing safety and resources while D.C. plays politics. NYT Magazine's latest backs up what I argued for @thirdway.bsky.social: sanctuary policies are about smart governance, not defiance.

Instead of working to reopen the government, Trump is using his spare time to go after his political enemies. We need to speak up.

The tools & tactics ICE is using to arrest US citizens & thousands who pose no threat have existed for decades in misguided immigration laws passed in 1990s. We can enforce civil immigration laws w/o chaos & fear but that requires Congress to step up & finally amend those laws.

BREAKING: DC District Court just granted our emergency motion, filed with @immigrantjustice.bsky.social, stopping ICE from locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention centers once they turn 18.  Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.

Even before the $45 billion for detention money started leaving the government, Trump officials were already self-dealing. When contract bidders hire someone with direct ties to the border czar to ‘help win work,’ that’s not innovation — it’s corruption.

FBI is supposed to investigate threats of domestic terrorism & political violence but instead they are raiding buildings full of hard-working immigrants w deep ties to our country who pose NO safety threat—this makes everyone LESS safe. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Since President Trump began his second term, the number of agreements allowing local law enforcement agencies to perform federal immigration duties have ballooned across the U.S. @naynagupta.bsky.social spoke to @naomidelkamiller.bsky.social about how these 287(g) agreements erode public safety.

Interesting. The Tooele Co. Sheriff has expressed concern about ICE poaching deputies during 287g training. “I’m looking for a little more confidence that the names of the deputies I provide are not going to be actively recruited by ICE as they complete the training." ksltv.com/politics-ele...

Yet another decision holding this. With the exception of a single bad 2nd Circuit decision surrounding Byrne JAG grants in Trump 1.0, the Trump admin has a near-perfect losing streak on imposing immigration enforcement conditions on federal grants.

Grateful to testify last week before members of Congress alongside friend & fellow Northwestern alum Janessa Goldbeck, CEO of Vet Voice Foundation who testified on harms of using National Guard & military for civil immigration enforcement. Mass deportation makes all Americans LESS safe.

Under this administration, federal agents tasked with fighting child trafficking, drug cartels, and domestic terrorism were pulled into low-level immigration arrests. @immcouncil.org ’s Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social: “This means far less focus on real public safety priorities.”

12 Senate Dems on Armed Services write strongly against use of military as immigration judges: "the Trump administration views skilled personnel as pawns to be traded between agencies, rather than as professionals essential to their core missions, in order to advance misguided immigration policies"