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"

The Trump administration continues to use safety as a pretext for mass deportation—but it is mass deportation itself that makes all Americans LESS safe. Watch @naynagupta.bsky.social's testimony at @jayapal.house.gov's shadow hearing on the impact of mass deportations on our communities.

Nayna Gupta, Policy Director at @immcouncil.org: "While nannies disappear from local parks and masked agents drag immigrant fathers from cars, this administration continues to use safety as a pretext for mass deportation. But it is mass deportation that makes all Americans less safe."

This Thursday, 9/18, @jayapal.house.gov is hosting a shadow hearing to shine a light on the lawlessness and harm of Trump’s mass deportation regime. With @tnimmigrant.bsky.social, we're supporting two brave witnesses — Chelsea White & Mimi Lettunich — in advocating for their loved ones in D.C.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

ICE's 287(g) Enforcement Program Reaches 1,000 Active Agreements Across 40 States open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

The Trump admin is engaging in federal policing in a way that rips at the seams of relationships between state & local police and the federal government..and between communities & their local police. This erodes public safety👇🏽 apnews.com/article/chic...

For the first time, #USCIS will create “special agents” with powers to carry firearms and make arrests. Shev Dalal-Dheini (@aila.org) and @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social explain how this move defies Congress’ mandate and raises serious legal concerns. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/uscis-s...

This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that clears the way for racial profiling during immigration raids and sweeps. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social shares what you need to know 👇

The Supreme Court just cleared the way for racial profiling during immigration raids and sweeps. This means the Trump administration could rapidly expand its plans for law enforcement to harass people based on their skin color, the neighborhood they live in, or the language they speak.

🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨

We have to talk about this also as an insult to the National Guard, who are being used as political props by the President and governors. They signed up to serve their country and their communities, and are now being turned into playthings of a political operation. It’s a slap in the face.

Trump’s ICE is moving rapidly to expand imprisonment of immigrants to largest ever in U.S. history. Plans to make the system hold over 100K ppl will make it comparable to the U.S. federal prison system—but it will be full of ppl with NO criminal convictions 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The immigration system was broken before President Trump returned to office. But instead of fixing it, the Trump administration has chosen to make things worse — on purpose. Read more from our policy director @naynagupta.bsky.social in @msnbc.com ⤵️

Trump is undertaking an unprecedented realignment of the federal government, turning it into a detention & deportation machine that threatens communities, upends legal norms & shakes the foundation of American democracy. Mass deportation makes Americans LESS safe👇🏽 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump’s second-term immigration policies, in just six months, represent an unprecedented and coordinated assault on democratic rights and principles. My thoughts on using immigration to attack democracy & how Trump immigration makes us LESS safe in MSNBC👇🏽 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

A record number of deaths & suicides in immigration detention under Trump’s cruel & wasteful mass deportation agenda (most since COVID)—in just six months. And continued failures by ICE to timely report such deaths to Congress as required by law 👇🏽 x.com/abc/status/1...

Ossoff’s office has “identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse” against people in immigration detention. Of these cases, 41 include allegations of physical or sexual abuse, as well as 18 alleged reports of mistreatment of children in custody… www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A monthslong investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff compiles hundreds of alleged human rights violations at immigration detention centers, according to a new report about his probe first obtained by NBC News.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Gallup reports that Trump is at a net -22%(!) approval rating on immigration (38% approve, 60% disapprove). That is the second lowest rating they've ever recorded for him, just behind -23% in August 2018 (38% approve, 61% disapprove).

I was on a great panel yesterday with @naynagupta.bsky.social, @daralind.bsky.social, and Ama Frimpong of CASA to discuss immigration, democracy, and our path forward. Thanks to @thenewrepublic.bsky.social for hosting and moderating! youtu.be/mwnjIVzcZYQ?...

Wild new program out of Florida! Florida Highway Patrol officers will pull people over for random traffic violations. If they're undocumented, they get taken to Border Patrol, where they're told "either we send you to Alligator Alcatraz or Florida buys you a plane ticket to self-deport tomorrow."

Six months into this Trump admin, it's becoming impossible to track every change. So we didn't. What we did is to put together a special report that evaluates what immigration policy looks like now--and how to understand it going forward. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-...

Join us tomorrow as we talk to @thenewrepublic.bsky.social in a virtual convo on our new report: “Mass Deportation: Analyzing Trump Admin’s Attack on Immigrants, Democracy, and America.” We will discuss where we go from here after just six months! www.eventbrite.com/e/immigratio...

The federal government is giving ICE direct access to all of our Medicaid data with incredibly thin protections — all to facilitate their cruel anti-immigrant agenda. We cannot let President Trump's mass deportation campaign take precedent over our privacy and health care.

The Trump administration has carried out the most destructive rewrite of immigration policy in modern U.S. history. Join us and @newrepublic.com on July 23 as we discuss how the administration is using mass deportation to attack democracy. Register here: ow.ly/StaR50WqaEf

As Trump hires thousands more immigration agents: “You’re very likely to see confusion, delay, wrongful arrest, more mistakes when law enforcement agencies, especially large ones, don’t have clear direction and guidance for prioritization.”👇🏽 🚨 apnews.com/article/bord...

NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published our in-depth analysis of the immigration enforcement provisions of the reconciliation bill. Want to know what funding ICE and CBP get, and for what purposes? We've got you covered! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h...

🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.

🚨 🚨 The bill the Senate votes on today pumps 45 BILLION into this system 👇🏽 while stripping 12-17 million Americans from healthcare. CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY. Leave a message, flood the lines, tell everyone you know. 🙏🏽

🚨 Trump admin is holding 56,000 immigrants in increasingly horrific detention conditions—15K more ppl than the system allows. 10 deaths in five months, starvation, delayed gyno care for pregnant women, no insulin for diabetic ppl & over 50% w no criminal conviction 💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

Florida is taking steps to build its own immigration detention center in the Everglades calling it “Alligator Alcatraz." People will be held in a facility "surrounded by alligators and snakes in dangerous heat with NO oversight," our Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social says in @npr.org ⤵️

Major General Randy Manner for Fox News: “I am concerned that the admin is transitioning the military’s role from national defense to law enforcement. From protection to intimidation. This transition is a dramatic misuse of power & could lead to disastrous…outcomes” www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-le...

🚨 Absolute horror show as Florida takes steps to build its own detention center it’s calling “Alligator Alcatraz” for non citizen human beings to be held in facility surrounded by alligators and snakes in dangerous heat with NO oversight www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...

When President Trump attacks the rights of some of us, he weakens democracy for all.