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.

Three days and Trump is back to immigration raids on farms & at hotels. Immigration enforcement policies can change on a whim which is why we need Congress to pass legislation that protects immigrant workers w pathways to status! www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“When you have an agenda that sets quotas at 3,000 arrests a day, there are not even enough people that pose a public safety threat to meet that number.” - @naynagupta.bsky.social , policy director at @immcouncil.org

🚨 Reuters reporting an 800+% increase in immigration arrests of people w no criminal convictions under Trump. The numbers prove what we already knew—this is an indiscriminate, anti-immigrant agenda that has NOTHING to do w public safety www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

U.S. Senator rightfully calling out impunity & abuse behind Trump’s attack on CA immigrants. And yet again the Trump admin aggressively blocking Congress from doing its job to uphold the Constitution and rule of law. Every Senator should condemn this abuse of @SenAlexPadilla

The LA raids are yet another symptom of Trump’s obsession w mass deportation. A desperation to meet arrest & removal quotas at ANY cost—even when it wreaks havoc on our communities, turns cities against the federal government & wastes resources on efforts that make us less safe.

This is the Trump administration once again pushing the boundaries of its powers by turning the military against American communities and using immigration as cover to try to get away w it. This makes us less safe and undermines our democracy.

It’s worth saying that the overwhelming majority of the people targeted by Trump’s mass deportation effort pose NO public safety threat. The Trump admin lies and continues to use “criminal” to demonize thousands of non-citizens who do NOTHING to make your life less safe.

Here is why they have to lie about who they are targeting: "if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically."

Heartbreaking! Reporting suggests that the facility is currently operating nearly 300 PERCENT above capacity, with 1,700 people crammed into a facility with an official maximum capacity of 600. The conditions have devolved dramatically in the last few months, threatening health and safety.

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

On May 21, 2025, the House passed a massive spending bill that directs billions of dollars to intensify and expand immigration enforcement. Now, the bill is being considered by the Senate.  Join us to learn more about how this bill will impact immigration policy. Register at immcouncil.co/43nzlUO.

The House passed a reconciliation spending bill that devotes $150 billion to immigration enforcement, while placing new fees on applications for asylum and other humanitarian protections. Our Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social‬ discussed the impact of this bill with @tedhesson.bsky.social:

Need a round up of all the “red flags” we saw from the Trump admin this past week on immigration? Check out our short piece that gives you the 101 on the unprecedented & harmful immigration enforcement policies we’re seeing unfold. immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/28/i...

NEW from me, @naynagupta.bsky.social, and the policy team at @immcouncil.org. We’re trying something a bit new for our blog, and doing a roundup of “red flags” coming out of the administration in the last week on immigration, rather than focusing on one topic. immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/28/i...