So at SJSU, one professor assaulted a student and faced a temporary suspension, and Dr. Sang Hea Kil attends campus protests and gets fired? There is no justification for this. SJSU is a unionized public university. These are battles we really can't concede. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Deportation Data Project just posted a 60 min webinar that introduces the recently-released data from ICE for reporters and advocates. We discuss what fields are in the data and answer questions about specific uses like counting arrests by area. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vBA...

Pregnant women are increasingly picked up, deported and detained under the Trump administration, advocates and lawyers contend. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-03/she-spent-her-pregnancy-in-a-detention-center-shes-not-alone?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

Prior to June 8, the LAPD had not used tear gas in crowd-control settings in almost 50 years, an LAPD spokesperson told L.A. TACO. The full story: lataco.com/city-council... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

UCLA CCPR Faculty Affiliate Professor Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, highlights new ICE data showing federal crackdowns are arresting mostly immigrants with no criminal record — far more non-offenders than serious criminals. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Took the new data from the Deportation Data Project and made a little interactive showing arrests by category and month. www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-an...

Yes, and, ICE is holding more than 60,000 people in detention each day, and more than 20 people have died in ICE custody this year. www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Today the Census Bureau released an updated estimate of the US immigrant population in 2024, and it shows that despite all the legal and illegal immigration under Biden, the immigrant share of the US population had grown at the slowest pace for any decade since the 1970s www.cato.org/blog/immigra...

You don’t say. It’s almost as if locking up immigrants with criminal records wasn’t the point.

In the case of the Babson College freshman detained at BOS on her way home to TX for Thxgiving, the govt's own timeline, as laid out by a judge, shows she was removed to Honduras, where she hasn't lived since she was 7, more than 17 hrs AFTER a court order barring her deportation had been issued.

We need to talk about the focus on the criminal convictions of immigrants being detained & deported ... AND these charts of spiking numbers of people detained during surges in LA, DC, and Chicago with no criminal justice connection are extraordinary. www.cbsnews.com/news/immigra...

Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk. Great work by ACLU and Amica www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...

Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people. More coming soon.

Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...

NEW: President Trump has repeatedly threatened to bring federal agents, or even soldiers, to San Francisco to battle crime. His administration has actually done the opposite, quietly taking federal law enforcement away from the city to do immigration work instead. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

New data release from the Deportation Data Project: Every ICE arrest, detainer request, and book-in to detention nationwide between September 1, 2023 and October 15, 2025. deportationdata.org/news/2025-12...

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

The University of California has renewed its policy of annual tuition hikes today after the UC Board of Regents voted 13 to 3 to approve the measure, despite fierce opposition from undergraduates. bit.ly/3XIfH1W 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Adriana Heldiz

NEW: California State University wants to increase the salaries of its campus presidents and other senior executives. The current base pay for Cal State campus presidents ranges from $370,000 to more than $500,000. The discussion and vote is tomorrow. calmatters.org/education/hi...

Huge.

This is TODAY! Let’s yell at some regents.

Judge Lin has granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s attempted extortion and academic coercion of the University of California. Incredible organizing and legal lift by union workers and faculty made this possible. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PUT SOME RESPECT ON THE UNION AND TEH FACULTY AND STAFF

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Our students are just stunning. Their bravery and integrity put our leaders to shame.

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

Take this for what it is; an acknowledgment by the White House that they are not focusing on people with criminal records.

Following the successful faculty association lawsuit, the UC admininstration was forced to release Trump’s extortionist demands of UCLA. Now is the time to tell President Milliken and the UC Regents to refuse any concessions. Sign it: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold... @uc-faculty.bsky.social

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy. UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California: Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

Hell no. “The document calls for UCLA to publicly announce that it does not recognize transgender people’s gender identities, to prevent the admission of “anti-Western” international students and to pay the costs for an outside monitor to oversee the agreement.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

UC has released the Trump settlement demand to UCLA after losing a court effort to block its release. Here it is. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/s...

CA Supreme Court order.

NEW: The CA Supreme Court rejected the University of California's appeal to block a ruling forcing the UC to share the Trump settlement demand of $1.2 billion. UC faculty sued to have the letter released in an effort to make it public. To date we've known limited elements of what Trump seeks.

UCLA must release Trump's extortion demands. Courts side with UCLA Faculty Association to force release of public documents. The 28 page letter should be released by Friday. Big victory for @uclafa.bsky.social, all faculty, students, parents, and Californians www.latimes.com/california/s...

(1/2) An ICE Air flight just arrived at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. After a flight on Monday, this is the 2nd flight to arrive at GTMO since Oct. 1 when the approx. 20 remaining people were transferred out of the facilities and flown to the Alexandria ICE hub.

UPDATE: The same ICE deportation flight (OAE3710) that departed Phoenix, AZ on Sunday made additional stops in Nigeria and Angola after first landing in Ghana. People on board were kept in shackles throughout the roughly 35-hour journey.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Wall-to-Wall UC labor union rally tomorrow in front of the UC Regents meeting. Our message to Trump: Hands off our UC!!

“On Tuesday afternoon, a coalition of UC unions and faculty organizations will hold a protest at UC San Francisco before the kickoff of a two-day board of regents meeting, the trustees’ first public convening since the UCLA crisis unfolded.”✊ www.latimes.com/california/s...

We’re proud to launch ICEFlightMonitor developed by Tom Cartwright & housed under HRF to monitor & analyze US immigration enforcement flights. Cartwright tracked 40,000+ ICE flights since 2020, exposing hidden operations of US immigration enforcement. Learn more: humanrightsfirst.org/library/ice-...

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope. It inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Yes, ICE has deported U.S. citizens. And according to this report, they still don't require officers to update the system when they discover "probative evidence that an individual may be a U.S. citizen." So officers can discover that you're a citizen and just conceal it. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Websites tracking the student visa revocations and ICE abductions on college campuses www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...