Our investigation found 40+ cases in which federal immigration agents used chokeholds or other moves that can restrict someone’s breathing: https://propub.li/4rq51BV We showed video clips from our reporting to Marc Brown, a law enforcement expert. This is what he said.

New @nber.org paper with @caitlinpatler.bsky.social & @elizabethacox.bsky.social out! We examine how ICE arrests differ in Trump 2.0 vs. 1.0 Key Findings 🧵 1) MANY more arrests in Trump 2.0 than 1.0 2) When arrests spike, % arrested w criminal conviction falls www.nber.org/papers/w3479...

What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

I published a short and quick primer on how local law enforcement, mostly sheriffs, can collaborate with ICE. I hope it's useful -- I also would love to know what people are seeing in their community. sheriffs.substack.com/p/how-local-...

“The problem here is that people are stuck in a fantasy of liberal legal formalism that imagines that police are accountable to the public," Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing, told me.

The Department of Justice is cutting off options to challenge removal orders from immigration courts, helping the Trump administration speed up deportations efforts.

Mayor Bass, why are you allowing this to continue?

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate

Urgency grows as hundreds of children languish in immigration detention—sick, scared, and depressed. A judge’s order last weekend sent Liam Conejo Ramos back home to Minneapolis. But so many others remain jailed. Leaders nationwide are speaking out to defend a critical legal safeguard. ⬇️

Did Trump "close the border" when he took office again? Did Biden cause a wave of migration through lax border enforcement? The answer may surprise you! www.justsecurity.org/130422/fact-...

In a @kff.org survey from fall '25, nearly half of likely undocumented immigrant adults, and one in seven who are lawfully present, said they had avoided medical care since January '25 due to immigration-related concerns -- recent increases in ICE presence could further exacerbate these challenges

Re-sharing, still looking for folks.

Immigration enforcement quotas can fuel violence, intimidation, deaths, & unlawful arrests, like what we have seen unfolding in communities across the country. These arbitrary quotas have led to harsher & more expansive immigration enforcement. ⬇️

An 11th hour order from Judge Reyes postpones the Trump administrations termination date for Haitians with TPS. Story soon in GBH. Read our recent story www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

After a few weeks delay, ICE just released new detention statistics. They show 70,766 people in detention as of 1/26/2026. I believe this is the first time this data source has reported a detained population over 70k.

The average daily population at Dilley, the family detention center that held 5-year-old Liam Ramos, is up to 867, according to new federal data. There's currently active cases of measles at Dilley and lawyers say their clients are on lockdown. (h/t @geoffhing.bsky.social who pulled data)

To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available... That's already been official ICE policy for over two years. www.ice.gov/news/release....

Yep. Please don't let this shiny object distract from real reforms.

This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.

African nations make up a striking share of the countries swept into the Trump administration’s new freeze on immigrant visas. The 26 African countries include Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Ghana. https://capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-immigration-visa-freeze/

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

I don’t think this is quite accurate. Thousands of habeas petitions have been successful— which is amazing. But tens of thousands of people (without criminal records) have been detained and haven’t been able to file habeas cases, remain detained or are deported. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... W/ @sooophie.bsky.social

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

The Deportation Data Project has some interesting information about how people are being arrested by immigration police and what is happening. First thing worth pointing out, the increased number of immigration arrests are from massive "street arrests" and more transfers from other agencies.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

“Muslim ban set off a fury of protests across US, garnering tremendous media attention and discussion… Portraying ‘Ban’ at odds with inclusive elements of American identity prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes…” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

👋 Joining BlueSky to launch our first report, on immigration enforcement in the first nine mos. of the Trump admin. Big picture: deportations from interior arrests are up 4.6x from the end of Biden's term, from big increase in arrests, expansion in detention beds, & drastic reduction in releases.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

One of the most powerful ways to limit ICE's reach is to rein in sheriffs and stop letting local police & jails collaborate with the federal agency. When states take a hard stance against ICE, communities are better off and more protected from the deportation agenda:

NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.

We must not become numb to the fact that this is violence in service of a racist ideology. We must not become numb to the fact that this government is targeting Black and brown immigrants because it does not want Black and brown people in this country. This is targeted racial violence.

NEW: Docs unsealed tonight show the official reasoning DHS sent to the State Dept. recommending that Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri and Yunseo Chung be deported. Marco Rubio signed off, despite warnings by DHS that their findings looked like protected speech.

"The court also released all public evidence admitted during the nine-day trial, including the intelligence reports administration officials relied on to target Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri, and Yunseo Chung." knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

JUST IN: Judge William Young formally sanctioned the Trump administration, requiring it to prove in court that any future attempt to deport members of two national academic organizations is allowable under normal immigration law, and is not retaliation based on their speech.

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California. This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.

This is the second DHS memo in the last year to "authorize" agents to enter homes without a warrant. The first was for the Federal Protective Service, which polices protests under the guise of securing federal property. @marisakabas.bsky.social broke that story: www.thehandbasket.co/p/dhs-fps-me...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.