1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

As I’ve said before, Platner is a good example of how perceived electability advantage, often afforded to white men like him, can weaken Democrats’ fidelity to their values and make them more willing to engage in Trump-like excuse making for inexcusable behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

The coercive federalism of it all. ICE is paying local police salaries, bonuses, vehicles, and equipment to join the 287(g) program. The ACLU calls it “unprecedented.” But the fiscal relationship between the feds and local jails on immigration isn’t new /1🧵

ICE flights. Sunday, May 10, 2026.

More than 70 percent take “voluntary departure” from detention. So it’s not voluntary. And it shows you what detention is: punishment and coercion. Coercion most of all. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

We’ve been able to confirm 8 of the 10 turnkey facilities ICE wants to buy. Just over half are owned by GEO Group. We have leads on the remaining two, and have reached out to GEO Group and CoreCivic for any comment they can provide.

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

Here 8 of the 10 “turnkey” facilities ICE is looking to purchase outright from private prison firms according to multiple sources. These would be much harder to fight than the warehouses, and would be “immune” from state or county level legislation as federal enclaves.

ICE’s FY2026 287(g) salary reimbursement apportionments have now surpassed $1 billion, according to OpenOMB records. The funding helps pay individual officer salaries for state and local agencies participating in ICE immigration enforcement partnerships.

Yes. Even in cities with Sanctuary Laws, local police routinely aid ICE by suppressing protests against them. truthout.org/articles/loc...

The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost

New paper (w @elizabethacox.bsky.social ): Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 ICE activity reduced employment for undocumented immigrants in US, did NOT increase employment for U.S.-born workers & generated negative spillovers in immigrant-intensive sectors bit.ly/3QZWbxW

Reminder: Deaths are not climbing in detention simply because there are more people detained. The death *rate* has skyrocketed because conditions are getting worse inside ICE hellholes. Chart: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/02/c... I was today years old when I learned that California state prisons hand people over to ICE and that sanctuary laws only apply to local jails and law enforcement.

In only *3 states* — OR, IL, VT — do state prisons not cooperate with ICE to transfer people who have completed their criminal sentences to immigration detention, accd to new Marshall Project reporting 47 states allow or actively facilitate ICE transfers www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/02/c...

This flight made yet another stop, to the Republic of Georgia, that I hope was just for fuel but was probably also a deportation. Meaning people would’ve been shackled for 50+ hours. Longest one I’ve recorded this year. (The longest I’ve ever recorded is 82 hours, in December.)

ICE has created a public records catch-22: Local law enforcement says only ICE can respond to records requests about 287(g) partnerships, but ICE says only local law enforcement has access to the info. Here’s how they’re dodging accountability for their work. americanoversight.org/ice-287g-foi...

It isn’t just the FBI. I reported last month that a significant percentage of federal air marshals—who are supposed to protect *commercial* air travel—have been reassigned since last summer to guard ICE charter flights. gillianbrockell.com/extremely-da...

This is crazy. Akela found out that the admin has diverted a *quarter of the entire FBI* away from their jobs to instead help Trump and Vance's immigration agents, whose most notable work includes kidnapping pro-Palestine students and murdering two Americans in broad daylight.

What is the San Diego Police hiding? SDPD refuses to release bodycam footage of their role in ICE operations. We’re representing @daylightsdnews.bsky.social to get the truth. The public deserves to know what police in their community are doing. firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/sa...

Every damn book, conference, big money fellowship has been about reducing polarization. Many knew the real issue wasn’t polarization, but that polarization was the only politically correct proxy for the real problem. What a joke man

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

Imagine if we had just *wasted* the Artemis II space project. We @climatesollab.bsky.social track the extra fuel costs the Iran war has imposed on American households. As of today, the total nationwide cost is $24.6 billion, more than the annual budget of NASA. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...

NEW: Immigrants at the largest Midwest ICE detention center in Baldwin MI are beginning a hunger strike. One person has died there since the privately owned prison re-opened in June 2025 from what his family believes is medical neglect. #AbolishICE nodetentioncentersmi.org/2026/04/21/p...

A new proposed HUD rule would eliminate the right of mixed-status families to continue living together in HUD-assisted housing. If implemented, the proposed rule would have devastating consequences on the lives of children. Read our full statement below: childrenthriveaction.org/2026/04/over...

ICE has been using a Navy logistics contract to outfit detention warehouses with minimal oversight. New documents show it may want its own construction contracting vehicle — one that's faster and less transparent. @em-knepp.bsky.social, @ripest-plum.bsky.social, and @mwriston.bsky.social report.

An attorney who represents several students who are arrested during pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Michigan, and who was later detained at Detroit airport because he represented said students has been nominated by the Democratic Party to run for Regent at the University of Michigan.

At the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida, "detainees placed in 'the box'—located outside and in direct sunlight—are reportedly forced to endure high temperatures, high humidity, and 'horsefly-size mosquitos.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-...

Stadium workers at SoFi represented by Unite Here Local 11 have now filed an official labor complaint with NLRB alleging that FIFA and Kroenke Sports engaged in unfair labor practices by "refusing to commit to restricting facility access by ICE officers in anticipation of FIFA World Cup events"

Isaac Villegas Molina, a plaintiff challenging immigration raids, was detained by ICE at a routine check-in and is now being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. “To be targeted because he is pursuing his rights is unacceptable,” Stacy Tolchin www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement. But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

Well-reported, horrifying story on the Trump administration's resumption of detention of children, featuring clients of Columbia's immigrants' rights clinic. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW: USCIS published its data for all of 2025, and even into Jan. 2026. The result: 2025 began w high numbers of citizenship apps submitted & decided (approved/denied). By winter fewer were applying to become citizens — and fewer were given a decision. Latest: www.npr.org/2026/04/13/g...

📖 New report out today Deportations up 5x, ICE street arrests jump 11x in first year of Trump administration, according new data released last month We break down why below & in the report 👇 deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...

"His loss is felt deeply not only by those who knew him here at the University, but also everyone who understands his potential to have contributed to breakthroughs in science that would have positively impacted people around the world." -Dean of Engineering Karen Thole

ICE has detained over 6,200 children under Trump according to new data. That's up 10x Since Biden Left Office. “Every American should be shocked,” Leecia Welch, at Children's Rights, said. “It just adds up to an incredible amount of trauma.” www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...

Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe program faces a troubling trajectory. The longer it exists, the greater the share of program participants who have returned to “unsheltered” homelessness, according to monthly dashboards posted by the L.A. Homeless Services Authority. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.

New from me and @haleaziz.bsky.social: Months before the ICE arrest this week of a WI mosque leader, Secretary of State Marco Rubio found him to be a threat to the US foreign policy interest of combating antisemitism, according to federal officials and gov records. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Resurfacing this: “I don’t know if we can call it a ‘proposal’, because that implies actual thought was put into it,” Kendrick said. “It’s completely far-fetched and preposterous, and it would be impossible to reopen those ancient, crumbling buildings as anything resembling a functioning prison.”