Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here. Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

Early this morning, the U.S. bombed the capital of #Venezuela and forcibly captured President Nicolás #Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. We call on Congress and world leaders to stop U.S. regime change in Venezuela. Read more: afsc.org/newsroom/no-...

Standing here in front of the Brickell metrorail station in Miami watching police repeatedly pull scooter drivers over seemingly just for driving scooters. A guy was stopped, turning right. I warned him: "Te van a parar." They did. On a related note: english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

City officials say HPD doesn't enforce immigration law. But Houston Chronicle reporting found HPD calls to ICE are up more than 1,000% compared to last year. The mayor says this is "standard law enforcement cooperation," not immigration enforcement.

In his veto letter, the president blamed the tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.” floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/31/t...

The Laken Riley Act was egregious overreach that put many people in detention who did not need to be there, thus facilitating deportation (either by people "giving up" and leaving or deportation by order). It absolutely assisted "mass deportation."

The purposes of immigration jail are "supposed" to be 1) make sure ppl show up for court hearings; 2) protect public. It is not a criminal sentence. When govt arrests ppl who are not dangerous at court hearings, they prove it's about punishment. That's illegal. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The largest facility in the country didn't even exist six months ago. Can't underestimate how quickly they can ramp up detention space with the resources they now have, and with the corners they're willing to cut doing so.

Between Nov. 29 and Dec 11, ICE detained nearly 3,000 people per day at Camp East Montana in El Paso. This is the largest facility in the country. detentionreports.com/facility/ERO...

In Sep EOIR suddenly changed policy on virtual access to hearings, restricting non-party observation to in-person-only, at the same time wardens of (often remote) detention centers are inventing new pre-clearance reqs and "security concerns" to refuse physical access to the public courts inside.

I think this is right. Reality of chain-of-command & enlistment contracts kind of cap reasonable expectations for individual agency But...also thinks it undersells the way the Guard IS being actively integrated into ICE operations in (other) places, e.g. FLNG doing detainee transportation down here

NO ONE understands ICE Air's planning and routing better than @jjindc.bsky.social, not even the ghouls who work at ICE Air Ops. His new ICECAST is super informative and could be helpful for local groups. Please make sure your local rapid response and immigration attorneys aware of them!

Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE "I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"

Top brass at DOJ personally oversaw the post hoc effort to slap criminal charges on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia after he’d been deported to a Salvadoran prison. Latest from @josepagliery.bsky.social www.notus.org/courts/abreg...

Between Nov. 28-Dec. 11, largest 5 facilities by detained population: - Camp East Montana, El Paso, TX: 2,973 detainees - Adams County, Natchez, MS: 2,244 - Adelanto IPC, Adelanto, CA: 1,923 - Stewart Det. Center, Lumpkin, GA: 1,894 - South Texas IPC, Pearsall, TX: 1,773

ICE just released updated detention statistics. As of December 13, 2025, ICE reports a total of 68,442 people are held in immigration detention. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

If I ran the numbers right (no guarantee on phone), now up to an average of >1450 over the first two weeks of December. Lot of SFL enforcement last 2 weeks, & after seeming pretty consistent about transferring out w/in <3 weeks over Oct and Nov, seeing people hit the full-month mark this week. 😕

The last few weeks, the UG ACA has been one of the pretexts to add Cubans to the tidal wave of pretermissions, since the agreements with GT & HO would appear to preclude accepting them. Pretty consistently paired with the Ecuador ACA so that doesn't necessarily save their cases, but it's something.

On Friday, D.H.S. lawyers were issued a new directive that motions seeking deportation to Uganda could be filed only for immigrants from most other African nations, according to the doc obtained by The Times. Lots of new details on this deportation push: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

" D.H.S. officials have told agency prosecutors across the country that they should list as many third-country agreements as possible for a given immigrant, according to agency guidance obtained by The New York Times." 😒

“Asylum Cooperative Agreements” or safe third country agreements are not supposed to be tools to deny hearings on asylum claims en masse, to coerce asylum seekers to accept reparation to potential danger, or for the U.S. to shirk all responsibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

I assume there are reasons for it beyond tilting the field even further towards the gov through uneven discovery powers (...right?) But the fact that we funnel people's access to their own casefile thru FOIA remains, to me, one of the most bonkers procedural "quirks" when put in removal proceedings

If you are looking for a weekend read, I hope you will consider my @talkingpointsmemo.com series on the realities of mass deportation and the emerging Undocumented Underground that is fighting back. talkingpointsmemo.com/undocumented...

Florida Soft-Sided is new to the ICE roster. It first appeared on the list in November 2025. From October 1 to November 28, ICE detained an average of 1,225 people per day at Florida Soft-Sided.

"I know they killed him" Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3. I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in San Diego have started arresting yet another group of people showing up to appointments they were asked to attend — the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program. Story by @bgirledukate.bsky.social www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-in-san-d...

I believe that ICE uses specific detention facilities to play particular roles in its enforcement machine. Alexandria Staging is the deportation hub. A good read here from about 3 months ago. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Separately, what was the story with immediately sending so many of the people FHP and BP scooped up in the operation last week to CO specifically? Bed space in SoFla does seem pretty constrained right now, but why CO? Did they clear out a bunch of space at Aurora in advance just for this purpose?

FHP turns itself into immigration cops, its troopers "misapply" a fussy new state law for convenient pretextual stops, & now someone's father, a 30y resident, is trapped in detention halfway across the country. “Any regular car they were stopping, it was because of the license plate frame.”

HEY CONGRESS: Get out there and inspect those ICE jails!

Nearly every African country on this list, plus Cuba and Venezuela, has either 1) recently accepted ICE deportation flights and/or 2) recently agreed to “host” third-country nationals. Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.

I was in a tribunal a week ago where DHS moved to pretermit every single asylum case on "safe third country grounds." Every. single. one. At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."

The Department of Homeland Security has delivered 22 migrants to an ICE holding operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was emptied of detainees designated for deportation two months ago. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

The contemporary immigration detention regime? It all started at Krome. Here's an article from 1981. www.nytimes.com/1981/09/23/u...

They may be implemented in the future! We are tracking this on thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org For now: some transfers have been done but thousands of applications have been pretermitted. Many are designated for transfer under any of 4 agreements— to prevent effective challenge against any one!

THIS is a major difference/change from the first Trump admin. It’s not about deterrence. It’s about deporting people already here. And coercing them to give up pursuing their claims with threats of sending them to random third countries. Because few of the agreements have been implemented yet!

We documented dozens of cases of brutality — including physical and sexual abuse from guards — that show a humanitarian disaster unfolding at the Fort Bliss military base, where ICE is operating its largest detention center. President Trump’s mass detention expansion is inhumane and dangerous.

“Close advisor” 🛌😬😂😂😂🤦🏼‍♀️ ‘Noem and her close adviser Corey Lewandowski have sought to deflect blame from themselves…’ apple.news/AOUbNSLUVSda...

"Underscoring the turmoil, Scott recently expressed concern to colleagues that Lewandowski is able to monitor his emails" Oh no, reports of overly intrusive surveillance practices at DHS!

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney. More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig... More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...

There's this phony pose that PDs do, where they play like they REALLY don't want to be in imm. enforcement, but if there's going to be enforcement, golly, better their guys handling it than feds. Anyway, Davie PD's one of the few Broward PDs to sign a TFM, and the feds (and staties) are here anyway

"287(g) Program Models ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations operates four 287(g) models: ... The Tribal Task Force Model – 25 USC 2804 Tribal Agency TFM. ..." 😐 www.ice.gov/identify-and...

3 of the 12 Coast Guard C-27s were in the air today (0000-0000 UTC, Tuesday 09 December 2025). NONE were participating in ethnic cleansing for ICE. This is the first day since 1 August 2025 that no US Coast Guard C-27s were used for ethnic cleansing. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=ae2125,...

Guess why this Avelo ICE plane had to return to the gate, according to a source at Avelo. Ready? Because a smoke alarm went off as they were taxiing to the runway, and it was an ICE flight guard smoking in the lav.

So really the roll out of this ACA Honduras policy is all about refusing to adjudicate asylum claims in the U.S. and this post is infuriating in claiming that transferred people will await proceedings in the US!