Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

Today, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which has already published more decisions and more negative decisions in the past 1.5 years than ever before, just issued an amicus request asking for briefs on whether the BIA is bound by SCOTUS precedent. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

We update our tracker weekly, typically on Mondays, to show who Trump's immigration enforcers have killed in the field and in his concentration camps, as well as who his agents have injured. All our tables should be read as minimum numbers.

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

you know who doesn’t get invited to go golfing with Trump? Jude Bellingham

Makes me wonder if employers of TPS holders are getting through to certain members of the gop.

🚨 This post begins to lay the groundwork for a larger evidence-based argument that this is a deliberate (and possibly unlawful) manipulation of the immigration court’s docketing system to manufacture removal orders. open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

An American story, with remarkable reporting by Adrian Carrasquillo of The Bulwark. Should be a gift link.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

Really good interview, thank you @cwnewser.bsky.social

“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

BTW, racist Americans have hated Haiti since 1791, because Haiti was the first successful revolution against enslavement. And I want to note how Justice Jackson included a detailed discussion of the Black Codes in her defense of Hawaiian historical sovereignty in another case today.

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

gift link if you need it. it’s very good www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

“The country is so dangerous that the U.S. State Department states on its website, “do not travel for any reason.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

There’s a pogrom happening right now in one of the UK’s main cities and the Prime Minister hasn’t said anything, best he can do is retweet the Northern Ireland Secretary (and not even the bit where Hilary Benn condemns the rioters)

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

This morning federal agents hit a woman’s vehicle while chasing and eventually detaining a man, later using a taser on him while pointing tasers and pepper spray at bystanders at Lawrence/Kedzie in Albany Park. Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com

At least one woman is now in limbo after US officials moved her to Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, and now say they won’t bring her back because of the Ebola travel ban – despite a judge’s order for her return. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We know they don’t care about this but worth mentioning that in the end, denying simple adjustments and sending them to immigration courts/appeals/later consular processing w/ waivers probably will take 10 times the resources across 3 separate agencies to process an application to get a green card.

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man the Trump administration deported to El Salvador last year despite a judge's order barring his removal to the country – have been dismissed by a federal judge in Tennessee. https://cnn.it/49jM9hv

#BREAKING U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros annoucnes that charges against the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" will be dismissed with prejudice.

Earlier this afternoon, Judge Sorokin issued a 30-page decision granting a habeas petition and SANCTIONING ICE. Guevara Peruano v. Wesling. I'm in a meeting now and haven't reviewed it, but it looks to be a monetary sanction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DHS called a federal judge an "activist" for releasing a man wanted for murder, but the judge never knew about the warrant because ICE told the prosecutor not to tell her. @rparloff.bsky.social details the full timeline, which ended with the judge referring a prosecutor for an ethics inquiry.

The gumption of the young journalists here alone is worthy of commendation, but I’m most heartened by how local reporting by local people breaks through: “It’s like, ’Yeah, your granddaughter is going through this...it’s something different than Fox News.’” #icymi

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

Extraordinary story, from Siobhán O'Grady, formerly the Ukraine bureau chief of the Washington Post, and her team. She and her colleagues were all cast aside by the management. Here's just one line: "He radios his commander and asks for a drone to drop a body bag from the sky."

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.)

BREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka, the brothers who were waiting for their school bus when ICE arrested them, are headed home after the arrests galvanized their Mississippi Gulf Coast community. "It’s a blessing to be around a community who cares about you,” Israel Makoka, 18, says.

Update: Meenu Batra was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on April 30. A federal judge in Brownsville mandated her release that same day through a temporary restraining order, writing that her detention likely violated her constitutional right to due process.

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

At some point the time travelers are going to get em

It really does change my understanding of this story that she had been enthusiastic about what happened to her happening to brown people and…just hadn’t realized it would apply to her and might not be pleasant

“The Photo of the Year is Separated by ICE by Carol Guzy, ZUMA Press, iWitness, for Miami Herald.” "It captures a harrowing moment: a family separated by the state.” www.npr.org/sections/the...

I’m sorry, this highlights the what?

A federal employee asked ICE to detain and deport a widow so he could gain the inheritance of her late husband’s house, per a probate judge. At 85 years old, the widow was not likely the “worst of the worst” ICE claims it targets. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

70 Minnesota children. Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination 🧵

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

today in "immigration court isn't real court": The Board of Immigration Appeals has just held that parties before an immigration judge have *no right to make closing arguments* unless denial of this request would "constitute a due process violation" Matter of A-M-Z-F-, 29 I&N Dec. 551 (BIA 2026)

Ha the BIA decides that not letting noncitizens give any closing or opening argument in immigration court isn't a due process violation, but... it still reverse the IJ's negative credibility finding. That's what he says he wanted to give a closing argument on. So... www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Yes. We are at the point where respondents may have to brief fundamental due process challenges on the grounds of a rigged system. /it will be a very, very hard challenge to win, but we’re reaching the point where it might become winnable.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

Two D, two R, one vote, no game-playing, doesn't affect House control. It should happen.