As Congress debates new funds for DHS, it's critical that we keep the pressure on our elected representatives to hold firm: STOP DHS' ATTACKS ON OUR COMMUNITIES. NO FUNDS FOR ICE & CBP. Save this post to help w/ calls & messages. Share widely. Together we keep each other safe. www.nilc.org/stopdhs

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

The SAVE Act would block millions of American citizens from voting. It failed before, and it must fail again. Tell your Senators: bit.ly/4tmVIor

It’s time to pressure the Senate for the next 48 hours to get #ICEOut of our communities. Tell your Senator to vote NO on DHS funding & hold the line until all demands are met. CALL NOW: (202) 224‑3121

This what this list of raids looks like... And we’re still learning of more late. We’ll have to update this in the morning. lataco.com/daily-memo-j...

📣 Your daily reminder: Tell your Senators NO MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR ICE & CBP. Help us keep up the pressure. It only takes 2 minutes to send messages directly to your Senators: act.nilc.org/page/93101/a...

The Senate will vote as soon as TOMORROW to increase funding for ICE & CBP. We've already witnessed the deadly consequences of handing over $170 billion to these rogue agencies. We can’t let them get a single dollar more. 📣Email your Senators now: act.nilc.org/page/93101/a...

If confronted by #ICE, remember you have rights, regardless of language, race, job, or immigration status. Prep is protection. For resources to protect and defend yourself and neighbors visit; ImmDef.org/resources#ICE💻 #KnowYourRights

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✨Before the year ends, make a gift to the National Immigration Law Center. As this administration continues to target immigrants, your support helps us sustain our vital work to defend our communities and fight for immigrants' rights. www.nilc.org/donate-now/

#2025recap When violent enforcement escalated, we responded with litigation and persistence. We challenged unlawful raids, fought to restore counsel for children, forced action on asylum cases, and showed up nationwide to demand accountability. This work continues. Support us: immdef.org

This year felt like a decade. I wanted to highlight some of the immigration reporting I've done over the past 12 months: In January, I wrote about the big money fueling the right's plot to end birthright citizenship.

We keep each other safe. 🩵

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Donate now and your gift will go 2X as far to help: ✅ Transform prison environments to ensure people can live with dignity ✅ Defend due process ✅ Remove barriers to housing for formerly incarcerated people Support this vital work: https://secure.vera.org/a/fy26-eoy2x

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“There was no way for them to do the aggressive kind of detention and deportation numbers [they want] without having to break a lot of due process and violate a lot of people's rights, which is exactly what we're seeing.”

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Day laborers say they feel targeted over anti-loitering speakers installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park. Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.

To stay up to date with the state of immigration detention in the U.S., check out Vera’s ICE Detention Trends dashboard, now updated with data through mid-October: www.vera.org/ice-detentio...

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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When raids began in SoCal in June 2025, ImmDef & CLUE launched the Detained Immigrant Bond Fund. We raised $850K, bringing 85 people home this holiday season. With average bonds at $10K, we can free just 5 more—unless you help us step up again. Donate: cluejustice.org/bond

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The Trump administration is sending masked federal agents to round up our immigrant neighbors—even people with #DACA, who should be protected, are being detained. Lawmakers must provide permanent protections. Tell your Senators to pass the DREAM Act: https://bit.ly/48W2rxv

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.

Merry Christmas, taxpayers.

"They want to build a network of concentration camps."

We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities. Here's how to reach out:

This is how pressure works. Advocates say Jeanette Vizguerra may not have to stay in ICE detention while her case moves forward. ICE detention is often framed as inevitable. In reality, it’s discretionary. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/immigr...

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Congress is considering a bill that would limit ICE’s authority to deputize state and local law enforcement for immigration enforcement. Tell Congress to vote yes on this bill and end the 287(g) program once and for all.

“We’re going to go after them. We’re going to hold them accountable,” says Rep. Jimmy Gomez on the unconstitutional acts of ICE, CBP, and the Trump Administration following the Congressional Field Hearing on the ICE raids in LA. @gomez.house.gov #WeBelongHere #StopTheRaids #NoDeportations

More immigrants are not showing up for their mandatory immigration court hearings compared to prior years, an NPR analysis shows, allowing the government to order their immediate deportation. n.pr/4saLnem

U.S. Reps. Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson arrived carrying a federal court order confirming that members of Congress cannot be blocked from conducting oversight at immigration detention facilities.

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked Trump's effort to deploy the National Guard in Illinois to protect officials carrying out his mass-deportation policy.

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Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

En Español ⬇️ www.nilc.org/resources/pr...

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🔥WOW— Sharyn Alfonsi to her @60Minutes colleagues: “Bari Weiss spiked it without a call to discuss… a political decision… we have effectively handed Trump a kill switch… we go from an investigative powerhouse to a STENOGRAPHER FOR THE STATE… corporate censorship…”

Detention isn’t the end. Discover how to seek release through a bond hearing for you or your loved one. Knowledge is power and every person deserves dignity and hope. 💙🫂 Learn more: ImmDef.org/resources

I joined @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social to discuss the administration’s push to expand denaturalization. There’s no national security justification for the admin to expand this extreme, rarely used process. It doesn’t make us safer; it terrorizes immigrants and naturalized citizens.

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“Four detainee deaths in one week is a red-hot crisis,” said Eunice Cho, senior counsel at the @aclu.org National Prison Project. “There is no question in my mind that this represents a clear deterioration of medical care and the worsening conditions in ICE detention.”

There are major red flags in the ICE death notification for 39-year-old Delvin Francisco Rodriguez after an "emergency" at CoreCivic's Adams County Detention Center last week. His story deserves more attention. This is everything ICE told us about Rodriguez's death. 1/ www.ice.gov/news/release...

Under Trump, the Fair Housing Act is essentially dead www.thenation.com/article/poli...