"Trump is using our tax dollars to lie to us.” Thanks @profmmurray.bsky.social for having me on @velshimsnow.bsky.social today with @maria-hinojosa.bsky.social to debunk ICE propaganda & talk about the critical work people are doing to protect their neighbors. www.ms.now/ms-now/watch...

"We cannot trust the Trump administration to be transparent with the American public. If DHS is becoming a secret police force, then it is up to us to bring their abuses to light. We must all bear witness to their cruelty."

One of the most important pieces I've read this year. A lot of journalists tried to capture what it was like on the ground, as Chicagoans resisted an onslaught of federal agents attacking our neighbors, and @melissagiragrant.com pulled it off.

"Under the proposal, detainees would be held in 23 renovated industrial warehouses capable of housing up to 80,000 immigrants at a time, rather than being transferred to existing detention facilities nationwide." Brandon is fighting the conversion of an old Pep Boys Warehouse. 🤬 #FuckICE #Pinks

So, the actual Heritage Americans sued about the placement of an immigration facility in the Everglades and are now being punished by the Trump administration

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

404! Always strange to see these companies pull down their websites & LinkedIn pages because they're getting scrutinized after receiving major contracts to help carry out ethnic cleansing. Did they really not realize it would be controversial to help ICE hunt our friends and neighbors?

“Deportation, Inc.," produced with @situ-research.bsky.social, is a videos series investigating how United States immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry. Watch the first two videos now:

🔖Researchers and graduate students, if you are interested in tracking ads by ICE from this new recruitment campaign on Facebook and Instagram, bookmark our @polidasboard.org app, which tracks and analyzes all of ICE's ads in near real-time. app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that DHS spent more than $288 million for marketing/media services from three companies in 2025. 1/

Prosecutors for the Trump administration have been quick to bring charges against ICE protesters. They've also been quick to lose the cases.

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

Trump has done so much damage to democratic institutions not via clever, well executed strategy, but by acting on authoritarian/bigoted/corrupt impulse, then stubbornly barging ahead if he meets pushback. Manufacturing charges against Abrego Garcia only after deportation failed is a good microcosm.

Saw this video with the daughter of the Humboldt Park restaurant owner in detention.

This is how the Laramie County Sheriff characterizes his office's application of the new 287g immigration enforcement powers. They've been focusing attention on truckers. wyofile.com/laramie-coun...

A million bucks for hotel rooms for DHS during the World Cup. Our tax dollars at work.

Congress requires that ICE make public all reports on in-custody deaths within 90 days. More than 90 days have passed since the deaths of Norlan Guzman Fuentes, Miguel Angel Garcia Hernandez, and Huabing Xie, without reports. Democrats must demand transparency.

Border czar Tom Homan didn't receive a normal background check for his role while his bribery probe was still ongoing: Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.

Leqaa Kordia has been held in ICE detention for nearly ten months.

Correction: In a now-deleted post, I relied on an earlier version of the bill and incorrectly said this law would apply only to counties with populations over 100,000. In fact, it applies to every county with a jail.

Earlier this month, WaPo reported the DHS had recently signed a contract to purchase six 737s to use for deportations. A new DHS record suggests ICE is also planning a significant expansion of its ground transportation capacity. 1/3 Source: apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/72779...

A few examples of what these lower standards will mean for people in the facility: 1) 24/7 medical staffing no longer mandated 2) More discretion in use-of-force; practices like 'hog tying' no longer explicitly banned 3) No minimum requirement for outdoor recreation access (previously 1 hr/day)

One of the most powerful things we can do in 2026 Is work to destroy 287(g) agreements "The lawsuit is on behalf of four residents whose property taxes are being used to fund the ICE agreement. The 287(g) program allows local counties to execute civil warrants and hold immigration detainees."

Phone and utilities bills, food delivery apps, grocery store loyalty programs, airline bookings, drivers license info, license plates, third-party cookies, school fundraising platforms, rental applications... The private contractors ICE has hired to track down immigrants will use it all.

With ICE's existing access to vast troves of data, this is at least as much about scaring people off benefits as it is about finding undocumented immigrants. 13.4 million Medicaid or CHIP enrollees—including 5.9 million citizen children—live in a household with at least one noncitizen.

On December 26, ICE awarded a $3.8 million contract to a joint venture of the Oneida Nation and the Alberta-based engineering firm Stantec for ICE facility condition assessments in El Paso. Contract summary: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

“He says, ‘If you guys aren’t listening, we’re going to take it out on the inmates in there.’ […] I asked him again, ‘What?’ and he says, ‘If you guys aren’t listening, they’re going to suffer for it.’”

“Bajate, te vamos a disparar,” the ICE officer warns in the video. “Get out, we’re going to shoot you.” Parias says he doesn’t have anything and asks why he’s being detained. “Mátenme, mátenme,” Parias says. “Kill me.” The ICE officer fires shortly after.

It's not a "relationship" if one party is helping to keep the other in a cage.

Grassroots movements resisting ICE are gaining momentum across red states in 2025, with growing local pushback in Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and more.

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."

CBP has awarded a contract for $14k to Ecology Mir Group for "portable restroom trailers and maintenance" at the USCG base in LA (San Pedro), from Jan. 5 to Mar. 5. The last time they ordered lavatory trailers was during their assault on Chicago. Source: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

ICE has long used the latest spy tech to pursue immigrants — but now it’s also targeting anti-ICE protesters.

In their defense, it must be pretty trying to have people constantly producing video evidence disproving their shameless, clumsy lies.

Border Patrol is to enforcement actions what the vile Everglades migrant camp is to detention facilities. It's not about efficiency; it's about spectacle and propaganda.

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

House Oversight Committee launches dashboard for the communities to report #ICE activity and kidnappings. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-...

If you care about fighting against the regime's anti-immigrant agenda, you need to know about this plan. Sources & more info below.

The #PROTECTImmigrationAct is being reintroduced by #HouseDemocrats ahead of the new year. The bill targets the #287(g)Program that allows the federal government to deputize local law enforcement for immigration purposes. www.localnewslive.com/2025/12/27/h...

There's so much wrong here that I left this out: DHS also gave no-bid contract to a pharmacy benefits company called Ardent Group, w/ the justification that it was the incumbent provider. But Ardent Group wasn't even registered as a fed vendor until Oct. 22, the same day DHS made the claim.

“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.”

What's actually true: 1. Cops in the US built the permission structure which ICE uses to terrorize communities 2. Cops have been helping them do it 3. ICE goons don't receive actual police training 4. It's vital to understand and oppose 287 (g) agreements

ICE appears to be out of compliance with the requirement to "make public all reports regarding in-custody deaths within 90 days." The deadline has passed for their report on Norlan Guzman Fuentes, who was shot and killed on 9/24. Their report on the 9/29 death of Huabing Xie is due by tomorrow.

Although gray and dreary, about 35 of us came out to the Gerald R Ford airport in Grand Rapids MI to protest #StopAveloDeportationFlights. It is unconscionable what our government is doing in our names; detaining and deporting our friends & neighbors.

#BoycottCitizens #ICE Citizens Bank us THE #1 funder of ICE facilities www.boycottcitizens.org/why-citizens...

ICE's latest spending includes $165 million for radios & accessories, $163k for parkas for officers in MN, and more. MCI Communications Services (parent company: Verizon Maryland) is new to the map below, which has grown to include more than 900 companies across the country.

This is more than half the NSF's total annual budget.

In multiple cases where ICE/CBP has shot people, they have claimed they were under attack. But their cases fall apart in court. It increasingly seems they use force, knowing they can claim they were attacked afterwards, and face no accountability. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

In just the past two months, DHS has awarded more than $4.8 billion in border contracts to two companies, entirely outside the normal competitive bidding process.

ICE spent $163k on parkas for officers in its St. Paul, MN region last week.