Great🧵 from my @propublica.org colleague @nicolefoy.bsky.social 👇

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

"The city of Minneapolis estimates that Operation Metro Surge, and the sometimes chaotic and violent scenes that accompanied it, resulted in $200 million in economic damage in January. Of that, small employers like El Sazon account for an estimated $81 million."

Demand for contractors to help clear snow and ice is, uh, through the roof For @wnyc.org and @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/how-muc...

Remember those ICE raids on Canal St. last fall targeting West African street vendors? Federal judges have ordered the release of at least 3 of the 10 men detained, arguing their arrests were unlawful. gothamist.com/news/judges-...

@lataco.bsky.social is raising money to launch a dedicated investigative news desk. If you've relied on their immigration coverage this year like I have, you know this is a worthy cause to support. givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

a four-fold increase in the use of force by ICE agents was flagged back in March. A year ago. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This is fascinating

NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each. Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Unnamed agents suspended for unspecified amount of time after [checks notes] shooting a man and lying about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

ICE's chief testified today that dozens of agents have been investigated for abuse in the last year. So how many have actually been punished and fired? He wouldn't say. www.npr.org/2026/02/12/g...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Rep. Ricki Ruiz, D-Gresham, invited the Crespo-González family to be his special guests today on the House floor in the Oregon State Capitol. Here he is introducing House Speaker Julie Fahey, or “la mera mera,” to them.

🪧 Out in Austin with my @propublicaguild.org, Texas Tribune guild and Austin American Statesman guild colleagues in our fight for fair contracts. 🪧

We’re ready to strike! Our members are walking out of @propublica.org’s offices today to practice picketing and show we are serious about winning a fair contract. Support us by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

You know how it’s a @propublicaguild.org picket because Scabby has a tip line

The interview w/Idaho sheriff involved in the raid (who I covered OFTEN years ago) is striking. He disputes zip-tied kids until shown pic of 14YO girl (same pic that made FBI backtrack months ago) Then: "I've gone against gang members who are a lot younger than that" www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...

After a 16-year-old complained his zip-ties were too tight at a an ICE/FBI raid in southwest Idaho, an officer laughed and tightened them, the ACLU alleges in a new lawsuit. He still has scars, months later.

For four hours, hundreds of people were detained — without food, or consistent access to water, bathrooms or medical treatment, including a man who was bleeding from his head after an officer allegedly struck him with a rifle, the lawsuit claims.

if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the @acluidaho.bsky.social just announced a lawsuit. The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:

ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration said Monday. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

Our investigation found 40+ cases in which federal immigration agents used chokeholds or other moves that can restrict someone’s breathing: https://propub.li/4rq51BV We showed video clips from our reporting to Marc Brown, a law enforcement expert. This is what he said.

9 YO detained on the way to Disney World now thinks her family's detention is her fault the letters and videos @micarosenberg.bsky.social collected from the children of Dilley will break your heart www.propublica.org/article/life...

Nine-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra, from Colombia, drew a portrait of herself and her mother wearing their detainee ID badges. A note on the side said, “I am not happy, please get me out of here.” www.propublica.org/article/life...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

quite a quote to give the paper of record about a raid in your town (especially when it’s easily disproven by wall-to-wall local news coverage in English and Spanish) Must read story about the Wilder, Idaho raid last year by @agpnw.bsky.social (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

what a shot

I don't think that man said a single word in English and I love that for us

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

I asked DHS if they plan to recant labeling Martinez a domestic terrorist (despite the dismissal of her case), or offer her an apology, in light of Judge Alexakis' ruling today. I received this response: “DHS stands by our press releases and statements. The facts of what happened did not change.”

FREE! @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublicaguild.org @uprootproject.bsky.social @vocesinternship.bsky.social on "We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds & Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing" written w/past guest @mckenziefunk.com www.patreon.com/posts/new-fr...

Local authorities can investigate (and even charge) feds for alleged wrongdoing. So why don't they? @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, Andy Mannix & I asked local jurisdictions around the country if they're conducting their own investigations into shootings by immigration agents Read what we found:

Our members joined the #SaveThePost rally in D.C. today to protest the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. We stand in solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Support laid off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... + www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... ✊

New: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer” www.propublica.org/article/why-...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Chicagoan Marimar Martinez, who Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot in October, just concluded her testimony before a bicameral forum on DHS agents' violent behavior in Washington DC. She concluded with this remark: "If there's no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

The livestream of this forum has begun; you can find it here:

This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

A note from our editors:

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.