So, the Senate is advancing a bill that will give MORE power to ICE, at a time when it has been totally unreformed and no one has been held accountable for the deaths and broken families! CORCA is intended to combat retail theft but also will help ICE harass immigrants and communities.

Wonder what the Irish side of my ancestors who were told very similar things 100 years ago think would think about that Or the Jewish side, who had no where to got back to.

Urban planning meets immigration policy! How can the warehouses the DHS bought up to house humans be used instead for purposes that actually help communities? New report led by the Immigration Research Initiative with help from my NILC colleagues and regional planning experts

Really bad grant in the Supreme Court's orders list—the justices will consider whether this individual👇had a right to sue federal officials who denied him proper medical care in prison. Preparing to take another (possibly lethal?) bite out of Bivens. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers who have been torn away from their kids and are sitting in detention centers, unable to hug them today, because of Steven Miller's vitriol and hate

That’s my America. To be clear, DHS is welcome — even encouraged! — to start acting like it’s their America, too.

Today is Juneteenth and we are also potentially days away from a public charge reg that aims to stop non-white immigrants from existing in the U.S. So I recommend reading my colleague Kat Lundie's new piece on how slavery and public charge are historically intertwined www.nilc.org/articles/the...

Doctors, nurses and other health care providers are being confronted with morally impossible situations when ICE brings in patients for treatment. Our new guide helps navigate questions like: Can I contact patients' families? What if ICE wants to discharge someone too early?

We are hoping to capture the experiences of seniors across the country. If you could please share with your networks or reach out to us directly, we would greatly appreciate it!

This, from Matt Yglesias's latest newsletter on how higher immigration can reduce the deficit is a depressing way to see immigration policy. Immigrants have families too and uniting families is good for communities and the country. Viewing immigrants solely as workers and taxpayers is soulless

When immigrants move to a new home, they fill out a one page government form. This applies to anyone who isn't a citizen, from green card holders to asylum seekers. DHS wants to add many new irrelevant, complex, and invasive questions, including about their jobs and use of programs like Medicaid.

Heads up TN: The Dept of Health is threatening to take healthcare from critically ill kids based on where they came from. They are trying to make families face the choice: deport or die. Tell Gov. Bill Lee: You hold kids' lives in your hands. Let Children Live.

I’m sorry, what? Is he claiming that because CBP officers at airports check passports of thousands of people daily, they’re “trained to deal with large crowds” and therefore they’re good to do … RIOT CONTROL? Does he not understand how ridiculous that that sounds?

Trump & Co. are pushing every button they can to eliminate the threadbare network of legal support that exists for vulnerable children being victimized daily by a voracious immigration machine. These groups provide invaluable support for our migrant + refugee children. We need to support them.

So the proposal to create $70 billion in new mass deportation slush funds is law. What's in it and what comes next? Check out this new commentary from my colleague Heidi and myself

Trump just signed a reconciliation bill to fund ICE & CBP for the rest of his term. But the latest appropriations bill from House Republicans STILL has annual baseline funding for ICE & CBP! They're pretending the Big Beautiful Bill & the reconciliation bill didn't happen. @ryanlcooper.com reports.

It is so stressful to worry about aging parents, yet the Trump administration is working overtime on it's at-all-costs agenda to deport caregivers.

NEW: Women inside Delaney Hall have issued new demands over repression, violence, and forced transfer against hunger and labor strikers. They carry on earlier demands while calling for investigation: "Women report that they have made multiple complaints of sexual abuse against a female officer."

Today the House passed the ICE First Families Last Act. What a horrific Congress we have. Only one (semi) Republican voted no. Here's our statement

It's been a brutal two weeks in Chicagoland with ICE pointing guns and tasers, multiple car crashes, violent arrests and a significant uptick in detainments overall. Feds continue to stalk courthouses across multiple counties. Today, agents were also seen at the rideshare lots at O'Hare.

This is exactly how democracy is being unwound. In all areas of policy destruction, the Trump admin is acting so quickly that the courts cannot keep up in many circumstances.

While the Senate votes on $70 billion for mass deportations, ostensibly to cover 3 years worth of ICE funding, the House is already planning for another $30 billion for next year anyway! New statement from groups highlighting this endless amount of money going to ICE

But first, the Senate will conduct votearama, with unlimited amendments. Will Republicans vote to keep Trump's ballroom and the DOJ slush fund for traitors? Will Democrats vote to screw over immigrants even more? Follow along!

Today's the day, the Senate will be voting on the ICE First Families Last Act, shoving $70 billion into mass deportations, for agencies that are violent, already very well funded, and refuse to commit to following court orders. Meanwhile health care and gas costs are skyrocketing

The Senate will start voting tomorrow on amendments to the bill providing $70 billion more for mass deportations. And they may vote on amendments to make it even worse. Tell Senators: vote no on this horrific bill. Immigrant families are hunger striking in detention. That's the least they can do

And DHS wants another $70 billion for immigration enforcement, money that Senate Republicans seem to have plenty of but lack the money for health care?

Benitez-Suarez shared that she knew of two women who miscarried while in ICE detention. The women have “been working most of their lives here, enriching their cities, enriching their communities, being part of the workforce," Benitez-Suarez said. "We do not deserve to be treated like this."

Also, if Trump is threatening to veto $70b for ICE+ funding, sounds like ICE (flooded with cash from last year's bill) can't possibly be in need of more money right now

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is what Steven Miller wants: After undergoing cancer treatment for five months, Casas said her mother died in March. Casas said her mom considered applying for Medicaid, but told her, “This administration doesn’t care about people. I don’t want to apply for Medicaid anymore.”

"... the deputies looked and insisted that both her ID and Social Security card were fake. They asked her where she was born. She answered their questions, but they soon called over ICE agents, who also accused her of providing a forged ID, she says." The young mother of four was then detained.

What makes this even scarier is the realization that Trump and his most diehard supporters think this is a positive side effect.

ICE arrested and shackled a U.S. citizen mom with a sick baby. This kind of sick behavior won't stop until Congress steps up and holds ICE accountable. Yet they're poised to triple it's annual budget! thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u...

Starbucks in Korea announced a promotion to glorify murdering protesters. Amazing that their labor power allows for this kind of action.

By “lifted off” he means “kicked off”

You know, we were so looking forward to staying up all night to deal with horrific amendments but I guess we'll have to accept collapse of ICE First Families Last Act

The Senate will likely be voting on the, as we call it, "ICE First, Families Last" Act this week. This bill provides $70+ billion for mass deportation but $0 to make health care, food, or housing more affordable for Americans.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

"The nurse, who was granted anonymity under Hearst’s ethics policy bc she fears being deported, filed her DACA renewal paperwork in Dec 2025 & is still waiting for it to be processed five months later." This is not a paperwork issue. USCIS delays are forcing DACA recipients into preventable crises.

Berlin has some hard hitting memorials but I think the Empty Library is one of the best

“England’s family says she traveled to New York City at the height of the pandemic to volunteer in hospitals, then returned to the Rio Grande Valley to care for her daughters. Univision reports that England’s #DACA renewal is current through 2027 …”

The border ogre’s “you ain’t seen shit yet” wording is nearly identical to what he said in 2024 when promising mass deportations. “They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” What have we seen so far? Masked, unaccountable agents. Record in-custody deaths. Americans executed in the streets.

No, they don't www.nilc.org/articles/can... It's amazing that people will spend time inventing undeserving enemies that are getting free stuff rather than demand improvements to our health care system

If you have any Democratic Members of Congress, tell them to fight this bill with everything they've got — which includes mounting a fierce campaign against this bill in the media, online, and even by stumping in GOP districts to try to toxify and block this bill.

As the Supreme Court weighs the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, seniors are advocating for protections for their immigrant caregivers. n.pr/4mZo2dt

ICE kidnapped two teens from their school bus stop in Mississippi last Tuesday. And Congress is currently in meltdown mode because Republicans refuse to consider reforms that would stop these types of horrors www.mississippifreepress.org/max-and-isra...

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

Working families file their taxes and expect that money to help our communities thrive. Instead, Trump and de-facto president Stephen Miller are doubling down and "seeking to push tens of billions more into their mass deportation machine through another reconciliation bill." ✍️: @tusk81.bsky.social

This shows Congress can and will pass protections for immigrants even when the majority's leadership is opposed. This first of its kind successful discharge protecting immigrants' status should be an important precedent for more.

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.