Although ICE agents absolutely should not be wearing masks, acting like the brutality will stop because their faces are showing is quite naive. Police forces brutalize people all the time with their faces outs, name tags, badges and body cams. The only solution is no ICE.

After El Paso's Medical Examiner ruled migrant's death a homicide, ICE sent the next body to an Army hospital which won’t release a ruling to the public www.kvue.com/article/news...

Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Sometimes the propaganda is simple but consequential. The basic decision of the news media to refer to a chemical weapon that is banned as a war crime from being used in armed conflict as "tear gas" has helped normalize its use across the U.S. This is just aggravated assault.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

The lesson DHS has drawn from the murders last month is they are free to kill with impunity since no one at any level of government will stop them from killing again.

Shockingly, DHS shot people and then lied about it.

I am ecstatic that Liam is free and returning home, apparently due in part to immense public support. However it's hard for me not to wonder where this public outrage was from 2014 when Obama opened Karnes & Dilley for family detention to December 2021 when Biden released the last detained families.

Open borders is just common sense. On literally any nonracist ethical framework. Just let people move about freely. Let people choose where they want to live.

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

““There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.””

Republicans escalate violence, Democrats normalize it.

I wrote about the long history of Border Patrol racism and violence for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

The level of denial of the truly awful things Obama & Biden did to immigrants has made me feel crazy since 2009

There is absolutely no need to give the “benefit of the doubt” to a government official who accepted a $50k bribe. Nor can you claim that official knows the difference between right and wrong. And suggesting that ICE kidnap people in the middle of the night is disgusting. So disappointed in Walz.

Do Democrats really think that giving ICE bodycams (which they already have) & more funding for "training" is going to placate their base as the regime uses DHS to escalate repression for the next 3 years? I don't think they've really thought this through.

This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.

"Democrats are gearing up for a redux of their infamous 2020 kneeling kente cloth moment: shallow symbolism and feigned empathy combined with superficial reforms."

ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.

Walz comparing the ICE raids to the Holocaust makes him going on that podcast and saying he hopes Tom Homan works with local law enforcement and does night raids so much more fucking horrifying, he's describing his desire for a quiet and orderly night Holocaust Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Among other things, Homan is responsible for the family separation policy and has accepted bribes from border security companies in exchange for government contracts

Abolish Border Patrol. If you can imagine a world without the DHS, you can imagine a world without USBP. I don’t care if it’s over a century old and everyone who saw it come to be (out of Klansmen and Texas Rangers) is long gone. Abolish it.

Democrats push body cams because the party is institutionally wedded to the prison industrial complex. www.instagram.com/reel/DUB9fj2...

Please examine what body cams *didn’t do* to stop police violence over the last decade plus since they were initially touted as a solution and understand that some of you are now rallying behind a false solution that will be a tool of criminalization more often than anything else.

The Senate bill is rooted in the idea that we just need to get BP/ICE "back to" only terrorizing people we deem worthy of being terrorized, and not White people. The exact problematic understanding people have been trying to warn against... While a lot of White people insisted that concern was silly

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

"The impulse to drive hostile invaders from your home lives in your body in a place too deep to name. I finally bought a gas mask. You should get one too."

The Noise Demos Keeping ICE Agents Awake at Their Hotels: A Model from the Twin Cities crimethinc.com/noisedemos Participants in the demonstrations targeting hotels that house federal agents in the Twin Cities recount their experiences and explain how this tactic could be employed elsewhere.

anytime Obama talks about immigration this is all I can see

ICE is not unique but rather is becoming more like standard policing in the US. Any viable effort to abolish ICE must first understand & reckon with US policing & the carceral state.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

In response to ICE agents murdering Alex Pretti, the Whittier neighborhood immediately rose up and battled ICE, Minnesota police, and Minnesota State Troopers for over four hours, eventually forcing them to withdraw from the area. An eyewitness account. crimethinc.com/AlexPretti

It won't work to "send ICE back to the border." You can't support abolishing ICE and also support immigration enforcement (deportation). Any deportation will necessarily involve some version of ICE. Abolishing ICE must mean abolishing all deportation.

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Fuck ICE