Pope Leo has now repeatedly made clear that he believes US corporate media's coverage of the Trump immigration war is not professionally responsible or correct and that it accepts Trump's pretexts for action as truth whereas they are palpable lies.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

This should be national news. Please spread widely as possible.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Journalist Mario Guevara, from detention: "May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Immigrants arrive to the United States for many reasons, but often they are in pursuit of safety and solace from hardships in their homeland. We all have a faithful duty to welcome them and to uplift, respect, and protect the needy in our midst.

Today ICE killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, an immigrant in Chicago who was shot during an enforcement operation. DHS' press release about his death focused on the agency's claim that ICE agents have seen a "1000% increase in assaults against them."

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

Marco Rubio is a Catholic to Mormon to Catholic convert who also attends Baptist services and he’s out here tweeting about he loves the killing and plans to kill again. You’re going to hell dawg

Been saying this for a couple of years. It’s not wedge. It’s the whole pie.

Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention. The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

Earlier this year, over 230 Venezuelan men were sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Our @propublica.org team spent months looking into who they were to find the truth behind their stories. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

"What I can say to the people [...] and to everyone watching... is, let's be more empathetic, let's be more humane," shared Andry. Watch his exclusive interview with @TimMiller.bsky.social on @Thebulwark.com and hear firsthand his powerful message for all of us. 🔗 youtu.be/-ySsBj3OOg0?...

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Andry & the 252 other men sent, without due process, to a torture prison in El Salvador feels like the epitome—the soul, moral center, & quintessence—of this administration. I will never forget it or him. Also, if you don’t know the definition of grace, now you do. www.reuters.com/business/med...

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

Andry José Hernandez Romero, I hope you have space to heal & I hope you find your way home. We did not forget you & we will not forget you.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 119 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

ICE committed murder.

Fuck Tom Homan, and abolish ICE.

Andry Hernandez and hundreds of other people have been imprisoned without trial in El Salvador for over 70 days now, held incommunicado at U.S. expense in conditions worse than any Supermax prison.

🚨 Day 60: 238 men remain forcibly disappeared in El Salvador’s CECOT prison. U.S. Reps toured the prison, heard their desperate cries,“Freedom! Help! Kidnapped!” & walked past w/o helping. Visit freeandry.org to learn how you can still help. #FreeAndry #BringThemBack youtube.com/shorts/20o79...

Ghoulish. She won't even agree to help a worried mother know whether her son is even alive. Andry has been imprisoned without trial for 60 days, held incommunicado by the Salvadoran government as part of a deal where we handed Bukele a metaphorical briefcase of cash to detain hundreds of people!

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo. Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.

“ If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1838