News/Update: Rep. Vicente Gonzalez sent a letter today to President Trump, DHS Sec Mullin calling on them “to exercise prosecutorial discretion to ensure the prompt release of Juan Sebastian Chavez and Jahasiel Pena Enriquez” Both arrested despite having valid DACA status, both have citizen kids

"We ate with our hands handcuffed." A former ICE detainee shares her experience with @lbarronlopez.bsky.social

ICE detained a DACA recipient who was going to visit his preemie daughter in the NICU. His DACA status expired last week while he was in custody. The government did not respond to the renewal application he submitted in November. exclusive by @lbarronlopez.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/ice-det...

NEW: ICE detained DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco 12 days after his youngest child was born prematurely. The father of 3 U.S. citizen kids was driving to deliver milk to her in NICU "I never got to hold her" Juan told me, sharing his story for first time w/ @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-det...

Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them.

TONIGHT: Funding for DHS runs out at midnight – Top Goldman Sachs lawyer departs amid reported ties to Epstein – & Attorney confirms Mark Zuckerberg to go to trial Wednesday. @stephruhle.bsky.social @lbarronlopez.bsky.social @davidrohde.bsky.social @byjacobward.bsky.social @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social

Minnesota SOS Steve Simon tells @ms.now states now have to plan for “federal interference with our elections” like fed agents showing up at polls “This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat” New reporting w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/trump-e...

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Scoop: Trump admin plans to remove ~400 individuals, including children and families, to Mexico in first known restart of controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy during Trump’s 2nd term, sources tell me and Jake Traylor @ms.now They’re set to be removed as early as Tuesday from TX and AZ to Mexico

Exclusive: ICE plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings of thousands of protesters in Iran. Two of the deportees are gay & terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says. w/ @lbarronlopez.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/trump-d...

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: “The deportation flight is scheduled to depart from Arizona on Sunday, these people said, just days after the country’s hardline regime crushed mass protests by killing at least 3,000 demonstrators.” www.ms.now/news/trump-d...

SCOOP: Trump admin plans to deport at least 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran, sources tell me, @davidrohde.bsky.social Flight is as early as Sunday. Two men set to be on it are gay & “terrified” of returning to Iran where being gay is punishable by death www.ms.now/news/trump-d...

These troops are with the Army’s 16th Military Police Brigade and at least one battalion (500) were put on prepare-to-deploy orders, two sources told @ms.now

ICE operations in Maine are starting. @ms.now reported last Weds that ICE HSI were eyeing Maine to target Somali immigrants, with op similar to Minnesota www.ms.now/news/trump-m...

NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg

President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. MS NOW Reporter Nnamdi Egwuonwu and MS NOW White House Reporter @lbarronlopez.bsky.social report. Former DC Homeland Security & Intelligence Chief Donell Harvin shares his insights. www.ms.now/ana-cabrera-...

Trump is considering removing DHS secretary Kristi Noem as early as Jan, four sources told @ms.now Stephen Miller isn’t happy with pace of detention capacity expansion. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, possible contender for job, recently met with DHS/CBP officials www.ms.now/news/trump-n...

Multiple sources who read/were briefed on Pentagon IG's Signalgate report told MS NOW: DOD Secretary Hegseth’s actions put troops “at risk" Hegseth refused interview request Hegseth would not turn over his phone, per two sources, including one who read report www.ms.now/news/watchdo...

Senators gave themselves a tailor-made ticket to court to sue federal gov for damages But Americans who’ve been arrested/detained by fed immigration agents, or suffered collateral damage, have no effective, direct legal path to sue federal gov or individual fed agents www.ms.now/msnbc/news/u...

“The main thing is that you control everything by controlling money. So Trump controls universities by threatening their grants, their tax-exempt status. It’s all financial stuff when you get down to it, and that was something that [Viktor] Orbán pioneered.” www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

New from @msnbc.com: Pentagon officials are expected to brief House Armed Services Committee on Thursday about US military strikes against alleged drug boats, five lawmakers told us. Officials expected to brief include legal counsel to Joint Chiefs, officers overseeing special operations

A group of Senate Dems led by @warren.senate.gov want answers from the nonprofit entity managing $$ from big companies funding Trump’s $300M ballroom Is the entity responsible “facilitating corrupt access to and favor-seeking from President Trump” they write www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

A veteran and federal worker was fired amid the government shutdown. @lbarronlopez.bsky.social interviews Doug Jackson who says: “This does feel like a betrayal.” FULL INTERVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuY2...

I asked Tom Homan as he walked past reporters on White House North Lawn: “Did you take the $50k cash in a bag?” Homan: “Give me a break”

Furloughed SBA employees were sent similar email, suggesting they blame Dems in their out-of-office reply, per an email obtained by MSNBC “I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill…” SBA advised employees to say

In 2016, when Trump made racist comments that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t do his job because of his Mexican heritage, then Speaker Paul Ryan called it “the textbook definition of a racist comment” GOP today when President Trump posts racist AI video of a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries

New w/ @alivitali.bsky.social: SSA, SBA, HHS, and other fed employees all got same message from their agencies blaming Democrats for looming shutdown: "..Any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats.." "Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution..."

New, and a big deal: Based on updated data and changes made by the Trump administration, we now estimate that ACA enrollees would see their out-of-pocket premiums increase by 114% if enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

BREAKING: Oregon sues Trump over plan to deploy National Guard @lbarronlopez.bsky.social has the latest www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Joining 1A on WAMU at 10:20am ET to talk about this story, ongoing ICE operations in DC and conditions in detention facilities across the country Tune in here: the1a.org/talk-1a/

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

NEW: FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Charlie Kirk’s shooting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3VK0r3I

New: ICE notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers today that the Trump admin now plans to deport him to Eswatini, Africa, according to an email ICE sent to Abrego’s counsel that MSNBC obtained. ICE says Abrego’s fear claim that he’d be persecuted and tortured in Uganda “is hard to take seriously”

BREAKING: DC's elected attorney general is suing Trump over the National Guard takeover: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@lbarronlopez.bsky.social shares her new reporting on the humanitarian crisis inside a Virginia ICE field office following Trump's DC federal takeover "This takeover has left them feeling as though they don't really have a home anymore"

“Chantilly has become this black box where people are being sent after they are being arrested in the streets of D.C. It is an office; it is not intended to detain people”

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

Trump can send the National Guard any place he wants, say retired military “It’s absolutely legal…that’s the thing that’s very disturbing, a reasonable president has never done this,” said Randy Manner, former acting vice chief of NGB. “It doesn’t make it right. It makes it legal”

News: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's counsel filed a motion to reopen his immigration case in Baltimore today, per copy obtained by @msnbc.com Morion states: When Trump admin brought Abrego back in June, he “was paroled back into the United States following his unlawful removal to El Salvador”

DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers Friday that the Trump admin may deport Abrego “to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now,” according to emails sent by DHS to Abrego’s counsel and obtained by @msnbc.com

SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...

NEW: Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was bystander outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

President Trump's immigration policies are now pushing an already-strained court system to its limits. MSNBC White House Correspondent @lbarronlopez.bsky.social joins @anacabrera.bsky.social to report how the surge in ICE arrests is sending the system to the brink. www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

My first piece for MSNBC: Since taking office, President Trump has systematically chipped away at immigration courts. Fired immigration judges, immigration attorneys warn the court system is facing “total eradication,” “collapse.” “It’s never been like this before.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...