Forcing legal immigrants to leave the US & separate fr their families just 2 wait out endless green card backlogs is cruel & counterintuitive. It was never about “doing it the right way”—it’s about shutting the door entirely. A disaster for families & our economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

When you see House Rs bemoaning mass deportation - Rep Salazar does that a lot - don't overlook their votes to keep funding mass deportation. Billions more Words are cheap. Votes matter www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"Calling Trump “the person” and saying he’s not even debating him—it’s all in Trump’s mind—is the kind of response that drives Trump crazy. Trump is really having a one-sided fight, his bullying not eliciting the kind of reaction he wants"

Quoted in @RonBrownstein’s latest piece on how Trump’s mass deportation is playing out very differently across the country showing “an astounding disparity” which underlines “the political nature of the enforcement regime.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

"It is fundamentally about the preservation of civil rights. Any effort to end birthright citizenship...comes at the grave cost of abridging those rights, echoing the dark era of Dred Scott, when human beings were treated as commodities." ✍️: @davidleopold.bsky.social

“What was once a fringe proposal championed by restrictionists in Congress has now become a central legal and political battle reaching the highest court in the land,” writes former @aila.org president @davidleopold.bsky.social: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

CHANGE OF PLANS—WE NEED YOU TO STAND AROUND AND DO NOTHING AT TERMINAL B

Deploying ICE to do TSA’s job isn't a "security fix"—it’s a targeted intimidation tactic. Using immigration agents for routine travel checks creates a "show me your papers" environment that chills the rights of US citizens and LPRs alike. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

HUGE. A victory for more than a quarter million Haitians with Temporary Protected Status. A significant majority of them entered the United States legally and have never been out of status since. Even the Trump admin isn't saying Haiti is a safe country for them to go back to.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you lived through an extraordinarily dangerous moment in history? You’re doing it now.

This was inevitable. How many more families shattered, lives derailed, people lost before we finally say: enough! www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Jews “have increasingly been targeted since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. In Britain, a man attacked a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews. And American Jews have faced a year of violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...

“The US Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism & white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 US troops who died fighting in WW II — as a hate symbol..” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump really shivved JD Vance when he endorsed Tucker's interview w/Nick Fuentes, who had been mocking Vance and making racist comments about his wife. Trump basically dumped the Fuentes mess on him. @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social nails the dynamics in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2033...

Listening to Va Gov-elect Abigail Spanberger’s magnanimous victory speech, thanking her opponent for her service and reaching out to those who didn’t vote for her. Tears in my eyes remembering what real American leadership looks like.

ABC News featured Jenni Rivera’s story of losing her and her kids losing their husband and father to self deportation today. Please watch this video and sit with the agonizing reality that our members at American Families United face right now. abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vid...

Finally. Our hostages are home.

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff says his office has documented more than 500 cases of abuse in immigrant detention centers, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.

🧐 ALSO: Jeanine Pirro says district residents can carry rifles and shotguns in DC. Think this will work out? 🧾 Jeanine Pirro's office ends D.C. rifle and shotgun felony prosecutions policy share.google/cizgtCuSI4cD... 🧾 National Guard troops in DC are now armed: Official is.gd/wOJM4S

Cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

"A year has passed, and I still can't understand that you aren't here," said Eden's mother, Shirit Yerushalmi, at the ceremony in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Cemetery. "Not a day goes by when I don't think of you, about your big heart and the way you loved life." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Putin gets applause and a limo ride. Gazan children get refused medical visas. Who’s more of a national security threat? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Fact reported in this article—>“Undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year, which the ITINs help facilitate.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Good morning. Trump is protecting Epstein files. The confederacy lost and they were traitors, mRNA vaccines are the future, cops shouldn’t wear masks, Trump cut taxes for the rich and ripped benefits from the poor. Have a weekend

The administration’s deportation playbook reads like a dystopian travel guide—CECOT, South Sudan, torture included. But when lawyers push back, suddenly we’re the problem? Sorry, zealous advocacy isn’t a crime. Yet. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Dean Cain joining ICE during masked raids is peak method acting. From Superman to “I am only following orders.” Looks like “truth, justice and the American way” got deleted from the script 🤔 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“Pope Leo XIV urged the public to see migrants and refugees as “messengers of hope” on Friday, as the Trump administration focuses on mass deportation efforts in the pontiff’s former home country.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I have this clip running on a loop. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

"I don't believe the polls" -- Homan on polls showing a majority of American oppose Trump's deportation policies

The Israel Medical Association demands humanitarian aid be brought into Gaza. "Harm to innocent people approaching aid hubs in Gaza must be avoided. There'a a serious concern international law is being breached."

“Americans are recoiling,” almost 60% oppose Trump’s attempt to take away birthright citizenship. 📺 @davidleopold.bsky.social joined CNN Newsroom to explain how Trump’s policies are shredding our constitutional rights.

Masked enforcement by ICE agents isn’t just alarming—it’s legally dubious and ethically indefensible. It undermines identification laws, invites impersonation risks, and chips away at public trust. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

A former ICE official warns new hires may include Proud Boys & insurrectionists. With Trump expanding ICE & gutting oversight, this isn’t reform—it’s weaponization. Civil liberties aren’t just eroding. They’re being bulldozed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Must read thread.

ICE can’t just snatch people off the street. ✅ Must have reason to believe the person committed a federal offense or is unlawfully present. ✅ Must get a warrant—unless escape risk. ✅ Must ID themselves and state the reason for arrest. Due process isn’t optional. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Due process isn’t optional. Stripping bond hearings and forced incarceration immigrants is state-sanctioned cruelty. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

From Hopium: - Stopping Trump's tariff madness - Judge reins in ICE in LA - Dude ain't no Superman, he's a big, blubbery babyman - New interviews w/@philweiser.bsky.social @davidleopold.bsky.social @taraemcg.bsky.social @charlesgaba.com @slotkin.senate.gov 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-dan...

Today, 2:15pm ET - Immigration attorney and expert @davidleopold.bsky.social joins @simonwdc.bsky.social on Substack. Link below to join live!

BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA. Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained. Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.

Good news! A federal judge in New Hampshire has blocked Trump's executive order ending Birthright Citizenship and will certify class action. www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/p...

Forget gators. The real threats are mosquito-borne viruses that can cause irreversible brain damage. No treatment. No escape. Add hurricanes, and it’s a human rights crisis waiting to unfold. This isn’t immigration enforcement. It’s performative punishment. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Trump is talking about deporting US citizens “in the next chapter”.

DOJ “leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes — and giving U.S. attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online.” www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

In the CASA case hearing in Maryland over the orgs’ birthright citizenship EO case, DOJ’s Brad Rosenberg says they are not ready to say what the administration’s position is on the proper scope of the injunction in the New Jersey multistate litigation in Massachusetts after SCOTUS’s ruling Friday.

The Senate bill allocates $150b for immigration enforcement, incl $29.85b for ICE (more masked agents in full military gear arresting moms dads & kids), $46.5b for a border wall, $45b for detention of immigrants & $13.5b to state & local governments for immigration enf. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

This was posted by the US Department of Homeland Security on its X feed today.