Last week, CNN reported that DHS is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help expedite the construction of ICE detention facilities across the country meant to hold up to 10,000 people. These are the companies included on the contract vehicle DHS and the Navy are using.

HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return. DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.

ICYMI, DC’s criminal courts all have US DOJ attorneys who oversee the docket for all of the offenses in the District, including being the prosecutors assigned to those cases. Congress should know that DOJ has the answer but are mounting another witch hunt, likely for….1/ wapo.st/45NaxWe

This guy needs to put a camera and audio recording device in his plane, along with an AirTag. Also, you know, maybe air traffic control can share any interactions w this mysterious baroness pilot… www.latimes.com/california/s...

Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.

If I had money, I would donate it to these folks – Immigrant Defenders. They represented Andry and other men in CECOT. They are ferocious advocates. At the border, every day, pushing. They represented Andry and a number of other men sent to CECOT. www.immdef.org/support

He was here legally in the process for asylum that a judge was overseeing. We kidnapped him and sent him to CECOT. And we traded him for political prisoners #andryhernandezromero #justiceforandry #lgbtq #asylum #asylumseeker

Good to know he's alive but it's important to recall that Andry fled Venezuela, seeking asylum in the U.S. due to sexual persecution. Sending him back there is almost as bad as being in CECOT.

The US govt did the heavy lifting to hand Maduro this win that will for sure hand him another term and rally the support that he was only grasping at up to this point.

En su afán de “DEPORTACIÓN MASIVA” Donald Trump, Marco Rubio y Nayib Bukele han legitimado a Nicolás Maduro SIN DUDA — Maduro permitirá que todos estos hombres hablen públicamente sobre el maltrato y abuso que sufrieron a manos de ICE (EE.UU.) y CECOT (El Salvador)

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes Ventura County, CA— Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/

I'm not a pollster, but I believe the yo-yo'ing of public perception of immigration is yet one more symptom of a lack of Dem leadership on the issue. Take a look at the recent Gallup poll: news.gallup.com/poll/692522/... 🧵

“And it became clear that while Mr. Trump’s White House once said that it had no control over the detainees in El Salvador, it was willing to use them as bargaining chips.” Excerpt 📸

I’m def not a lawyer so my Q here is how does this also shine light on US govt’s prev claims about not being able to bring Kilmar back? I know the Govt arguments were a sham, just wondering if this further gets to the core of what that binational agreement actually is/stipulates & helps get ppl out

If you read one thing, read this by Chandran Kukathas. Share it too, particularly if you have friends and family who buy into the immigration enforcement bullshit

BREAKING: Judge John Bates, a GWB appointee, just vacated OPM’s Jan 29 guidance on implementing the “Defending Women” EO and HHS’s similar guidance. This is the guidance that led to mass-deletion of websites earlier this year b/c they allegedly had “gender ideology” content.

@littlelobbyists.com has been doing heroic work. The parents, the kids, baring their stories and sacrificing hours and days away from work, and embodying the values that these MOCs only pay lip service to. Please consider supporting them: secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...

Valadao votes yes. As our own @ericmgarcia.bsky.social reminds us, *60%* of Valadao's constituents are on Medicaid. Valadao, BTW, also voted for Trump's impeachment post January 6th.

Kilmar was: Forced to strip, issued prison clothing, & kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster Head shaved w 0 razor, frog-marched to his cell block, beaten w wooden sticks along the way 1/ www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

🚨"In civil proceedings, any individual subject to denaturalization is not entitled to an attorney [...] there is also a lower burden of proof for the government to reach, and it is far easier and faster to reach a conclusion in these cases."🚨 During Vote-a-Rama no less 🧵 www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

We are going to need to push democrats to reverse these spending cuts and the money for ICE and detention. This won't be easy. Once the security and prison state gets its hands on money, it is very difficult to get it back. But this must be the demand going into midterms.

This is the lede👇 After SCOTUS' ruling enabling the US govt to continue deportations to 3rd countries, a fed prosecutor told a judge in MD the govt plans to deport Kilmar to a country that isn't El Salvador. Kilmar's lawyer fears the govt may try to deport him "quickly, over the weekend"

It’s been 100 days since Trump started disappearing people into El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT, without due process. Let me be clear: this isn’t immigration policy—it is a human rights atrocity. We cannot lose sight of this grotesque violation of constitutional and human rights.

NOTE: This application from Anthony Wainwright at SCOTUS is getting attention. Two amici have filed briefs in the case. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke... From the ACLU's brief, here's a good summary of the problem, which seems significant. Without SCOTUS action, Wainwright faces a 6p execution.

Your ACLU Rapid Response numbers if you see ICE: Los Angeles 888-624-4752 Boyle Heights (L.A.) 323-805-1049 Orange County 714-881-1558 San Bernardino/Riverside 909-361-4588 CHIRLA 213-353-1333 ORALE (Long Beach) 562-276-0267 Immigrant Defenders 213-833-8283

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

US AG Pam Bondi says in that Kilmar will serve his sentence for charges that have yet to be litigated, and then be deported back to El Salvador. I once served on a grand jury -- its purpose is to ID probable cause, NOT determine guilt. 1/ abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

CW*Reminder to Latinos out there that the “but she’s not a criminal!” BS doesn’t matter. It never mattered, and has always been a flimsy argument for justifying laws and systems that are fundamentally racist. They saw her and assumed one thing based on another. I’ll let you fill in those blanks.

Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer and now the interim U.S. attorney for NJ, announces that the Trump administration has arrested the mayor of Newark at an private prison that ICE had decently contracted as a detention center. His arrest is seemingly for trespass.

Not that he knows how to math — but let’s just say there are ~12 M undoc immigrants. At $1000 each, that’s $120 BILLION he’s saying he wants to give to people to leave. I’d LOVE to see him tell Congress to pass that, at the same time they’re trying to gut Medicaid, etc. apnews.com/article/trum...

So they’re looking at someone to advise on national security whose signature approach to “protecting our borders” is ripping families apart? If this doesn’t enrage you, are you paying attention? www.axios.com/2025/05/02/s...

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

Only watching the #Oscars because of CONAN

🎶La cumbia es medicinaaaa🎶

1) ICE enforcement blitzes 2) Federal funding freeze 3) Tariff wars 3 surefire ways to tank our economy.

QUE HACER SI SE ENCUENTRA CON LA MIGRA: Mantén la calma. Recuerda sus derechos. Y no se deje ganar el miedo.

The LA fires walking my dog in Hollywood just now

🚨 Contact your Senators urging them to vote “NO” on the "Laken Riley Act" before Friday 1/10. Laken Riley’s death was a tragedy. But we cannot let this be used as a reason to attack immigrants and strip away their due process rights. 🧵⬇️

Husband and I were WFH approx a mile from the Capitol (NoMa). Honestly don’t remember the work day bc of the blaring sirens going down North Cap and CNN on our TV all day. Didn’t go outside bc our apt bldg is surrounded by several hotels filled by insurrectionists.

Tonight’s dinner was pozole by @sueqhaslett.bsky.social, which was a new treat for my Venezuelan family. Naturally, I took the opportunity to show everyone @padilla.senate.gov’s video on how to properly roll a tortilla. Everyone was extremely impressed. youtube.com/shorts/pwk9y...

SEPARATED is now available to stream on demand. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in American history. Watch now.

While this is great from PHX Mayor Kate Gallego—Maricopa County voters also elected Jerry Sheridan, who came up through the ranks under Sheriff Joe. His website reads like a love letter to him, esp his platform City of Phoenix pop: 1.6 M Maricopa County (AKA greater PHX metro area) pop: 4.6 M

I feel this in my bones. People want to act like we have always had the concept of nation-states (solidified only roughly 150 yrs ago) and forget that for 1000s of years before humans literally roamed across this earth.

Trump’s reported plan to allow mass deportation raids inside churches is “certainly is an infringement on religious freedom and will deter immigrant families from attending Mass and receiving the sacraments:” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Maybe it’s my elder millennial showing but cellphones were banned back in my jr high and HS days circa 2001-2007. When/how did this change?! (Extra choc shake and fries to those who still have their phone # from way back then)