I spoke with a dem senator this week who was actually seriously contemplating giving DHS more money because it meant body cameras & therefore accountability. 1. That opinion was problematic always. 2. That opinion is outrageous after today’s events. Dems need to step up or move out of the way.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

As expected: DHS lied to cover up the fact that ICE murdered someone in cold blood as they were trying to drive away.

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

CoreCivic, which seeks to massively increase its number of beds for ICE detention, cannot get Cibola County Correctional Center under control. Ongoing drug trafficking by guards + others continue with impunity at the jail, endangering people in ICE custody. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For my latest newsletter, I followed up with a man I wrote about last month who told me that he has colon cancer and that ICE isn't treating it. I went to 3 of his court hearings, and this is what I saw.

So many of my clients have been physically brutalized while crossing the border. This reporting is comprehensive, and also just the tip of the iceberg. www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...

ADDICTED TO ICE: A growing number of communities are convinced their economies depend on ICE contracts that keep private jails open for immigration detention -- no matter what happens inside w/ @pollymosendz.bsky.social @folaak.bsky.social @elenamejia.bsky.social & many others bloom.bg/4j28jqp

People in ICE detention regularly report these same facts and unlivable conditions, across all detention centers and at different times. There is also no such thing as an unannounced visit. The prisons ALWAYS know and always prepare to paint a pretty picture for the visitors.

NEW: The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

Albuquerque’s #HandsOff demonstration today

Not to be *that* person, but maybe ICE just lied about how many people were arrested in New Mexico’s supposed raids to satisfy the President and his daily quotas. Literally no one has been able to verify that it actually happened, including amongst advocates in the community.

I’ve been fighting with local ICE about this for nearly a month. They are blatantly ignoring the law.

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.