Just your periodic reminder from a journo that when you’re in ICE detention and/or CDCR and they say they might be recording your calls, THEY ARE RECORDING YOUR CALLS

Ok so they’re really really really gonna start enforcing the Real ID, y’all. Feb 1. If you have a passport card though or passport book, you’re OK via @TravelGov

Me explaining to my future husband how it’s not true that you can’t just leave church spaghetti sitting out on the stove all night. If that were true, all of Texas would already be dead, luv. 😘✌🏽

How it started vs How it ended. Yo. Join SPJ today. Together maybe we can make a difference. (And you get a huge discount on contest entries!)

“There,” the great legal mind thought as he added his footnote. “That should put an end to the ‘Kavanaugh Stops’ thing.”

Don’t miss this. H2A worker visas will only go up. www.instagram.com/reel/DSoIj4T...

I’m just gonna note here that my mom still does not think it’s funny that I hid a whole human being (my bestie) in our own house for several weeks completely undetected like the wanna be CIA agent that I am. That’s how little our parents paid attention in the 90’s.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Immigration rights activist Jeannette Vizguerra-Ramirez was released yesterday from a for-profit GEO Immigration Detention Center in Denver. A federal immigration judge ordered her release on bond after finding that the Department of Homeland Security failed to justify her continued detention.

Baja authorities are searching for this 15-year-old last seen in Colonias de California in Tijuana. Please share.

CA Attorney General Rob Bonta finds unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the newly opened California City ICE detention center run by CoreCivic. CoreCivic has said they're following all fed regs. DOJ staff finds some detainees have to spend 23-24 hours a day in their housing unit.

Look I did it! I can't BELIEVE that actually worked and I could follow all of @adamisacson.com steps. But it did, and it took me a little longer, but I could follow all the steps! 🙌That's so cool thank you so much!

Wow.

“The corrections department also provides ICE with information that helps the agency locate, arrest, and deport people who are not directly transferred. CalMatters obtained and reviewed more than 27,000 pages of emails between state prison employees and ICE.“ calmatters.org/justice/2025...

My friend on Marco Polo: “I started watching this show on Netflix about this at-risk youth from a bad neighborhood whose parent dies and then he’s sent to live with his aunt and uncle who are rich.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Was he chillin out maxin, relaxin all cool, playing some b-ball outside of school? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Today my Beyond the Border subscription renewed and I have to say it was worth every penny last year so I highly recommend you subscribing as well beyondthebordernews.substack.com

NEW: @governor.ca.gov & @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov announced an online portal for the public to share information with the CA DOJ regarding potentially unlawful activity by federal agents & officers across the state Fed agents have broad authority to enforce federal laws, but they must do so lawfully

An immigration judge denied Idris bond this morning during a bond hearing in San Diego fed immigration court.

Oh man. Me and Cubby. This is a memory worth keeping. I channeled my old Politically Speaking poetry scripts for our @LatinoUSA podcast writing several weeks ago.

Same same. I didn’t touch the cherry tho. 🥧🤤

Fearful of sharing sensitive information, California farmworkers started staying away from mobile medical clinics after President Trump took office. “There’s a lot of distrust,” said a doctor in Fresno County. calmatters.org/economy/2025... via Larry Valenzuela @calmatters

Letter from Reps. Jacobs, Vargas and Levin about ICE’s new policy detaining foreign-born spouses of U.S. citizens at their USCIS green-card appointments:

Yo. SD Media. The holiday party at same place as last year. HMU for details. (Or even better, join the newsletter mailing list!) 6pm Dec 10. Be there. Be merry. Be bright. 🎄🎁🎉🎁🎄🎅

A San Diego pedicab driver who fled Turkey after being tortured because of his religious beliefs is the latest among hundreds of people who have been arrested across CA at routine immigration check-ins, according to advocates, his attorneys, and his wife. bit.ly/4iHev97 📝 @wendyfry.bsky.social

He fled religious persecution in Turkey. Then he got a one-day notice for an ICE check-in. Now he’s being detained at Otay. When he was held overnight in the basement of the San Diego federal courthouse, he told his wife he could hear babies crying through the night. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

I wonder how we could have seen coming the consequences of out-of-control corporate consolidation of media and how that could one day silence independent voices. @jaketapper explaining here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8U2pdhh/

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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

U.S. Attorney’s office, while highlighting “border-related crimes,” mistakenly refers to Tijuana as “Mexico’s second largest city.” (It’s not.)

At SD @spj-posts.bsky.social event last week, @sofiareports.bsky.social said a government study that showed foreign-born residents commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens had been removed from internet. I tried to find it for a big story we had early in 2025 too and wasn’t able to. Can 1/2

Let’s find out and see.

San Diego ICE arrests expand to green card appointments www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-ic...

California has a law that gives counties the authority to inspect ICE detention facilities like Desert View. At least as early October, that authority wasn't being utilized. From @wendyfry.bsky.social and @jeannereporter.bsky.social. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

“And somewhere in LA right now, there’s a story that should be told but won’t be, because the journalist who could tell it is calculating whether the danger is worth it, and they don’t have the protections that would make that calculation easier.”

When your local reporter needs the same support and protection as a foreign war correspondent: www.poynter.org/business-wor...

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

We’re so looking forward to this important discussion about immigration and covering immigration today. Please come! (As an aside, this flyer designed by Philip Salata and photo by me.) More details on event: spjsandiego.org

Immigrants With Successful Habeas Cases Can Seek Attorneys’ Fees (!) news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/i...

Wow. I just put together a list of everything I’ve done this year. Every article, newsletter, radio interview and video. I KILLED it this year. 🔥🔥🎉🎉🎊

It was such an honor to work with the extremely talented group of journalists at @LatinoUSA and Futuro for last couple of months. Don’t miss @peniley_ramirez column in @Reforma about how these raids are impacting families.

In July, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin was adamant that ICE does not use bounty hunters, but now they’re planning on doing just that, according to the @theintercept (For clarification, we did not report Yuri’s story, we only asked about it, as is our job.)

Please don’t miss our podcast collaboration with @LatinoUSA Taken: The agents raiding communities and the people trying to stop them. www.latinousa.org/2025/10/31/t...

It’s really important we never forget our fallen colleagues, Margarito and Lourdes. This work can be constant, hard, grueling, at times harrowing, at times heartbreaking, and unfortunately sometimes deadly. That’s why every year Vicente Calderon makes sure we take time www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

As Border Patrol agents deploy across the nation, border apprehensions increased 83 percent from July to September, especially in Arizona, according to CBP data published Oct 24. They’re still at a historic low: www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...

The Sacramento Bee reports that the complaint alleges the contractor “engaged in unwelcome sexual harassment of Plaintiff, including calling her on her phone, calling her by video, texting pictures of himself naked w/an erect penis, and sending videos of himself masturbating.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

‘It’s like a nightmare.’ ICE now detains immigrants attending permanent resident appointments in Fresno "Mendoza said several families told her their relatives had also been detained during interviews the previous day. Many were long-term residents married to US citizens or military veterans, with

Many Arizonans who lived through Joe Arpaio’s 287(g)-fueled immigration-enforcement effort more than a decade ago see parallels between what happened in Maricopa County and what’s now playing out across the country as local officers join forces with ICE. @azluminaria.org

Very touching video piece: Her dad has been a paletero in San Diego for 30 years. He is being deported this week with his wife. But first he fulfills a wish to give away ice cream for free to give back to place and people who gave so much to his family. www.instagram.com/reel/DQEtTjL...

Just noting that driving in the east county of San Diego today for about 2 hours, I was stopped twice and asked to answer my citizenship by Border Patrol agents and I can’t think of a time ever in my life where there was so much involvement and/or personal contact.

This mission appears to have been abruptly canceled, according to ICE Flight Monitor ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/icef...