A San Diego attorney and former Navy judge says Trump, Hegseth are putting troops in a dangerous predicament — the need to decide for themselves whether their orders are lawful. www.kpbs.org/news/militar...

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org's blog. What does the looming government shutdown mean for the immigration system — not just for the legal immigration system, but also for Trump's mass deportation operations. I lay it out here. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/what-go...

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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News: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Deportations are happening in a matter of hours through a little known authority called expedited removal In our latest @migrationpolicy.bsky.social article, we looked at this potent tool for speeding deportations & limiting access to asylum bit.ly/expedited-re...

On KPBS Midday Edition, reporter @journogoose.bsky.social and I discuss our reporting on DHS' wild ICE recruiting strategy www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

BREAKING: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at an event in Utah, President Trump says.

In today’s Morning Report: The sewage- and trash-plagued Tijuana River swelled again yesterday after a water line broke in Tijuana. But none of the new odor sensors the county installed in South Bay were online yesterday. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/10/m...

Tijuana River is flowing again - this time due to a potable water pipeline rupture in Tijuana that's knocked-out water for hundreds of neighborhoods there. But this also means that there's probably sewage headed towards San Diego's South Bay beaches.

A pleasure to provide some quotes for the @cesarhfutbol.bsky.social piece on Gilberto Mora Check it out below 👇

NEW: This morning the Trump admin put out the Federal Register notice terminating the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela. It is set to end 60 days from Monday, or Friday, November 7. This termination brings the number of people Trump has stripped TPS from to at least 1 million.

I have received a new disclosure from ICE removal operations showing that it has commandeered more than ***42,000 personnel*** (agents and non-agents) from other agencies in August alone. They are stealing from public safety and security for their population purge

Been chasing this story for quite some time with @lizzybecherano.bsky.social. Welcome to Necaxa: Translating Wrexham playbook for Mexico. Here's what Rob Mac and Eva Longoria had to say about their new Liga MX project: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection had direct access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras around the U.S. We previously reported local cops were doing lookups for ICE. Turned out CBP had its own access. Flock says it has now "paused all federal pilots" www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

In part 2 of my story on the status of Afghan allies under Trump, we look Afghans stuck outside the U.S. and the underlying political project advocates say is leaving them in the cold. www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

A protester arrested during the June uprising against ICE in Los Angeles was found dead in her cell hours after pleading not guilty to 14 charges. lapublicpress.org/2025/08/ice-...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

"[ICE intends on] opening or expanding 125 facilities this year. By January, ICE will have the capacity to hold more than 107,000 people, internal agency documents show." https://wapo.st/45hE9fq

Love it. Would be great to see more collaborations like this across American soccer

Chart: borderoversight.org/2025/08/14/b... Data table: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Dataset: www.cbp.gov/document/sta... Checkpoints data: www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...

⚠️ DC is effectively no longer a sanctuary city: DC police chief issues order allowing police to share information with ICE about subjects not in custody and to help ICE transport detainees.

The government told the district court that it was not profiling. It explicitly said that its court order would not affect ICE's operations at all because it does not rely "solely" on the prohibited factors. In fact, they were lying about this.

About two weeks ago, in response to a reporter's question, Donald Trump said he would honor promises made to Afghan allies. Afghans and advocates are looking for more than talk www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

A couple detained by Border Patrol in San Diego County said they believed agents did not have reasonable suspicion to stop them and alleged they were racially profiled, @nbcsandiego.com reports. bit.ly/45bNCF7

Penske issues a statement on Instagram saying that DHS’s actions violated the terms of the rental agreement and they will “reinforce” that to DHS.

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

I promised to send updates from the field. Here’s what we learned in Honduras, from those who work with deported migrants, about what they experience in ICE custody. Family separations. Maternal and infant health. Abuse of trans people. Valuables and cash seized. Read: www.wola.org/analysis/dis...

Quantifying the Profiling: 1/5 ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order. My new analysis of ICE arrest location data show that ICE is arresting staggering numbers of Latin Americans off the streets who they had no reason to target... 🧵

ICE just dropped updated detention statistics through July 27. ICE reports detaining a total of 56,945 on that date. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Local police are being recruited across the US to further Trump's mass deportation agenda In my latest with Muz Chishti for @migrationpolicy.bsky.social, we look at how ICE is cooperating with state & local law enforcement to arrest & detain noncitizens www.migrationpolicy.org/article/stat...

I've studied the immigration enforcement system for 15 years. Democrats may express outrage at Republicans over Trump's immigration policies now, but the truth about who to blame is much more complicated. austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-immigr...

Latest MLS table projections, based on home/away points per game averaged over the remaining schedule. The Supporters' Shield race is going to be 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡! 1. Cincinnati (68) 2. Philadelphia (67) 3. Miami (66) 4. Nashville (66) 5. Vancouver (63) 6. San Diego (61) 7. Columbus (61)

🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific. One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

BREAKING: MLS announces updated All-Star roster…. Lionel Messi is not on it. Messi will not play tonight.

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

Wild story; local Dems here are endorsing the pro-ICE candidate against the even-more-pro-ICE candidate.

"What we've all been seeing happening in Los Angeles since early June is sort of a proof of concept." Here's a new video Q&A with @journogoose.bsky.social about what awaits us now that the Trump administration has hundreds of billions for its anti-migrant crackdown. www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

San Diego FC and Milan Iloski mutually agreed to terminate his loan, with the forward departing immediately. Sources: Both sides wanted a permanent deal... but they were far apart on money. Maybe can be revisited later in window, but Iloski exploring European options.

LIVE: New ICE Detention Numbers Explained Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025. austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-new-i...

I'm thankful DHS finally gave raw data on this assault claim, and wow, it shows why they've been hiding behind percent increases. ICE went from 1.7 assaults per month to 13.2 assaults per month at a time when they have MASSIVELY changed their at-large arrest posture.

Listen, deaths are a natural consequence of violently arresting septuagenarians and caging them in terrible conditions away from their loved ones for alleged civil immigration law infractions. What are people complaining about?

I've been exploring how easy it is for bad actors to use VEO 3 text to video generation to spread disinformation in a crisis. With the Iran war in the news, these kinds of AI videos could potentially fuel a crisis if they were to go viral at the wrong moment.

Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

This overview of border-immigration spending in the Republicans' big giant "fund the Trump agenda" bill will be in tomorrow's Border Update. I think I got the items right—but if you're following this, let me know if I missed anything. It's _so much money_ for border lockdowns and ICE on steroids.

The question will be whether any Member wants to sue over this.