The good thing is that with the agency’s integrity and credibility at stake, every agent who falsified reports or lied in sworn testimony will face internal agency investigation and discipline… actually they’re probably minting themselves commemorative coins celebrating the whole thing

Immigration lawyers remember the gov't going down a similar road in Niz-Chavez. Didn't end great for them there.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

So… protest was prophecy? www.cbsnews.com/news/christ-...

Masterful gambit, sir

okay, figured out how to find the opinion and now see fn 1; you would think something pretending to be a real court would appoint counsel or something to ensure an actual adversarial process before issuing a precedential opinion, but here we are

What hardliners don't understand or don't care to understand is that the whole American legal immigration structure depends on there being a bit of give in the joints. Everything collapses without it and that's the direction USCIS is headed.

Read Andrew Free: detentionkills.substack.com/p/first-geo-...

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.” No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

So I have a small-time elected position with my local chapter of immigration lawyers. Today, I heard from five separate lawyers that their clients being detained by ICE at the Farmville Detention Center reported that there were worms in the food they were served over the weekend.

and another thing: she's not mad. please dont put in the story that she got mad.

Soooooo so close.

An immigration system for the West and whitest.

The plan is to give refugee status to "Europeans who oppose migration?"

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for @nymag.com --> nymag.com/intelligence...

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

For those Venezuelans out there, some of whom have now been working and living legally in the United States for over 4 years, I am sorry. This shouldn't be happening to you. Venezuela is still not safe for you. Yet you have been abandoned by your former allies. You deserve better.

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that. Shameless!

ICE detains lawfully present Richmond father as son waits for school bus www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

🎶 And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free 🎶

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Our Executive Branch: Democrats and "radical left" are interchangeable terms and the radical left is terrorists.

USCIS officers are now "Homeland Defenders" tasked with defending culture.

"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

The sound logic supporting a first strike on Costa Rica.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

So according to the Supreme Court, Congress can't enact a line-item veto because that violates the Presentment Clause, meaning it's up to the President (or the Court) to invent his (its) own line-item veto. Do I have this right?

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

They threatened this before. It's not legal. The statute requires visas to be issued "in the order in which petitions are filed for such visas or status." A random lottery accounting for the impossibility of determining the exact filing order is one thing. 1/

What can you even say?

Santiago and Katelyn have been together for 11 years and have five children together. But that didn’t prevent him from being arrested during his I-130 interview, while he was trying to do things the right way and follow the law.

People in our government are conspiring to achieve (or at the very least ignore) these horrifying results.

Judge Kelly asks about plans for repatriation of kids from other non-contiguous countries (countries that aren't Guatemala). You represented no immediate plans, he says. Does government reserve right to do that in middle of night on weekend, as it did with these kids?

He’s not sure what the big deal is. Any problems they have will be surely resolved thru a quick production of scrawlings on past personal calendars.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

A decision that immediately takes its place amongst the most infamous, depraved, and gratuitously harmful immigration decisions in U.S. history. And impossible to overstate the damage this will do if federal courts do not step in and quickly.

In its section dissolving INS, the Homeland Security Act prohibited combining the _functions_ of USCIS (then BCIS) and law enforcement, not just combining the agencies. The 2003 memo got this right; they seem to be getting it wrong now.

Operation Jade Helm was a slowwwww play

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

UPDATE: Allison Bustillo Chinchilla is choosing voluntary removal to Honduras after enduring six months in ICE detention at Stewart Detention Center under persistent, oppressive conditions. #AbuseofPowerWatch

In the midst of an IJ firing spree, Trump Admin cites the immigration court backlog in new rule loosening restrictions on "Temporary Immigration Judge" appointments. "Any attorney" who gets Pam Bondi's approval can be put on the bench. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-16573.p...

Excuse me, sir? I'm with the federal government. Would you say your neighbor is fully attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution and well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States?

CNN: Dillinger Says Midwest Bank Next for Efficiency Upgrade

DHS attorneys' hot streak at the BIA rolls on, with 32/32 precedent decisions since 1/20/2025 ending up in DHS's favor. Remarkable.

New Board of Immigration Appeals precedent decision continues the work to chip away at asylum protections. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...