The officers involved in this detention say they feel like a “newborn giraffe with wobbly legs” when conducting immigration enforcement because their training consists of a “one hour class online”. You can’t make this up.

Here you have a Florida Fish & Wildlife officer detaining an individual who was fishing and admitting they have been directed to “check with immigration on anyone who gives us a passport and doesn’t appear to be a citizen”, which sounds a lot like racial profiling.

This is what happens to parked vehicles belonging to people who are detained when called for routine appointments at the Miramar (and other) ICE processing centers. Their vehicles are often towed, which is a racket for the towing companies involved.

The state of Florida is now removing the U.S. citizen arrest category from this dashboard tracking immigration arrests altogether, but we know they mistakenly detain U.S. citizens, as was the case of Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez in Leon County.

Miami New Times confirming that a big immigration enforcement operation is coming to South Florida, and deportation officers from out of state are headed to Miami this weekend to assist.

🚨Another big immigration enforcement operation coming to Florida: DHS is asking deportation officers from other states to head to Miami to "assist ERO Miami" with a 287g operation this weekend. Please be cautious.

A South Florida-based charter company appears to have operated the third-country deportation flight that sent ten migrants to Africa earlier this month.

“This incident raises fundamental questions about both the accuracy of Florida’s immigration enforcement data and the due process rights of everyone who resides in our state." Link gets you around the paywall...

In case you missed it: a little noticed Florida state dashboard showed several instances of immigration enforcement arresting U.S. citizens. When the Miami New Times asked about it, most of those arrests disappeared from the dashboard and public view.

Here we go again: Florida lawmaker wants to allow employers to legally pay certain types of workers less than the state minimum wage. This bill was defeated in the last legislative session due to public outcry.

NEW: “Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

During my reporting, I noticed more than a dozen people listed as U.S. citizens were arrested, according to the immigration dashboard. After asking the state for an explanation, the number of U.S. citizens arrested suddenly changed to 1.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

After Miami New Times contacted Florida authorities to inquire about U.S. citizens being arrested by immigration enforcement, the figures in this state dashboard showing those arrests were significantly altered 👇

Masked ICE agents asking U.S. citizens for their papers, threatening them with dogs. The stuff of authoritarian governments.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

According to a Florida dashboard tracking state arrests of undocumented people, under 0.5% of those have a gang affiliation, demolishing claims of going after “criminals.” They have also detained a disturbingly high number of Guatemalans and Mexicans, signaling targeting of that community.

For @praeyesright.bsky.social I wrote this about Florida, the Everglades gulag, and 287g politicalresearch.org/2025/10/06/f...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Not even the prospect of a $20 billion bailout paid by U.S. taxpayers is stabilizing Argentina after Milei’s peso/dollar manipulation failed. His sister (and chief of staff) is caught in a bribery scandal, and his top candidate was caught taking $200k from a narco. It’s over.

This is the failed libertarian govt in Argentina that could get a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout. Collapsed the economy by artificially propping its currency, ensnared in an ongoing bribery scandal, and one of their top candidates admitted receiving $200k from a narco.

What appears to be a transport bus and a GEO Group transport van going into Alligator Alcatraz yesterday.

The Trump admin wants to expand surveillance of social media accounts to deport people. This will for sure be a cash grab for private contractors, they will for sure target people for political opinions they don’t like, and AI is being weaponized to increase surveillance reach.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Another extrajudicial murder.

According to AILA, ICE is launching a nationwide operation today, Friday, 10/3, reportedly named “Freaky Friday,” that will target unaccompanied children aged 14 and older of all nationalities.

Coast Guard plane flying from Louisiana to Alligator Alcatraz (TNT)

Bad news for Gov. Ron DeSastrous! Prosecutors convening grand jury in Hope #Florida scandal investigation. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

This state-run model of immigration detention is becoming so secretive that the Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates Alligator Alcatraz, is refusing to disclose not just a list of people detained there, but also how many people are now detained at the site.

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more. My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

Florida has avoided conducting federal environmental impact studies when building and operating Alligator Alcatraz in environmentally protected land with a dark sky designation. Now that federal money is involved, there’s zero excuse to legally avoid a NEPA environmental study.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans.” “It was heartbreaking to watch. Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

Florida’s going to use FEMA funds for Alligator Alcatraz, from the Shelter and Services program, to steer hundreds of millions of dollars to private sector vendors through no-bid contracts, while illegally attempting to avoid required federal environmental impact studies.

What a disgusting embarrassment this administration is. A bunch of criminal fascists.

The contractor in charge of overseeing scheduling of attorney appointments with detainees at Alligator Alcatraz has done inspections so inefficiently in the past that even ICE officials (of all people) have said these audits are “useless” and “very difficult to fail.”

Scholars of American Political Economy should be writing up the whole dark economy that is emerging around coercion and corruption.

Wrote about how Florida's efforts to avoid environmental impact studies when building an immigration detention camp in the Everglades are leading to a new model of immigration detention: the proliferation of state-run extrajudicial black sites across multiple states.

Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.

Florida just gifted land owned by Miami-Dade college, worth at least $67 million, for the Trump presidential library. This was approved in a last minute meeting with zero public comment and input. Money and land that could have and should have, benefitted students at that school.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

One of the most famous lines from 1984: “war is peace.” These people are beyond parody.

In case anyone forgot what this is about:

Judge Barbara Lagoa, who issued a stay reopening Alligator Alcatraz, is married to Paul Huck, partner at one of Florida’s most politically connected conservative law firms, earning millions from contracts tied to the state’s legal battles. Lagoa should have recused herself.

Florida has also not presented federal legal agreements for another immigration detention center, “Deportation Depot”, signaling this extrajudicial model reminiscent of a black site could be modus operandi. A 3rd facility near Pensacola is in the works, dubbed “Panhandle Pokey”.

Keir Starmer’s digital ID proposal has been criticised by rivals and civil liberties groups over privacy concerns.

The dumbest timeline. www.wsj.com/world/middle...