So disgusting and awful. The articles describes some ridiculous, totally unsupported claims made by backers and their resistance to any public hearing on the matter, likely because ordinary Idahoans will debunk these specious claims

"Spread the Word: Legal Immigration Is Difficult" [Alexander Kustov]

Our ID lawmakers needs some jail and immigration 101. Undocumented people are largely in jail for crimes (we choose to do that!), not immigration violations - 287 will not cover that! idahocapitalsun.com/2026/03/06/i...

An Idaho House committee on Tuesday rejected a bill to criminalize helping unauthorized immigrants. #idleg #idpol

NEW: The military systems that the U.S. sent to the Iran region in recent weeks ALONE cost us nearly $60 MILLION per day — just a fraction of the cost of this war. That ~$60 million could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans per day, or SNAP for 9.5 million. From @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:

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Tomorrow is a hearing on a terrible bill that criminalizes supporting people who may or may not be undocumented

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions. Powerful. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

An Idaho House committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to overhaul oversight of children’s residential treatment facilities to address a state report finding widespread abuse and gaps in safeguards. #idleg #idpol

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

Some good news! A bill to track immigrant status in K-12 school failed!

For those that want to track the bill mandating all state law enforcement collaborate with ICE:

Please testify!

Action alert! the IDLEG is at it again, trying to force ALL law enforcement across the state to collaborate with ICE by entering 287(g) agreements. Please register to testify (written testimony is accepted): legislature.idaho.gov/events/26022...

City-run library districts can now have the city council fire the library director, not just the library board. Yes, be concerned. Wouldn't be an issue for Boise, most likely, but it would for places like Eagle.

Can't tell if this library bill is something to be concerned about, but, any bill Rep Skaug supports is suspect. legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/...

Oof, the house bill on DEI + AI is so poorly conceived and written, that I can't help but wonder if this is secretly a bill to torpedo AI by Idaho state agencies: legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/u...

Even the mandatory 287(g) agreement indicates "no fiscal" impact. Requiring additional law enforcement duties apparently happens without costing anything! The Idaho legislature is completely unserious about their fiduciary duties.

The Idaho legislature ought to know by now that data collection and analysis is not free. It does not happen without costing something. #idleg

Left, my story about how the right wing ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after he was pardoned for drug trafficking - and had his ICE detainer dropped. Right, a story about a man who spent 43 yrs in prison for a wrongful conviction & was deported once his convicted was overturned

Lol the fascist in chief is just going to transfer $10 billion to his so called Board of Peace but people can't get miniscule healthcare subsidies???

#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066 President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. About 122,000 people sent to prison camps. Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated. #TeachTruth ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ex...

Adding to true crime victims: convicted women who end up as sexualized playthings for the general public to consumed

In 2019 I had the incredible opportunity to visit Manzanar concentration camp with other young Japanese Americans. Feb 19th marks the day FDR issued orders removing and imprisoning 120,000 Japanese Americans, and my trip is especially top of mind today. I took these photos—more details in alt text.

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

Good work @investigatewest.bsky.social

Idaho’s prison system will no longer release information about whether an officer retired, resigned or was fired. It comes after we used those records to expose alleged sexual misconduct by dozens of prison guards. w/ the @invisible.institute - www.investigatewest.org/idaho-record...

A reminder that our legislature can move fast *if they so choose*

fastdemocracy gave incorrect info on a bill I blasted out an action alert for. I had no idea this was an AI product (it came recommended from a trustworthy source) and wow, no thank you, never again.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Bombshell report on how Idaho goes the extra mile to hide officer firings. "I can't think of any reason for not making that information publicly available other than a desire to hide that information from lawmakers and the public.” www.investigatewest.org/idaho-record...

Idaho Gov. Little said he is concerned new legislative budget cuts would hurt the state’s ability to fight wildfires and could jeopardize mental health and treatment courts, but he distanced himself from the budget-setting process and downplayed the likelihood of vetoing the budgets. #idleg #idpol

Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights: 1 Mutual aid networks 2 Rapid Response actions 3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights 4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement 5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration 6 Status 4 All

Removing a significant portion of Idaho’s unauthorized workforce could reduce the state gross product by up to 4%, or similar to the reduction from the Great Recession, researchers estimated in a new report. #idleg #idpol

The U.S. allows children — especially Black children — to grow up in poverty. With demographic data, we can see more clearly how many of those kids grow up to fill state prisons.

WHY ARE WE HOLDING CHILDREN IN CONDITIONS WORSE THAN PRISON?

Cuts to suicide prevention, foster care, and children’s and family mental health services were approved by JFAC. Health and Welfare director Charron said she’s sure that cutting these programs too deeply will lead to higher costs down the line, as well as worse outcomes for Idahoans. #idleg #idpol

The bill would direct the Idaho State Board of Education to collect aggregated data on students' immigration status. It's one proposal among a suite of immigration-related bills that a group of GOP lawmakers unveiled last week. www.idahoednews.org/top-news/sta...

Not often a Congressional hearing really breaks news. But today Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said there were nearly 40 investigations into ICE use of force in the last year. www.npr.org/2026/02/12/g...

A 2% cut for the Pardons and Parole Commission would save just $87,100, the governor’s budget chief Lori Wolff told lawmakers. But it would force layoffs, delay processing parole eligibility and violations, and drive up the state’s costs to house people in prisons by $620,500 each year. #idleg

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Today, we launched “Cancer in Confinement,” a series exploring why cancer is often deadlier inside U.S. prisons than in the free world. This is the big project I mentioned yesterday. I hope you will read and share.

Love to see IDLEG called out for their bullshit fiscal notes. They pretend again and again their bills have little to not fiscal impact, that state services just happen without costing any money

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE. Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility. detentionreports.com

This week, we're thinking about coverage a little differently at the @idahocapitalsun.com. We're diving deep into the state budget and how cuts, some that are already in place, and additional cuts now being considered by the Legislature, will affect state agencies and the Idahoans who rely on them.

this is incredibly frustrating. By framing this as a policy demand Dems are aiding a disinformation campaign that is intended to confuse the public about what is constitutionally required.

The vast majority of Democratic politicians, including many who fancy themselves ICE opponents, remain deeply invested in the narrative that some immigrants are bad guys and others are good guys, and that the bad guys deserve deportation. Here's a story about what this kind of thinking can produce: