NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Experts we spoke to said this racial disparity was an indication of the use of racial profiling, while ICE in its own account of theses arrests, sometimes submitted in court, described officers stopping a person based on their appearance, developing a justification for arrest after the stop...

Almost all of the arrests we found were of immigrants from Latin American countries, far greater than the share of unauthorized immigrants in the region. When we compared street arrests in bureaucratic setting like at ICE check-ins, Latino immigrants were just 55% of the cases we found.

My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....

"I'm their only hope." "Remittances sent home from family members in the U.S. are a lifeline for about a third of families in Haiti." "[M]ore than six million people in Haiti, including 3.3 million children, are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance." #USA #Haiti #Labour #Immigration

if you’re facing eviction and your landlord says it’s because of “demolition” … turns out there is no legal definition of what that means great new story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

Advocates have published a second letter written from inside the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, signed by 300 detained people. “Judges in this detention center…carry out deportations and mass expulsions without properly reviewing cases. We live with anguish and fear of appearing in court.”

A Manhattan synagogue is hosting an event promising the sale of land in the West Bank this evening, for the first time since City Council passed a bill intended to limit protests near houses of worship. Mayor Mamdani's spokesperson told Hell Gate the mayor is opposed to the sale.

My latest for @passblue.bsky.social ⬇️

A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement on Long Island and in counties north of New York City allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.

In her recent work, Rawya El Chab explores the legacy of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which tore apart the Lebanese Left. With the support of Round Earth Media and the IWMF, and @aidaalami.bsky.social's careful editing, my latest for @hyperallergic.com: hyperallergic.com/rawya-el-cha...

Más detenciones y menos supervisión: un informe alerta del aumento de muertes en centros migratorios del ICE dozz.es/h_0sao

Imagine you are a teen in Minnesota, fearing that your immigrant parents will be abducted by ICE. You get an email from a military recruiter, who is also an immigrant, telling you that you can enlist and get a green card for your parents. 1/2 taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...

For its inaugural episode, we welcomed author and scholar Behrooz Ghamari on ORdio, the OR Books podcast, to discuss his new book, The Long War on Iran. See the full episode on the OR Books Youtube, or at the link in our bio.

ICE's impact on the Ecuadorian community in NYC has been devastating.

En tiempos de persecución y criminalización de los inmigrantes en todo EEUU, la Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer representa un espacio comunitario de optimismo, orgullo y apoyo para cientos de estudiantes y sus familias. Para @elpaisamerica.bsky.social: elpais.com/us/migracion...

Amazon has paid just $5,400 of the more than $9.8 million in fines and penalties related to illegal idling that it owes the city. buff.ly/tRv2gVn

¡Mariachi en Nueva York! de @annaoakes.bsky.social

Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems passblue.com/2026/03/08/h...

There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.

Newark public schools have a $12 million contract with Driscoll Foods, which supplies food to Delaney Hall, the controversial ICE facility nearby. Advocates want the BOE to cut ties when their contract expires in June. Latest for @chalkbeat.org: www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2026/...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed. Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social: documentedny.com/2026/02/09/v...

The technology deployed on the border includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones. And border tech isn't staying at the border.

A mother and her 2 young kids, including her US citizen 4-year-old daughter, were trapped in a hotel room for weeks without contact from the outside world as the Trump administration sought to deport them. "We were experiencing a nightmare," she told @thecity.nyc. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/28/i...

Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations. theintercept.com/2026/01/29/t...

“I just want my children to grow [up] safely,” she said. “Is that too much to ask?” 

“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”

Amidst bike thefts and ICE raids, delivery workers have been organizing their own self defense networks. I followed one of these groups, El Diario de los Deliveryboys, on their Virgen de Guadalupe procession for @documentedny.bsky.social. documentedny.com/2025/12/16/b...

Emergency calls were made to 911 at least 15 times a month from Stewart Detention Center for six months in a row as of November 1.

With @nickpinto.bsky.social at Cuomo headquarters for @hellgatenyc.com Tune into the liveliest livestream in the city, starting now! www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...

Documented went down and spoke with vendors who said federal agents stormed Canal Street without warning — leaving dozens detained and the community in shock and confusion. 📝 @KEXU3 and @Anna_Oakes1 🔗 documentedny.com/2025/10/23/ice-raid-chinatown-vendors-arrested

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained. As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters. MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Dina and her husband spent their life savings to flee Venezuela. This week her husband was detained by ICE, in front of their children, during a mandatory asylum hearing. In July, she told me how her family longed for safety and stability after years of precarity. tinyurl.com/3uknzf5y @thecity.nyc

These high-profile cases are already having a chilling effect on immigrants' speech across the country. https://documentedny.com/2025/10/10/mahdawi-ozturk-new-york-legal-battle-first-amendment-constitution/

A. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, says he has been placed under surveillance by ICE without explanation, and is facing years of uncertainty while his asylum case is resolved.

Federal authorities are using immigration law to limit the First Amendment rights of noncitizens. Legal experts warn that this extension of executive power can be used to censor citizens’ speech, too. My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social: t.co/ySnyXiLrpl

ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)

Being a NYC government official and trying to bribe Katie Honan is like being an affiliate of a Gotham crime syndicate and trying to bribe Batman. This is comically dumb as hell

“If we didn’t have international graduates ... we could not stay open — because what do you do if you miss 80 to 90% of your doctors? You’re done.” @annaoakes.bsky.social spent time at a struggling Brooklyn hospital, and documented how the closing of America is rattling its workforce.

What a way to end my work day: arranging for law enforcement to pick up a potato chip bag stuffed with cash.

"For months, the international medical residents who make up a significant number of the Brookdale physician staff, have been caught up in a whirlwind of restrictions and regulations regarding their visa and travel status." — @annaoakes.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/14/b...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, “but it gave in to virtually all of Trump's demands.” @meghnadbose.bsky.social and @annaoakes.bsky.social write for the @theintercept.com about how Columbia “refashioned [itself] in Trump’s image”

Much of what the Trump administration has demanded, Columbia has conceded – though they insist otherwise. @meghnadbose.bsky.social and I tracked months of government demands and secretive Columbia rule changes, for @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2025/08/07/c...

🚨DHS asks the Supreme Court to halt an injunction restricting the ability of ICE and Border Patrol to stop and question people based on factors such as speaking Spanish, being Latino, doing day labor, or being in certain areas. Hard not to read this as a request for a license to racially profile.

just wild that there was basically a $17 million heist last month using the city’s youth job program — and it barely registered

The NYPD and summer youth program agency are not saying much about the heist that pulled $17 million from payment debit cards through repeat withdrawals. But reports abounded of schemes to pay kids for cards, and ATM industry insiders told @annaoakes.bsky.social they see signs of a network hack.

A scheme that gave young people earning minimum wage cash for their government-issued debit cards extracted $17 million in repeat withdrawals still under investigation by the NYPD. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/04/s...