All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“ICE treats you like a “living ghost,” she says from detention. “They don’t care if you die.” She cries frequently, during almost every phone conversation.” #immigration #detention #familiesbelongtogether

So glad people are paying attention to the grant-and-deport regime

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some context: The Board of Immigration Appeals, which is the appeals body of immigration court, falls under the DOJ and has always been susceptible to political whims. Deportation of a journalist because they were arrested during a protest, despite release orders, is next level though.

Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United. This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here. I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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)

@drdemetre.bsky.social has resigned as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. His letter is a must-read.

And because the story wouldn't be complete without photos of the offending dildo...

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

NWU (of which i am a part) and the NewsGuild unequivocally condemn the killing of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal in a targeted attack in Gaza City. newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

How working class South Asian NYCers helped Mamdani win from @tanvi.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Really great article from really great journalist @tanvi.bsky.social about the role that Bangladeshi and other South Asian communities played in Zohran Mamdani's win: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

ATTN IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS/ADVOCATES: I'm working on a piece about ICE continuing to detain people AFTER they have won relief from an immigration judge. Pls reach out on Signal - tanvim.05 - if you have represented someone who has had that experience or been tracking this? TY.

Hello: I'm collecting examples of anti-Muslim remarks people in the United States have received over their lives. Please fill out this survey fill out this survey if it applies to you (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

THANK GOD I HAVE STRONG FILTERS AND DIDN'T SEE THIS.

Reupping this! If you're not on signal, feel free to respond to this, DM me, or email at [email protected]

I would never have used a tip from this source, and I would have certainly never done it while giving him anonymity when he’s a very public figure who regularly speaks at protonatalist conferences and has been previously identified! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: "I got so many stories, I feel like I'm in a hip hop studio right now."

👇 Tanvi is trustworthy.

ATTN IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS/ADVOCATES: I'm working on a piece about ICE continuing to detain people AFTER they have won relief from an immigration judge. Pls reach out on Signal - tanvim.05 - if you have represented someone who has had that experience or been tracking this? TY.

If you’re at IRE, I’m here too. Let’s hang?

If anyone present for ICE activity in **public spaces** can be accused of "obstructing," as Brad Lander is here, isn't the legal implication that no one can witness, protest, or document ICE activity in real time? Isn't that a 1st Amendment issue? (genuine question) apnews.com/article/brad...

My brother was one of seven people who died during an illegal strike by corrections officers in February. My family is desperate to know why.

🚨Devastating and scary news from El Salvador: Ruth López, a decorated human rights advocate at the group Cristosal, has been arrested by the government.

Ruth López is a fearless defender of human rights & has been, for me & many others, a source of insight & moral clarity on the long list of abuses perpetrated by the Salvadoran govt. Her arrest (on highly dubious charges) is a patent demonstration of how Bukele operates: target, silence, intimidate.

Advocates have filed a class action on behalf of two women subject to this practice, both of whom had a "withholding of removal" order by an immigration judge (which is a form of relief from deportation) but were taken into custody when they appeared for a routine ICE check in at the field office.

"Trump’s Deportation Plans Hinge on Small Towns Hooked on Private Prisons Like a growing number of U.S. communities, Torrance County, New Mexico, is convinced its financial survival depends on locking people up." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Article by @tanvi.bsky.social from way back in 2017: "The Complicated Economic Payoff For Prison Boomtowns - In many rural towns, new prison construction represents critical jobs and growth. But not everyone wins." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW:

Florida is the bleeding edge of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. As @tanvi.bsky.social reports, ICE is relying on county jails, various state agencies, and even a handful of public universities to help them find their targets.

🚨Hearing from lawyers that they can’t get in touch with TdA-tagged clients at Bluebonnet. The ICE detainee locator shows them as being held at the same facility but they’re showing up as “released” on the comms app lawyers use to get in touch. Attnys think they may have been moved.

"Salazar’s case demonstrates that 'if your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail,' said his attorney, Travis Collins."

‘He’s just a kid’: the Maryland teenager swept into Trump immigration dragnet A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from over @tanvi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Read the story here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: I spoke to a 19-year-old (no tattoos, criminal record — open immigration case) who was almost removed from the country and potentially to El Salvador’s brutal prison until SCOTUS intervened this month. theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please read this thread and the story I have reported and written for @theguardian.com

NEW: I spoke to a 19-year-old (no tattoos, criminal record — open immigration case) who was almost removed from the country and potentially to El Salvador’s brutal prison until SCOTUS intervened this month. theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“He’s just a kid, still in the process of growing up…” Excellent reporting here by @tanvi.bsky.social:

WOW. @tanvi.bsky.social reports ICE was going to send a TEENAGER to be imprisoned in El Salvador without a trial because an officer thought a blue and white water pistol was a real gun! He has NO criminal record, was attending school, has a pending asylum hearing, and has never gotten into trouble!

Good to see 287(g) coverage, but this doesn't capture the key change underway. it's not just that there's MORE 287(g) MOUs, but the TYPE of MOU is shifting. Obama ended "task force" (i.e. beat-cops-as-border-patrol) agreements. Those are back, in force. austinkocher.substack.com/p/trump-is-q...

A very incomplete list of people I follow to learn more about the immigration system, in no particular order: - @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social - @krhawkins.bsky.social - @kathleenbush.bsky.social - @daralind.bsky.social - @felipedlh.bsky.social - @yaelschacher.bsky.social Who am I missing?

@adamisacson.com @tanvi.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social @aurabogado.bsky.social @foiaroundnfindout.bsky.social

Canceling myself for forgetting @tanvi.bsky.social and @tinavasquez.bsky.social!

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.