500+ organizations have signed on to our letter calling on Congress to refuse more funding for ICE & CBP and demand real accountability. Congress must leverage its budget negotiations to make clear that the cruelty and lawlessness we have seen is unacceptable, and it must end now.

From tonight’s rally and press conference in DC, calling on Congress to say no to more ICE funding

NEWS: Bloody Week Triggers National Revolt Against ICE Funding migrantinsider.com/p/bloody-wee...

Last night, more than 400 civil rights groups wrote Congress demanding they rein in ICE and Border Patrol -- using the power of the purse that Article I gives them. Congress helped create this mess by injecting $170 billion into deportations last summer www.aclu.org/documents/co...

The Minneapolis pastor had observed "ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic" and insisted they take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” trib.al/k06XIZQ

Roosevelt High Principal Christian Ledesma said: "I am actively watching my own children process this trauma alongside their classmates. I saw the terror in young faces as armed agents showed up on the school lawn." bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

As Trump continues his quest for Venezuela's oil, remember that the president stripped the legal status away from 300,000 Venezuelans in the US last October, launching the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

Veterans from every corner of the country came to DC this week to send one unified message to Congress: no troops on our streets. Service members signed up to defend the Constitution, not to police their neighbors. 📸 Will Martinez

Border patrol is patrolling the dangerous border between the Loop and... the other part of the Loop

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was retaliated against and faces imminent deportation from his home and family - just for doing the job he loves. Please join us in calling to Free Mario now action.aclu.org/send-message...

Sending military troops to police civilians undermines public trust, puts soldiers in legal and ethical jeopardy, and puts all of us at risk. If you’ve ever served in the military, join us and @commondefense.bsky.social to send a message to the Defense Department: No troops in our communities.

After making him suffer in an El Salvador torture prison, the Trump administration will stop at nothing to deport Kilmar Ábrego García. They're trying to take him from his family and home to a country he has zero connection to, a punishment for fighting for his rights. This is unjust and cruel.

🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽

Kash Patel fantasy of what the FBI deployment into DC looks like

“The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland, and Baltimore, across the country. That should alarm everyone, not just Washingtonians” live-awp-dc.pantheonsite.io/press-releas...

Members of Congress were turned away at an ICE detention center in Brooklyn today while exercising their right to conduct oversight of the facility. ICE has no power to turn them away without reason.

Forcing a pregnant woman to sleep on the floor, denying a child with a brain tumor treatment — these are just some of the damning allegations about ICE detention made in a new report from Senator Ossoff. This report adds to what we've long known: ICE detention is dangerous and puts lives at risk.

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Superman is undocumented. And masked deportation squads terrorizing families is everything the lore of superheroes rejects. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

"We have filed numerous lawsuits for prisoners at Miami Correctional because conditions in the prison almost certainly violated their basic constitutional rights.

Statement from our executive director, Chris Daley, regarding reports that Miami Correctional Facility will be used for immigration detention:

'Big Beautiful' $45B for detention centers could instead finance an estimated 163,600 new affordable apartments through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. It could prevent imminent eviction for between 9.8M and 16.6M households. It could prevent around 59M utility shutoffs.

‪ The budget for ICE (not including all other parts of DHS) is now $55B. 'Big Beautiful' funding for detention centers alone is $45B. How much for the housing crisis? The entire proposed FY26 HUD budget is $38B. $0 to prevent evictions. $0 for community dev block grant.

Here is Governor DeSantis gloating over his state's "Alcatraz" and a reporter's suggestion that Gavin Newsome come take a look. Here is his glee at being 'better' at building a cage for 3,000 souls than a Democratic rival.

CSPAN cut away from the Senate reconciliation bill vote to the "Alligator Alcatraz" press conference. This a gruesome harbinger of things to come. If the House approves, we're talking $45 BILLION for immigration detention -- risking people's lives in prisons hastily built and hardly overseen

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

It’s been 100 days since Trump started disappearing people into El Salvador’s mega-prison, CECOT, without due process. Let me be clear: this isn’t immigration policy—it is a human rights atrocity. We cannot lose sight of this grotesque violation of constitutional and human rights.

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

The Trump Admin is trying to disappear almost 200 more people to El Salvador. This is a violation of due process. If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)

SCOTUS ruled that Trump had to give people adequate notice before deporting them. Yet today, there are reports that he's deporting 177 immigrants with under 24 hours' notice—not enough time to assert due process. We cannot stand by as this admin continues to disappear people.

🚨There are reports that ICE may disappear around 177 people at Bluebonnet Detention Center in TX to #ElSalvador today. When we say we need this type of leadership - we mean, NOW. Call (202) 224-3121 & urge your reps to try to STOP the plane. @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

I am a creature of a post-9/11 world and though I warned about moments like these I did not really imagine what they would look like. Wherein our president celebrates the torturers and discusses sending 'homegrown' citizens to them. @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...

#ICYMI: America’s Voice hosted a virtual press event featured @repmarktakano.bsky.social and immigration legal and policy experts as part of its broader “At What Cost” Campaign, focusing on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 & its recent use by the Trump administration. americasvoice.org/press_releas...

JUST IN: @ACLUVA asks court to order return of Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to Virginia. He was arrested Monday in Arlington, Va. & is currently in immigration detention in Louisiana. Case is before Judge Patricia Giles, a Biden appointee. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Another day of jack hammering Black Lives Matter plaza. You can take down the symbols but you can't erase them from our memories.

We seem to have skipped from Ch 1 to Ch 17 of On Tyranny. "Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary."

“The lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose.” Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025. My word.

This is why due process matters. If the government says someone is a dangerous gang member, we just can't take their word for it.

Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid US deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more information as a legal battle plays out. @kristinacooke.bsky.social and Sarah Kinosian www.reuters.com/world/americ...

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

We applaud Attorney General Keith Ellison for taking action in a memo: "Minnesota law prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from holding someone based on an immigration detainer if the person would otherwise be released from custody."

ACLU and other organizations sent a letter today requesting immediate access to noncitizens detained at Guantanamo www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Getting Hogwarts High Inquisitor, not enough room on the wall for all these edicts, vibes www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

In 2016 we @amnestyusa Amnesty International commissioned this image and put it up on bus stops around DC. But the threat didn't come to pass, and I felt sheepish for a time. Tonight, after Trump's pronouncement of 30k beds for immigrants there, it feels painfully prescient. We are all at risk.

Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.

This evening the ACLU wrote the Acting Attorney General to inform him that the Trump administration's threats to prosecute state and local officials who decline to carry out mass deportations are legally baseless. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

The Laken Riley Act is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It will hand Trump even more authority for mass deportations, while sapping law enforcement resources and diverting from real public safety problems. We strongly urge senators to take a close look at this bill before deciding where they stand.

One of the biggest threats of the new year is that Congress will sign off on Trump's threats to cut education, law enforcement and emergency funding to states and cities that don't toe his dictatorial line - abdicating Congress' "power of the purse." Watch for it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...