Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."

These are all good but there's NO ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM PROVIDED. We need: -universal, nationwide injunction authority -right of states and localities to investigate/prosecute -codify Bivens, right to sue ICE/no qualified immunity

I've wanted to make this graph for years, and we finally did it. Here's where all the government's money came from and went to for the last 30 years. Immigrants aren't the cause of the problem. cato.org/white-paper/...

Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...

I'm quoted today by reporter Meg Anderson on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition on ICE's disregard for what courts have said are constitutional rights. /1

Op-ed with my colleague and physician Jeff Singer: "The ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota is already producing a familiar yet increasingly harmful side effect: Patients are avoiding doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals out of fear." www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

WOW A HUGE PROCEDURAL WIN

What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning. *21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity. *Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution

New orders in MN are to focus on criminals. No one on the right will be upset DHS is now admitting that it lied about focusing on the "worst of the worst." They gaslit their own people FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR on this. Right wingers defended these lies for them repeatedly.

Ossoff: "They are building the libertarian, the conservatives' worst nightmare of a Leviathan federal government that is totally unaccountable that acts outside of the Constitution, and a society in which individual rights are not protected."

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

For decades, nativists have said that mass deportation was about "the rule of law." Now we can see that they never cared about the rule of law at all. The Administration Misleads & Ignores Courts Most Often in Immigration Cases www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...

My new analysis: The administration misleads and ignores courts most often in immigration cases. In fact, a majority of the instances identified in a compilation by @justsecurity.org were about immigration. When deportations are on the line, expect them to lie to courts. www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...

From colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social: in a @justsecurity.org survey of dozens of cases in which the Trump admin misled the courts or failed to comply with court orders, more than half the cases in both categories were immigration-related matters. Deportation mania undermines legal integrity.

I repeat, absolutely an amateur hour situation. Just wildly dumb stuff going on here.

San Antonio Spurs NBA star Victor Wembanyama says that he's "horrified" by what he's seeing, but "I'm conscious that saying everything that's on my mind would have a cost that's too great for me right now," speaking "as a foreigner." HORRIFYING! We are not a free country! Evil.

Bovino openly says that we are never learning the identity of the murderer because that would be "doxing." He says he has already gotten the agent out of Minnesota's jurisdiction. He put him back on the job. He is part of an extensive, open criminal coverup.

Wouldn’t the rest of the DHS not want to be confused with a murderer? Every question from now on to a DHS masker is: are you a murderer?

Not only has Minneapolis police not had to shoot anyone in a year. But there has been just ONE homicide in Minneapolis this year, but TWO unofficial DHS homicides: 67% of city homicides are DHS homicides! And 43% of all gunshot victims!

Republicans against the 2nd amendment

A doctor says DHS agents were counting bullet holes rather than assisting Alex as he died. Indeed, they were actively harming him further. We know initially they had only been concerned with finding his weapon

The Pink Jacket lady who filmed the killing tells a court that she is terrified to go home because she’s heard the federal agents who murdered a man in front of her are looking for her! Oh my god.

DHS said agent Jon Ross “saved lives” by killing Renee Good. He saved no lives while taking a life. There is a more plausible case to be made that Alex Pretti saved the lives of the women he was shielding from DHS’s assault. Who knows how far they’d have gone? He was a hero.

This isn’t tenable. To win this, you need a specific demand that the public can understand and rally behind. We want the right to sue DHS agents for misconduct. We want no racial profiling. We want Border Patrol on the border.

This is useless messaging. What are they fighting for? Bivens private right of action against ICE+ending qualified immunity should be mandatory asks. Ban racial profiling and send CBP back to the border.

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

This is horrific. Absolutely no plausible justification. Straight up murder.

They said that agents would have absolute immunity. They openly covered up multiple shootings. They said agents who violated official protocols "followed their training." They lied about the victims over and over. They made no changes to tactics. They want more deaths.

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

A video of ICE agents apparently killing a man, shooting him several times while he's on the ground. They run away from his corpse.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Immigrants save lives too

“We have never seen this level of depravity with a 2-year-old.” — attorney

By me: ICE’s new warrantless policy has made Trump the leader of the pro-invasion party now. Home invasions, that is www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

As yesteday's 5th Circuit oral argument showed, under Trump Administration's ridiculous interpretation of Constitution and Alien Enemies Act, the president could declare an "invasion" and wield sweeping emergency powers in response to "British Invasion" of rock stars: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

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It is amazing "commitment to the bit" to stick with this sex offender line after they just used it to justify dragging a completely innocent US citizen from his home in his underwear in freezing weather.

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Prejudice against noncitizens isn't racism, but it's every bit as irrational as racism.

I said this several weeks before Renee Good's killing, but man, it's incredible how brave these women out there are. Thousands of them, spending days, weeks, months just trying to get a phone number from detainees. They've prevented so many disappearances. ICE hates them for a reason.

As of today, 90% of African legal immigration has been banned. Overall, half of all legal immigrants are banned. These people are pro-illegal immigration. They want immigration to be illegal. www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...

Detail from @davidjbier.bsky.social —>

Incredible. The Border Patrol recruiter literally filled in every part of the resume for her, including having AI write the resume.

We have some data. @davidjbier.bsky.social got data on just people with prior convictions booked into ICE detention in the first six weeks of the fiscal year. Only 5% had a violent offense. The rest either had no criminal record or pending criminal charges.

New research: Noncitizens Were Underrepresented in Welfare Fraud Convictions in 2024. Noncitizens were 8% less likely to be convicted of welfare fraud in 2024, and they were 28% less likely to be convicted of fraud that imposed monetary losses to the government.

I spoke to a great researcher & intellectual, who’s moving to the US from another advanced economy. On a visa, obviously. They stated plainly: they understood that they were sacrificing their freedom of speech to come here. This is what America stands for now. Arbitrary punishment for dissent.

Yesterday, the State Department expanded the immigrant visa ban to half of all legal immigrants, including all immigrants from 93 countries. No law was passed. Not even an executive order was signed. They just did it. Tweeted it. Banana Republic. www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...

The US President once referred to legally admitting African immigrants as "taking people from shithole countries" (He now confirms this) He has now indefinitely banned *all* legal visas for 90% of African applicants. Careful analysis by @davidjbier.bsky.social —> www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...