Every word of advocacy we say is supposed to be "hidden by the First Amendment" from the government. In a free country, our speech should be completely invisible to the governnment.

Federal agents are acting with impunity at the Broadview ICE facility — packing people into holding cells without beds, forcing them to sign away their legal rights, and denying access to food, medical care, and lawyers. The ACLU of Illinois will see ICE in court.

They care about American kids though

ICE told us

CATO takes a remarkably firm stand on Trump's secret police and their tactics.

Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record. But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...

Unreal. So that's what they are doing when they pull out their phones to record people who are recording them. That's dystopian. futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

Watch this ICE agent getting arrested for drunk driving tell a cop that he uses race to decide who to target. "You're a ginger, so I'm sure you're legal."

I know personally how it feels to have DHS do this.

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

Everything the nativists have said about limits on their power has been a lie for a century

Now combined with other material into a Cato post: bsky.app/profile/walt...

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Just wild: after the Kirk assassination, a Tennessee man shared a meme on Facebook about Trump's reaction to a school shooting. Somehow the local sheriff interpreted it as itself menacing a school shooting, and the man's been in jail ever since with bond set at $2 million [Matt Cavedon, @cato.org]

What a sick world.

Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The conduct is worse than the words but stating it plainly says a lot. They aren’t stopping the boats. They are executing people

attorneys at @loevy.com, who represent protesters, clergy, and press (including me), accused border patrol commander greg bovino in a new court filing of personally violating a federal judge’s orders by throwing tear gas at a crowd of residents. www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...

Over on X, a conservative influencer is taking credit for this.

State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken. Story tk.

CNN reports that a highly trained and responsible ICE agent accidentally shot an immigrant and a US marshal

Listen to this Border Patrol SUPERVISOR explain that his guys aren't "mindless gestapo," just "adrenaline junkies who want action, foot chases, and car pursuits." Imagine telling this to the media as a defense of your out-of-control agency!

Just a reminder that in addition to everything else, a Republican president is unilaterally and unconstitutionally raising taxes as a way of settling his personal beefs with other countries and their political leaders. www.axios.com/2025/10/19/t...

Good piece & thread about DHS’s flagrant dishonesty.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

More DHS zip ties on kids, but we're just supposed to pretend that all these accounts are made up. It's weird tho, how do these US citizen "liars" at different places, locations, and times all know to say "zip tie," not handcuffs? Maybe DHS can tell us... wgntv.com/news/chicago...

There are so many videos of the border bureaucrats pointing weapons at people who do not pose a threat to anyone.

"How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom" New from @ilyasomin.bsky.social of @georgemasonu.bsky.social, who continues to be an absolutely indispensable legal scholar of this historic moment dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

More DHS zip ties on kids, but we're just supposed to pretend that all these accounts are made up. It's weird tho, how do these US citizen "liars" at different places, locations, and times all know to say "zip tie," not handcuffs? Maybe DHS can tell us... wgntv.com/news/chicago...

Here's the Justice Department's attorney saying that courts CANNOT issue any injunction blocking a policy that said you can't stop people based on Hispanic appearance ALONE.

A US citizen in Chicago was kidnapped by Border Patrol and dumped on the streets half a mile away. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FILMING IT. They do not care about getting caught. They have no fear of accountability.

Justice Department says you can't have a court injunction saying that you can't stop people because they are Hispanic. www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxixB...

Has anyone seen an I-213 (“Record of Deportable/Inadmissible Alien”) from one of the racial profiling arrests yet?

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

Not that I think everyone should read everything I write, but AFAIK, I'm the only person to write a deep data dive into this topic. It's mystifying to still see people say: "Biden was late in concluding that he needed to ban asylum." TITLE 42 was a BAN! alexnowrasteh.com/p/biden-didn...

Cato filed an amicus brief in RAICES v. Noem, the case challenging Trump's Border Dictator order that purports to suspend all immigration law because it is "ineffective." Our brief describes how the government's arguments are baseless www.cato.org/legal-briefs...

"This unfettered authority for immigration and customs enforcement and border patrol to just grab people and detain them and then demand that they prove their right to be here." @davidjbier.bsky.social and @pgeddington.com podcast on the roots of ICE chaos in the streets

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

@lfcarrasco.bsky.social for the @inquirer.com on the war on Legal - really, all - Immigration. Quotes @davidjbier.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/yw8qjh?utm_s...

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

This may be one of the worst ICE deportation stories I’ve ever fucking read.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers. That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

Driving around with a bottle of drugs labeled DRUGS in my center console as one does.

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away. More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...