⚠️ Breaking: Hochul administration approves 3x rejected, Trump-backed NESE pipeline, the first of its kind in New York in at least a decade. Story: nysfocus.com/2025/11/07/n...

Some rare happy news: A Trump-appointed federal judge ordered ICE to release a New York teenager with protected status. He returned home last night after three months in a Louisiana detention center. nysfocus.com/2025/11/01/i...

ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

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Everything is under control, lawyers for the state prison system told a judge last week. That’s news to thousands of incarcerated people, who remain living under various degrees of lockdown eight months after a guard strike led to chaos. For @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/10/30/n...

Homeland Security has started sending $5,000 fines to unaccompanied kids. It's one of many anti-immigration financial pressure tactics established under the OBBB. nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/b...

⚠️ Breaking: A state judge has ruled that New York is violating its climate law. Story: nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...

Scoop from Isabelle Taft: The Department of Homeland Security has sent unaccompanied immigrant teenagers $5,000 fines for illegally entering the United States. nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/b...

Trump: "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people... Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead."

Italian Americans, wrote @chrisgelardi.bsky.social in 2020, should be at the forefront of confronting Christopher Columbus idolatry. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned. One advocate says almost all the material at the facility is in English. nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

Still thinking about this by the way paragraph in the Sun Times piece on the apartment building raid. Full story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

My friend who owns a tortillería in Chicago

New York state helped hundreds of asylum seeker families leave crowded NYC shelters to find housing and jobs upstate. Now, some of them have been swept up in Trump’s deportation dragnet. New from Isabelle Taft in @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/09/29/m...

New York’s jails and prisons are facing numerous crises. Someone should tell the State Commission of Correction. nysfocus.com/2025/09/25/s...

130 immigration judges have been fired or forced out since Trump took office, a figure which doesn't even include the count of those who have retired or quit (quite a few). The Trump admin is systematically moving to kill a fair day in court for immigrants facing removal.

It finally happened. I stepped on a rat while running.

"Where is our governor?" Eleven state legislators were arrested at a Manhattan federal building while protesting ICE. The legislature ended this year's session without taking up flagship immigration protection bills. From Isabelle Taft: nysfocus.com/2025/09/19/l...

New York doens't allow private immigration detention, and the state has only one ICE-run detention center, so the feds are seeking to expand their use of county jails. Sheriffs are obliging. From @juliarock.bsky.social and Isabelle Taft: nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/i...

Anyway are we gonna keep talking about how we found out today that Trump sent Navy SEALS to North Korea to plant a listening device but instead they panicked and murdered a bunch of random fishermen or is that just gonna get memory holed

i mean yeah..

I'm incredibly excited to welcome Isabelle Taft as @nysfocus.bsky.social's immigration reporter. She's a dogged journalist who is going to rock it during these dark, eventful times. Her first piece is up today, give it a read: nysfocus.com/2025/09/04/t... And send tips: [email protected]

More crucial work from @chrisgelardi.bsky.social on the fallout from prison guards’ wildcat strike in the spring. As staffing woes continue, local jails are holding thousands of people meant to be in prison — 10x the level at the beginning of this year. nysfocus.com/2025/09/02/c...

New in @nysfocus.bsky.social: The New York state prison system's crisis, ongoing since a guard strike earlier this year, has been trickling down to local jails. The backlog of "state ready" incarceratd people was up some 700 percent in July. nysfocus.com/2025/09/02/c...

Trump Boasts of Strike on “Drug-Carrying Boat” from Venezuela The U.S. military carried out an attack on a "drug vessel" in the Caribbean. It could mark the first shots of a new war. theintercept.com/2025/09/02/t...

"Marco Rubio said on X that the vessel was being operated by a 'designated narco-terrorist organization.'" This is what happens when Congress spends three decades allowing presidents to use made up "designations" to justify unchecked military power. apnews.com/article/vene...

Look!!!!!

Arizona uses a shady nonprofit and sus lawsuits for a surveillance tool that tracks innocent ppl's remittances and other wire transfers. ICE is a top user. Now, there's proof that ICE uses it to track those accused of basic immigration violations. Stories by @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social ⬇️

🗣️ New york did not eliminate cash bail 🗣️ Bail reform has not led to increases in crime or recidivism 🗣️ Pretrial detention increases likelihood of rearrest Trump Targets Bail Reform in Latest Threat to New York’s Federal Funding nysfocus.com/2025/08/26/t...

Surveillance scoop in @nysfocus.bsky.social: Eric Adams's administration is using a free municipal internet program to connect CCTV camera feeds in public housing complexes directly to the NYPD's surveillance hub. nysfocus.com/2025/08/11/e...

Trump is taking over DC to ramp up police crackdowns. Reminder, in @theappeal.org, of what tough-on-crime policing in the nation's capital actually looks like: ‘Rage Induced Policing’: Hacked Documents Reveal D.C. Police’s Aggressive Robbery Crackdowns theappeal.org/dc-police-ro...

"How would I flee when I can't even finish a sentence?" "My body has become weak over these months, losing 7 kilograms." "I couldn't bring myself to tell my editors the truth – that I was starving. Instead, I blamed the internet connection." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

We, the staff of @thebaffler.com, are proud to announce that we have formed a union with @workersunitednynj.bsky.social. Read more about why we have formed a union here: 1/4

Thousands in New York state prisons are left in scorching cells for 20+ hours a day as the system continues to grapple with the effects this winter's guard strike. “You have no sense of relief. ... You’re just sitting in a cell, baking.” New in @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/08/04/s...

this is so fucking creepy www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Police gang databases are speculative, barely regulated, and notoriously faulty — a perfect tool for officials seeking to imply criminality without due process. Many — hundreds of thousands of entries — are shared directly with ICE. New in @theintercept.com: theintercept.com/2025/07/22/i...

I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.

Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

You could almost feel the pain in statements from Jeffries and Schumer on Mamdani. The next big question in NYC is: will NY Dems suck it up and unite behind him? "Congratulating a candidate is not the same as endorsing them." from @maiahibbett theintercept.com/2025/06/25/z...

It’s Primary Day in NYC. Over the last few months, we’ve been reporting on the money behind some of the candidates on your primary ballot. A thread: 💸

🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns Read it @pogo.org: www.pogo.org/investigatio...

⚠️ Hochul announces that she has tasked the New York Power Authority with building “at least one” new nuclear plant, generating 1 GW or more of energy by 2040. Would be NY’s first new nuclear plant in 40+ years

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

UPDATE: At least *60* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance admin's war on Iran. 59 Democrats. 1 Republican. After the attack, Democratic leader Chuck Schumer announced support for the War Powers Act and is urging all senators to vote for it.

Under trump 1, shaheen sponsored war powers legislation aimed at barring the administration from assisting in the saudi assault on and blockade of yemen without congressional authorization. Now that trump 2 has fully bombed iran, she's asking for a "brief" to congress.

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” President Drags U.S. Into Another War Heeding the request of Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump bombed Iran. Former Pentagon official predicts the U.S. may be entering into a new round of the Forever Wars. theintercept.com/2025/06/21/i...

Banger analysis of past, present, and future. "Remember that this war did not start today. It started in 1953." "An Iran that ... fractures into ethnically driven statelets serves Israel's goals, and that will sound more pleasing to American ears than the prospect of an occupation."