ICE’s joint-biggest order for Palantir will help it pursue an immigration policy that encourages people to leave the country without arrest, though some fret immigrants are being left little choice.

Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die. His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.

Republicans are lying about why they shut down the government—here are the facts.

The Trump admin is planning to withhold billions from one of America’s largest public works projects in retaliation for the government shutdown.

The complicated state of DACA litigation; a DACA regulation implemented by the Biden admin was entirely blocked, but in March the 5th Circuit partially overturned that decision, limiting its impact to Texas alone. DHS acknowledged today that for now, people in 49 other states can get initial DACA.

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data. We detail how that happened: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Q: “How did the White House decide that it is appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia? Leavitt: “I think it’s frankly despicable that you’re trying to suggest that it’s inappropriate.”

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

I came to the Capitol, ready to be sworn in and get to work for the people of Southern Arizona. Instead, Speaker Johnson chose to delay, denying our community the representation we deserve.

Finally, a reporter asked the question I’ve been screaming at my TV. 📌 Why do you keep lying about immigrants getting free healthcare? And Trump went straight into his same old word salad mode of incoherent nonsense. No answer.

SCOOP/UPDATE — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed *all* federal agencies to send out the shutdown email with NO modifications permitted, a federal source confirmed. Leadership received these orders via email at 1:30pm ET and then reinforced on a 3pm intra-agency call.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

NEW: Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on Trump's mass detention and deportation plans.

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

The DACA kids are all now adults aged 18–44. I feel ancient. This has been going on too long.

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

“Again, agents looked at Leo’s REAL ID and, again, refused to accept that it was real. With one armed agent in front and another behind, Leo was marched to the edge of the development and held w/other detained Latino construction workers, including at least two who were also legally in the country.”

📍 𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐘, 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒: At the South Texas Family Residential Center, ICE is detaining children for weeks or months, denying them clean water, disrupting their sleep with constant lighting, and delaying medical treatment — all while treating them like prisoners. #AbuseofPowerWatch

I just received this statement from ICE re: Barbara Mariana Gomes Marques May in which they can't even be bothered to get her age right (she's 38.) She never received the notice to appear in 2019, and was at the final step of her green card process with her US citizen husband when she was taken.

"ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities," " Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker calls armed immigration officers in Chicago an ‘attack on Americans’," "D.C. archbishop calls U.S. immigration crackdown a ‘governmental assault’," and more must-read #immigration news.

“‘If we allow this to happen right now to immigrants,’ Tucker warned, ‘it’s only a matter of time before this administration finds other reasons to list other people as ‘undesirables’ and starts disappearing them as well.’ 'We are on the slippery slope,’ he added.”

“In less than 30 seconds after engaging the Mayor, Patel threatened to arrest him for trespassing, in response to which one of Baraka’s aides said, ‘we got invited in,’ which DOJ now concedes to be true.”

"Local police arrested him while he was recording law enforcement alongside other journalists. Since then, prosecutors have dropped criminal charges related to his coverage of the protest and we have tried to pay bond multiple times. Regardless, for over 100 days, he’s been detained by ICE."

“The ongoing mistreatment of this father and community leader is an international example of the cruelty of our broken immigration system and the terrorization this presidential administration is committing against our neighbors." www.centredaily.com/news/local/c... #FreeKilmar

Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Remember the rules, Very Special Boy Trump can say whatever he pleases while the rest of us have to follow Stephen Miller’s approved list of words or get shipped off to El Salvador.

When an agency's organizational culture has rotted to the point where personnel are brutalizing moms on camera and pointing guns at bystanders, you don't reward it with $75b and a hiring spree. And you don't send toxic messages to the workforce by putting people like this back on the job.

Reminder that Miller once asked an admiral “When a boat full of migrants is in int’l waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?” When admiral said that’s technically true, but int’l law still applied, Miller replied: “why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”

Eric Adams started with strong support among Black and working-class voters. By the time he dropped out Sunday, his re-election effort was polling below 10%. Here’s how a swirl of scandals and accusations of corruption led to his decline. nyti.ms/3IMncRE

Most interesting part of the speech—a familiar MAGA tirade—was the audience reaction. Didn’t hear a single person applaud. Generals and admirals sat silently during this political lecture from a former National Guard captain. The right reaction.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Re: boat bombings: “This is so beyond anything that the most lawless administration ever did before that to treat it as somehow continuous is a real disservice to thoughtful people.” — former Yale Law dean and State Dept assistant secretary Harold Koh: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“‘I want people to know that my mom’s medications were taken away and not returned,’ Nory told MSNBC in an in-person interview in Quetzaltenango on Aug. 27. Through tears after her mother’s death, she repeated: ‘They took away my mother’s medicine. I had no way to help her.’”

Another day, another Trump abuse of military power. Whether it is ICE agents murdering fathers on the street or the summary execution of Venezuelans in boats with bombs, the tactics Trump is using today against immigrants and "foreigners" are the same tactics he will use on everyone else tomorrow.

Good resource from Women's Refugee Commission: a "Detention Pregnancy Tracker," because "Despite significant reports of harms to pregnant detainees, there is insufficient data to understand the scope and scale of the problem. Immigration detention has become a black box."

Pregnant, postpartum, & lactating women are among the most vulnerable groups in the immigrant detention system. We know that they are suffering harm, but determining the scope and scale of the problem is challenging. Here's what we're doing: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/keeping...

A cook who had sole custody of his kids who are now orphans.

In the days before the admin. tried to deport unaccompanied Guatemalan children in the pre-dawn hours of Labor Day weekend, many of their immigration cases were abruptly closed. I'm now hearing that this is happening to some Honduran kids. This says 300 kids may be vulnerable:

🏆 We're proud to honor MOVIR - Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen - with this year's WOLA Human Rights Award! For 3+ years, they've courageously fought for those detained and defended democratic values against #ElSalvador's authoritarian repression. 🇸🇻 #DefendDemocracy

This is how ICE has changed tactics in DC. Quick hits, 1 person at a time. Typically quiet street. No “raids.” No visits to apartments.

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

🚨Update to my @justsecurity.org piece on the dirty deal with El Salvador. Details of the financial arrangement are available. Much more concern shown to barring US funds being expended on migration, abortion, UNRWA, or DEI—as opposed to abuse in CECOT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to update its immigration services website to reflect 600,000 Venezuelans with temporary protected status are legally allowed to live and work in the United States.

"I told him I was American," Gavidia said. "He didn’t care.”

This is known as "chain refoulment" and yes, it's a violation of international law.