Felipe De La Hoz
@felipedlh.bsky.social
Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, @theverge.com temporary writer, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
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Felipe De La Hoz
@felipedlh.bsky.social
· Feb 20
For new followers: I’ve spent about a decade writing on immigration, from explanatory to feature to opinion to investigative. Always looking to talk if you have insight, from inside gov’t, civil society, or if directly impacted. Signal is felipedlh.58, anonymity assured (do NOT use work devices)
I guess everyone lives in fear now or whatever but I find it really jarring that anywhere is the airport now. Going through a full security checkpoint to see a musical just has a distinct dystopian feel
January 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I guess everyone lives in fear now or whatever but I find it really jarring that anywhere is the airport now. Going through a full security checkpoint to see a musical just has a distinct dystopian feel
Lot of disorienting happenings in contemporary immigration enforcement and politics. Join me, @melissagiragrant.com, and AIC Deputy Legal Director Raul Pinto to talk about what's happening and what can be done about it, in a conversation moderated by @gregsargent.bsky.social. Tomorrow at 4pm ET!
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Lot of disorienting happenings in contemporary immigration enforcement and politics. Join me, @melissagiragrant.com, and AIC Deputy Legal Director Raul Pinto to talk about what's happening and what can be done about it, in a conversation moderated by @gregsargent.bsky.social. Tomorrow at 4pm ET!
U.S. foreign policy
January 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
U.S. foreign policy
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Among other things, this just gives Trump huge amounts more leverage to demand payoffs and corrupt deals from foreign governments and government-connected entities for him and his oligarchs. “Pay me or I will have special forces show up at your door” is quite the offer you can’t refuse
January 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Among other things, this just gives Trump huge amounts more leverage to demand payoffs and corrupt deals from foreign governments and government-connected entities for him and his oligarchs. “Pay me or I will have special forces show up at your door” is quite the offer you can’t refuse
I just cannot believe this shit exists. This is worse than a lot of dystopian sci-fi
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
I just cannot believe this shit exists. This is worse than a lot of dystopian sci-fi
A flawless takedown
@attackerman.bsky.social's destruction of Bari Weiss here is so vicious because it is so spectacularly well-informed; this one is an earner, folks
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
A flawless takedown
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It's not that complicated. When ICE agents break the law, they should be prosecuted under the law. Grateful to be interviewed in this important piece by @felipedlh.bsky.social alongside Zephyr Teachout.
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
It's not that complicated. When ICE agents break the law, they should be prosecuted under the law. Grateful to be interviewed in this important piece by @felipedlh.bsky.social alongside Zephyr Teachout.
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
For @theverge.com's set of looks back at the year, I looked at the dark horse of mass free spree suppression, which bodes to get much worse: weaponized content moderation, served up by increasingly pliant tech giants
Free speech’s great leap backwards
It’s bigger than Trump.
www.theverge.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For @theverge.com's set of looks back at the year, I looked at the dark horse of mass free spree suppression, which bodes to get much worse: weaponized content moderation, served up by increasingly pliant tech giants
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this is bizarre on Ken's part. he was accurately and fully quoted. more, Walker made his position on the case quite clear before Ken provided the quote.
hard to see any takeaway except that Ken's being an asshole.
hard to see any takeaway except that Ken's being an asshole.
The email / the story / the response form the source
December 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
this is bizarre on Ken's part. he was accurately and fully quoted. more, Walker made his position on the case quite clear before Ken provided the quote.
hard to see any takeaway except that Ken's being an asshole.
hard to see any takeaway except that Ken's being an asshole.
Something that’s been on my mind lately is that the U.S. military could pretty decisively defeat any given European military, but I don’t know about all at once…
They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Something that’s been on my mind lately is that the U.S. military could pretty decisively defeat any given European military, but I don’t know about all at once…
HIs lawyer literally saying "I assumed he was Black... Why else would he be in ICE custody?" is a little on the nose
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
HIs lawyer literally saying "I assumed he was Black... Why else would he be in ICE custody?" is a little on the nose
It is darkly amusing that the people who proclaim themselves most concerned about respect for the country and its traditions are also the ones who most deeply hate everything that has made the nation a locus of cultural and economic power
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It is darkly amusing that the people who proclaim themselves most concerned about respect for the country and its traditions are also the ones who most deeply hate everything that has made the nation a locus of cultural and economic power
Seems to me like a significant escalation by DHS. There is ample evidentiary record that this person is a U.S. citizen and DHS has not in any way attempted to refute that record specifically, simply taking the tack of “no she’s not.” Now it claims to have deported her despite a federal court order
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Seems to me like a significant escalation by DHS. There is ample evidentiary record that this person is a U.S. citizen and DHS has not in any way attempted to refute that record specifically, simply taking the tack of “no she’s not.” Now it claims to have deported her despite a federal court order
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
There have been at this point so many federal court decisions ruling that they cannot in fact do this exact kind of thing. But these rulings are going to continue to be toothless without contempt on the table
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
There have been at this point so many federal court decisions ruling that they cannot in fact do this exact kind of thing. But these rulings are going to continue to be toothless without contempt on the table
I did not know that in addition to ubiquitous license plate cameras, flock has specialized cameras that use pattern recognition to track people. People intuitively get a little nervous about facial recognition but this is arguably worse
“You can look down a tremendous distance with our cameras. The camera will identify people, what they’re wearing, and cars up to a half a mile away. It’s that good.”
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I did not know that in addition to ubiquitous license plate cameras, flock has specialized cameras that use pattern recognition to track people. People intuitively get a little nervous about facial recognition but this is arguably worse
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This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
www.404media.co/flock-expose...
She was hired to mess things up but she’s actually going to be so bad at her job she’s going to get fired after a month (actually fired, unlike the fake firing from the Times)
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
She was hired to mess things up but she’s actually going to be so bad at her job she’s going to get fired after a month (actually fired, unlike the fake firing from the Times)
Brought the Yashica-Mat and Ilford FP4+ out to the snow last weekend
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Brought the Yashica-Mat and Ilford FP4+ out to the snow last weekend
Listening to the This American Life episode about the Portland protests and streamers and it’s kind of staggering how bad it is. I could use it as an example in my journalism classes about what not to do
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Listening to the This American Life episode about the Portland protests and streamers and it’s kind of staggering how bad it is. I could use it as an example in my journalism classes about what not to do
So is Congress going to do something about Trump trying to start a war or…?
December 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
So is Congress going to do something about Trump trying to start a war or…?
In @newrepublic.com, I try to take a substantive look at the issue of local prosecutors bringing charges against federal immigration agents, partly via Zephyr Teachout, who started talking about it almost eight years ago. Also chatted with CO AG candidate David Seligman, who's taken up the mantle
Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible
To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In @newrepublic.com, I try to take a substantive look at the issue of local prosecutors bringing charges against federal immigration agents, partly via Zephyr Teachout, who started talking about it almost eight years ago. Also chatted with CO AG candidate David Seligman, who's taken up the mantle
Not good
BREAKING: Judge Hannah Dugan found guilty of felony obstruction in federal trial wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/18/f...
Judge Dugan found guilty of felony obstruction in federal trial • Wisconsin Examiner
The trial of Judge Hannah Dugan has reached its end with closing arguments delivered by lawyers, and the jury beginning deliberations.
wisconsinexaminer.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Not good
I think the real problem here is that everyone is competing for the same dwindling scraps as some of the dumbest and most craven people our husk of a society has ever produced eviscerate everything worthwhile or that could challenge their power. The dynamics on the ground are just details
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I think the real problem here is that everyone is competing for the same dwindling scraps as some of the dumbest and most craven people our husk of a society has ever produced eviscerate everything worthwhile or that could challenge their power. The dynamics on the ground are just details