First They Came For
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documenting the people kidnapped by ICE under the Trump administration
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First They Came For
A website dedicated to cataloging the people who are being kidnapped by the Trump administration.
firsttheycamefor.com
firsttheycamefor.com is being updated to list all of the people being illegally detained or deported by the Trump administration in one place
#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE
#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE
I spent several months unable to maintain this website due to health concerns, it is still critically important to track this information and I will be doing my best to update. Please reach out with tips.
June 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I spent several months unable to maintain this website due to health concerns, it is still critically important to track this information and I will be doing my best to update. Please reach out with tips.
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An attack on Lelo is an attack on workers everywhere! Join the Coalition of Independent unions this Saturday at noon at City Hall for a rally to demand freedom for kidnapped organizer Lelo Juarez
April 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
An attack on Lelo is an attack on workers everywhere! Join the Coalition of Independent unions this Saturday at noon at City Hall for a rally to demand freedom for kidnapped organizer Lelo Juarez
Horrifying. ICE is an irredeemable institution and must be abolished.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Horrifying. ICE is an irredeemable institution and must be abolished.
The kidnappings and visa revocations have been ratcheting up, as has the rhetoric. Major site updates will be coming today to add the hundreds of students across universities who have had their visas revoked.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
www.uscis.gov
April 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The kidnappings and visa revocations have been ratcheting up, as has the rhetoric. Major site updates will be coming today to add the hundreds of students across universities who have had their visas revoked.
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
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New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
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If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back.
How can anyone defend this?
How can anyone defend this?
April 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back.
How can anyone defend this?
How can anyone defend this?
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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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Either we all have rights or none of us do.
It's really that simple.
It's really that simple.
April 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Either we all have rights or none of us do.
It's really that simple.
It's really that simple.
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In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan.
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
April 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan.
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
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If you could break the heart of an impersonal tracker-bot like me, this would sure as hell do it.
April 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If you could break the heart of an impersonal tracker-bot like me, this would sure as hell do it.
When we say “first they came for”, we mean allowing anyone to be illegally detained and deported is a threat to everyone.
Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position
April 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
When we say “first they came for”, we mean allowing anyone to be illegally detained and deported is a threat to everyone.
#firsttheycamefor site update: An ICE raid in Washington arrested 37 people while working at their jobs. According to a witness, ICE agents were “wielding their guns like they were going to shoot us” and “corralled us into a room at the back of the building”
April 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#firsttheycamefor site update: An ICE raid in Washington arrested 37 people while working at their jobs. According to a witness, ICE agents were “wielding their guns like they were going to shoot us” and “corralled us into a room at the back of the building”
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I hope that people are revisiting L.A.'s excellent book Direct Action: www.versobooks.com/products/206...
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I hope that people are revisiting L.A.'s excellent book Direct Action: www.versobooks.com/products/206...
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Palestinian Youth Movement continues to impress me
April 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Palestinian Youth Movement continues to impress me
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I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned.
Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
April 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned.
Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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There were more than 100,000 people at the rally in Boston! The crowd stretched from City Hall all the way to Boston common. Inspiring speakers plus the Dropkick Murphys! #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
There were more than 100,000 people at the rally in Boston! The crowd stretched from City Hall all the way to Boston common. Inspiring speakers plus the Dropkick Murphys! #HandsOff
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Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine
We have the momentum
We have the momentum
April 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine
We have the momentum
We have the momentum
#firstheycamefor site update: Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez is 73 years old and has lived in the US for 45 years. He was arrested by ICE on his way to work on Monday.
In addition to the cruelty of ICE, it’s disgraceful that a man of his age must work and can’t have a dignified retirement.
In addition to the cruelty of ICE, it’s disgraceful that a man of his age must work and can’t have a dignified retirement.
April 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#firstheycamefor site update: Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez is 73 years old and has lived in the US for 45 years. He was arrested by ICE on his way to work on Monday.
In addition to the cruelty of ICE, it’s disgraceful that a man of his age must work and can’t have a dignified retirement.
In addition to the cruelty of ICE, it’s disgraceful that a man of his age must work and can’t have a dignified retirement.
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🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants
The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.
It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.
IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.
#firsttheycamefor site update: DHS has been cancelling visas for international students at many universities across the country. DHS does not notify the schools and so they only find this information if reviewing SEVIS records proactively.
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#firsttheycamefor site update: DHS has been cancelling visas for international students at many universities across the country. DHS does not notify the schools and so they only find this information if reviewing SEVIS records proactively.
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they're trying to kill her over an op-ed
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
April 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
they're trying to kill her over an op-ed