James Cradock
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Filming Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. - Library
Tipsheet on how to use video to ethically combat abuses committed by immigration enforcement, including safety, social media, & verification tips.
library.witness.org
Document (safely) the cruel and illegal actions of the US government. Every person in this country has constitutionally-protected rights. Period. Share your photos and video with the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition @maineimmigrants.bsky.social library.witness.org/product/film...
Reposted by James Cradock
5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction
Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that's simply not true. They have the same rights as citizens for one truly obvious reason: a government could choose to…
Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that's simply not true. They have the same rights as citizens for one truly obvious reason: a government could choose to…
5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction
Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that's simply not true. They have the same rights as citizens for one truly obvious reason: a government could choose to declare certain people non-citizens in order to strip them of their rights. That would be highly problematic in a nation that's almost entirely the result of immigration, which is why courts have routinely held that non-citizens have the same rights as citizens while on US soil.
www.techdirt.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction
Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that's simply not true. They have the same rights as citizens for one truly obvious reason: a government could choose to…
Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that's simply not true. They have the same rights as citizens for one truly obvious reason: a government could choose to…
"A previous Marshall Project analysis found that ICE has booked at least 3,800 children into detention since Trump took office last year."
February 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
"A previous Marshall Project analysis found that ICE has booked at least 3,800 children into detention since Trump took office last year."
February 8, 2026 at 11:59 AM
There are "thousands of migrant families forcibly separated under the first Trump administration." "Trump [...] not only cruelly separated these families during the first term but now is again deporting and re-separating these same families."
On Thursday a US District Court Judge ordered Trump to return three migrant families affected by the family separation policy during Trump's first administration and then deported under his second, declaring the deportations "unlawful." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Judge orders U.S. to return families affected by Trump's family separation policy who were deported
A judge ordered the U.S. to return three migrant families who were affected by President Trump's family separation policy in his first term and then deported in his second.
www.cbsnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There are "thousands of migrant families forcibly separated under the first Trump administration." "Trump [...] not only cruelly separated these families during the first term but now is again deporting and re-separating these same families."
On Thursday a US District Court Judge ordered Trump to return three migrant families affected by the family separation policy during Trump's first administration and then deported under his second, declaring the deportations "unlawful." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Judge orders U.S. to return families affected by Trump's family separation policy who were deported
A judge ordered the U.S. to return three migrant families who were affected by President Trump's family separation policy in his first term and then deported in his second.
www.cbsnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
On Thursday a US District Court Judge ordered Trump to return three migrant families affected by the family separation policy during Trump's first administration and then deported under his second, declaring the deportations "unlawful." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from withholding $16 billion in funds for rail link projects connecting New York and New Jersey amid reports "the US president wants major travel landmarks named after him in return for continued investment." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Federal judge reverses Trump’s freeze on $16bn for NY-NJ tunnel project
President reportedly wanted Dulles airport and Penn Station to be renamed after him in exchange for continued funding
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from withholding $16 billion in funds for rail link projects connecting New York and New Jersey amid reports "the US president wants major travel landmarks named after him in return for continued investment." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from withholding $10 billion in child care and family planning funding to five blue states. abc7chicago.com/post/judge-b...
Judge blocks Trump's $10B child care funding freeze that targeted blue states, including Illinois
A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction in the case concerning the Trump administration's freeze on $10 billion in child care and family planning funding to five blue states, includ...
abc7chicago.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from withholding $10 billion in child care and family planning funding to five blue states. abc7chicago.com/post/judge-b...
Add to Liam Conejo Ramos and his family every person Trump has arrested and deported or intends to deport (Haitians, Venezuelans) though they are in the country legally, doing what they have been asked to do, often literally doing what they have been asked to do like going to court or interviews.
In 2025 Trump arrested and deported 230,000 people who were in the US. The US regime has significantly increased deportations using expedited removal, which again is contrary to the rights the US Constitution extends to every person in the country and is illegal.
Liam Conejo Ramos, who is 5 years-old and who was wearing a Spiderman backpack and a bunny hat (you have all seen the photos) when ICE arrested him, and his family are asylum-seeking immigrants. No matter: using the law Clinton signed to deport them without trial is illegal.
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Add to Liam Conejo Ramos and his family every person Trump has arrested and deported or intends to deport (Haitians, Venezuelans) though they are in the country legally, doing what they have been asked to do, often literally doing what they have been asked to do like going to court or interviews.
In 2025 Trump arrested and deported 230,000 people who were in the US. The US regime has significantly increased deportations using expedited removal, which again is contrary to the rights the US Constitution extends to every person in the country and is illegal.
Liam Conejo Ramos, who is 5 years-old and who was wearing a Spiderman backpack and a bunny hat (you have all seen the photos) when ICE arrested him, and his family are asylum-seeking immigrants. No matter: using the law Clinton signed to deport them without trial is illegal.
I will refrain from writing what I want to say about Clinton.
February 7, 2026 at 2:26 PM
In 2025 Trump arrested and deported 230,000 people who were in the US. The US regime has significantly increased deportations using expedited removal, which again is contrary to the rights the US Constitution extends to every person in the country and is illegal.
Liam Conejo Ramos, who is 5 years-old and who was wearing a Spiderman backpack and a bunny hat (you have all seen the photos) when ICE arrested him, and his family are asylum-seeking immigrants. No matter: using the law Clinton signed to deport them without trial is illegal.
I will refrain from writing what I want to say about Clinton.
Expedited removal, which allows the US government to deport a person from the country without a trial, including an administrative trial, was introduced in 1996 in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Clinton signed it into law.
February 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Liam Conejo Ramos, who is 5 years-old and who was wearing a Spiderman backpack and a bunny hat (you have all seen the photos) when ICE arrested him, and his family are asylum-seeking immigrants. No matter: using the law Clinton signed to deport them without trial is illegal.
I will refrain from writing what I want to say about Clinton.
Expedited removal, which allows the US government to deport a person from the country without a trial, including an administrative trial, was introduced in 1996 in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Clinton signed it into law.
Expedited removal is illegal as per the US Constitution, which says every person in the US has the right to a fair trial. See Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.
February 7, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I will refrain from writing what I want to say about Clinton.
Expedited removal, which allows the US government to deport a person from the country without a trial, including an administrative trial, was introduced in 1996 in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Clinton signed it into law.
Expedited removal is illegal as per the US Constitution, which says every person in the US has the right to a fair trial. See Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.
There is no bottom to the cruelty of the US regime, and believing otherwise is delusional. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
February 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Expedited removal, which allows the US government to deport a person from the country without a trial, including an administrative trial, was introduced in 1996 in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Clinton signed it into law.
Expedited removal is illegal as per the US Constitution, which says every person in the US has the right to a fair trial. See Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.
There is no bottom to the cruelty of the US regime, and believing otherwise is delusional. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Family of Liam Conejo Ramos has more time to respond to DHS deportation proceedings
Immigration lawyers representing the family of Liam Conejo Ramos says the fight to keep the government from deporting the family continues.
www.mprnews.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Expedited removal is illegal as per the US Constitution, which says every person in the US has the right to a fair trial. See Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.
There is no bottom to the cruelty of the US regime, and believing otherwise is delusional. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Family of Liam Conejo Ramos has more time to respond to DHS deportation proceedings
Immigration lawyers representing the family of Liam Conejo Ramos says the fight to keep the government from deporting the family continues.
www.mprnews.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
There is no bottom to the cruelty of the US regime, and believing otherwise is delusional. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from sharing personal information in IRS data with ICE. It's the second judgement against Trump on this matter. www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...
Trump admin dealt new legal blow as judge blocks IRS sharing data with ICE
The order comes after two fatal shootings involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
www.newsweek.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Yesterday a US District Court Judge blocked Trump from sharing personal information in IRS data with ICE. It's the second judgement against Trump on this matter. www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...
Reposted by James Cradock
MIRC supports the call for an eviction moratorium in Maine to protect those who've been in hiding from the racial profiling by ICE that is tearing apart families.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Tell Governor Mills to Protect Maine Tenants
We call upon the Portland City Council to issue a resolution calling on Governor Janet Mills to enact an immediate eviction moratorium during the next 60 days to protect Maine residents facing housing...
actionnetwork.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
MIRC supports the call for an eviction moratorium in Maine to protect those who've been in hiding from the racial profiling by ICE that is tearing apart families.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
... the unencumbered production of market-rate / luxury housing for immediate needs leads to the eventual (it can take years) availability of affordable housing as these cast-off units trickle down to be within reach (reach = income of) lower income people.
@pressherald.com: "[T]he ordinance is working as intended: there are more affordable projects in the works. But [...] at the expense of market-rate housing." The statement is linked a story about the presumed positive effect of downwards filtering, where (in simple terms) ...
Planning for The Kennebec Block, in the Bayside neighborhood, began in 2025 and is subject to IZ v2 rules put on the books 5 years prior. Redfern Properties and @pressherald.com report this, too, is "dead in the water."
February 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
... the unencumbered production of market-rate / luxury housing for immediate needs leads to the eventual (it can take years) availability of affordable housing as these cast-off units trickle down to be within reach (reach = income of) lower income people.
@pressherald.com: "[T]he ordinance is working as intended: there are more affordable projects in the works. But [...] at the expense of market-rate housing." The statement is linked a story about the presumed positive effect of downwards filtering, where (in simple terms) ...
Planning for The Kennebec Block, in the Bayside neighborhood, began in 2025 and is subject to IZ v2 rules put on the books 5 years prior. Redfern Properties and @pressherald.com report this, too, is "dead in the water."
Redfern Properties' Tavata at 165 Washington Ave. was approved in 2024 and it is required to follow IZ v2. Tavata is not currently moving forward according to @pressherald.com and Redfern's principle because of IZ requirements, which were on the books before the project commenced.
February 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
@pressherald.com: "[T]he ordinance is working as intended: there are more affordable projects in the works. But [...] at the expense of market-rate housing." The statement is linked a story about the presumed positive effect of downwards filtering, where (in simple terms) ...
Planning for The Kennebec Block, in the Bayside neighborhood, began in 2025 and is subject to IZ v2 rules put on the books 5 years prior. Redfern Properties and @pressherald.com report this, too, is "dead in the water."
Redfern Properties' Tavata at 165 Washington Ave. was approved in 2024 and it is required to follow IZ v2. Tavata is not currently moving forward according to @pressherald.com and Redfern's principle because of IZ requirements, which were on the books before the project commenced.
The dates are important, and something to think about (hey @pressherald.com) here: Redfern Properties' (The) Casco at 201 Federal St. was approved in 2020. It opened in 2023. IZ v1 applied to The Casco.
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Planning for The Kennebec Block, in the Bayside neighborhood, began in 2025 and is subject to IZ v2 rules put on the books 5 years prior. Redfern Properties and @pressherald.com report this, too, is "dead in the water."
Redfern Properties' Tavata at 165 Washington Ave. was approved in 2024 and it is required to follow IZ v2. Tavata is not currently moving forward according to @pressherald.com and Redfern's principle because of IZ requirements, which were on the books before the project commenced.
The dates are important, and something to think about (hey @pressherald.com) here: Redfern Properties' (The) Casco at 201 Federal St. was approved in 2020. It opened in 2023. IZ v1 applied to The Casco.
IZ v1 from 2015, implemented by Portland, Maine's City Council and Mayor (not the Mayor you think ha) said 10% of units needed to be affordable to people making 100-120% of AMI. I'm repeating myself, but we're talking about IZ v2 from 2020.
February 6, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Redfern Properties' Tavata at 165 Washington Ave. was approved in 2024 and it is required to follow IZ v2. Tavata is not currently moving forward according to @pressherald.com and Redfern's principle because of IZ requirements, which were on the books before the project commenced.
The dates are important, and something to think about (hey @pressherald.com) here: Redfern Properties' (The) Casco at 201 Federal St. was approved in 2020. It opened in 2023. IZ v1 applied to The Casco.
IZ v1 from 2015, implemented by Portland, Maine's City Council and Mayor (not the Mayor you think ha) said 10% of units needed to be affordable to people making 100-120% of AMI. I'm repeating myself, but we're talking about IZ v2 from 2020.
Per capita (individual) income in Portland, Maine is $52,781. Median household income is $79,540. www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...
February 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The dates are important, and something to think about (hey @pressherald.com) here: Redfern Properties' (The) Casco at 201 Federal St. was approved in 2020. It opened in 2023. IZ v1 applied to The Casco.
IZ v1 from 2015, implemented by Portland, Maine's City Council and Mayor (not the Mayor you think ha) said 10% of units needed to be affordable to people making 100-120% of AMI. I'm repeating myself, but we're talking about IZ v2 from 2020.
Per capita (individual) income in Portland, Maine is $52,781. Median household income is $79,540. www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...
February 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
IZ v1 from 2015, implemented by Portland, Maine's City Council and Mayor (not the Mayor you think ha) said 10% of units needed to be affordable to people making 100-120% of AMI. I'm repeating myself, but we're talking about IZ v2 from 2020.
Per capita (individual) income in Portland, Maine is $52,781. Median household income is $79,540. www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Per capita (individual) income in Portland, Maine is $52,781. Median household income is $79,540. www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...
Again, Inclusionary Zoning requires housing projects of 10+ units provide 1/4 of units be affordable to people making 80% of AMI. For a one bedroom unit, that means $72,700 for a single person. IZ v2 has been on the books since 2020. content.civicplus.com/api/assets/c...
February 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Again, Inclusionary Zoning requires housing projects of 10+ units provide 1/4 of units be affordable to people making 80% of AMI. For a one bedroom unit, that means $72,700 for a single person. IZ v2 has been on the books since 2020. content.civicplus.com/api/assets/c...
Social housing. Establish a CLT. (I wonder if Portland owns the Midtown land—I should know this.) www.pressherald.com/2026/02/05/m...
February 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Social housing. Establish a CLT. (I wonder if Portland owns the Midtown land—I should know this.) www.pressherald.com/2026/02/05/m...