Mike DeCillis
@mikedecillis.bsky.social
Attorney, Special Ed Teacher, Former NYPD/Paramedic, NYS Assembly CoS, NYC Districting Commission Counsel, 3rd gen Union, 9/11 First Responder
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For decades we.were told there was *no* money for immigration courts, additional staff, or anything to expedite hearings and process asylum claims, or improve the legal immigration system.
But hey there's money for prisons somehow.
But hey there's money for prisons somehow.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
For decades we.were told there was *no* money for immigration courts, additional staff, or anything to expedite hearings and process asylum claims, or improve the legal immigration system.
But hey there's money for prisons somehow.
But hey there's money for prisons somehow.
This is what holding the line looks like. Congrats! ✊
BREAKING: ~10,500 NYSNA nurses at Montefiore, Mount Sinai, & Mount Sinai Morningside/West reached tentative agreements late Sun/early Mon.
Nurses won: enforceable safe staffing, maintain their health benefits, workplace violence protections, and more!
www.nysna.org/press/victor...
Nurses won: enforceable safe staffing, maintain their health benefits, workplace violence protections, and more!
www.nysna.org/press/victor...
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This is what holding the line looks like. Congrats! ✊
"This isn't white enough for me" is the basis of all MAGA national and foreign policy.
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
"This isn't white enough for me" is the basis of all MAGA national and foreign policy.
Thank you to the Staten Island Puerto Rican Neighbors for hosting the Benito Bowl Party tonight!
Bad Bunny made America proud 🇵🇷🇺🇸
Bad Bunny made America proud 🇵🇷🇺🇸
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Thank you to the Staten Island Puerto Rican Neighbors for hosting the Benito Bowl Party tonight!
Bad Bunny made America proud 🇵🇷🇺🇸
Bad Bunny made America proud 🇵🇷🇺🇸
1/ The President of the United States shared a racist video of former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama and it wasn't a mistake. It wasn't "racially tinged," and it follows a pattern of unabashed racism from Trump and MAGA. It's vile, offensive, and should be denounced by all Americans.
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
1/ The President of the United States shared a racist video of former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama and it wasn't a mistake. It wasn't "racially tinged," and it follows a pattern of unabashed racism from Trump and MAGA. It's vile, offensive, and should be denounced by all Americans.
You hear every election how it's the "most important" election yet — but our democracy is literally on the ballot this November.
February 5, 2026 at 11:41 PM
You hear every election how it's the "most important" election yet — but our democracy is literally on the ballot this November.
My friends and neighbors in Bay Ridge don't deserve this — no one deserves this — and those who have few other feelings in life besides hate have been emboldened by a culture of "us vs. them."
February 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM
My friends and neighbors in Bay Ridge don't deserve this — no one deserves this — and those who have few other feelings in life besides hate have been emboldened by a culture of "us vs. them."
Besides all of the repugnant fascist policy, the unabashed racism, the lack of even an elementary school knowledge of the world, trump remains a vulgar misogynistic moron, and I can't figure out why anyone defends this.
so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
February 4, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Besides all of the repugnant fascist policy, the unabashed racism, the lack of even an elementary school knowledge of the world, trump remains a vulgar misogynistic moron, and I can't figure out why anyone defends this.
We either have enforceable laws and a constitution or we don't. That's the midterms — if we have them.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche needs to resign.
He got the law wrong about patronizing sex parties with alleged child trafficking. He failed to redact names of victims & pictures of children. AND he moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum-security prison & got her a puppy.
He got the law wrong about patronizing sex parties with alleged child trafficking. He failed to redact names of victims & pictures of children. AND he moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum-security prison & got her a puppy.
February 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
We either have enforceable laws and a constitution or we don't. That's the midterms — if we have them.
The ease in how they lie about fundamental constitutional rights isn't just alarming, it's insane.
Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant?
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
February 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The ease in how they lie about fundamental constitutional rights isn't just alarming, it's insane.
Out with @bkindivisible.bsky.social at Rep Malliotakis' Brooklyn office, because she literally wants ICE to do to NYC what they did to Minneapolis.
There's no excuse for this trump sycophant, she's gotta go — and the community is organized. ✊
There's no excuse for this trump sycophant, she's gotta go — and the community is organized. ✊
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Out with @bkindivisible.bsky.social at Rep Malliotakis' Brooklyn office, because she literally wants ICE to do to NYC what they did to Minneapolis.
There's no excuse for this trump sycophant, she's gotta go — and the community is organized. ✊
There's no excuse for this trump sycophant, she's gotta go — and the community is organized. ✊
Punxsutawney Phil saw Pam Bondi's shadow so there's six more weeks of the DOJ hiding the rest of the Epstein files.
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Punxsutawney Phil saw Pam Bondi's shadow so there's six more weeks of the DOJ hiding the rest of the Epstein files.
Everything Trump touches gets destroyed.
Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Everything Trump touches gets destroyed.
Happy Black History Month! We recognize those that truly helped build this nation and made us a more perfect and dynamic union.
👉 We won't let anyone erase or hide this history, these facts, these stories, and lives that are woven into the fabric of our nation.
👉 We won't let anyone erase or hide this history, these facts, these stories, and lives that are woven into the fabric of our nation.
February 1, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Happy Black History Month! We recognize those that truly helped build this nation and made us a more perfect and dynamic union.
👉 We won't let anyone erase or hide this history, these facts, these stories, and lives that are woven into the fabric of our nation.
👉 We won't let anyone erase or hide this history, these facts, these stories, and lives that are woven into the fabric of our nation.
We're inflicting cruelty and trauma on an entire generation because our government is run by people who believe in the Great Replacement Theory.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
We're inflicting cruelty and trauma on an entire generation because our government is run by people who believe in the Great Replacement Theory.
You can't "both sides" the constitution.
January 31, 2026 at 10:35 AM
You can't "both sides" the constitution.
Rep Malliotakis NY-11 posting every day about the "big beautiful bill" and refusing to answer questions about ICE, journalist arrests, the murders of citizens, trump stealing money from Treasury, illegal wars, tariffs causing business bankruptcy...
January 30, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Rep Malliotakis NY-11 posting every day about the "big beautiful bill" and refusing to answer questions about ICE, journalist arrests, the murders of citizens, trump stealing money from Treasury, illegal wars, tariffs causing business bankruptcy...
This is sick.
Just an unserious, vile administration.
Just an unserious, vile administration.
the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji
January 30, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is sick.
Just an unserious, vile administration.
Just an unserious, vile administration.
We need to recognize the moment and the movement, because our constitution is being erased in real time.
January 30, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We need to recognize the moment and the movement, because our constitution is being erased in real time.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We must never forget the six million Jews that were murdered by the Nazis. We all must speak up against hate in all forms, and know that empathy and compassion are a strength, not a weakness.
We must never forget the six million Jews that were murdered by the Nazis. We all must speak up against hate in all forms, and know that empathy and compassion are a strength, not a weakness.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We must never forget the six million Jews that were murdered by the Nazis. We all must speak up against hate in all forms, and know that empathy and compassion are a strength, not a weakness.
We must never forget the six million Jews that were murdered by the Nazis. We all must speak up against hate in all forms, and know that empathy and compassion are a strength, not a weakness.
People were murdered, so Republicans are huddling with consultants.
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
People were murdered, so Republicans are huddling with consultants.
I don't want to see or hear from him again until his trial.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I don't want to see or hear from him again until his trial.
Weather report from Neeta and Brooklyn: snowy, windy, cold. Check on your neighbors, and stay inside if possible.
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Weather report from Neeta and Brooklyn: snowy, windy, cold. Check on your neighbors, and stay inside if possible.
Seems important
Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order?
FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.
FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.
January 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Seems important
Hot tip: You can just Ctrl + H King George III with Trump in the Declaration of Independence, saves time.
January 25, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Hot tip: You can just Ctrl + H King George III with Trump in the Declaration of Independence, saves time.