Feral Human Rights Lawyer
@natcad.bsky.social
Border human rights lawyer. Soon-to-be law professor. Studying migrant disappearance. Making records for now and later. Impatient. Punching up. Rio Grande Valley - Tucson - San Diego. Thoughts and views my own and not that of my employer.
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Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group
www.ohchr.org
If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
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Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
February 3, 2026 at 11:34 PM
It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
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I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
February 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
Does your city or county make money by housing ICE detainees? If so, now is a great time to demand that your local government end these contracts.
A bit of background on the West Virginia state corrections department's agreement with ICE. From Oct. 2025. westvirginiawatch.com/2025/10/02/w...
February 3, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Does your city or county make money by housing ICE detainees? If so, now is a great time to demand that your local government end these contracts.
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I once had to cross from Nogales, AZ into Nogales, Mexico for work in 2021. As I approached the port of entry, there was a billboard advertisement to join CBP. The person on the billboard was dressed like Rambo and holding a weapon. Training isn’t the issue. Violence is deeply imbedded in BP culture
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I once had to cross from Nogales, AZ into Nogales, Mexico for work in 2021. As I approached the port of entry, there was a billboard advertisement to join CBP. The person on the billboard was dressed like Rambo and holding a weapon. Training isn’t the issue. Violence is deeply imbedded in BP culture
I once had to cross from Nogales, AZ into Nogales, Mexico for work in 2021. As I approached the port of entry, there was a billboard advertisement to join CBP. The person on the billboard was dressed like Rambo and holding a weapon. Training isn’t the issue. Violence is deeply imbedded in BP culture
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I once had to cross from Nogales, AZ into Nogales, Mexico for work in 2021. As I approached the port of entry, there was a billboard advertisement to join CBP. The person on the billboard was dressed like Rambo and holding a weapon. Training isn’t the issue. Violence is deeply imbedded in BP culture
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What we are seeing is the Border Patrolification of ICE. If folks in cities don’t like it, the solution is not to kick Border Patrol back to the border where they have spent decades doing what they’re doing now in cities. It’s to say this is not acceptable treatment for anyone.
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 PM
What we are seeing is the Border Patrolification of ICE. If folks in cities don’t like it, the solution is not to kick Border Patrol back to the border where they have spent decades doing what they’re doing now in cities. It’s to say this is not acceptable treatment for anyone.
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Attorney access has long-plagued Border Patrol facilities, where phone access is extremely limited or non-existent, there is no public-facing locator system, and visits are not allowed. It’s often amounts to enforced disappearance under international law.
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Attorney access has long-plagued Border Patrol facilities, where phone access is extremely limited or non-existent, there is no public-facing locator system, and visits are not allowed. It’s often amounts to enforced disappearance under international law.
Attorney access has long-plagued Border Patrol facilities, where phone access is extremely limited or non-existent, there is no public-facing locator system, and visits are not allowed. It’s often amounts to enforced disappearance under international law.
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Attorney access has long-plagued Border Patrol facilities, where phone access is extremely limited or non-existent, there is no public-facing locator system, and visits are not allowed. It’s often amounts to enforced disappearance under international law.
The moral clarity of the legal writing in this order truly meets the moment: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad released from ICE detention
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad released from ICE detention
A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, a federal judge ordered Saturday in...
www.yahoo.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The moral clarity of the legal writing in this order truly meets the moment: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
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If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group
www.ohchr.org
March 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
I had been complaining last week about the lack of artists meeting the moment with popular protest songs. This is a lovely tribute. I hope to expect more like it.
Springsteen’s never had a no. 1 on Billboard’s hot 100…
Bruce Springsteen sings 'Streets of Minneapolis' in Minneapolis as protest song hits No. 1
The Boss' anthem in response to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good quickly topped the iTunes chart.
www.nbcnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I had been complaining last week about the lack of artists meeting the moment with popular protest songs. This is a lovely tribute. I hope to expect more like it.
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Great news. Now, will we continue to let Border Patrol, the largest and most violent LE entity in the country go back to terrorizing asylum seekers at the border and holding them in unregistered incommunicado detention without due process?
🎉Your messages to Congress worked!! Additional funding for ICE & CBP failed to advance in the Senate — thanks to millions of people across the country and 32,000+ messages from our supporters.
We applaud every Senator who stood strong and voted no.
We applaud every Senator who stood strong and voted no.
Senators blocked a package of six spending bills that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats continue to push for reforms to immigration enforcement. n.pr/45zPhEi
January 29, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Great news. Now, will we continue to let Border Patrol, the largest and most violent LE entity in the country go back to terrorizing asylum seekers at the border and holding them in unregistered incommunicado detention without due process?
Great news. Now, will we continue to let Border Patrol, the largest and most violent LE entity in the country go back to terrorizing asylum seekers at the border and holding them in unregistered incommunicado detention without due process?
🎉Your messages to Congress worked!! Additional funding for ICE & CBP failed to advance in the Senate — thanks to millions of people across the country and 32,000+ messages from our supporters.
We applaud every Senator who stood strong and voted no.
We applaud every Senator who stood strong and voted no.
Senators blocked a package of six spending bills that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats continue to push for reforms to immigration enforcement. n.pr/45zPhEi
January 29, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Great news. Now, will we continue to let Border Patrol, the largest and most violent LE entity in the country go back to terrorizing asylum seekers at the border and holding them in unregistered incommunicado detention without due process?
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 AM
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
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What Congress reining in ICE and CBP would actually look like: www.pogo.org/analyses/the...
The Senate Must Insist on Reining in ICE and CBP
The public deserves real accountability for out-of-control immigration agents. Congress should vote no on the DHS appropriations bill and push for real change.
www.pogo.org
January 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
What Congress reining in ICE and CBP would actually look like: www.pogo.org/analyses/the...
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
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This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
January 26, 2026 at 3:47 AM
On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
If you’re not following Melissa del Bosque, make a change. She is a veteran journalist with years of experience reporting on border issues.
The ICE agent who shot Renee Good was a former Border Patrol agent. And today's murder was committed by a Border Patrol agent. This is violence and impunity that border communities have known all too well for years.
Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated
A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
apnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
If you’re not following Melissa del Bosque, make a change. She is a veteran journalist with years of experience reporting on border issues.
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Say it with me, “It was Border Patrol.” BP has long been a paramilitary force, the largest LE agency in the country, that routinely lassoes, beats, and abuses people at the border. They’ve been unleashed recently in cities. Make sure you talk at least as much about BP as you do about ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Say it with me, “It was Border Patrol.” BP has long been a paramilitary force, the largest LE agency in the country, that routinely lassoes, beats, and abuses people at the border. They’ve been unleashed recently in cities. Make sure you talk at least as much about BP as you do about ICE.
Was wondering if Bellingcat would be publishing anything. They are one of the, if not the, preeminent orgs that investigate human rights violations with publicly available information. I recommend following them.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Was wondering if Bellingcat would be publishing anything. They are one of the, if not the, preeminent orgs that investigate human rights violations with publicly available information. I recommend following them.
Say it with me, “It was Border Patrol.” BP has long been a paramilitary force, the largest LE agency in the country, that routinely lassoes, beats, and abuses people at the border. They’ve been unleashed recently in cities. Make sure you talk at least as much about BP as you do about ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Say it with me, “It was Border Patrol.” BP has long been a paramilitary force, the largest LE agency in the country, that routinely lassoes, beats, and abuses people at the border. They’ve been unleashed recently in cities. Make sure you talk at least as much about BP as you do about ICE.