Paul Ingram
@pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com
Senior Reporter with the Tucson Sentinel covering politics, border & immigration issues, environment, etc.
Overeducated coyote; swears in church; "probably rabid."
Member NPPA, IRE, NAHJ, Arizona Press Club.
“Resist, much love”
Overeducated coyote; swears in church; "probably rabid."
Member NPPA, IRE, NAHJ, Arizona Press Club.
“Resist, much love”
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The Trump administration makes it official:
The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.
As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.
As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Trump administration makes it official:
The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.
As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500.
As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
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Folks outside of Idaho, the Wilder raid is a big deal
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Folks outside of Idaho, the Wilder raid is a big deal
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This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”
It existed yesterday and is gone today.
It existed yesterday and is gone today.
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...
web.archive.org
September 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”
It existed yesterday and is gone today.
It existed yesterday and is gone today.
“With federal officials changing up COVID-19 vaccination protocols, Pima County residents are facing hurdles as they try to get the new shot this year.
And Arizona health officials are warning that more changes may lie ahead as an influential CDC vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet.”
And Arizona health officials are warning that more changes may lie ahead as an influential CDC vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet.”
New COVID vax restrictions create hurdles for Pima residents; Hobbs orders blanket Rx for Arizonans
With federal officials changing up COVID vaccination recommendations, Pima County residents may have a harder time getting a shot this year. Responding to restrictions, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ordere...
www.tucsonsentinel.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
“With federal officials changing up COVID-19 vaccination protocols, Pima County residents are facing hurdles as they try to get the new shot this year.
And Arizona health officials are warning that more changes may lie ahead as an influential CDC vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet.”
And Arizona health officials are warning that more changes may lie ahead as an influential CDC vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet.”
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by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor
The DC US Attorney's Office has filed to dismiss assault charges against Christian Enrique Carías Torres, the moped driver arrested by Logan Circle
September 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor
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The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email
Have we ever seen a technology go from zero to "your boss is aggressively demanding you use it every day" quite as quickly as modern "AI" tools?
(This is a genuine question).
(This is a genuine question).
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email
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1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
www.justsecurity.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
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Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
Judge blocks Trump’s broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration cannot fast-track the deportations of undocumented migrants inside the country without offering them due process.
wapo.st
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.
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UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
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Update: Lawyers for the DA & other defendants filed a motion asking to seal some exhibits in this case, saying the texts about the alleged "love triangle" (w/the two sisters) & abortion were just media fodder, had nothing to do with the core claims
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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August 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Update: Lawyers for the DA & other defendants filed a motion asking to seal some exhibits in this case, saying the texts about the alleged "love triangle" (w/the two sisters) & abortion were just media fodder, had nothing to do with the core claims
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect.
The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Case 2:85-cv-04544-DMG-AGR Document 1637 Filed 08/15/25 Page 2 of 20 Page
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Before the Court is Defendants' Motion to Terminate the Flores Settlement
Agreement and to Dissolve the Court's 2019 Injunction. [Doc. ## 1567 ("MTT").] The motion is fully briefed. [Doc. ## 1584 ("Opp."), 1612 ("Reply").] The Court held a hearing on the motion on August 8, 2025. Defendants fail to identify any new facts or 5 law that warrant the termination of the Flores Settlement Agreement at this time.
Therefore, for the reasons set forth below, the Court DENIES Defendants' MTT.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihoebrtvddzsc34562go2fl5p7vv5eqjesb7afi6wyweq5iaowv4a@jpeg)
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Throughout the entire history of this case, the Parties have understood that "it is necessary ... for the New Regulations to follow [Administrative Procedure Act] rulemaking procedures." Flores v. Barr, 407 F. Supp. 3d at 924. This understanding is evidenced by the fact that every time Defendants have attempted to promulgate a rule incorporating the FSA-in 1998, 2019, and 2024 they have always gone through the traditional APA rulemaking process. See also FSA 4 9 ("[T]he INS shall initiate action to publish the relevant and substantive terms of this Agreement as a Service regulation") (emphasis added). Termination of the FSA cannot occur until Defendants have published final, federal regulations implementing the FSA. FSA 99; FSA (as amended) 4 40.
Accordingly, the Court concludes that neither DHS nor HHS is yet in sufficiently
substantial compliance to warrant termination of the FSA under Rule 60(b)(5).®](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiah77gqf6ihkxrlfi5ho7i4gfjkpiy3lfml55y67do5vvvb5hxibq@jpeg)
August 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect.
The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Learned via X account name change that Bovino is no longer the El Centro chief, he’s now “Commander of Operations at Large; California.”
August 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Learned via X account name change that Bovino is no longer the El Centro chief, he’s now “Commander of Operations at Large; California.”
As the Trump administration forges ahead on building a 27-mile border wall across the San Rafael Valley—one of few untouched areas in Southern Arizona—University of Arizona researchers find new signs that jaguars are crossing the border from Mexico:
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
UA researchers: Arizona jaguar sightings a 'positive sign' despite border wall
For University of Arizona researchers, the latest sightings show that Southern Arizona is still in the apex predator's range.
www.tucsonsentinel.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
As the Trump administration forges ahead on building a 27-mile border wall across the San Rafael Valley—one of few untouched areas in Southern Arizona—University of Arizona researchers find new signs that jaguars are crossing the border from Mexico:
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Oh god, a breach of ECF could be extremely dangerous. Lots of sealed filings.
NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."
Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack
The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.
www.politico.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh god, a breach of ECF could be extremely dangerous. Lots of sealed filings.
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Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein survivors say history is repeating itself with Trump's DOJ "sidelining them from critical decisions."
It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration."
Full letter storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration."
Full letter storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein survivors say history is repeating itself with Trump's DOJ "sidelining them from critical decisions."
It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration."
Full letter storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration."
Full letter storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”
Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
August 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”
Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
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After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...
5 Ways that Trump Rapidly Ramped Up Immigration Detention
Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain immigrants.
www.themarshallproject.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...
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A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.
July 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.
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irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
How to tell if someone is a criminal, according to the Department of Homeland Security
www.theatlantic.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Reup: Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/m...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/m...
Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem - emptywheel
Because Trump is running scared, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein has -- however temporarily -- deprived Trump of his majority in the House.
www.emptywheel.net
July 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reup: Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/m...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/m...
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Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
theintercept.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
www.hhs.gov
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
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You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.
It's a lie.
It's a lie.
June 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.
It's a lie.
It's a lie.