@starmanjr.bsky.social
Reader. Runner. Advocate for immigrant rights. Border and PIC abolitionist.
Currently reading: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Currently reading: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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My immigration firm sent a newsletter today in response to inquiries from clients over the last two months. They "strongly recommend against international travel", warned against even walking past political rallies, noted government reps may ask to see emails, texts + social media, and these points:
Important things to consider for *any* non citizen now. I would also recommend using extra caution with domestic air travel and have a plan in place in case you are detained.
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Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."
“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat
Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."
“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
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interesting, interesting idea that someone could have fired this dude.
A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
interesting, interesting idea that someone could have fired this dude.
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Sadistic, marauding fascist monsters having a tourist moment. “The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, ‘Everyone say, “Little Village!”’”
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Sadistic, marauding fascist monsters having a tourist moment. “The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, ‘Everyone say, “Little Village!”’”
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Many people recently deported on flights told Capital & Main that the U.S. government had taken their phones, and they struggled with the little money that they had to find their way out of being stranded in a city they did not know.
Read more here: www.laprogressive.com/immigration-...
Read more here: www.laprogressive.com/immigration-...
www.laprogressive.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Many people recently deported on flights told Capital & Main that the U.S. government had taken their phones, and they struggled with the little money that they had to find their way out of being stranded in a city they did not know.
Read more here: www.laprogressive.com/immigration-...
Read more here: www.laprogressive.com/immigration-...
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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This is an anti-politics that holds voters as the only responsible actors in our political system.
So you're more mad at Schumer than the Dems who "caved" on preventing the lapsing of Biden's "enhanced" premiums expiring?
Y'all should have voted for the Black woman then.
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Y'all should have voted for the Black woman then.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is an anti-politics that holds voters as the only responsible actors in our political system.
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A baby was pepper-sprayed by CPB here in Chicago this weekend. A BABY. DHS says it never happened but here's the video evidence. It shows: "a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car."
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal ‘blitz’
YouTube video by Chicago Tribune
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November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A baby was pepper-sprayed by CPB here in Chicago this weekend. A BABY. DHS says it never happened but here's the video evidence. It shows: "a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car."
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
So among other things happening at that facility, the agents are also getting shit faced on the taxpayers dime.
WATCH body cam video of an ICE agent arrested for DUI after his shift at the Broadview facility.
He crashed into some bushes after officers found him asleep at the wheel and knocked on the window.
"Oh this is a fun one,” the officer tells his sergeant.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
He crashed into some bushes after officers found him asleep at the wheel and knocked on the window.
"Oh this is a fun one,” the officer tells his sergeant.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So among other things happening at that facility, the agents are also getting shit faced on the taxpayers dime.
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Loevy: "Is [tear gas] dangerous?"
Hewson: "No."
Hewson: "No."
November 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Loevy: "Is [tear gas] dangerous?"
Hewson: "No."
Hewson: "No."
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Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you."
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you."
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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Attendance drops at Chicago schools in communities with increased immigration enforcement
School attendance falls in Chicago as fear of ICE enforcement increases
Chicago students in heavily Latino and immigrant neighborhoods are missing school as ICE enforcement ramps up in their communities, new data suggests.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Attendance drops at Chicago schools in communities with increased immigration enforcement
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Situation in Sudan not making headlines, beyond grim
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Situation in Sudan not making headlines, beyond grim
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I wasn’t aware of this strategy until earlier this week hearing from Little Village organizers that residents abducted by ICE have been ending up far from home, dropped at random gas stations and other suburbs. Unhinged in all the ways. Civil rights, due process out the window.
Immigration Agents Detained A Schizophrenic Man — Then Dropped Him Miles From Home
The arrest of the legal U.S. resident sent his family scrambling for two weeks. And they say immigration authorities refused to answer any questions about where he was. Community members on social med...
blockclubchicago.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I wasn’t aware of this strategy until earlier this week hearing from Little Village organizers that residents abducted by ICE have been ending up far from home, dropped at random gas stations and other suburbs. Unhinged in all the ways. Civil rights, due process out the window.
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Defend NYC, a pro-Cuomo super PAC operated by Trump adviser Jason Meister, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending out this text message to NYC voters, hoping it'll convince them to vote Cuomo for mayor, new filings show.
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Defend NYC, a pro-Cuomo super PAC operated by Trump adviser Jason Meister, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending out this text message to NYC voters, hoping it'll convince them to vote Cuomo for mayor, new filings show.
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"The notices state that “Payment in full is due now” & list an array of potential consequences for failure to pay, including collection litigation & negative impacts on their immigration cases. Fines that aren’t paid in full will accrue interest."
Children in detention can't work. And are CHILDREN.
Children in detention can't work. And are CHILDREN.
DHS Is Billing Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids $5,000
The Trump administration is slapping teenagers in federal custody with fees for crossing the border under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
theintercept.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"The notices state that “Payment in full is due now” & list an array of potential consequences for failure to pay, including collection litigation & negative impacts on their immigration cases. Fines that aren’t paid in full will accrue interest."
Children in detention can't work. And are CHILDREN.
Children in detention can't work. And are CHILDREN.
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ICE terror is sort of like school shootings. It can and will happen anywhere and at any time and our kids, wherever they live or whatever they look like, will see it. The former is enabled by government inaction. The latter is a direct result of government action.
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
ICE terror is sort of like school shootings. It can and will happen anywhere and at any time and our kids, wherever they live or whatever they look like, will see it. The former is enabled by government inaction. The latter is a direct result of government action.
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“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.
The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.
The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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In case you would like an example of how ICE's propaganda works: Today, for the second time this week, an ICE agent shot at an unarmed community member.
Federal authorities investigating second ICE shooting in California in a little more than week
Federal authorities are investigating a shooting involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the second one in a little more than a week.
www.latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In case you would like an example of how ICE's propaganda works: Today, for the second time this week, an ICE agent shot at an unarmed community member.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.
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ICE has not yet fired him. Gotta make sure he has due process and all. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
ICE has not yet fired him. Gotta make sure he has due process and all. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
When you don’t hold people accountable for this shit you’re letting them know they haven’t found the line yet. There wasn’t accountability for illegally forcing Haitians back over the border either, and the Biden admin actually DEFENDED the child separation policy in court. So where’s the line?
Remember this iconic 2018 photo of a Honduran mom and kids running from Border Patrol tear gas on the Mexican side of the border?
There was no accountability then, and it's happening in Chicago now.
There was no accountability then, and it's happening in Chicago now.
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When you don’t hold people accountable for this shit you’re letting them know they haven’t found the line yet. There wasn’t accountability for illegally forcing Haitians back over the border either, and the Biden admin actually DEFENDED the child separation policy in court. So where’s the line?
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“This is a mass incarceration bill,” said NIJC’s Jesse Franzblau to @theguardian.com about HR3486, which aims to impose 10 yr mandatory jail term minimums on migrants- giving huge profits to private prisons: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/republicans-bill-prison-sentence-immigration
Republican bill targets migrants who re-enter US illegally with mandatory 10-year sentences
Critics of new GOP act say it is a ‘mass incarceration bill' that forces harsh penalties on migrants for a non-violent offense
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“This is a mass incarceration bill,” said NIJC’s Jesse Franzblau to @theguardian.com about HR3486, which aims to impose 10 yr mandatory jail term minimums on migrants- giving huge profits to private prisons: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/republicans-bill-prison-sentence-immigration