Katelyn
alaskatelyn.bsky.social
Katelyn
@alaskatelyn.bsky.social
public librarian serving refugees, immigrants & English learners. I love languages, dragons, & F1. an Alaskan in MA. she/her. opinions mine, etc.
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Don't let the craziness with the Supreme Court distract from the big immigration story; people from 19 different countries, including Haiti, Venezuela, and Cuba, are currently trapped in an immigration limbo, with their citizenship and green card applications (among others) put indefinitely on hold.
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Maura Healey still fails to grasp that dismantling ICE is the moderate position. Complete and utter condemnation of ICE is the only acceptable position for a Democrat in Massachusetts.

www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
July 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.
Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor & Jackson (and a rare concurrence from Justice Kagan), #SCOTUS "clarifies" that its 6/23 ruling staying a district court's injunction against third-country removals *also* applies to the district court's later order requiring a remedy for those already removed:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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it has never been clearer that undocumentedness is the outcome of processes of ILLEGALIZATION. it's not something a person does, it's something the state does to a person. The state is doing this to hundreds of thousands overnight, so it's especially shocking, but it's part of broader illegalization
🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.
June 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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ICE is detaining people in torturous conditions in a two-story office building in #Burlington, Mass.

The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.

#Massachusetts #mapoli

www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:

- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to enforce its immigration parole grant terminations for around 500,000 people during litigation. Jackson writes a strong dissent, joined by — and only by — Sotomayor.
May 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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“This is a flagrant violation of fundamental fairness in court and it has not been done under any other previous administration, not even during the first Trump administration,” said Heather Arroyo of @masslawreform.bsky.social www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
ICE begins detentions at immigration courts in Boston and Chelmsford
Advocates say the move is another escalation in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
www.wgbh.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her.

It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's ICE Used a Woman's Kids and Grandchild as 'Bait' To Arrest Her
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used a woman's children and grandchild as "bait' to arrest her in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week.
www.rollingstone.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This is resistance.

“ICE Sparks Chaotic Fight After Trying to Arrest Mom Holding Her Baby - Residents of the town surrounded ICE agents in an attempt to stop them from arresting the woman.”
ICE Sparks Chaotic Fight After Trying to Arrest Mom Holding Her Baby
Residents of the town surrounded ICE agents in an attempt to stop them from arresting the woman.
newrepublic.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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People just learning of Worcester from ICE news should understand that the 2nd largest city New England is also a refugee resettlement community. My block is made up of people from all over the world. By design. And while the WPD response was horrific, our community showed up and will continue to.
May 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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In Worcester, a 16-year-old minor was arrested by the police department as she tried to block ICE from taking her own mother away.

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Local groups report major spike in ICE detentions around Massachusetts
From people with no criminal records, claims of mistaken identity, to one person with a sex crime charge against a child: immigration enforcement is up. And locals are wary.
www.wgbh.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
They don't need a warrant
A federal kidnapping in Worcester
www.welcometohellworld.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
May 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.

11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
April 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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ICE went into the database where foreign students are tracked and deleted the record of at least 1,700 or more people because they had some minor interaction with law enforcement — speeding tickets, fishing citations, and other minor things.

Judges are ruling that was illegal.
April 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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This is an administration so hell-bent on stripping immigrants of legal status as fast as they can they they’re not even bothering to make sure they notify the right people before sending out “leave the country” messages.
April 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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12 Clark students have had their visas revoked. This comes hot on the heels of the same thing happening to 4 WPI students.

Clark: www.telegram.com/story/news/l...

WPI: www.telegram.com/story/news/l...
12 Clark students have visas revoked in latest blow to Worcester's international students
News follows announcement of four WPI international student visa revocations.
www.telegram.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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This is some great investigative journalism by the Georgetown The Hoya team. thehoya.com/news/inside-...
Inside GU Basketball’s Links to ICE Deportation Planes
On Dec. 14, hours after the Georgetown University men’s basketball team defeated the Syracuse University Orange, a chartered GlobalX airplane with tail number N837VA took off from Syracuse, N.Y., and ...
thehoya.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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According to The Boston Globe, “Neighbors reported that unmarked cars were surveilling [her apartment] for two days before apprehending her on the street.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe
In an email Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM