Reposted by Amy Liebman
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data.
(Published May)
(Published May)
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
www.propublica.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data.
(Published May)
(Published May)
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Weekly Win: After decades of restrictions, the U.S. Forest Service will now provide N95s for wildfire fighters. A vital step forward for health & safety.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Weekly Win: After decades of restrictions, the U.S. Forest Service will now provide N95s for wildfire fighters. A vital step forward for health & safety.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
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@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social thank you for your outstanding reporting!
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to…
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August 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social thank you for your outstanding reporting!
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to…
www.propublica.org
August 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
Reposted by Amy Liebman
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Today, MCN’s @amyliebman.bsky.social testified before OSHA, joining colleagues nationwide in support of a strong, enforceable federal heat standard to protect workers.
June 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Today, MCN’s @amyliebman.bsky.social testified before OSHA, joining colleagues nationwide in support of a strong, enforceable federal heat standard to protect workers.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Read MCN's position statement in English and Spanish.
Mass detention and deportation efforts can have severe, lasting impacts on the physical and mental health of immigrant families.
www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2025/ap...
Mass detention and deportation efforts can have severe, lasting impacts on the physical and mental health of immigrant families.
www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2025/ap...
May 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Read MCN's position statement in English and Spanish.
Mass detention and deportation efforts can have severe, lasting impacts on the physical and mental health of immigrant families.
www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2025/ap...
Mass detention and deportation efforts can have severe, lasting impacts on the physical and mental health of immigrant families.
www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2025/ap...
MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social in @gristnews.bsky.social : "The lack of national multilingual emergency weather alerts 'will have pretty deep ripple effects,' said Liebman. 'It’s a life or death impact.”
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Millions of Americans don’t speak English. Now they won’t be warned before weather disasters.
An internal memo reviewed by Grist showed the National Weather Service has stopped translating radio alerts in the southern region, a move that has enraged workers in local offices.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Amy Liebman
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...
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Heartbreaking.
"The school-aged child who tested positive for measles was hospitalized in Lubbock and passed away on Thursday from what the child’s doctors described as measles pulmonary failure. The child was not vaccinated and had no reported underlying conditions."
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
#IDsky 🧪
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#IDsky 🧪
Texas announces second death in measles outbreak | Texas DSHS
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April 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Heartbreaking.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
What remains of the CDC after Tuesday’s cuts is a hobbled agency, with a smaller global footprint, devoting fewer resources to environmental health, occupational health and disease prevention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What remains of the CDC after Tuesday’s cuts is a hobbled agency, with a smaller global footprint, devoting fewer resources to environmental health, occupational health and disease prevention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
Reposted by Amy Liebman
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
propub.li
March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Reposted by Amy Liebman
We are deporting innocent men without any due process to a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer, autism awareness, and loving their mothers.
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We are deporting innocent men without any due process to a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer, autism awareness, and loving their mothers.
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Trump administration to nominate acting director to lead CDC
Susan Monarez is an experienced health administrator who has expertise in new health technologies.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
Photo: James Gathany / CDC
Susan Monarez is an experienced health administrator who has expertise in new health technologies.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
Photo: James Gathany / CDC
March 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Trump administration to nominate acting director to lead CDC
Susan Monarez is an experienced health administrator who has expertise in new health technologies.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
Photo: James Gathany / CDC
Susan Monarez is an experienced health administrator who has expertise in new health technologies.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...
Photo: James Gathany / CDC
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
March 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social shares how MCN equips health centers to become the community hub during disasters. MCN provides extensive resources and technical assistance, you can see some of the resources on our Disaster Preparedness page: www.migrantclinician.org/disaster-pre...
March 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social shares how MCN equips health centers to become the community hub during disasters. MCN provides extensive resources and technical assistance, you can see some of the resources on our Disaster Preparedness page: www.migrantclinician.org/disaster-pre...
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Community Health Centers are uniquely positioned to mobilize communities around climate health impacts on the frontline. This mobilization starts before the disaster.
March 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Community Health Centers are uniquely positioned to mobilize communities around climate health impacts on the frontline. This mobilization starts before the disaster.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Amy Liebman from the @migrantclinicians.bsky.social shares a framework on the climate impacted migrant, showing the many touch points of climate change on health.
#OurPlanetOurHealth
#OurPlanetOurHealth
March 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Amy Liebman from the @migrantclinicians.bsky.social shares a framework on the climate impacted migrant, showing the many touch points of climate change on health.
#OurPlanetOurHealth
#OurPlanetOurHealth
Reposted by Amy Liebman
Phenix Lumber was the deadliest workplace in America over the past five years. OSHA inspectors issued them more than 100 safety violations and millions in fines. Yet deaths and injuries continued.
It was the deadliest workplace in America. So why didn’t safety regulators shut it down?
OSHA issued over 180 citations and millions in fines to this Alabama sawmill, the deadliest workplace in America, but the mayhem didn’t stop.
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February 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Phenix Lumber was the deadliest workplace in America over the past five years. OSHA inspectors issued them more than 100 safety violations and millions in fines. Yet deaths and injuries continued.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.
Reposted by Amy Liebman
New @sentientmedia.org article featuring MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social: "In her role at Migrant Clinicians Network, Liebman is working to increase knowledge of H5N1 among clinicians... 'We need to think about this disease in terms of worker health and safety'"
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Tracking Bird Flu Is Largely Left to States. Under Trump, the Federal Government Might Step Even Further Back.
With human infections of avian flu present in the U.S., workers remain most vulnerable to the virus.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New @sentientmedia.org article featuring MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social: "In her role at Migrant Clinicians Network, Liebman is working to increase knowledge of H5N1 among clinicians... 'We need to think about this disease in terms of worker health and safety'"
sentientmedia.org/tracking-bir...
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@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @propublica.org bring the fears and realities of workers on dairies, factories and restaurants to light as they prepare for the potential of deportation
How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...
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February 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @propublica.org bring the fears and realities of workers on dairies, factories and restaurants to light as they prepare for the potential of deportation