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NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published a big new report on the growth of ICE detention in Trump's first year back in office. Not only do we track the rising scale of the detention infrastructure, we explain how changing enforcement tactics have shifted the profile of who is locked up by ICE.
January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published a big new report on the growth of ICE detention in Trump's first year back in office. Not only do we track the rising scale of the detention infrastructure, we explain how changing enforcement tactics have shifted the profile of who is locked up by ICE.
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Immigration agents are snatching DACA recipients despite their active status. Alexander, José, and Jeancarlos, all current DACA recipients, were detained and separated from their families. Congress must act NOW ⚠️
✅Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57 to demand they pass the Dream & Promise Act.
✅Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57 to demand they pass the Dream & Promise Act.
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Immigration agents are snatching DACA recipients despite their active status. Alexander, José, and Jeancarlos, all current DACA recipients, were detained and separated from their families. Congress must act NOW ⚠️
✅Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57 to demand they pass the Dream & Promise Act.
✅Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57 to demand they pass the Dream & Promise Act.
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from immigration detention on a judge’s order today while he fights to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory to the immigrant whose wrongful deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador made him a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention on judge's order
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from immigration detention on a judge’s order today while he fights to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory to the immigrant whose wrongful deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador made him a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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President Trump's vile attacks on Somali immigrants—beloved community members in Minnesota & beyond—are steeped in anti-Blackness.
This language seeks to dehumanize our neighbors and normalize state violence. We must stand with one another and reject it for the white nationalist propaganda it is.
This language seeks to dehumanize our neighbors and normalize state violence. We must stand with one another and reject it for the white nationalist propaganda it is.
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
President Trump's vile attacks on Somali immigrants—beloved community members in Minnesota & beyond—are steeped in anti-Blackness.
This language seeks to dehumanize our neighbors and normalize state violence. We must stand with one another and reject it for the white nationalist propaganda it is.
This language seeks to dehumanize our neighbors and normalize state violence. We must stand with one another and reject it for the white nationalist propaganda it is.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
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Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?
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The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
www.levernews.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
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If Kristi Noem is so upset about being denied access to a bathroom, she should address oversight being denied access to ICE facilities. One seems a little more important than the other.
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If Kristi Noem is so upset about being denied access to a bathroom, she should address oversight being denied access to ICE facilities. One seems a little more important than the other.
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Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.
NEW
Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case
The judge, who works for DOJ, found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda.
DHS had said “He will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case
The judge, who works for DOJ, found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda.
DHS had said “He will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case
The judge found “insufficient evidence” to show that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda, according to a copy of the decision reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.
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Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.
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Climate change may be the single greatest geopolitical wild card of the next century — a reshaping of countries' agricultures, economies, and even literal geography. And here a guy who never rose above the rank of Major says the U.S. military shouldn't even consider it.
We are screwed.
We are screwed.
Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."
September 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Climate change may be the single greatest geopolitical wild card of the next century — a reshaping of countries' agricultures, economies, and even literal geography. And here a guy who never rose above the rank of Major says the U.S. military shouldn't even consider it.
We are screwed.
We are screwed.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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He came here at age 13 more than 20 years ago. He got his first ever criminal arrest in August this year, a DUI arrest which got him on ICE’s radar. And they’re treating him like this.
A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:
I just unlocked a new level of rage.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
I just unlocked a new level of rage.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out
Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."
www.npr.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
He came here at age 13 more than 20 years ago. He got his first ever criminal arrest in August this year, a DUI arrest which got him on ICE’s radar. And they’re treating him like this.
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Not a single American has a better life because an immigrant was deported. none. You get nothing out of that. If anything you’re worse off. You’re *likely* worse off.
September 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Not a single American has a better life because an immigrant was deported. none. You get nothing out of that. If anything you’re worse off. You’re *likely* worse off.
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Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
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Indefinite detention is cruel and unconstitutional.
Everyone is entitled to due process.
Everyone is entitled to due process.
September 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Indefinite detention is cruel and unconstitutional.
Everyone is entitled to due process.
Everyone is entitled to due process.
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The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.
TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
Splitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.
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Very well-put!
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Very well-put!
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World War 2 & Vietnam War lasted a combined 27 years, or just shy of 10,000 days. In that time, a total of 132 journalists were killed.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
August 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
World War 2 & Vietnam War lasted a combined 27 years, or just shy of 10,000 days. In that time, a total of 132 journalists were killed.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.