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Was reading one of these in FLSD last week, and in an eleven-page opinion the entirety of four pages was just citations of cases since July calling (I assume) bullshit on Hurtado/the preceding policy?
It's just page 7 from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606.9.0.pdf , too much for alt-text It's just page 8 from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606.9.0.pdf , too much for alt-text It's just page 9 from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606.9.0.pdf , too much for alt-text It's just page 10 from https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606/gov.uscourts.flsd.699606.9.0.pdf , too much for alt-text
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social always seems busy so not sure how long the interview has been in the pipeline, but re: @mattcameron.bsky.social's aside on Webex EOIR observation, flagging their updated "fact sheet" purporting to limit the IJ links to parties only:
www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
Visitors should observe in person at the courtroom in which the hearing is scheduled and held. The Webex links posted on EOIR’s website are for parties appearing remotely.
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Default assumption is at least some of this has to be people trying to wedge this, and will probably force myself to listen to a "Tim Dillon Show" at some point for any context.

But after his supposed "evolution" in response to advocacy, he's been making it hard this year not to be cynical about it
Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515 January 25, 2023 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Biden: We write to express our great concern over the new asylum restrictions announced by your administration. While we applaud the creation of new legal pathways for Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans modeled off the existing parole programs for Venezuelans, it is disappointing that these pathways come at the expense of the legal right to seek asylum at the southern border. Instead of issuing a new asylum transit ban and expanding Title 42, we encourage your administration to stand by your commitment to restore and protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. Signature of "Bernard Sanders United States Senator"
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I know you have to make some concessions to running in Ohio, but this seems a bit excessive IMHO.
Gmail inbox: What 88 represents to me (S) Sherrod <info@e.sherrodbrown.com> to: me
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
No, I know, even down to the ~noon-1pm window.

But the ADS-B track today on C2714...one of these is not like the others, right?

Like I said, probably just noise, but kind of weird. 🤷🏻‍♂️
ADS-B flight track of USCG C27J with labels for approach to KTNT around 16:36Z and departure around 21:42Z ADS-B flight track of USCG C27J with labels for approach to KTNT around 15:51Z and departure around 16:30Z ADS-B flight track of USCG C27J with labels for approach to KTNT around 16:xxZ and departure around 16:56Z ADS-B flight track of USCG C27J with labels for approach around 16:27Z and departure around 18:15Z, but seemingly around an airstrip west down US 41 from KTNT
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I guess DeSantis's CA11 judge will be reinstating that injunction pending an EIS any minute now, huh?
Order of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, staying the district court injunction: "There may come a time when FDEP applies for FEMA fund- ing. If the Federal Defendants ultimately decide to approve that request and reimburse Florida for its expenditures related to the Fa- cility, they may need to first conduct an EIS. See Macht, 916 F.2d at 17 (“An adequate EIS would, of course, be a necessary prerequisite for the expenditure of federal funds on the project.”)." https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709/gov.uscourts.ca11.92709.42.1.pdf
October 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Two and a half months after ICE and Florida decided to make their camp in the Everglades a functional blacksite, after multiple lawsuits and innumerable suffering families and frustrated representatives, it looks like they decided to turn the ODLS switch back on overnight.
Facility Page Detention Information For: [REDACTED] Country of Birth: [REDACTED] A-Number: [REDACTED] Current Detention Facility: Florida Soft Side South 54575 TAMIAMI TRL E NA OCHOPEE, FL 34141 Visitor Information: (561) 519-9732 ERO Office Information Family members and legal representatives may be able to obtain additional information about this individual's case by contacting this ERO office: KROME, MIAMI, FL, DOCKET CONTROL OFFICE, Phone Number: (305) 207-2101
September 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Looks like a modest update in the system tonight, fwiw.

Not at all a comment on how similarly abhorrent to expect BCI towards the people inside, but I guess at least bodes a bit better for it not being quite the blackhole that the Everglades has been.
Facility Page Detention Information For: [REDACTED] Country of Birth: [REDACTED] A-Number: [REDACTED] Current Detention Facility: Florida Baker Correctional Institute 20706 US 90 W SANDERSON, FL 32087 Visitor Information: (386) 719-4500 ERO Office Information Family members and legal representatives may be able to obtain additional information about this individual's case by contacting this ERO office: KROME, MIAMI, FL, DOCKET CONTROL OFFICE, Phone Number: (305) 207-2101
September 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Going to print this out on a big cue card and hold it up in the back row of immigration courtrooms.

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In this respect, the EOIR Dismissal Policy is in conflict with the regulation that permits a dismissal when the “[c]ircumstances of the case have changed . . . to such an extent that continuation is no longer in the best interest of the government.” 8 C.F.R. § 239.2(a)(7) (emphasis added). Neither the increase in the detained caseload nor the implementation of the ICE Courthouse Arrests Policies represent a change in the circumstances of a case. A change of circumstances of a case is a new fact or condition that is specific to the case at hand, e.g., vacatur of a conviction, a pardon, a change in marital status, or a change in country conditions if a defensive asylum is sought. (See Burr Decl. ¶ 20 (ECF 23-2).) This contradiction alone renders the EOIR Policy on Dismissals contrary to law. 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A) (the court shall set aside agency action found to be “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law”).
September 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"If the Federal Defendants ultimately decide to approve that request and reimburse Florida for its expenditures related to the Facility, they may need to first conduct an EIS."
25-12873 Order of the Court 23 There may come a time when FDEP applies for FEMA fund- ing. If the Federal Defendants ultimately decide to approve that request and reimburse Florida for its expenditures related to the Fa- cility, they may need to first conduct an EIS. See Macht, 916 F.2d at 17 (“An adequate EIS would, of course, be a necessary prerequisite for the expenditure of federal funds on the project.”). But, having not yet formally “committed to funding that project,” the Federal Defendants have taken no “major federal action” subjecting them to the procedural requirements of NEPA. Atlanta Coal., 599 F.2d at 1340. And because the Federal Defendants were not “required” to complete an EIS, the Plaintiffs’ APA claim based on the Federal De- fendants’ failure to do so is foreclosed as a matter of law. Norton, 542 U.S. at 64. For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the De- fendants are substantially likely to succeed on the merits of this claim.
September 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Visitor Information: (386) 719-4500"

www.fdc.myflorida.com/about/facili...

"* Baker Correctional Institution (Male)
20706 US Highway 90 West
Sanderson, Florida 32087-2359
(386) 719-4500
Fax: (386) 758-5759"

☹️
An ODLS facility page entry, with redactions of PID: Facility Page Detention Information For: [REDACTED] Country of Birth: [REDACTED] A-Number: [REDACTED] Current Detention Facility: Call Florida Department of Corrections for Details , FL Visitor Information: (386) 719-4500 ERO Office Information Family members and legal representatives may be able to obtain additional information about this individual's case by contacting this ERO office: KROME, MIAMI, FL, DOCKET CONTROL OFFICE, Phone Number: (305) 207-2101
September 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Jesus christ, not just 287(g)-related expenses, the entire compensation, including overtime.
Starting October 1, 2025, participating law enforcement will have these reimbursement opportunities: ICE will fully reimburse participating agencies for the annual salary and benefits of each eligible trained 287(g) officer, including overtime coverage up to 25% of the officer’s annual salary.
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
OK, no, seriously, why does a state attorney's office have a (pending) Task Force Model 287(g)?
Pending 287(g) agreements as of 2025.08.22 https://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/offices/ero/287g/pendingAgencies08222025pm.xlsx "STATE FLORIDA LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY Office of the State Attorney Sixth Judical Circuit (sic) (Office of the State Attorney Sixth Judicial Circuit) TYPE State COUNTY #NA SUPPORT TYPE Task Force Model"
August 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Another one of these (C2705) is on the ground in the Everglades right now.
globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=ae2730

Transfers out of the camp have been much faster and more numerous than transfers in since mid-August, usually to detention and deportation hubs in Texas before returning to Alexandria, LA.
Of eight Coast Guard C-27s that have operated since mid-June, all but one appears to have been dedicated to ICE flights. They have landed at the tent camp in the Everglades nine times beginning on July 23 and as recently as Thursday. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae2730&lat=30.973&lon=-87.419&zoom=5.0&showTrace=2025-08-23&timestamp=1755963563 Map of southeastern United States with a flight track over the Gulf of Mexico from Alexandria, LA to the Dade-Collier Training and Transition airfield in Ochopee, FL, of a Coast Guard C27J, registered callsign C2705, ICAO hex code AE2730
August 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
How does one describe a litigation strategy whose facts in support change with each filing?

"Protean" is the word stuck in my mind, for whatever reason.
Next, Defendants’ use of the site includes actions currently taking place in the S.D. Fla. Most importantly, ICE’s Miami field office is responsible for coordinating and supervising immigration enforcement functions conducted by deputized state law enforcement agency officials. (DE 21-1 ¶ 5, 8 (declaration from ICE Interim Assistant Director of Field Operations Thomas Giles confirming that the detention camp operates under Florida agencies’ 287(g) agreements with ICE); DE 118-1 ¶ 9 (declaration from ICE Miami field office director stating that he oversees the relevant 287(g) agreements)). In a different case raising constitutional challenges to detainee treatment on the TNT site, the Federal Defendants filed a declaration by another ICE Miami field office official, Juan Lopez Vega, in which he attested that his responsibilities “include overseeing [Enforcement and Removal Operations], and detention facility operations within the Miami [Area of Responsibility], including those at the South Florida Soft Sided Facility South (SFSSFS). . . . which is also known as Alligator Alcatraz.” C.M. v. Noem, 25-cv-23182 (S.D. Fla.), ECF 50-1 ¶¶ 3–4.18 Given that the sole use of the site is to detain those in federal immigration custody, all activities on the site are supervised and directed by the Miami ICE field office. See supra Section I.B. (quoting language from 287(g) agreements stating, “[i]mmigration enforcement activities conducted by participating LEA personnel will be supervised and directed by ICE.”). Additionally, the Federal Defendants bring detainees from other Miami-Dade detention facilities to the TNT site. (DE 114 at 312–14). In fact, in another case involving the detention camp, Federal Defendants recently filed a notice that “the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) has designated Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome) as the immigration court with administrative responsibility over the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility.” C.M. v. Noem, 25-cv-23182 (S.D. Fla.), ECF 83. These core actions are alone sufficient to make venue proper in the S.D. Fla. For their part, the Federal Defendants attached declarations from Thomas Giles, Acting Deputy Executive Associate Director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (“ERO”), (DE 21-1), and David Richardson, acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”). (DE 21-2).6 Giles stated that ICE’s role in the development of the detention camp has been “limited to touring the camp to ensure compliance with ICE detention standards, and meeting with officials from the State of Florida to discuss operational matters.” (DE 21-1 ¶ 5). He further declared Florida would have final decision-making authority over who to detain at the camp, but that any detentions at the camp would be pursuant to “section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [(“INA”)], codified at 8 U.S.C § 1357(g).” (Id. ¶¶ 6–7). Even so, Richardson admitted that the facility would be funded by the federal government, stating that “DHS/FEMA announced $600 million in federal funding for the Detention Support Grant Program [(“DSGP”)]” and that “[t]he only eligible applicant under the DSGP is [FDEM].” (DE 21-2 ¶ 3).
August 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Oh come on.

(Declaration of Sirce Owen: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70993...

"Inartfully-drafted" email in question: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70993...)
Excerpt from declaration: "15. In short, although unnecessary in light of EOIR’s well-established practices of considering oral motions to dismiss on the day of the hearing and the regulatory authority of Immigration Judges to exercise independent judgment and discretion in deciding cases, the Riley Email did not represent a new EOIR policy (or an EOIR policy at all), did not represent a change to how EOIR adjudicates cases, and did not direct Immigration Judges how to decide cases. Rather, the Riley email was directed to ACIJs to remind them what Immigration Judges may do, not what Immigration Judges must do. It referenced specific statutory and regulatory authority available to Immigration Judges and did not deviate or contradict that authority, nor did it purport to. At most, it was an inartfully-drafted effort to provide awareness to ACIJs that “may be generally helpful.” Whether it was helpful or not is subjective."
August 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FWIW

But AFAICT still seems to be primary destination for direct ICE arrests down here last ~2 weeks (not sure about 287(g) LEAs, which are probably the much bigger share overall), AND people seem to be getting transferred out more quickly than the first 2 months, so #'s may be fluid for a while?
“There are only 336 people there right now,” said Frost. “The last time I came here it was darn well a thousand. (There are) still cages, still horrible conditions. I thought because much less people, they would spread them around and not have 32 per cage, but that was not the case.”
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Man, fuck right off.

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This case has a tortured procedural history. Nearly every aspect of Plaintiffs’ civil action— their causes of action, their facts in support, their theories of venue, their arguments on the merits, and their requests for relief—have changed with each filing. Because Plaintiffs’ protean litigation strategy has profoundly affected their case, the Court finds it necessary to explain how this case has evolved.
August 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Oh, uh...okay.
Pending 287(g) agreements as of 2025.08.15 https://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/offices/ero/287g/pendingAgencies08152025pm.xlsx "STATE FLORIDA LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY Office of the State Attorney Sixth Judical Circuit (sic) (Office of the State Attorney Sixth Judicial Circuit) TYPE State COUNTY #NA SUPPORT TYPE Jail Enforcement Model"
August 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What an ODLS entry looks like right now for detainees at Fort Bliss, in case it's helpful for folks (the phone number they provide certainly isn't).
Detention Information For: [REDACTED] Country of Birth: [REDACTED] A-Number: [REDACTED] Current Detention Facility: ERO EL PASO CAMP EAST MONTANA 6920 Digital Road El Paso, TX 79936 Visitor Information: (915) 000-0000 ERO Office Information Family members and legal representatives may be able to obtain additional information about this individual's case by contacting this ERO office: KROME MIAMI, FL, PROCESSING CENTER, Phone Number: (305) 552-1845
August 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ICE "managed" COVID during heights of pandemic by transferring sick people from facility to facility, spreading to vulnerable people stuck in detention.

Just as reports from Everglades camp suggest (possibly intense) respiratory illness, seeing biggest transfer out to date these past few days.
A Bluesky post from Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/tomaskenn.bsky.social/post/3lw7s3tequk2q "More transport buses leaving Alligator Alcatraz today, escorted by Florida Highway Patrol vehicles. Transport buses going in and out of Alligator Alcatraz at 12:29am, 1:40am, 1:51am, and 3:11am." A large coach-style bus with black-white-purple trim, driving out of the Everglades camp towards the camera turning to camera's right in front of a blue sign reading "Alligator Alcatraz". Bluesky post by Miami New Times @miaminewtimes.com https://bsky.app/profile/miaminewtimes.com/post/3lw55m45cxg27 "If there's an infectious disease spreading at the facility, the state refuses to say so." Interior of a detention tent at the Everglades camp, with Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis touring the empty tent barrack, with chain-link cages with cots on either side, and light bleeding into the tent from outside.
August 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Thinking about stories like this every time someone praises Sheinbaum and Morena for "standing up" against Trump and inhumane US immigration policy.
The tents, along with a shelter managed by Mexico’s federal government, are off-limits to nearly all non-governmental service providers and rights advocates. This limits access to those who would seek to learn from deported individuals about abuse that they may have endured in U.S. custody, or to help them file complaints or pursue legal remedies. Mexico’s immigration agency (National Migration Institute, or INM) takes some deported people, particularly from third countries, to a detention facility in Janos, Chihuahua, about two hours south of Ciudad Juárez. From there, they are bused to the southern part of the country. This further limits access to recently removed migrants. As a result, service providers and rights advocates in Ciudad Juárez had little to report about abuse suffered during the detention and deportation process. Still, we heard allegations including a man being returned with ribs broken during his arrest, women in a detention center being searched and examined in rooms with only male personnel present, and people frequently being returned without their identification documents.
August 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Was actually trawling CourtListener just now to see if there had yet been instances of detained parolees/former parolees getting released based on the CHIRLA decision from last Friday, and sure enough...
Last week, in Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. Noem, No. 1:25-cv-00872-JMC, 2025 WL 2192986 (D.D.C. Aug. 1, 2025), the District Court in the District of Columbia determined that under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(A)(iii)(II), a person who has been paroled cannot be designated for expedited removal. This section allows an immigration officer to place an inadmissible person in expedited removal as long as the person “has not been admitted or paroled into the United States, and who has not affirmatively shown, to the satisfaction of an immigration officer, that the alien has been physically present in the United States continuously for the 2-year period immediately prior to the date of the determination of inadmissibility under this subparagraph.” Coalition concluded that the statute “forbids the expedited removal of noncitizens who have been, at any point in time, paroled into the United States.” Id. at *22.
August 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It is kind of...something that the high school within those two blocks is notable for having a magnet "academy" in..."Homeland Security". 😐
A promotional image from https://schoolofjustice.org/m/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=242851&type=d The heading text "The Academy of Homeland" with vignette photos of teenagers •pointing guns •squaring off in a martial arts/defense class •lined up wearing gloves and holding crime scene markers that suggest criminal forensics •standing at attention in a group •practicing arresting (?) a black woman •doing...something with a uniformed woman exiting a Miami-Dade Police Department cruiser
August 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Appreciate this story making the distinction between Title 32 activation and federalization, which some reporting has been vague about.

FWIW, FLNG has been operating under ICE (under 287(g)?) for at least a month now; saw unit patches for 50th RSG and 83rd TC driving detention vans for Miami ERO.
On Tuesday, in Florida, National Guard troops were activated to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in nine cities, including Miami and Orlando, according to a local official. Very blurry image of what appears to be 50th Regional Support Group shoulder patch in operational camo. Very blurry image of what appears to be 83rd Troop Command shoulder patch in operational camo.
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM