Dianne Solis
@disolis.bsky.social
Curious journalist/storyteller
#immigration #justice #booksky 🦋📚
@dallasnews @wsj alum / Words: Texas Observer, KERA, Guardian, El País.
#immigration #justice #booksky 🦋📚
@dallasnews @wsj alum / Words: Texas Observer, KERA, Guardian, El País.
🚨In the latest CNN poll, 55% say the president has gone too far when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the US illegally, up 10 points since February. www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/p...
CNN Poll: Americans largely oppose Trump’s ramp-up of deportations | CNN Politics
Americans largely oppose recent efforts by Donald Trump’s administration to scale up its deportation program, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a rising majority saying the president has go...
www.cnn.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🚨In the latest CNN poll, 55% say the president has gone too far when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the US illegally, up 10 points since February. www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/p...
“It’s sort of a Catch-22,” said Nikolai Mischler, an organizer for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a NYC-based nonprofit that watches court proceedings.
“It’s completely understandable for people to be scared to go to court,” he said, though it puts them at even greater risk.
“It’s completely understandable for people to be scared to go to court,” he said, though it puts them at even greater risk.
"These are people that are showing up for their court proceedings like the US government has asked them to," said AILA practice & policy counsel Vanessa Dojaquez-Torres. “They are simply wanting a fair chance to request...asylum or another form of relief."
'Escalation:' Federal agents now detaining people with active immigration cases
Advocates describe courthouse arrests as a "Catch-22." Migrants have to come to court but are arrested when they do.
www.usatoday.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“It’s sort of a Catch-22,” said Nikolai Mischler, an organizer for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a NYC-based nonprofit that watches court proceedings.
“It’s completely understandable for people to be scared to go to court,” he said, though it puts them at even greater risk.
“It’s completely understandable for people to be scared to go to court,” he said, though it puts them at even greater risk.
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Four U.S. Coast Guard aircrew members received military medals for their heroism during catastrophic flash flooding at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas. www.stripes.com/branches/coa...
US Coast Guard aircrew awarded for heroism during flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas
Four U.S. Coast Guard aircrew members received military medals for their heroism during catastrophic flash flooding at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas.
www.stripes.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Four U.S. Coast Guard aircrew members received military medals for their heroism during catastrophic flash flooding at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas. www.stripes.com/branches/coa...
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BREAKING: FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals.
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors.
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July 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
BREAKING: FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals.
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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Exhausted lawmakers are choosing retirement over bipartisan dealmaking that their own parties clearly don't want.
Moderates flee Congress as bipartisan dealmaking crumbles
Exhausted lawmakers are choosing retirement over bipartisan dealmaking that their own parties clearly don't want.
www.axios.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Exhausted lawmakers are choosing retirement over bipartisan dealmaking that their own parties clearly don't want.
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As immigration agents make random arrests in Santa Ana, a mom tells 7-y/o:
“No, honey. We can’t go outside.”
“Why?”
“The police are taking people away. They are taking away people who were not born here.”
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“No, honey. We can’t go outside.”
“Why?”
“The police are taking people away. They are taking away people who were not born here.”
| W @ajcorchado.bsky.social @cindycarcamo.bsky.social english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-...
Immigration raids disrupt businesses and migrant families in Los Angeles: ‘I haven’t seen it like this since Covid’
The increase in arrests in California is starting to hit the economy and the pockets of immigrant families, who no longer dare to go out or work
english.elpais.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
As immigration agents make random arrests in Santa Ana, a mom tells 7-y/o:
“No, honey. We can’t go outside.”
“Why?”
“The police are taking people away. They are taking away people who were not born here.”
| W @ajcorchado.bsky.social @cindycarcamo.bsky.social english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-...
“No, honey. We can’t go outside.”
“Why?”
“The police are taking people away. They are taking away people who were not born here.”
| W @ajcorchado.bsky.social @cindycarcamo.bsky.social english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-...
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A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw
June 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw
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Shameful. The military is being politicized and taking sides. This is unprecedented in American history.
Military members boo Newsom, Biden and the press during Trump speech
Military members boo Newsom, Biden and the press during Trump speech
Members of a crowd filled with members of the military and their families booed and jeered President Trump’s political rivals and the press on Tuesday at the president’s prompting durin…
www.wbtw.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Shameful. The military is being politicized and taking sides. This is unprecedented in American history.
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"It was the most amount of less-lethals I’ve seen used in a single day protest," said @calmatters.org reporter @sergioolmos.bsky.social, struck in the chest with what he believes to be a 40mm sponge grenade. He's covered hundreds of days of protests in his career.
Journalists come under fire covering L.A. protests
Reporters say they were struck with less-lethal rounds fired by law enforcement in Los Angeles. Advocates worry it will inhibit vital journalism.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"It was the most amount of less-lethals I’ve seen used in a single day protest," said @calmatters.org reporter @sergioolmos.bsky.social, struck in the chest with what he believes to be a 40mm sponge grenade. He's covered hundreds of days of protests in his career.
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June 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.
June 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump and Xi speak amid stalled negotiations over tariffs that have roiled global trade, Chinese state media says.
June 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump and Xi speak amid stalled negotiations over tariffs that have roiled global trade, Chinese state media says.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The zip-tied immigrant children in San Antonio were ages 9 to 12.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
www.mysanantonio.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The zip-tied immigrant children in San Antonio were ages 9 to 12.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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She was preparing for her husband to be deported to Vietnam. The deportation itself was not a surprise.
What was a surprise was the final destination - South Sudan.
My latest on the admin’s use of third countries:
www.npr.org/2025/06/01/g...
What was a surprise was the final destination - South Sudan.
My latest on the admin’s use of third countries:
www.npr.org/2025/06/01/g...
The White House is deporting people to countries they're not from. Why?
The administration argues the men's home countries won't take them — but lawyers say getting sent to a country like South Sudan could lead to more persecution.
www.npr.org
June 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
She was preparing for her husband to be deported to Vietnam. The deportation itself was not a surprise.
What was a surprise was the final destination - South Sudan.
My latest on the admin’s use of third countries:
www.npr.org/2025/06/01/g...
What was a surprise was the final destination - South Sudan.
My latest on the admin’s use of third countries:
www.npr.org/2025/06/01/g...
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Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.
Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.
The zip-tied immigrant children in San Antonio were ages 9 to 12.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
www.mysanantonio.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The zip-tied immigrant children in San Antonio were ages 9 to 12.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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Cutting off research funding for Harvard University might hurt the school, its president Alan Garber told NPR, but it also potentially sets back important work that benefits the public.
As Trump targets elite schools, Harvard's president says they should 'stand firm'
Cutting off research funding for Harvard University might hurt the school, its president Alan Garber told NPR, but it also potentially sets back important work that benefits the public.
www.npr.org
May 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Cutting off research funding for Harvard University might hurt the school, its president Alan Garber told NPR, but it also potentially sets back important work that benefits the public.
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BREAKING: NPR & public radio stations sue Trump over funding halts, argue such moves are an unconstitutional attempt to retaliate against the network because he doesn't like its content. Lead counsel: stymied GWBush DC Cir nominee Miguel Estrada. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
NPRvTrumpComp052725
www.documentcloud.org
May 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
BREAKING: NPR & public radio stations sue Trump over funding halts, argue such moves are an unconstitutional attempt to retaliate against the network because he doesn't like its content. Lead counsel: stymied GWBush DC Cir nominee Miguel Estrada. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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A Mexican rights group says questionable candidates in an upcoming judicial election reveal grave flaws in the government vetting system reut.rs/43aVvJS
May 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A Mexican rights group says questionable candidates in an upcoming judicial election reveal grave flaws in the government vetting system reut.rs/43aVvJS
As Rivas Zara exited the courtroom with a packet containing instructions on how to appeal by June 23, a plainclothes federal agent stood up and followed him out. Several others, none of whom had visible law enforcement badges, moved in and detained the man in the hallway.
Federal agents in plainclothes on Friday detained at least 11 people at the immigration court in the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, continuing a days-long enforcement campaign that is happening at courts around the country.
Plainclothes officers detain 11 at Dallas immigration court Friday
Some people who were detained earlier this week have been transported to Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado.
www.dallasnews.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
As Rivas Zara exited the courtroom with a packet containing instructions on how to appeal by June 23, a plainclothes federal agent stood up and followed him out. Several others, none of whom had visible law enforcement badges, moved in and detained the man in the hallway.
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In Phoenix, US prosecutors drop charges against migrants as ICE agents wait outside immigration court to arrest them.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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In Phoenix, US prosecutors drop charges against migrants as border agents wait outside
"I've never seen action like today ever,” attorney Eugene Delgado said. “This hasn't been the normal practice in Phoenix at all.”
www.azcentral.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
In Phoenix, US prosecutors drop charges against migrants as ICE agents wait outside immigration court to arrest them.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Dallas immigration attorney Cristina Salazar said she was stunned by the detentions.
“I really think it’s in violation of the Constitution,” she said. “We don’t know where they’re putting them.”
#dueprocess
“I really think it’s in violation of the Constitution,” she said. “We don’t know where they’re putting them.”
#dueprocess
#Breaking: Plainclothes federal agents detained several people this week at the immigration court in downtown Dallas, continuing a pattern seen at courts across the country.
At least 4 people detained by plainclothes agents Thursday at Dallas immigration court
Reporters with The Dallas Morning News on Thursday witnessed agents detain four individuals, including at least two people whose immigration cases were...
www.dallasnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Dallas immigration attorney Cristina Salazar said she was stunned by the detentions.
“I really think it’s in violation of the Constitution,” she said. “We don’t know where they’re putting them.”
#dueprocess
“I really think it’s in violation of the Constitution,” she said. “We don’t know where they’re putting them.”
#dueprocess