Faiza Patel
@faizapatel.bsky.social
Co-Director, Liberty & NatSec @BrennanCenter
Omg they actually think this a headline?
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Omg they actually think this a headline?
5/5 For more on this little-known agency, check out this @brennancenter.org report: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
A Realignment for Homeland Security Investigations
An agency that purports to focus on major transnational crime instead busies itself with routine immigration enforcement. Congress and DHS leaders must clarify it mission and rein in its surveillance ...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
5/5 For more on this little-known agency, check out this @brennancenter.org report: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
4/5 HSI was deployed by the 1st Trump administration v. racial justice protestors. Their agents made dubious arrests of protestors in Portland in 2020 and reportedly requested aerial surveillance of protest activity in Minneapolis.
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
4/5 HSI was deployed by the 1st Trump administration v. racial justice protestors. Their agents made dubious arrests of protestors in Portland in 2020 and reportedly requested aerial surveillance of protest activity in Minneapolis.
3/5 It already has massive surveillance capabilities, including devices used to collect data from cell phones & facial recognition tools. It has built a data analytics
platform AI to collect and analyze personal
data.
platform AI to collect and analyze personal
data.
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
3/5 It already has massive surveillance capabilities, including devices used to collect data from cell phones & facial recognition tools. It has built a data analytics
platform AI to collect and analyze personal
data.
platform AI to collect and analyze personal
data.
2/5 HSI stands for Homeland Security Investigations, the part of ICE that carries out investigations & prosecutions. It claims authority over 400 federal crimes, with a focus on transnational criminal orgs, terrorist networks, drug trafficking rings, child sex trafficking etc.
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
2/5 HSI stands for Homeland Security Investigations, the part of ICE that carries out investigations & prosecutions. It claims authority over 400 federal crimes, with a focus on transnational criminal orgs, terrorist networks, drug trafficking rings, child sex trafficking etc.
The ACLU suggests that state and local govts can protect their residents by pulling out of JTTFs and limiting info sharing. For more on that, check out this piece by my frmr @brennancenter.org colleague: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Federalism as a Check on Abuses by Federal Law Enforcement
States and cities have the power to decide whether and how their police departments collaborate with federal law enforcement.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The ACLU suggests that state and local govts can protect their residents by pulling out of JTTFs and limiting info sharing. For more on that, check out this piece by my frmr @brennancenter.org colleague: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Treasury & IRS are also instructed to go after non-profits. They may run up against a law that makes it a felony for top officials, including the president, to use the IRS for politically-motivated retaliatory investigation and actions
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Treasury & IRS are also instructed to go after non-profits. They may run up against a law that makes it a felony for top officials, including the president, to use the IRS for politically-motivated retaliatory investigation and actions
Also, if you don't support law enforcement and border control, you're supposedly violating "foundational American principles”
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Also, if you don't support law enforcement and border control, you're supposedly violating "foundational American principles”
It instructs Jt Terrorism Task Forces to investigate a range of supposed domestic terrorists espousing antifascist views-eg Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity, extremism on migration, race, and gender, opposition to traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It instructs Jt Terrorism Task Forces to investigate a range of supposed domestic terrorists espousing antifascist views-eg Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity, extremism on migration, race, and gender, opposition to traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.
It creates conspiracies and plots by "stitching together "disparate, serious acts of actual or attempted criminal conduct with First Amendment-protected beliefs and protests against the president and his policies, and wrongly conflates them as “political violence.”
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It creates conspiracies and plots by "stitching together "disparate, serious acts of actual or attempted criminal conduct with First Amendment-protected beliefs and protests against the president and his policies, and wrongly conflates them as “political violence.”