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submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

ICE has been arresting immigrants and asylum seekers after their cases have been dismissed by judges in El Paso. This has left their loved ones in dismay and scared. My story about the expanding crackdown in El Paso.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

i just checked between wsj, nyt, cnn, and el pais (US Spanish ed.) and you will not guess which one had the biggest, most prominent banner space for the story about a sitting US senator getting assaulted by the FBI/DHS for asking a question

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The Acting leader of the immigration courts right now is a woman hired by AG Barr from ICE to be an immigration judge, who quickly made her way up the ranks in term 1.0, and in term 2.0 has dedicated herself to turning the immigration courts into a deportation machine.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 6 days ago • 1252 comments

"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 8 days ago • 328 comments

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

submitted 8 days ago • 55 comments

hey don't forget to turn off biometric access to your phone and if you did happen to forget, in an emergency, pressing the power button 5 times on your iphone will lock it & it can't be unlocked again without the passcode even if you were silly & left face ID on 🙂

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

“Firing back”

submitted 9 days ago • 111 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

He is screaming "help me" and "oh no" over and over and over.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Political imagination is a moral responsibility. Those who cannot imagine that justice is possible will make peace with the unjust and contort themselves in their defense.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

I think this is the explanation: People think it was fine when we were growing up, but not now, because we live in a more dangerous world. Except by pretty much any empirical measure, the opposite is true. Crime rates in most places, for instance, were way higher in the 70s/80s/90s than now.

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

@madoc.bsky.social RIP Walter Brueggemann. A friend at Eerdmans always liked the author photo he used in the 90s(?), looked like Baal horns coming out of his head🙏🏼

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The New Republic taped a jailhouse interview with a beloved immigrant whose arrest has given even Trump supporters 2nd thoughts. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

HSI needs more attention. Shadowy agency with ambiguous jurisdiction and 10K+ officers. They pop up in lots of dubious "DHS" cases -- massage parlor busts, anti-gang stuff, low-level drug policing, etc. Defense/civil rights attorneys have also told me it's really difficult to get info out of them.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

So let me get this straight, in the span of two days, federal agents blocked a reporter from accessing public immigration courts, barged into a congressman’s office and arrested a staff member for trying to block them, and raided a restaurant in military gear, tossing flashbangs, to arrest workers?

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?

submitted 16 days ago • 114 comments

In the first 100 days of the Trump admin, ICE averaged 665 arrests a day. 3,000 a day, a 450% increase, is an INSANE number for them to demand now; genuinely, truly, the stuff of madness.

submitted 20 days ago • 76 comments

yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves

submitted 20 days ago • 192 comments

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

submitted 21 days ago • 77 comments

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 23 days ago • 369 comments

The $150 billion to DHS, which includes over $71 billion for ICE, will transform the agency into something new in U.S. history; the tendrils of federal law enforcement extending into every community in the country on a daily basis, simultaneously more visible and less accountable than ever.

submitted 24 days ago • 37 comments

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

submitted 25 days ago • 196 comments

Indiana-Oklahoma City will be the first NBA Finals where you can't legally bring a James Baldwin book to any of the games.

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US. Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.

submitted 26 days ago • 65 comments

As a House guy, it strikes me that the Senate’s innate chumminess blinds them to the defects of their colleagues that are obvious from the South end of the Capitol. Rosen makes a good point. But nothing is surprising about Rubio rolling over for Trump. It’s why he was chosen for the role.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments