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Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
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Papers Please Police State Act is moving forward

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 1 day ago • 1251 comments

Look at this Orwellian nonsense. “We are taking away your legal status, we encourage you to obtain to legal status.” It’s insulting that our government is this dumb and evil

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW: DHS's claim that TPS for Haiti was terminated because DHS thinks Haiti is now "safe for Haitian citizens to return to" is FALSE. According to the termination published in the Federal Register, the ONLY explanation Noem gave is that letting Haitians have TPS was "not in the national interest."

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

ICE has accused the little woman on the right of "assaulting" its agents. Hope the agents are OK.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Here's one of the people ICE is claiming "assaulted" them. He was a U.S. citizen that agents tried to detain for "refusing to answer questions about his identity and citizenship" and trying to go away from them after they illegally walked onto private property. THESE ARE CORE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Whatever the merits, the effect of eliminating all injunctions is to further erode the weak defenses of our constitutional rights and to enhance the already extraordinary power of the government to violate them with impunity. Unprecedented power to the unprecedented president.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Making us poorer and less free is good for the soul

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a war on us. They hate even our veterans.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Holy crap I missed this story a few weeks ago.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

So they can extort immigrants with insane fees but can’t prohibit them for getting benefits after they arise? What is this

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is the administration going to the hilt to prosecute a cancer researcher whose only misstep was not properly declaring some research materials. This is for no other reason than they’re angry her immigration detention garnered sympathetic coverage and want to signal that no one is safe

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Don't listen to the lies. Block out the propaganda. They aren't after the threats. They are after your neighbors, friends, coworkers, and family members.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

The fact that these stories keep happening is terrifying. This is not a small thing. It could irreparably change immigrants' perception of police. Even if you think deporting people is great, there are higher values.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Just think about this statement. It should send chills to your core:

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Remember when nativists pretended to care about the costs that one city was choosing to incur to house immigrants who were unable to work because their nativist laws? Now they're paying all that and more to arrest, detain, and house people who were working and paying taxes.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

What Trump does controls the media and always will. Dems need to stop hiding from the fact and learn to beat him on his issues. It can be done!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Must-read piece by Steve Vladeck: “The Court’s Disastrous Ruling in the Third Country Removal Case.” Here’s a link, plus the snippet that jumped out at me the most. www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

I'm reminded of how Thoreau railed against the governor of Massachusetts for being useless during fugitive slave abductions, noting if a government can't protect people from than then what is the point of it.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

submitted 6 days ago • 177 comments