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The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported. In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

submitted 23 hours ago • 124 comments

Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment. Infrastructure for a police state.

submitted 2 hours ago • 64 comments

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submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

The concept of "administrative arrests" is so fucking obviously unconstitutional, it's beyond absurd that our courts have not ruled them as such. The idea that the Founders would have found wisdom in the magic word "administrative" to suspend the Bill of Rights is a cool story

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

NO. TELL THEM NO

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Papers Please Police State Act is moving forward

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 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 • 1265 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 2 days 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 2 days ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 2 days 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 2 days ago • 235 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 2 days 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 2 days ago • 12 comments

Making us poorer and less free is good for the soul

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Holy crap I missed this story a few weeks ago.

submitted 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments