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Sr. Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project. Focus on immigration detention. (Views my own; repost does not = endorsement)
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The men told NPR they were kept in the dark about why they were in Guantánamo Bay, and were denied access to an attorney or a phone call with loved ones.

www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

wapo.st/4icNYil

Other folks have noted this, but joining in the chorus expressing relief that TRAC is back up and running! We need this timely, authoritative, and accurate source for immigration detention and enforcement data more than ever. tracreports.org

Today ImmDef and other orgs received a subcontractor stop-work order from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior for all activities related to our legal defense programs for unaccompanied children. This slash will deprive 26,000 children of access to legal counsel nationwide. www.immdef.org/blog/urep_pr...

A woman who’s originally from Venezuela was stopped in Tucson for driving 25 in a 40 zone. Border Patrol arrived, handcuffed her in front of her children. All three were detained, interrogated, threatened with transfer to Guantanamo. Then, they were deported to Mexico azluminaria.org/2025/02/16/v...

They also said they were excited about Trump’s executive order reversing a Biden-era ban on private-prison contracting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

Unfortunately the Trump administration is back to its old strategy of filling prisons and jails where conditions grew so bad that they were shut down with immigration detention. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for access to immigrants transferred from the United States to detention at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Immigration lawyers have called Guantánamo a "black hole" in terms of lawyer's access to their clients.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking access to dozens of migrants flown to a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying they were being denied access to an attorney www.reuters.com/world/aclu-l...

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration to allow immigrants they are detaining at Guantánamo Bay to access legal services. It is unprecedented and illegal for the president to ship people away from the U.S. and strip them of access to a lawyer.

Our Constitution does not allow the government to hold people incommunicado, without any ability to speak to counsel or the outside world. We'll see you in court. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

NEW: We sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding access to immigrants detained at Guantánamo Bay and answers about plans to expand immigration detention there. The government cannot use Guantánamo as a legal black hole to violate immigrants' rights.

Advocates fought so hard to end ICE's contract at Etowah--long documented to have abysmal conditions of confinement. New reports that Trump wants to renew a contract for ICE detention there: www.wvtm13.com/article/etow...

A good rundown of this weekend's pro-immigrant protests - organized by the grassroots! - across the country by @capitol.press. (Who is also looking for stories from today's Day Without Immigrants action.)

Not a good supermarket generally, and now I will never go— and urge others not to patronize Dollar. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICE detention standards are already notoriously low, with weak enforcement. This will only lead to a deterioration of dangerous detention conditions. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Buckley Space Force Base preps to be immigration and operations base for large immigration action expected this week in Aurora www.cpr.org/2025/01/28/c...

www.ajc.com/news/georgia...

In a previously unheard move, the U.S. military is now permitting ICE to use its Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado to detain immigrants. (from @camiloreports.bsky.social on the other site)

Border czar Tom Homan is on CNN complaining that Chicago is “very well educated” and people “know their rights” too well for ICE to be able to enforce mass deportations. Good work, neighbors.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Trump admin has halted funding for the most basic legal services to immigrants, including the immigration court helpdesk and legal orientation programs for families, children, and detained people, making them even more vulnerable to deportation. Sign this petition: www.change.org/ProtectImmig...

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. When interacting with ICE, you have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, no matter your immigration status. ⬇️

The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like. static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

The Trump administration will undoubtedly use the federal government’s web of massive electronic surveillance to conduct immigration enforcement. @justfutureslaw.bsky.social has been warning of this dangerous outcome for years: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...

(NBC News) - Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Senator Durbin's office has released a searing investigation on inadequate medical care in U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facilities. The report looks at the failure of care during the Biden administration--imagine what it will be now. www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

*This* is how you protect students and teachers from ICE enforcement. Remember: you do not have to let in ICE unless they have a *judicially* issued warrant--look carefully to see if it was signed by a federal judge. abc7chicago.com/post/us-immi...

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages: www.404media.co/github-is-sh...

NEW: We sent a letter to the Department of Justice reminding them that President Trump cannot legally prosecute state and local officials who refuse to carry out mass deportations. His threats of retribution against these officials go against the Constitution.

The Trump administration has just authorized Department of Justice officers (Bureau of Prisons, ATF, US Marshals, DEA etc.), who have not traditionally had such authority, to enforce immigration law, effectively multiplying available federal agents for deportation.

The jails are RIGHT HERE *in the evac zone* So far they are only evacuating them to another facility in the same complex which is ALSO IN THE EVAC ZONE www.latimes.com/california/s...

! The Trump administration wants ICE to build four detention centers each with 10,000 bed capacity. Only the LA County Jail and Rikers are larger, and that's about the size of the Cook County and Harris County jails. That would cost tens of billions and require thousands of new personnel.

Just filed today: @ACLU & ACLU-MI case challenging ICE regulations to keep records about immigration detention in county jails secret: www.aclumich.org/en/press-rel...

Pablo Alvarado and @ndlon.bsky.social show the power and dignity of organized immigrant workers in the face of hate. This was the inspiring story you need to read today to build hope and dispel fear.

Multiple UFW union offices received this in the mail this week. Thanks for reaching out!

🚨ALERT 🚨ICE activity has been reported (still unverified) at Woodley Park Metro as of 9:30AM on 21/Jan.