Going to start this book today. Seems timely. The eBook is free.
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
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BTW there is another low-key protest happening in #Chicago today. if you’re #catholic, you can call it the #NoKings but the King of kings protest, featuring #PopeSouthSide
“Pope Leo to deliver 1st address to US audience in video message in Chicago”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/pope-leo-deliver-1st-address-us-audience-video/story?id=122794475
no, i don’t think it’s a coincidence #PopeLeo chose today for his address. this is counterprogramming. Prevost is notoriously anti #MAGA ; ie: he supports L.A.’s cardinal call for clergy to protect migrants from #ICE
"I want you to imagine a toddler appearing in court to face off against a government-trained attorney trying to deport them. Think of their terror as they take their seat in the courtroom, legs swinging because they’re not long enough to reach the floor."
https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#ICE #politics #USpol #news #Trump #HumanRights #immigration #fascism
Yup
#MAGA Chuds, no uniform, no ID, Mall Ninja gear, masked, cars without plates, etc
Abducting people
Law enforcement impersonation is a lowgrade problem, it's going to explode
No, it is exploding:
"#ICE Impersonator Zip-Tied Woman and Stole $1,000"
https://www.commondreams.org/philadelphia-immigration
I just grabbed a random headline. There's already many stories
Somebody is going to shoot at them- I'm not endorsing that, it's just inevitable in gun crazy USA if they have no ID
These fucking goons need credentials
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It’s not about #immigration.
It’s #RevengePolitics.
#Trump directs #ICE to expand #deportations in #Democratic-run #cities, undeterred by #protests
Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities, a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles & other major cities against the Trump admin’s immigration policies.
#law #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ice-deportations-protests-65fa8d64ea12a78a0ee0ebeea008ee4d
Jay Kuo says that two reports that came out yesterday about the horrifying conditions at Alligator Auschwitz did not get the attention they deserve, so he wants to draw attention to them:
"Anna McAllister of CBS News reported on the inhumane conditions for immigrants now held inside fenced cages in the camp."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #AlligatorAuschwitz #cruelty #ConcentrationCamps
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#Trump officials completely reverse guidance exempting #farms, #hotels & #restaurants from #immigration raids
#ICE agents have been told to continue conducting *enforcement* operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about negative effects on the food industry.
#law #economy #TACO #StephenMiller #DHS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/16/trump-farms-hotels-immigration-raids/
#Immigration raids in #LosAngeles hit #SmallBusiness owners
Juan Ibarra stands outside his fruit & vegetable outlet in LA’s vast fresh #produce market where Hispanic & Latin restaurateurs, street vendors & food truck operators buy supplies every day.
On Monday morning, the usually bustling market was largely empty. Since #ICE began conducting #workplace raids, including at a #textile factory 2 blocks away, Ibarra said #business has virtually dried up.
#economy #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/immigration-raids-los-angeles-hit-small-business-owners-its-worse-than-covid-2025-06-17/
#ICE declares millions of undocumented #immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #Trump #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #autocracy
https://wapo.st/40e4rfK
#BradLander, the #NYC #comptroller who is running for #mayor, was arrested on Tues by federal agents at an #immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
Lander, a #Democrat, was at the city’s main immigration #courthouse, at 26 Federal Plaza, to observe court proceedings where an increasing number of #immigrants who appear for court have been arrested by #ICE agents in recent weeks.
#law #RevengePolitics #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/brad-lander-immigration-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
My last day of work at the World Trade Center was Sept 10, 2001. I worked late, so I was going to go in late the next day. I never made it in (the planes hit in the morning). I was at 5 WTC, a 9 story building between the towers, all my coworkers evacuated
What I remember most were the missing person posters, especially plastered all over Grand Central Terminal
Now we experience it again with #ICE under #Trump
Powered by the same stupid hate and fear that powered 9/11
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice
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#LA #Dodgers denied #ICE agents access to #DodgerStadium parking lot
The #LosAngeles Dodgers on Thurs said they had denied ICE agents access to the parking lot at Dodger Stadium earlier in the day.
"This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium & requested permission to access the parking lots," the team said in a social media post.
"They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight's game will be played as scheduled."
#immigration #law #Trump
https://www.reuters.com/sports/la-dodgers-say-they-denied-ice-agents-access-dodger-stadium-parking-lot-2025-06-19/
"Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney who resigned from ICE’s legal department last month, told me he left because the mission was no longer about protecting the homeland from threats. 'It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December,' Boyd said. ...
'I had to make a moral decision,' he told me."
~ Nick Miroff
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/
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#California surgical center staff demand to see #warrant as #ICE agents detain landscaper
Federal #immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a SoCal surgical center & quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification & a warrant.
#law #Trump #immigration #Gestapo #DueProcess
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrest-california-surgery-center-c827038f1a40227dc05ab1c28b048035
A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.
#law #HumanRights #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
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ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
#News #Data #Privacy #ICE #Deportation #Immigration #IRS #Tax #Trump
A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin on Friday from making indiscriminate #immigration arrests in the #LosAngeles area & denying detainees the right to consult with a lawyer.…
The California judge granted 2 TROs in response to a lawsuit filed last week by immigrant advocacy groups. A fuller hearing is expected in the coming weeks, but the initial rulings represent a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in & around #LA….
#law #ICE #Gestapo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
ABC7: Disabled veteran speaks out after Camarillo raid, says he was 'wrongfully detained'
"...Retes added that he identified himself as a U.S. citizen and employee of the cannabis farm, but federal agents ignored him.
He claims he was held for three days without being charged, without a phone call, without access to legal help, and without medical care for the chemical agents he came into contact with....."
This is Tank Man on June 5, 1989, on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, China near Tiananmen Square
Oh, heh
Oops
Sorry it's present day California
(In China in 1989 people pulled Tank Man away, the tanks stayed stopped. Here the goons keep rolling)
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"The authoritarian dream is rooted in the belief that state violence should serve as the primary tool of governance. ...
What we are witnessing is a spectacle of domination. The deployment of troops, the vigilante targeting of Democratic lawmakers, the planned grotesquerie of Trump’s military parade, and Trump’s order for ICE to target cities led by Democrats are not isolated events — they are scenes in the same authoritarian drama."
~ Henry A. Giroux
Good news.
“While it does not take a federal judge to recognize that marauding bands of masked, rifle-toting goons have been violating ordinary people’s rights throughout Southern California,” he said, “we are hopeful that today’s ruling will be a step toward accountability for the federal government’s flagrant lawlessness that we have all been witnessing.” #Gift #Resist #ICE https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08._vUp.Dehy8cnOg4sa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Since June 6 — when the Department of Homeland Security began widespread raids throughout the Los Angeles region — the number of immigrant parents making emergency arrangements for their children’s care has skyrocketed. Parents have flooded legal rights organizations in person and on Zoom for help filling out the forms that will designate another adult to take over responsibility of their children, many of whom are citizens, if they are detained or deported."
#ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
After the passage of #Trump’s domestic policy #law, #DHS is poised to hire thousands of new #immigration agents & double detention space.
Thousands of new #deportation agents deployed into American #cities. A doubling of #detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled. Miles of new border wall, along with #surveillance towers equipped with #ArtificialIntelligence.
#AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/ice-expansion-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
https://wapo.st/3TxrUES
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