It is tempting to treat Shamar Elkins’s actions as the isolated incident of a madman. But poor mental health is never a reasonable explanation for attempting to execute one’s wife and children. Patriarchy offers a better explanation.
Not only has Trump decimated anti-trafficking services, but as his administration indiscriminately detains immigrants to comply with his mass-deportations agenda, trafficking survivors have been caught in the dragnet — even when they have legal status.
My latest:
www.thecut.com/article/sex-...
What do you do when your friend steals your husband and posts about it for her 3 million followers? Akira Montague went scorched earth.
An exception people probably don't know about: Though Puerto Ricans are American citizens, our citizenship is not constitutionally guaranteed but granted by the Jones Act of 1917. So in theory just like Congress giveth one day Congress could taketh away. Love to be a colonial subject!!!
Most plausible reason they took it.
A broad coalition of artists including Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Keke Palmer, and Ms. Rachel, as well as physicians and policy experts, published an open letter today demanding the immediate closure of the Dilley detention center.
Read more:
www.thecut.com/article/cele...
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com
A piece from The Cut that reads: "The medical consensus is clear. The conditions children in detention face can meet the criteria for adverse childhood experiences (ACE), and therefore they should not be held in immigration custody. “There are no safe ways to detain children, and history has really shown that to us, whether it’s with families or on their own,” says Dr. Sural Shah, a Los Angeles–based pediatrician and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. Because of this, the Academy opposes the detention of children and has long recommended for the Department of Homeland Security to limit minors’ exposure to these facilities. “When there is prolonged activation of the body’s stress response, we can find all kinds of effects in the long run,” Shah continues. “There can be issues with brain development. There can be systemic issues, where the whole body is impacted, including affecting organ systems like the cardiovascular system as well as the brain architecture and immune system.” Kids in detention can also face nutritional deficiencies that curb their growth and see their chronic medical conditions worsen due to lack of adequate health care, according to researchers. And in the worst-case scenario, children may die while in custody — which has happened before."
A piece from The Cut that reads: "“They are literally gambling with these children’s lives, and it’s just a matter of time before there’s a catastrophe,” says Dr. Lara Jones, a California provider who specializes in pediatric critical care and who co-authored a letter demanding that the Trump administration release all children from immigration custody. Research has found that keeping children in immigration detention centers can lead them to develop PTSD, depression, anxiety, and developmental delays and regression. Carlos’s experience of nightmares and bed-wetting is unfortunately very common, according to Shah. “In my interactions with families, I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” she says. “Even older kids can become clingy. More commonly, they can become very withdrawn. They can self-harm. Sometimes we see aggression, and that is a normal response to this amount of stress and trauma, so we are doing this to them with our system and the policies that are in place.”
It's hard to overstate the lifelong impact that detention has on kids' mental and physical health. The Trump administration is doing this harm to them, with our tax dollars.
www.thecut.com/article/immi...
A court just ordered the government to facilitate the return home of Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, the DACA recipient who was arrested at her green-card interview and deported last month.
My interview with Maria and her daughter Damaris is now live at @thecut.com:
www.thecut.com/article/mari...
A court just ordered the government to facilitate the return home of Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, the DACA recipient who was arrested at her green-card interview and deported last month.
My interview with Maria and her daughter Damaris is now live at @thecut.com:
www.thecut.com/article/mari...
I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...
More context here about how the administration has targeted Dominicans and other immigrants living in Puerto Rico:
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"If people are scared in the streets, imagine being stuck inside an airport where there's a legal limbo," community leader José Rodríguez said.
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Sick to my stomach that one of the airports where Trump has deployed ICE agents is Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in Puerto Rico. As a result, Dominican leaders in the island are telling community members they shouldn't risk traveling at the moment.
www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/seg...
Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵
As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health?
"I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.
As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health?
"I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.
Just devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.
Inadequate treatment for a missed carriage.
No follow-up for unexplained bleeding.
Diagnoses of preeclampsia and gestational diabetes — life threatening conditions — upon release.
Read what pregnant immigrants say happens to them when they are detained.
19thnews.org/2026/03/preg...
For @thecut.com, I reported on the harms ICE detention is causing on children’s physical and mental health.
“They are literally gambling with these children's lives and it's just a matter of time before there's a catastrophe,” one doctor said.
www.thecut.com/article/immi...
Almost as if our rights our intertwined
They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag dress lol
Anyway!!! Will be seated, probably dressed like this :)
(To be clear Residente is a veteran star on his own right but I am also not sure he’d gotten Hollywood buy-in in the same way without Benito.)
