BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.
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Story here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u... w/ @hamel.bsky.social @mhkeller.bsky.social @alexandraberzon.bsky.social
Last week, we wrote about DHS agents being pulled off child exploitation + terrorism investigations to arrest undocumented immigrants. Now we've seen internal data showing drop in drug + weapons cases.
- Drug arrests ↓ 11%
- New drug cases ↓ 15%
- Weapons seizures ↓ 73%
NEW: Under mounting pressure from President Trump, the Homeland Security Department has surged staff and resources to deportation, hindering other core missions, including criminal investigations into child abuse, national security and sex trafficking www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
UPDATE: The email has disappeared from the inbox of SSA employees who received it, I am told
In his letter, Borges said he was quitting b/c he could not “verify that agency data is being used in accordance with legal agreements or in compliance with federal requirements.” He also said employees were afraid to speak out internally for "fear of retribution or termination."
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
