At the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida, "detainees placed in 'the box'—located outside and in direct sunlight—are reportedly forced to endure high temperatures, high humidity, and 'horsefly-size mosquitos.'"
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-...
Stadium workers at SoFi represented by Unite Here Local 11 have now filed an official labor complaint with NLRB alleging that FIFA and Kroenke Sports engaged in unfair labor practices by "refusing to commit to restricting facility access by ICE officers in anticipation of FIFA World Cup events"
Isaac Villegas Molina, a plaintiff challenging immigration raids, was detained by ICE at a routine check-in and is now being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.
“To be targeted because he is pursuing his rights is unacceptable,” Stacy Tolchin
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Yale report on trust in higher education has some good recommendations for reforms in many areas that I hope Yale and other schools implement.
But its diagnosis is oddly silent about what I suspect is the most important force driving the decline in trust in higher education: political attack.
Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").
Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.
Well-reported, horrifying story on the Trump administration's resumption of detention of children, featuring clients of Columbia's immigrants' rights clinic. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
NEW: USCIS published its data for all of 2025, and even into Jan. 2026. The result:
2025 began w high numbers of citizenship apps submitted & decided (approved/denied). By winter fewer were applying to become citizens — and fewer were given a decision.
Latest: www.npr.org/2026/04/13/g...
Interior Deportations by ICE Increased by Five Times from last half of 2024 to January 2026
📖 New report out today
Deportations up 5x, ICE street arrests jump 11x in first year of Trump administration, according new data released last month
We break down why below & in the report 👇
deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...
"His loss is felt deeply not only by those who knew him here at the University, but also everyone who understands his potential to have contributed to breakthroughs in science that would have positively impacted people around the world." -Dean of Engineering Karen Thole
ICE has detained over 6,200 children under Trump according to new data. That's up 10x Since Biden Left Office. “Every American should be shocked,” Leecia Welch, at Children's Rights, said. “It just adds up to an incredible amount of trauma.”
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...
Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe program faces a troubling trajectory.
The longer it exists, the greater the share of program participants who have returned to “unsheltered” homelessness, according to monthly dashboards posted by the L.A. Homeless Services Authority.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.
New from me and @haleaziz.bsky.social: Months before the ICE arrest this week of a WI mosque leader, Secretary of State Marco Rubio found him to be a threat to the US foreign policy interest of combating antisemitism, according to federal officials and gov records. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
Resurfacing this:
“I don’t know if we can call it a ‘proposal’, because that implies actual thought was put into it,” Kendrick said. “It’s completely far-fetched and preposterous, and it would be impossible to reopen those ancient, crumbling buildings as anything resembling a functioning prison.”
Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship?
People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country.
Much more here, for anyone curious:
We posted a daily and nightly count for each facility including Broadview here: ice-facility-daily-population.apps.deportationdata.org
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
“The irony of using the IHRA definition is that faculty and students at UC Berkeley may freely criticize the United States, or any other nation-state in the world—including their foundational ideologies, and their implications today—but not Israel.” ucbfa.org/2026/03/bfa-...
Federal immigration agents arrested at least 4,000 people during Operation Metro Surge, according to new data released by the Deportation Data Project. The vast majority of those arrested between December and March 10 were from Latin America, including half from Ecuador or Mexico. Only 112 were Somali nationals, despite President Donald Trump repeatedly disparaging the Somali community.
“The data released March 30 is the most detailed look at the effect of the three-month enforcement surge that brought thousands of protesters into the streets and left two U.S. citizens dead.”
www.startribune.com/ice-action-t...
Reminder: declaring an unlawful assembly requires, as a start, something *unlawful* to be taking place. Protest is not unlawful.
Individual in “press” shirt handcuffed in zip ties in front of LAPD officers.
In case anyone is wondering how LAPD is doing tonight at following the injunction against arresting or detaining journalists.
He was cut loose, I spoke with him after. He said he had asked multiple officers earlier for a supervisor and they refused — also a violation of injunction.
Trump’s outright bigotry against an entire ethnic minority continues to stain this country. It’s gutter racism with real consequences; the government itself has been ordered to target this minority group for special disfavor.
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.
A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
Bear in mind: Airports have already been a way for DHS to conduct immigration enforcement. TSA has been sharing info with ICE so that they can arrest/detain people at airports when they wish to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
ICE backfilling TSA doesn’t give them new capabilities there.
