A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement on Long Island and in counties north of New York City allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
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In her recent work, Rawya El Chab explores the legacy of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which tore apart the Lebanese Left.
With the support of Round Earth Media and the IWMF, and @aidaalami.bsky.social's careful editing, my latest for @hyperallergic.com:
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Más detenciones y menos supervisión: un informe alerta del aumento de muertes en centros migratorios del ICE dozz.es/h_0sao
Imagine you are a teen in Minnesota, fearing that your immigrant parents will be abducted by ICE. You get an email from a military recruiter, who is also an immigrant, telling you that you can enlist and get a green card for your parents. 1/2 taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...
For its inaugural episode, we welcomed author and scholar Behrooz Ghamari on ORdio, the OR Books podcast, to discuss his new book, The Long War on Iran.
See the full episode on the OR Books Youtube, or at the link in our bio.
En tiempos de persecución y criminalización de los inmigrantes en todo EEUU, la Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer representa un espacio comunitario de optimismo, orgullo y apoyo para cientos de estudiantes y sus familias. Para @elpaisamerica.bsky.social:
elpais.com/us/migracion...
Amazon has paid just $5,400 of the more than $9.8 million in fines and penalties related to illegal idling that it owes the city. buff.ly/tRv2gVn
Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems passblue.com/2026/03/08/h...
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.
Newark public schools have a $12 million contract with Driscoll Foods, which supplies food to Delaney Hall, the controversial ICE facility nearby.
Advocates want the BOE to cut ties when their contract expires in June. Latest for @chalkbeat.org:
www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2026/...
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed.
Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social:
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The technology deployed on the border includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones.
And border tech isn't staying at the border.
A mother and her 2 young kids, including her US citizen 4-year-old daughter, were trapped in a hotel room for weeks without contact from the outside world as the Trump administration sought to deport them.
"We were experiencing a nightmare," she told @thecity.nyc.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/28/i...
Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities
A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations.
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“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”
Amidst bike thefts and ICE raids, delivery workers have been organizing their own self defense networks.
I followed one of these groups, El Diario de los Deliveryboys, on their Virgen de Guadalupe procession for @documentedny.bsky.social.
documentedny.com/2025/12/16/b...
Emergency calls were made to 911 at least 15 times a month from Stewart Detention Center for six months in a row as of November 1.
With @nickpinto.bsky.social at Cuomo headquarters for @hellgatenyc.com
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Documented went down and spoke with vendors who said federal agents stormed Canal Street without warning — leaving dozens detained and the community in shock and confusion. 📝 @KEXU3 and @Anna_Oakes1
🔗 documentedny.com/2025/10/23/ice-raid-chinatown-vendors-arrested
As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained.
As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters.
MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...
Dina and her husband spent their life savings to flee Venezuela. This week her husband was detained by ICE, in front of their children, during a mandatory asylum hearing.
In July, she told me how her family longed for safety and stability after years of precarity.
tinyurl.com/3uknzf5y @thecity.nyc
These high-profile cases are already having a chilling effect on immigrants' speech across the country.
documentedny.com/2025/10/10/mahdawi-oztur...
A. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, says he has been placed under surveillance by ICE without explanation, and is facing years of uncertainty while his asylum case is resolved.
Federal authorities are using immigration law to limit the First Amendment rights of noncitizens. Legal experts warn that this extension of executive power can be used to censor citizens’ speech, too.
My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social:
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