“(W)e spent time pouring over court records and interviewing people and collected dozens of stories of people who have been caught recently in this giant surveillance web that DHS and specifically ICE has been spinning. And there were some patterns that started to emerge...”
“It’s not about leaving,” said a 37-year-old undocumented father from Central America during a phone interview from his home in south Texas. “It’s about making sure your children survive if you don’t come home.”
While the VP is on his SAVE Act crusade, spreading lies about occurrences of non-citizen voting, a few things to know. 👇
Most importantly, noncitizen registration is already rare, and noncitizen voting is even less common.
🇭🇹🚨 The 2-to-1 ruling allows the over 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. covered by TPS to remain shielded from deportation, continue to work legally and maintain their protected status while a lawsuit challenging the termination proceeds in federal court.
Kristi Noem’s assertion at a Senate hearing Tuesday that President Trump had given his blessing to a $220 million DHS ad campaign promoting Noem’s leadership was the final straw that cost the DHS secretary her job, according to Republican senators and other sources familiar with the events
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before the Minneapolis shootings.
Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership didn't see it as a concern to be addressed.
13 YO Gustavo said he didn’t want to go back to Mexico. “I have friends, school, and family here,” he said of his home in Texas. “To this day, I don’t know what we did wrong to be detained.” He ended with a plea, “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”
Moms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping on the facility’s hard metal bunk beds in rooms shared by at least a dozen other people, and were constantly sick.
Although a long-standing legal settlement generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days, a data analysis by ProPublica found that about 300 kids sent to Dilley by the Trump administration were there for more than a month.
Around 3,500 detainees, more than half of them minors, have cycled through the center since it reopened, more than the population of the town of Dilley itself.
🚨🧑🧒🧒 Dilley, run by private prison firm CoreCivic, is located some 72 miles south of San Antonio and nearly 2,000 miles away from Ariana’s home. It is a sprawling collection of trailers and dormitories, almost the same color as the dusty landscape, surrounded by a tall fence.
“We believed in this country, right?” Said told CNN. “I risked my life for this country. I never imagined that I would be begging one day just to keep my brother alive, here in America, while he hasn’t done anything wrong.”
"Mindful of the flagrancy of the Government's violations of the deportees' due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose." U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg
👏🏼 Grateful to Democracy Forward, The Advocates for Human Rights, and the courageous, detained plaintiff in this case for seeking justice and due process. ⚖️
65% of Americans said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has "gone too far," according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And President Trump is facing the highest intensity of disapproval since just after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
🇭🇹 This is a major win for Haitian advocates who have born the devastating cost of this president’s long held animus toward them, have remained steadfast in their plight for justice, and led this fight not just for themselves, but for so many others. 🙏💪🏼
🇭🇹🚨 The Court’s ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status, a program that has allowed more than 350,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.
“Detaining immigrant children is unjust, and it is unnecessary to ensure their compliance with immigration proceedings. Under previous administrations, immigrant children have participated in highly successful Alternatives to Detention programs, such as the Family Case Management Program.”
“A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm. All of these children and their parents were detained despite being eligible for release…”.
“Since March 2025, many hundreds of families with children who are minors have been detained in federal immigration custody, with more than 1,700 children in custody since family detention centers reopened. Many have been detained for long periods of time, some for nearly half a year.”
“From January to October 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities.”
🚨🗞️ Powerful Op-Ed by an expert in the field that every American should read.
Liam and his family’s story made the headlines, but there are thousands of children and families who have been detained - their lives forever changed by this cruel and inhumane practice. They should also be released.
“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” wrote the judge. “And the rule of law be damned.”
In a scathing opinion, which at times read more like a civics lesson, US District Judge Fred Biery admonished “the government’s ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence”…
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Elma Saiz Delgado, Spain’s minister for migration, said at a news conference on Tuesday that the measure would have an impact “on our social cohesion, well-being, and also on the economy.”
The judge also ordered the immediate release of all detained refugees in Minnesota and the release of those taken to Texas within five days.