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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents

Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.

www.wweek.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S
_OkudzetoAblak
X.com
Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

ICE keeps grabbing US citizens. wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos. Interesting. First time I've been labeled as such, but that is completely fair www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 10h

It is impossible—even for those of us who spend a pathological amount of time every day working on CBP, ICE, and DHS—to fully track these agencies’ misdeeds.

Transparency trails years behind, if we are lucky and persistent. Someday, the accounting from this period will be terrible.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

I keep learning of months old horrors and I follow this stuff very closely. I’m sure the level of brutality and misconduct has not fully reached the public. The population cleansing agents are out of control.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10h

Killing dogs is pretty on brand for the GOP.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

Furthermore, the family said none of the Border Patrol agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to the dog, which bled to death on the kitchen floor. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

kfoxtv.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

So agents trespassed into a citizen’s home on a fishing expedition and murdered their dog kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

I keep learning of months old horrors and I follow this stuff very closely. I’m sure the level of brutality and misconduct has not fully reached the public. The population cleansing agents are out of control.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, USCIS is running the anti-immigrant E-Verify surveillance program, which does run on congressional funding. www.e-verify.gov/about-e-veri...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants and Americans pay USCIS for services. It has nothing to do with Congress. So what the USCIS director is saying is that he will steal those fees and spend them on other stuff so that people get mad at Democrats. He should be impeached. This is fraud.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the exceptions are noted. But party leadership is in DC and Jeffries and Schumer have shut down the government and it's not to save the Constitution bsky.app/profile/mark...

Mark Anderson @marknandy.bsky.social · 2d

Besides the governors and attorneys general suing the Feds but why mess this up with facts.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC published my response to ICE's baseless claims about me. "I am more interested in ICE officer safety than ICE itself is. ICE cares more about running up the deportation numbers than protecting its officers." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

I explain how the Trump administration is increasing "assaults" on its agents by engaging in racial profiling and illegal arrests of US citizens. If ICE cared about officer safety, it'd return to ICE policies that protected officers & Americans! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ICE blamed me for assaults on its agents — but its own polices are to blame

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos.

www.msnbc.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

"According to the Trump administration, ICE agents suffered about 90% fewer assaults under Biden than under Trump. Biden’s ICE better protected agents by adopting interior enforcement policies that reduced chaotic interactions with the public." msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC published my response to ICE's baseless claims about me. "I am more interested in ICE officer safety than ICE itself is. ICE cares more about running up the deportation numbers than protecting its officers." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2d

ICE went after @davidjbier.bsky.social on X, blaming him for assaults on agents.

In a new @msnbc.com column, Bier argues DHS' own reckless policies are to blame.

Opinion | ICE blamed me for assaults on its agents — but its own polices are to blame

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos.

www.msnbc.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE brought a videographer to record its criminality.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

Is there any more information known about this incident?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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