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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 4d

There's so much going on in immigration news right now, but quick reminder that the DC Appellate Court will hear arguments at 2pm ET today about one of the Trump administration's most potent deportation tools--expanded expedited removal

We wrote about the authority for @migrationpolicy.bsky.social

Trump Administration’s Expansion of Fast-Track Deportation Powers Is Transforming Immigration Enforcement

The Trump administration has expanded its use of expedited removal in unprecedented ways, transforming what previously had been a somewhat limited authority into a potent tool to assist with its mass ...

www.migrationpolicy.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 4d

RESEARCH: Family separation, including the separation of children from parents in mixed-status families, is associated with higher rates of depression, anxiety, behavioral & emotional issues, sleep disturbances, & stress/distress in children.

updates.apaservices.org/mental-healt...

Mental Health and Immigration FAQ

This FAQ focuses on the mental health impacts of detentions, deportations, and family separations in immigrant communities.

updates.apaservices.org

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Margaret Cargioli @cargiolim.bsky.social · 5d

“‘…the Trump administration has completely discarded its legal obligation, leaving Congress in the dark and #refugees in limbo”

Trump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Trump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low

www.nytimes.com

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 6d

No child should ever be coerced to give up their rights, but that's exactly what the Trump administration is attempting to do, even amid the chaos of a government shutdown.

Read the story: 🔗Link in bio
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 9d

Iran deportation update from @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social likely transfer of people in Qatar to a Qatar Air charter that appears now headed to Tehran. Watch for their confirmation of landing.

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 9d

UPDATE: a Qatar Airways plane (QTR7312) departed Doha and is heading toward Tehran. This is likely the charter flight carrying the Iranians flown to Doha on an ICE deportation flight. The ICE Air plane (OAE3657) has left Doha and is heading back west.

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 10d

✈️👀‼️. Likely return of people to the kind and gentle regime of Iran. So certain they will be safe and secure there- NO. Unbelievable. Follow the thread below for updates from @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 10d

We have been monitoring an ICE Air flight that departed Alexandria, LA late last night. It was expected to depart at 17:55 EST with a scheduled stop in Guantanamo. Instead it flew directly to Puerto Rico, likely to refuel before its current route to Cairo, Egypt (likely to refuel again).

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 10d

We joined 260+ civil society organizations urging UN Member States to uphold, preserve, & strengthen international refugee, human rights, & humanitarian treaties -- & to reject efforts to weaken these critical protections.

We urge leaders to defend dignity & safety for all.

🔗 tinyurl.com/4s2uptkk

Open Letter: Call for UN member states to uphold, preserve and strengthen international refugee, human rights and humanitarian treaties | ICJ

The ICJ has joined over 250 civil society organizations in the following open letter urging UN member states to uphold, preserve and strengthen i

www.icj.org

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International Rescue Committee - UK @uk.rescue.org · 11d

“If we end up in a world that I only care about your pain if I look like you, we’ve lost our humanity. And I think there’s a real imperative to sustain our humanity."

IRC president and CEO David Miliband in @semafor.com: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Miliband says rising global divisions threaten our collective ‘humanity’

The CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former British foreign secretary on Wednesday called for a new era of aid.

www.semafor.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING NEWS: Nobel Prize committee announces that DonalTrump has been permanently disqualified from all future awards due to his renaming US Defense Dept "Department of War."

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 12d

This is shirt-ly going to be your new favorite pride gear. Get your Keith Haring National Coming Out Day shirt now: hrc.org/shop

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Margaret Cargioli @cargiolim.bsky.social · 14d

Immigrants are being treated across the United States like they are subhuman.

Shame on the Trump administration.

#Resist

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 15d

I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.

She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse.

A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking

prismreports.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16d

News is now reporting that two "detainees" were killed. Unclear whether that means people who were actively being transported or whether that means it was people going to the ICE Field Office for a check-in who got shot going into the building.

Author: Rachel Behrndt, Rebecca Lopez
Published: 7:10 AM CDT September 24, 2025
Updated: 7:58 AM CDT September 24, 2025
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DALLAS — Two ICE detainees were killed and one person was injured at a Dallas ICE facility Wednesday morning and one shooter is dead, police sources tell WFAA.

Police responded to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday at 8101 North Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, off Interstate 35E. Sources told WFAA that police were searching for a possible sniper or multiple shooters. It remains unclear if there were any other shooters involved in the incident.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16d

We have just one week left until a Republican government shutdown.

Democrats are ready to pass a bill that keeps millions of Americans from getting kicked off their health care. Trump and Republicans won’t even come to the table to negotiate.

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Margaret Cargioli @cargiolim.bsky.social · 16d

“In some cases, #immigrants cooperating with human trafficking investigations have been arrested, locked up or deported. In May, at a routine immigration court hearing in Orange county, California, Ice agents detained two workers…assisting law enforcement after reporting they had been trafficked.”

Kids in Need Defense @supportkind.org · 17d

A report from The Guardian reveals the admin is cutting anti-trafficking efforts to prioritize immigration enforcement. T visa denials now outnumber approvals.

Key resources have been removed, leaving traffickers emboldened and vulnerable kids at risk.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation

Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.

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Margaret Cargioli @cargiolim.bsky.social · 17d

Pregnant women are not even safe under Trump’s immigration policies and tactics.

Keep sharing the truth about what is happening to build a stronger case against the inhumanity.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 17d

BREAKING: Senate Democrats probe mistreatment of pregnant women in ICE detention under Trump Administration, citing cruel treatment with little to no medical care in custody.

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Margaret Cargioli @cargiolim.bsky.social · 18d

“ICE treats you like a “living ghost,” she says from detention. “They don’t care if you die.” She cries frequently, during almost every phone conversation.” #immigration #detention #familiesbelongtogether

Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 18d

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them

Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can't be sent home.

www.motherjones.com

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 19d

Boone County Jail is located in Burlington, Kentucky.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 39 days.

detentionreports.com/facility/BOO...

Boone County Jail is indicated by a blue marker and a label in Burlington, Kentucky. Cincinnati can be seen immediately to the northwest.
Map by OpenStreetMap, ODbL using Leaflet.

The main entrance to Boone County Jail.
From the county jail website.
https://www.boonecountyky.org/government_administration/county_government/jailer/main_jail.php

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 20d

More than a dozen immigration judge were just fired. Such firings have been common on Friday evenings and often involve newer judges still on probation. But today's firings include a Sacramento IJ who's been on the bench close to 20 years.

"The judge version of Jimmy Kimmel," one source told me.

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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 21d

I’m at the Broadview ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs, where a group of protesters are attempting to block agents from transferring detainees held inside.

Several law enforcement armed with rifles have just arrested one protester and earlier fired pepper balls at the crowd:

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