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KatherineHawkins

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Senior Legal Analyst for the Constitution Project at @pogowatchdog. Trying to annoy CBP for rights violations as badly as I used to annoy the CIA. Personal account; views are my own, etc.

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 9d

A new writing project--please check it out. Subscriptions are welcome but not necessary and all content will be free. un-disappearing.ghost.io

Un-Disappearing

Research, Research, analysis and documentation of rights abuses in the name of immigration policing

un-disappearing.ghost.io

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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center @the-ilrc.bsky.social · 3m

Immigration allies took charge in D.C. demanding officers with the Metro Police Department CEASE their collusion with federal immigration enforcement agencies after the Trump admin wreaked chaos on their city.

Tune into the press conference below 👇🏽

www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Activists call for end to the coordination between DC Police and ICE post federal surge

Activists say the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) continues patrolling and coordinating with immigration enforcement agents despite the end of the federal surge

www.wusa9.com

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 20h

ICE at the Brookland Metro station in NE DC rn btw. Three dudes on their phones at the top of the escalator on the parking lot side.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 4h

Are you going to do anything about MPD collaborating with ICE after the emergency that justified it has ended? (Meant to ask this at the Dupont event)

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 13h

More, from Willamette Week www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship

The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

www.wweek.com

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Lizardrath 💙 @lizardrath.bsky.social · 11h

WIRED reporter Vittoria Elliott tracked where the most migrants are being arrested, where exactly ICE is taking them, and where they're deported to. This is Immigration & Customs Enforcement, On The Grid.

youtube.com/watch?v=uD9E...

Where ICE Takes People—And Where They Send Them Next | On The Grid | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 5h

"Miller is taking a "hands-on" role in investigating the funding of nonprofits and educational institutions and is sharing recommendations from Attorney General Pam Bondi and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with Trump and other top advisers, the first White House official said."

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 16h

Is this Portland?

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404 Media @404media.co · 22h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 23h

Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE

Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 1d

this side of it has not occurred to me..:

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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 1d

An immigration court case to watch:

Federal agents illegally arrested nearly 2 dozen people earlier this year without warrants in violation of a 2022 consent decree, a federal judge in Chicago ruled late Tuesday.

Immigration & civil liberties advocates sued federal authorities

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

While bad, worse is the fact that this sheriff is helping ICE arrest people through their 287g program. (Some of these southern raids are not getting much attention.) The video shows deputies beating up a man on the side of the road.
www.al.com/news/2025/10...

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 1d

Gutting.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Hey there! I think you read the USDA chart backwards. In fact, the USDA data shows that only 39% of farmworkers are citizens, not "significantly more than half" as you wrote.

Over Forty Percent of Hired Crop Farmworkers Lack Legal Immigration Status
The share of hired crop farmworkers who were not legally authorized to work in the United States grew from roughly 14 percent in 1989–91 to almost 55 percent in 1999–2001. In recent years, however, the share has declined to about 40 percent. In 2020–22, 32 percent of crop farmworkers were U.S. born, 7 percent were immigrants who had obtained U.S. citizenship, 19 percent were other authorized immigrants (primarily permanent residents or green-card holders), and the remaining 42 percent held no work authorization. The share of workers who are U.S. born is highest in the Midwest, while the share who are unauthorized is highest in California.

Below that is a chart showing the data trends over time.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 1d

does “armed with heavy machinery” mean “also driving cars”?

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...