Mónica C. Camacho
@mc2x.bsky.social
Open Source Investigator @Lighthouse Reports. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
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Mónica C. Camacho
@mc2x.bsky.social
· Nov 6
What do you wanna do now, Captain?
Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
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Federal immigration data doesn’t have to be a mystery. Trump admin is choosing to hide information from the American public that would help us understand the level of immigration enforcement in this country from a more objective perspective.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Federal immigration data doesn’t have to be a mystery. Trump admin is choosing to hide information from the American public that would help us understand the level of immigration enforcement in this country from a more objective perspective.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/why-the-tr...
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He's throwing that chemical weapon at Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
He's throwing that chemical weapon at Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez.
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Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz
Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home
gofund.me
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.
ICE Opening Huge Lockup 50 Miles North of New York City
The coming “processing facility” is already triggering protests upstate.
buff.ly
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM
The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City.
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The city has failed to claim state money for indigent defense, deepening a staffing crisis that undermines representation for low-income defendants, a new report says.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/p...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/p...
NYC Left Millions in Public Defense Funds Untapped
The city has failed to claim state money for indigent defense, deepening a staffing crisis that undermines representation for low-income defendants, a new report says.
www.thecity.nyc
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
The city has failed to claim state money for indigent defense, deepening a staffing crisis that undermines representation for low-income defendants, a new report says.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/p...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/p...
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An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...
NYC Is Testing Guaranteed Income for Homeless Youths. Here’s How It’s Going.
An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.
www.thecity.nyc
January 21, 2026 at 2:56 PM
An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...
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While major crimes like murder and robbery are declining, researchers say housing, poverty, and quality-of-life factors also shape how safe neighborhoods feel.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/16/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/16/c...
How to Read NYC Crime Stats Like an Expert
While major crimes like murder and robbery are declining, researchers say housing, poverty, and quality-of-life factors also shape how safe neighborhoods feel.
www.thecity.nyc
January 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
While major crimes like murder and robbery are declining, researchers say housing, poverty, and quality-of-life factors also shape how safe neighborhoods feel.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/16/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/16/c...
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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January 22, 2026 at 12:16 AM
"Abolish ICE" is no longer the moderate position.
"[redacted] ICE" is now the moderate position.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
"[redacted] ICE" is now the moderate position.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
January 22, 2026 at 12:19 AM
"Abolish ICE" is no longer the moderate position.
"[redacted] ICE" is now the moderate position.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
"[redacted] ICE" is now the moderate position.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Personal shoutout to El Burrito Mercado, my neighborhood grocery store, which is organizing a food drive. You can find the link to that effort here, along with dozens of other ways to help Minnesotans:
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
linktr.ee
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Personal shoutout to El Burrito Mercado, my neighborhood grocery store, which is organizing a food drive. You can find the link to that effort here, along with dozens of other ways to help Minnesotans:
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
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This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
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Have a pal who will match the first $1,000 you all donate to the Immigrant Law Center TODAY. You can reply with verification (make sure ID info obscured) or DM me. Thanks everyone!
I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Have a pal who will match the first $1,000 you all donate to the Immigrant Law Center TODAY. You can reply with verification (make sure ID info obscured) or DM me. Thanks everyone!
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I continue to be, let's say 'annoyed,' at nat'l coverage that posits "Americans" are reacting w/ passivity. Most leaders may be, but I spend every day talking to ordinary people taking extraordinary steps to protect their families, communities and countries. National media just missing the story.
Here @ashleyrparker.bsky.social tries to explain the peculiar passivity with which America has greeted naked authoritarianism.
Trump Exhaustion Syndrome
Americans can’t seem to keep up.
www.theatlantic.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I continue to be, let's say 'annoyed,' at nat'l coverage that posits "Americans" are reacting w/ passivity. Most leaders may be, but I spend every day talking to ordinary people taking extraordinary steps to protect their families, communities and countries. National media just missing the story.
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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📣 ANNOUNCEMENT:
Last fall, in addition to my usual fundraising page to raise money VA Dems running in *competitive* state legislative districts, @90for90.bsky.social approached me with an idea to create a *second* page *specifically* to raise money for the REDDEST, LEAST competitive seats. 1/
Last fall, in addition to my usual fundraising page to raise money VA Dems running in *competitive* state legislative districts, @90for90.bsky.social approached me with an idea to create a *second* page *specifically* to raise money for the REDDEST, LEAST competitive seats. 1/
January 20, 2026 at 8:20 PM
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT:
Last fall, in addition to my usual fundraising page to raise money VA Dems running in *competitive* state legislative districts, @90for90.bsky.social approached me with an idea to create a *second* page *specifically* to raise money for the REDDEST, LEAST competitive seats. 1/
Last fall, in addition to my usual fundraising page to raise money VA Dems running in *competitive* state legislative districts, @90for90.bsky.social approached me with an idea to create a *second* page *specifically* to raise money for the REDDEST, LEAST competitive seats. 1/
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Businesses are posting signs on their doors telling ICE to keep out. Observers are visible outside of restaurants, stores and schools. "Upstander" trainings are reaching capacity — and so are neighborhood signal chats.
In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.
In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.
In the Twin Cities, ICE resistance goes mainstream • Minnesota Reformer
The week before an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis, her 67-year-old neighbor Terri Sullivan heard that a school in nearby Richfield that serves mostly Latino students needed ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Businesses are posting signs on their doors telling ICE to keep out. Observers are visible outside of restaurants, stores and schools. "Upstander" trainings are reaching capacity — and so are neighborhood signal chats.
In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.
In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.
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thinking a lot about this piece i wrote for @sahanjournal.bsky.social in the runup to the 2020 election.
Immigrants to Minnesota know about instability and political violence. Many recognize familiar signs in their adopted homeland.
Immigrants to Minnesota have experienced political instability back home. Now they're debating if the U.S. is nearing a democratic crisis.
sahanjournal.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:19 PM
thinking a lot about this piece i wrote for @sahanjournal.bsky.social in the runup to the 2020 election.
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hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:
January 21, 2026 at 3:16 PM
hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:
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Two critical actions you can take in Massachusetts today! Click the links below for instructions.
@maindivisible.bsky.social
@progressivemass.bsky.social
@freespeechforpeople.org.web.brid.gy
@aclum.bsky.social
#ICE
#ICEOutForGood
#mapoli
#privacy
#indivisible
open.substack.com/pub/imccad/p...
@maindivisible.bsky.social
@progressivemass.bsky.social
@freespeechforpeople.org.web.brid.gy
@aclum.bsky.social
#ICE
#ICEOutForGood
#mapoli
#privacy
#indivisible
open.substack.com/pub/imccad/p...
IMC-CAD Weekly Dispatch: "Protect Our Communities: Call for State Action on ICE Misconduct"; "Beacon Hill: Don’t Let ICE Buy Our Data!"
Indivisible Mass Coalition - Coordinated Action Dispatch (The CAD) 1/21/2026
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Two critical actions you can take in Massachusetts today! Click the links below for instructions.
@maindivisible.bsky.social
@progressivemass.bsky.social
@freespeechforpeople.org.web.brid.gy
@aclum.bsky.social
#ICE
#ICEOutForGood
#mapoli
#privacy
#indivisible
open.substack.com/pub/imccad/p...
@maindivisible.bsky.social
@progressivemass.bsky.social
@freespeechforpeople.org.web.brid.gy
@aclum.bsky.social
#ICE
#ICEOutForGood
#mapoli
#privacy
#indivisible
open.substack.com/pub/imccad/p...
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BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 AM
BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.
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His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to:
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to:
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
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The family has posted this GoFundMe for legal fees www.gofundme.com/f/LiborioPar...
Donate to Liborio Parral & Bonfilia Sanchez, organized by Blanca Sanchez
Our family is facing an unexpected and heartbreaking crisis, and we are reaching out … Blanca Sanchez needs your support for Liborio Parral & Bonfilia Sanchez
www.gofundme.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:19 PM
The family has posted this GoFundMe for legal fees www.gofundme.com/f/LiborioPar...
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ICE agents are trained on CPR but "It took more than 10 minutes after Macklin Good was shot by a federal immigration officer before someone gave her CPR." They also prevented a medical professional on the scene from intervening. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good
Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Age...
www.mprnews.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
ICE agents are trained on CPR but "It took more than 10 minutes after Macklin Good was shot by a federal immigration officer before someone gave her CPR." They also prevented a medical professional on the scene from intervening. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...