Michelle Lapointe
@michlapointe.bsky.social
Legal director at the American Immigration Council. Mom, runner, former Fenway Park tour guide. Opinions my own.
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Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use
A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.
A 16-year-old citizen
DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"
w/ @mckenziefunk.com
A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.
A 16-year-old citizen
DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"
w/ @mckenziefunk.com
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
www.propublica.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use
A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.
A 16-year-old citizen
DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"
w/ @mckenziefunk.com
A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.
A 16-year-old citizen
DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"
w/ @mckenziefunk.com
Can ICE be held accountable for killing Renee Good? I try to make sense of the legal issues here. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/can-ren...
Can Renee Good’s Family Sue ICE in the Aftermath of Her Killing? The Answer Is Complicated - American Immigration Council
Any legal fight against the individual ICE agent or federal government in the wake of Renee Good's death is riddled with pitfalls.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Can ICE be held accountable for killing Renee Good? I try to make sense of the legal issues here. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/can-ren...
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The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.
January 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM
The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.
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“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.”
Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.”
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New: In September, federal agents swarmed a manufacturing facility in upstate New York, arresting 57 people on alleged immigration violations.
...all without a single arrest warrant.
Behind the unusual administrative warrant ICE used to question everyone:
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...
...all without a single arrest warrant.
Behind the unusual administrative warrant ICE used to question everyone:
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...
'Pull Up Your Pants!' ICE Raided A Plant And Detained Dozens — With No Arrest Warrant.
One agent called the raid a "s**tshow." A federal judge had a different term for what came next.
www.huffpost.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New: In September, federal agents swarmed a manufacturing facility in upstate New York, arresting 57 people on alleged immigration violations.
...all without a single arrest warrant.
Behind the unusual administrative warrant ICE used to question everyone:
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...
...all without a single arrest warrant.
Behind the unusual administrative warrant ICE used to question everyone:
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...
Occasionally, we get good news on a Friday…
BREAKING: A federal court in D.C. has blocked ICE’s unlawful policy of automatically detaining unaccompanied immigrant teens once they turn 18 – and from re-detaining those teens for no reason.
This ruling means youth can stay in safe, supportive settings – not adult jails.
This ruling means youth can stay in safe, supportive settings – not adult jails.
December 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Occasionally, we get good news on a Friday…
Great piece that cites the practice advisory and thorough case tracking on this issue being done by my colleagues at @immcouncil.org
There's a lot going on, and immigration law is notoriously labyrinthine. But it's still wild both that (1) the Trump administration is trying to treat millions of non-citizens who have lived here for years/decades as "arriving aliens"; & (2) *hundreds* of courts have (almost unanimously!) said "no":
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Great piece that cites the practice advisory and thorough case tracking on this issue being done by my colleagues at @immcouncil.org
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The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
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Our legal team helped uncover this document, and has been fighting against the Trump admin's plans to detain and deport thousands of unaccompanied migrant kids. Proud to work with them.
Check out this story below!
Check out this story below!
🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
Newly Uncovered Document Reveals An 'Alarming And Disturbing' Trump Threat
The Trump administration is turning the screws on kids who’ve arrived in the United States without adults accompanying them.
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our legal team helped uncover this document, and has been fighting against the Trump admin's plans to detain and deport thousands of unaccompanied migrant kids. Proud to work with them.
Check out this story below!
Check out this story below!
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Felipe Mendez lost his wife & son when tornadoes swept through Nashville in '23
A May traffic stop landed him in ICE custody, where the single dad was given a choice: "self-deport" or lose his surviving 2 sons to state custody
Story by John Partipilo & @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
bit.ly/49v0U1T
A May traffic stop landed him in ICE custody, where the single dad was given a choice: "self-deport" or lose his surviving 2 sons to state custody
Story by John Partipilo & @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
bit.ly/49v0U1T
A tornado and an immigration sting. The start and end of a life in Nashville. • Tennessee Lookout
Caught in an immigration sting, Felipe Mendez was ordered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to leave the U.S. or lose his children.
tennesseelookout.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Felipe Mendez lost his wife & son when tornadoes swept through Nashville in '23
A May traffic stop landed him in ICE custody, where the single dad was given a choice: "self-deport" or lose his surviving 2 sons to state custody
Story by John Partipilo & @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
bit.ly/49v0U1T
A May traffic stop landed him in ICE custody, where the single dad was given a choice: "self-deport" or lose his surviving 2 sons to state custody
Story by John Partipilo & @friedmanadam5.bsky.social
bit.ly/49v0U1T
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
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#BREAKING: Iowa’s anti-immigrant law, SF 2340, stays blocked!
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
Appeals Court Upholds Block on Iowa Anti-Immigrant Law
The law empowers state officials to arrest and deport people, a power that, under the U.S. Constitution, belongs to the federal government.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#BREAKING: Iowa’s anti-immigrant law, SF 2340, stays blocked!
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
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BREAKING: DC District Court just granted our emergency motion, filed with @immigrantjustice.bsky.social, stopping ICE from locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention centers once they turn 18.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
October 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
BREAKING: DC District Court just granted our emergency motion, filed with @immigrantjustice.bsky.social, stopping ICE from locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention centers once they turn 18.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
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BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
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The state is fighting to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps earlier this year in an argument that mirrors one from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
State fights to keep confidential full record of THP participation in immigration enforcement • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee fights to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps this year.
tennesseelookout.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The state is fighting to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps earlier this year in an argument that mirrors one from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.
Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent…
Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.
Proud to stand with @tirrcvotes.bsky.social and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social to challenge this law.
A legal challenge to a new state law that criminalizes the act of concealing or sheltering individuals illegally in the country had its first day in court Wednesday. @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports on the suit filed by The Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Lutheran clergy seek to temporarily block new law making it a crime to 'harbor' immigrants • Tennessee Lookout
The Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America challenged a Tennessee law criminalizing the sheltering of immigrants.
tennesseelookout.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Proud to stand with @tirrcvotes.bsky.social and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social to challenge this law.
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🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
September 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨
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This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
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The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend.
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
BREAKING: Trump makes his first appearance at the US Open. There were audible boos and a few light claps.
Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.
Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.
September 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend.
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
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🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."