@starmanjr.bsky.social
Reader. Runner. Advocate for immigrant rights. Border and PIC abolitionist.
Currently reading: Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah
Currently reading: Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah
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My immigration firm sent a newsletter today in response to inquiries from clients over the last two months. They "strongly recommend against international travel", warned against even walking past political rallies, noted government reps may ask to see emails, texts + social media, and these points:
Important things to consider for *any* non citizen now. I would also recommend using extra caution with domestic air travel and have a plan in place in case you are detained.
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STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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So it turns out that money Trump is sending to the military as bonuses was going to be spent on the military anyway. Only now, less efficiently, leaving some needy military families up the creek.
No surprise there.
No surprise there.
Trump will use military housing money for $1,776 Pentagon bonuses
The Trump administration will repurpose $2.6 billion in military housing assistance to pay $1,776 “warrior dividend” bonuses to service members, according to a senior administration official.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So it turns out that money Trump is sending to the military as bonuses was going to be spent on the military anyway. Only now, less efficiently, leaving some needy military families up the creek.
No surprise there.
No surprise there.
Jfc.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Jfc.
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Where have immigrants arrested during the so-called "Operation Midway Blitz" in Chicago ended up? New data reveals the privately-run detention facilities and local jails where ICE is holding people. @geoffhing.bsky.social @jillcastellano.bsky.social
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/18/i...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/18/i...
ICE Data Reveals What Happened to 1,600 People Arrested During Chicago’s Blitz
Most of those arrested were swiftly shuttled to a sprawling array of detention centers in 13 states, many with reports of troubling conditions.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Where have immigrants arrested during the so-called "Operation Midway Blitz" in Chicago ended up? New data reveals the privately-run detention facilities and local jails where ICE is holding people. @geoffhing.bsky.social @jillcastellano.bsky.social
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/18/i...
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/18/i...
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Widow receives husband's immigration approval letter 2 months after he was killed in ICE office shooting: people.com/widow-receiv...
Widow Receives Husband's Immigration Approval Letter 2 Months After He Was Killed in ICE Office Shooting
A North Texas widow has said she received her late husband's immigration approval letter over two months after he was killed in an ICE office shooting.
people.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Widow receives husband's immigration approval letter 2 months after he was killed in ICE office shooting: people.com/widow-receiv...
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Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
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“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.”
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Immigrant Labor Declines As Trump Imposes New Immigration Restrictions
Government data show a decline of 1.1 million foreign-born workers since January. New immigration restrictions will lead to a larger drop.
www.forbes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.”
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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I believe that ICE uses specific detention facilities to play particular roles in its enforcement machine. Alexandria Staging is the deportation hub. A good read here from about 3 months ago. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I believe that ICE uses specific detention facilities to play particular roles in its enforcement machine. Alexandria Staging is the deportation hub. A good read here from about 3 months ago. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Large Border Patrol presence at the Home Depot off Oakton Street in Evanston, IL.
Agents just detained at least one person. Whistles going off. Helicopter circling low.
One agent just told Evanston mayor Daniel Biss, who's on scene, to back up.
Agents just detained at least one person. Whistles going off. Helicopter circling low.
One agent just told Evanston mayor Daniel Biss, who's on scene, to back up.
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Large Border Patrol presence at the Home Depot off Oakton Street in Evanston, IL.
Agents just detained at least one person. Whistles going off. Helicopter circling low.
One agent just told Evanston mayor Daniel Biss, who's on scene, to back up.
Agents just detained at least one person. Whistles going off. Helicopter circling low.
One agent just told Evanston mayor Daniel Biss, who's on scene, to back up.
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As Greg Bovino returns to Chicago, this story looks at children detained by ICE, including one 5-year-old swept up in Operation Midway Blitz earlier this year.
“We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
“We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
As Greg Bovino returns to Chicago, this story looks at children detained by ICE, including one 5-year-old swept up in Operation Midway Blitz earlier this year.
“We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
“We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
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In Chicago, a man on Facebook Live was following the Border Patrol north on Lake Shore Drive. At the end of the drive, a bunch of city cop cars cut off the man who was following and live-streaming Border Patrol.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In Chicago, a man on Facebook Live was following the Border Patrol north on Lake Shore Drive. At the end of the drive, a bunch of city cop cars cut off the man who was following and live-streaming Border Patrol.
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Nearly every African country on this list, plus Cuba and Venezuela, has either 1) recently accepted ICE deportation flights and/or 2) recently agreed to “host” third-country nationals.
Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.
Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Nearly every African country on this list, plus Cuba and Venezuela, has either 1) recently accepted ICE deportation flights and/or 2) recently agreed to “host” third-country nationals.
Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.
Playing ball with Trump’s cruelty machine hasn’t helped them diplomatically AT ALL.
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I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
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replace CEOs with AI and then replace the AI with another coffee maker for the actual useful employees
Bro look at my CEO he’s making business decisions based off of twitter polls
December 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
replace CEOs with AI and then replace the AI with another coffee maker for the actual useful employees
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The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers.
It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.
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A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
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Yeah the dissonance here is that when they say “empathy” is killing “Western civilization,” what they’re signaling is that recognizing the humanity and rights of non-white people is genocidal towards white people.
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Yeah the dissonance here is that when they say “empathy” is killing “Western civilization,” what they’re signaling is that recognizing the humanity and rights of non-white people is genocidal towards white people.
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1/ After two years of bargaining, @propublica.org management has resisted our proposals to bring transparency and accountability to our disciplinary process.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
1/ After two years of bargaining, @propublica.org management has resisted our proposals to bring transparency and accountability to our disciplinary process.
You can support our union by sharing this post and signing our petition for a fair contract! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇
Laura Dern’s rage faces in Big Little Lies.
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Laura Dern’s rage faces in Big Little Lies.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Mohan Karki was born in a Nepal refugee camp and met his 5-month-old daughter in shackles for the first time. KUOW reports the U.S. is trying to deport him to Bhutan, where he may not be accepted, leaving him effectively stateless.
www.kuow.org/stories/this...
www.kuow.org/stories/this...
This refugee's family faced persecution in Bhutan. Now, he could be deported there
Mohan Karki's family and others with Nepali ancestry were persecuted and driven out of Bhutan in the 1990s. Karki himself was born in a refugee camp in nearby Nepal. Yet, the U.S. government claims…
www.kuow.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Mohan Karki was born in a Nepal refugee camp and met his 5-month-old daughter in shackles for the first time. KUOW reports the U.S. is trying to deport him to Bhutan, where he may not be accepted, leaving him effectively stateless.
www.kuow.org/stories/this...
www.kuow.org/stories/this...
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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This is slightly off: what it is actually an example of is how US immigration laws have created up a literal fake court system with salaried employees of the Executive usurping the authority of the judiciary. It's Congress's fault for ever endorsing this, but it's illegal nonetheless.
I’m no law knower but this seems like the most egregious example of US laws aren’t real, so far
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is slightly off: what it is actually an example of is how US immigration laws have created up a literal fake court system with salaried employees of the Executive usurping the authority of the judiciary. It's Congress's fault for ever endorsing this, but it's illegal nonetheless.