Yael Schacher
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
DHS thinks they can do whatever they want — this is not referring to immigrants it’s referring to American citizens.
Benny Johnson shows up 8 times in Sara Ellis' opinion, partly by capturing Noem and Bovino saying illegal shit.
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![On October 3, 2025, Secretary Noem spoke to agents at the Broadview facility before
they began their shift. She said:
When we leave here, we’re going to go hard. We’re going to
hammer these guys who are advocating for violence against the
American people. What they are doing is advocating to harm not
just you and your colleagues but your families and they’re doxing
your identities and victimizing people every day by the way that
they’re talking, speaking, who they’re affiliated with, who they’re
funded with, and what they’re talking about as far as consequences
for what we’re doing by protecting this country. So we’re going to
go out there and we’re going to make sure that there’s
consequences for the way that they’re behaving, and then we’re
going to prosecute them. We’re going to bring them to justice.
We’re not taking this anymore. . . . We’re going to give you guys
all the authority that you need to arrest these individuals who are
advocating for violence against you.
Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson), X (Oct. 3, 2025 1:05 p.m.), https://x.com/bennyjohnson/
status/1974174065985470970. Bovino followed up by telling the agents:
You’re going to be put in full effect . . . That crowd there is, is an
unsafe crowd on either side. . . . And when they resist, what
happens? They get arrested. So it’s now going to be a free arrest
zone. And, I’ll give them one warning that that’ll be for safety of,
of us and the Secretary to leave. So they’re getting it here as soon
as we leave.
Id. Secretary Noem finished by stating, “[m]ake sure that these individuals are not allowed to
conduct this kind of activity anymore.” Id.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreig2d3dv5uenevfeysdwtzufmkdzaesuprpyomamh3fmnnaq3xq3se@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
DHS thinks they can do whatever they want — this is not referring to immigrants it’s referring to American citizens.
The US has some ethnic cleansing many time! The weirdness about this is having devoted tons of resources to vetting these refugees and bringing them here and now undoing all of that!
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The US has some ethnic cleansing many time! The weirdness about this is having devoted tons of resources to vetting these refugees and bringing them here and now undoing all of that!
Many of the Haitians and Somalis were in unauthorized status, which is why they needed protection from removal. TPS is not a pathway to get here— it’s given to people who are here and at risk of deportation. Refugee resettlement is a pathway here. That includes interviews and vetting before arrival
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Many of the Haitians and Somalis were in unauthorized status, which is why they needed protection from removal. TPS is not a pathway to get here— it’s given to people who are here and at risk of deportation. Refugee resettlement is a pathway here. That includes interviews and vetting before arrival
It will in the meantime breed so much fear of course. That is so the point.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It will in the meantime breed so much fear of course. That is so the point.
People remember that book, right?
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
People remember that book, right?
I mean this is out of Catch -22.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I mean this is out of Catch -22.
Also want to say that this is procedurally cumbersome— will take tons of resources if done even somewhat meaningfully for 200k people and dependents. Huge waste.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Also want to say that this is procedurally cumbersome— will take tons of resources if done even somewhat meaningfully for 200k people and dependents. Huge waste.
At a Congressional Hearing, Residents Detail the Trauma of the L.A. Raids
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It is like a cruel mockery of “past persecution” and fear of future persecution in the refugee definition.
What a sick joke.
What a sick joke.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It is like a cruel mockery of “past persecution” and fear of future persecution in the refugee definition.
What a sick joke.
What a sick joke.
This policy makes these refugees illegal and is also destroying the faith anybody would have that the legal system can ever be fair in the future. It’s retroactively delegalizing and damning the refugee system into the future.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This policy makes these refugees illegal and is also destroying the faith anybody would have that the legal system can ever be fair in the future. It’s retroactively delegalizing and damning the refugee system into the future.
Why would ANYBODY ever trust the U.S. immigration system again?
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Why would ANYBODY ever trust the U.S. immigration system again?
Have we had ethnic cleansing before? You bet. But not of people handpicked and vetted to come here.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Have we had ethnic cleansing before? You bet. But not of people handpicked and vetted to come here.
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Unprecedented in U.S. history.
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Truly vindictive ethnic cleansing
Sorry: THIS MORNING
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sorry: THIS MORNING
Spent a morning in an archive of a R MOC in mid 1990s. Several files.
Every us historian has seen a file folder at a politicians papers filled with the racist, deluded ramblings of weird old white men, anyway those guys hold all power in our country now
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Spent a morning in an archive of a R MOC in mid 1990s. Several files.
Yeah and Judge Cobb is WICKED SMART. So he better learn her name.
Quite telling that Miller assumes the judge is male (“himself”). Or he read Kyle’s use of “she” but decided to amend it because women can’t be judges in his feeble mind.
This is Judge Jia Cobb.
This is Judge Jia Cobb.
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Yeah and Judge Cobb is WICKED SMART. So he better learn her name.
It stems from a eugenic idea that there is something called “alien crime” that can never be redeemed, it’s inherent to the people who commit it. It’s racist, crazy.
They truly believe this! Like when they arrest a noncitizen who committed a crime years ago and has been out of prison for a decade, they put out a press release claiming they saved the public from a serious threat, even if the person has been law-abiding for years and is a random ex-con doing well.
To paraphrase what an ICE field director said at a Texas hiring event earlier this year: what makes ICE different from other law enforcement officers is that we catch criminals "before" a crime is committed.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It stems from a eugenic idea that there is something called “alien crime” that can never be redeemed, it’s inherent to the people who commit it. It’s racist, crazy.
Reposted by Yael Schacher
"The father of four, an immigrant from Afghanistan who helped the U.S. military fight the Taliban, is in a Springfield, Missouri, jail — held with other immigrants picked up in nationwide sweeps. Dadfar is 37 and an asylum-seeker with work authorization." https://bit.ly/4rxmaL8.
Afghan asylum seeker who fought the Taliban now held by ICE in Missouri
A Kansas City-based immigration attorney has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mohammad Ali Dadfar’s warrantless arrest and detention. Hundreds of immigrant detainees have been ordered released beca...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"The father of four, an immigrant from Afghanistan who helped the U.S. military fight the Taliban, is in a Springfield, Missouri, jail — held with other immigrants picked up in nationwide sweeps. Dadfar is 37 and an asylum-seeker with work authorization." https://bit.ly/4rxmaL8.
This is my neighborhood! Furious
Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is my neighborhood! Furious
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White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
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But govt said comms with Costa Rica are secret and any decisions made based on national security are “nonjusticiable” and besides “you can’t make us send him to CR, you can’t make us show you our work, and if you release him we’ll send him to Liberia, and you will have no jurisdiction over that”.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This case is the epitome of incompetence and cruelty.
In court, the govt interprets its authority to empty every statutory protection of meaning. Also: hearing full of jurisdictional squabbling b/k of review stripping precedents that burden attempts to vindicate immigrant rights in federal courts.
In court, the govt interprets its authority to empty every statutory protection of meaning. Also: hearing full of jurisdictional squabbling b/k of review stripping precedents that burden attempts to vindicate immigrant rights in federal courts.
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This case is the epitome of incompetence and cruelty.
In court, the govt interprets its authority to empty every statutory protection of meaning. Also: hearing full of jurisdictional squabbling b/k of review stripping precedents that burden attempts to vindicate immigrant rights in federal courts.
In court, the govt interprets its authority to empty every statutory protection of meaning. Also: hearing full of jurisdictional squabbling b/k of review stripping precedents that burden attempts to vindicate immigrant rights in federal courts.
Kilmar case has been a series of mistakes by govt— in original removal order, in removal despite withholding— and now govt assigned his asylum case to “asylum free” zone of Atlanta and insists on Liberia over Costa Rica as country of removal. All for reasons Ensign conveniently can’t explain. JFC
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Kilmar case has been a series of mistakes by govt— in original removal order, in removal despite withholding— and now govt assigned his asylum case to “asylum free” zone of Atlanta and insists on Liberia over Costa Rica as country of removal. All for reasons Ensign conveniently can’t explain. JFC
Your hair and glasses are FIRE
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Your hair and glasses are FIRE