@carlylsl.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer at Adelante Legal in Oakland, CA, mom; new resident of Minneapolis, runner, nature lover, my work’s battle cry “Even if we don’t make it, we are all still worth fighting for”~Maya Schenwar
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I'm for this #FoodBankChallenge!!! Who else is?
October 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I'm for this #FoodBankChallenge!!! Who else is?
Reminds me of how immigration attorneys are now writing “confidential address” in humanitarian visa applications, not to protect the client from their abuser but from the federal govt
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reminds me of how immigration attorneys are now writing “confidential address” in humanitarian visa applications, not to protect the client from their abuser but from the federal govt
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super valuable breakdown of how ICE has built a propaganda arm and what goes into it:
The Border Patrol El Centro Sector employs five dedicated agents to make what are essentially ICE “fancams” for social media. But they’re not editing in CapCut like most people on TikTok 😳
Reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five key takeaways from watching their social media videos.
Reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five key takeaways from watching their social media videos.
July 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
super valuable breakdown of how ICE has built a propaganda arm and what goes into it:
Please join me in donating to this:
Today @jessicavalenti.bsky.social shared about a South Carolinian who was arrested for her pregnancy outcome, I’ll link that story below, but I wanted to come on here and let y’all we will be posting her bond tomorrow at 8:30 am. If you can help at all: donorbox.org/legal-fees
Legal Fees | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
We are raising funds to cover the cost of legal fees for a South Carolina woman who is being charged "desecration of human remains" after miscarrying her pregnancy a few weeks ago. She faces up to 10 ...
donorbox.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Please join me in donating to this:
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🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations.
He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations.
He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
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June 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Sharing this again in case any of y’all are able to help support Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family while he’s held hostage by two corrupt regimes
Donate to Aid for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's Family, organized by National Day Laborer Organizing Network
----En Español Abajo----
Kilmar is a loving father, husba… National Day Laborer Organizing Network needs your support for Aid for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's Family
www.gofundme.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sharing this again in case any of y’all are able to help support Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family while he’s held hostage by two corrupt regimes
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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
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In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan.
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
April 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan.
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...
#teslatakedown Golden Valley, MN, with my little protester, and my other two kids who stayed in the car, because they were afraid there would be snipers 😳🥹, thankfully there were none!
March 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#teslatakedown Golden Valley, MN, with my little protester, and my other two kids who stayed in the car, because they were afraid there would be snipers 😳🥹, thankfully there were none!
ICE is kidnapping students in Minneapolis now: www.startribune.com/u-graduate-s...
International graduate student at U detained by ICE agents
In an email to students, university officials called it a “deeply concerning situation.”
www.startribune.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE is kidnapping students in Minneapolis now: www.startribune.com/u-graduate-s...
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We gotta find better ways to describe these arrests, man. "Detained" ain't cutting it. Getting your car window busted out and getting dragged away isn't "detained." Getting stopped on the street and disappeared for writing an OpEd isn't getting "detained." The language needs to match the action here
March 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We gotta find better ways to describe these arrests, man. "Detained" ain't cutting it. Getting your car window busted out and getting dragged away isn't "detained." Getting stopped on the street and disappeared for writing an OpEd isn't getting "detained." The language needs to match the action here
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Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted
Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison
E.M. and his girlfriend fled persecution in their native Venezuela in 2021 and dreamed of making a new life in the United States.
www.miamiherald.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted
At my #immigrationlaw office meeting, we made 🌺 to celebrate our wins and one 🦋 to remember clients of ours, a family, deported last month after an #ICE check-in: reflecting on this loss, I’m now using this quote by @mayaschenwar.bsky.social from #Letthisradicalizeyou as my battle cry
March 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
At my #immigrationlaw office meeting, we made 🌺 to celebrate our wins and one 🦋 to remember clients of ours, a family, deported last month after an #ICE check-in: reflecting on this loss, I’m now using this quote by @mayaschenwar.bsky.social from #Letthisradicalizeyou as my battle cry
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This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal.
Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return.
Now they will be rewarded with deportation.
Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return.
Now they will be rewarded with deportation.
March 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal.
Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return.
Now they will be rewarded with deportation.
Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return.
Now they will be rewarded with deportation.
Seeing what Timothy Snyder wrote about back in 2017 play out in real time today with Trump declaring an “invasion” at the border, which he is using to find a state of “exception” or “emergency” allowing ICE to invoke the #AlienEnemiesAct to arrest whoever they deem is a terrorist or criminal
March 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Seeing what Timothy Snyder wrote about back in 2017 play out in real time today with Trump declaring an “invasion” at the border, which he is using to find a state of “exception” or “emergency” allowing ICE to invoke the #AlienEnemiesAct to arrest whoever they deem is a terrorist or criminal
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Wow! These are conditions that in the past decade we have seen inside border patrol detention facilities. But with the administration ramping up arrests, and ratcheting down releases, this level of overcrowding is becoming more common in the interior. These conditions are completely illegal.
A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
March 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wow! These are conditions that in the past decade we have seen inside border patrol detention facilities. But with the administration ramping up arrests, and ratcheting down releases, this level of overcrowding is becoming more common in the interior. These conditions are completely illegal.
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This. Folks who are rightfully angry at current immigration policy and suppression of free speech need to listen to what activists have been arguing about criminalization & policing (even the "war on terror) have been arguing for decades, and most recently, since Summer 2020
There is no way to fight back that doesn’t challenge ideas like ‘terrorist,’ ‘gang member,’ and ‘criminal.’
March 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This. Folks who are rightfully angry at current immigration policy and suppression of free speech need to listen to what activists have been arguing about criminalization & policing (even the "war on terror) have been arguing for decades, and most recently, since Summer 2020
My stomach dropped opening my email just now: Trump is attempting to vilify #immigrationlawyers for fulfilling our duty of zealously advocating for our clients. This is an attack on due process & attempt to silence those who work to protect the most vulnerable among us. @aila.org: bit.ly/41SLtet
AILA Rejects Administration’s Dangerous Restrictions on Immigration Attorneys
AILA President Kelli Stump and Executive Director Ben Johnson reject a chilling directive by the Trump Administration ordering sanctions, reviews, and stricter oversight of attorneys in asylum and imm...
bit.ly
March 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My stomach dropped opening my email just now: Trump is attempting to vilify #immigrationlawyers for fulfilling our duty of zealously advocating for our clients. This is an attack on due process & attempt to silence those who work to protect the most vulnerable among us. @aila.org: bit.ly/41SLtet