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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

I explain how the Trump administration is increasing "assaults" on its agents by engaging in racial profiling and illegal arrests of US citizens. If ICE cared about officer safety, it'd return to ICE policies that protected officers & Americans! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ICE blamed me for assaults on its agents — but its own polices are to blame

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos.

www.msnbc.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

"According to the Trump administration, ICE agents suffered about 90% fewer assaults under Biden than under Trump. Biden’s ICE better protected agents by adopting interior enforcement policies that reduced chaotic interactions with the public." msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

MSNBC published my response to ICE's baseless claims about me. "I am more interested in ICE officer safety than ICE itself is. ICE cares more about running up the deportation numbers than protecting its officers." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 7h

ICE went after @davidjbier.bsky.social on X, blaming him for assaults on agents.

In a new @msnbc.com column, Bier argues DHS' own reckless policies are to blame.

Opinion | ICE blamed me for assaults on its agents — but its own polices are to blame

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos.

www.msnbc.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8h

ICE brought a videographer to record its criminality.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11h

Is there any more information known about this incident?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11h

I believe in moral obligations, but US corporations effectively stopped existing as independent entities on Jan. 20, 2025 when the 1A was repealed and political retribution was legalized. bsky.app/profile/stra...

Josh Maher @strategygame.bsky.social · 12h

You don’t believe it’s Apple’s obligation to the country that created it to stand up to attacks on said country?

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12h

Correct, but I don't particularly blame Apple because all US corporations are effectively state-owned enterprises now, operating at the pleasure of our Dear Leader (who is totally not a socialist) bsky.app/profile/beeg...

Beagleboy @beegleboy.bsky.social · 12h

There is something rotten in this Apple.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12h

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13h

Democrat leaders themselves say the shut down is about health care subsidies not the Constitution. bsky.app/profile/roos...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 15h

“voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—IF they are presented with this as a clear choice.” Too bad Democrats in leadership positions don’t want to fight authoritarianism

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Both correct interpretations as well.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

www.texastribune.org

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

This is a soulless attack on ourselves. Every one of his customers is a victim. Every person who worked for him. Not to mention his family and friends. Mass deportation isn’t us versus them. It’s us versus us.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · Aug 6

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 2d

Case I advised the victim on: If you’re wondering if ICE, CBP & Border Patrol ever make up evidence to frame people, here you go: www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/03/22/a...

The key piece of evidence in the case was the email that a high-ranking CBP branch chief in San Diego sent to Mexican immigration officials. The message was sent in December 2018, the month after the large group from Central America arrived in Tijuana.
The email, authored by Saro Oliveri, listed 24 people, including 14 U.S. citizens, whom Oliveri accused of being "organizers/instigators" of the so-called caravan. Written in Spanish, the email asked Mexican immigration officials to detain those people because CBP wanted to interview them and
"there exists a great possibility that they do not have adequate documentation to be in Mexico."
But last year in court, Oliveri testified that he made up the inadequate documentation claim without any basis.
"Literally, creative writing," he testified in August.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

100 percent

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

Are any democrats in leadership making this argument?

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The White House is blatantly violating the Constitution, ignoring Congressionally-allocated spending. Approving any budget would put a stamp of approval on the end of checks and balances.

It'll hurt, yes, but it's time for opposition. The political costs will mostly fall on the people in charge.

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on

The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

www.msnbc.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Ford CEO on tariffs: “I mean, it's frustrating 'cause we're the most American auto company, and we export the most, and yet, we have this $2 billion headwind, which prevents me from investing even more in the US.”

finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ce...

Ford CEO says $2 billion in tariff costs prevents more US investments

Ford CEO Jim Farley says tariffs on imported parts are driving up costs on the company's cars.

finance.yahoo.com

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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