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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 21h

‼️Nuestra línea directa está teniendo problemas con llamadas y mensajes de texto salientes, aunque no con llamadas y textos recibidos. Lo estamos tratando de arreglar pero mientras tanto por favor tengan paciencia. Si es un asunto urgente, por favor llámenos.‼️

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 21h

‼️Our hotline is currently having issues with outgoing calls and text messages, but not incoming calls or messages. We're trying to fix it but in the mean time, please bear with us. If it is time-sensitive, please call.‼️

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 5d

MPD & ICE are in lockstep because they are just different flavors of the same oppressive carceral system. That’s why there’s no abolish ICE without abolish the police.

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 5d

MPD did not stop collaborating with ICE after the emergency ended. They proceeded full steam ahead, working hand in hand to terrorize DC’s immigrant communities, with Bowser’s blessing. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/01/dc-police-immigration-trump-crime/

Immigration officers still patrol with D.C. police after Trump emergency

The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 5d

Never forget
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 6

In summary, fuck park police forever. All our homies hate them. All your homies should hate them too. 7/

Mean Girls burn book that says "This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met. Do not TRUST HER. She is a fugly slut!" with a park police patch taped in

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 6d

More on park police 👉🏽 bsky.app/profile/dcmi...

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 6

And also, never forget that Park Police has been trash forever. This is not new. They routinely evict unhoused folks and confiscate and destroy their possessions. 5/ www.washingtonpost.com/local/public...

Federal officials sweep Franklin Square while targeting homeless encampments

Police say they removed abandoned property, dead rodents and human feces that led to complaints that the park was unsafe.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sunita Patel @lawprofspatel.bsky.social · 6d

The interlocking of executive administrative police agencies, municipal police, and ICE is a transinstitutional policing redux. Schools and hospitals really should rethink their relationships with law enforcement. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 6d

The @nytimes.com broke down how DC became a testing ground for ICE and their conclusions are exactly what organizers have been screaming about at the top of our lungs:

“One key to the strategy: ICE’s close partnership with both [MPD] and the U.S. Park Police.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 6d

And while feds have been terrorizing the a district, Bowser has spat on the Sanctuary Values Act and Home Rule, and allowed rampant collaboration between MPD & ICE despite no longer being required to be the emergency. Our local govt may have failed us, but we keep us safe.
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 27

Muriel's never met a bus she won't throw us under.

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 27

We've said it once, we'll say it again 👉🏽 no one hates DC residents more than Muriel Bowser.

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 6d

Park Police have been working closely with ICE for years and started setting up these checkpoints for months before the occupation began. They’re now even more emboldened to cause harm to our communities.
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Jun 27

🚨Alert🚨 In the recent weeks, Park Police has been posting up at local parks, like Malcolm X, arresting people for minor things like smoking weed, and then transferring them to ICE. REMEMBER: Most parks in DC are actually federal land. 1/

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 6d

The @nytimes.com broke down how DC became a testing ground for ICE and their conclusions are exactly what organizers have been screaming about at the top of our lungs:

“One key to the strategy: ICE’s close partnership with both [MPD] and the U.S. Park Police.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 12d

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13d

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 12d

❗️DONATIONS NEEDED❗️

Recently housed neighbor being held in ICE custody in VA.

We need $1k to cover his bond & bring him home.

C*shApp: $RemoraHouseDC
or givebutter.com/remorahouse

Love & solidarity 🖤🖤

Support Remora House

By Remora House

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 20d

Siempre esté pendiente de sus alrededores. RECUERDE no abra la puerta sin orden judicial, tiene el derecho de permanecer callado y no firmar ningún documento. Si tiene información adicional, mande un mensaje directo: 202-335-1183

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 20d

🚨Alerta de Migra 🚨Hemos recibido varias alertas que ICE está por la intersección de 14th St NW y Missouri, con varios arrestos desde la mañana. Evite la zona si es posible!

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 20d

Please be aware of your surroundings. REMEMBER do not open the door without a judicial warrant, you have the right to remain silent, do not sign anything. If you have any additional info call our hotline 202-335-1183.

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 20d

🚨ICE Alert 🚨ICE has been spotted at the intersection of 14th St NW and Missouri, with various arrests since this morning. Please avoid the area if possible.

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 22d

OOTD: ICE edition
✅ Goggles
✅ Gag
✅ Back zip ties
✅ Fascism

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Senator Ankit Jain @ankitjaindc.bsky.social · 21d

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21d

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC.

We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

31 Democrats who voted with Trump and against DC

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 21d

To the 31 House Democrats who voted with Trump: I would never vote to disenfranchise your constituents, undermine their democratic rights, or impose harsher penalties on them against their will. Regrettably, you have done exactly that to my constituents and legislative body. Shame 😪

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21d

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC.

We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 21d

UNHOUSED PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE THE VICTIMS OF CRIME THAN THE PERPETRATORS

People are so bothered by someone drinking a beer in a park or trying to sleep on a sidewalk they froth at the mouth screaming about how they are a danger to society.

And this is what fucking happens.

Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 21d

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 21d

Police “can be in many places more than ICE can. They know how to do traffic checkpoints. They can block streets. What you’re giving them is a demographic and cultural map of the city.”

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 21d

The emergency has ended, yet the collaboration continues. Bowser’s appeasement of Trump has done nothing but hurt the District. MPD & ICE are individually deeply harmful, together they compound that harm. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump threatens to retake control of D.C. police over Bowser’s position on ICE

President Donald Trump’s comments, just days after his 30-day police takeover ended, underline his intense interest in D.C. — and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s political predicament.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 22d

ICE is using shady, beta-testing facial recognition app, Mobile Fortify, without offering a legal basis for its usage or the databases it connects with.

www.404media.co/congress-pus...

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more information, including ICE's legal basis for using the app in...

www.404media.co

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 22d

Unbelievable stuff happening in DC

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 22d

OOTD: ICE edition
✅ Goggles
✅ Gag
✅ Back zip ties
✅ Fascism

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