@evakalikoff.bsky.social
Civil rights attorney in New Orleans. Recovering New Yorker.
www.bizerlaw.com
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ICE whistles work.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ICE whistles work.
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Some 5,600 Louisiana formerly homeless residents live in housing subsidized by HUD, and about 3,400 of them live in apartments in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. The New Orleans area received $38.7 million through the program last year. www.nola.com/news/politic...
2,600 New Orleans area residents, once homeless, could be forced back on the street. See why.
2,600 formerly homeless people in New Orleans area could lose housing
www.nola.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Some 5,600 Louisiana formerly homeless residents live in housing subsidized by HUD, and about 3,400 of them live in apartments in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. The New Orleans area received $38.7 million through the program last year. www.nola.com/news/politic...
Justice Democrats Re-Emerge in New York to Try to Unseat Espaillat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Justice Democrats Re-Emerge in New York to Try to Unseat Espaillat
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Justice Democrats Re-Emerge in New York to Try to Unseat Espaillat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
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GREAT NEWS!!! Federal District Court Judge Cathy Seibel ordered that Joel must be released from custody!!!
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
ICE will arrest anyone—even a 16-year-old who just wants to get back to class.
Joel Camas may be the first unaccompanied minor detained by Trump this term.
Joel Camas may be the first unaccompanied minor detained by Trump this term.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
GREAT NEWS!!! Federal District Court Judge Cathy Seibel ordered that Joel must be released from custody!!!
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
“While the administration takes aim at real institutional shortcomings, its actions supplant science with ideology and people like myself are caught in the crossfire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“While the administration takes aim at real institutional shortcomings, its actions supplant science with ideology and people like myself are caught in the crossfire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing
Meanwhile “the nation is in the throes of a fair and affordable housing crisis.”
www.motherjones.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Disabled adults and families of disabled children said any cuts would have a profound effect on their lives. For many, home- and community-based care is the difference between living in an institution and a life comparable to peers who don’t have a disability. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
Disabled Americans Fear What Medicaid Cuts Could Do to Them
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Disabled adults and families of disabled children said any cuts would have a profound effect on their lives. For many, home- and community-based care is the difference between living in an institution and a life comparable to peers who don’t have a disability. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Analysis Shows www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Analysis Shows
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Analysis Shows www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
They came from all over. New Orleans. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. And many other cities around the south as six large buses of demonstrators arrived at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena last week in support of detainee Mahmoud Khalil. www.thejenatimes.net/2025/05/28/l...
Largest Demonstration To Date At ICE Facility - The Jena Times
They came from all over. New Orleans. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. And many other cities around the south as six large buses of demonstrators arrived at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in...
www.thejenatimes.net
June 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They came from all over. New Orleans. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. And many other cities around the south as six large buses of demonstrators arrived at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena last week in support of detainee Mahmoud Khalil. www.thejenatimes.net/2025/05/28/l...
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Local jailers could face 10 years in prison if they don’t cooperate with ICE, under bill advancing in legislature
By Verite immigration reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick.
By Verite immigration reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick.
Local jailers could face 10 years in prison if they don’t cooperate with ICE, under bill advancing in legislature - Verite News New Orleans
The bill conflicts with a longstanding Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office policy, which was adopted under court order.
veritenews.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Local jailers could face 10 years in prison if they don’t cooperate with ICE, under bill advancing in legislature
By Verite immigration reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick.
By Verite immigration reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick.
"This strategy of court-baiting is widespread across cases of democratic backsliding... Presidents frequently antagonize the courts on national-security issues—a policy arena in which voters tend to support a stronger executive and weaker judiciary." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
May 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"This strategy of court-baiting is widespread across cases of democratic backsliding... Presidents frequently antagonize the courts on national-security issues—a policy arena in which voters tend to support a stronger executive and weaker judiciary." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana. It’s No Coincidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...
Opinion | Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana
Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana. It’s No Coincidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...
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I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I spent the day at the ICE Detention centers where Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil are being unjustly detained. They've been taken thousands of miles away from home and denied due process.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
I’m here to call for their immediate release and make it known that they haven’t been forgotten.
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Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C).
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C).
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
"If the government can disappear any people it wishes, dump them in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o... #dueprocess #immigration #scotus
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"If the government can disappear any people it wishes, dump them in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o... #dueprocess #immigration #scotus
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This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
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 8:20 PM
This is an attack on the rule of law. If a country seizes people with valid documents for detention and refuses to abide by any judicial process for it, that country is fundamentally lawless.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
That the detention is indefinite and in a foreign labor prison makes it even more so.
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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!! This seems to confirm that the Trump admin invoked an obscure Cold War-era law, INA 237(a)(4)(C), which authorizes the Secretary of State to *personally* order any noncitizen to be deported on the grounds that their presence "would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences."
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
!! This seems to confirm that the Trump admin invoked an obscure Cold War-era law, INA 237(a)(4)(C), which authorizes the Secretary of State to *personally* order any noncitizen to be deported on the grounds that their presence "would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences."
Please sign this petition in support of Mahmoud Khalil who has been abducted by ICE and DHS and is currently in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema... #FreeMahmoud
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
actionnetwork.org
March 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Please sign this petition in support of Mahmoud Khalil who has been abducted by ICE and DHS and is currently in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema... #FreeMahmoud
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold. www.propublica.org/article/depa...
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...
www.propublica.org
February 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold. www.propublica.org/article/depa...
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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...