Kari Hong
@prof-kari-hong.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer • Ninth Circuit advocate • Past and current prof • Hockey player
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
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ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
What local government and local police can--and should--do to protect us from ICE
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If Washington won't rein in ICE, our communities must • Daily Montanan
Columnists Kari Hong and Doug James say that if Immigration and Customs Officials won't rein themselves in, it will be up to local Montana communities to do it.
dailymontanan.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What local government and local police can--and should--do to protect us from ICE
dailymontanan.com/2025/12/09/i...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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How long are we as a civil society going to let ICE do what they are doing.?
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
How long are we as a civil society going to let ICE do what they are doing.?
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Sanctuary Cities 2.0 ✊🏽 Local leaders are finding new, lawful ways to push back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sanctuary Cities 2.0 ✊🏽 Local leaders are finding new, lawful ways to push back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
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ICE is literally being used by a fascist criminal regime as their personal army to assault, abduct, kidnap, imprison and terrorize people of color and their perceived enemies. They aren’t a lawful agency, they’re a criminal Gestapo.
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ICE is literally being used by a fascist criminal regime as their personal army to assault, abduct, kidnap, imprison and terrorize people of color and their perceived enemies. They aren’t a lawful agency, they’re a criminal Gestapo.
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220 judges, including 23 appointed by Trump, have ruled that this administration’s mass detention policies are unlawful.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
220 judges, including 23 appointed by Trump, have ruled that this administration’s mass detention policies are unlawful.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
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She needs to sue them for kidnapping. Get their damn names and faces on record. Why ICE is allowed to behave in ways that police are not allowed to (though of course they do) is beyond comprehension.
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
She needs to sue them for kidnapping. Get their damn names and faces on record. Why ICE is allowed to behave in ways that police are not allowed to (though of course they do) is beyond comprehension.
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MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military.
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military.
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
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Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
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“‘I’m a US citizen, please help me,’ she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’”
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show ID
In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle.
www.miamiherald.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“‘I’m a US citizen, please help me,’ she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’”
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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The truth is, immigration enforcement policy has never been about "reducing crime", "protecting our national security", or "boosting the economy."
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December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The truth is, immigration enforcement policy has never been about "reducing crime", "protecting our national security", or "boosting the economy."
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Why would you accept the premise of Donald Trump's lie and then lie FOR him to further advance his political project? None of this is true, why are you talking?
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why would you accept the premise of Donald Trump's lie and then lie FOR him to further advance his political project? None of this is true, why are you talking?
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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Another arrest of people who voluntarily showed up for a required check-in: "The father and his son were arrested at a check-in with ICE."
Also, look at that boy's sweet face. To think of the damage that these monsters are inflicting on him and countless other young children.
Also, look at that boy's sweet face. To think of the damage that these monsters are inflicting on him and countless other young children.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Another arrest of people who voluntarily showed up for a required check-in: "The father and his son were arrested at a check-in with ICE."
Also, look at that boy's sweet face. To think of the damage that these monsters are inflicting on him and countless other young children.
Also, look at that boy's sweet face. To think of the damage that these monsters are inflicting on him and countless other young children.
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Giving Tuesday is about standing with orgs that make our communities a better place to live, work, and raise families. Right now, our friends and neighbors are living with daily risks no family should have to face.
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Giving Tuesday is about standing with orgs that make our communities a better place to live, work, and raise families. Right now, our friends and neighbors are living with daily risks no family should have to face.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
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So they are saying an Afghan National is responsible. Perhaps if the FBI hadn't pulled so many away from counterterrorism & put them on helping ICE this could have been thwarted.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So they are saying an Afghan National is responsible. Perhaps if the FBI hadn't pulled so many away from counterterrorism & put them on helping ICE this could have been thwarted.
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Has there been any reporting on whether the Asylum Cooperative Agreements the US claims to have entered into with Guatemala and Honduras actually exist? In June Noeam claimed both had agreed to accept asylum seekers from the US. But both denied it. 🧵 apnews.com/article/guat...
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Has there been any reporting on whether the Asylum Cooperative Agreements the US claims to have entered into with Guatemala and Honduras actually exist? In June Noeam claimed both had agreed to accept asylum seekers from the US. But both denied it. 🧵 apnews.com/article/guat...