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Thi Bui
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Thi Bui @teabuoy.bsky.social · 29d
Hey researchers with ICE data. I’m a cartoonist who is also a nerd about politics, law, justice, and fighting fascism. If you have info and analyses that would be good to visualize into an infographic or short comic to inform the public, hit me up. Let’s Voltron.
teabuoy.bsky.social
This is related to my relentless focus on ICE since blaming immigrants for all your problems (and thus supporting their kidnapping torture and imprisonment) is the thing this year
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination

Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
teabuoy.bsky.social
Somebody come get Bovino out of New Orleans, we don’t want him.
December 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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andresfuentes.bsky.social
New data shows Jefferson Parish Schools are seeing significant absenteeism rates in the week since Operation Catahoula Crunch started.

One of the biggest drops in attendance is Terrytown Elementary which saw attendance rates drop to 59%.
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
teabuoy.bsky.social
When ICE is as over-funded as Congress has made it, the profiteers come buzzing to get a piece of the pie.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
On Reddit, a post shows the ways in which 287(g) agreements, combined with ICE's mass deportation efforts are making a total hash of the the basic functioning of a fair system — a man in Florida was pulled over for a traffic stop on his way to an asylum interview and is now detained in Colorado!
r/USCIS icon Go to USCIS r/USCIS • 32m ago Mona0221 My Brother Was Detained by ICE on the Way to His Asylum Interview — I Don’t Know Where He Is. Please Help. ICE Support Hi everyone, I’m posting because I’m extremely stressed and confused, and I hope someone who has gone through this or knows immigration law can guide me. 📍 Background My brother has a pending asylum case. He has no criminal history, no issues, nothing bad in his record. He was supposed to attend his asylum interview at 9 AM in Florida. On his way to the interview, police pulled him over during a traffic stop. After checking his info, they said something about his “status not showing.” Then they contacted immigration. 📍 ICE Took Him From the Police Station Police kept him for hours and then told us that ICE placed an immigration hold on him. They asked for his A-Number, but nothing was showing in their system. Later, they told us ICE would transfer him. First they said he was going to Dania Beach CBP, then we found out he was being moved again. 📍 Transfer to Colorado Around late afternoon, we were told he was being sent to Colorado, to an ICE/CBP facility near Aurora/Denver. We were shocked — we live in Florida and don’t understand why they transported him so far away. We were told his flight arrives around 7 AM, but we still haven’t heard from him. He hasn’t appeared in the ICE detainee locator yet.
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
teabuoy.bsky.social
The people who don’t get why immigrant families are keeping their kids home in fear while CBP and ICE kidnap immigrants are the same ones who don’t want teachers to teach US history as it actually happened because it might make some white kids feel uncomfortable.

www.nola.com/news/educati...
Student attendance drops in New Orleans-area schools amid immigration sweeps. See the data.
Attendance is down in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. "Students who are afraid of being picked up by ICE agents are not coming to school. This will impact attendance across the state."
www.nola.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
DetentionReports.com has been updated with ICE detainee population data through November 28, 2025.

Information for 232 facilities can now be found on the website.
ICE Detention Facilities Statistics 232 Detention Centers State All States City e.g., Notes Zip Code e.g., 00000 Search facilities by name, location, or detention code... Search facilities by name, city, state, or detention location code. 1 - NOTES ON DATA PROCESSING Notes, US 00000 NOTES ADAMS COUNTY CORRECTIONAL CENTER Natchez, MS 39120 ADAMSMS ADELANTO ICE PROCESSING CENTER Adelanto, CA 92301 ADLNTCA ALAMANCE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY Graham, NC 27253 ALAMCNC ALEXANDRIA STAGING FACILI Alexandria, LA 71303 JENATLA ALLEGANY COUNTY JAIL Belmont, NY 14813 ALLEGNY
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
teabuoy.bsky.social
Love New Orleans, fuck ICE and CBP
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11d
The people of New Orleans have created an incredible grassroots community intelligence service to track the feds as they hunt the city's immigrants. A real good cops vs. bad cops dynamic being replicated across the country right now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
teabuoy.bsky.social
Our government deporting people to countries they’re not from by paying those countries to detain and abuse them is some peak gangster shit I was not prepared to be writing about but here we are. #NOWHERELAND
www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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austinkocher.com
While Maryland presents itself as a progressive haven, a quiet but significant rebellion is brewing within its counties. Data reveals a surge in collaboration between local sheriffs and ICE.

www.memesita.com/maryland-she...
Maryland Sheriffs Lead Nation in ICE Transfers Under Trump - memesita.com - Memesita
Maryland Sheriffs’ ICE Collaboration: A Local Revolt Against Federal Immigration Policy? ANNAPOLIS, MD – While Maryland presents itself as a progressive haven, a quiet but significant rebellion is …
www.memesita.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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austinkocher.com
The 287(g) program lets local police work with ICE. That means a traffic stop or small issue can turn into an immigration arrest. It’s one of the ways ICE reaches deep into communities.

Read: www.ice.gov/identify-and...
Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act
An official website of the United States government
www.ice.gov
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
teabuoy.bsky.social
A way to visualize rapid response when ICE or Border Patrol comes to your city:
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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austinkocher.com
ICE's latest detention data helps us understand what the agency has been doing with its massive windfall of funding
- record arrests: 41,641 in Oct alone
- record detention: 65,135 people
- 74% have no criminal conviction

See the data: austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i...
BREAKING: ICE Detention Crosses Record 65,000, October Arrests Top Record 40,000, Biggest Growth Among People with No Criminal History
After over two months of no data, ICE's new detention numbers show a record 65,135 people in detention, biggest growth among immigrants with no criminal histories. GPS ankle monitors also grow to 35k.
austinkocher.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
teabuoy.bsky.social
Hey researchers with ICE data. I’m a cartoonist who is also a nerd about politics, law, justice, and fighting fascism. If you have info and analyses that would be good to visualize into an infographic or short comic to inform the public, hit me up. Let’s Voltron.
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.

ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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whodat35.bsky.social
'This is not a normal thing': New Orleans braces for increased immigration enforcement

About 200 Border Patrol agents are expected in New Orleans in the coming weeks. | WWL-TV

www.wwltv.com/article/news...
'This is not a normal thing': New Orleans braces for increased immigration enforcement
About 200 Border Patrol agents are expected in New Orleans in the coming weeks.
www.wwltv.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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dearsplenda.bsky.social
"ICE is grabbing people from the streets who aren't even undocumented or don't have criminal records at all" babe i don't think there is a group of people ICE should be grabbing people off the streets in the first place
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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austinkocher.com
Eswatini says it received $5.1M from the U.S. to accept deportees under a quiet third-country deal. Only 15 men have been flown in, now held without charge as courts review the detentions. Even the finance minister says he wasn’t told.

Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Eswatini confirms receiving over $5m from US to accept deportees
Trump administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
teabuoy.bsky.social
Rare and terrifying, and really nice.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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the-ilrc.bsky.social
Congress gave ICE 💰$75 billion 💰 through Trump’s megabill.

Now we’re seeing the result: mass data collection, surveillance, + detention on an unprecedented scale.

🔗Read more here:

www.axios.com/2025/10/21/i...
ICE windfall from Trump megabill fuels surveillance juggernaut
"The fact that I don't have facts makes me very uncomfortable," said Sen. Gary Peters.
www.axios.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
ICE deported the student later that month.
www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025...
Detroit teen detained by ICE has been deported to Colombia, attorney says
Lawmakers and school board members had condemned the detention of Detroit teen Maykol Bogoya-Duarte and called for his release so he could finish high school.
www.chalkbeat.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
“No public criminal charges have been filed against anyone in connection with the raid … The @chicagotribune.com has been able to confirm the identity of only one immigrant taken into custody by federal agents that night: a 41-year-old pizza delivery man … who has no apparent criminal history.”
They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
I visited the sites of three places in Chicago where ICE abducted people. Here’s what I found.
The Aftermath
An empty apartment. A solitary protester. A budding community: What remains after ICE abductions?
southsideweekly.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The US government is gang affiliated www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
teabuoy.bsky.social
Deportation as double punishment for immigrants was never so clear as in this case of wrongful imprisonment + deportation.

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/16/h...
U.S. to Deport Exonerated Prisoner Held 43 Years for Crime He Did Not Commit
In immigration news, the Trump administration is preparing to deport a man arrested by ICE on the same day he was freed from a Pennsylvania prison, after serving 43 years behind bars for a crime he di...
www.democracynow.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM