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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2h

Agreed! I think you are absolutely right!
It was also around the time that they began peddling the idea that if we just kick out immigrants, high rents and lack of affordable housing shortage will be solved LOL

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 3h

Yep I remember well and I spoke with housing and tenant organizers from East Colfax Community Collective then— so wondering if there are some housing organizers that can help get to bottom of this

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Kavanaugh stop

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h

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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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 3h

I hope someone is looking into the connection between the landlords, building management, and the Feds.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 3h

Me two about that degrees of separation which is crazy

Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 11h

Sigh. It’s like they are just one step behind us with a slightly different accent but…

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 13h

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

A few points & a warning 1/

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 15h

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d

For less than what Florida and Indiana are charging US taxpayers to detain migrants in miserable conditions, you can book rooms tonight in decent hotels in central Washington DC.

From @nickmiroff.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Those rates are significantly lower than the amounts DHS appears to be paying through its most recent contracts at state-run facilities. The commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections told state lawmakers last month that DHS will pay $291 a day at the “Speedway Slammer,” while guaranteeing that the facility has a minimum of 450 detainees. The average cost of a bed inside the tents at “Alligator Alcatraz” is $245 a day, records show.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2d

this is a great move for everyone involved

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

My colleagues and I are SUPER excited about this: The amazing @crampell.bsky.social is joining our team at The Bulwark.

www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

The literal words of the statute say that people here for more than two years can’t be subject to ER, asylum claim or no asylum claim

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

He REFUSES to see this, to address this, to acknowledge what the literal words of the statute say.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

Court: I’m grappling with the lack of sorting process.

Ensign doesn’t want to talk about this but only credible fear and asylum. He refuses to discuss the issue of assuring people here more than 2 years without asylum claim aren’t rapidly removed. Totally separate issue under statute.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

Court: there’s no evidence anyone is asked have you been here more than two years continuously before placing them in ER
Let’s assume there’s a raid.
If people who are undocumented and don’t claim fear but have been here five years, do you have procedure to make sure they aren’t ER’d?

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

Court: Do you have to make sure they qualify for ER before you subject them to ER per the statute?
Ensign: (sheepishly, after insisting no due process claim)The Secretary believes she has a duty to comply with the statute…Violating the statute would be unlawful but may not be appealable

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

So So Rich

Ensign telling DC Court of Appeals that expedited removal is a crucial tool of border control when the case is about its use in the interior for people who have been here for a long time.

This admin always having it all ways.

media.cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/d...

media.cadc.uscourts.gov

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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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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many others. Those are two extremes.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

No words

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to post one here that just happened that is so upsetting.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

I also just read the accounts of what’s going on in Chicago.

You can find them in the declarations and briefs found here.

immigrantjustice.org/press-releas...

It’s scary as all get out.

New Federal Court Filing Challenges Trump Administration’s Most Recent Violent and Illegal Arrest Tactics in Chicago Area - National Immigrant Justice Center

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and ACLU of Illinois submitted a federal court notice today on behalf of 27 people who have been unlawfully arrested without warrants or probable cause by ...

immigrantjustice.org

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

I have just read all the declarations in the Escobar Molina case here in the District filed on October 3. Absolutely terrifying. Must read if people want to understand what ICE and the Feds are doing in this city.

Here are some.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...

ESCOBAR MOLINA v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, 1:25-cv-03417 - CourtListener.com

Docket for ESCOBAR MOLINA v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, 1:25-cv-03417 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 4d

This is also good because a lot of policy people think they can control way too much.

“I’m not against strategizing — I think that has to happen. But I think you also have to recognize how broad the world is when you talk about politics.”

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 4d

I’m with Coates and everyone who believes in a radical tradition but isn’t whiggish about history.

“it is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.”

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 4d

I mean the obeisance demanded is the most obvious sign of both racism and contempt for democracy. That’s literally what this admin is all about. Full stop.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to
Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities
and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby
ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs;
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert
with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in
any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies
regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may
have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025.
SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

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