Adriel Orozco

@adrielorozco.bsky.social

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Senate may add $70B thru 2029 to immigration enforcement atop last year’s $170B. It’s not just filling budget gaps: ICE/CBP could spend it immediately, with no time limits, oversight/reporting requirements or new guardrails on agents’ conduct. In total, ICE would get 11x its 2025 budget Read more 👇

Senate Pushes Ahead with $70 Billion More for ICE and CBP, Excluding Accountability Measures - American Immigration Council

Congress moved closer to advancing legislation that would add about $70 billion in funding to immigration enforcement agencies through 2029.

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I asked DHS if they plan to recant labeling Martinez a domestic terrorist (despite the dismissal of her case), or offer her an apology, in light of Judge Alexakis' ruling today. I received this response: “DHS stands by our press releases and statements. The facts of what happened did not change.”

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Update: Judge Alexakis said she is largely granting Marimar Martinez's motion to modify the court protective order around her case, allowing certain materials, incl. multiple texts from the Border Patrol agent who shot her, to be made public.

Update: Since Jan 9, there have been 12 ICE Air flights out of Minneapolis, MN—a jump from the typical 3 flights/week to Minneapolis. This surge is taking place as people with valid refugee status are being taken from their homes in MN & transferred to detention centers in TX.

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BREAKING: Senate passes bill to reopen the government as 8 Democrats join with Republicans Final vote is 60-40. The Dems who votes YES with 52 Republicans: Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Hassan Kaine King Rosen Shaheen This now goes to the House. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Senate passes bill to reopen the government as 8 Democrats join with Republicans to send it to the House

The legislation would keep the government funded through Jan. 30, without extending ACA funds slated to expire. It now goes to the House, which could vote as early as Wednesday.

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NEW: The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached the Texas Department of Public Safety, raising fears of widespread racial profiling. In other words: Texas is deputizing some of its state officers to act as roving ICE agents. www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump

The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

texasobserver.org

New report: ICE accused of using hidden processing rooms as “black sites” for long-term migrant detention, violating its own policies. Advocates cite a “total lack of oversight” and are taking legal action. Read Full story: www.inquisitr.com/ice-accused-...

ICE Accused of Holding People Hidden Inside Field Offices Sites - Inquisitr News

ICE faces allegations of detaining people in small, secretive holding rooms for days or weeks, violating their own rules and procedures.

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🚨 SCOTUS just greenlit racial profiling in immigration arrests. No majority opinion—but the impact is clear: immigrants and U.S. citizens of color are at risk. Kavanaugh’s concurrence ignores the evidence & tramples the 4th Amendment’s requirement of individualized suspicion:

Nayna Gupta@naynagupta.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨

Immigrant youth fought to win DACA. For years, we fought to keep the DACA program open and came together to defend DACA recipients from attacks. As these kidnappings continue to increase, we must remember that when we come together, we win!

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Constitutional rights are use-it-or-lose-it. Every person who refuses unlawful questioning forces agents to either respect legal boundaries or reveal they're ignoring them. Your citizenship doesn't obligate you to make ICE's job easier—it obligates you to make them do it legally.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you have US citizenship, do not help ICE by telling ICE about your citizenship. Just refuse to talk to them. Refuse to answer their questions. Turn on your phone and run away from them. If they're wasting their time profiling you, you're saving the lives of people who ICE really wants to profile.

If you have US citizenship, do not help ICE by telling ICE about your citizenship. Just refuse to talk to them. Refuse to answer their questions. Turn on your phone and run away from them. If they're wasting their time profiling you, you're saving the lives of people who ICE really wants to profile.

Great blog by @naynagupta.bsky.social discussing the lack of standards in assessing gang affiliations and the near total inability to contest them in the immigration system. This has allowed the Trump admin to transfer 238 Venezuelans to a Salvadoran prison by presenting almost no evidence.

Nayna Gupta@naynagupta.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote a piece for Just Security on the history of flimsy & sham gang allegations in the U.S. immigration system. 👇🏽

Trump’s DOJ knows it can’t win the birthright citizenship cases on the merits, so it’s trying to use a procedural issue (that #SCOTUS has repeatedly dodged) to put the policy into effect across much of the country. Today’s “One First” looks at the cynical ploy: www.stevevladeck.com/p/133-birthr...

133. Birthright Citizenship (Sort of) Reaches the Court

The Trump administration's emergency applications in three birthright citizenship cases are a cynical effort to mitigate the effects of an inevitable loss on the merits. The justices shouldn't bite.

stevevladeck.com