A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

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The bodies are piling up In a Guatemalan sugar cane field. A Pittsburgh bus shelter. A residential street in Iran. A street in Maine, and inside the ICE gulag The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch

In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.

inquirer.com

@laurenheidbrink.bsky.social and I curated this collection of short essays from a group of committed scholars and lawyers on what we learn from observing and accompanying in immigration court. The pieces are excellent, both accessible and powerful. @culanth.bsky.social bit.ly/4bm4LOW

On and Off the Record: Ethnographic Witnessing and Accompaniment in Immigration Court

This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and co...

culanth.org

"What we are currently seeing reveals just how permeable the word “criminal” is. When they come for one of us, they come for all of us." - worth your time to read open.substack.com/pub/sheriffs...

We Are All Criminals

The "good immigrant/ bad immigrant" narrative puts all of us in danger

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NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

newrepublic.com

"There needs to be immediate action by Congress to create pathways to residency for holders of this status, to intervene in the catastrophe that will unfold if over a million people are pushed into undocumented status, and quite possibly to their deaths," writes @hebagowayed.bsky.social.

The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger| Heba Gowayed

The court’s TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act

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I understand SCOTUS, know who they are, & by all rational accounts it feels so naive to say: "I can't believe 4 of 9 justices said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship." And yet, I can't believe 4 of 9 justices just said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

JUST IN: The Supreme Court *upholds* birthright citizenship as a right under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Roberts writes the 6-3 decision, with only Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting.

Yeah, that is very wrong. The Constitution puts *Congress* in control of immigration. That the president can do a lot in the field is because Congress passed laws granting those powers. /there is *some* inherent executive authority to exclude, but that authority is largely regulated by Congress.

Jack Q@jackq.bsky.social · last mo.

@npr.org Hi, Just heard Mara Liasson say that the constitution puts the executive branch in control of immigration, and that's wrong. You may want to ask someone like @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social before saying stuff like that.

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

NEW: We published this alarming reporting today on just how long immigrant detainees are being detained in lock-ups in Louisiana, a state that has made the choice to be as receptive to immigration detention as virtually any. boltsmag.org/louisiana-im...

“Stuck in Purgatory”: ICE Detention in Louisiana Can Stretch on for Years - Bolts

Louisiana has more ICE lockups than almost any other state. Now as a surge in habeas petitions overloads courts, people are held “unfathomably” long without recourse.

boltsmag.org

Our new podcast about ICE flights -- Worst Airline Ever -- is now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! Here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... And here: open.spotify.com/show/033znlT... If you, like me, use a different podcast app (I use Overcast), I'll be connecting more of 'em today. :-)

Worst Airline Ever

News Commentary Podcast · Independent journalist Gillian Brockell and activist "JJ in DC" take you inside the hidden world of ICE Air, tell you why it is such a key part of ICE's deportation machine, ...

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I was very happy to be invited to participate in the "Page 99 Test" for Leave If You Can. It's a clever way to be invited into a book - go to page 99 and discuss a bit about how well (or not) it represents the whole book. #page99test page99test.blogspot.com/2026/06/amel...

I'm starting an ICE Air podcast with @jjindc.bsky.social, called Worst Airline Ever. First ep will drop soon. I get most of my news from podcasts tbh, maybe you do too? It'll be depressing and enraging, yes. BUT we'll also tell you what you can do to fight back. www.patreon.com/cw/worstairl...

Worst Airline Ever — A podcast unmasking ICE Air

Get more from Worst Airline Ever on Patreon. A podcast unmasking ICE Air. Support Worst Airline Ever and get exclusive access to their work.

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So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...

The U.S. welcomed this child of the Vietnam War. Why did he die in ICE custody? | Will Bunch

In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui, other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?

inquirer.com

ICE flights. Thursday, June 11, 2026. At least 82 flights on 31 planes. At least 18 removal flights -- five to Mexico and four to Dominican Republic alone. One confirmed third-country removal to Costa Rica, two more likely TCRs to Ecuador and Honduras. (Republished, first post had 6/10's map)

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

This plane took 35 shackled people from the DC-Baltimore area — 28 men and seven women — to an ICE gulag near Alexandria, Louisiana tonight. They paint them all white so you don’t know it’s Air Wisconsin.

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

Jesus. Every time I think they can't stoop any lower, they do. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Brian Fitzpatrick’s Vote Gives Trump $70 Billion to Spend on Mass Deportation Operations w/out Any Guardrails | “Trump’s ICE has proven that it is dangerous & out of control. [This] vote is a vote for cruelty, kidnapping, violence, unaccountability & corruption,” said Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick’s Vote Gives Trump $70 Billion to Spend on Mass Deportation Operations Without Any Guardrails - Bucks County Beacon

“Trump’s ICE has proven that it is dangerous and out of control. [This] vote is a vote for cruelty, kidnapping, violence, unaccountability and corruption,” said Public Citizen Co-president Lisa Gilber...

buckscountybeacon.com

Between this, the third-country removals to Israel and Eastern Europe just now, and a small jet heading toward Africa I haven't told y'all about yet, ICE is going nuts today.

ICE Flight Monitor@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A C30J military aircraft has just departed Harlingen, TX for Honduras. This flight is likely carrying third country nationals as well as Hondurans, and marks the 3rd deportation on a U.S. military plane since Sept. 2025, following 2 such flights on June 4 & 6.

An ICE Air flight is currently en route from Harlingen, TX to Panama, where it may be carrying third country nationals forcibly transferred from the U.S.

Join us tomorrow! (06/02 at 1:00pm EST) Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: "Leave If You Can": A Live Conversation with Amelia Frank-Vitale on Her New Book about Life in Honduras After Deportation. After registering, you will recei...

Amelia Frank-Vitale's new book, Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds, challenges one of the most persistent myths in U.S. immigration policy: that deportation works. Drawing on ...

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Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 3mo ago

Join Amelia Frank-Vitale and me on June 2 at 1:00 PM Eastern to discuss "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds," a vital new book on the effects and failures of deportation. austinkocher.substack.com/p/leave-if-y...

Netherlands is pushing ahead with plans to set up Europe’s first “return hubs” where migrants can be deported from the EU to third countries. The globalization of border violence is a worldwide phenomenon, including in so-called social democratic states. www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Dutch government gives green light to establish migrant ‘return hubs’ outside EU

Within months Europe could see the first concrete steps toward deporting migrants who have been denied the right to stay in the EU.

politico.eu

I made a lot of updates to the “Now” sections of the Third-Country Removal Tracker today. If you haven’t read-in for awhile, check it out. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals

Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

gillianbrockell.com

Very excited to be in conversation with @austinkocher.com next month to talk about my book and the politics of deportation. Austin's one of the clearest analysts of immigration policy there is - I'm sure it will be an engaging conversation. Register below! @ucpress.bsky.social

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 3mo ago

Join Amelia Frank-Vitale and me on June 2 at 1:00 PM Eastern to discuss "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds," a vital new book on the effects and failures of deportation. austinkocher.substack.com/p/leave-if-y...

A ProPublica analysis of ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids

A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

propublica.org

UPDATE: After Panama and over 13 hours with individuals physically restrained onboard, the ICE deportation flight (GXA6201) landed in Paraguay — likely marking the first third-country removal there. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Signing of a Safe Third Country Agreement with Paraguay - United States Department of State

Today, I welcomed Paraguayan Foreign Minister Ruben Ramírez to the State Department to sign a Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) between the United States and Paraguay. This agreement provides asylum...

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early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI

Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long-stan...

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Friends in LA - I'll be talking about my book at the @latimes.com Festival of Books next weekend! #bookfest #latimesfob Full lineup here: www.latimes.com/events/festi... We're on April 18, 4:30pm, at USC. @ucpress.bsky.social

Today!