Anna Oakes
@annaoakes.bsky.social
Freelance reporter in (mostly) NYC covering immigration, politics, protests, and more. Words in The City, The Intercept, Documented, Rolling Stone, Hell Gate, CTXT. Signal: annao.06
@hellgatenyc.com election night livestream tonight! Don’t miss @nickpinto.bsky.social biking around Elmhurst!
On Sunday, Benito Miranda, a three-tour Iraq War veteran, was detained by ICE. He'll likely be deported to Mexico. Reported for @aljazeera.com with the support of @pulitzercenter.org. aje.news/bl5ib6
Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from the US
Trump's push for mass deportation has heightened fears that immigrant veterans of the US military could be expelled.
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New York has the fifth largest dairy industry in the country. Its farmworkers say they face fear, exploitation, and lost wages.
Immigrant Dairy Workers Rally to Fight Mistreatment at N.Y. Farms
New York has the fifth largest dairy industry in the country. Its farmworkers say they face fear, exploitation, and lost wages.
documentedny.com
A photog covering Delaney Hall had to ditch her camera bag with $10K of gear an injury. The bag was gone when a friend went to get it, but an airtag showed the bag was at the house of a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutors office, prosecutors now say: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/o...
Officer Stole Injured Photog's Cameras After Delaney Hall Protest, State AG Says
An AirTagged keychain led investigators to $10,000 in missing camera equipment at the home of a sergeant assigned to the Essex County Prosecutor’s office after clashes at a Newark ICE detention facili...
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For my @documentedny.bsky.social dispatch from Delaney Hall, I spoke with family members of detainees who are holding a hunger and labor strike to protest the facility's conditions: documentedny.com/2026/05/29/d...
Calls to Shut Down Delaney Hall After Mistreatment Allegations
The treatment of detainees at the New Jersey detention facility has prompted a weeklong hunger and labor strike, as well as mounting protests, arrests and violent backlash.
documentedny.com
A day inside an NYC immigration courtroom where "mega master" dockets were rolled out, the latest Trump admin tactic to roil immigration courts. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/02/t...
Trump Administration Unfurls Mass Deportation Proceedings in NYC Immigration Court
An immigration judge Monday had a docket of 121 cases in a single day.
thecityreporter.nyc
NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo agoNews incoming (good news from me for once!) …
Experts we spoke to said this racial disparity was an indication of the use of racial profiling, while ICE in its own account of theses arrests, sometimes submitted in court, described officers stopping a person based on their appearance, developing a justification for arrest after the stop...
Almost all of the arrests we found were of immigrants from Latin American countries, far greater than the share of unauthorized immigrants in the region. When we compared street arrests in bureaucratic setting like at ICE check-ins, Latino immigrants were just 55% of the cases we found.
My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....
"I'm their only hope." "Remittances sent home from family members in the U.S. are a lifeline for about a third of families in Haiti." "[M]ore than six million people in Haiti, including 3.3 million children, are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance." #USA #Haiti #Labour #Immigration
For Haitian Immigrants, a Proposed Remittances Ban Sparks Fear of Deadly Consequences
The Trump administration's proposal to end remittances sent from the U.S. to Haiti could cut off a vital financial lifeline for those in the unstable nation.
documentedny.com
if you’re facing eviction and your landlord says it’s because of “demolition” … turns out there is no legal definition of what that means great new story from @smaldo.bsky.social:
To Evict Tenants, NYC Landlords Now Claim ‘Demolition.’ Is It Valid?
‘Good Cause’ tenant protections enacted in 2024 left a big opening for property owners to not renew leases. But do apartment renovations count as demolition?
thecity.nyc
Advocates have published a second letter written from inside the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, signed by 300 detained people. “Judges in this detention center…carry out deportations and mass expulsions without properly reviewing cases. We live with anguish and fear of appearing in court.”
A Manhattan synagogue is hosting an event promising the sale of land in the West Bank this evening, for the first time since City Council passed a bill intended to limit protests near houses of worship. Mayor Mamdani's spokesperson told Hell Gate the mayor is opposed to the sale.
A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement on Long Island and in counties north of New York City allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
Outside NYC’s ‘Sanctuary City,’ Local Police Routinely Collude With ICE
A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
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In her recent work, Rawya El Chab explores the legacy of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which tore apart the Lebanese Left. With the support of Round Earth Media and the IWMF, and @aidaalami.bsky.social's careful editing, my latest for @hyperallergic.com: hyperallergic.com/rawya-el-cha...
Rawya El Chab Tends to the Wounds of Lebanon's Civil War
The latest segment of her performance series “Crossing the Water” chronicles life under military occupation after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
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Más detenciones y menos supervisión: un informe alerta del aumento de muertes en centros migratorios del ICE dozz.es/h_0sao
Más detenciones y menos supervisión: un informe alerta del aumento de muertes en centros migratorios del ICE
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Imagine you are a teen in Minnesota, fearing that your immigrant parents will be abducted by ICE. You get an email from a military recruiter, who is also an immigrant, telling you that you can enlist and get a green card for your parents. 1/2 taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...
Recruiter told students that enlisting can lead to Green Cards for parents
The Parole in Place program is not available until after service members enlist, and it often requires a lawyer.
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For its inaugural episode, we welcomed author and scholar Behrooz Ghamari on ORdio, the OR Books podcast, to discuss his new book, The Long War on Iran. See the full episode on the OR Books Youtube, or at the link in our bio.
ICE's impact on the Ecuadorian community in NYC has been devastating.
24% of Immigrants Detained in NYC Are From Ecuador - Documented
ICE's impact on the Ecuadorian community in NYC has been devastating.
documentedny.com
En tiempos de persecución y criminalización de los inmigrantes en todo EEUU, la Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer representa un espacio comunitario de optimismo, orgullo y apoyo para cientos de estudiantes y sus familias. Para @elpaisamerica.bsky.social: elpais.com/us/migracion...
Una escuela de mariachi de Nueva York persiste y prospera en los tiempos antimigrantes de Trump
En medio de la persecución de los inmigrantes en todo Estados Unidos, la Academia Nuevo Amanecer es un punto comunitario optimista y apoya a cientos de estudiantes y familias
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Amazon has paid just $5,400 of the more than $9.8 million in fines and penalties related to illegal idling that it owes the city. buff.ly/tRv2gVn
Amazon Owes Nearly $10M Unpaid Fines for Idling in New York City - Streetsblog New York City
Amazon owes more than any other other company issued fines through the city's citizen idling enforcement program.
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¡Mariachi en Nueva York! de @annaoakes.bsky.social
Una escuela de mariachi de Nueva York persiste y prospera en los tiempos antimigrantes de Trump
En medio de la persecución de los inmigrantes en todo Estados Unidos, la Academia Nuevo Amanecer es un punto comunitario optimista y apoya a cientos de estudiantes y familias
elpais.com
Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems passblue.com/2026/03/08/h...
Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems
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There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.
Newark’s school meal contractor also feeds an ICE detention facility. Advocates want that to end.
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.
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Newark public schools have a $12 million contract with Driscoll Foods, which supplies food to Delaney Hall, the controversial ICE facility nearby. Advocates want the BOE to cut ties when their contract expires in June. Latest for @chalkbeat.org: www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2026/...
Newark’s school meal contractor also feeds an ICE detention facility. Advocates want that to end.
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facil...
chalkbeat.org
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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