Eileen Grench, OLY
@grenchpan.bsky.social
Immigration Enforcement Reporter @documentedny > Send secure tips: eileen.grench@protonmail.com, Signal: sablista.15 < Olympian bilingüe🤺🇵🇦 | @columbiajourn🦁+ @OhioState🌰
🚨🚨 Details on fire and arrest outside 26 Federal Plaza today from. 4 civilians injured per @fdny.bsky.social : documentedny.com/2026/07/20/m... @documentedny.bsky.social
FBI Investigates Explosive Device at 26 Federal Plaza
A man was arrested after setting off an incendiary device outside 26 Federal Plaza on Monday morning. The FBI is investigating.
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The administration’s next decision on TPS could determine the future of thousands of New York Salvadoran families who have spent decades building their lives in the United States..
After Haiti and Syria, Salvadoran TPS Holders Fear They’re Next
The administration’s next decision on TPS could determine the future of thousands of New York Salvadoran families who have spent decades building their lives in the United States.
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⏰ It’s the deadline for the Trump administration to decide whether to extend #TPS for El Salvador. For many NYC #Salvadorans, losing TPS would unravel decades of building a stable life in the U.S. 📝 The latest from @grenchpan.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/07/10/e...
After Haiti and Syria, Salvadoran TPS Holders Fear They’re Next
he administration’s next decision on TPS could determine the future of nearly 23,000 New York Salvadoran families who have spent decades building their lives in the United States.
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NEW: ICE arrested five people in NYC immigration court, despite a court order stopping the practice. The Justice Department is fighting in court to hide the details of why they did it. (And blaming activists.) @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/07/07/i...
Justice Department Fights to Hide Reasons Behind ICE Courthouse Arrests
As the Justice Department fights to conceal reasons for ICE's courthouse arrests, immigrant rights nonprofits accuse ICE of defiance.
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Alguien vende boleto para el partido de Panamá mañana? 🥹🇵🇦🗽 // Anyone selling tix for England-Panama tomorrow?
The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine.
1/ Today marks the 14th anniversary of DACA, a 2012 Obama program that protects certain immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. DACA recipients, often called “Dreamers,” can apply for work permits but the program does not provide legal status.
did you see that video of Knicks fans smashing up a yellow cab after Game 4? @jmartineznyc.bsky.social spoke with the cabbie, and it’s really heartbreaking:
‘I’m Thinking of Quitting,’ Says Cab Driver Bashed in Knicks Brawl
The 59-year-old Algerian cabbie, who became a target of wild mobs outside MSG after Game 4, spoke to a reporter for the first time.
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for the love of the GAME!!! this man literally just goes around fixing city basketball nets with his own money!!!! such a nice tale, from @katiehonan.bsky.social:
Queens Apostle of the ‘Swoosh’ Restores Netless Rims in City Parks
Craig Campanella is the Johnny Appleseed of playground basketball hoops.
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“At 82.4 degrees, the players union recommends games should be delayed. But FIFA’s threshold to mandate player cooling breaks — or to postpone or cancel matches — starts much higher.”
With No AC, World Cup Matches at MetLife Stadium Face Greater Heat Risks Than Texas
A new climate study reveals the potential dangers to players and fans during the summer soccer games.
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"We estimate the total number of children affected by parental detention to be around 205,000 and the number of U.S. citizen children affected to be around 145,000." From Maria Cancian, Nissi Cantu, Lanikque Howard, and @taraelizwatson.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? | Brookings
With 400,000 immigrants detained by the administration, researchers examine what the data reveals about the children left behind and the policy implications for their well-being.
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BREAKING 🚨: A federal judge has ordered ICE to halt arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and two other Manhattan immigration courts — pausing a policy that has been at the center of Trump's push for mass deportations in New York City. documentedny.com/2026/05/18/i...
ICE Ordered to Halt Arrests at Manhattan Immigration Courts -
The order limits ICE's ability to make arrests at New York's immigration courts, and follows an admission from Trump administration lawyers that they misinterpreted a guidance memo to justify the arre...
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Deaths in ICE custody have reached a record high; 49 people since January 2025. As many as 29 just in this fiscal year. But the Trump administration is shutting down an independent DHS oversight office that handles complaints about conditions and treatment in detention facilities.
Immigrants are dying in ICE detention. A key watchdog office is now gone.
"An utter disregard for safety and just humane treatment."
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At least two detainees have died at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in the last year. Residents have pushed the county to end its contracts with the facility.
A Hunger Strike at an ICE Detention Center Is Reigniting Calls to Shut It Down -
At least two detainees have died at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in the last year. Residents have pushed the county to end its contracts with the facility.
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Happy Birthday In Heaven Willie Mays ~ "The Say Hey Kid" was born in Alabama on this day in 1931. #WillieMays #MLB #Baseball #Legend
Last November, ICE detained seven men on a single street corner in Queens, NY — all in one day.
Hear from one man, Tomás, and his community, about what happened next: documentedny.com/2026/04/27/o... @grenchpan.bsky.social
Rising ICE Arrests in NYC's Immigrant Communities - Documented
Discover the impact of ICE arrests on immigrant communities in Queens, NYC. Explore the devastating effects of Trump's deportation campaign on families and neighborhoods.
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On Nov. 1, seven men were arrested by ICE on a single street corner in Corona, Queens while the block watched. What happened next galvanized a neighborhood. ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGq...
ICE agents handcuff and arrest a young man in Queens, NY | Documented
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Trump's immigration crackdown has come to the suburbs. On Long Island, expansive roads are fertile terrain for ICE agents to capture migrants without the critical eye of observers that has often accompanied officials’ actions in big Democrat-led cities. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/n...
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Pervades Long Island Suburbs
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NEW: Community members and electeds say NYC landlords are illegally using the threat of ICE to intimidate immigrant tenants. Read their testimonies here 👇
Important read by @documentedny.bsky.social 's Julia Malleck: documentedny.com/2026/04/20/u...
ICYMI in the Friday news dump 👇🏻
Eileen Grench, OLY@grenchpan.bsky.social · 4mo agoMany resources are funneled towards freeing immigrant New Yorkers in detention. But what happens when people get home? @documentedny.bsky.social spoke to members of a new support group for survivors of immigration detention. As one facilitator put it: "it’s just like jumping off a cliff.” 👇
Many resources are funneled towards freeing immigrant New Yorkers in detention. But what happens when people get home? @documentedny.bsky.social spoke to members of a new support group for survivors of immigration detention. As one facilitator put it: "it’s just like jumping off a cliff.” 👇
I got a slot to buy tickets for the '28 Olympics. My family is all there, so we thought it would be great to go down for them. Oh. my. god. The prices of these tickets. Closing Ceremonies? $5k Handball? $400 Track and Field? $1,400 I'm out.
The event is hosted by the Architectural League of New York, and you can get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/deportatio...
Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Detention
A screening and conversation tracing the evolution of U.S. immigration enforcement into a multi-billion-dollar industry.
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🗓️ New Yorkers 🚨 Join me May 7 at e-flux for a screening of Deportation, Inc. and a discussion on the business of migrant detention w/ incredible panelists from @situ-research.bsky.social, @grenchpan.bsky.social of @documentedny.bsky.social, Elora Mukherjee of Columbia Law's Immigrants' Rights Clinic
He was deemed a flight risk because he was arrested at 26 Federal Plaza. It's part of a pattern of "absurd" reasons used by immigration judges to deny immigrant New Yorkers their freedom from detention, say lawyers. @documentedny.bsky.social 📸: Corrie Aune documentedny.com/2026/03/30/a...
Arrest at 26 Federal Plaza Made this Father an "Extreme Flight Risk" - Documented
NYC immigration attorneys say they are seeing “unusual” and “absurd” excuses for why judges are denying their clients bond.
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