Huy Tran

@huytranon.bsky.social

Executive Director of SIREN Child of refugees, social justice advocate, Raider Nation for life, nature lover, and karaoke mic hog. Statements and opinions are my own.

This is tragic - there are members of my family who fought along US soldiers during the Vietnam War. I can't imagine the betrayal and anger I would feel if my supposed ally sought to deport a loved one and killed them in the process. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and aggravated his asthma, the death report shows.

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On a heavy SCOTUS news day like today, NPR accidentally published an article saying that Alito retired. This would've been the best news today but now I can only sit dreaming of what could have been...

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We applaud SCOTUS' decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)

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BREAKING: We’re suing multiple Florida police departments on behalf of our client, Robert Dillon, who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit in a city he’s never been to because he was misidentified by facial recognition technology.

Senate Republicans just started a marathon voting session known as vote-a-rama in the Senate. Not to improve your life. Not to lower your costs. But to funnel $70 billion more to ICE and the abuses I saw at Delaney Hall. Not another dime.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Oudone Lothirath was a 57-year-old Laotian refugee who came to the U.S. as a child in the 1980s. ICE detained him on Jan. 6 amid the Minneapolis sweeps. He missed 4 of 5 scheduled chemotherapy sessions for terminal Hodgkin's lymphoma. He later entered hospice.

"Pope Leo on Friday named a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk to be bishop of West Virginia" From fleeing violence to working construction and other jobs, Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala embodies the dignity of immigrant labor and the power of perseverance.

Pope Leo picks formerly undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics

Pope Leo, who elevated Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala and the Rev. Robert Boxie III, has drawn a clear contrast with the Trump administration on immigration and the Iran war.

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A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

'We don't know what will happen to us': U.S. deportees in limbo in DRC

15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.

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The Trump administration just fired the immigration judges who ruled against deporting Rümeysa Öztürk (Tufts) and Mohsen Mahdawi (Columbia). I want to be clear about what this actually is and isn't 🧵

"Morales alleges three separate CBP agents said they didn’t believe him when he told them he had a birth certificate, Social Security card and other ways of proving his citizenship. The officers threatened him with a fraud charge & 5 years’ imprisonment if he didn’t sign a voluntary departure order"

Report: DHS deported a U.S. citizen arrested near San Antonio

The man, picked up in the Texas Hill Country town of Fredericksburg, said officers refused to see his documents and threatened him with fraud charges.

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