Lowering The Gaiter

@loweringthegaiter.bsky.social

ICE used to be unarmed. Let's make America great again.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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“Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop. His death was also ruled a homicide.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

Surveillance camera images show Michel sitting on a bus shelter bench “in daylight at first on 1 March, with a small, pale bag of belongings, still sitting there in darkness that evening, then slumped half upright on the ground and eventually lying on the ground the following morning.”

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨 Trump's #ICE thugs have been caught in yet another lie. Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, 51, a passenger in the van of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when he was brutally murdered by ICE was released from custody. He disputes all of their claims. The government has lied repeatedly to us! Speak out!

This is one of the main reasons for sanctuary cities. If undocumented people are afraid to call police, it’s open season for criminals and everyone is worse off. Republicans want to make you feel less safe in the hope some will turn reactionary and vote for them. It’s also red meat for Fox News.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from
Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrantst
By FELIPE GONÇALVES, ELISA JÁCOME, AND EMILY WEISBURST*
We study the role of victim reporting in the production of public safety.
We examine the Secure Communities program, a crime-reduction policy that involved police in detecting unauthorized immigrants and increased deportation fears in immigrant communities. We find that the policy reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police and increased offending against Hispanics. The number of reported crimes is unchanged, masking these opposing effects. We show that reduced reporting drives the offending increase and provide the first elasticity of offending to victim reporting in the liter-ature, calculating that a 10 percent decline in reporting increases offending by 7.9 percent. (JEL J15, K37, K42)

Senior Trump admin officials and ICE officers are "furious with changes to ICE's dress code." The new dress code bans ICE agents from wearing jeans, sweatshirts, hoodies, non-collared shirts, and T-shirts displaying graphics while they're working in public spaces. www.rawstory.com/ice-dress-co...

Trump officials 'furious' about new dress code for embattled federal agency: report

Senior Trump administration officials are "furious" about a new dress code for an embattled federal agency, a journalist revealed.In a Friday post on X, reporter Anna Giaritelli shared that senior Tru...

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Norma Bowe, a registered nurse who has operated a mobile health clinic outside Delaney Hall Detention Facility, suffered multiple injuries, including a concussion, when an ICE agent shoved her. Her case joins 54 others filed by the ACLU against the federal government. 19thnews.org/2026/07/norm...

This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.

This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.

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The pedophile protector regime wants to force kids to beg for their lives alone in immigration court. Call your Member of Congress, tell them to demand HHS pay what they owe the lawyers representing 20,000 unaccompanied kids & let them keep doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts

More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts

theguardian.com

Their new family and friends here in Missouri miss them and loved them. Their activism and care for their neighbors will never be forgotten. Our barbecue last year with Missouri Workers Center will be how I remember them and their beautiful family 🙏🏼🕊️🌹😭 Bill T Thompson

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During the first Trump admin, Border Patrol agents on Facebook were caught mocking dead migrants and calling them "tonks." Trump's CBP officials denied a broader cultural problem and said they'd crack down. During the second Trump admin, it appears they don't even care to pretend anymore.

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum bu...

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Watch as a suspected ICE goon is seen punching on top of a man as he punches the victim in the back of the head. The incident happened in Plainfield, New Jersey The goon only stopped when he realized he was being recorded.