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Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation. It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · last yr.

ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

Update: A former (as of recently) judge and his wife have been arrested in New Mexico, also on charges that they aided immigrants, though circumstances are very different. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

Former judge, wife arrested in Las Cruces on federal charges

LAS CRUCES — Former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy, were arrested by FBI agents Thursday afternoon on federal charges of tampering with evidence.

abqjournal.com

The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement. abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'

A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

abcnews.go.com

Clarification: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, as per a letter from the National PREA Resource Center exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org.

Scoop: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, according to a letter from the Center, exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...

Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center

A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.

theappeal.org

UDPATE: At Mahdawi's hearing this morning, the judge granted a 90-day extension of the TRO while they wait for the government to respond. They'll return to court next week to argue for his release

Akela Lacy@akelalacy.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest

Radicalized White Men Like the FSU Shooter Are the Real Threat to Campuses—Not Student Protestors

"The alleged gunman is a quintessentially American school shooter."

teenvogue.com

You know what else is up by a huge percentage? Illegal but state-sanctioned assault, battery, kidnappings, forced imprisonment, torture, and violations of due process.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

“Our ICE officers are facing 300% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”

Democrats and universities paved the way for Trump's deportations. Now, local prosecutors are threatening students and faculty members with decades in prison for speaking out against genocide.

The Appeal@theappeal.org · last yr.

As the Trump admin fights to deport students who support Palestinians, dozens more face extreme charges in local courts. In just five jurisdictions, prosecutors have filed 187 charges against 66 protesters—including alleged hate crimes on cops, mob action, and attempted ethnic intimidation.

As the Trump admin fights to deport students who support Palestinians, dozens more face extreme charges in local courts. In just five jurisdictions, prosecutors have filed 187 charges against 66 protesters—including alleged hate crimes on cops, mob action, and attempted ethnic intimidation.

Here’s Where Pro-Palestine Protesters Face the Harshest Charges

Prosecutors have filed or are considering filing 187 charges against 66 pro-Palestine, anti-Israel campus protesters from Gaza encampments.

theappeal.org

“At the time the list was released, Braveboy said that untrustworthy officers risk ‘the integrity of cases brought to the justice system.’ And yet, the United States Department of Justice is basing the extraordinary rendition of a Maryland resident solely on the credibility of just such an officer.”

Baynard Woods@baynardwoods.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about how the government’s entire case against Abrego Garcia rests on the assertion of a disgraced cop who could not even testify in state court and was suspended 5 days after encounter with Abrego Garcia. baltimorebeat.com/governments-...

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

Video shows ICE agents shatter car window during Massachusetts arrest: attorney

Federal immigration agents are accused of shattering a car window in Massachusetts while detaining a Guatemalan man on Monday in a caught-on-camera incident – despite his attorney saying they had t…

borderreport.com

Someone knows who this man is and where he spends his time. He should be identified. And he should not feel comfortable showing his face in public after this.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · last yr.

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

excuse me "To reach legion-level before the apocalypse" that’s more of a timeline than a euphemism

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

“During St. Clair's pregnancy, Musk suggested that they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster.”

An Israeli colleague of detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi pushes back on Sec. Rubio’s antisemitism claim. Our latest report shows how a Palestinian student committed to peace became an ICE target. Read @akelalacy.bsky.social full story: interc.pt/3RjDoL6

Rubio Says Detained Palestinian Stoked Antisemitism. Mahdawi’s Israeli Colleague Says the Opposite.

Mohsen Mahdawi’s Israeli colleague undermines Marco Rubio’s antisemitism case to detain and deport the Columbia University student.

interc.pt

After being told by the Supreme Court to bring Abrego Garcia home, and that it was illegal to send him and others to a foreign gulag without due process, the Trump administration this weekend sent 10 more people to the Salvadoran gulag without process.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE

Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.

theintercept.com

The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.

Starved in Jail

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

newyorker.com

MORE NEWS: Mahdawi's lawyers filed a habeas petition this morning challenging his arrest and detention under the same INA provision used to deport Mahmoud Khalil. More TK

Akela Lacy@akelalacy.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

The New Yorker has an investigative piece about people dying of malnutrition and dehydration in jails. I appreciate the author for not sugarcoating it: "hard to describe as anything other than a pattern of widespread torture of people with mental-health issues" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Starved in Jail

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

newyorker.com

Not even the state could find evidence against Ozturk. They disappeared her regardless.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last yr.

“Neither DHS nor ICE nor Homeland Security investigations produced any evidence showing Ozturk engaged in antisemitic activity or made statements indicating support for a terrorist organization, according to government employees briefed on the State Dept memo.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

thanks PPD, finally got my FOIA request back

A shameful act by this Chicago prosecutor, done to protect a Chicago police/Guantanamo Bay torturer and keep someone locked up whom he likely tortured into making a false confession.

Prosecutor pushes to exclude ex-Gitmo detainee’s torture allegations against former Chicago detective

A Cook County assistant state’s attorney says the cop’s alleged coercion behind a Chicago murder confession has little to do with “enhanced interrogation” at Guantánamo.

wbez.org

The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to “administrative error.” The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.

Trump refuses to bring back those wrongly detained in El Salvador. You could be next.

Will the Supreme Court allow permanent disappearances?

motherjones.com

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted

What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.

zeteo.com

“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Ms. Miller wrote in an email. She added in a separate message, “This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature.”

Trump White House Won’t Respond to Some Journalists Who Display Their Pronouns

Some Trump administration officials have declined to answer questions from several journalists on the basis of their email signatures.

nytimes.com