/ @estrelladelpaso.bsky.social “said that many of the children it aids ‘are survivors of trafficking, violence, and persecution,’” the report continues. "Without access to attorneys, said the organization, ‘children win the right to stay less than 1% of the time.’”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · yesterday

“The Diocese of El Paso has shut down its long-running legal aid ministry to unaccompanied child migrants, as the Trump administration withholds almost $1 million in funding for work already performed.” www.ncronline.org/news/diocese...

This is so important. More people have been detained and deported since what happened in Minnesota. Pl

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The data also confirms statements made by Tom Homan that June saw a record number of people arrested and sent to detention. 43,138 people were booked into an ICE detention center in June, and July is on track for over 49,000 — significantly more than during the Minneapolis raids.

f your loved one has been taken by the government and there is no information about their fate or whereabouts, even for a short period of time, you can report their disappearance to the UN here: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group

ohchr.org

The Trump administration still disappears immigrants in less extreme situations that can result in their inability to contact a lawyer or allows the government to more easily deport them without due process. These situations, too, can and should be reported to the UN WGEID.

This Mandela Day marks one year since the Venezuelan men held in a Salvadoran torture prison while in US custody were released. Reporting their disappearances to the UN helped us obtain critical admissions that they were held in US custody.

Feral Human Rights Lawyer@natcad.bsky.social · last yr.

If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

This Mandela Day marks one year since the Venezuelan men held in a Salvadoran torture prison while in US custody were released. Reporting their disappearances to the UN helped us obtain critical admissions that they were held in US custody.

Feral Human Rights Lawyer@natcad.bsky.social · last yr.

If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

ICE shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in the head in front of his 3-yr-old daughter in his car today and didn't even try to pretend that the agent was acting out of concern for his own safety the way they usually do. No, he did it "out of concern for *public* safety." This seems very bad.

I don’t wanna say anything too radical, but when government agents kill someone I do not care what paperwork the victim had.

Mexico’s Sheinbaum announces criminal charges request in US over ICE deaths https://aje.news/r5hlzv

Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

Mexican Man Killed by ICE in Houston Was Not the Target

nytimes.com

Absolutely horrific facility. Every time I have visited clients there, bugs have fallen from the ceiling onto my head and the floor and table around me. My clients, though, were unfazed, given their experiences in the parts of the facility I couldn’t see: one.npr.org/i/kpbs-s139-...

🔊 Listen Now: California lawmakers weigh ending charity tax break for Imperial County ICE detention center

KPBS Radio on NPR One | 1:23

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An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican man in Houston on Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop, federal authorities said, what appeared to be the first deadly ICE shooting since Minneapolis in January. W/ @davidnakamura.bsky.social @arelisrhdz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE officer fatally shoots Mexican man in Houston during traffic stop

The incident appears to mark the first deadly shooting by federal immigration officers since Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minneapolis in January.

washingtonpost.com

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4w ago

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I feel bad for the players who did not ask to get thrown into this political situation. USMNT’s leadership had a choice to make: accept the spoils of a corrupt deal made by a despot, or choose not to play the player who had a red card, despite FIFA’s corrupt decision. They chose wrong.

I have always been a US soccer misandrist, so this is more than fine for me.

Do British soccer announcers cringe at the way that US Americans pronounce French names the way that I cringe when British announcers pronounce Spanish names?

Oh dang. I’ve been saying the same in my little tirades at home. Call it the New Reconstruction. Call it something else. It is a form it transitional justice that we sorely need.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

newrepublic.com/article/2125... @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

I saw the gorgeous new mural dedicated to Wong Kim Ark in SF Chinatown today! He’s the Chinese American who sued the U.S. government in 1898 and established birthright citizenship for all babies born in the U.S. It’s a huge mural and I could not get it all in one shot.

Honestly, voting in favor of kneecapping a Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment should be an impeachable offense.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Honored to have talked to @mattshuham.bsky.social about what a better, more humane, and just immigration system could look like.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · last mo.

Ahead of July 4, I wanted to know: What would an immigration "revolution" look like? I asked people who would know: a former ICE detainee, a retired immigration judge, a pastor who accompanies people to court, a day laborer organizer, and more. Read what they said: www.huffpost.com/entry/july-4...

They’re trying to deport the children again, this time on a larger scale, and they’re using that “someone lost the kids” lie as an excuse.

Feral Human Rights Lawyer@natcad.bsky.social · last mo.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 USC 1232(a)(5)(D)(i)) GUARANTEES that unaccompanied children have a right to full removal proceedings. Idk what HHS and DHS are trying to do, but it smells both illegal and cruel: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

They’re trying to deport the children again, this time on a larger scale, and they’re using that “someone lost the kids” lie as an excuse.

Feral Human Rights Lawyer@natcad.bsky.social · last mo.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 USC 1232(a)(5)(D)(i)) GUARANTEES that unaccompanied children have a right to full removal proceedings. Idk what HHS and DHS are trying to do, but it smells both illegal and cruel: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 USC 1232(a)(5)(D)(i)) GUARANTEES that unaccompanied children have a right to full removal proceedings. Idk what HHS and DHS are trying to do, but it smells both illegal and cruel: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Senator Ron Wyden accuses US health agency of plan to deport more than 500 migrant children

Wyden says in a letter addressed to Robert F Kennedy Jr that HHS is preparing an ‘unprecedented legal framework’

theguardian.com

The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com

The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism

The court took a look at Trump's obviously bigoted handling of the Temporary Protected Status program and said, "Nothing to see here."

thenation.com

I am begging people who care about immigrants in big cities and far away from the border to be mad about this. We have seen over and over again Congress trade away meager protections for people in the interior while mega funding Border Patrol and hurting asylum seekers at the border.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

Read @immcouncil.org's statement on today's disastrous decision for asylum seekers here: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-releas...

Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...