Increasingly, patients are showing up to hospitals in ICE or CBP custody. NILC staff and Dr. Theresa Cheng spoke with @austinkocher.com about how medical professionals can care for their patients — and protect their rights — when this happens.

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 2w ago

A patient in ICE custody is brought to the hospital with a guard in the room during care. The National Immigration Law Center wrote a guide on what doctors can do in that moment. I sat down with three of its authors. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/hospitals-...

"Over the last 18 months, online videos have shown women being tackled to the ground, pulled from a car, dragged out of a workplace and fatally shot. This week, Bowe has filed a claim against the federal government. It is one of 54 claims filed by affiliates of the ACLU in 17 states and... D.C."

Candice Norwood@candicenorwood.bsky.social · 6d ago

Norma Bowe, a nurse in New Jersey, runs a mobile health clinic that stops outside Delaney Hall detention center, where she provides blood pressure checks, stroke assessments and other care. Yesterday, she told me about the day she says she was assaulted by an ICE agent. My latest via @19thnews.org

never in my years of journalism unions have I been able to work under a ratified contract. This is HUGE for ProPublica and I couldn't be prouder that we stood up and fought for what we deserved.

ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 5d ago

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

This is a masked ICE agent in upper Manhattan today. He walked up to a woman simply recording and pepper-sprayed her in the face. Watch the video. 👇

Latina Immigrant🐸 #NoKings🚫👑@jasmine29.bsky.social · 6d ago

ICE in Inwood, NY

A new @epi.org report found that US companies are spending more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting consultants and lawyers. They’ll spend unlimited money crushing workers’ voices and then claim there’s no money for better conditions.

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

theguardian.com

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

therealnews.com

NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive

Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.

nytimes.com

Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU

Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU

Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminary injunction filed on Monday.

latimes.com

ICE shooter lied to a court last year to avoid *child support payments.* A judge concluded that. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this doc captures the chaos of a neighborhood rising to protest, but the conversations the detained man & agents have inside the car struck me When 1 agent justifies bumping into a woman, the man quietly asks "If you were a civilian, would you have run her over?" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Inside an Immigration Arrest That Sparked a Neighborhood Protest

In the documentary short “Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon,” body-cam and bystander footage examine a confrontation between residents and federal agents.

newyorker.com

TODAY @ 4PM EST: Join @propublica.org for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: propub.li/4fiHDSF featuring: @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social @nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mayatmiller.bsky.social

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

“… on Wednesdays at the Immigration Courthouse in Harlingen, Texas, the children are not alone: Kuhn is there w/them.” "I introduce myself as a Catholic nun … and I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do w/the whole process, I'm here to accompany you, to go in w/you if that's OK …”

For migrant children facing deportation alone in court, a Catholic nun shows up

"I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process," Sr. Rose Kuhn tells unaccompanied minors facing deportation in court. "I'm here to accompany you."

globalsistersreport.org

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did you know many migrant children often have to appear in deportation court without any legal representation? This has been true across administrations. Under the mass deportation obsessions of Trump and Stephen Miller, it’s only getting worse. open.substack.com/pub/americas...

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

this report is bleak bleak bleak and a tour de force of vital journalism

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w ago

ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.

"Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship." www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

pressherald.com

"TRANSPARENCY TAKES A VILLAGE" 👏👏👏

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 3w ago

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

New ACLU report published today identified 214 children who were "detained, targeted for enforcement or experienced law enforcement misconduct, including 32 U.S. citizen" children." www.aclu.org/press-releas...

New ACLU Report Documents Widespread and Unchecked Civil Rights Abuses by Immigration Agents in President Trump’s Second Term | American Civil Liberties Union

Report Finds Patterns of Excessive Force, Racial Profiling, and Targeting of U.S. Citizens, Children, and Vulnerable People

aclu.org

Trump has said: “We love our veterans. We are going to take good care of them.” Help me dig into the reality I'm particularly interested in hearing from current or recently former VA staffers, or, of course, vets getting care there. My Signal, cell, and email 👇🏻 www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Have You Been Affected by Changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs? Tell Us About It.

Have you experienced setbacks in your care or benefits amid the changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs? ProPublica wants to hear from you.

propublica.org

The Idaho AG's office sent a fiery letter to the US DOJ on Friday, in response to the Trump administration's recent message to state election officials. "Your insinuations of criminal violations of the federal election laws are not well taken," wrote a deputy AG who represents Idaho's SOS.

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ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 4w ago

“I care most about a contract that will lift the salary floors of our lowest paid employees so that they can afford to live in the cities that we work in,” says research reporter Kirsten Berg. We deserve a fair contract now!

France's world cup team uses the same charter planes that ICE uses for deportations. "The aircraft carrying the Frenchmen on 4 July was used to transfer detained immigrants from an Arizona detention center to Louisiana as recently as 1 July" from @mlsist.bsky.social & @sophiemsullivan.bsky.social

France national team uses ICE deportation planes for World Cup travel

The plane that French team used after match with Paraguay flew 44 deportation-related flights this year alone

theguardian.com

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

newrepublic.com

Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize

Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 4w ago

The son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston Tuesday morning, issued a statement on social media Tuesday night, saying "my father did not deserve this."bit.ly/4aK0hS2

Family members dispute ICE's account of a fatal East Houston shooting and allege agents racially profiled of Hispanic workers. bit.ly/4b9XLoc

ICE agents under Trump have shot at least 20 people who were inside their cars They did it again today, killing a father ICE said he "weaponized his vehicle" -- a claim they've often made & that often has turned out to be BS. The FBI is investigating...the dad. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...

Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds

Private prison company CoreCivic sold two California properties to the Department of Homeland Security. It will continue operating them as ICE detention centers.

calmatters.org