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Paromania

@paromitashah.bsky.social

Executive Director, Co-Founder, movement lawyer at Just Futures Law. Find us at www.justfutureslaw.org or @justfutureslaw.bsky.social

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Paromania@paromitashah.bsky.social · last mo.

Today the Supreme Court ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. It affects all TPS holders 1.3M people in fact. JFL and other lawyers sued the administration over the termination of Haiti TPS because DHS and DOS didnt follow the rules of termination AND…

Just Futures Law@justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Palantir continues to profit off ICE's campaign of terror in our cities. Here is how: “These records give us behind-the-scenes insight into the kind of mass surveillance machine ICE is building with help from powerful tech companies like Palantir..." -Laura Rivera, Just Futures Law

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

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Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Counterterror czar Gorka says: "We're gonna label terrorists as terrorists, whether it's cartels, whether it's jihadis, or whether it's sadly the le — the Americans who are left wing, who are radical, and because they subscribe to some anarchic, anti-fascist, or radically pro-transgender ideology"

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#BREAKING: Justice Alito, acting as Circuit Justice, has just issued administrative stays of the Fifth Circuit's Friday ruling in the mifepristone case (so he's temporarily restored full access to mife). The stay will expire, absent further a order from Alito or #SCOTUS, at 5 p.m. ET on May 11.

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Paromania@paromitashah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The legal team, including Just Futures Law, is headed to the Supreme Court on April 29th to fight the termination of TPS for Haiti alongside colleagues who are fighting the termination of TPS for Syria.

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Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Paromania@paromitashah.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pleased to share that the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit denied a stay from the Government in our case challenging the termination of Haiti TPS. Fingers crossed....https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10805096/fritz-emmanuel-lesly-miot-v-donald-trump/?q=miot

Paromania@paromitashah.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Check out our new factsheet "Mobile Fortify: What We Know“ on our Resources page. ICE agents are using new facial recognition phone app Mobile Fortify to carry out street-level surveillance and real-time "identity checks" on community members by simply snapping a picture of someone's face.

Paromania@paromitashah.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So, WaPo reporter raided before and now this. Reuters journalists are repeatedly pushed to the ground and threatened by DHS agents...and now this. people.com/journalist-g...

Journalist Georgia Fort, Targeted for Covering Same Protest as Don Lemon, Livestreams Her FBI Arrest: 'Agents Are at My Door'

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist based in Minnesota, was arrested by FBI agents while livestreaming on Facebook on Jan. 30. She was targeted by the Trump administration for filming the same pro...

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Paromania@paromitashah.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reality check: Bringing Tom Homan to MN is not a concession over Bovino's misconduct. From what I know and experienced with Tom Homan in ICE years ago, I worry it's going to get worse.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I don't often agree with Axios, but this is 100% true: "The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title." We have got to get rid of Miller.

Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents

The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We warned this exact thing would happen. This is why dozens of human rights groups have been calling to BanFacialrecognition.com for years

Ban Facial Recognition

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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Dave Jamieson@jamieson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

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