Jasmine Razeghi
@razeghj.bsky.social
Comms @ MacArthur Justice Center ⚖️ Opinions are my own www.macarthurjustice.org
This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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MJC Executive Director David Shapiro in The Intercept: “The on-the-ground regime of what censorship looks like [inside prisons] is pretty ridiculous, and basically stands the First Amendment on its head...It is close to an anything goes censorship regime"
The Intercept@theintercept.com · 22h agoMalik Muhammad was transferred after officials flagged messages where the activist said they “have always been anti-Israel my whole life.” The messages prompted a further review, according to the misconduct report obtained exclusively by The Intercept.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo didn't deserve to die in a concentration camp. No one deserves to die in a concentration camp. Every single death at ICE's hands, every day this modern day gestapo and these modern day concentration camps exist, is a crime against every single one of us.
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 2d agoA 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
. @josephcox.bsky.social talked with a former Flock government affairs manager who said the company lied about its pilot programs sharing data with federal agencies like ICE: www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...
Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned.
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There's a nasty fight between DHS contractors battling each other over deportation dollars and accusing each other of benefitting from a rigged system. Caught in the middle are immigrants, as @dfriedman.bsky.social, Will Sytsma, and I detail www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
"There is so much money right now in detaining people."
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Exclusive: @hurwitz.bsky.social reported this two weeks ago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people
Advocates say it’s too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d agoExclusive: Bad actors have used Flock's massive camera network as a powerful weapon for intimate surveillance. Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes.
Under US law, it is nearly impossible for a person to file a civil rights lawsuit against an individual federal agent. But an increasing number of people harmed by ICE and DHS agents are filing tort claims: demanding monetary compensation from the federal government for what has been done to them.
“The ICE agent behind me grabbed the back of my shirt and just threw me like a sack of trash”
People keep suing the agency for beating them up.
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Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now, the genetic information of hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime–including children–are held in an FBI criminal database forever.
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Abigail Spanberger announced she is restoring the voting rights of about 66,000 people with past felony convictions, reversing the course set by Glenn Youngkin. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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Wake up babe, the Law is being weaponized against Justice again
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
13 percent of deaths in un-air-conditioned Texas prisons between 2001 and 2019, roughly 271 people, were attributable to extreme heat, an average of 14 a year. slate.trib.al/q1sSHua
Texas Prisoners Are Baking to Death. The State Keeps Saying No to AC.
A 90-year-old with hypertension could still fail to qualify for a bed with AC.
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Over the past year, ICE agents have scanned the faces of protesters, photographed their license plates, and collected samples of their DNA. But the agency hasn’t said how or where it’s storing that information.
Records reveal how Homeland Security agents surveilled ICE protesters
Spokane police documents show a DHS task force officer tracing protesters’ cars, identities, and whereabouts without alleging any wrongdoing.
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In interviews with The Marshall Project - St. Louis, men incarcerated at Algoa, Ozark Correctional Center and Moberly Correctional Center described the effects of unrelenting heat in facilities with limited or no air conditioning.
These Missouri Prisons Get ‘Brutally Hot.’ In Solitary, It’s Even Worse.
A recent class action lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center sheds light on how extreme heat creates life-threatening conditions for those in solitary confinement.
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People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
One of the biggest opponents of air conditioning in Texas prisons, as I wrote a few years ago, is now the Mayor of Houston: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
How Houston Mayor John Whitmire kept Texas prisons hot as 'living hell'
"The real solution is don't commit a crime, and you stay at home and be cool."
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Slate@slate.com · 5d ago13 percent of deaths in un-air-conditioned Texas prisons between 2001 and 2019, roughly 271 people, were attributable to extreme heat, an average of 14 a year. slate.trib.al/q1sSHua
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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The Department of Homeland Security has denied maintaining a “domestic terrorist” database of US citizens who protest ICE. Public records shared with Mother Jones appear to contradict DHS’ statements.
Records reveal how Homeland Security agents surveilled ICE protesters
Spokane police documents show a DHS task force officer tracing protesters' cars, identities, and whereabouts without alleging any wrongdoing.
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“ICE and Border Patrol agents have a disturbing track record of sexually and violently abusing women and children, including members of their own families."
Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP agents have abused women and children
David Brouillette, according to Ohio Immigrant Alliance, is no outlier.
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"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Per the police shooting in Madison, WI today, this bears repeating: ICE, CBP, local cops; their violence is all connected. ICE represents an escalation of that violence to be sure. But we wouldn't be here here without years and years of collectively tolerating "regular" cops killing people.
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last mo.This normalization is taking place more easily precisely because we've also normalized a carceral system that has fed on millions, disproportionately Black and brown people. U.S. police killed 11K+ people in the last decade alone. And we are collectively numb to it:
This normalization is taking place more easily precisely because we've also normalized a carceral system that has fed on millions, disproportionately Black and brown people. U.S. police killed 11K+ people in the last decade alone. And we are collectively numb to it:
2025 Police Violence Report
Comprehensive review of killings by police in 2025.
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The officer who killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a young father in Maine, had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. One ex-wife alleges ICE agent David Brouillette threw hot water at her while she held their daughter.
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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New at The Watch: More on how and why Democrats should make it possible for victims and their families to sue Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and other political appointees for violence inflicted by immigration agents.
Suing Stephen Miller
It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming
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You know the ICE officer who killed someone in Maine and was then accused by two ex-wives of abuse? Turns out he was likely eligible to skip a significant portion of training after ICE hired him, due to a policy change under this administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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This is a blatantly unconstitutional threat. The executive branch has zero constitutional power to tell states how to run their elections - zero. Nor does DHS have the constitutional power to threaten state and local officials with jail time if they fail to abide by the executive branch’s demands.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time