"I think that we've seen their disdain for court orders that they don't like. They say they're going to follow the court orders but don't. The response is murky on purpose, and employers are following confusing guidance."

Houston police returned to a formerly overturned policy increasing HPD collusion with ICE. Using civil warrants, which do not alone give local police the power to detain someone, HPD schemes alongside ICE to bolster traumatic arrests in Houston.

Deported Honduran man sues Houston over police cooperation with ICE

A man allegedly detained by Houston police for two hours during a traffic stop before being deported has sued the city over its policy governing how officers interact with ICE agents.

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The cruelty of our system is painful - people are stripped of their humanity, treated like street animals, refused basic dignity, the ability to maintain hygiene, access to clean water, and the ability to obtain medical care beyond ibuprofen, regardless of ailment.

No one is safe when ICE is present - whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. @detentionwatchnetwork.org @the-ilrc.bsky.social @immdefenseproject.bsky.social are launching a new campaign: End the ICE Age. 🧊💥

Among those who spoke was Sonimar Maria Arenas, whose brother, Jesus Manuel Arenas Silva, died in ICE custody on July 13 after his family says ICE failed to provide him with the medications he needed. His family is demanding an independent investigation into his death.

Today we joined members of Congress, advocates, and directly impacted family members on the Hill for the #MeltICEAct press conference led by Rep. Delia Ramirez. We call for an END to ICE's unchecked expansion. We demand accountability for the harm ICE continues to inflict on our communities!

The terror in our streets is a deliberate choice. The nightmare scenario families face when their loved ones are taken is a deliberate choice. ICE needs to be abolished, personnel need to be held accountable, & those pushing for the cruel status quo need to never reach public office. Full stop.

Hablemos de: la tarjeta roja 🟥 @Univision se sentó con el ILRC para charlar sobre la función de la tarjeta roja que tanto promovemos en nuestras redes. 🔗 www.univision.com/shows/la-voz...

Estado Migratorio: Tarjeta Roja, el documento que ayuda a los inmigrantes a proteger sus derechos ante ICE

El Centro de Recursos Legales para Inmigrantes promueve el uso de la tarjeta roja ante el incremento de los operativos migratorios en Estados Unidos. La abogada Rose Godínez explicó que este documento...

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"The ICE officials who regularly appeared at Camp East Montana are called deportation officers. Officially, their job is to make sure that detainees with final order of removal are deported; unofficially, they often pressured those without orders to agree to be deported anyway"

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s son on Wednesday said that his father would not have tried to flee a law enforcement stop: “Had my father seen an emblem of ICE, or an emblem that says anything about law enforcement agency, my father would have complied."

Houston ICE shooting: Slain man’s son calls for investigation

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s son said his father would not have tried to flee a law enforcement stop. Local leaders say they’ve received little information from federal officials about the shooting.

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should still be with us today. ICE fatally shot Lorenzo, a beloved Houston community-member and father, Tuesday evening. Since then, HPD has engaged in the typical victim-blaming tactics we’ve seen against other victims nationwide. 🔗 www.ilrc.org/about-us/pre...

CoreCivic has sold two of the LARGEST immigration detention facilities in California to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a deal worth $1.5 BILLION 💵 Advocates warn, the facilities have still opened without needed permits. CC: @calmatters.org 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.

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Breaking: An ICE agent fatally shot a man in Houston on Tuesday after he allegedly tried to run over the agent bit.ly/44iwlst

ICE agent fatally shoots migrant in Houston

The agency said agents stopped the man, who died at a local hospital, as part of an enforcement action.

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What is it like living in Texas under SB4? The ILRC dives into this question, highlighting one of Texas’s unprecedented deportation schemes draining taxpayer dollars while emboldening policing models. What happens in Texas eventually comes to the nation. 🔗 www.ilrc.org/community-re...

NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

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Concerns grow that the Trump administration will continue further in looking at post-citizenship conduct to draw “a distinction between naturalized US citizens and US-born US citizens” as stated by the ILRC in @bloomberglaw.com Read more 👇🏽 🔗 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Trump DOJ Faces Legal, Resource Hurdles in Denaturalization Push

Legal precedent and a depleted federal workforce will undercut the Trump administration’s fast-paced filing of cases to revoke naturalized Americans’ citizenship, former government lawyers said.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 The U.S. Supreme Court STRUCK DOWN President Trump's Executive Order attempting to end birthright citizenship. We applaud the Supreme Court for rightfully striking down the Trump admin’s unlawful attempt to end birthright citizenship. 🧵

Gutting asylum protections in an attempt to kick out as many of our migrant neighbors as possible on the heels of this catastrophic Venezuelan earthquake where a flight of over 100 people were sent to their possible deaths — This is violence. Fully contrived, fully thought-out, executed violence.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

🚨 BREAKING: HOUSTON 🚨 The ILRC condemns the Supreme Court decision to temporarily block the Harris County Immigrant Legal Defense Fund. This fund was a lifeline to Harris County families since 2020. Since November 2025, the ILSF has been relentlessly attacked 👇🏽 www.ilrc.org/about-us/pre...

The Supreme Court jeopardized thousands of migrant lives last week in 6-3 decisions bolstering mass deportation. This on the heels of devastating twin earthquakes in Venezuela where the admin sent a plane full of deported Venezuelans to their eventual deaths. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Won Big at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court dealt a painful blow to immigrants on Thursday in a pair of 6–3 decisions.

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The latest Supreme Court decisions pose difficulties for Green Card holders, per @kqednews.kqed.org Advocates cite the problem being the ruling allows our government to “supply evidence of a crime after the fact, rather than at the border” eroding the presumption of innocence. 🔗 sl1nk.com/7xtdljm

Supreme Court Ruling Brings New Challenges for Green Card Holders, Advocates Warn | KQED

A recent Supreme Court decision gives border officers more authority on decisions to detain returning green card holders.

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New: A 63-year-old man died in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Laredo this month, marking at least the fifth death in Texas ICE detention centers this year, a quarter of the nationwide total, as the fatalities have skyrocketed to a record pace not seen in decades.

Mexican man dies in ICE custody in Laredo

Webb County’s medical examiner said Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez died from “natural causes,” although the full autopsy is pending. He’s at least the fifth person to die in Texas ICE detention this year.

texastribune.org

These news on the same exact day that the Trump admin attacks TPS relief, impacting our migrant neighbors escaping both violence AND natural disasters. The calculated cruelty of this admin can absolutely never be overstated. Our support is with those on the ground in Venezuela.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

The two major earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday caused widespread disruption to public infrastructure, raising the prospects of a high death toll and threatening to further set back the country’s recovery after years of mismanagement and corruption.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump admin to END legal protections for people who fled countries beset by violence and natural disasters in a 6-3 decision TODAY Thursday June 25. 👇🏽 🧵

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Half a dozen TSA agents surrounded 38-year old immigration attorney, Nikolas De Bremaeker, questioning him for 45 minutes. The interaction included breaking into his belongings, searching through his electronics, and enforcing an “extreme” pat-down. www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

Exclusive: Immigration attorney stopped and searched at SFO, told by DHS he was on ‘watchlist’

An advocate said the Oakland man may be the first immigration attorney to be detained for a non-random secondary screening at an airport since Trump took office.

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The Prairieland anti-ICE protesters sentencing is an example of the arbitrary nature of our policing systems demanding extrajudicial punishment. Ranging from 30 to 100 years, these sentences are “death by incarceration.” Read more from MJF 👇🏽 www.muslimsforjustfutures.org/blog/mjfstat...

Statement on the Prairieland Sentencing  — Muslims for Just Futures

Muslims for Just Futures is horrified by the extreme sentences handed down today in the Prairieland case . These sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years, are death by incarceration. 

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Supreme Court struck a BLOW to lawful permanent residents 👇🏽 We denounce a ruling handed down today by the conservative Supreme Court justices giving immigration officers MORE power to remove lawful permanent residents from the U.S., facilitating deportation. 🧵

Texas government has the resources to begin finding a way, but instead the bulk of city and town budgets go to racist schemes like Operation Lone Star, or other policing ploys that burn up taxpayer dollars instead of servicing local public goods. Water is political.

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · last mo.

New from Mezabahnur Masum: The Permian Basin brings up an ocean and calls it waste, while towns not far away ration what comes out of the tap. Can this water be treated and reused? Texas must find a way.