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Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.

🚨 Did you know iceout.org can alert you if ICE is reported in your area? Turn on notifications for a custom alert area—no account or personal info required. All too often, ICE is abducting people in silence. When you get an alert, get to the scene as fast as possible to record, make noise, etc

Screenshot of iceout.org showing dialog box for setting up a custom alert area. The alerts icon (a bell) is circled in red.

“We have done everything through immigration to get his green card approved, and we are just waiting. This is heartbreaking for me. I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days ‌knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal.”

Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East

Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his father has been arrested while he was waiting for green card approval

theguardian.com

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.

This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

thenation.com

This is insane. New immigration judges, many of whom have never read a single immigration law case in their life before they got the job, are getting just 12 weekdays of training before they go on the bench, and very little of it is on the substantive law.

Matthew Hoppock@hoppock.bsky.social · 3w ago

First "three weeks"? Not really. It was 12 weekdays, May 4–19. The final day was transportation, investiture rehearsal, and the ceremony, not classroom instruction. It was three calendar weeks, not three full weeks of “formal, intensive classroom training.”

“At immigration court for detained children in New York City on Wednesday, a boy named Diego represented himself in front of the judge, Lisa Ling.” "I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”

11 Years Old. In Immigration Court. Alone. No Lawyer.

More children than ever before are being forced to face immigration judges by themselves without legal representation, advocates say.

documentedny.com

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

ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Trump stripped legal assistance from thousands of immigrant kids after refusing to pay its bills and allowing a federal contract to expire. The regime has since awarded a new $150m contract to a small, Trump-linked firm with little experience in immigration law:

Airlines are pushing back against immigration enforcement at U.S. airports. In one case on July 25, an ICE agent tried to board a Southwest flight in Dallas only to be rebuffed by a gate agent who insisted on seeing a judicial warrant. WSJ 05 August 2026: www.wsj.com/business/air...

Exclusive | Airlines Push Back Against ICE Enforcement at Airports

Federal agents are using flight manifests to arrest travelers with lapsed visas, drawing objections over safety and protocol.

wsj.com

July was ICE’s busiest month yet in the Puget Sound region. It’s a stealthy surge, without the helicopters or smoke grenades of Chicago and MN. But the surge is real, with real people taken every day. Each red pin is someone’s family member, neighbor, coworker, loved one.

Screenshot from iceout.org (People Over Papers) showing community ICE reports in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region from 7/1-2026-7/31/2026. 

The whole urban region is covered with map pins in red, yellow, and green. The pins stack on top of each other, making them impossible to count. Screenshot from iceout.org (People Over Papers) showing community ICE reports in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region from 6/1/2026-6/30/2026. 
Most of the urban region is covered with map pins in red, yellow, and green. In some places, the pins stack on top of each other, making them impossible to count. North Seattle, Bellevue, and Bothell have fewer reports than Tacoma, South Everett, and S King County. Screenshot from iceout.org (People Over Papers) showing community ICE reports in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region from 5/1-2026-5/31/2026. 

There are several dozen pins in red, yellow, and green — few enough to see each individual pin. South King County has the biggest cluster. There are no pins in Everett and only 1 in TacomaScreenshot from iceout.org (People Over Papers) showing community ICE reports in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett region from 4/1/2026-4/30/2026. 

There are ~20 pins across the region, mostly green with a few yellow and red. Only one pin in Seattle. Biggest cluster in Tacoma-Federal Way area

As everything seems to crater around us, I want to impress upon you that there is ALWAYS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. Billionaires and their politicians want us to believe that we are helpless. We are NOT. If something makes you mad, find out who's responsible and CALL THEM. Tell others to call.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

stlpr.org

Chicago is OUT IN THE STREETS! Rallies demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, killed in ICE traffic stops, and the total abolition of ICE. People are fed up with federal agents terrorizing communities. End the violence NOW!

When ICE agents make a stop and a car is left behind, it’s usually towed and impounded. Then fees accumulate and it’s on the family to pay. When Angel Tepale gets the call, he holds the vehicles at his own small lot and tries to find the rightful owners, all for no charge.

This Seattle-area mechanic offers free tows for vehicles left behind after ICE arrests

When ICE agents make a stop and a car is left behind, it’s usually towed and impounded. Then fees accumulate and it’s on the family to pay. When Angel Tepale gets the call, he holds the vehicles at his own small lot and tries to find the rightful owners, all for no charge.

kuow.org