US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

[tough trench]

https://bsky.app/profile/nickmiroff.bsky.social/post/3mdeg5qfsus2a

[modern haven]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/26/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-asks-judge-release-evidence

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records that show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.

Bovino’s sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the killing Saturday of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino’s command.

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/abc15.com/post/3mdehgpwn7u23

[indigo grotto]

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/homeland-security-investigating-all-zipps-sports-grill-locations-in-the-valley

[halcyon basalt]

Or not? https://www.threads.com/@ronaldfilipkowski/post/DT_m-EpEf9d

[fallow relic]

ICE Confirms ops in Maine are ramping up https://bsky.app/profile/baron333.bsky.social/post/3mdej6dodvs24

[fallow relic]

Press Herald reports that Federal Officials confirmed the Maine-specific enforcement effort has been dubbed "Operation Catch of the Day"

[lean ferry]

https://xcancel.com/NatashaBertrand/status/2015945167216218268#m

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-shooting-ice-protests-01-26-26?post-id=cmkvui6oy00003b6qq6ol0av6

[sleek schooner]

Bovino's role and employment status appears to be a developing story. Keep in mind that different sources will have contradictory accounts of what's happening. Until someone in authority goes on the record about what's happening, assume the competing narratives are part of the situation and not an indication of truth/falsity.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT5UtHMDHYK/

quadzillahikes

A 62-year-old father named Maher Tarabishi visited the ICE field office in Dallas, Texas, on 28 October as he has done each year for 17 years. Tarabishi, originally from Jordan, is in the US on a supervision order. Even though his asylum claim was denied, the US government allowed him to remain in the country because he is the primary caretaker ...

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Wael Tarabishi died. Ice took his father away on October and he has been declining since.

[fallow relic]

https://bsky.app/profile/dailymail.co.uk/post/3mdfb6f7llw24

Daily Mail (@dailymail.co.uk)

Democrats set to probe Kristi Noem amid calls to RESIGN as Homeland Security chief and Corey Lewandowski huddle with Trump at White House trib.al/wORXgB6

-# Democrats set to probe Kristi Noem amid calls to RESIGN
Kristi Noem held a two-hour meeting with Donald Trump Monday night amid fallout from the shooting of Alex Pretti as Democrats called for her to resign.

Bluesky · Jan 27, 2026, 7:43 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/27/immigration-enforcement-bill-clears-indiana-senate-amid-national-ice-controversy/

[indigo grotto]

https://newrepublic.com/article/205723/dem-senator-harsh-new-takedown-trump-hits-home-breaking-point

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-ice-b0cec9d1c5bae4b62469011775082300

[rain trout]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/vinod-khosla-publicly-disavows-keith-rabois-comments-on-ice-shooting/

[indigo grotto]

cross-post with #eu-uk
https://apnews.com/article/ice-milan-cortina-olympics-immigration-enforcement-us-110fa4b2066e1fb920dba2a71c3a89e0

[rain trout]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/many-ice-cbp-agents-allegedly-222423105.html

[halcyon basalt]

Not sure where this is — looks warmer than MN

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUBF-Nbjgoh/

agents mace street protestors from passing vehicle

somalisnaps

‼️Video shows protesters standing on the sidewalk, not obstructing anyone, being pepper-sprayed by an ICE agent from a moving truck as it drives away. It’s difficult to see how such tactics can be justified.

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[fallow relic]

https://bsky.app/profile/dashannestokes.com/post/3mdg2x6ox5k2k

Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@dashannestokes.com)

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.

www.ms.now/news/minneap...

-# Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

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Bluesky · Jan 27, 2026, 3:25 PM

[whole gull]

SW corner of 32nd and Shea in Phoenix, AZ
https://bskye.app/profile/zhbuchanan.bsky.social/post/3mdf3rik2c226

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/is-this-weird-ices-press-page-goes

Without the latest data, we can’t verify current detention numbers or track how much the system has grown over the past two weeks. CBS News reported that ICE’s detained population has reached record highs around 73,000 people, but without official data, we can’t confirm these figures or understand the details behind them.

For those wondering if you somehow missed the latest ICE detention numbers: you didn’t. They haven’t released them yet. And the press page has been unusually quiet. What these things add up to isn’t yet clear, but the silence itself is notable.

[fallow relic]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdg3uxb66c2g

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Rep. Veronica Escobar on a homicide in a Texas immigrant detention facility: "I've learned nothing else from DHS, and I think what's also very telling is DHS tried to deport the witnesses to this homicide"

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▶ Play video

Bluesky · Jan 27, 2026, 3:41 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/01/27/less-lethal-weapons-guide/

[halcyon basalt]

Should this be pinned? It is really comprehensive and helpful!

Senator Jon Ossoff (GA) reports 1000 human rights abuses in immigration detention https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/260114_Report_Patterns_v5.pdf

[whole gull]

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ice-milan-winter-olympics-mayor-calls-us-immigration-agency-militia-that-kills/

[indigo grotto]

don't think I have the option to pin this

[halcyon basalt]

@tough trench what do you think about pinning this post with the Bellingcat article on LLM

[tough trench]

Sure! Good idea thanks

[fallow relic]

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3mdgber5itq2a

The New York Times (@nytimes.com)

As federal agents ramped up arrests targeting immigrants in Portland, Maine, last week, about 25 to 30% of students at some schools were absent, many of them immigrants or children of immigrants.

-# Maine’s Immigrant Students Stay Home as ICE Operation Ramps Up
When a class in Portland went out for recess on Thursday, their teacher recalled, some of the 6-year-old students anxiously asked, “What about the ICE people?”

Bluesky · Jan 27, 2026, 5:20 PM

[lucid notch]

double check channel you posted in.

[rain trout]

thanks! apologies!

[whole gull]

Border Patrol shooting in Arizona has unidentifed person in critical condition:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-shot-border-patrol-involved-arizona-rcna256137

[halcyon basalt]

Former Trump official Miles Taylor says it’s time to tear down DHS

https://www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-build-dhs-now-we-need-to

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-shot-border-patrol-involved-arizona-rcna256137

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/412314/ice-issues-rfi-for-ad-tech-compliant-data.html

Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to be exploring whether it can harness ad-tech data for investigations, according to a request for information published late last week in the Federal Register.

The agency is "gathering information to better understand how the industry’s commercial Big Data and ad tech providers can directly support investigations activities," the request stated.

ICE added that it aims "to understand the current state of Ad Tech compliant and location data services available to federal investigative and operational entities, considering regulatory constraints and privacy expectations of support investigations activities."

[lean ferry]

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

[halcyon basalt]

Arizona shooting suspect in critical condition

https://www.threads.com/@hereswhykevin/post/DUBpIZJCc85

1/27 Tucson AZ
Shooting involving Border Patrol occurred at mile post 15 on Arivaca Rd. Victim was taken by helicopter to a trauma center in critical condition.

[modern haven]

Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-morale-reports-minneapolis-shooting-b2907742.html

[lean ferry]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/italy-ice-security-role-winter-olympics

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@pilikijess/post/DUBxWyvEpU5. Pima not Pinal

[whole gull]

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos will hold a news conference today at 4 p.m., and News 4 Tucson will provide a livestream.
https://www.kvoa.com/news/top-stories/pcsd-to-hold-news-conference-regarding-border-patrol-agent-involved-shooting-on-arivaca-road/article_7dfda4f8-64b5-4156-8ec6-d815d7b796ee.html

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@joaquincastrotx/post/DUB36QLkd3D

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/26/ice-accused-of-overseeing-unfolding-humanitarian-crisis-at-texas-detention-center/

The American Civil Liberties Union interviewed 45 detainees at Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss in El Paso, issuing a report in December that detailed than 80 human rights abuses, including “physical and sexual abuse, medical neglect, and intimidation to self-deport.”

[scarlet flower]

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ice-recruitment-white-supremacists

[fallow relic]

Autopsy report earlier in the month listed Campos' cause of death as "asphyxia due to neck and torso compression" and ruled it a homicide, the family has filed a wrongful death suit against the department of homeland security.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-killing-minnesota-monster-storm_n_697745f3e4b084f2a18ef92d/liveblog_69793dd6e4b0d0472366d775

[fallow relic]

multiple witnesses have come forward in support of the Campos family, claiming he was refused his asthma medication after begging for hours.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis calling for Noem to step down as DHS secretary. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/thom-tillis-lisa-murkowski-call-kristi-noem-resign-dhs-secretary-rcna256233

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@amay.a100/post/DUCJDoPghn4

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@bradcooney1/post/DUCGEk6lXMs

[whole gull]

Article from MPR News reporting conditions inside Dilley detention facility
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2026/01/27/inside-the-dilley-detention-facility-where-5yearold-liam-conejoramos-is-being-held

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@rhetlage/post/DUCGZjFDElh

[fallow relic]

Top down footage from AP of detainees protesting in Texas immigration facility. https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/4db58343-4fb6-40fc-85c7-bbee3dc98f63

[rain trout]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/five-year-old-girl-us-citizen-and-mother-deported-honduras

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@iamdonnyevans/post/DUCexVJjDMz

[fallow relic]

trying to figure out fact from fiction in a time where the American admin is pushing disinformation was a hell of a time for me to decide I wanted to get into journalism.

[halcyon basalt]

True. But so important

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-to-ice-list-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/
archived: https://archive.ph/HlqRV

https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-critical-ice-surveillance-footage-from-abuse-case-was-actually-never-recorded-doesnt-matter/
archived: https://archive.ph/eSpJw

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@carolinet_sc/post/DUCZxUOAjVI

Wife of Brazilian immigrant details how her husband was moved against legal order.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2026/01/27/border-patrol-shooting-arizona/88382281007/

[indigo grotto]

https://themainemonitor.org/maine-filming-immigration-customs-enforcement-projectiles/
The article is using the less-lethal guide Trevor made from yesterday as reference. Nice #1371571764525535242 message

Travis Norton, a former police lieutenant in California and use-of-force expert, said he had never encountered paintballs used by law enforcement. Federal agents have used pepper ball guns among other “less lethal weapons” during intensifying enforcement actions across the country during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to Bellingcat.

[whole gull]

A message sent to Springfield City School District staff obtained by the Springfield News-Sun says school officials are expecting a federal immigration enforcement operation may begin in Springfield lasting at least 30 days sometime after Tuesday, the day Temporary Protected Status runs out for Haitians.

The message from Springfield City School District Superintendent Bob Hill says a meeting last week led by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and state leadership, emergency management officials and others discussed that a federal immigration enforcement initiative may begin sometime after the TPS deadline.
Springfield City School District is the public school district that serves the majority of the city of Springfield, Ohio
https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-braces-for-30-day-targeted-ice-surge-next-week-as-haitian-tps-ends/L6425QVWEFFGLAKHHRYHYJ3WEM/

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@factpostnews/post/DUENzLbgTMg

Dilley detainment families are not allowed to leave dorms today (unusual) — remember Castro and Crockett are visiting today.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/27/ice-pepper-spray-dealers/

Quantico Tactical, a weapons and armor distributor based in Aberdeen, North Carolina, is by far the biggest supplier of chemical weapons to ICE and CBP during Trump’s second term, per contracting records. Founded by North Carolina-based David Hensley, a former Marine Corps major, it has sold $4.7 million of tear gas and pepper spray to the agencies since January 2025, nearly triple its $1.7 million in sales the previous year. It has also provided more traditional munitions to ICE; its biggest contract with the agency was for $10 million in “firearms and magazines” in September last year.

Reseller for products made by :

“As Forbes reported in December, Safariland is owned by Cadre Holdings, which is run by billionaire Warren Kanders, a former Morgan Stanley banker who has acquired a small army of defense and law enforcement weaponry and armour businesses over the years. Cadre owns a number of other ICE contractors, including Canada-based Icor Technology, which sold a robot to the agency last year that’s capable of opening doors, climbing stairs and firing smoke bombs, per a previous Forbes report. Its pepper spray is being used in Minneapolis;

[whole gull]

Multiple detainments in Ypsilanti, MI
https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/multiple-parents-detained-by-ice-in-ypsilanti-around-school-campus-bus-stops/

[left totem]

Useful info for video/photo analysis:

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/ice-cbp-patches-guide-to-identifying-immigration-agents/

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@joaquincastrotx/post/DUEXerrESwp

I look forward to more info. I’m not sure if Liam was sleeping here but he does not look well

[cobalt depot]

What tools do we have to confirm the veracity of this video?

It seems very fake, but I would like to know.

https://youtu.be/CRWR13BAIEs?si=efw7Q6jQxrNswWcy

[plucky copper]

IMO video almost certainly is not AI generated, location matches extremely closely to IRL, only question is if that is Alex Pretti.

[whole gull]

“Unfortunately, Liam’s health is not doing great right now,” said Stenvik. “He’s been ill. I’ve been told he has a fever. So I’m very, very concerned about his well-being in that facility.”
from HuffPost archived: https://archive.ph/mknsF
“The situation of my husband Adrian and my son Liam inside the detention center is deeply concerning,” Ramos told MPR News on Monday. “Liam is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality. He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”
from MPR News: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/28/ice-illegally-detaining-moving-minnesota-children-to-texas-faster-than-courts-can-respond

[turbid bobcat]

What can you use besides tools? Can you look at social media to see if indeed there were protests in that specific location on the date they name?

[cobalt depot]

I find it so hard to believe that someone who clearly damages federal property would not be arrested.

There are also the angles, the blurred in and out, the movements of when he gets tackled are very similar to the killing incident. Just so much stuff that do not pass my smell test.

[whole gull]

Sean Lim is a known political staffer in the area:
https://fxtwitter.com/SeanLimMN/status/2011108934191554728
and Reddit post in /r/minnesota (may also have cross-posted the second image to bluesky)
https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qbxp49/right_now_ice_has_blocked_off_the_road_on_e_36th/
https://bskye.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3mcd7jekwlk2e

Sean Lim (@SeanLimMN)

10:00am - South Minneapolis
︀︀
︀︀ICE has blocked off the road on E 36th Street and Park Ave, walking down the street with gas masks on.

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FxTwitter · Jan 13, 2026, 4:11 PM

[plucky copper]

There were reports he was previously involved with an altercation with agents. It also wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing happened pretty regularly, and its not worth it for agents to arrest everyone who does it.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@yasharali/post/DUEpTnOEgES

[turbid bobcat]

#1464102882516275454 message

[whole gull]

Demonstrations and tear gas outside the Dilley, TX detention center:
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/texas-dps-troopers-teargas-protesters-outside-dilley-migrant-detention-center/

[lean ferry]

https://newrepublic.com/post/205838/ice-springfield-ohio-haitians-temporary-protected-status-tps

[halcyon basalt]

Jasmine Crockett on lack of schools for children in Dilley https://www.threads.com/@howdypolitics/post/DUFJXkLjUJM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbUCP2y_ZII

Over the past year some 230,000 people were arrested in the U.S. by ICE and deported by the Trump administration. Trump's immigration crackdown authorizes immigration agents to arrest people off the streets and invade their homes. How is it that ICE is able to pinpoint certain neighborhoods and specific targets? Joseph Cox, the founder of 404 Media, has done extensive reporting on the federal agency and its expanding surveillance technologies. Cox joins the show to talk about the role of Palantir in facilitating all this.

Originally aired on January 28, 2026.

[indigo grotto]

https://deportationdata.org/analysis/immigration-enforcement-first-nine-months-trump.html

The number of deportations from within the United States, away from the border, increased by a factor of 4.6 during the first nine months of the second Trump administration (the period for which we have detailed data). That increase reflects the following key trends:

First, ICE arrests quadrupled, including both street arrests and transfers from criminal custody to ICE immigration custody. ICE street arrests (i.e. arrests not at jails) went up by over a factor of eleven. Street arrests at this order of magnitude are a new phenomenon. For both types of arrests, ICE was much less likely to target people with criminal convictions. These changes led to over a sevenfold increase in arrests of people without criminal convictions.

Second, the quadrupling (4x) of arrests resulted in an even larger rise (4.6x) in deportations because of increased detention space and decreased releases. The administration roughly tripled the number of detention beds used for people arrested within the United States. That capacity increase was a result both of new funding (for new detention centers and more beds in existing detention centers) and of a decrease in arrests at the border. Once arrested, few were released. Release within 60 days of arrest, already rare in the last six months of the Biden administration (16%), became almost nonexistent (3%). The rate of deportation within two months of initial detention rose by about a quarter, from 55% to 69%; the declining release rate accounted for most of that increase. Perhaps because of the lower release rate, voluntary departures (which are rare compared to removals) increased by 21 times.

[inland quest]

I think this would go here - on watchlists.
“Two senior national security officials tell me that there are more than a dozen secret and obscure watchlists that homeland security and the FBI are using to track protesters (both anti-ICE and pro-Palestinian), “Antifa,” and others who are promiscuously labeled “domestic terrorists.” https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/ices-secret-watchlists-of-americans

[indigo grotto]

https://themainemonitor.org/ice-activity-reports/

[whole gull]

PORTLAND, Maine -- U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Thursday that immigration officials have ceased their "enhanced operations” in the state, the site of an enforcement surge and more than 200 arrests since last week.

Collins, a Republican, made the announcement after saying she had several direct communications with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

“There are currently no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations here,” Collins said in a statement. “I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sen-susan-collins-announces-end-ice-large-scale-129667068

[unkempt quail]

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/ice-agents-shatter-window-leave-1-month-old-baby-mother-in-car-after-portland-arrest/
(archived https://archive.md/YrgE0)

[indigo grotto]

https://apnews.com/article/guan-heng-china-asylum-immigration-adca398a0cf583fc65a32f40e09cdc5c

It was an increasingly rare successful outcome for an asylum seeker since President Donald Trump returned to office. The asylum approval rate dropped to 10% in 2025, down from 28% between 2010 and 2024, according to federal data compiled by Mobile Pathways, a California-based nonprofit that helps immigrants navigate the U.S. legal system.

Guan, however, was not immediately released because the lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security said the department reserves the right to appeal. It has 30 days to do so, but Ouslander urged DHS to make its decision soon, noting that Guan has already been detained for about five months.

[whole gull]

The accounts raise further questions about practices at Camp East Montana, as the administration expands capacity to carry out President Donald Trump’s signature deportation program.

Three migrants have died at the $1 billion facility at Army installation Fort Bliss, located near El Paso, since it was opened in August 2025 to aid the Trump administration's nationwide mass deportation plan. The causes of two deaths are under investigation.
https://www.newsweek.com/women-inside-america-largest-ice-detention-center-camp-east-montana-11428121

[lean ferry]

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/g-s1-107762/senate-shutdown-vote-fails

[whole gull]

What the Department of Homeland Security has long argued is that this is dangerous for the officers. Assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents surged in 2025, we have been told. Agents must protect their identities in order to keep themselves safe from this uptick in hostility and violence.

A review of DHS and ICE press releases since January 2025, though, indicates that this theoretical scenario has never actually occurred. At no point in time has an officer been seen conducting his work, identified and subsequently attacked. While there have been threats issued against agents and incidents of off-duty harassment, there are no known incidents in which an officer was assaulted while off-duty because he was identified as a federal agent.
https://www.pbump.net/o/ices-excuse-for-wearing-masks-has-never-actually-manifested/

[scarlet flower]

Does anybody know when the 'masks protect DHS/ICE from assault' narrative began?

[indigo grotto]

I think it started around early June 2025 last year when Todd Lyons gave his reason why ICE agents are masked but acccording to Immigration Policy Tracking Project, it mentions the practice of wearing mask started around March 2025
https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/ice-personnel-regularly-mask-their-faces-during-enforcement-operations/

Video of Todd in June 2, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN3QsKuT8vA

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/thebaltimorebanner.com/post/3mdlryswkwx2j

[frail comet]

Commentary and opinions on the payday loan and quota structure of ICE bonuses https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DUEOySAEuf4/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3mdltt4vhlk2y

David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social)

The New Democrats & the Progressive Caucus just put out a joint statement with a list of demands for immigration enforcement reforms... 2 things on this:
1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this
2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE

Bluesky · Jan 29, 2026, 10:33 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/sahilkapur.bsky.social/post/3mdlucofsr22s

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social)

🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.

Bluesky · Jan 29, 2026, 10:42 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-pretends-its-a-military-force-its-tactics-would-get-real-soldiers-killed/
archived: https://archive.ph/9k8vf

[scarlet flower]

Another planned DHS/ICE detention warehouse, this one with a Canadian connection

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hanover-county-warehouse-dhs-ice-pattison-9.7066036

[halcyon basalt]

Historian and author of On Tyranny warns to watch Springfield OH.

https://www.threads.com/@thetimothysnyder/post/DUHds8VD0tb

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-braces-for-30-day-targeted-ice-surge-next-week-as-haitian-tps-ends/L6425QVWEFFGLAKHHRYHYJ3WEM/

[rain trout]

https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social/post/3mdlw7lrn2k2y
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police

David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social)

"CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is 5x higher than other federal law enforcement agencies—and over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP [officers and agents] (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%)." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

-# Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop.com)
"A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee was charged with drunken driving in St. Paul after a state trooper found him passed out in a car Tuesday morning 'covered in vomit.'"

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Bluesky · Jan 29, 2026, 11:16 PM

[halcyon basalt]

Student hit by vehicle with Trump flag during March/walkout at Fremont high school in Nebraska

https://www.threads.com/@radical_leftist_scum_sr/post/DUHvnKqAMXk

[whole gull]

Continued infighting inside DHS
https://archive.ph/9BIOP

[indigo grotto]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/

thread that goes along with it: https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3mdndah6fmk2v

Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social)

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

-# ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

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Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 12:42 PM

[turbid bobcat]

https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-user-guide-for-elite-the-tool-palantir-made-for-ice/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/01/29/records-ice-buys-surprise-warehouse-facility-70-million/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mdnqx56xck2v

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

-# ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

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Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 4:47 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3mdocpnpxnk2g
https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3mdoctjacb22g

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)

NOW: National Shutdown Rally and anti-ICE protest fills Foley Square in New York City.

People gathered this morning to clear the square of snow 👏

There are protests happening right now in: LA, DC, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Charlotte, Asheville, Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Salt Lake City & more!

▶ Play video

Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 10:05 PM

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)

-# ↩ News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)
The video above is credited to The People’s Forum, NYC.

How much of today’s nationwide protest movement will be covered by mainstream media?…

Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 10:07 PM

https://www.theborderchronicle.com/border-patrol-nation/

There have been many clues over the years that foreshadowed what is happening now in Minnesota and other cities. From 1994 to 2012, the Border Patrol grew from 4,000 to 21,000 agents, with yearly budget increases, each bringing more capabilities and allowing the agency to expand to more locations, regardless of the president’s politics. For decades, CBP has been deployed at large events like the Super Bowl—no matter where it is—and at presidential inaugurations (Washington, DC, is in the 100-mile zone). In 2014, constitutional lawyer John Whitehead called DHS “America’s standing army,” noting that it possessed about 260 million rounds of ammo, or about 1,400 rounds per agent. In his essay, Whitehead also mentioned license plate readers, detention camps, cell phone tracking, military drills in U.S. cities, checkpoints, spy networks, searches, surveillance cameras, drones, and spybots. These observations, at the time, barely made a blip on the national media’s radar.

https://themainemonitor.org/ice-observers-intimidation-legal-action/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atlpresscollective.com/post/3mdog7c4mhk2f

Atlanta Community Press Collective (@atlpresscollective.com)

Several hundred people have gathered on Buford Highway to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies and celebrate the general strike launched by Twin City residents on Jan. 23 and today.

Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 11:07 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/djbyrnes1.bsky.social/post/3mdog4ni7jc2g

Dave Byrnes (@djbyrnes1.bsky.social)

The anti-ICE/CBP rally in Chicago's Daley Plaza has grown significantly in just the last half hour.

The crowd is spilling out into street; I'd say there's over a thousand people here at this point.

-# Dave Byrnes (@djbyrnes1.bsky.social)
Good afternoon from Daley Plaza in Chicago.

An anti-ICE/CBP rally is coalescing in the plaza, joining similar demonstrations today across the country.

▶ Play video

Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 11:06 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/30/ice-warehouse-detention-dhs-immigration/
archived: https://archive.ph/syj7c

https://bsky.app/profile/sltrib.com/post/3mdoh2hxees2c

The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib.com)

The anti-ICE protest march makes its way back to Salt Lake City Hall.
(Video by The Tribune’s Paighten Harkins)
More: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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Bluesky · Jan 30, 2026, 11:22 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@contrariannews/post/DUJ1OMaElz5

[whole gull]

and on lake nokomis (under MSP flight paths) https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qo28xp/lake_nokomis_ice_out/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/rice-students-ice-map-21319887.php

map that tracks number of cases and detentions: https://www.icemap.dev/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.ms.now/news/ohio-ice-immigration-operations-haitians-tps-noem

[halcyon basalt]

Woman arrested while observing on her live. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUJrceAEjoD/?igsh=eW1wNnJzYTlweDR1

ice_out_ofla

BREAKING: Maria Santay @mssantay was Kidnapped by ICE During Her Live Stream
🤳🏽 Screen Recording by @naashchaa.paint

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https://www.threads.com/@oliviacristinadelgado/post/DUJ-RpGgdRw

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/couts.bsky.social/post/3mdpnq2rikk2v

Bellingcat, which has published detailed visual investigations of the two ICE killings and weapons used by immigration agents, is using open source software Atlos to archive and create databases of ICE-related footage, which can then be further investigated. “Getting training and those methodologies out there, and having people organize before it happens is very important,” Higgins says, adding that many video classification and archiving techniques have already been developed. “There’s a lot of this work that's already been done in the context of Syria and Ukraine, which applies directly to what's happening in the US,” Higgins says.

Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social)

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

-# How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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Bluesky · Jan 31, 2026, 10:55 AM

[lucid notch]

where is the open source tool and database?

[teal bay]

Hello, this post has a link to a document with some resources for getting started into open-source research:#welcome message

If you're looking for the Bellingcat toolkit it is available here: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/09/24/bellingcat-online-investigations-toolkit/

[lucid notch]

thank you

[whole gull]

More Fourth Amendment violations, this time in Utah: https://kutv.com/news/local/video-shows-business-door-shattered-after-ice-agents-detain-two-employees

[whole gull]

Teargas at a protest in Portland, OR, no clear reason why it was needed, but that's legal:
https://bskye.app/profile/forevernever.bsky.social/post/3mdr3xnuw2k2t

Demonstrators were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets soon after their arrival, moments after some in the crowd crossed the building’s property line and approached its security gate. Federal agents also set off flash-bang grenades.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/anti-ice-protest-attracts-massive-crowd-at-south-portland-facility-feds-deploy-tear-gas.html

[tiny pagoda]

little child gets treated after teargas ||https://bsky.app/profile/dumbrunner.bsky.social/post/3mdralzjtpk2x|| in portland

Dumb Runner (@dumbrunner.bsky.social)

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.

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Bluesky · Feb 1, 2026, 2:05 AM

[idle palm]

https://www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u-s-citizen-injured-by-federal-agents-in-salem-who-demanded-to-see-papers-union-says/

[halcyon basalt]

Liam’s safe with his dad and home https://www.threads.com/@joaquincastrotx/post/DUOINySkerY

[inland gull]

https://bsky.app/profile/portlandken.bsky.social/post/3mds7xnaf5s2u

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) (@portlandken.bsky.social)

Statement from Portland, OR, Mayor Keith Wilson following today's unprovoked attack by ICE on peaceful protesters.

The image is an excerpt. The full letter is available at www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

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Bluesky · Feb 1, 2026, 11:26 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

I have not spoken much about ICE’s detention centers; the Trump administration and ICE are in the midst of enormously ambitious plans to double the capacity of detention facilities, from about 55,000 beds to more than 107,000 beds, as part of the plan to pour about $45 billion into detention facilities. I would expect and predict that over the course of 2026, we will see this plan become the center of new scandals.

Let me leave you today with a final point: This doesn’t change unless we demand change and make it change — the way that the funding for ICE has been allocated, it can spend this money straight through 2029. Congress is going to have to act to turn that funding and hiring spigot off — otherwise, this continues on autopilot for the next four years. But the damage we are doing to our own country is long-lasting. Remember we are two decades removed from the start of the CBP hiring surge and I can still find you a news story or headline every single day that traces its origins back to the mistakes made in that surge.

We as a nation must act to change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in our country.

America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests.

[indigo grotto]

Part of his testimony on summarizing immigration enforcement in America

As I summarized CBP in 2014, immigration enforcement in the US is a story of how “the best intentions and worst impulses of the Bush administration met the laissez-faire management and political cynicism of the Obama administration,” and how that resulted in CBP “a massive agency—freshly militarized by billions of dollars of weapons and technology and thousands of poorly vetted gun-carrying personnel hired in the panicky years after 9/11—[being] left adrift as violence and corruption in its ranks rose dramatically.”

[rapid adder]

🧵 on ICE in Portland Oregon https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115992642852082848

Alissa Azar (@[email protected])

They just heavily gassed. Went thru my full face again. the medics were saying it was going through their masks too. There were very young children present. This is the road nearby ten minutes after the gassing started. The gas is still visible as I type this. Crowd regroup and energy is high. “Killing in the name of” now playing on loud speaker. More later nothing will upload not even pics

kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/1…

#pdx #portland

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kolektiva.social · Feb 1, 2026, 12:54 AM

It reports many children being teargassed

[latent kettle]

https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

[scarlet flower]

Does anyone have any knowledge of the legal issues involved in CBP pushing and shooting protesters more than 200 mi from the US border? I'm not looking for legal speculation but actual legal knowledge

[plucky copper]

CBP can operate at ports of entry, which includes ports and airports.

[sleek schooner]

Unless they changed the relevant regulation, CPB's zone is 100 miles from a land/water border.

[analog sequoia]

It's a convention, not a regulation, I believe.

[sleek schooner]

DHS Regulation that defines a "reasonable distance" as 100 miles.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.1

Note that this is the regulation that allows them to do things that would be unconstitutional outside that zone - like warrantless searches and detention without probable cause.

[analog sequoia]

whenever in the opinion of a chief patrol agent or special agent in charge a distance in his or her sector or district of more than 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States would because of unusual circumstances be reasonable, such chief patrol agent or special agent in charge shall forward a complete report with respect to the matter to the Commissioner of CBP, or the Assistant Secretary for ICE, as appropriate, who may, if he determines that such action is justified, declare such distance to be reasonable.

See also https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04/08/us-border-patrol-called-raid-300-miles-from-border-targeted-open-source-evidence-suggests-otherwise/

[analog sequoia]

Thanks. It is more definite than I remembered, but it seems the current administration is interpreting it as a blanket permission.

[sleek schooner]

(Note that Bakersfield is within 100 miles of a sea border, looks to be 73 miles from the coast)

[analog sequoia]

(Damn I got miles and km mixed up. I actually checked, but forgot to check the unit.)

[scarlet flower]

This is why their identification as CBP has caught my attention. If they were FBI, ICE or Nat'l Guard the legal situation would be simpler. I know there are exceptions to the 100-mile limit for specific situations but I'm curious as to the legal issues otherwise. Thanks for all the helpful input.

[sleek schooner]

Not a lawyer, DHS is definitely not asking my opinion about this. When CPB are outside their 100-mile range they are just DHS officers and have similar expectations as ICE. So, as an example, they should not be doing warrantless searches of citizen's mobile phones because they aren't in the 100-mile zone or a port of entry. But they can act similar to an Enforcement and Removal officer, at the direction of the DHS Secretary.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3mdtkitwxg22x

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

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Bluesky · Feb 2, 2026, 12:07 AM

[whole gull]

Ohio PAC Facebook posting AI images welcoming ICE to Springfield, OH

[scarlet flower]

I don't see the Facebook AI generated image tag. Was this screenshot taking directly from Facebook?

[turbid bobcat]

I went and found the link instead of the screenshot
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HzZ4k64oh/

for what it's worth when the talk about ICE coming to Springfield started, I looked through hotels and all seemed to have high availability for the next few weeks.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surveillance-arsenal-grows-as-agency-defies-courts/
Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/justinhendrix.bsky.social/post/3mdsjzdddkc2s

Methodology

All data presented in this tracker is drawn directly from the DHS AI Use Case Inventory published by the Department of Homeland Security. The information is reproduced as provided in the source file and has not been independently verified, including statements on safety and impact. This presentation may contain errors or omissions. Users should consult the original DHS source file for authoritative data. The comparison view identifies differences between the 2024 Inventory July Revision and 2025 Inventory releases; some field differences reflect changes in the reporting format rather than substantive changes to the use cases.

Not all fields are populated for every use case. The information displayed for each entry reflects the data provided by DHS in the source file; entries with fewer visible fields indicate that those fields were left blank in the original inventory. In particular, risk management and oversight fields (such as impact assessments, monitoring plans, and appeal processes) are populated for only a subset of use cases. The 2025 Inventory uses a simplified schema with 33 fields compared to the 2024 Inventory July Revision's 70 fields. See the glossary for definitions of key terms used in the inventory.

Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social)

I took a close look at the latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, which details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while increasingly engaging in violence and defying court orders.

-# DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts
A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.

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Bluesky · Feb 1, 2026, 2:26 PM

[scarlet flower]

Even directly off Facebook this image doesn't have an AI generated image tag. What are the particular telltale's you see to indicate AI?

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dilley-center-texas-measles-cases/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=902783169

[whole gull]

https://discord.com/channels/709752884257882135/1467699976758100191

[scarlet flower]

Yes and it doesn't have the information sign Circle that AI generated photos have when they are shared on Facebook. My vision isn't great but I looked for what AI telltales I could and didn't see any. That doesn't mean it isn't AI it just means I didn't see any telltales

[indigo grotto]

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-your-emergency

Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/audio/upload/schedule/clean/880.mp3

[halcyon basalt]

Rep Kelly Morrison visits Whipple https://www.threads.com/@repkellymorrison/post/DUOz-b3jpVk

[indigo grotto]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9e4xw8vqqo

[median ermine]

So I think we can safely say the absence of Facebook "AI generated" tag is not trustworthy.

[scarlet flower]

Or it could be a staged photo. That's why I want to know the indicators people are seeing that lead them to say it's AI

[turbid bobcat]

did you see the link to the forum post with the discussion? #1467699976758100191

[scarlet flower]

Thanks I missed that or more likely when I tried to hit the link for the group I hit the link for the Facebook and just got sent back to my account so I missed the discussion. So now the question is is the photo better than Facebook's algorithm or is Facebook tweaking its algorithm to let the image through and that's a totally different discussion and something I'll be using my Facebook account to look into when I have time

[plucky copper]

The signs all look like the kind of mass produced lawn signs you get during political campaigns, rather than the more ad hoc home made stuff you get in protests ect. Plus "we ❤️ our ice" is just really weird both grammatically and as a sign. It's yeh kind of weird language AI uses.

The lighting is also odd, you can see mist in the background but close up it's clear as a sunny day.

[left totem]

Tell you one thing, if they are professionally printed signs then in my state that would count as an expenditure that needs to be reported to the election board, and it would require a "paid for by" disclaimer on the signs. Plus often a union bug, even for conservatives. Not sure what the local law is for political expenditures but I don't see a bug or a disclaimer.

(Union bug wouldn't be required, but is very common in professionally printed signs)

[plucky copper]

Also most of the time I've seen the "ice"/"police" tag is a separate element Velcroed onto the vest so it can be removed later.

[indigo grotto]

Thread from tonight February 1, 2026
https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115998465551524332

Alissa Azar (@[email protected])

A few hundred people have just arrived to the Portland ICE facility, marching in remembrance of all killed at the hands of ICE

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kolektiva.social · Feb 2, 2026, 1:35 AM

[halcyon basalt]

All eyes on Springfield OH next week.

https://www.threads.com/@thetimothysnyder/post/DUOPIpVFEIe

[turbid bobcat]

From the article:
"Absent a court decision or a change of attitude by the White House, the Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status will expire on Tuesday (3 February) at 11:59pm. Springfield local authorities believe that an ICE surge will begin on Wednesday (4 February) and last for thirty days. The governor has said the same."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cleansing-in-ohio

[indigo grotto]

https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/02/freezing-cold-and-afraid-to-leave-nashville-immigrants-hunker-down-in-frigid-homes/

[halcyon basalt]

Good news! Judge ends 7-day wait time for Congress detention visits. https://www.threads.com/@ash.renee411/post/DUQ6fr5AC8i

[halcyon basalt]

I could not find this on the Illini Republicans insta page but it may have been a story or have been deleted. Posted by Mary Trump

https://www.threads.com/@mary_l_trump/post/DURCyZmFLw7

[halcyon basalt]

Just posted by Aaron Parnas—. Not sure if from today 2/2/2026 https://www.threads.com/@aaronparnas/post/DURK1eLkpR_
the damaged American flag is very striking

[onyx steeple]

can I steal this?

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mdvtgqvb5s2d
https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mdvtroiiek2g

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

ICE just released new detention statistics.

As of January 25, 2026, ICE is detaining 70,766 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

-# Detention Management

Bluesky · Feb 2, 2026, 9:53 PM

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
ICE lists 225 locations on its facility list. This is more than double the number of ICE detention centers operating at this time last year.

Bluesky · Feb 2, 2026, 9:59 PM

[sleek schooner]

A potential reason for not seeing it here may be due to IBT being the only news outlet reporting on this.

[jaunty patio]

It's also a private subreddit, so hard to verify. Let me know if I should delete it, please.

[sleek schooner]

Totally your call about whether or not to leave it. My only suggestion is to read through the article a second time and see if there's any evidence provided that doesn't rely on a private subreddit.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/noem-body-cameras-be-deployed-immigration-agents-starting-minneapolis

Noem did not specifically say agents would be required to wear the cameras.
...
Even without approved funding in the Homeland Security appropriations bill, the agency still has roughly $175 billion in funding for immigration enforcement from the massive tax cuts and spending package passed last year.

In the fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill for Homeland Security, $20 million was set aside for body cameras for immigration agents. That measure would be the subject of two weeks of negotiations under the spending package under consideration in the House.

[jaunty patio]

Fair call -- and I see they have a bit of a reputation for clickbait. I'll delete.

[halcyon basalt]

Not my pic but sure

[indigo grotto]

Good news
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3mdw4w5lzuc23

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bluesky · Feb 3, 2026, 12:42 AM

[unkempt quail]

Klippenstein on DHS's “Intelligence Reporting System - Next Generation” (IRS-NG)
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-identify-leader-of-antifa
(archived https://archive.ph/vcHXQ)

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

[halcyon basalt]

It was real https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/02/uiuc-republicans-ice-social-media/

https://archive.ph/qs4la

The Instagram post, published Friday, also says Alex Pretti and Renée Good — who were both fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis last month — had “voided their liberties the moment they decided they were above the law.”
“Our nation has come under invasion from the masses of the third world and those incompatible with Western civilization,” the post says. “Now, the current administration, as duly elected by its people to do so, has taken a stand against this invasion.”

[thorny thicket]

crossposted from usa-canada, feels relevant to here due to DHS profiling of people around the protests.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-identify-leader-of-antifa

[frail comet]

From 2026-01-31 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/ice-ai-mistakes-1235507183/

[whole gull]

Security camera has an angle, reportedly:
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/02/portland-oregon-shooting-border-patrol-crime/

[open quest]

bet they're being real careful about this, definitely not "summarizing complex documents" or "assisting in data entry" in ways that send randos to concentration camps https://fedscoop.com/chatgpt-meet-chatdhs-homeland-security-ai-bot/

[rain trout]

https://thebusinessjournal.com/sba-bars-green-card-holders-from-business-loan-ownership-starting-march-1/

The SBA on Monday issued the policy notice, which requires 100% of all direct and indirect owners of a loan applicant be U.S. citizens or U.S. nationals who reside within the United States or its territories.

Legal permanent residents (LPR), commonly referred to as green card holders, will no longer be eligible to own any percentage of a business seeking financial assistance through SBA loans.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/bovino-frustrated-directive-conduct-targeted-operations-chicago-rcna257069

Yet after 10 days of more targeted enforcement in Chicago, DHS leadership gave Bovino permission to use his more aggressive approach, and Border Patrol agents he oversaw began to stop people they believed were in the U.S. illegally, according to a person familiar with the conversation between Bovino and Lyons.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/dallas-county-commissioner-elba-garcia-statement-opposition-proposed-ice-facility-hutchins/287-5cc933f7-231e-4be5-b94b-f10509f79e59

The project, should it go through, would detain up to 9,500 people, becoming the largest ICE detention center in the U.S.

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/03/new-documents-confirm-federal-government-plans-to-put-an-ice-facility-in-merrimack/
ACLU of New Hampshire Chapter: https://www.aclu-nh.org/press-releases/aclu-nh-unveils-state-documents-confirming-ices-detailed-site-plans-for-a-merrimack-detention-facility/

Upon the news breaking Tuesday, Ayotte claimed that her own staff within the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources — the agency that houses the Division of Historical Resources — did not inform her of the development.

“It is entirely unacceptable that the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources failed to share this information with the Governor’s office,” she said in a statement. “Clearly, the Department of Homeland Security is actively pursuing the use of this property without communicating with all stakeholders. We will continue to insist on transparency and communication from the Department of Homeland Security with officials in Merrimack concerning this proposed facility.”

[indigo grotto]

https://www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/02/ice-warehouse-berks-county-purchase-federal-government/
deed record: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26777680-14875047-274862804-docimage-actual/

[whole gull]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/
archived: https://archive.ph/KO5zJ

[blissful kayak]

https://www.wmur.com/article/dhs-ice-facility-merrimack-ayotte-020326/70236930

[indigo grotto]

kinda eye opening in federal court
https://vxtwitter.com/PaulBlume_FOX9/status/2018785125857902645?s=20

Paul Blume (@PaulBlume_FOX9)

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 3, 2026, 8:34 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@bulwarkonline/post/DUT2-7uiQOK

testimony of woman shot multiple times a few months ago

[indigo grotto]

I assume it's usually not normal to get this many cases?
https://bskye.app/profile/josepagliery.bsky.social/post/3mdycifqk5s2u

[halcyon basalt]

The woman with traumatic brain injury who was carried from her car testified

https://www.threads.com/@massalida/post/DUT4yyjkSft

[patent hollow]

I don't work in Law at all, but I'm working on like 4 things simultaneously, and it's stressing me out.

[sleek schooner]

For context, this story came out yesterday:
https://www.startribune.com/another-wave-of-departures-in-minnesotas-us-attorneys-office/601575569
archive: https://archive.is/fnG3U

[halcyon basalt]

City of Hutchins TX say no to ICE warehouse

https://youtu.be/fqE_2HOJ9ZE

[indigo grotto]

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/03/mainefocus/mainefocus-police-courts/ice-demanded-maine-sheriffs-employment-records/

[frail comet]

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email

[unkempt quail]

very disturbing personal account of extreme callousness, neglect, and abuse of a family detained by ICE at an immigration check-in and subsequently deported. CW: deliberate-seeming medical neglect, child abuse, longterm physical injury

||At Dilley, [my daughter] went from full-time school to just one hour of instruction a day. She contracted a cough, which only got worse. She cried at night and asked when we would go back to our apartment in New York. She asked about her teacher and our cat every day. My daughter was once an extroverted, healthy, and happy first grader. But at Dilley, she regressed behaviorally, wetting herself after years without accidents and begging to breastfeed again despite being 6 years old. When we sought mental health care, a psychiatrist blamed me for her distress and accused me of poor parenting.||
||Then my daughter’s eye was injured.||
||A facility staff member accidentally struck her eye with a mop. Blood came from her eye. At the medical center, the injury was falsely recorded as a fall. Despite my daughter’s continued complaints of blurred vision, light sensitivity, and hearing problems, doctors dismissed us.||
|| After over a month of delays, an ophthalmologist who evaluated my daughter warned that she may have suffered trauma to her eye and needed further evaluation, as well as a referral to an ENT specialist because the injury could also be affecting her hearing. My husband and I repeatedly begged the facility to provide this care, but officers insisted that it was not their responsibility—even though the injury had been caused by a staff member.||
||https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/liam-ramos-nightmare-dilley-detention-center-texas.html||
(archived https://archive.ph/3H8R4)

[indigo grotto]

Thread that includes public hearing regarding the warehouse being converted into an immigration detention facility
https://bsky.app/profile/azrww.bsky.social/post/3mdyjldyyqs22

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

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[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/azrww.bsky.social/post/3mdylks5wok22

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)
Most of the windows are not accessible by foot but the ones that are have been mostly covered. I found a section without covers — the inside is still empty but you can see the roll-up garage door leading to the next section of the facility. The back of each section also has huge roll-up doors.

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Bluesky · Feb 4, 2026, 12:10 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/azrww.bsky.social/post/3mdzbkhgq522b

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Bluesky · Feb 4, 2026, 6:43 AM

[halcyon basalt]

Read the letter DHS is sending Congressmembers to justify admin warrants for home entry

https://www.threads.com/@repmikelevin/post/DUVp8VlgLrQ

[indigo grotto]

https://www.koat.com/article/immigration-safety-act-new-mexico/70193993

Immigrant Safety Act: Bill to ban immigrant detention in New Mexico heads to governor's desk

"If the bill becomes law — it'll make it a crime for these counties, any county, any local government to contract with ICE to house ICE detainees," KOAT legal expert John Day said

SANTA FE, N.M. —

Update: The Immigrant Safety Act, also known as House Bill 9, has passed the state Senate following a 24-15 vote. The legislation now heads to the governor's desk.

[whole gull]

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/02/03/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-one-week-graduation-new-orleans-police-department-academy

Attorney General Liz Murrill issued a statement Tuesday night, saying, “I have spoken with Chief Kirkpatrick about this. She says this individual was checked through E-Verify, and the City of New Orleans has adopted new policies and is cooperating with ICE. That said, I still have serious concerns about how this occurred and about the hiring process. I will continue to seek answers from all parties involved.”
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/police-recruit-ice/article_fedd5753-eedf-42ba-885d-e3dd9fc3691c.html

[whole gull]

First time I'm aware of ICE recorded on church grounds
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/methodist-church-in-los-angeles-says-ice-arrested-member-during-a-food-distribution-event/

[indigo grotto]

This reminds me of that one incident back in June 2025 at the Downey Memorial Christian Church when areas around Los Angeles were really hit hard with immigration enforcement (still are but it's kind of on and off again with enforcement activity intensity)
#1381169631263199232 message

[whole gull]

I wasn't here for that, thank you for showing me!

[indigo grotto]

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/immigration-news/fears-of-ice-surge-galvanize-vermonters-to-respond/

[whole gull]

she is now fired from the US Attorney's Office:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/politics/prosecutor-immigration-outburst.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.GQXG.c4nOv23VYovM&smid=url-share

[lucid notch]

What is supposed to happen according to law if people are not given a speedy trial as they have a right to have?

[sleek schooner]

In general the cases are supposed to be dismissed. But I believe these are mostly habeas petitions when the detained person is asking a judge to declare if the detention is lawful. There's not a lot of recourse for the detained person if the state drags its feet on a habeas petition.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/stephen-miller-trump-immigration-plan

[vestal mango]

there are a lot of inherent rights that just do not exist in the immigration court system - it is an administrative court, not what we would normally think of (an Article III court). There's no inherent right to a trial by jury, speedy trial, legal representation, etc. IANAL, so this is a layman's understanding.

generally, once there is a Final Order of Removal there is a 90 day clock to either deport someone or release them back into the public

[lucid notch]

I've repeatedly heard said that the constitution applies to all people in the territory of the united states. Judges saying that. If non-citizens did not have due process rights, then judges would not repeatedly be finding that due process rights had been violated and ordering them resotred.

[whole gull]

Documenting the Sept. 30 raid on 7500 South Shore Drive

For months, the Trump administration has justified its dramatic midnight raid on a Chicago apartment complex by saying that it had intelligence that the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But officials have provided no evidence to back up the claim.

Now, new documents confirm in the government’s own words that what prompted the raid was more pedestrian: allegations that immigrants were squatting in the complex. And the landlord had given federal officials, who were already targeting immigrants in Chicago, the blessing to search the building.

Arrest records for two of the 37 immigrants detained that September night, included in a motion filed Tuesday that’s tied to an ongoing federal consent decree, provide the clearest picture yet of what led to the controversial and aggressive operation, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter, broke down doors and zip-tied U.S. citizens and immigrants.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua

[indigo grotto]

From February 3, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/hrichina.bsky.social/post/3mdyhvamhgs27

Human Rights in China (@hrichina.bsky.social)

Breaking: Guan Heng has just been released from detention and is now reunited with his mother, a long-awaited and joyful reunion. DHS has not yet decided whether to appeal his asylum. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who stood by him and helped make today possible.

Bluesky · Feb 3, 2026, 11:04 PM

[whole gull]

Transcript of former AUSA Le's appearance just before she was fired, add. commentary from a local lawyer:
https://bskye.app/profile/danielsuitor.com/post/3me2slygwf224

[indigo grotto]

Thread
https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3me2srmdkcc2p

https://unraveledpress.com/identified-the-el-paso-bortac-crew-rampaging-through-the-midwest/

unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

Read more:

-# Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

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[indigo grotto]

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/texas-ice-detention-deaths-autopsy-el-paso/

Angélica César, a fellow at Human Rights Watch, said the concern isn’t just about where Diaz’s autopsy is being done, “but really who controls the process and whether it’s independent from (the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s) custodial authority.”

“The more credible approach here would have been for local, independent authorities with no institutional ties to DHS to conduct the autopsy and the investigation,” César said. “And this would ultimately protect both the families and the integrity of the investigative process itself.”

[ivory lily]

Is the weird wording ("I have to go back and pulling teeth go get this fixed.") some quirk of how these things are recorded? I'm not very familiar with court records

[whole gull]

I'm not a lawyer either! 😄
There is a note on Page 2: Proceedings recorded by mechanical stenography; transcript produced by computer. and information for a licensed court reporter throughout

[sleek schooner]

What's in the transcript is supposed to a faithful recording of what someone said in court. Like at the level that an appeals court would need to be relying on them to decide if a case was handled correctly.

[whole gull]

I will say from my professional experience working with (over-the-phone, non-legal) conversation transcriptions, the transcription quality varies throughout the document.

When the conversation is led by the judge, focused on legal procedures, documents, habeas, etc. the transcription is syntactically very clear to read, accurate to precise details in the conversation; when the conversation veers off into heavy caseload of Ms. Le and messy administrative process within the DOJ, the precise syntax falls apart and becomes more fragmented.

My reading is that court stenography is extremely accurate for the straightforward, established legal work, but they had to resort to quick, autocorrected word fragments when topics changed, resulting in fragmented readings that you're seeing. The reporter also does a clear job to never transcribe umms, uhhs, and other pauses that are always used, so the overall document is much clearer than a purely machine-transcribed conversation.

[lean ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/live/q6elg04xaIw?si=xi_goAskv8pu8UZ6

[steady badger]

https://bsky.app/profile/samtlevin.bsky.social/post/3me33onwf522g

Sam Levin (@samtlevin.bsky.social)

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom.

Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

-# Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her father

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 12:04 AM

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3me2jnqvehc27

(@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Bluesky · Feb 4, 2026, 6:41 PM

[whole gull]

https://bskye.app/profile/sahilkapur.bsky.social/post/3me3e5rms4s2c

[lucid notch]

I would like to note that those will likely not accomplish anything, as the current administration is not following some laws, and the department of justice will likely not prosecute the department of homeland security for law violations.

It looks good on paper. I has likely no enforcement. It likely has no consequence for violation. Violations are already carried out daily.

The only way congress can affect any of them is by rescinding all funding available to the executive branch. That might not be enough if the executive branch takes money from the congressional branch.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/orinkerr.bsky.social/post/3me3w2btmks2k

https://bsky.app/profile/orinkerr.bsky.social/post/3me3w3cotac2k

Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social)

As far as I know, this is DHS's first effort to explain their position that I-205 forms allow entry into the home. They rely on the dicta in the 1960 Abel case (before Payton) and re-imagine the plurality opinion in Lucas as if it were the majority (and then overrely on it).

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Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social)
As I've written, this isn't a frivolous argument. But if you're litigating this before a judge, and this is your argument, you go in fully expecting to lose.

My posts on this:

(1) On Abel:
reason.com/volokh/2026/...

(2) On Lucas:
reason.com/volokh/2026/...

-# Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?
The Associated Press reports: Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says WASHINGTON (AP)…

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 7:56 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi

Even when local officials open their own investigations into federal agents, there’s no guarantee they can bring the cases to court. Federal agents can claim immunity in response to state charges, legal experts said, and can move their cases to federal court.

That immunity stems from a Supreme Court ruling more than a century ago. During the Civil Rights Movement, that immunity was used when the federal government wanted to protect its law enforcement officers tasked with enforcing then-controversial efforts like desegregation in hostile states.

Now local officials face the opposite challenge: protecting their constituents’ constitutional rights from what they believe is excessive force at the hands of federal officers.

Referring to the earlier post he made about the elimination of Board of Immigration Appeals process
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3me4nbhuekk2a
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3me4miey56s2n
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3me4mux4o5s2a
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3me4njkm5ok2a

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
CORRECTION: This rule does not go into effect tomorrow, it goes into effect 30 days after tomorrow.

My apology.

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 2:51 PM

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 2:37 PM

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
The goal is clear; mass deportations over due process.

An order of removal does not become "final" until the Board of Immigration Appeals denies an appeal. After that, ICE can deport the person unless they file ANOTHER appeal to a federal circuit court AND get an emergency stay.

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 2:44 PM

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
More to come on this; the rule makes a number of other changes to the Board of Immigration Appeals process (such that it will exist should this rule go into effect in 30 days without a court order blocking it). But top line; it's quite bad! public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02326.pdf

-# 🌐

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 2:56 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3me4t4hc6qc22

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3me4xpg4m3s22

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3me4ym5przc22

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE.

Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility.

detentionreports.com

-# Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
ICE just released new detention statistics.

As of January 25, 2026, ICE is detaining 70,766 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 4:36 PM

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
Camp East Montana remains the largest facility in the US.
ICE detains over 3,100 people there on a typical day. From the reporting I have read, the conditions at Camp East Montana are extremely bad. detentionreports.com/facility/ERO...

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 5:58 PM

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
The US uses its territories to detain people, too.

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 6:14 PM

[unkempt quail]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/anti-ice-antifa-member-arrested-federal-charges-cyberstalking-and-threatening-communications
(archived https://archive.ph/NvhZg)

[unkempt quail]

pdf of the Schumer / Jeffries DHS funding deal demand letter #usa-canada message

[lean ferry]

37-year-olds seem to have it rough these days.

[whole gull]

Footage of the raid this morning in #1464102882516275454 message

[unkempt quail]

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-moves-open-up-data-for-us-border-checks-sparking-surveillance-chills/
(archived https://archive.ph/0R4Rl)

[indigo grotto]

https://www.972mag.com/us-secretly-deporting-palestinians-ice-dezer/

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel

Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/couts.bsky.social/post/3me5a7uvkek2f

Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social)

NEW: Mobile Fortify is not designed to "verify" identity, as DHS claims, and it was only approved after DHS rewrote its privacy review rules, records reviewed by @wired.com show. @dell.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social w/scoops. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

-# ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

Bluesky · Feb 5, 2026, 8:30 PM

[vestal mango]

You are correct - but the distinction falls between an Article III court that is also defined in the Constitution and lives within the judicial branch, and an administrative (civil) court which lives (broadly) under the executive branch

You have the right to bring an attorney to an immigration hearing (a civil trial), but the federal immigration law explicitly states they have no duty to provide one. They can set their own procedures/timelines as well that follow some predefined process but that's way more into the weeds than my understanding goes. (This is not a defense of the setup at large, just saying where constitutional protections fall apart in the process here)

here's an article i found that goes over some of the differenes https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/immigration-court-system-explained

[whole gull]

Shutdown over their listed demands looking more imminent:
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-ice-democrats-demands-ff3aadec8eeab250aea5bf8a8ecdb960

[whole gull]

IRS and ICE data sharing has been barred:
https://bskye.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3me5exj2blb2v

[indigo grotto]

https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/air-wisconsin-has-done-60-ice-flights-since-mid-january/

[whole gull]

Conditions reported from inside Otay Mesa Detention Center
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note

They have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. These items have included a total of 102 names and A-Numbers. Organizers also collect countries of origin.

A-Numbers are seven, eight, or nine digit numbers assigned by the Department of Homeland Security to people who are not U.S. Citizens, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
horrifying

[dim gulch]

Unfortunately, ICE has made its way into my neighborhood now. (In fact, the new warehouse they bought in San Antonio for a detention center is 30 minutes from my house by bike.) Yesterday I got some video of a low-level confrontation (meaning, I didn't see any arrests), but I need to ask - what is the best way to store video in the cloud? Should I spend up on storage in my Proton Files and keep it personal? All advice accepted.

[dim gulch]

That item is no longer found in Google Play.

[whole gull]

ah, I'll delete. Looks like ACLU Mobile Justice and MigraCam are both deprecated...

[dim gulch]

I appreciate it, though

[indigo grotto]

I feel like there's multiple options you can take but I think you might be interested in a recent tip from WIRED article when it comes to filming ICE - specifically the After Filming section. If you also already know a local ICE rapid response group in your neighborhood, I think they might be interested as well #1371571764525535242 message

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/02/06/dhs-plans-massive-immigration-detention-center-in-clint-texas/88535685007/
archived: https://archive.ph/NnTCR

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/02/06/2-active-cases-of-tuberculosis-at-confirmed-at-ice-detention-facility/88480304007/
archived: https://archive.ph/WuxzZ

[indigo grotto]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/federal-judge-will-let-marimar-martinez-release-text-messages-sent-by-border-patrol-agent-who-shot-her

"[Marimar Martinez] is a United States citizen,” Alexakis said. “She’s a resident of this district. And under our legal system — it bears repeating — she is presumed innocent of any offense of which she has not been convicted.”

Federal prosecutors filed an assault charge against Martinez after her Oct. 4 encounter with Exum. The feds dropped the case Nov. 20. However, Homeland Security has yet to rescind its past comments that Martinez is a “domestic terrorist.”

Christopher Parente, Martinez’s attorney, said the text messages and other evidence could be released as soon as Monday. Alexakis said her ruling was premised on the idea that “the names of third parties will be redacted.”

[dim gulch]

||https://www.reddit.com/r/ImmigrationPathways/s/zpmzMag8dk||

This is what was happening yesterday down the street from me. I don't have any video from inside the house, only of what was going on in the street (near end of this video).

[whole gull]

local San Antonio coverage of this as well:
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/castro-investigates-alleged-ice-raid-on-san-antonio-home-after-video-surfaces-texas-bexar-county-investgation-immigration-crisis

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/govwesmoore.bsky.social/post/3me7p5gyunk2p
https://bsky.app/profile/govwesmoore.bsky.social/post/3me7p5hupbk2p
https://bsky.app/profile/govwesmoore.bsky.social/post/3me7p5hupbl2p
https://bsky.app/profile/govwesmoore.bsky.social/post/3me7p5hupbm2p

Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)

I have very serious concerns about the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to build an ICE detention center in Washington County.

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Bluesky · Feb 6, 2026, 8:03 PM

Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)
These plans exemplify the myriad ways that the Trump Administration sacrifices federal-local collaboration and operates in ways that do not protect the public or uphold Constitutional rights.

Bluesky · Feb 6, 2026, 8:03 PM

Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)
I am directing State agency heads to assess all available actions to protect the community’s infrastructure, public safety, health, and long-term economic stability.

Bluesky · Feb 6, 2026, 8:03 PM

Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Governor Wes Moore (@govwesmoore.bsky.social)
We are also working closely with Attorney General Brown, who is reviewing the purchase to ensure full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws.

Bluesky · Feb 6, 2026, 8:03 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-facility-plans-ditched-amid-mississippi-opposition-wicker-says/

[halcyon basalt]

If you’ve read Everything Is Tuberculosis you know how terrible this is.

rep Morrison made an unannounced visit. Agents won’t answer her basic questions https://www.threads.com/@repkellymorrison/post/DUbm86HjJLY

Conejo Ramos family (Liam) are in asylum hearing right now and could be deported today https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-theatens-trevor-noah-grammys-bad-bunny-slams-ice_n_698071c1e4b0926bfc469acd/liveblog_69863772e4b0ddd0303360a9

[lucid notch]

copy the file to an archive like .zip and then upload that to places. Many websites will transcode video files in a lossy format so they save on hosting costs.

[halcyon basalt]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/federal-judge-will-let-marimar-martinez-release-text-messages-sent-by-border-patrol-agent-who-shot-her

[halcyon basalt]

He got a continuance from judge https://www.ms.now/news/dhs-reportedly-seeks-expedited-removal-of-liam-ramos-and-his-family

[indigo grotto]

https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/06/terez-metry-nashville-dhs-immigration-detained/

Terez Metry is a 28-year-old with no criminal record. What’s hit her people the hardest is that she tried to play by the rules, and she was still detained.

https://sheriffs.substack.com/p/how-local-law-enforcement-collaborates

[whole gull]

These provisions were framed by the IIRIRA immigration reform legislation in 1996, Pub. L. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996), but their interrelation had not been adjudicated until the past few months, when the current Presidential Administration began detaining illegal alien residents, like the petitioners here, for removal proceedings without bond, rather than bonding and releasing them.

After reviewing carefully the relevant provisions and structure of the Immigration and Naturalization Act,
the statutory history, and Congressional intent, we conclude that the government’s position is correct. We REVERSE the district courts’ orders to provide petitioners with bond hearings or release them and REMAND for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
https://bskye.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3meacvimvz32z

[lean ferry]

Aggregated info on the ICE detention center in Chester, NY

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/EyesOnIce/comments/1qvue3h/the_chester_ny_concentration_camp_financial_fraud/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kids-texas-immigration-facility-nightmares-school-food-dilley-ice-rcna257473

[scarlet flower]

Not sure if it needed it but I decided to spoiler it. Whistleblower shares conditions he observed while working at Baltimore ICE Detention Center
|| https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/ice-detention-facility-overcrowding-baltimore-whistleblower-dhs-unsanitary-trump/65-03dda8d7-49a9-4caf-b001-db5e12a04158 ||

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3meaf2bsg7t2y
archived: https://archive.ph/0tE7U

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
NEW: A huge win for ICE in the 5th Circuit tonight clears the way for the agency to mass detain people facing (and fighting) deportation proceedings. District judges all over the country — including dozens of Trump appointees — had rejected this policy.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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[indigo grotto]

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/ice-detainees-from-maine-being-held-under-inhumane-conditions-at-mass-facility-attorneys-say/

[indigo grotto]

thread
https://bsky.app/profile/aramshabanian.bsky.social/post/3med5h2673k2u

Aram Shabanian (@aramshabanian.bsky.social)

Went ahead and grabbed a bunch of data from the FAA's public database of aircraft. Below are all aircraft registered to DHS. See thread for how to use the data.

Bluesky · Feb 8, 2026, 4:56 AM

[scarlet flower]

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-administration-declines-judges-request-return-college-student/story?id=129936369

[sly kite]

Detention center detainees are throwing lotion bottles wrapped with messages to communicate with supporters outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note

[rain trout]

🧵 https://bsky.app/profile/propublica.org/post/3meggxavvyc2h

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/post/3meggxavvyc2h

ProPublica (@propublica.org)

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Bluesky · Feb 9, 2026, 12:25 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/us-high-schoolers-protest-ice

[indigo grotto]

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/health-care-workers-want-ice-out-hospitals-and-blue-states-are-responding

Health care workers want ICE out of hospitals, and blue states are responding

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/trump-deportation-idaho.html
archived: https://archive.ph/Yw3cA

Eventually, everyone there was herded to the end of the track. Most adults, including parents caring for toddlers, and many teenagers had their hands bound. Mr. Carter said he saw federal officers pointing guns at people simply for asking questions, and young teenagers being zip-tied, including Mr. Carter’s 14-year-old daughter.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and an F.B.I. spokesman initially dismissed reports of children being zip-tied and hit with rubber bullets as “completely false,” though the F.B.I. later amended its statement to say no “young children” were bound. Several hundred people were detained for four hours.

“They could have gone first thing in the day with a few F.B.I. agents and just arrested the people they had warrants for,” Mr. Carter said. “Instead, they went in at the busiest time with maximum force.”

[indigo grotto]

Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/chloeneast.bsky.social/post/3megscptt5224

Link to download study in pdf: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34794

Chloe N East (she/her) (@chloeneast.bsky.social)

New @nber.org paper with @caitlinpatler.bsky.social &
@elizabethacox.bsky.social out!

We examine how ICE arrests differ in Trump 2.0 vs. 1.0

Key Findings 🧵

1) MANY more arrests in Trump 2.0 than 1.0

2) When arrests spike, % arrested w criminal conviction falls

www.nber.org/papers/w3479...

Bluesky · Feb 9, 2026, 3:48 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3megymclwgc2a

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-records-trump-first-year/

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

In highlighting a CBS reporter's story debunking the Trump admin's lies on immigration enforcement, Bari Weiss appears to briefly forget that she now works for CBS and tweets that his story was for The Free Press.

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Bluesky · Feb 9, 2026, 5:41 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3megzhq5lpc2a
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3meh26dlgms2a

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

-# ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

Bluesky · Feb 9, 2026, 5:56 PM

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

Bluesky · Feb 9, 2026, 6:09 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/washington-county-commissioners-to

The resolution emphasizes public safety and the rule of law but makes no reference to the facility’s cost or economic impact.

Last year, the warehouse generated more than $300,000 in combined state and local property tax revenue as a privately owned commercial logistics warehouse.

The conversion to federal use would eliminate that revenue. Federal facilities are generally exempt from local property taxes.

An investigation by Project Salt Box found that operating costs for detention facilities of this scale can be substantial. Industry experts estimate that even bare-minimum temporary facilities cost approximately $200 per person per day. For the planned 1,500-bed facility in Hagerstown, that would total $300,000 daily, or about $110 million annually.

The warehouse was allocated only six Equivalent Dwelling Units for water — suitable for a logistics operation but far short of what would be required for 1,500 people.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3megz77orqs2b

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)
One of the commissioners voting tomorrow is Derek Harvey — retired Army colonel, former Trump NSC adviser (fired by H.R. McMaster), then Devin Nunes staffer who worked to challenge the Russia investigation into Trump between 2017 and 2019.

Bluesky · Feb 9, 2026, 5:51 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/09/nx-s1-5707217/somali-asylum-cases-rescheduled

"There's a lack of historical precedent for an entire docket to be created for one nationality," one lawyer said, noting that the Trump administration has also politically targeted Somali immigrants. The cases appear to have been referred to a set of immigration judges who grant asylum at lower rates than the national average, according to an NPR review of EOIR data. "This is the first time EOIR has been so obviously a political tool," the lawyer said.

Typically, lawyers said, the scheduling of cases is sped up either by attorneys working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or by the immigrants themselves. The lawyers note that their records do not show any legal motions or requests from ICE to reset or reschedule these cases. To illustrate the change, the attorneys said they went from having as few as zero hearings on their calendar to dozens.

[indigo grotto]

https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/09/tennessee-gop-bill-would-require-immigration-checks-for-local-government-aid/

The bill is among more than a dozen introduced as part of the Tennessee’s Republican supermajority’s “Immigration 2026” package, rolled out in January by House Speaker Cameron Sexton.

Sexton said the legislation was written in consultation with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a key architect of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Tennessee Republican leaders have called the package of bills a “model for the rest of the nation.”

[indigo grotto]

Cross-post with #latin-america-caribbean
From February 9, 2026
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/us-public-health-service-resignations-guantanamo-immigration-detention/

[indigo grotto]

https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prisons-contract-with-ice/

As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/26-federal-plaza-jail-conditions-ice-judge-kaplan-ruling/

A judge’s order last summer mandated capacity restrictions and improved conditions at the federal building, which has been a focus of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts in New York City. The order applied to any “person detained by ICE at 26 Federal Plaza,.”

But ICE has interpreted the order as applying to just one floor of the building, while conceding it has been detaining some immigrants on a separate floor.

The revelations emerged during a hearing over an ongoing lawsuit about conditions inside ICE’s holding areas inside 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants arrested around New York City are often taken before being shipped off to detention sites across the country.

[sleek schooner]

This hasn't been proven in open court; it is an accusation from defense counsel. If you have reporting that confirms this has been found true by a court, then please share that.

Just because you want something to be true does not mean it is, objectively, true. Until proven in court, both sides have accusations. They are not truth.

Unless that question can be answered from an open source resource, it's not relevant to this server.

[hot perch]

ICE is holding individuals who have legal standing to be in the United States without trial or deportation, and may or may not be forging documents to hold them indefinitely, implying a singular motive to incarcerate as many people as possible.

[rain trout]

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0210/1557656-culleton-government-us/

[indigo grotto]

Oversight hearing on ICE, CBP, and USCIS happening now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o2b26yq9CQ

[indigo grotto]

https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/
archived: https://archive.ph/3UpJS

[indigo grotto]

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-masks-are-all-a-lie

Being an elementary school student in the United States is more deadly than being an ICE officer.

[whole gull]

https://bskye.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mejhgv77yv2r

Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations.

The audit logs originate from Texas school districts that contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that manufactures artificial intelligence-powered license plate readers and other surveillance technology. Flock’s cameras are designed to capture license plate numbers, timestamps and other identifying details, which are uploaded to a cloud server. Flock customers, including schools, can decide whether to share their information with other police agencies in the company’s national network.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-cameras-police-license-plates

[indigo grotto]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/10/marimar-martinez-the-chicago-woman-shot-by-border-patrol-agent-expected-to-file-lawsuit-release-evidence

Evidence set to be released Wednesday by Marimar Martinez will show a Border Patrol agent lied to the FBI after shooting her five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side, her attorneys say.
...
Martinez’s attorneys are also set to announce a new lawsuit during a press conference late Wednesday morning.
...
There is no known video of Exum shooting Martinez, but another agent’s body-cam footage could help shed light on what occurred.

[indigo grotto]

From February 9, 2026
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/live-masked-federal-agents-surround-montgomery-county-home/4348568/

[indigo grotto]

Press release from Arizona Attorney General demanding answers to questions about the newly proposed immigration detention facility in Surprise, Arizona
https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mayes-demands-answers-dhs-proposed-ice-detention-facility-surprise

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mejyfexq4s2v

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now.

Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.

-# Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 10:15 PM

[minor trench]

"Google Handed Student Journalist's Bank and Credit Card Numbers to Ice," The Intercept, 10 February. (link)

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/dell.bsky.social/post/3mejzrdf6wk2a

dell cameron (@dell.bsky.social)

Anti-surveillance protesters arrested at a DHS targeting center in Vermont, ages 21 to 85.

"The Trump administration last year planned to hire more workers for the center to expand social media surveillance, WIRED reported."

www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 10:39 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/marimar-martinez-video-release-bovino/

Later this month, Martinez is scheduled to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress as a guest of U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, a Chicago Democrat.

[whole gull]

archived: https://archive.ph/O6UfM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/royalpratt.bsky.social/post/3mek4q5vpns2n

https://bsky.app/profile/royalpratt.bsky.social/post/3mek5hjpres2a

https://bsky.app/profile/royalpratt.bsky.social/post/3mek63k5o2s25

Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social)

Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:

"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.

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Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 11:32 PM

Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social)

Charles Exum was treated like a hero by peers and fellow Feds, not just Bovino, as he shared with this text sent by “guy from Vermont” who called him “a legend among agents”

Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 11:45 PM

Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social)

Border Patrol agents after the shooting of Marimar Martinez radioed in, "We're on south Kah-Dee-Zee" for Kedzie. What in the heck

Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 11:57 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@nickvalencianews/post/DUmSvj8CV7r

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/peoplesfabric.com/post/3mek6tdfxec2a

The People's Fabric (@peoplesfabric.com)

Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4.

This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m.

So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

-# Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b.bsky.social)
Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

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Bluesky · Feb 11, 2026, 12:10 AM

[wet cliff]

Regarding ICE Statistics,

They have this dashboard which tracks ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Statistics on their website with several data sets which hasn't been updated since January 2025. However, the more "up-to-date" data is available on the bottom of the website which links to their detention managment data which includes FY 2025 and FY 2026.
https://www.ice.gov/statistics

https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management#stats

[rain trout]

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/02/11/irishman-detained-in-texas-overstayed-90-day-visitors-visa-issued-in-2009/

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/876558/tech-workers-ice-resistance-google-microsoft-clear-abbott

[scarlet flower]

Audio interview with RTÉ (Ireland's national public radio) where Culleton describes the conditions at the facility where he is detained

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22582813/

[inland quest]

“We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss.”
https://bsky.app/profile/anamariafortexas.com/post/3mejmqo3sws2x

Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos (@anamariafortexas.com)

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

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Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 6:46 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/02/11/ice-deports-lawful-residents/
archived: https://archive.ph/n0CX2

[indigo grotto]

From February 10, 2026 as update
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2026/02/09/leqaa-kordia-released-from-hospital-returned-to-ice-custody-following-seizure/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/11/immigrants-irs-dhs-tax-data/
archived: https://archive.ph/oTO1b

Before the agreement was struck down, DHS requested the addresses of 1.2 million individuals from the IRS. The tax agency responded with data on 47,000 individuals, according to court records.

When the IRS shared the addresses with DHS, it also inadvertently disclosed private information for thousands of taxpayers erroneously, a mistake only recently discovered, said the people familiar, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

The affected individuals could be entitled to financial compensation for each time their information was improperly shared. And government officials can personally face stiff civil and criminal penalties for sharing confidential tax information.

[halcyon basalt]

project Saltbox tracking DHS warehouses for detention

This report tracks the expansion of ICE detention capacity through the purchase and leasing of industrial warehouses, highlighting the financial cost and the impact on local community tax bases.

https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b0228ccb-6fcf-4ab6-9d9b-41dd53292ec6/page/p_uy4yssvm0d

[stray jackal]

is this not the exact same location that had an ostensible drone issue and NOTAM?

https://bsky.app/profile/bnonews.com/post/3melzqyyxe22i
https://www.newsweek.com/notam-texas-el-paso-faa-mexico-border-11501566

BNO News (@bnonews.com)

NEW: U.S. military shot down what was believed to be a foreign drone near El Paso this week, but it turned out to be party balloon - Fox News

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Bluesky · Feb 11, 2026, 5:44 PM

The NOTAM was nearly dead-center over the Camp East Montana section of Fort Bliss, as it happens. Odd. (Right image credit: Google Maps)

[lean ferry]

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/federal-employee-who-did-background-checks-for-ice-arrested-in-bloomington-sex-sting/

[rain trout]

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clearview-ai-deal-to-use-face-recognition-for-tactical-targeting/

[rain trout]

https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3men4sbz3s22q
https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3men56y2nqc2q

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

SECOND WAREHOUSE SELLS TO ICE IN FLOWERY BRANCH, GA.

-# Second ICE detention warehouse confirmed in Georgia
Georgia’s immigrant detention network is expanding into Hall County, according to Oakwood city manager.

Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 4:11 AM

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)
The sale by CRP/AI Oakwood Owner LLC will add an additional 1,500 beds to ICE's detention capacity.

Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 4:19 AM

[whole gull]

ACLU suing for the mass horse track raid by ICE in Idaho

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday against federal, state and local law enforcement agencies following an October immigration raid at a racetrack in Idaho. About 400 people, including U.S. citizens and children, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
https://bskye.app/profile/joro.bsky.social/post/3memu3ew6t22z

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/politics/trump-administration-social-media-homeland-security.html

[indigo grotto]

Latest update on missing footage from ICE detention in Chicago
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3meocvpon5k2u

https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

404 Media (@404media.co)

A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage from an ICE detention facility has reached new levels of absurdity. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.

Read here: www.404media.co/government-l...

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 3:33 PM

https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-flight-refuels-in-ireland-again-irish-activist-pressed-police-to-investigate/

[indigo grotto]

Note/Reminder: Todd Lyons made the claim that ICE agents masking up as necessary for safety all the way back in June 2025 #1371571764525535242 message. Interesting Central America is brought up even though U.S. is not Central America
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meohu45kwx2g

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Ron Johnson: "In Central America, I found out that if you become the new police chief, you get a DVD from the friendly drug cartel with your children and wife going into school and church ... there's such a demand for unmasking ICE officers, but they've been doxxed."

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 5:02 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meogyr355n2q

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 4:47 PM

Regarding the ICE detention in New Hampshire
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meoiyikdee2a

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Hassan to Lyons: "I would hope I get the same treatment that Sen. Wicker got, which is to say the town doesn't want the detention center, so please cancel it. And I would expect that my partisan affiliation shouldn't make any difference to that determination."

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 5:22 PM

[indigo grotto]

Spoiling just in case since content includes mentions of rpe and inest within the article about pregnant minors being put into a single group shelter in Texas where abortion is banned
|| https://www.kut.org/politics/2026-02-11/texas-trump-immigration-pregnant-migrants-shelter ||

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meolyieyz22y

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up?

LYONS: We do not do that

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 6:16 PM

[indigo grotto]

related
https://bsky.app/profile/dell.bsky.social/post/3meom7dkpds24

WIRED article from November 12, 2025: https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/

https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3meoncrxt3k2u

dell cameron (@dell.bsky.social)

ok

-# Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up?

LYONS: We do not do that

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 6:20 PM

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

Todd Lyons claimed in Homeland Security hearing that ICE goons are only using their phones to collect evidence against so-called agitators.

Except the guy who arrested Nekima Armstrong Levy clearly used it for propaganda purposes.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 6:40 PM

[whole gull]

on administrative warrants:
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meokgwb7to26
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3meokmnx7x32q

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Blumenthal on administrative warrants: "This is not a warrant. It's a permission slip. It's a green light from another ICE agent to go bash down a door, smash into a home, detain and arrest someone without a judge finding probable cause."

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 5:48 PM

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?

LYONS: We don't

BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?

LYONS: I didn't

BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 5:52 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/theappeal.org/post/3meouo6i4ma2o

The Appeal (@theappeal.org)

In earnings calls earlier today, investors in GEO Group and CoreCivic criticized ICE. Their chief complaint? ICE's detained population, despite hitting record highs, still isn't large enough.

@elizabeth.weill.bsky.social has more: theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...

-# Despite Increased Profits, Private Prison Companies Want to Cage Even More People
CoreCivic and GEO Group’s investors expressed frustration that ICE’s record immigration detention numbers aren’t high enough.

Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 8:51 PM

[whole gull]

Her legal team has published a statement (not sure who infinite_jaz is, but AP News corroborates):
https://fxtwitter.com/infinite_jaz/status/2022088626243309976
https://apnews.com/article/leqaa-kordia-ice-immigration-trump-f3c4cb201d00038313f202653b3f4673

jasper nathaniel (@infinite_jaz)

I just received this statement from Leqaa Kordia, sent by her legal team. After nearly a year in ICE detention, she suffered the first seizure of her life. She regained consciousness in a hospital bed with her hands and legs shackled — heavy chains that remained on for three days, even during trips to the bathroom. See screenshots for full statement.

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FxTwitter · Feb 12, 2026, 11:21 PM

[blissful kayak]

‘Helping ICE effectuate mass
deportations’: Ayotte releases info on
Trump administration’s plans for
detainment facility

[tiny pagoda]

Can you link instead of a download, thx

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/us-paid-32m-to-five-countries-to-accept-about-300-deportees-report-shows

[blissful kayak]

happy to do that although the link has a paywall.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/metro/nh-ice-detainees-merrimack-warehouse-immigration/?event=event12

[sleek schooner]

Researchers will use archiver sites to keep static versions of stories that might change or disappear. It is sometimes useful to check and see if there's an archive copy of the story for those who still want to read it.
https://archive.is/33OfF

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010686059/sheriffs-voice-frustration-with-ice.html

Local Sheriffs Voice Frustration With ICE

As tension builds over immigration raids around the country, local law enforcement officials are increasingly speaking out. We followed a sheriff from Maine who lambasted ICE operations in his state as he traveled to Washington to share concerns with lawmakers.

[indigo grotto]

In addition about that Oklahoma economy mentioned in Boston Globe
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/13/ayotte-releases-dhs-documents-about-planned-ice-detention-center-in-merrimack/

However, the documents make mention of this planned facility’s “ripple effects to the Oklahoma economy.” Oklahoma City was included among planned detention center sites, but the city’s mayor said last month that project is off the table. The Bulletin emailed questions to Ayotte’s office, DHS, ICE, and the White House (which referred questions to DHS), including whether the Oklahoma mention was a copy-and-paste error and what that might mean for the legitimacy of the estimates included in the documents. The Bulletin hasn’t yet heard back from any of the parties.

The release of the documents follows a tit for tat between Ayotte and the federal government over what information the federal government is providing to New Hampshire.

[indigo grotto]

From February 11, 2026
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2026/02/11/mayes-gun-comments/

The case illustrates the conflict Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes brought up in her Jan. 23 comments on Arizona’s “stand your ground” law. She made the comments during an interview with 12News after the killing of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Mayes’ comments brought the collision of cowboy culture and the legal grey area surrounding stand your ground laws into sharper focus. Advocates and experts said despite the controversy, Mayes hit on a murky conflict between an Arizonan’s right to self-defense and encounters with law enforcement.
...
“If someone comes into your home or your car and you believe they’re an immediate deadly threat, you can use whatever means are necessary to resist something you believe could be lethal to you. However, the law specifically exempts law enforcement in that,” Heller said.
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But the law has one caveat: “unless the physical force used by the peace officer exceeds that allowed by law.”
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Gendill said she believes an armed agent with a mask on and no visible law enforcement identifiers confronting an Arizonan could lead to a dangerous encounter.

“It’s a very real possibility that if they approach someone here in Arizona the same way they have in other states, something terrible could happen and that would be a tragedy,” Gendill said.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/13/florida-house-nixes-desantis-priorities-in-budget-plan/

Without warning, public debate or coordination with the Senate, the Florida House late Thursday released an austere $113.6 billion spending plan for next year that does not fund key priorities of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The House’s budget for 2026-27, released while DeSantis was in California participating in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament, slashes the fund the governor used for immigration enforcement, including the building of Alligator Alcatraz, the Everglades immigration detention facility, and provides no money for the Florida State Guard, which he revived in 2022 and has been rocked by allegations of mismanagement in recent months.

https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/02/13/maine-law-enforcement-heads-say-immigration-agencies-did-not-communicate-plans-during-recent-surge/

[whole gull]

https://www.kmbc.com/article/south-kansas-city-warehouse-attempted-arson-ice-detention-site/70338025

The property’s owner, Platform Ventures, said Thursday it is no longer moving forward with any sale of the site to the U.S. government.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/crew-sends-letter-to-dhs-oig-urging-records-preservation-on-lethal-use-of-force/

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/nternal-ice-documents-reveal-38-billion

Metadata analysis of the documents released by Ayotte shows highlighted internal comments from Tim Kaiser, deputy chief of staff at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, asking David Venturella, ICE’s senior official overseeing detention contracts, to confirm whether a 60‑day average stay at mega-centers was correct. Venturella responded, “Ideally, I’d like to see a 30‑day average for the Mega Center, but 60 is fine.”

It is unclear why the deputy chief of staff of USCIS, an agency primarily responsible for immigration benefits, was discussing detention centers with an ICE official.

The exchange, dated Feb. 5, 2026, indicates that DHS was still internally debating fundamental operational assumptions less than a week ago. How long detainees are expected to stay affects staffing, medical care, and facility capacity, highlighting that the agency’s ambitious plan may not yet be fully operationalized and is still being shaped by officials with deep ties to the private detention industry.

These are factors that ICE appears to be modeling using tools like IMPLAN. On Feb. 3, 2026, the agency purchased a 12‑month license for IMPLAN economic modeling software from IMPLAN Group LLC, citing it as “essential for accurately analyzing and quantifying economic impacts of ICE operations and activities.” The software could likely help ICE forecast the costs and infrastructure requirements of its mega-centers and processing sites, linking internal debates over detainee turnover to the agency’s broader economic and operational planning.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/telliotter.bsky.social/post/3merdcmw4g22n

Vittoria Elliott (@telliotter.bsky.social)

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com

wired.com/story/social...

-# Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

Bluesky · Feb 13, 2026, 8:19 PM

[whole gull]

more stories from Dilley detention center:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-family-ice-detention-dilley-texas-nightmare-immigration-rcna258377

[indigo grotto]

Eh - not surprising

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html

In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said. In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and that have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents. The New York Times saw two subpoenas that were sent to Meta over the last six months.

[whole gull]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/donald-trump-judges-mandatory-detention-rulings-00778256

A POLITICO review finds that 373 have rejected the administration’s effort to require detention — without the possibility of bond — for anyone who crossed illegally into the United States, even if they’ve lived in the country for decades without incident. That contrasts with just 28 judges who have sided with the administration’s view.

Even judges Trump appointed are largely against him: 44 of them have ruled against the administration in mass-detention cases. Twenty Trump-appointed judges have signed off on the policy.
archive: https://archive.ph/7qH1G

[turbid bobcat]

Here's a gift link so that if people feel they might be impacted by this they can get all the details
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.0yZX.-UMMRtQd4p4c&smid=nytcore-android-share

[halcyon basalt]

Related and terrifying — Chicago woman shot by ICE was on a watch list for social media comment

“Five days before she was shot, the CBP Open Source Intelligence Team tagged Martinez as a threat. Her picture and information was "disseminated to Operation Midway Blitz personnel," utilizing DHS databases to confirm her identity, according to the report.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/immigration-authorities-had-surveilled-marimar-martinez-chicago-woman-shot-5-times-during-operation-midway-blitz-cbp-report/18593132/

[steady badger]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-gains-fast-track-access-to-private

[turbid bobcat]

now I'm wondering if the agents who shot her knew she was a "threat" and that was part of the sequence of events that led to her shooting

[sleek schooner]

Or Pretti, for that matter.

[halcyon basalt]

It cannot be discounted. Thought crimes

[indigo grotto]

From Lindenwold, New Jersey about an ICE operation that took place in the morning of February 12, 2026
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/federal-agents-send-students-running-lindenwold-new-jersey-thursday/6461416/

[whole gull]

consistent with their tactics in Michigan, Minnesota, Washington:
#1371571764525535242 message
#1464102882516275454 message
#1371571764525535242 message

[indigo grotto]

Can't believe this skipped over my head but how HSI (Homeland Security Investigation) might carry out what Noem mentioned earlier today could be something to keep an eye out for

Noem's press conference: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3metbhmduxo2y

https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3metli3otuk2k
https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3metlklghac2k

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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Bluesky · Feb 14, 2026, 2:51 PM

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

This is not ACTUALLY true on paper.

HSI has charged voter fraud, & CISA (part of DHS) does have a role in election security -- remember Trump fired Chris Krebs for declaring the 2020 election sound.

Not excusing the presser. But it's important to know WHAT TOOLS Noem might use to steal election.

-# Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

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Bluesky · Feb 14, 2026, 5:50 PM

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

-# ↩ emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
Slotkin got the head of ICE (Todd Lyons) to say that there'd be no reason for ICE goons to have a role. But he did not that HSI does.

There has been FAR too little attention on HSI's abuse, including in both DHS hearings last week.

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Bluesky · Feb 14, 2026, 5:52 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2CP6s1iqw
3:34 mark - Lyons makes a point of clarification to Senator Slotkin's question that there won't be ICE agents at election polling locations

[indigo grotto]

Just in case, Todd Lyons also notes a brief example of the recent voter fraud arrest in Massachusetts as part of clarifying to Senator Slotkin
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/colombian-national-convicted-voter-fraud-federal-benefit-fraud-and-identity-theft

[lean ferry]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/top-ice-contractor-geo-set-to-erase-all-trump-trade-stock-gain

Archive: https://archive.is/eXpnF

[indigo grotto]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

Habeas corpus - Latin for “you shall have the body” - emerged in the English courts in the 1300s and is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It provides a legal recourse for people the government has detained unlawfully.

Reuters counted habeas lawsuits by gathering the dockets of every publicly filed federal court case over more than two decades from Westlaw, a legal research tool that is a division of Thomson Reuters.

The records, combined with other court filings, offer the most comprehensive view to date of the scale of lawsuits moving through the U.S. justice system and of the defeats for the administration.

[whole gull]

https://www.kctv5.com/2026/02/14/community-reacts-ice-activity-olathe/

OLATHE, Kan. (KCTV) - Olathe residents and community members came together Friday after reports of ICE activity at the Olathe Unit of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kansas City and at various apartment complexes in town. A Boys & Girls Club employee says several ICE agents came on the property, peered through windows, and drove past the building several times on Friday morning.

The landlord of the property told KCTV 5 that agents claimed they were with the Department of the Treasury and looking for a fugitive. Olathe Police state the department was told agents were looking for someone not affiliated with the club. Word quickly spread on social media and concerned residents mobilized.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/royalpratt.bsky.social/post/3meugiwgx5224

Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social)

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

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Bluesky · Feb 15, 2026, 1:54 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ofelia-torres-dies-from-rare-cancer/

Includes gift article
https://bsky.app/profile/frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social/post/3meuia5tpk22g

Frank Figliuzzi (@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social)

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

-# U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

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Bluesky · Feb 15, 2026, 2:25 AM

[indigo grotto]

From a local news outlet in Colorado
https://bsky.app/profile/kylec.bsky.social/post/3mevyzcsrzc23

Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social)

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.

After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

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Bluesky · Feb 15, 2026, 4:58 PM

[indigo grotto]

following aftermath from the report
https://bsky.app/profile/kylec.bsky.social/post/3mew75ba4bc25

Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social)

Grateful that so many MAGA influencers are sharing our reporting that questions ICE’s (now deleted) claim about law enforcement in Colorado. But their headlines suggest they didn’t actually watch the report.

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Bluesky · Feb 15, 2026, 6:47 PM

[lean ferry]

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/minneapolis-federal-agents-phone-surveillance-alex-pretti/

[halcyon basalt]

2 month old baby in Dilley update https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUyldhnia4t/

lidiaterrazasnews

Juan Nicolás Update 🚨

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[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/iceflightmonitor.bsky.social/post/3mewzlrj6mc2u

https://bsky.app/profile/iceflightmonitor.bsky.social/post/3mewzlsy5k22u

https://bsky.app/profile/iceflightmonitor.bsky.social/post/3meybzzyvw22i

ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)

-# ↩ ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)
UPDATE: The ICE Air flight (OAE4060) just landed in Yaounde, Cameroon. The flight departed Alexandria, LA with a stop in Senegal.

Bluesky · Feb 16, 2026, 2:41 AM

ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)

-# ↩ ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)
This likely marks the 2nd flight carrying third-country nationals to Cameroon, after a third-country transfer on Jan 14. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

-# U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

Bluesky · Feb 16, 2026, 2:41 AM

ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)

-# ↩ ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)
UPDATE: After stopping in Cameroon, the ICE Air flight (OAE4060) also landed in Ghana and Chad.

Bluesky · Feb 16, 2026, 2:45 PM

[indigo grotto]

From February 12, 2026
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/tiktok-conspiracy-theory-child-trafficking-springfield-ohio/

Finding no large-scale enforcement action by ICE agents on the street, TikTok creators, who presented themselves as pro-immigrant and anti-deportation, cited reports from “actual Springfield locals” that the groups helping Haitians were refusing them aid. They sent people to a church who demanded to see evidence of the help they were giving. One creator misrepresented news coverage, including by The 19th, to construct the lie that churches and other groups were “trying to take these kids from Haitians and allowing them to be deported without helping them.”

The lies took a life of their own, as viral stories often do. The creators built on each other’s rumors.
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Multiple creators shared photos of Pastor Carl Ruby, whose church has welcomed Haitian congregants. Ruby soon started receiving harassing voicemail messages.
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Ruby talked to the local police, then spoke to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. On Monday, Springfield’s schools and downtown streets closed due to unspecified security threats. Ruby said federal authorities have told him that “rogue content creators” played a key role in amplifying complaints from several disgruntled individuals, and that led to the threatening messages he and his church have received.

[whole gull]

https://www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/update-lanes-reopen-whitefield-ave-after-crash-dhs-agents-spotted-scene/

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) [UPDATE 11:06 a.m.] Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools announced that a member of their staff died in the fatal car on crash Monday, Feb. 16. Hesse K-8 School teacher Linda Davis was killed in a car crash near the school Monday morning.
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WTOC crews captured footage of officers with the Department of Homeland Security on site of the crash. Multiple masked agents were seen, and at least one was an Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officer.

[indigo grotto]

Update
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/16/what-merrimack-documents-reveal-about-trump-plan-for-a-nationwide-immigrant-detention-network/

The original documents included a reference to “the Oklahoma economy.” However, after the Bulletin and other news organizations reported on the error, Ayotte released a new set of updated documents with the same figures but without the Oklahoma reference.

Asked if this was a copy-and-paste error and what the error says about the veracity of the numbers in the documents, a DHS spokesperson wrote in an email to the Bulletin: “The initial Economic Impact Review for an ICE facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire that was sent to Gov. Ayotte’s office had a single typo in an opening line. ICE immediately sent a corrected report to the Governor’s office the moment we were made aware of the typo. The report was obviously intended for New Hampshire, and that fact is clear throughout.”

DHS did not respond to follow-up questions about when the document was initially sent to Ayotte.

[indigo grotto]

Published on February 13, 2026
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/02/13/ice-making-arrests-in-matheson-courthouse-utah/

Attorneys from the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association told Utah News Dispatch they were surprised when their clients, who were not being held in jail while awaiting trial, were taken away from the Matheson Courthouse without warning on Monday and Tuesday. They said the arrests appear to be a new feature in Utah of President Donald Trump’s intensifying immigration crackdown.

“These people are showing up voluntarily, to do the responsible thing, to show up for their court hearing,” lawyer Lacey Singleton said. “And instead, they’re getting, like, kidnapped, out of nowhere.”

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3meynt5vdik2q

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

🟢 STUNNING REVERSAL

Opus Development Company LLC announced today they will NOT sell the Hutchins, Texas site to ICE.

-# BREAKING: Company will not sell Hutchins warehouse to ICE
After several weeks of concern over whether ICE was planning to keep upwards of 9,500 detainees in a warehouse in Hutchins, the owner of that building, Majestic Realty, says today that it is not selli...

Bluesky · Feb 16, 2026, 6:15 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://sourcenm.com/2026/02/16/lawmakers-consider-10-5m-bill-to-compensate-counties-that-lose-ice-detention-centers/

Muñoz’s bill would give counties and the towns within them funding to replace lost gross receipts or property tax revenue, as well as funding to pay off revenue bonds and for increasing costs associated with transporting local criminal defendants to another jail if a facility closes.

“This is not a bailout. This is not a permanent funding source,” Muñoz said Monday. “This is a two-year bridge to protect public safety, bondholders, infrastructure and local taxpayers, while implementing the state policies.”
...
The bill also requires counties to alert the state within 90 days if they find another solution for the jails that spares them expected revenue losses.

Muñoz told Source after the hearing that the provision is there in the event ICE and private prison operators contract directly to continue housing immigrant detainees without county involvement. That is one possible outcome, at least for the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, local officials previously told Source NM.

If ICE and private prison companies contract directly, Muñoz told Source, counties would be “held whole” and have no need for the state funds.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/dhs-building-romulus-cogswell-street-dtw-airport-mayor/

[indigo grotto]

https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/02/16/colorado-activists-hudson-prison-ice/

[turbid crescent]

Is there a habeas process for ICE detainees?

[sleek schooner]

Yes?

[median ermine]

Example guide for filing habeas petition for people detained by ICE, so yes it does exist. This may not be current or applicable in your area, but just to show that it does exist: https://www.aclunorcal.org/news/guide-file-pro-se-habeas-petition-people-detained-ice-golden-state-annex-and-mesa-verde/

[turbid crescent]

So, hypothetically speaking, a person detained on Feb 1 would have to wait 5.5 more months before she could file, if she were being held in detention by ICE

[halcyon basalt]

Juan Nicolas (2 Mo.) was taken to hospital tonight. Hopefully they will keep him to get well and never take him back

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU115bpDNvv/?igsh=MXQ1ajRmMjg5MW9hcw==

lidiaterrazasnews

BREAKING NEWS: Juan Nicolás was rushed to a hospital as of 7:00 PM CT.

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[whole gull]

I think legal questions are better directed towards an actual immigration lawyer, but I'm sure you could research it yourself if it's a purely academic question

I think the wording from the ACLU page:

If you answered “Yes” to each of these three questions AND you have not had a bond hearing in Immigration Court in the last six months, you may be able to file a habeas petition using this guide to request a bond hearing in front of an Immigration Judge.
only looks back at the previous 6 months to prevent people from filing multiple requests within a 6 month period.

To my understanding from cases in Minneapolis, if someone was hypothetically detained by ICE, even if a lawyer began filing on their behalf the next day, ICE obstructs their access to phones, speaking with a lawyer, and will often move them to a different state entirely--often TX or LA--within 1-3 days, citing lack of space. Then as judges order their release, DOJ lawyers are overloaded with cases such that they cannot even locate these people, and the process lags behind as a result.

[indigo grotto]

https://stateline.org/2026/02/17/communities-fight-ice-detention-centers-but-have-few-tools-to-stop-them/

[whole gull]

https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-immigration-ice-ec79dc6e073493ec8a8284fa32c7a2fb

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/politico.com/post/3mf2n67ifmc25
archived: https://archive.ph/4Iaud

https://bskye.app/profile/stevanzetti.bsky.social/post/3mf36pd2klk2i

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2026/02/activists-want-the-city-to-enforce-code-against-the-dallas-ice-field-office-can-it-be-done/

Activists Want the City to Enforce Code Against the Dallas ICE Field Office. Can It Be Done?

Cities across the state and nation are finding ways to hold ICE accountable. Will Dallas?

[indigo grotto]

From the night of February 16, 2026 in Portland Oregon - looks like Custom and Border Patrol agents detained a protester
https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DU2L1GWkVt9/

Agents chase and detain a person during ongoing demonstrations at the ICE processing facility in Portland, Oregon on 2/16/26

[indigo grotto]

Four Border Patrol agents lifting the detained individual off the air towards the end of the video on Instagram resembles the way immigrant enforcement agents basically carried one woman who was on her way to a doctor's appointment in Minnesota - I assume having four Border Patrol agents lift an detained individual is common practice among Border Patrol?
https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DU3UQVBiVD4/

AP: https://apnews.com/article/aliya-rahman-minneapolis-ice-arrest-videos-b277e328a2053fde361c6a74295efb06

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/premthakker.bsky.social/post/3mf3ibsokfk2j

Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social)

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

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Bluesky · Feb 17, 2026, 9:14 PM

[indigo grotto]

In light of ProPublica's recent reporting regarding children in Dilley Detention Center
https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DU3xKwACTS0/

I reported on this issue last week, but had not had the chance to post the proof.

15-year-old Cariexis Quintero, who has the intellectual capacity of a 7 y/o, described how guards in the Dilley Detention Center stormed in her room looking for drawings and letters, they destroyed what they found.

This is just one of several similar complaints I’ve received.

@lidiaterrazasnews @nmasunivision

[whole gull]

Oscar Vasquez Lopez, the driver accused of causing the Monday crash just outside of Savannah, remained jailed Tuesday on charges including vehicular homicide, reckless driving and driving without a valid license. Lopez, 38, is in the U.S. illegally, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Immigration officers were looking for Lopez to enforce an immigration judge's 2024 deportation order, ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams said Tuesday, noting that Lopez has no other criminal history.
...
Asked if the ICE officers chased Lopez, Williams said: "Chased? I wouldn't say that. They followed him until he crashed."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-fleeing-ice-officers-crashes-killing-georgia-teacher-authoritie-rcna259418

[whole gull]

https://fxtwitter.com/PabloReports/status/2023891466591084566

Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports)

🚨SCOOP: ICE has disappeared Juan Nicholàs and his mother, per @JoaquinCastrotx. Full interview: substack.com/home/post/p-188317949

Quoting Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports)
︀
🚨NEWS: ICE HAS DISAPPEARED JUAN NICOLÁS
︀︀
︀︀"We don't know where he is," @JoaquinCastrotx tells me.
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︀︀The bronchitic 2-month-old was released from the hospital earlier today, reportedly returned to ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, and has since vanished.
︀︀
︀︀^developing story

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FxTwitter · Feb 17, 2026, 10:45 PM

Congressman Castro's quote is around 1:20 in the Substack video

[halcyon basalt]

Update/ deported to border https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU4LvmjCew4/?igsh=eDBzMXB6ZDFjeDVh

lidiaterrazasnews

BREAKING NEWS: Baby Juan Nicolás was deported.

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[turbid crescent]

If someone is kidnapped and missing, is it advisable to file a writ of habeas to ICE if there are no other leads?

[whole gull]

I am not a lawyer. You may have better luck asking an immigration lawyer.

Or your local authorities in the case that you suspect someone is kidnapped or missing.

[halcyon basalt]

FYI Info about how to know and what to do if ICE subpoenas your social media acct. https://www.instagram.com/p/DU3ZUU0lK_6/

stopicenet

DHS has sent legal requests to Meta, Google and other companies seeking the names, phone numbers and other identifying information of users who track and criticize ICE.

Check if DHS has attempted to subpoena your account:

Look for an email from [email protected]

Meta is supposed to contact you from this email address notifying you...

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[rain trout]

https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-02-13/michigan-ice-detention-center-owner-reports-254-million-profit-record-new-business-in-2025

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-gains-fast-track-access-to-private

Which leads us to today

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/michigan-lawmakers-to-tour-largest-midwest-ice-facility-after-detainee-death-hillary-scholten-haley-stevens-north-lake-processing-center-baldwin

https://www.youtube.com/live/OAhA4cZQkrY

[whole gull]

Reconnected with Lidia Terrazas in-person.
Last update I'm aware of was when they were dropped off at the border with only their commissary money. A passerby gave them a cellphone that allowed them to stay in touch.
https://fxtwitter.com/PabloReports/status/2023983475519287363

Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports)

🚨BREAKING: The great @LidiaTerrazas has found Juan Nicolás, the two-month-old ICE deported today to Mexico.
︀︀
︀︀Update coming tomorrow at migrantinsider.com

Quoting Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports)
︀
🚨NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED:
︀︀
︀︀@LidiaTerrazas and a lawyer just crossed the border into Mexico to find 2-month-old Juan Nicolás and his family and see him to a doctor.
︀︀
︀︀This in relentless news reporting looks like on the immigration beat.
︀︀
︀︀FOLLOW LIDIA ON IG:

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FxTwitter · Feb 18, 2026, 4:50 AM

[halcyon basalt]

Not posting here but there is an official GoFundMe started for the family. (Sadly one of many)

[whole gull]

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-texas-dhs-records-11544225?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main

On the morning of March 15, 2025, HSI Harlingen BEST Maritime Group was assisting the South Padre Island Police Department (SPIPD) with traffic control at the site of a major vehicle accident involving multiple injuries. According to ICE’s internal report, HSI agents were helping redirect traffic when a blue four-door Ford approached the controlled area.

“As the vehicle got closer to the special agents the driver failed to follow instructions and attempted to continue onto [redacted],” the report read. “Multiple officers gave verbal commands to the occupants to stop, the driver of the vehicle slowed to a stop, and at this point agents surrounded the vehicle and verbally commanded the driver to exit the vehicle.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/post/3mf67pupwhc2f

Reuters (@reuters.com)

A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH

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Bluesky · Feb 18, 2026, 11:19 PM

[whole gull]

The Fulton Co elections case is not going well for the FBI:
https://bskye.app/profile/rparloff.bsky.social/post/3mf3xrpegms2h

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/africa/cameroon-journalists-arrested-deportees.html?smid=url-share

[halcyon basalt]

Good news! The family of Juan Nicolas was able to raise money to provide stability and a new start. Update available at official GoFundMe link

[rain trout]

https://nj1015.com/roxbury-detention-center-opposition/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/department-homeland-security-ice-billion-dollar-agreement-palantir/
archived: https://archive.ph/1yX5v

According to contracting documents published last week, the blanket purchase agreement (BPA) awarded “is to provide Palantir commercial software licenses, maintenance, and implementation services department wide.” The agreement simplifies how DHS buys software from Palantir, allowing DHS agencies like Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to essentially skip the competitive bidding process for new purchases of up to $1 billion in products and services from the company.
...
Akash Jain, Palantir’s chief technology officer and president of Palantir US government partners, which works with US government agencies, acknowledged these concerns in the email announcing the company’s new agreement with DHS.
...
In the Friday email, Jain suggests that the five-year agreement could allow the company to expand its reach across DHS into agencies like the US Secret Service (USSS), Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Jain also argued that Palantir’s software could strengthen protections for US citizens.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/jcollins.bsky.social/post/3mfa7x4vzfs2o

Jon Collins (@jcollins.bsky.social)

Key details on the mechanics of ICE and federal governent surges here: "And while he didn’t give them specifics, Liggins said that increases in other states have tended to follow when local governments curb cooperation and enforcement, Popkin said."

-# Justin Fenton (@justinfenton.bsky.social)
Maryland sheriff: Expect ICE ramp-up after state ban www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Bluesky · Feb 19, 2026, 6:28 PM

[indigo grotto]

Published on February 17, 2026
https://www.pogo.org/investigates/ice-inc-the-top-companies-profiting-from-trumps-immigration-crackdown

ICE, Inc.: The Top Companies Profiting from Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

A number of the companies winning the largest amount of ICE contracts in Trump’s second term made large political contributions and lobbied on a law tripling ICE’s budget.
....
ICE’s Number One Contractor

The company with the highest amount of ICE contract revenue is Albuquerque, New Mexico-based CSI Aviation, which provides ICE with both domestic flights and international removal flights.

The company provides an example where political spending, lobbying, hiring former ICE employees, and skyrocketing ICE revenue are all present. Chief Executive Officer Allen Weh, along with his wife and daughter, also CSI corporate officers, contributed a total of $460,000 to Trump’s 2024 campaign. The company also hosted a campaign rally for Donald Trump days before the 2024 election.

Their support appears to have paid off. In the year since Trump was inaugurated, CSI Aviation has seen its revenues rise by 238% compared to the year before, going from $363.9 million to $1.23 billion.

[indigo grotto]

hopefully no ramp up happens here
https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mfafnh5n6c2r

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

🚨 Baltimore: Out of an abundance of caution, we’re advising neighbors to be prepared for a potential increase in ICE activity in the coming days. Based on observed logistics shifts — vehicles and expanded operating space — alongside the recent 287(g) ban, a federal ramp-up appears likely.

Bluesky · Feb 19, 2026, 8:10 PM

[indigo grotto]

Cross post with #usa-canada
https://bsky.app/profile/jerodmacevoy.com/post/3mfagkf6rw22b

https://azmirror.com/2026/02/19/hidden-in-plain-sight-surveillance-at-the-arizona-border/

The towns that sit alongside the U.S.-Mexico border have felt a sense of unease in recent months.

In Nogales, a town that straddles both sides of the border, residents are hesitant to talk to reporters, and those who do say they haven’t seen the mass raids that have occurred across the country.

CBP and ICE have made headlines for their actions in larger cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Minneapolis, but those immigration enforcement blitzes haven’t happened in towns like Nogales. Day laborers still wait outside stores for a chance at work, a sight that was once commonplace in larger cities that have become targets of ICE’s deportation operations.

Perhaps this is because they are already under the scrutiny of the border surveillance apparatus.

“We get used to it. It’s normal for us,” music teacher Gustavo Lozano told the Mirror and Chronicle from his studio near downtown Nogales. The buzz of law enforcement drones overhead at protests, the cameras, CBP’s presence — it’s all nothing new for Nogales and other border towns, which have, for decades, been a proving ground for these technologies and practices.

But now there is a heightened sense of fear.

Certain activities that were once mundane now require a level of caution.

Did you remember to bring your ID and papers when going for a jog or walking the dog? What about before checking your mail? You never know when you may come face-to-face with la migra.

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy (@jerodmacevoy.com)

Along with this story we've published over 100 records obtained from the Arizona Department of Transportation relating to permits obtained by the DEA/CBP for the placement of covert ALPR devices. Check them all out here:

www.documentcloud.org/projects/222...

-# Arizona Mirror (@azmirror.com)
“It almost feels like they’re monitoring the communities,” one southern Arizona resident said about Customs and Border Protection.

They are.

story via @jerodmacevoy.com & Todd Miller

Bluesky · Feb 19, 2026, 8:27 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@repjayapal/post/DU9JpeDgWbL

[indigo grotto]

https://gothamist.com/news/judges-free-canal-street-vendors-arrested-by-ice-question-legality-of-raids

[indigo grotto]

From February 17, 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/ice-microsoft-technology-immigration-crackdown

ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform in the six months leading up to January 2026, a period in which the agency’s budget swelled and its workforce rapidly expanded, according to the files.

ICE appears to be using a range of Microsoft’s productivity tools, as well as AI-driven products, to search and analyse the data it holds in Azure. Files suggest some of the agency’s own tools and systems may also be running on Microsoft servers.
...
The leaked documents do not specify the kinds of information stored by ICE on Microsoft servers. However, they indicate the agency has used Azure services including “blob storage” of raw data, as well as AI tools that analyse images and videos, and translate text.

In January, according to the files, ICE held almost 1,400 terabytes in Azure, which if only comprised of photographs would be equivalent to approximately 490m images. This was up from 400 terabytes in July 2025 after climbing through the second half of last year, files suggest.

ICE is also using virtual machines on Azure, according to the documents. These are effectively computers that run in the cloud but that can be accessed remotely. ICE appears to be renting these high-powered computers to run software.
...
It’s unclear from the files whether ICE is using Azure to store or analyse information collected through any of its surveillance or intelligence gathering activities, or whether the cloud platform supports other functions, such as the running of detention centres or deportation flights. ICE did not respond to a request for comment.

[indigo grotto]

From ACLU Sr. Staff Attorney

https://bsky.app/profile/eunicehcho.bsky.social/post/3mfat72rxks2i

Eunice Cho (@eunicehcho.bsky.social)

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

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Bluesky · Feb 20, 2026, 12:13 AM

[rain trout]

https://wapo.st/4kM4qbF

https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3mfcercigwx26

Article: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/18/how-ices-new-software-tools-could-speed-up-deportations

The Economist (@economist.com)

ICE has already begun to process images and social-media details of activists attempting to hinder arrests. But the effort has also sucked in data on law-abiding protesters

-# How ICE’s new software tools could speed up deportations
The risk of overreach is high

Bluesky · Feb 20, 2026, 3:00 PM

[scarlet flower]

Archived link

https://archive.ph/Zp2Yi

[indigo grotto]

🙃 ...

One tipster called after she went to Publix and the worker who helped her find the water didn’t speak English. “And then she did help you find the water?” Palmer asked on the call, to which the woman responded, “Right, she walked me right to it.”

Many of the tipsters spoke as if the government was “their own personal army,” Palmer said. “If these are the calls I’m getting, as a fake, not legitimate person, imagine what’s happening at the actual ICE.”

In the kindergarten call, the teacher said she’d decided to report the student’s parents after looking them up in the school files and seeing that they were born in Honduras and El Salvador. She said the student was born in New York, and was 5 or 6 years old, but that she didn’t like people “taking up resources from our country.”

When Palmer read back her report in a flat tone, she scoffed. “You make it sound terrible,” she said. Later in the call, she asked to speak to Palmer’s supervisor after saying she didn’t like his attitude.

“I can’t help that they have a 6-year-old. That’s on them,” she said.

[halcyon basalt]

https://azmirror.com/2026/02/19/arizona-republicans-back-bill-to-jail-people-for-blowing-whistles-to-warn-of-ice-presence/

[indigo grotto]

archived version: https://archive.ph/4vjFr

[halcyon basalt]

Map for proposed ICE warehouse camps.

https://www.threads.com/@indivisibleteam/post/DU_QZpYCZSZ

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyleberkopes.bsky.social/post/3mfcaulozuk23

(@kyleberkopes.bsky.social)

-# ↩ (@kyleberkopes.bsky.social)
And railroad tracks go right by the facility.

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Bluesky · Feb 20, 2026, 1:50 PM

[sleek schooner]

In case you see the screenshot, this is a real bill in the New Jersey Legislature:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/A4446

Bill A4446
Session 2026 - 2027

Establishes "Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act"; permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement.

[whole gull]

ah, I see:
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2026/02/19/nj-bills-immigration-protections-ice/

[indigo grotto]

A deep-dive into Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) and its connection to immigration detention facilities across the country
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concentration-camps-wexmac-titus

DHS is using a repurposed Navy logistics program to fund the buildings and materials necessary to create these concentration camps quickly, as first reported by CNN in October.

The Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) program was created by the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) so that it could call on contractors quickly in the wake of international natural disasters, pandemics and the like, bypassing the traditionally lengthy bidding process. It served 26 designated regions—until last year when the United States itself was added as number 27. That region is called TITUS: Territorial Integrity of the United States. And now, thanks to this relatively new designation, domestic vendors are being fast-tracked by DoW and DHS to expeditiously furnish and run concentration camps around the country.

[rain trout]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mfdegkb5sh2k

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
︀︀
︀︀"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242928/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242928.28.0.pdf

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FxBluesky · Feb 21, 2026, 12:27 AM

[indigo grotto]

From the Texas Congressman who’s been outspoken on ICE activities
https://bsky.app/profile/joaquincastrotx.bsky.social/post/3mfdc5n2fic2t

Joaquin Castro (@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social)

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

-# Newsweek (@newsweek.com)
Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

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Bluesky · Feb 20, 2026, 11:46 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.independent.com/2026/02/20/ice-agents-arrest-observer-and-knock-down-and-pepper-spray-elderly-attorney-in-downtown-santa-barbara/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJHgmQc-Fog

In the history section on ICE’s website, one line reads: “Despite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's relatively young age, its functional history predates the modern birth of the agency by more than 200 years.” That phrasing of “functional history” stands out. We know that ICE was created in 2003. So what exactly do they mean by that? To unpack this claim, Vox producer Nate Krieger examines the history of immigration enforcement in the US.

The story of American immigration is one of gradual change. Over time, the role of the immigration services slowly changed, morphing from an agency that managed labor and benefits to one that saw itself as law enforcement, with a focus on national security.

And with that shift came a growth in capacity. The first federal immigration agency was created in 1891 with a total staff of 4 people. Today, with ICE, that number is over 22,000.

So how did immigration restrictions and enforcement change over the span of American history? By examining the centuries of events that culminated in the creation of ICE, we can begin to understand the context that created this modern agency.
...

[indigo grotto]

Bad timing to be deporting her to Iran
https://apnews.com/article/iran-adoptee-deportation-4a68978053c29bfd6df152392ab73211

The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because of her legal situation, received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month ordering her to appear for removal proceedings before an immigration judge in California. She has no criminal record. The letter says she is eligible for deportation because she overstayed her visa in March 1974 at 4 years old.
...
The already terrifying prospect of being deported to Iran was made more so in recent days, she said, as the Trump administration began amassing the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, preparing for possible military action against Iran if talks over its nuclear program fail.

[indigo grotto]

Related - 2024 AP investigation on people who were adopted by Americans in the past and don't have U.S. citizenships
https://apnews.com/article/adoption-citizenship-immigration-congress-0c71631786c35f7042ff99726e9dcd23

[indigo grotto]

https://www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/no-one-deserves-this-beaverton-father-dies-after-deportation-mexico/

[indigo grotto]

more on the ICE purchased warehouse in Surprise, Arizona
https://bsky.app/profile/jerodmacevoy.com/post/3mfexaorqys2c
https://bsky.app/profile/jerodmacevoy.com/post/3mffb4qednc2b

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy (@jerodmacevoy.com)

Warehouse in Surprise, AZ, purchased by DHS for ICE detention has a broken window this AM. I saw agents putting something in an evidence bag and local PD on scene. Reached out to ICE for comment/info.

Bluesky · Feb 21, 2026, 3:36 PM

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy (@jerodmacevoy.com)

-# ↩ Joe Gannon (@jmgannon.bsky.social)
Literally saw an agent put what looked like a rock in an evidence bag.

Bluesky · Feb 21, 2026, 6:33 PM

[whole gull]

At least five teenagers were arrested after students and police clashed during an anti-ICE protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, investigators said.
CW: still photo of a chokehold
social media video compilation: https://www.reddit.com/r/BucksCountyPA/comments/1rasvtd/compilation_of_videos_from_22026_quakertown/
article with street addresses & time: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/5-arrested-after-students-police-clash-during-anti-ice-protest-in-quakertown/4356225/

[whole gull]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

[frail comet]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-parents-may-lose-kids-adoption-investigation-finds-n918261

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration

The documents released to the Guardian do not cover every arrest since Trump took office, but do cover everyone that DHS started deportation proceedings during most of 2025.

The Guardian analyzed data extracted from nearly 140,000 I-213 forms, from January 2025 through mid-August 2025, and found that the surge in arrests under Trump is driven by the apprehension of people who have never been convicted of a crime.

The analysis also reveals:

• Fewer than half of the people in the data (40%) had any criminal charge against them, and only 23% had a conviction.
• Of those who did have a criminal conviction, nearly half were for non-violent traffic and immigration offenses.
• Traffic offenses alone made up nearly 30% of the convictions, the largest category by far.
• Some 9% of criminal convictions were for assault, while only 1% were for sexual assault and just 0.5% were for homicide.

The findings offer one of the most granular pictures yet of the criminal records of the tens of thousands of people swept up in DHS’s massive deportation campaign, building on reporting by the Guardian and others that show most of the people targeted for arrest and deportation are not violent criminals.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/doj-protesters-federal-agents-cases

Criminal defense lawyers said it was unusual for federal prosecutors to pursue a high volume of charges over minor clashes with law enforcement, and that it was extraordinary to see the DoJ lose case after case across jurisdictions.

Still, the costs for defendants, even if ultimately exonerated, have been enormous, with many having their mugshots blasted by the government and some forced to languish in jail or have criminal charges hang over them for weeks and months.

[indigo grotto]

From February 21, 2026
https://www.independent.com/2026/02/21/full-video-shows-what-led-to-fridays-violent-ice-arrest-in-santa-barbara/

Eight minutes of unedited video captured the moments before, during, and after the violent arrest of a Santa Barbara man Friday morning by federal immigration agents on Carrillo Street. The full footage of the incident was shared with the Independent by a source who requested anonymity.

The video ― which has not been previously published ― begins as a group of volunteer ICE observers, alerted to agents’ presence near the Santa Barbara County Probation Department, shout, honk, and blow whistles in the direction of a white Dodge Charger stopped in the street in front of the building.

[rain trout]

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-administration-will-collect-social-media-handles-legal-immigrants

[sleek schooner]

https://www.404media.co/how-ice-and-cbp-use-free-walkie-talkie-app-zello-to-power-their-operations/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2026/02/ice-dalfen-industries/

As ICE continues to snap up warehouses across the country, cities have found themselves caught by surprise. It happened in Hutchins. It happened in Surprise, Arizona, and Social Circle, Georgia. And it happened in Roxbury Township, New Jersey, where a warehouse owned by Dalfen Industrial was reportedly sold last week to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for use as an ICE detention facility.

Dalfen Industrial has several offices in North America, including one in Dallas. The company’s CEO is Sean Dalfen, who, according to Dallas County deed documents, lives in Preston Hollow and was named to the D CEO Dallas 500 list in 2024. In addition to leading the company started by his family, Dalfen touts his support of several nonprofit organizations, including Texas Oncology and the Jewish Federation of Dallas. He sits on the board of the latter organization. His wife, Gabriela, immigrated from Mexico to the United States when she was 16.
...
D Magazine first learned of the potential sale and its Dallas connection when Bob Witanek, a New Jersey activist, emailed. “I am writing to inform you that Dallas’ own landlord tycoon Sean Dalfen owns a similar warehouse property in Roxbury that he apparently hopes to make millions in profit in a potential sale in ICE which we are fighting in NJ,” he wrote.

[indigo grotto]

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/23/kristi-noem-ice-cannibal/

The vilification by Noem and DHS of Martinez, Longoria, Good, Pretti, and others is far more dangerous than her cannibal fiction — but the latter is part of a larger effort to demonize immigrants and those that support them. For centuries, claims of cannibalism have been used to justify all manner of racism, violence, and territorial conquest.

For years, Trump has leaned on this racialized rhetoric and also expressed a fascination with the fictional serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter. During his most recent presidential campaign, Trump frequently mentioned Lecter during rants about immigrants. “They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums. You know, insane asylums, that’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ stuff,” Trump said in 2024. “Hannibal Lecter, anybody know Hannibal Lecter?”

https://bsky.app/profile/oversightdemocrats.bsky.social/post/3mfk2ba3u5c2j

Oversight Dems (@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social)

🚨This afternoon, Oversight Committee Democrats will hear testimony regarding ICE’s terrorization of communities without warrants or restraint. We'll be streaming across platforms at 3:00 PM EST.

www.youtube.com/live/SdAnKUd...

-# Terrorizing Communities Without Warrants and No Restraint
Today, the Oversight Committee will hear from an ICE Whistleblower, a U.S. citizen whose home was forcefully entered by agents without a judicial warrant, and General Counsel for the Department of Hom...

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Bluesky · Feb 23, 2026, 4:13 PM

[frail comet]

NJ introduces anti ice bill https://legiscan.com/NJ/bill/A4446/2026

[whole gull]

The only passenger in the car when an American citizen was shot and killed by a federal officer in South Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. However, the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash over the weekend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/ice-shooting-texas-witness-dead.html

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.ms.now/news/ice-whistleblower-comes-forward-to-testify-before-congress

[indigo grotto]

From earlier today
https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3mfkbrfdpkc2b
flight that's currently grounded: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a45199

Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social)

All of the immigrant passengers are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists.

Omni flew this ICE flight right into a blizzard, knowing it would be grounded for god knows how long.

-# Seth Miller (@wandrme.paxex.aero)
Confirmed a few details via the FBO:
1) Pax remained on board overnight. This includes DHS staff escorting the detainees.
2) The aircraft APU has been running to provide heat for the cabin.
3) The FBO also handles catering for the plane and confirms that food was delivered.

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Bluesky · Feb 23, 2026, 6:28 PM

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mfknbgfzcd2f

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

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Bluesky · Feb 23, 2026, 9:53 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/wandrme.paxex.aero/post/3mfkq7r4kkc2v

Seth Miller (@wandrme.paxex.aero)

-# ↩ Seth Miller (@wandrme.paxex.aero)
Local news now reporting that the aircraft moved to the terminal around 14:45 local time (almost 14 hours after landing) and that the pax were eventually moved inside. www.wmur.com/article/port...

-# Plane with ICE detainees on tarmac at airport at Pease for more than 12 hours
A plane with ICE detainees landed at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease around 1 a.m. Monday, and the nor'easter led it to remain on the tarmac for more than 12 hours.

Bluesky · Feb 23, 2026, 10:46 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/surge-signs-mount-as-federal-contracts

[indigo grotto]

https://www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-in-san-diego-is-monitoring-activists-through-operation-road-flare/

“Operation Road Flare is a SAC San Diego Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation of agitator [redacted] and other known and unknown conspirators impeding, obstructing, and interfering with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) field operations,” the document says. “The actions of these individuals create a safety risk to federal agents engaging in their lawful duties, the community at large, and impede federal investigations.”

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.wmtw.com/article/portsmouth-new-hampshire-plane-with-ice-detainees/70469669

[blissful kayak]

https://www.wmur.com/article/ice-facility-new-hampshire-plan-dead/70477572

[whole gull]

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/how-many-native-americans-have-been-detained-by-ice-mpj36hhtz
archive: https://archive.ph/DAxUr

[indigo grotto]

https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-deportation-flight-leaves-nh-after-31-hours-exposes-chronic-problems/

[indigo grotto]

https://azmirror.com/2026/02/24/ice-is-targeting-workers-at-home-depot-advocates-want-congress-to-step-in/

[inland quest]

Additional info on potential build up of ICE in Baltimore

https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/s/F7hTlPOzH2

[indigo grotto]

Commentary from Greg Sargent. Senator Schiff's recent report in pdf on ICE and CBP contracting weapons are also included in article
https://newrepublic.com/article/206994/ice-stockpiling-military-weaponry-trump-forever-war

At my request, Schiff’s office analyzed the contracting data it collected to determine which companies are the top ICE and CBP contractors. Here are the results, per a chart provided by Schiff’s staff:

These particular contracts are mostly for small arms (including AR-style rifles), ordnance, ammunition, and related accessories like gun sights and suppressors, Schiff’s office says. A sub-category includes pepper spray, Tasers, tear gas, and other “non-lethal” weaponry.

[whole gull]

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/25/armed-ice-officer-portland-911-call/

In October, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer grew frustrated by a “kid” tailing his unmarked Ford Explorer on a motorized bicycle. It was 3:30 p.m. in Northeast Portland.

As the two approached Northeast 82nd Avenue, the ICE officer opened the center console and pulled out his service weapon, he later told police. He told a 911 dispatcher to send local officers or else he would take matters into his own hands.

“I need someone here now, or else I’m going to have to shoot this kid,” said Israel D. Hernandez, according to a recording of his emergency call exclusively obtained by OPB.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mfpa3bz4pm2c

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bluesky · Feb 25, 2026, 5:41 PM

[whole gull]

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVMxK5gGktx/
news article: https://newjersey.news12.com/ice-operation-in-newark-leads-to-3-car-crash-on-clinton-avenue-3-children

news12nj

NEWARK ICE INCIDENT: An ICE-led operation in Newark led to a three-car crash that left three children seriously injured.

Watch News 12 and tune into our stories for more.
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#News12 #NewJersey #Newark #ICEOperation #CarCrash #TrafficAccident #ChildSafety #News #LocalNews

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[indigo grotto]

https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-struggles-vet-recruits-amid-us-immigration-enforcement-push-internal-email-2026-02-26/

https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal

[frail comet]

Follow up on the police assault of anti ice demonstrating children https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2026/02/25/quakertown-police-ice-protest-high-school-affidavit-front-street-demonstration-scott-mcelree-arrests/88850851007/

[indigo grotto]

Currently live thread
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3mfrhxinn3k22

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Bluesky · Feb 26, 2026, 3:07 PM

From February 25, 2026
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/02/26/grand-jury-declines-charges-in-deadly-ice-shooting-of-san-antonio-man-attorneys-demand-transparency/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02/26/dhs-agents-detain-columbia-student-after-entering-university-owned-residence-shipman-reports/

“Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person,’” Shipman wrote.

Columbia neuroscience researcher Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, posted in a Thursday morning Instagram story, “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.”
...
This is the first time DHS has detained a Columbia affiliate at a University-owned residence since the detainment of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, at his residence on March 8, 2025. Khalil was held in ICE custody for 104 days and is now under threat of being rearrested and deported to Algeria.

[whole gull]

Quraishi is a US District Judge for New Jersey
https://bskye.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mfrnujymgk24

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/azrww.bsky.social/post/3mfrshuldrs2e

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

Speaker list is out for the upcoming "Border Security Expo" at the Phoenix Convention Center -- Tom Homan, Cochise Sheriff Mark Dannels, and leads with DHS, ICE, & CBP including ICE Director Todd Lyons who made those repulsive “like Amazon Prime, but with human beings" comments at last year's event.

-# Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)
The “Border Security Expo” is returning to the Phoenix Convention Center on May 5-6. This event brings out hundreds of companies involved in the deportation/detention industrial complex.

This year’s key sponsor is Akima, the company currently running the Guantanamo Bay migrant detention camp.

Bluesky · Feb 26, 2026, 6:15 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post/3mfs5q2sid22l

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)

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Bluesky · Feb 26, 2026, 9:37 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-moves-dozens-of-vehicles-from

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/zeteo.com/post/3mfsbnuqvks2f

Zeteo (@zeteo.com)

BREAKING: Columbia University student Ellie Aghayeva was released on Thursday, hours after being detained by federal immigration agents who lied their way into a university-owned residence.

The news came not long after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Trump.

🔗: zeteo.com/p/dhs-agents...

Bluesky · Feb 26, 2026, 10:47 PM

https://aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mbock-baltimore-fgc-street-fighter-immigration/

Since his arrest, Mbock has been moved to Louisiana and again to Georgia. His family said they don’t know if he’ll be moved again or where he’ll be sent. The family’s greatest fear is that he’ll be deported. He emigrated from Cameroon and could be returned there, where they say he faces danger as an openly gay man in a country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ relationships. He could also be deported to any number of random countries as a part of the government’s “third country removals” plan, which permits deportation to countries detainees aren’t from or have never lived in.

[whole gull]

https://apnews.com/article/irs-breaks-law-judge-finds-2dbe472e46121091a32309bdab6795d7

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information “approximately 42,695 times” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

[indigo grotto]

From February 25, 2026 in Oakwood, Georgia
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/hall-county/oakwood-officials-confirm-68-million-purchase-facility-new-ice-detention-center/7ZFNBH6WWRHJ3LHSSAICJJQASM/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mfshbrqyhk2s

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

That’s 10 out of 24 warehouses they’ve purchased:

- 3 of 8 “large scale” warehouse detention centers which will hold 7,000-10,000 people for weeks/months
- 7 of 16 “regional processing centers” which will hold people for days before transfer to a “large scale” warehouse.

Read more from me here:

-# Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)
🔴 Oakwood/Flowery Branch, GA warehouse sold to ICE for $68 million.

The sale adds 1,500 beds to ICE’s
New warehouse detention network, and brings the total expenditure to $895 million. GA stands to lose $778K in annual tax revenue. It will cost $2.4 billion to operate all 10 warehouses.

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Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 12:28 AM

[indigo grotto]

Gift article included in this along with a short security camera footage
https://bsky.app/profile/juliametraux.bsky.social/post/3mfsh6sbtss2o

Julia Métraux (@juliametraux.bsky.social)

1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold.
2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested.

wapo.st/3OCwNx8

-# Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage
Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

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Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 12:26 AM

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/02/escondido-firing-range-ice-coun/

[jolly plank]

Hey all -- sorry for such a general inquiry but I'm not sure what to do. I have a colleague who's been detained by ICE and has been missing for over a month. I can find proof that she's been detained but have no other information -- I don't have her A number or country of birth so I can't use the ICE locator to find where she's being detained. Are there connections with legal aid or advocates someone can point me to who can help me get her help? ETA: I've found where she was originally detained and contacted a detainee support group but would be happy to get any other suggestions.

[turbid bobcat]

https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2026/02/shah-alam-buffalo-rohingya-blind-man-border-patrol/

[indigo grotto]

Edit:
In addition to getting support from the group you've found - if you haven't done so already - it might be worthwhile to reach out to your House of Representative member BUT only if you know your specific Representative's stance on immigration because there are some representatives who would be eager to help you but there are others who won't.
In case you need help figuring out who your representative is, you can use this website: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Same goes with your U.S. Senator: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Generally since this is an OSINT server, most of us are not in a position to help out with this sort of thing. Your best bet will probably be the group you're in contact with, an immigration lawyer who hopefully has enough bandwidth to help your case, immigration nonprofits in your local area, and MAYBE your U.S. Representative. Hope your colleague gets released soon.

Hope this helps somewhat.

[fleet hawk]

I’m involved with immigrant defense in my area, I would also suggest searching https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/ for legal assistance. I’m glad to hear you found more help through the detainee support group!

[indigo grotto]

https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/02/27/ice-law-students-recruiting/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/02/hawaii-cant-control-ice-lawmakers-want-instead/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mftxces62s2b
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mftxxvyna22h

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.

In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

-# Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social)
Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

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Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 2:47 PM

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
If you're curious to learn more, check out the incredible @immdefenseproject.bsky.social resource on ICE ruses, which they've been updating for more than a decade. I remember being so grateful it existed when the situation above happened to my client, because it validated my "WTF" to the situation.

-# ICE Ruses - Immigrant Defense Project
Learn more about ICE's use of ruses in investigating and arresting non-citizens.

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Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 2:59 PM

[jolly plank]

@indigo grotto @fleet hawk Thank you so much for those suggestions -- I'll be reaching out to my local reps and legal aid. Originally I came here because I thought I would need help locating her -- I'm thankful that wasn't the case and really appreciate getting help even though this is not really the purview around here ❤️

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mfwf24tsab2n

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

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Bluesky · Feb 28, 2026, 1:58 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-moves-minneapolis-fleet-to-williamsport

[indigo grotto]

Looks like negotiations over ICE reforms in Congress are still ongoing
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mfz4pqm6lz2w

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

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Bluesky · Mar 1, 2026, 4:07 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mfyrfavxbc2u

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/01/west-virginia-immigration-rulings-00804575

Berger’s grievances have not ended there. She lambasted the administration for “sloppiness” in a case in which she said officials accused an ICE detainee of having convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.

“The Petitioner was four years old in 2009,” Berger wrote, suggesting that it raised deeper concerns about the reliability of procedures ICE was using to deny people their liberty.

Like Goodwin, Johnston has similarly warned of what mass detention without due process could mean for U.S. citizens — not just their noncitizen counterparts.

“If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone,” he wrote on Feb. 4. “One might say, ‘I don’t care because that only happens to THOSE people.’ Perhaps. But what if someone here legally, or even a United States citizen, is afforded no due process after being seized by mistake? Or by a choice?”

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Bluesky · Mar 1, 2026, 12:44 PM

[indigo grotto]

On February 25, 2026 with updates on February 26 from Tennessee
https://newschannel9.com/news/local/chattanooga-residents-report-increased-ice-activity-after-video-shows-agents-at-work-site

Chattanooga residents report increased ICE activity after video shows agents at work site

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3mfzeqnwf222t

Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social)

The closer you look the more signs you see that ICE charters are a mess. In one one week:
-Omni ICE flight had a 7-hour sit, then possible depressurization
-2nd Omni flight stranded in blizzard for 14 hours
-Air Wisconsin ICE flight emergency return
-Eastern ICE flight diverted
-Global X emergency

-# JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social)
🧊✈️ SPOTTED IN MIAMI 👀

👉 GlobalX jet (N530FL) lands safely after declaring an in-flight emergency and diverting to Miami while en route to Guantanamo.

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Bluesky · Mar 1, 2026, 6:31 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/first-ice-vehicles-arrive-at-williamsport

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/micahflee.com/post/3mfziuzpu4k2r

Micah Lee (@micahflee.com)

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!

Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

-# ICE Contracts - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities ranging from private businesses to government agencies and even dozens of universities. Some of the notable firms include Anduril, HBGary, L...

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Bluesky · Mar 1, 2026, 7:45 PM

[whole gull]

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/02/after-months-teargassing-outside-ice-building-protestors-take-feds-to-court/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mg3zuxf4rc22

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

A new data point is coming to the Project Salt Box warehouse tracker — the wonderful team at RiskFootprint are providing us with site-specific climate risk assessments to help inform data-driven resistance.

www.tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Bluesky · Mar 2, 2026, 7:54 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.wfae.org/politics/2026-03-02/tillis-office-says-dhs-has-not-responded-to-its-records-request-on-charlotte-operation

In a four-page letter sent last month to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Tillis asked her to turn over detailed records from the operation. He requested the information ahead of Noem’s Senate testimony scheduled for Tuesday.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

The document lays out how the online advertising industry gave birth to this sort of surveillance. Traditionally, marketers used cookies to track consumers’ activities. When those grew less effective due to the rise of smartphones and apps in the 2010s, Apple and Google created Advertising IDs, or AdIDs, that are assigned to each device. These are unique identifiers that, although they don’t contain a person’s phone number or name, still provide a way for the online advertising industry to track devices. As the document says, “this allows app developers to still track and report a device’s consumer activity, to include date/time and locational information, without connecting to or using any personally identifiable information (PII) associated with the device.”

In essence, the AdID acts as the digital glue between a person’s device and their location data, allowing marketers—or a surveillance contractor or DHS—to attribute a set of movements to a specific device. From there, investigators can draw geofences to see all phones at a particular area over a period of time. Many smartphone location data tools then let officials see where else those devices went, potentially revealing where their owners live or work, or other sensitive locations.

“It operates behind the scenes on websites and apps, and it puts everyone at risk. RTB is the world’s biggest data breach,” Ryan added.

[indigo grotto]

Senator Wyden's led letter calling for investigation into ICE's location data purchasing
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27715032-wyden-led-letter-to-dhs-oig-on-ice-purchase-of-location-data-3-3-2026

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mg5xzyimbc2g

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

Tip: if you live in a state where an ICE warehouse sale fell through due to local resistance, STAY VIGILANT.

ICE has certain regions in mind, so keep looking at warehouses in your state for ICE interest. Merrilville, IN fell through, and ICE pivoted to Indianapolis for its meg warehouse search.

Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 2:27 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg5zycseaa2v

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

DURBIN: How does taking dad from child dying of cancer qualify as a violent crime?

NOEM: I don't know what you're speaking of

D: Ruben Torres 2 weeks ago buried his daughter. When he was arrested at Home Depot, he said, 'Please. My daughter is dying.' They deported him. Was he a violent criminal?

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 3:02 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3mg63joczwc2j

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg63tn4rb72s

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

Kristi Noem just disowned this quote.

www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 3:29 PM

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

KENNEDY: What got my attention was you blamed your 'domestic terrorist' comments on Stephen Miller

NOEM: No

K: Here's what you said. 'Everything I've done I've done at the direction of the president & Stephen'

N: Where?

K: Did I read your words accurately?

N: I enjoy working w/POTUS & Stephen

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 3:35 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3mg64xc5qzc2i

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

Kristi Noem claims there are no daily quotas for snatches, which is interesting, bc nothing else explains their choices.

Now refusing to rule out deploying goons to election locations (and @coons.senate.gov did not force her to disavow it).

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 3:55 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg65fdawy42v

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

COONS: Will you rule out the deployment of ICE or CBP to polling places?

NOEM: There are no plans to have ICE officers at our polling locations

C: Would you rule it out?

N: Do you plan on illegal aliens voting?

C: I do not

N: Then there should be no need

COONS: I'm concerned by your rebuttal

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 4:03 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg66mmf6ff22

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BLUMENTHAL: The agent who shot her said, 'I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys. I'm up for another around of F around and find out.' Will you join me in condemning that agent?

KRISTI NOEM: That situation, I don't know the details, but I will look into that

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 4:25 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg66ypdzoq2v

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BLUMENTHAL: Is the agent who shot Ms Martinez sill on the job?

NOEM: Our officers conduct operations every day-

B: Is he still on the job carrying a gun?

N: I dunno

B: Would you agree he shouldn't be?

N: I'll get back to you

B: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying if he is

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 4:31 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://azluminaria.org/2026/03/03/ice-arrests-tripled-in-arizona-last-fiscal-year-as-street-operations-surged/

More than 6,000 arrests were recorded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona — the bulk of which occurred soon after Trump returned to office.

In the first three months of the fiscal year, from October to December 2024, monthly arrests in Arizona held steady at roughly 175 to 190, in line with the prior year’s pace.

Then, after the inauguration, numbers show a dramatic shift.

“Nearly seven out of every ten people arrested during these street-level operations had no prior criminal convictions. Even among custodial arrests, fewer than half had prior criminal convictions. “

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg6emyfeta2w

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

PADILLA: If President Trump or Stephen Miller directed you to send ICE agents to polling places, would you say 'no'?

NOEM: There is no plan to send ICE officers to polling locations. Are you planning on sending illegal aliens to vote?

PADILLA: No. That's already illegal

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Bluesky · Mar 3, 2026, 6:12 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social/post/3mg6d27ymuk2b

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/03/03/el-paso-ice-camp-east-montana-quarantine-after-measles-outbreak/88962085007/

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mg6jvcmtlk2l
https://bskye.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mg6kifqa2c25

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social/post/3mg6qebspac2t

Gives me Underground Railroad vibe
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/trump-immigration-ice-raids-safe-houses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVA.hnVe.IsDaCZ9xzSXf&smid=nytcore-ios-share

[torpid crypt]

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54225-support-for-abolishing-ice-reaches-50-percent-february-27-march-2-2026-economist-yougov-poll

[indigo grotto]

https://azluminaria.org/2026/03/03/ice-arrests-tripled-in-arizona-last-fiscal-year-as-street-operations-surged/

[scarlet flower]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-nixes-latest-policy-requiring-7-days-notice-congress-mem-rcna261401

[halcyon basalt]

Kristi Noem House testimony link https://www.youtube.com/live/31bsXBZfpRk

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/jamieson.bsky.social/post/3mgayrkgu7c2z

Dave Jamieson (@jamieson.bsky.social)

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

-# 'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents
Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

Bluesky · Mar 4, 2026, 7:18 PM

[indigo grotto]

From a reporter at Bolts
https://bsky.app/profile/burness.bsky.social/post/3mganrg5rkc2x
https://bsky.app/profile/burness.bsky.social/post/3mganrhchet2x
https://bsky.app/profile/burness.bsky.social/post/3mgb2mxojds2y

Alex Burness (@burness.bsky.social)

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

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Bluesky · Mar 4, 2026, 4:01 PM

Alex Burness (@burness.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Alex Burness (@burness.bsky.social)
The data I've just obtained shows that the Massachusetts prison system has sent more than 2,000 people directly into ICE custody since 2009. It's facilitated between 78 and 172 prison-ICE transfers every year. Governor Maura Healey and leading Democratic lawmakers say they support this program.

Bluesky · Mar 4, 2026, 4:01 PM

Alex Burness (@burness.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Alex Burness (@burness.bsky.social)
If anyone is curious to see the yearly data on Massachusetts transferring state prisoners to ICE custody through the 287(g) program, here is the letter I received yesterday from the state’s DOC. This is data that the DOC spent months trying to withhold before finally sharing it yesterday.

Bluesky · Mar 4, 2026, 7:51 PM

[halcyon basalt]

Questioning Noem about Lewandowski

#1330709161385922650 message

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mgavkpi2vc2p

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

IF Durant (BIGDUOK001 LLC) location DOES sell to ICE, it would be the second former Big Lots warehouse acquired by DHS.

Tremont, PA (BIGTRPA001 LLC) was the first.

-# Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)
🚨 BREAKING. Two sources with direct knowledge of the matter informed Project Salt Box that the possible ICE warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Durant, OK are currently under contract with as-of-yet unnamed counterparties.

This does not mean ICE has bought them — but we are watching closely.

Bluesky · Mar 4, 2026, 6:20 PM

[indigo grotto]

10th death that we know of so far in 2026
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_a5053df1-4ade-4424-972f-e9f5270829bb.html

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-federal-government-scrambled-its-agencies-to-support-ice/
archived: https://archive.is/20260304160904/https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-federal-government-scrambled-its-agencies-to-support-ice/

[indigo grotto]

https://globalextremism.org/post/project-2025-march-4th-update/

This week, we look at an ICE attorney who resigned so he could tell Congress the agency is training cadets to break the law, federal agents in San Diego who detained church volunteers for praying in a hallway, and a pattern of Native American citizens getting grabbed by officers who don’t know what a tribal ID is. All three trace back to Project 2025.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/04/trump-administration-closes-fort-bliss-detention-center/
archived: https://archive.ph/Iovf4

[indigo grotto]

Gift article included

https://bsky.app/profile/davidsacerdote.bsky.social/post/3mgbmzel5gk2e

David Sacerdote (@davidsacerdote.bsky.social)

This is how local cops bypass laws saying they can't cooperate with ICE: they post release details in public instead of notifying just family and lawyers, so that ICE can show up at the right time to grab people. Conviction or charges dismissed doesn't matter.

www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/04/4...

-# 46 people so far detained by ICE outside Santa Clara County jail, sparking protests
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has detained 46 people being released from Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas since June.

Bluesky · Mar 5, 2026, 1:20 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3mgbnoo5kzk22

Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social)

🚨As expected, one of the Avelo planes purchased by Daedalus Aviation last month has emerged from the remodeling shop with a new registration number and a new owner: DHS. No news on its livery yet.

This is set to become one of ICE’s own deportation planes.

Spotted on ADSBx by @jjindc.bsky.social

Bluesky · Mar 5, 2026, 1:32 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://stateline.org/2026/03/05/blue-states-push-to-ban-ice-at-the-polls-amid-federal-voter-intimidation-fears/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mgd35bln5k2o

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

With Camp East Montana shutting down, keep your eyes open in Socorro, TX for any signs of vans or buses moving people into the warehouse at 1465 Eastwind Ave.

This site will hold 8,500 people for up to 60 days at a time.

Bluesky · Mar 5, 2026, 3:06 PM

[indigo grotto]

On March 2, 2026
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/investigations/ice-immigration-detention-brookhaven-wh5fsivr

WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND

• Architectural plans submitted to Brookhaven Town propose converting part of a federally leased building in Holtsville into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
• Brookhaven officials said the office building is not zoned to have detention areas, and that the applicant must obtain a use variance or zone change.
• Immigrant advocates fear the proposal signals a potential expansion of local ICE operations.

[indigo grotto]

https://boltsmag.org/how-state-and-local-leaders-are-responding-to-ice-your-questions-answered/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/05/texas-dhs-shooting-citizen-killed/
archived: https://archive.ph/D0kEM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.404media.co/ice-phishing-scammers-are-sending-support-ice-emails-to-steal-credentials/

[sleek schooner]

This scam has been going on for a while now:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/avoid-the-ragebait-phishing-emails-exploit-anger-over-ice-to-trick-users

(Article from January 9th)

[lean ferry]

https://minnlawyer.com/2026/03/05/minnesota-lawyers-un-ice-enforcement-immigration-impact/

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260305224045/https://minnlawyer.com/2026/03/05/minnesota-lawyers-un-ice-enforcement-immigration-impact/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/03/05/ice-detained-pregnant-woman-she-went-months-without-proper-care/

https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/journalist-estefanty-rodriguez-ice-detention-colombia/

[indigo grotto]

CW: Details also include || suicide || in Camp East Montana in Texas from AP's coverage of emergency phone calls from people at ICE's largest detention facility in the U.S.
Article: || https://apnews.com/article/suicide-ice-detention-centers-b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34 ||

[indigo grotto]

Cross-post with #latin-america-caribbean
https://bsky.app/profile/adamisacson.com/post/3mgfkxhct522t
Report published on February 26, 2026

Adam Isacson (@adamisacson.com)

It cost a combined $53,098,863.70 to detain 708 migrants at Guantánamo in 2025.

That's $74,998.40 per person—for an average stay of 14 days.

Source: Defense Department IG report at www.dodig.mil/reports.html...

Bluesky · Mar 6, 2026, 2:54 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mgfloojvye2k

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/immigration-case-hearings-judges-00815660

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.

Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Bluesky · Mar 6, 2026, 3:07 PM

[whole gull]

hearing another case where ICE agents kept families in hotels with them?
#1464102882516275454 message
https://bskye.app/profile/rparloff.bsky.social/post/3mgfmdemw4222

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/ice-arrest-oregon-shop-owner

[whole gull]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/kristi-noem-ouster-democrats-rcna262034

[whole gull]

Newsweek has obtained police body-worn camera footage, photos, and new statements that shed new light on the moments Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent in Texas almost one year ago.
CW: video of fatal shooting attached to article
|| https://www.newsweek.com/video-emerges-fatal-ice-shooting-us-citizen-ruben-ray-martinez-11636900 ||

[indigo grotto]

A CBS interview with the mom of Ruben Ray Martinez calling out for accountability at DHS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mom-ruben-ray-martinez-killed-by-ice-texas/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social/post/3mgfucevyxk2y

Jeff Abbott (@palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social)

Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.

My story:

-# EXCLUSIVE: 'Camp East Montana will remain open': internal messages say
Employees at Camp East Montana were told the massive detention center will remain open, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.

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Bluesky · Mar 6, 2026, 5:41 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/third-ice-custody-death-this-week

[indigo grotto]

https://www.newsweek.com/diabetic-woman-arrested-by-ice-almost-died-after-being-refused-insulin-11611498

To give bit more context behind this
https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3mghwf3yrds23

Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

-# Newsweek (@newsweek.com)
Hanne Daguman said she "genuinely feared for [her] health" after being denied insulin, causing her to lose vision and collapse.

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Bluesky · Mar 7, 2026, 1:24 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mghyc5n5r225
https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mghyjsrr4225
https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mghynrayt225

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

I miscounted weeks here.
It's been *three* weeks since ICE published an updated detention population count (Feb. 12).
But it is true that facility-by-facility detainee numbers are now *four* weeks out of date (Feb 5).

-# Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
It's past 6:00pm Eastern Time.

ICE once again failed to release congressionally-mandated detention statistics on its typical biweekly schedule.

The last update was on February 12, 2026. Four weeks ago.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Bluesky · Mar 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
The agency might claim that the partial DHS shutdown prevents the release of new info. Don't know about that! It's a different dataset but the xlsx file that details 287g agreements has been updated several times over the last week or so. A bit inconsistent, I'd say. www.ice.gov/identify-and...

-# Delegation of Immigration Authority Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act

Bluesky · Mar 7, 2026, 2:02 PM

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
Also, just purely on principle: bsky.app/profile/adam...

-# Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
Fundamentally, ICE owes the United States public an account of how many people the agency is detaining and at which locations.

Bluesky · Mar 7, 2026, 2:04 PM

Gift article included in this post. One of the emails with DHS talking points is also included in article.

Curious to see how Markwayne is going to handle in purchasing new ICE warehouses moving forward... assuming he passes the Senate confirmation hearing
https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3mghuxrapz227

The claims closely tracked talking points drafted by a Department of Homeland Security staffer and forwarded to local officials in New Hampshire two days earlier, according to a copy of the emails obtained by The Washington Post.
....
The episode highlights how DHS has tried to quietly enlist local Republican leaders to promote the administration’s $38 billion plan to transform industrial warehouses in towns and cities across the country into migrant detention centers. Faced with swelling opposition, the agency is backchanneling to political allies, in at least one case with a misleading message, while staying largely silent in public.

The department sent talking points to a Republican state lawmaker in Maryland. It supplied an Arizona congressman with economic projections touting the benefits to the local community. And it held closed-door discussions with members of Congress from Pennsylvania and Mississippi.
...
Notter did not respond to questions about whether she received the DHS talking points or why her column so closely resembled them.

Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)

Local Republicans are getting slammed so hard on ICE warehouse plans that DHS is having to feed them talking points

@douglasmac.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

-# DHS feeds talking points to Republicans as opposition to ICE warehouses swells
DHS sent talking points to Republican officials to promote migrant detention centers while communities complained about a lack of transparency.

Bluesky · Mar 7, 2026, 12:58 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/new-documents-reveal-florida-paid-over-573-million-to-desantis-connected-immigrant-detention-contractors-in-2025/

[halcyon basalt]

NYPD body cam footage and 911 call from ICE arrest of student at Columbia U recently https://youtu.be/ffF_rVMYR-s?

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/a-humanitarian-response-firm-with

[indigo grotto]

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/construction-contracts-awarded-for

[indigo grotto]

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/texas-mariachi-students-detained-21963016.php

[indigo grotto]

https://zeteo.com/p/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-women-trump-administration

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3mgmzm64g2k2o

Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social)

NEWS: This morning, Maryland lawmakers, including Sens. Chris @vanhollen.senate.gov and Angela @alsobrooks.senate.gov made an unannounced visit to an ICE holding facility in Baltimore. They are scheduled to talk about what they saw soon here: www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

-# Maryland lawmakers to make unannounced oversight visit to Baltimore ICE facility
A group of Maryland lawmakers is planning to make an unannounced visit to an ICE facility in Baltimore to conduct oversight of conditions and press for answers on several issues.

Bluesky · Mar 9, 2026, 2:05 PM

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/08/6-legal-residents-including-skokie-woman-detained-at-ohare-unjustly-held-at-ice-facilities-officials-say/

[indigo grotto]

happening now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y96Ya7eWiWQ

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4478925/deputy-director-ice-bought-thousands-marked-vehicles-cannot-use/

[indigo grotto]

https://veritenews.org/2026/03/09/immigration-detention-lawsuits-skyrocket/

Court cases alleging unlawful immigration detention skyrocket in LA courts

Immigrants filed 378 cases in Louisiana courts alleging illegal detention in the first two months of this year alone, compared to 29 in all of 2024.

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I don’t know if there is additional reporting about this but it is so terrible. https://www.instagram.com/p/DVqvjJvgC6A/?

The country’s largest ICE detention facility is Camp East Montana, a facility made up of large tents in the middle of the Chihuahan Desert in El Paso, Texas.

Owen Ramsingh, a man who was deported to the Netherlands after being held at the camp for five months, says he struggled with his mental health. At one point he overheard guards making bets about the next detainee to die in custody and whether or not it would be suicide. One guard bet $500 on a detainee dying by suicide.

hereswhykevin

The country’s largest ICE detention facility is Camp East Montana, a facility made up of large tents in the middle of the Chihuahan Desert in El Paso, Texas. According to the AP, the number of 911 calls from the facility has increased everyday for five months — detainees report abuse by guards and other detainees, pregnant women are in pain ...

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JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social)

🧊✈️ EXILED TO MEXICO ⛓️🌎

🙁 For those following the story of Yamile Alcantu, the Cuban woman who has been living in Miami since coming on a visa lottery program 25 years ago, this is her flight.

Since Cuba won't take her, she's being transported to Villahermosa, Mexico 🇲🇽

GlobalX 6226 (reg: N570TA) 👀

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Bluesky · Mar 9, 2026, 5:48 PM

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https://bsky.app/profile/amanbatheja.bsky.social/post/3mgnbpbeyts2j

Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja.bsky.social)

Wild story from @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social:
ICE "wasted millions" to buy "thousands of employee vehicles that the agency cannot use to arrest illegal immigrants"

The problem: the vehicles are marked with ICE logo and motto

“ICE has never had marked vehicles,” person familiar said

-# Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for ICE
Despite ICE employees seeking to keep a low profile in public, ICE official Madison Sheahan placed a bulk order for marked vehicles.

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Bluesky · Mar 9, 2026, 4:30 PM

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Thread on Maryland ICE detention center being prepared https://www.threads.com/@austinkocher/post/DVqudPmkQel?

ICE is converting an 825,000 sq ft warehouse in Hagerstown, MD into a detention facility for 1,500 people. Total federal spending so far: $215 million. Here's what you need to know. 🧵

Also video from outside

https://www.threads.com/@austinkocher/post/DVrYZ5ZgRba

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https://www.threads.com/@ericswalwell/post/DVr-5ngCUpP?

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https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/state-local-policies-immigration-enforcement-targeted-us-senate-republicans

Senate Republicans during a Tuesday hearing laid the groundwork for legislation that would prevent state and local governments from making decisions on whether to limit cooperation with the federal government on immigration enforcement.

Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham of South Carolina argued that sanctuary cities — a term used by critics — undercut federal law, and local policies shielding immigrants without legal status should be banned. President Donald Trump has called on Republicans who control Congress to act.
....
He did not cite specific legislation he favors, but last month he introduced a bill, S.3805, that would make it unlawful for states and local governments to pass laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

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https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-threshold-analysis-foia/?

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgpttxxuxk2u

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?

BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!

K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?

B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

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Bluesky · Mar 10, 2026, 5:00 PM

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https://n.pr/3NvRLgS

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https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-arizona-ice-sightings-2026-22275404/

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https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/el-gamal-texas-egyptian-family-dilley-health-care-food-ice-detention-letters-children/

Interesting for Homeland Security to chime in the recent WAPO's reporting on detention facilities
https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mgs64ritjk2i

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

By "innovative" "end-to-end operational hubs," it sounds like ICE are trying to CONCENTRATE their operations in a CAMP-like environment, no?

Bluesky · Mar 11, 2026, 3:09 PM

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https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/11/ice-ace-of-spades-cards-eagle-county/

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https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mgskr5efik2n

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

ICE confirms that the infamous Camp East Montana will NOT be shut down. Instead, they're giving the contract wholly to Amentum, previously the subcontractor for Acquisition Logistics, the tiny VA military contractor which inexplicably got a $1.2 billion contract.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

-# DHS terminates Camp East Montana operations contract, hires new provider
The Department of Homeland Security terminated the contract for Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, hiring a new provider to improve conditions.

Bluesky · Mar 11, 2026, 6:55 PM

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/11/ohare-ice-dhs-detain-chicago/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/joshgerstein.bsky.social/post/3mgslcomuts2p

Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social)

JUST IN: Trump admin asks #SCOTUS to lift lower court order blocking plan to revoke temporary protected status for citizens of Haiti living in US. About 350,000 people impacted, although they could seek other status to remain. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

-# 25A999

Bluesky · Mar 11, 2026, 7:05 PM

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https://bsky.app/profile/lataco.bsky.social/post/3mgta6zjmgs2q

L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social)

"I expect this kind of lawlessness from ICE, I don’t expect the hospitals to be complicit in that lawlessness and detain people," says Thomas Harvey, Leonardo Martinez's lawyer.

The full story: lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...

By @eltragon.bsky.social, @chularadio.bsky.social, and @izzymirez.bsky.social

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Bluesky · Mar 12, 2026, 1:19 AM

https://www.kold.com/2026/03/11/federal-government-selects-controversial-company-run-surprise-ice-facility/

GardaWorld is known for providing security services but is relatively new to operating private detention facilities.

Andy Gordon, a longtime attorney who also worked for DHS, said the selection raises concerns.

“There are so many red flags around doing this,” Gordon said. “There doesn’t seem from my perspective to be any advance planning and thinking through all the problems that they’ll have.”
...
GardaWorld was hired to build and run “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention center in Florida that has faced ongoing legal action. That facility remains open despite efforts to close it.

Gordon said the Surprise facility is likely to face similar challenges.

“You’ve got a contractor whose only experience has turned bad,” Gordon said. “They’re going to get a slug of lawsuits. Pretty high likelihood one of the courts will enjoin them from going forward.”

https://bsky.app/profile/neguse.house.gov/post/3mgta7lucu22p

Rep. Joe Neguse (@neguse.house.gov)

Recent public reporting indicates that ICE is holding immigrants at secret detention facilities across Colorado. Today, I attempted to conduct oversight at one of the locations in Garfield County.

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Bluesky · Mar 12, 2026, 1:19 AM

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Congress members' response to recent development in Surprise Arizona
https://bsky.app/profile/repgregstanton.bsky.social/post/3mgt7j7di722x

Rep. Greg Stanton (@repgregstanton.bsky.social)

ICE just picked the same company that provides security for Alligator Alcatraz to turn its mega warehouse in Surprise, AZ into a 1,500-bed detention center.

@repyassansari.bsky.social, Rep. Grijalva, and I are demanding answers and transparency.

Bluesky · Mar 12, 2026, 1:06 AM

https://vtdigger.org/2026/03/11/ice-activity-in-south-burlington-draws-protesters-and-police-to-neighborhood/

[whole gull]

https://bskye.app/profile/rparloff.bsky.social/post/3mgueidatuc2f

[indigo grotto]

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article314730082.html

76 Kansas & Missouri law enforcement agencies arrest people for ICE under Trump

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https://bsky.app/profile/prisonpolicy.org/post/3mgs3g3h6742w
https://bsky.app/profile/prisonpolicy.org/post/3mgs3g4wy3c2k

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2026.html

Prison Policy Initiative (@prisonpolicy.org)

🚨NEW: Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. The driving factor? President Trump’s deportation agenda.

Our annual report, The Whole Pie, gives the big picture of mass incarceration. Here are some key takeaways 🧵

Bluesky · Mar 11, 2026, 2:20 PM

Prison Policy Initiative (@prisonpolicy.org)

-# ↩ Prison Policy Initiative (@prisonpolicy.org)
➡️ Expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report.

Since last year, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day has grown by nearly 60%.

Bluesky · Mar 11, 2026, 2:20 PM

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Methodology section: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2026.html#datasection

[whole gull]

archive: https://archive.is/ayEqB

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/03/12/chicago-cook-county-oneill-burke-trump-ice-border-patrol-midway-blitz-special-prosecutor

Latest development on the warehouse into detention facility in Williamsport, Maryland
https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/at-a-warehouse-with-no-water-plan

https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3mgutantb2k25

unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)

We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland.

Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.

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Bluesky · Mar 12, 2026, 4:32 PM

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CNN's review on how immigration enforcement agents using less-lethal weapons are violating federal/local laws through various social media posts

CW: photo of a woman with bloody nose on video's thumbnail
||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vglAOlPwaKY ||

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mgukzafkni2u

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans.

Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bluesky · Mar 12, 2026, 2:05 PM

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Photographer images from the scene at the house standoff— see thread https://www.threads.com/@itisi_siru/post/DVysqu8EX-p?

[halcyon basalt]

Video at same scene https://www.threads.com/@linmakron/post/DVzSdxpgNkP

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https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mgvknyoygk2w

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

As of this afternoon, ICE has purchased 11 warehouses for conversion into detention camps. 11 sales have been canceled.

ICE has spent $1.04 billion on warehouse acquisitions. It will cost the government an estimated $7.57 billion to operate all 11 warehouses per year.

Bluesky · Mar 12, 2026, 11:31 PM

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https://www.threads.com/@msrachelforlittles/post/DVzacy1jnJz?

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https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/12/ice-buys-salt-lake-city-warehouse/

The 24.9-acre industrial property — located at 6020 W. 300 South just south of Interstate 80 near the Salt Lake City airport — was purchased by ICE under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday for $145.4 million, according to Salt Lake County property records.

The seller is listed as a limited liability corporation called RREFF CPIF 6020 W 300 S, which deed transfer records filed with the county indicate is based in Chicago. The company is registered in Delaware, a safe haven for corporate secrecy, so its specific ownership is not publicly available.
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“We’re evaluating this apparent sale, gathering more information about plans for the site, and considering potential impacts on the community,” Andrew Wittenberg, spokesperson for Mayor Erin Mendenhall, said in a statement. “Mayor Mendenhall has made it clear that this kind of facility has no place in Salt Lake City.”
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The newly sold warehouse building at 6020 W. 300 South spans nearly 835,000 square feet, according to documents, and appears linked to another 25-acre warehouse property to the west, maps maintained by the county assessor show.

The site was recently listed for lease by real estate brokers at Colliers.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon

In the hearing, an ICE agent identified as JB testified that his team was given a verbal order to target eight arrests a day.

JB’s team was made up of nine to 12 officers and was tied to the DHS’s so-called “Operation Black Rose”, which launched in Portland last fall and yielded more than 1,200 arrests through mid-December, according to DHS. The target of eight daily arrests a team suggested a potential quota of about 50 daily arrests across Oregon, Innovation Law Lab estimated.

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mgvyybiggk2h

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-turns-to-private-industry-to

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https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/ice-detainee-baltimore-holding-rooms-congressional-visit-5O4R7N2SOVFFNEDRANT2NH3RMI/

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Update on the “Antifa” defendants who were accused of ambush at Prarieland detention center-/ mostly found guilty

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/verdict-prairieland-alvarado-ice-facility-federal-trial/?

[indigo grotto]

https://documentedny.com/2026/03/13/from-imprisonment-and-torture-in-iran-to-endless-detention-in-the-u-s/

https://www.wtae.com/article/sister-haitian-immigrant-sisters-sudden-death-in-pittsburgh/70729001

The Washington County Public Defender’s Office said Daphy had an ICE detainer on her file. That’s a request from ICE that the agency be notified before an individual is released from law enforcement custody or jail.

In response to my list of questions, ICE confirmed that on Feb. 27, the day after Daphy’s charges were dismissed, she was enrolled in the agency’s "Alternatives to Detention Program" at the ERO Pittsburgh Office, or "Enforcement and Removal Operations" Pittsburgh office in the city’s South Side.
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Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reporter, Kalea Gunderson, asked ICE several questions, including when she arrived to the ERO Pittsburgh Office, when and where she was given the ankle monitor, how long she was in ICE custody, and when and where she was released. Those questions remain unanswered.

[halcyon basalt]

https://vtdigger.org/2026/03/12/ice-agents-took-into-custody-a-person-they-were-not-seeking-after-vermont-standoff/

[indigo grotto]

From March 10, 2026
https://prismreports.org/2026/03/10/illinois-commission-could-play-a-role-in-holding-ice-accountable-chicago-organizers-say/

[whole gull]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/afghan-death-ice-mohammad-paktyawal-b2938902.html

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https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-military-trespassing-charges-pam-bondi

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-data-numbers-deportations-000a289890193c94474f19b877eb37d1

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-deportations-agenda-dhs-noem-mullin-cce52a9f2009ef645ceffe4e44cb4def

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https://www.threads.com/@washingtonpost/post/DV8nG_1kQFd

Some 200,000 immigrant truck drivers will begin to lose their commercial driver’s licenses as they expire under a new Trump administration rule that takes effect Monday.

The rule bars immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/16/trump-immigrants-trucks/?

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From March 11, 2026
https://cnsmaryland.org/2026/03/11/park-police-help-ice-carry-out-deportation-efforts/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mh6p6udkks2b

JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social)

🧊🛩️ UKRAINE⛓️⁉️

😲 A Journey Aviation Gulfstream 4 (tail: N86MS) is preparing to depart Arizona, transporting humans-in-chains tonight via New Hampshire and Poland to Ukraine 🇺🇦

Bluesky · Mar 16, 2026, 2:46 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mh6egav56s2s
https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.bsky.social/post/3mh6egbyzms2s

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

The ICE Warehouse Tracker now has two new data layers — ERO Field Offices and Sub-Offices/Hold Rooms. Some sites overlap. Best viewed on laptop/desktop.

tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

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Bluesky · Mar 16, 2026, 11:34 AM

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.bsky.social)
Use the filter above the map to toggle "ICE Field Office" and "Sub-Office/Hold Room" and other data layers on/off.

Now you can see the full geospatial picture of ICE’s expanding detention infrastructure, from field offices and hold rooms to their ongoing purchases of warehouses around the U.S.

Bluesky · Mar 16, 2026, 11:34 AM

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https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/03/16/monday-bond-hearing-in-louisiana-set-for-nashville-reporter-detained-by-ice/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/nickmiroff.bsky.social/post/3mh6vb3zcz226

Nick Miroff (@nickmiroff.bsky.social)

NEW: with Kristi Noem out and mass deportations polling badly, ICE's $38 billion warehouse conversion plan is in trouble and DHS officials say a "pause" wouldn't be a bad thing www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

-# What Happens Now to Kristi Noem’s Warehouse Jails?
DHS’s next leader will inherit a fast-moving $38 billion plan for industrial-scale immigrant detention.

Bluesky · Mar 16, 2026, 4:35 PM

[sleek schooner]

Why is the included image reversed?

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Such a labor of love— preserving and archiving the Pretti and Good memorials https://hyperallergic.com/the-tender-work-of-preserving-renee-goods-memorial/

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/

[rain trout]

https://bsky.app/profile/abskhir.bsky.social/post/3mh7fyz2ic22w

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/03/16/florida-sheriffs-rebel-against-trumps-desantis-mass-deportation-efforts/

Abdelilah Skhir (@abskhir.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Abdelilah Skhir (@abskhir.bsky.social)
If you know ANYTHING about Sheriff Judd, this is shocking.

The polling on this has to be in the Mariana Trench.

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Bluesky · Mar 16, 2026, 9:35 PM

[sleek schooner]

https://abcnews.com/US/border-patrol-commander-greg-bovino-expected-retire-sources/story?id=131129724

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-41-ice-detention-deaths-during

Of the 44 press releases, we excluded three from the final count. Jose Castro-Rivera, a Honduran national, died after fleeing ICE custody and being struck by a vehicle on a highway. Because he was not in detention at the time of his death, we did not include him. We also excluded Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, who were killed by a sniper who opened fire on the ICE field office in Dallas. Their deaths, while tragic and while they occurred in an ICE facility, were the result of an external act of violence rather than conditions of detention. This leaves 41 deaths that occurred while individuals were fully in ICE custody or in medical facilities to which they had been transferred from detention.
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An important caveat: this data is drawn directly from ICE press releases, and we have already found examples where the official press releases appear to be inaccurate or incomplete. We are also gathering additional data sources to cross-reference and verify these records. A larger dataset that Adam and I have built from the press releases includes additional information such as the stated cause of death for each individual, the specific medical facilities where people died, and other details. We plan to include this expanded dataset in an upcoming update to DetentionReports.com, where the public can see more information about the detained population at each facility over time as well as a growing list of various types of data, including detention contracts when available.

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The map itself: https://felt.com/map/ICE-Detention-Deaths-During-Trump-Administration-qzKQ0qmaSwSy9B9BcgSMaxWB?loc=32.2,-102.98,4.96z

[indigo grotto]

https://apnews.com/article/leqaa-kordia-ice-immigration-trump-ec045939c3c4f637a9612da0842fd4ee

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evADOoRYa90

Border Patrol agents, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere on the U.S./Mexico border, have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.

Over that time, a collaboration between CalMatters, Evident Media and Bellingcat has tracked these agents, documenting their tactics on the ground and through mountains of video footage, since their first proof-of-concept raid in Bakersfield in January 2025.

Exactly one year later, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, followed weeks later by the killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent.

Our investigation shows that, beyond those two shootings, immigration agents engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis.

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/burgessev.bsky.social/post/3mhbukezz4s2a

[indigo grotto]

Starting now for Markwayne Mullin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQf8EvzHRE

[indigo grotto]

Senator Moreno saying that Markwayne will be confirmed as DHS secretary and it's not even towards the end of the confirmation hearing yet

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhdqcnh4gb2y

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Markwayne Mullin: "I have made clear that a judicial warrant will be used to go into houses and businesses, unless we're pursuing someone who enters into that place"

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 2:50 PM

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From earlier on immigration detention centers in New Hampshire and New Jersey

https://bsky.app/profile/arianalfigueroa.bsky.social/post/3mhdpcyqxfk23
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mhdr55kigk2g

Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asks Mullin about a planned warehouse in Merrimack & if Mullin will “ensure that the plan remains off the table?”
Mullin said he isn’t caught up on the facility, but committed to making sure DHS works with community leaders on any planned expansion of immigrant detention.

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 2:32 PM

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)
sen. andy kim asks markwayne about the proposed ICE concentration camp in roxbury, NJ--he says "it's important we're talking to the communities," says he'll personally make a trip out there with kim, and talk about whether or not it's practical.

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 3:04 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/arianalfigueroa.bsky.social/post/3mhdrkmvvg22q

Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) asks Mullin how he would handle "sanctuary cities."

Mullin said “we’re not asking ‘go out there and enforce immigration.’” But that is what the Trump administration is asking of jurisdictions that decide not to tackle immigration enforcement, which is a fed responsibility.

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 3:12 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/zacheverson.com/post/3mhdqr2k4272h

Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com)

"Mullin’s Significant Investments in Companies with DHS Contracts Raise Red Flags"

(I did some research.)

via @publiccitizen.bsky.social

-# Mullin's Significant Investments in Companies with DHS Contracts Raise Red Flags - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ahead of Senator Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing for DHS Secretary tomorrow, Public Citizen released research showing that…

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 2:58 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/arianalfigueroa.bsky.social/post/3mhdsuo6ypc2q

Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) asks Mullin what reforms he would bring to ICE. Mullin doesn’t detail any changes, but says that he’d “like to see ICE be a transport, rather than the front line.”
Most of the roving patrols that residential areas have seen are largely CBP/Border Patrol (sometimes ICE).

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 3:35 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhdthmdt652p

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

SLOTKIN: Who won the 2020 election?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We know that President Joe Biden was sworn into office

SLOTKIN: Do you feel you have the authority to put uniformed officers at polling locations in 2026?

MULLIN: Only if there is a specific threat, not for intimidation

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 3:46 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bsky.social/post/3mhdv42s7ek2f

Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social)

It’s really impossible to even describe how outside the norm today’s confirmation hearing with Markwayne Mullin has been. Just the most bonkers exchanges — all of which show him to be an eye-popping combo of dim, anger-prone, and unapologetic, not exactly a great combo for DHS secretary.

-# Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Rand Paul:
“I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force.”

The entire confirmation hearing in one sentence.

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 4:15 PM

In the midst of Mullin's confirmation hearing...
https://bsky.app/profile/micarosenberg.bsky.social/post/3mhdv3and3s2p

Mica Rosenberg (@micarosenberg.bsky.social)

NEW: The Dilley family detention facility disabled video calls on tablets after detainees’ call recordings were shared on social media, according to a document viewed by ProPublica. 1/

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 4:15 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhdwg45y6525

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

HASSAN: If a masked ICE agent kills an American citizen, should local law enforcement be allowed to investigate and hold that agent accountable?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Unfortunately, local law enforcement isn't supposed to be investigating federal

HASSAN: Your answer would make ICE unaccountable

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 4:39 PM

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BLUMENTHAL: Shouldn't we be disgusted by an agent that fires at a citizen, no criminal record, she was charged and the charges were dismissed. Wouldn't you agree that agent should not be carrying a firearm?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I'm not familiar with the investigation

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 4:47 PM

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

KIM: Do you think it's okay for ICE agents to arrest people by hospitals?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I will always support law enforcement doing their job

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 4:50 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhdxb4ulhk2s

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Rand Paul: "The fact he can't bring himself to say that we shouldn't settle political questions with violence, I think that would be a terrible example for ICE and Border Patrol"

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

[whole gull]

https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/2034272193874481530

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

PETERS: Other than vacations, have you ever traveled to a foreign country?
︀︀
︀︀MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No
︀︀
︀︀PETERS: No? Okay. Your FBI report shows travel to Georgia and Azerbaijan
︀︀
︀︀MULLIN: Are you referring to August 2021 when we get to get the Americans out of Afghanistan?
︀︀
︀︀PETERS: So you have traveled. You just said you haven't

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FixupX · Mar 18, 2026, 2:14 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/does-ice-have-a-287g-agreement-with

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-of-the-ice-agent-whisperer/
archived: https://archive.ph/ZZPj0

[indigo grotto]

https://www.investigatewest.org/i-was-trying-to-follow-the-rules-wa-asylum-seekers-detained-over-questionable-violations/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/iceflightmonitor.bsky.social/post/3mhekprryrc2z

ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)

Today, an ICE Air flight landed in Guantanamo Bay, marking the 4th ICE Air flight to the naval base this month. The flight originated in Alexandria, LA, flew to Miami, FL after GTMO, and is now en route to Harlingen, TX.

Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 10:42 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predicted-ice-reports-another

Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican national, was pronounced dead at 2:51 a.m. on March 16, 2026 at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida.
...
Royer is the second person to die in ICE custody this week after Afghanistan War Veteran Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, the 13th since the start of the year in January, and the 42nd person to die in ICE custody during the Trump administration.

[indigo grotto]

https://bskye.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mhgbfe4yfc2w

https://bskye.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mhgbxh2gts2m

https://bskye.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhgc57ksfo2z

Salt Lake Tribune digging into ICE’s job number claim of the new detention facility

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/19/ice-claims-slc-warehouse-detention/

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/mexican-teen-dies-in-ice-custody-in-south-florida-40533174/

[indigo grotto]

From interview with Dr. Kate Sugarman, a family physician and an advocate for ICE facilities closure: https://asylumist.com/2019/10/02/a-doctors-mission-and-how-you-can-help/

https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-is-turning-warehouses-into-detention

Researchers who track ICE detention deaths have counted roughly one death in custody every six days. Do you expect that number to rise?

It’s only going to go up. And what people don’t understand is that we don’t even have the full picture. If ICE doesn’t want a death on their hands, they’ll bring someone to a hospital just before they die. If they’ve been neglecting a cardiac patient and that person dies in the hospital rather than in the facility, it doesn’t count as a death in ICE custody. I don’t think we have any idea how many of those cases there are.

[rain trout]

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1773957062

[indigo grotto]

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fdavidkurtz.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mhgwxuip422s&viewtype=unroll

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-wrongfully-deported-more-than-100-asylum-seekers

[indigo grotto]

https://abc7ny.com/post/belleville-high-students-receive-message-school-volunteer-ice-detention-facility/18737070/

The post called for kids to do work at Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, where politicians and families of detainees have complained about harsh conditions.

At a Belleville school board meeting Wednesday night, Superintendent Dr. Erick Alfonso was asked what kids were being asked to do there.

"The volunteer opportunity was to make sandwiches and food for the detainees at the site," Dr. Erick Alfonso said.

[rain trout]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-wrongfully-deported-more-than-100-asylum-seekers

[halcyon basalt]

https://19thnews.org/2026/03/ice-deporting-pregnant-postpartum-immigrants-data/

[indigo grotto]

will have to see some tangible proof to believe if this actually happens
https://bsky.app/profile/azintel.bsky.social/post/3mhhbx7w5sc2j

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-told-inner-circle-some-mass-deportation-policies-went-too-far-01518550?mod=hp_lead_pos1

AZ Intel (@azintel.bsky.social)

Trump is seeking to lower the profile of his deportation push, telling advisers to focus more on arresting criminals and less on broad “mass deportation,” which he believes voters dislike, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Bluesky · Mar 20, 2026, 12:43 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/ice-arrests-immigration-enforcement.html
archived: https://archive.ph/yl4EU

[indigo grotto]

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5707535/trump-immigration-detention-appeals-board-deportation

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/paolo-zampolli-ice-melania-trump-epstein.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

New via NYT:

Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a longtime Trump ally who appears in the Epstein files, was in a custody battle over his son.

He called ICE and told them his ex was in the country illegally.

An ICE official agreed to help.

[indigo grotto]

Should be interesting

https://bsky.app/profile/veritenews.org/post/3mhitn6zpcr2u

Verite News (@veritenews.org)

Help us report on ICE detention in Mississippi

Our newsroom is partnering with Mississippi Today and The New York Times to report on and publish stories about one of the largest ICE detention centers in the nation.

-# Help us report on ICE detention in Mississippi
Our newsroom is partnering with Mississippi Today and The New York Times to report on and publish stories about one of the largest ICE detention centers in the nation.

Bluesky · Mar 20, 2026, 3:32 PM

[torpid crypt]

gift link:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-told-inner-circle-some-mass-deportation-policies-went-too-far-01518550?st=U2hFv9

[indigo grotto]

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/20/brothers-held-by-ice-in-ohio-denied-bond-again/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.propublica.org/article/families-detained-at-dilley-plummets

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mhjaiajqyv2u

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3mhjalggght2c

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court.

A look at this emerging trend.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Bluesky · Mar 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
Here are a few examples of the cases where ICE detained someone and the administration declined to mount a defense of the decision: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Bluesky · Mar 20, 2026, 7:24 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-billionaires-linked-to-private-jet-used-for-ice-flight-to-african-prison/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-03-21/mexico-deportations
archived: https://archive.ph/5Tdhs

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/climatebrad.hillheat.com/post/3mhkuvv4iwk2o

The group of lawmakers is hoping to meet again over the weekend, with the Senate planning to be in session both Saturday and Sunday working on other legislative priorities. But Republicans said timing will be up to Democrats, who are now expected to respond with a counteroffer.

Democrats have insisted on requiring judicial warrants for immigration raids, and that remains unsettled, but Hoeven said there was room for agreement over creating “serious” criminal penalties for “doxxing” and harassing law enforcement.

That could help ease concerns about requiring DHS officers to identify themselves and their agency when conducting immigration enforcement operations, though Hoeven said the masking ban Democrats want remains a nonstarter.

“ICE is going to have to be able to wear masks the same way other law enforcement does,” he said.

Brad Johnson (@climatebrad.hillheat.com)

Senate Democrats may agree to a DHS deal that gives the Trump regime new powers to criminalize protesters and journalists who oppose ICE:

"Hoeven said there was room for agreement over creating “serious” criminal penalties for “doxxing” and harassing law enforcement."

-# White House revises its DHS offer as talks to end shutdown pick up
Border czar Tom Homan met again with lawmakers Friday night in the Capitol.

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Bluesky · Mar 21, 2026, 11:01 AM

[strange oxide]

The politico article reads more like Republican wishcasting than anything else

And still notes that there's nothing about warrants which is the main dem sticking point

[whole gull]

https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/37380

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/schnorkles.bsky.social/post/3mhlgzll5us2g

This is worth noting about all that

Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social)

There are 50k frontline TSA agents. After an employment surge.. there are 22k Ice Officers/Agents, and they're already stretched thin enough they've been asking the TSA to handle deportation flights.

I understand our desire for everything to be ~spooookkyy~, but this is heinously half baked.

-# Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)
Giving away the game here that ICE is his own mob he will deploy if his demands aren't met.

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Bluesky · Mar 21, 2026, 4:25 PM

[indigo grotto]

kinda related but didn't know Bovino once pitched his boss the idea of raiding an airport in Las Vegas
https://www.kcra.com/article/gregory-bovino-los-angeles-immigration-arrests/65985494

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has led interior immigration enforcement since it was created in 2003, but the Border Patrol has been around much longer. Bovino's sense of mission never strayed from the Border Patrol's roots. When assigned to lead a station in Blythe, California, he pitched his boss, Paul Beeson, on raiding the airport and bus stations in Las Vegas.

The 2010 operation was supposed to last three days, but it was called off after the first hour yielded dozens of arrests and unleashed a furious reaction from then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.

[whole gull]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ms-rachel-ice-detention-children-immigration-dilley-texas-center-rcna263786

[indigo grotto]

Thought ICE was already out on the streets doing their thing

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/37385

[indigo grotto]

https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/ice-glen-burnie-shooting-tiago-alexandre-sousa-martins-CBQO5AU7MNC5HJYPLQX2MU2TIU/

From March 19, 2026 on U.S. Virgin Islands
https://stthomassource.com/content/2026/03/19/ice-arrests-on-st-croix-cause-concern/

two videos included here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWKCI8uD7j0/

stopicenet

ICE pushes beyond the U.S mainland into the Virgin Islands U.S territories - On March 19 masked agents from ICE and Border Patrol targeted multiple people with “cluster raid” style tactics in the parking lot of Jiffy Mart, a popular market on King Street in Christiansted, St. Croix.

The St. Thomas Source (online newspaper in the U.S. Virgin...

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Here we go again with Kilmar case…

https://bskye.app/profile/zoetillman.bsky.social/post/3mhlaaamjx52x

[indigo grotto]

Related

https://bsky.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mhmbxmwk6c2p

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

ICE flights have landed in Liberia five times since Nov. 6 and as recently as March 16, and I remain deeply suspicious that some or all of these may have been third-country removals. This is a big reason why:

-# Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social)
Overnight: The Trump administration is making a renewed push to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling a judge they've sorted out logistics to send him to Liberia (and rejected his proposal to go to Costa Rica)
assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Bluesky · Mar 22, 2026, 12:27 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhnob3zoh52z

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BASH: With respect, if you're implementing a plan to have ICE at airports in 24 hours, how well thought out could it possibly be?

HOMAN: How much of a plan does it mean to guard an exit to make sure no one comes through that exit?

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Bluesky · Mar 22, 2026, 1:40 PM

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BASH: Are ICE agents going to move into American airports starting tomorrow?

HOMAN: Yes. I'm currently working on the plan. We'll execute tomorrow.

BASH: Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports?

HOMAN: ICE agents receive high-level training.

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Bluesky · Mar 22, 2026, 1:40 PM

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Jeffries: "The last thing the American people need is for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them. We've already seen how ICE conducts itself."

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Bluesky · Mar 22, 2026, 1:41 PM

[indigo grotto]

"operational security"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-deploys-ice-agents-assist-tsa-us-airports-2026-03-22/

DHS said on Sunday it would not publicly share details about the ICE deployment, ​in order to preserve operational security. Sources briefed on the matter said the current plan calls for deploying ICE agents to 14 locations, although that figure ⁠may change.

[whole gull]

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/mayor-andre-dickens-confirms-ice-agents-deploying-atlanta-airport

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5794925-tsa-funding-senate-rules/
To note, there have been numerous attempts by Congressional Democrats to fund TSA in the meantime, while regulations on ICE are still in discussion.

Republicans have voted against these efforts to this point.

Senate Republicans on Saturday voted against an unusual procedural gambit by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) to suspend the Senate rules and advance a bill through the Rules Committee to fund the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
...
“Today, Senate Republicans voted against paying TSA agents because they insist on tying TSA funding to their push to give even more money to ICE—without basic reforms. That is not how this should work—and it is just plain wrong that Republicans are preventing TSA agents from getting paid while airport lines grow longer across the country,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said after the vote.

Democrats pointed out that Republicans objected to a bill offered by Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on March 19 to pay TSA workers while negotiations over immigration enforcement reform continue, and they blocked a similar proposal offered by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on March 18.

[indigo grotto]

From last night
https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DWOJi9fiOpn/

Earlier tonight around 10:00PM, two unmasked and plainclothes agents, identified as working with DHS, were seen detaining a mother in front of what appears to be her daughter. Video footage shows them refusing to identify themselves as a crowd began to gather around them. She was later seen being escorted out in a wheelchair alongside the young girl. We are unsure of the extent of any injuries she may have sustained.

SFO is the largest airport participating in the Screening Partnership Program, which contracts checkpoint security screening services to a qualified private company. Since SFO screeners are not TSA, they are being paid without interruption during this partial government shutdown. It is unclear why ICE agents would be at this airport, or if this was an early rollout of the ICE deployment set to begin later today.

L.A. TACO has reached out to SFPD Airport Bureau who stated that they cannot confirm what exact agency these agents were, or why she was detained, but that the two agents were with DHS. According to SFPD AB, one of the agents later called Border Patrol to notify them of the woman’s detainment.

First video via Argw6/TT
Second video via igorkonstantino87/TT

[indigo grotto]

another video angle of the same incident
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWOaZoogjfB/

nickvalencianews

This is a new angle of the incident at the SFO International airport where ICE agents took at least one person into custody. According to the eyewitnesses who posted this video, the women was with her daughter who is reportedly a U.S. citizen. The mother could not prove her citizenship and was taken into custody. ICE agents have been deployed to...

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[indigo grotto]

At least someone is honest here 🙄

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhq35wgyyf2s

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Comer on airports: "I'm glad the president has put ICE in there for a multitude of reasons. It'll drive the Democrats crazy."

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Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 12:36 PM

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/37410

https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3mhq4fmndo22p

Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com)

Per CNN, ICE is to be deployed at the following airports. List might be incomplete and is subject to change

Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 12:58 PM

[indigo grotto]

Looks like ICE agents are wearing surgical masks at least in Atlanta airport
https://www.nickvalencianews.com/p/ice-is-at-the-airport

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mhq5t4q3vc2k

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
FYI - multiple pictures today in Atlanta showing ICE agents are standing around near TSA checkpoints, unmasked, apparently not actually doing much of anything.

Obviously understand that people are worried around this, but let's watch what actually happens.

Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 1:23 PM

Except for the one in SFO airport (still don't know what happened there), this is giving off that National Guards vibe in DC, not knowing what to do and standing around cluelessly
https://www.nola.com/news/ice-agents-msy-airport-lines/article_36c3b5dc-fb9d-40ed-a1ed-ee37babac01a.html

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g-s1-114107/ices-growing-detention-footprint-and-the-communities-fighting-back

“On average, detention facilities daily now hold nearly 70,000 immigrants, a scale of mass detention not seen since the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans and nationals during World War II.”

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhq7gsw4gw2j

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

COLLINS: So ICE shouldn't wear masks at the airport but they should out in the country?

TRUMP: Because the people coming into the airport typically speaking aren't murderers, killers, drug dealers, etc

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Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 1:52 PM

[indigo grotto]

plan was really well thought out...
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhqaeiz5f62p

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Trump on airports: "I want to thank ICE because they stepped in so strongly. They'll do great. And if that's not enough, we'll bring in the the National Guard."

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Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 2:09 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhqalfbgqy2z

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Q: Will we see ICE arresting illegal migrants at airports?

TRUMP: Yeah. That's why the Democrats are going crazy. ICE loves it because they're able to now arrest illegals as they come into the country. It's very fertile territory.

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Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 2:13 PM

[indigo grotto]

Ongoing thread of observations of ICE at airports throughout US
https://tbsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mhqbg3zogk2k

[indigo grotto]

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids

[whole gull]

On the ICE arrest @ SFO footage, it's not clear that ICE being sent to assist TSA is related w.r.t. the timing of when this arrest happened.
https://bskye.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mhq74dl6w22e

[sleek schooner]

Local video story about the incident. The news station confirmed it's not related to the larger ICE in airports initiative:
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/local/ice-agents-sfo-immigration-enforcement/4056416/

[whole gull]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/media/trump-ice-airports-clay-travis-fox-news
The timing lines up and it's known that Trump loves watching TV, appointing talk show personalities as Cabinet members.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhqmywv7kx2s

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

TRUMP: How is ICE doing at the airports?

ACTING ICE DIRECTOR TODD LYONS: Oh, you know, sir, to just have the opportunity to help our other, fellow, uh, officers at DHS, we're doing great. Nobody should be nervous to go to the airport.

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Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 5:55 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-confirms-91-wrongful-deportations-of-asylum-seekers

[sleek schooner]

LA Taco with a good set of infographics to help differentiate the various parts of DHS in airport photos:
https://bsky.app/profile/lataco.bsky.social/post/3mhqtunxlrs26

L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social)

-# ↩ L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social)

Bluesky · Mar 23, 2026, 7:58 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-blocks-trump-administration-detaining-thousands-refugees-2026-03-23/

[indigo grotto]

nothing to see here...
https://bskye.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mhr2j42nrs2o
https://bskye.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mhr5a3flf22z

https://www.reutersconnect.com/feed?query=Jim+Urquhart+March+23+2026

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/trump-ice-deportations-pets-left-behind.html
archived: https://archive.ph/yEZBT

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhrg47hxys25

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Homan: "We're not gonna stop doing this job. They want ICE not to operate in sensitive locations. Here's what I said from day one -- there's no sanctuary. There's no safe zone for significant public safety threats and national security threats."

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Bluesky · Mar 24, 2026, 1:24 AM

https://bskye.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhrgbso6f22b

[indigo grotto]

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-ice-resistance-lgbtq-queer-portand-lewiston-maine

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-paying-the-salaries-of-this-towns-entire-police-force/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/arianalfigueroa.bsky.social/post/3mhss6gqdxs2z

Ariana Figueroa (@arianalfigueroa.bsky.social)

The Supreme Court at 11 am ET today will hear oral arguments to determine if asylum seekers stopped by officials on the Mexican side of the border have legally arrived in the United States to apply for asylum.

My preview of today's case:

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/high...

-# High court to hear case to decide where migrants can apply for asylum
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case to determine if a migrant on Mexico’s side of a border crossing with the United States can legally apply for asylum when ...

Bluesky · Mar 24, 2026, 2:33 PM

https://tbsky.app/profile/austinkocher.com/post/3mhsn3wki7a23

[lean ferry]

GOP cracks in Senate begin to show in DHS shutdown fight

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5795847-homeland-security-funding-stalemate/

[lean ferry]

https://newrepublic.com/article/208114/trump-stephen-miller-immigration-panic

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/heatherknightsf.bsky.social/post/3mhtup22ics2k

Heather Knight (@heatherknightsf.bsky.social)

Did you see the viral video of a woman being handcuffed by ICE agents at SFO Sunday night?

They knew where to find her because TSA officials tipped them off under a new Trump administration program.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

-# T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 12:51 AM

[indigo grotto]

Article published yesterday
https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2026-03-24/ice-texas-dps-police-traffic-immigration-east-austin-arrest-deportation

Calmatters article on why instead of local law enforcement, a private detention company is investigating ||rape reports || instead in San Diego

CW: Topic includes || rape. sexual assault, abuse||
|| https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/otay-mesa-san-diego-sheriff/ ||

[indigo grotto]

https://tbsky.app/profile/austinkocher.com/post/3mhvdhguf372m

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mhv7cwht4s2y

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dilley-family-detention-center-immigrant-children-liam-ramos-trump/

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

At least a couple mothers held at Dilley feel that the teachers there use instructional time to pry info out of kids that the government can then use against them in court. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 1:33 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/schwellenbach.bsky.social/post/3mhvaltndvk2n

Hearing Page: https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/activities/other-events/shadow-hearing_-the-ultimate-grift-how-dhs-is-enriching-the-president-and-his-allies-at-taxpayer-expense

Nick Schwellenbach (@schwellenbach.bsky.social)

A shadow hearing today that's of interest to anyone monitoring DHS contracting & potential corruption:

"It is clear that DHS leadership has treated taxpayer dollars like a political slush fund for well-connected insiders” [email protected]

-# WEDNESDAY: Democrats to Hold Hearing on DHS Corruption Schemes Enriching Trump Allies with Taxpayer Dollars | House Committee on Homeland Security
The Official Website of the House Committee on Homeland Security

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 1:56 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mhvguz4cp22m
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mhvl7wdbzc2m

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.

-# Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)
O'HARE (Chicago): "There are dozens of ICE agents at TSA checkpoint, almost all of them doing the jobs of the TSA agents. They are the ones checking IDs and passports and verifying flight info, while TSA agents stand there and do nothing."

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Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 3:49 PM

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)
I reached out to DHS to see if they were aware ICE agents were performing TSA duties and asked if they were trained to do them. This was the response I got:

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 5:06 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3mhvmzp3g222g
https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3mhvnbj67v22y

Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)

ICE is so extraordinarily unpopular that its favorability rating has never been lower. A YouGov poll this month found that support for abolishing ICE is at a record high

-# Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump: "The Public is loving ICE. They are Great American Patriots, they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most — which is what they’re supposed to have. Thank you to ICE for the GREAT job you are doing. America very much appreciates it! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 5:39 PM

Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)

-# ↩ Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)
Sources:
* yougov.com/en-us/articl...
* washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Our reporting on ICE trying to get people to like it again:
* washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
* washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

-# Support for abolishing ICE reaches 50%
This marks the first time support has reached 50% in YouGov polling. Support for abolishing ICE has been steadily growing since January

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 5:43 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@brad.lander/post/DWUUaBGiQFp?

[indigo grotto]

https://tbsky.app/profile/weareoversight.bsky.social/post/3mhvvbvarra25

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/03/25/dc-safe-beautiful-house/
archived: https://archive.ph/i6zpo

The legislation, which must still pass the Senate, seeks to codify the executive order Trump signed last March creating the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. Trump directed the task force to coordinate with D.C. police, do beautification projects across the city and carry out “maximum enforcement” of federal immigration law — igniting fear in the city’s immigrant communities as detentions increased.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mhuea73kvk2l

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

GREAT NEWS: Pheap Rom, one of the men ICE sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country to which he has no ties, has been released and is being repatriated to Cambodia.

He was held for five months and is the only the second of 19 to be released. www.florescomms.com/eswatini-sta...

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Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 5:29 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mhwc5bmgyk2v

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mhwdlnuc6k2b

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma!

ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.

Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 11:57 PM

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

-# ↩ Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)
This move denies ICE a second Okla. concentration camp and preëmpts an annual operating cost of nearly $1.5 billion.

It also keeps roughly $100,000 in annual property tax revenue in the community — plus any opportunities stemming from the Choctaw Nation's use of the property.

Bluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 12:23 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/ice-airports-checking-ids-security.html
archived: https://archive.ph/5g38L

[indigo grotto]

Follow up with additional info on the SFO airport incident on Sunday
https://bsky.app/profile/lataco.bsky.social/post/3mhwlvvpmb225

L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social)

Daily Memo: New Details On The Mother and Daughter Abducted at San Francisco Airport

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Bluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 2:51 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tennessee-immigration-enforcement-division-distributes-nearly-900000-law-enforcement-grants

Tennessee immigration enforcement division distributes nearly $900,000 in law enforcement grants

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3mhxwgm7yic2k

amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social)

Yesterday, ICE agents were less visible at IAH because they had a training to help with checkpoints. I am being told they are now assisting with the checkpoints here at IAH.

Bluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 3:32 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.wired.com/story/why-ice-is-allowed-to-impersonate-law-enforcement/
archived: https://archive.ph/5d1rx

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/hoppock.bsky.social/post/3mhv5hntmqc2g
https://bklg.org/blog/somali-rocket-docket/

Matthew Hoppock (@hoppock.bsky.social)

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

-# Matthew Hoppock (@hoppock.bsky.social)
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

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Bluesky · Mar 25, 2026, 1:00 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://unraveledpress.com/border-patrol-agents-ignored-orders-to-end-car-chase-before-gassing-chicago-neighborhood/

[indigo grotto]

https://gillianbrockell.com/extremely-dangerous-reassignment-of-tsas-federal-air-marshals-for-ice-flights-more-widespread-than-previously-known/

[whole gull]

https://bsky.app/profile/jbendery.bsky.social/post/3mhyax3rib22b

Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social)

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees.

She says:

85% of ICE + CBP are being paid
75% of Secret Service
0% of TSA workers

"The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

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Bluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 6:41 PM

[unkempt quail]

-# text of op's source, for future ref b/c it’s from a liveblog

DHS Is Choosing Not To Pay TSA Workers While Paying Others, House Dem Says

The Department of Homeland Security is choosing not to pay TSA workers while it pays employees at its other agencies amid the shutdown, said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
In remarks on the House floor, she shared stats on who is still getting a paycheck at DHS as Congress struggles to pass a bill to fund it. DHS is huge and includes agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
“At this moment, 85% of ICE and CBP are being paid. Secret Service, 75%. Coast Guard, 85%,” DeLauro said. “TSA workers: zero.”
"The department made that decision," she continued. "I am sure in concert with the president of the United States, that these are folks who are expendable.”
DeLauro said TSA deputy administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill confirmed this during her Wednesday testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security.
TSA officers are approaching six weeks of work without pay, which has resulted in nearly 500 agents quitting and thousands calling in sick every day. During her testimony, McNeill described the financial hardships piling up on TSA workers.
“Officers are reportedly sleeping in their cars at airports to save gas money, selling their blood and plasma, and taking on second and third jobs to make ends meet,” she said in her prepared remarks. “Many have received eviction notices, lost their childcare, missed bill payments and been charged late fees, damaged their credit, defaulted on loans, and have been unable to even qualify for a loan to help ease the financial burden during the shutdown.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_69c10d91e4b03dbe678a161f/liveblog_69c5873ee4b04183741ff0be#liveblog-item-69c5873ee4b04183741ff0be
(archived https://archive.ph/kNbVg#liveblog-item-69c5873ee4b04183741ff0be)

[whole gull]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/todd-lyons-ice-stress-hospital-00848458

Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues as he has carried out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda — strain that has caused him to struggle to make key decisions for the agency, according to two current and two former administration officials.

[indigo grotto]

https://sourcenm.com/2026/03/27/cibola-county-commission-votes-to-exit-ice-immigrant-detention-contract/

[indigo grotto]

https://youtu.be/ujr8ktg4epY?si=ve0zMvX2YxIfGm88

When a U.S. Army veteran was arrested on conspiracy charges for his role in an anti-ICE protest in Spokane, Washington, it was the first time an American had faced those charges in connection with the protests. Some legal experts saw it as an escalation in efforts to suppress and criminalize First Amendment rights. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center, Aaron Glantz reports.

[indigo grotto]

https://lataco.com/14th-ice-custody-death

[whole gull]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/border-czar-ice-agents-leave-airports-tsa-officers-paid-lines-security-rcna265693

[indigo grotto]

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/analysis-ice-is-pushing-boundaries

[frail comet]

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mibmmmty422q

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)
i’ve been asked a few times recently about why it’s so important to me as a journalist to describe things plainly—like referring to the planned ICE warehouses as concentration camps.

seeing the term used in a letter to the secretary of defense is proof that journalists’ word choices have impact.

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Bluesky · Mar 30, 2026, 12:03 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mic2hychbk27
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesstout.bsky.social/post/3mic7s2htkc2m

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation left ICE hub Mesa, AZ, and landed in Myanmar a few hours ago. This would be the first Myanmar deportation I’m aware of since last April. The last group was immediately detained; some were tortured.

Also stopped in Thailand, now airborne.

Bluesky · Mar 30, 2026, 4:11 PM

James Stout (@jamesstout.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)
13 in April and 7 in may of last year.

Bluesky · Mar 30, 2026, 5:46 PM

[indigo grotto]

Back in May 23, 2025
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-deported-by-us-being-held-in-notorious-junta-detention-centre/

Myanmar nationals deported by US being held in notorious junta detention centre

The detainees are among 20 people handed over to the regime by the Trump administration since last month

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.inquirer.com/news/immigration-protest-ice-garage-center-city-philadelphia-20260330.html

[indigo grotto]

https://tbsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mic7ponotc2z

[cinder gulch]

flying detainees to foreign countries in diff continents than they came from again
https://tbsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mic7ponotc2z

[indigo grotto]

https://tbsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mice45vsi226

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4503012/trump-administration-locks-out-greg-bovino-from-all-social-media-accounts/

CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott gave Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino a direct order: return the government’s social media accounts.

Bovino had renamed three federal accounts — 850,000 combined followers after himself, refused to give them back and said the audience was his.

Corey Lewandowski intervened and blocked Scott from taking action. El Centro built new accounts. They now have 11,000 followers.

MarkWayne shut Bovino’s accounts down on his first day in the seat.

[scarlet flower]

The article is interesting, but I find the source even more interesting. That this is an exclusive to the conservative leaning DC newspaper, read by conservative insiders in DC, says just as much to me as the article itself.

[halcyon basalt]

Yes — that’s caught my eye too. A little inside battle.

[scarlet flower]

Or a signal that the chaos has been replaced with competence. Even somw conservatives had reacted negatively to some of Bovino's public statements and behavior

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ice-agents-will-stationed-marine-corps-graduation-events-south-carolin-rcna265941

[indigo grotto]

From March 27, 2026
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/03/california-opens-fusion-center-audit/

The audit will seek details about three California fusion centers, including:

• Information about violations of legal authority and policies for the past decade and disciplinary actions taken in response.
• What state and local law enforcement personnel are assigned to the fusion centers.
• What private sector entities work with fusion centers.
• Which state or local officials oversee fusion center activity to ensure compliance with state and local law.

https://vtdigger.org/2026/03/30/ice-took-the-wrong-people-and-got-called-on-it-a-reckoning-may-be-coming/

[whole gull]

feels like similar cases to this one #1371571764525535242 message
faulty address data, no verification upon arrest, no accountability to this point

[indigo grotto]

Keep forgetting about Thomas Reuters also being a data broker
https://www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/
archived: https://archive.ph/3boFf

[sleek schooner]

TR is a lot of things, mostly by acquisition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters#Acquisitions_and_divestitures

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4509505/border-patrol-chief-michael-banks-prostitution-allegations-by-agents/
archived: https://archive.ph/EjFLS

Banks’ behavior was said to have been investigated by Customs and Border Protection officials twice, including last year, but the investigation ended abruptly while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in office, leading to more questions.

[indigo grotto]

https://apnews.com/article/mullin-noem-immigration-ice-warehouse-detention-warhouses-0141f54a48a47b1a6753aeaecc1b640b

[indigo grotto]

https://tbsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3migtww3bfc2q

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3migvoxawbs2q

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

That source on what Noem's departure actually means:

Miller still wants the warehouses. Mullin will probably give them to him. But Homan is nobody's ally here — didn't like Noem, not a Mullin guy.

The pressure is on Mullin from all angles.

“This is the time for people to make noise,” they said.

-# Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)
The rationale was “deterrence,” those sources say.

By showing people in austere conditions, he hoped to scare off undocumented people in the U.S., as well as people seeking to cross the border — “cruelty as the policy,” one source said.

Bluesky · Apr 1, 2026, 2:29 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/cbp-shah-alam-border-patrol-buffalo-death-letitia-james/

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/01/aclu-decries-expanding-ice-partnerships-with-ohio-law-enforcement/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/follow-the-money-march-2026-cbp-spends

[halcyon basalt]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/a-first-look-at-the-latest-ice-arrest

[indigo grotto]

Goes into Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) and Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR)
https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/
archived: https://archive.ph/PVkNG

Peter Kraska, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University’s School of Justice Studies who has studied police militarization and paramilitary units for decades, says that BORTAC’s presence in Chicago was a textbook case of authoritarian overreach. “Why are they enforcing civil immigration violations with paramilitary teams?” Kraska says. “Armored personnel carriers, hostage rescue tactics, Special Forces–grade weapons, SEAL-style tactics—why do you need all that for civil violations?”

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/iceflightmonitor.bsky.social/post/3miirkmsjfc2p
State Department's travel advisory on the country: https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/uganda.html

ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)

-# ↩ ICE Flight Monitor (@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social)
UPDATE: The small ICE Air jet has just landed at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. This marks the 1st deportation flight to Uganda since at least 2020 and likely the 1st transfer there under the Asylum Cooperative Agreement.

Bluesky · Apr 2, 2026, 8:20 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/02/ogden-video-shows-ice-with-utah/

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/beyond-the-official-ice-detention

[indigo grotto]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-iran-war-iranians-held-by-ice-could-face-deportation/

[indigo grotto]

Confirmation from Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/twelve-deportees-us-arrive-uganda-law-society-says-2026-04-02/

[rain trout]

https://youtu.be/1d736ojx-ZY

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@austinkocher/post/DWr8zeFkRCl?

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-facility-codes-sure-seem-to-have-leaked-via-online-flashcards/

Breaking: Border Patrol and other agencies have posted security information on Quizlet.
@wired reported four digit codes, gate combinations, internal and external grids, surveillance towers, and information about their software were posted to the website under a quiz entitled “USBP Review”

[whole gull]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.eAv4.-jlIPYEeD9U5&smid=nytcore-android-share

[indigo grotto]

CW: details of alleged || sexual abuse || are included in the AP News report about a three-year-old immigrant in federal custody
Article Link: ||https://apnews.com/article/immigration-texas-trump-detention-abuse-b799ace25087c594339298685438e888||

President Donald Trump’s administration began targeting detained immigrant children, like the man’s daughter, last year when it implemented new rules and procedures, which were immediately followed by a dramatic jump in detention times. The federal government intensified efforts to expand family detention indefinitely by motioning to terminate a cornerstone policy ensuring the protection of immigrant children in federal custody.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/whitneycwimbish.bsky.social/post/3misay2exhc27

Whitney Curry Wimbish (@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social)

Another person has died in ICE custody. Tuan Van Bui, 55, died on April 1. ICE waited until the holiday weekend to say anything.

At least 15 people have died in ICE custody this year.

-# Criminal illegal alien from Vietnam passes away at Miami Correctional Center
Tuan Van Bui, 55, a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam with multiple convictions and over a dozen arrests, passed away April 1 at the Miami Correctional Center in Bunker Hill.

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Bluesky · Apr 6, 2026, 2:50 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mitcec4c4s23

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

I made charts that show the population at 568 locations where ICE has detained someone overnight.
adamjsawyer.com/detentioncha...

Bluesky · Apr 6, 2026, 12:48 PM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/minnesota-ice-shooting-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.8UWt.pVWN9LIcA2Cj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-agenda.html
archived: https://archive.ph/Boohc

Rather than Mr. Miller seeing his power recede, he has moved to apply it in other ways, seeking policies that would pressure undocumented immigrants to leave on their own.

On his recent calls with immigration officials, for example, Mr. Miller has asked for information on how immigrants use credit cards, potentially as part of an effort to crack down on their ability to open accounts and spend money, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions.

Mr. Miller has also pursued changes affecting legal migrants, including refugees. He has continued to push ICE to work with the Justice Department to launch investigations into immigrants who illegally obtain public benefits. And he speaks frequently with Mr. Homan, who he has worked with to develop deportation strategies.
...
Mr. Miller’s immigration agenda continues to spread across the federal government.

Last month, he appeared with Vice President JD Vance in Washington to mark the start of what they billed as an anti-fraud campaign. Their remarks focused on migrants who illegally obtain public benefits, a theme the administration had hammered to help justify its armed buildup in Minneapolis.

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.propublica.org/article/military-zones-border-migrants-charges?

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/liam-conejo-ramos-worries-detained-ice-again-parents-say/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-ice/

[strange oxide]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/593447517618962442/1490785124827136222/bafkreidgldi32zj464c26fknzwo7girof4ngtplywssq6sfwbkv27uxwoa.png?ex=69d55157&is=69d3ffd7&hm=57eae7046c5383991f341a28eae6b759cb91c1232f7a0177e7402070d04a6d27&

Is there any other sources this is happening?

This person claims this is happening in Bradford County, FL

[indigo grotto]

https://tbsky.app/profile/jjindc.bsky.social/post/3mitzhxfugk2y

[indigo grotto]

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/04/pennsylvania-ice-detention-jails-counties-money-federal-government/

Pa. county jails earn millions of dollars detaining immigrants for ICE

A group of Pennsylvania counties has billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years to detain immigrants in their jails, a first-of-its-kind review by Spotlight PA has found.

From April 3, 2026
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/a-nevada-judge-ruled-ice-cant-lock-up-everyone-facing-deportation-heres-what-it-means

[rapid adder]

You forgot to link to the original post https://substack.com/@jennbudd/note/c-239194549

[strange oxide]

oh I wasn't given that, thank you!

[rapid adder]

I found it by looking up "jenn budd substack" on DuckDuckGo then doing a page search for "DHS/ICE"

[indigo grotto]

https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-arrested-more-than-800-people-after-tips-us-airport-security-agency-2026-04-07/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/cambodian-man-pheap-rom-deported-us-eswatini

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/ice-shooting-investigation-interstate-5-stanislaus/4064875/

[sleek schooner]

Note Rule 7 expects articles like this to be posted in #gender-based-violence-misogyny

[rain trout]

https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/uw-graduate-student-deported-sea-airport/281-416fdfa0-a715-4267-90f1-afe30c71b754

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mj2ssuanm223

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

Since February there has been a real, measurable drop in ICE arrests. After the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, someone in the admin discovered the brake pedal.

But things could change again, and fast. We can't get complacent.

-# Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)
What's happening in Washington can also be seen in national trends. ICE arrests and detentions are down relative to Dec 2025-Jan 2026. It's hard to know why.

From Nina Shapiro and Fiona Martin.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Bluesky · Apr 9, 2026, 12:31 PM

[indigo grotto]

Guess ICE is trying to discredit its own data - weird that it didn’t attempt to do it earlier last year unless I missed it in previous articles

https://azmirror.com/2026/04/09/ice-moved-detainees-out-of-an-overcrowded-mesa-facility-before-congressional-oversight-visit/

“The Deportation Data Project relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” ICE said in a statement to the Mirror. “Neither (the Department of Homeland Security) nor ICE have verified the accuracy, methodology or analysis of the project and its results. The bottom line is that the Deportation Data Project is not accurate.”

However, the data obtained by the Deportation Data Project comes directly from the agency.

[indigo grotto]

Similar message to LAIST in late March of this year

https://laist.com/news/ice-arrests-tripled-los-angeles-immigration-customs-enforcement-data

In a statement, a DHS spokesperson said the agency has not “verified the accuracy, methodology or analysis of the project and its results” and said “this only reveals how data is manipulated to peddle the false narrative that DHS is not targeting the worst of the worst.” The spokesperson said 61% of people ICE arrested across the country either had criminal convictions or pending charges.

[strange oxide]

they're structured to juice their arrest count, and also this org says they're probably inflating their numbers https://cmsny.org/two-million-deportation-myth-ice-enforcement-distorting-data/

I also will say based on personal observation that the amount of questionably legal taco stands and fruit vendors along the side of any major road in California has shot back up, if ICE really wanted to arrest people they just need need to drive up and down the side of any street of note south of redding in this state. They 100% know this because they did that last year to grab arrests. To my recollection, ICE has reiterated a tightening focus on ICE operations towards "people with criminal histories" which I don't trust but Aaron Melnick tracks arrests and himself has witnessed an easing of pressure from ICE as an immigration attorney; he's naturally distrustful of ICE but he doesn't think the data is lying

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.threads.com/@repgregstanton/post/DW8OUZWEmP3?

[whole gull]

Visited on April 9th
https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3483

Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) made an unannounced visit to conduct an oversight inspection of the Everglades Detention Center. Last summer, Democratic Members of Florida’s Congressional Delegation were given a sanitized tour of the site by Florida’s Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) and federal officials. Members promised to conduct an unannounced review of the site at a future date.

[rain trout]

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/right-wing-poster-is-minnesotas-newest-immigration-judge/

[indigo grotto]

Finally employing the element of surprise. Not surprising to see similar descriptions of overcrowding like the one in Alligator Alcatraz: #1388044748161286286 message

https://azmirror.com/2026/04/10/ice-overcrowding-like-sardines-congressional-oversight-arizona/

Almost immediately after the inspection, those numbers began to climb again.

The Mirror’s reporting prompted Ansari, Stanton and U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva to conduct a surprise oversight visit on Thursday night. When they arrived at the facility at around 9:30 p.m., they saw firsthand just how overcrowded it was — and the harm it was doing to the people being detained.

“What we saw tonight inside the facility was shocking,” Stanton told reporters outside the Mesa facility after the brief tour, calling the conditions inside “significantly overcrowded.”

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/swin24.bsky.social/post/3mj5kke7qhk2f

Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social)

As of right now, Trump’s occupation of the twin cities and Minnesota never ended. It just changed

As the national media and other mostly moved on, his siege, psychotic economic warfare, and terror campaign against the state and its civilians continue to this day:

zeteo.com/p/donald-tru...

-# WATCH: Donald Trump’s Siege of Minnesota Never Ended
Swin traveled to the Twin Cities to see how Donald Trump’s brutal occupation is continuing to inflict pain and fear, months after the national media stopped paying attention.

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Bluesky · Apr 10, 2026, 2:41 PM

[halcyon basalt]

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the violence, protests and arrests stemming from the federal immigration sweeps across the country. "Caught in the Crackdown" premieres this Tues., April 14, on PBS and online.

https://www.threads.com/@frontlinepbs/post/DW9uA-wggtz?

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/datab.ae/post/3mjavfjxgf222

Steven Rich (@datab.ae)

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

-# Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

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Bluesky · Apr 11, 2026, 10:33 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-reports-16th-detained-death-of

[indigo grotto]

https://apnews.com/article/camp-east-montana-worker-death-osha-violations-ice-b469f646c8724f7cac22bb091546f025
Public Citizen report: https://www.citizen.org/article/billion-dollar-collapse/

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.njherald.com/story/news/immigration/2026/04/11/yeison-cortes-vasquez-delaney-hall-ice-newark-nj/89567174007/?

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/rparloff.bsky.social/post/3mjhl4rernk2p

Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)

DC panel has (again) BLOCKED Judge Boasberg from investigating possible criminal contempt by DOJ and DHS officials, including Judge Bove, in connection with sending Venezuelans to CECOT against his order. (I can't access full ruling yet.) Panel: Judges Rao (Trump) Walker (Trump) & Childs (Obama)

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Bluesky · Apr 14, 2026, 2:18 PM

[torpid crypt]

https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-doj-trump-arrests-convictions

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mjiqmrpuq222

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

IMPORTANT: Under federal law, it's very hard, at times near-impossible, to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations. But legal theorists have said for decades that there is a possible way to sue under state law instead.

This is a VERY big test case.

-# ACLU (@aclu.org)
BREAKING: We're suing federal immigration agents on behalf of Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz, a legal U.S. resident who was racially profiled and violently abducted in Maine in January.

Agents violated his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights and must be held accountable.

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Bluesky · Apr 15, 2026, 1:29 AM

[rain trout]

https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-immigration-arrests-crime-data

[indigo grotto]

https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/

[indigo grotto]

ICE was trying to arrest the dad, who was a former interpreter for the U.S. in Afghanistan
https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/ice-arrest-zia-rihan-cheshire-high-school-22205952.php

In a statement to CT Insider, attorneys for Rihan said they believed an “administrative error” caused his arrest.

“We are hopeful this will be corrected promptly, allowing him to return home soon, graduate with his classmates from Cheshire High School, and continue his plans to pursue higher education,” said Catalina Horak, executive director of the American Immigration Legal Clinic, which is representing Rihan.

“In the meantime, his school has been exploring ways to support him so that he can stay on track academically and graduate on time, including sending homework and class assignments to him through his attorneys at the detention center,” Horak said.

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3mjk4dnhlzc2j

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

-# dell cameron (@dell.bsky.social)
April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

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Bluesky · Apr 15, 2026, 2:31 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-republicans-congress-could-fully-fund-ice-years-come-and-maybe-do-more

How Republicans in Congress could fully fund ICE for years to come — and maybe do more

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/djbyrnes1.bsky.social/post/3mjkbj53qms2p

Dave Byrnes (@djbyrnes1.bsky.social)

ICE activity in Chicagoland has been on the rise with the temperature the last few weeks. These incidents don't have the spectacle that characterized Greg Bovino and Border Patrol's raids in the fall, but people are still being abducted by federal agents across the city and suburbs.

-# unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)
So far:

Berwyn Cicero Rapid Response is reporting two abductions early this morning.

Far South Rapid Response is reporting ICE has been sighted at the 111th St courthouse.

Sightings in Elgin.

Two abducted from Carol Stream.

Reports of someone escaping an abduction in La Villita.

Bluesky · Apr 15, 2026, 4:04 PM

[indigo grotto]

cross-post with #eu-uk
https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-86-french-woman-military-9eacc896aa409a12aca811975888fcd4

[shadow bloom]

New video of ICE removal using a commercial flight.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/washington-immigration/video-shows-uw-student-child-escorted-passenger-flight-removal/281-65d974e5-039c-4bf0-81eb-894705cbd9b7

[indigo grotto]

https://appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hearings/budget-hearing-department-homeland-security-cbp-ice-and-us-citizenship-and

https://youtu.be/qsa9m1vMglA

Budget Hearing – Department of Homeland Security: CBP, ICE, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Meeting Status: Scheduled Hearing
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026 - 10:00 AM
Location: Capitol Complex, 2362-A RHOB, Washington, DC, 20515, USA
Subcommittee: Homeland Security

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/todd-lyons-ice-acting-director-leaving-agency/#

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/ice-aliyah-rahman-tort-ntca-dhs/

[indigo grotto]

https://abcnews.com/Politics/acting-ice-director-todd-lyons-leaving-agency/story?id=132122397

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-trump-immigration-ice-cbp-excessive-force?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1776429960&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads

[rain trout]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/texas-restaurants-immigration-work-permits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.blA.tXkT.L9K5ulE0vjcM&smid=url-share

[indigo grotto]

https://apnews.com/article/ice-background-checks-vetting-immigration-8ae6b7b850f7c0265b3cb8b5060ef8fd

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/french-widow-86-flies-home-after-ice-detention-centre-ordeal

https://www.wdsu.com/article/neighbors-protest-ice-agents-in-hammond-neighborhood/71043521

[rain trout]

https://ios.horse/notcapnamerica/status/2045217156267393202

chris evans (@notcapnamerica)

Salvadorian journalist Mario Guevara supported Donald Trump and covered ICE favorably for years.
︀︀
︀︀He has now been deported from the United States.
︀︀
︀︀He spend 110 days in the custody of ICE.
︀︀
︀︀In a statement he said: "Before the Trump administration, I had a very good relationship with ICE. They gave me ride-alongs and allowed me access to report from jails and even from a deportation flight. I never thought that I was going to be one more prisoner."

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ios.horse · Apr 17, 2026, 7:05 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mjsmmgefik25

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-meeting-notes-detail-plans-for

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

Meeting notes reviewed by Project Saltbox show ICE outlined payments, infrastructure needs and operations for a Maryland warehouse project — offering a window into how similar sites could be structured nationwide.

-# ICE Meeting Notes Detail Plans for Payments and Infrastructure in Maryland
Meeting notes released through Washington County’s public records portal show officials discussed a $2-per-bed payment model alongside hundreds of millions in local infrastructure demands.

Bluesky · Apr 18, 2026, 11:44 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/gop-budget-plan-seeks-tens-of-billions-for-ice-border-patrol

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-immigration-arrests-crime-data

800+ immigrants arrested. 17 (2%) charged with a violent crime. That's the Memphis Safe Task Force's first 4 months.

[strange oxide]

them doing reconcilliation for this I think also goes against the current Trump Admin plan to do reconcilliation for defense stuff, unless they try to mash that all together into one thing

which I think makes that a lot more complicated

[lean ferry]

https://bsky.app/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3mjxmzsnadk2i

Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social)

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

-# Exclusive: ICE Glasses
Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

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Bluesky · Apr 20, 2026, 11:35 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3mk3ntlqg7s2u

unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.

Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.

No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

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Bluesky · Apr 22, 2026, 2:00 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3mk3o76twt22u

unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)

-# ↩ unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)
Folks may recognize this fed's voice. He's the same team lead (badge #7880) from immigration court arrests who has also been seen at Broadview directing attacks on protesters and press, threatening journalists, etc.

Bluesky · Apr 22, 2026, 2:06 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/04/22/ice-broadview-kat-abughazaleh-trump-crime-chicago

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/senate-passes-budget-plan-ice-border-patrol-bid-reopen-homeland-securi-rcna341572

[halcyon basalt]

https://cnn.it/41PVpG8

[indigo grotto]

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/04/24/u-s-attorney-pursues-effort-to-deport-bolivian-man-to-congo/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/ice-police-danger-us

[rain trout]

https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3mkauvjp6ts2h
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-says-state-department-memo-confirms-unbounded-scope-of-trump-immigration-policy

Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social)
"The State Department is excluding tech researchers from the United States because of their constitutionally protected work, and this newly disclosed memo only underscores the unbounded scope and unconstitutionality of the policy" -- @carriedecell.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

-# Knight Institute Says State Department Memo Confirms Unbounded Scope of Trump Immigration Policy

Bluesky · Apr 24, 2026, 3:49 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/04/new-ice-detention-center-mcfarland/

[scarlet flower]

https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/dmv-immigration/ice-air-treats-detainees-like-amazon-packages-using-taxpayer-funds/65-56a37c3a-af31-402c-b2b2-5440aee1ec71

[This report from WUSA9 DC, mentions Tegna stations, which WUSA9 currently is because their transfer to Nexstar has been delayed by legal challenges. I'm including this here because it's worth noting that many current Tegna owned stations will soon be Nexstar which has different reporting priorities for its stations}

[indigo grotto]

Must have been a busy day on Friday

https://bsky.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mkbvhkbll22g

https://bsky.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mkbvhmf5ok2g

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

ICE flights. Friday, April 24, 2026

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Bluesky · Apr 25, 2026, 1:32 AM

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

-# ↩ Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)
Close-up. When we say Alexandria, La., is an ICE Air hub, this is what that looks like.

Bluesky · Apr 25, 2026, 1:32 AM

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mkd6hvgmlk2a

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

New emails show Washington County, Md., explored whether local trades programs could benefit from construction at ICE’s Williamsport warehouse.

ICE’s contractor said no. Federal rules preempt Maryland apprenticeship requirements.

Why it matters: local burdens don’t always come with local benefits.

Bluesky · Apr 25, 2026, 1:46 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/tituslegaldesign.com/post/3mkfu66suhc2s

Andrew Thrasher (@tituslegaldesign.com)

Just a few months after a new "Tribal Task Force" model was added to ICE's 287(g) program website, all mention of the program model was quietly removed on Friday.

It looks like ICE has given up on finding a tribal law enforcement agency willing to partner with them.

Bluesky · Apr 26, 2026, 3:20 PM

[indigo grotto]

current page
https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g

[indigo grotto]

https://adamjsawyer.com/posts/cumulative-people-detained/

How Many People Has ICE Detained?

Calculating the Cumulative Detainee Population

[indigo grotto]

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/work-on-313-million-contract-to-convert

[indigo grotto]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/04/27/justice-department-immigration-judges-deportation/

[indigo grotto]

https://penncapital-star.com/immigration/pa-democrats-push-bills-to-limit-immigration-enforcement-at-k-12-schools/

https://boltsmag.org/ice-warehouse-detention-facility-roxbury-new-jersey/

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/stopice-immigration-alerts-sherman-austin/

[halcyon basalt]

BREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka, the brothers ICE arrested on April 21 while they were getting on their school bus, are free after their community rallied to their defense.

Mississippi's Republican U.S. senators, Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, helped secure their release.

Nick Judin reports: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/israel-and-max-makoka-are-coming-home-after-ice-arrests-galvanized-their-mississippi-community/

https://www.threads.com/@ashtonpittman.ms/post/DXxXuLFGg8o

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/deportationdata.org/post/3mkqsd3od4c2w

Deportation Data Project (@deportationdata.org)

EOIR, the agency that runs US immigration courts, posted its April 2026 immigration case dataset update earlier today. It runs through April 1.

We've now updated our simplified, processed version of the data, which you can download and explore here:

eoir-removal-cases.apps.deportationdata.org

-# Data Explorer — Immigration Court Removal Cases

Bluesky · Apr 30, 2026, 11:46 PM

https://www.latintimes.com/quiet-policy-changes-that-are-reshaping-immigration-us-596859

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/immigration-data-tools-transparency-journalists-ice-enforcement/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-scams-complaints-doubled-ice

[indigo grotto]

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ice-border-trump-mass-deportations-77ca6741fe11ac35852c8b15d3016991

[indigo grotto]

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/01/fbi-ice-immigration-enforcement/

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewqmr.bsky.social/post/3mksckzsqu22v

Andrew Quemere (@andrewqmr.bsky.social)

“The name of [an ICE] officer accused of strangling a man in Fitchburg during an immigration arrest has been revealed in court, despite the federal government’s attempts to keep his identity a secret. The officer’s name is David Jackson, an acting supervisory detention and deportation officer.”

-# Judge denies request to hide identity of ICE officer in Fitchburg arrest
The judge called the request by the federal government "wildly overbroad."

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Bluesky · May 1, 2026, 2:09 PM

[indigo grotto]

From April 29, 2026
https://prismreports.org/2026/04/29/dhs-surveillance-location-data-penlink-plx/

The $2.9 million no-bid contract, reported for the first time by Prism, began April 1, with a potential award amount of $8.3 million. The contract supplements the $2.3 million no-bid contract awarded to Penlink last September to provide DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with surveillance tools—Tangles and Webloc—that also gather real-time data and location information, which was first reported by 404 Media.
...
Penlink PLX is intended for use by the Homeland Security Task Force, established by President Donald Trump via executive order on Jan. 20, 2025, and co-led by the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of ICE. HSI’s core mission is supposed to be transnational crime investigations. However, under the Trump administration, the agency now focuses on routine immigration enforcement, according to Rachel Levinson-Waldman, director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Penlink PLX adds another layer of surveillance, capturing live communications and web activity, according to the company’s website. It also conducts geospatial tracking using real-time location pings from cellphones and intercepted data from mobile apps such as Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Discord, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram.

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/gillianbrockell.com/post/3mktj3gdyi225

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

God almighty, Uzbekistan wasn’t the last stop. This ICE flight continued on to Pakistan via this circuitous route. Migrant passengers onboard will have been shackled for at least 43 hours.

-# Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)
An exceptionally cruel removal trip, even by ICE's low standards: The chain refoulement of Ukrainians to Poland and Russians to Moldova, fuel stop in Romania, then deports to Armenia and Uzbekistan (the latter could also include chain refoulement). Migrants have been shackled for at least 36 hours.

Bluesky · May 2, 2026, 1:38 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/georgia-ice-detention-death-cuban-immigrant

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/02/ice-contracter-torture-allegations-undocumented-children

[strange oxide]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/trump-travel-ban-doctors-us-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.qkb7.biKZvhiaZ2y2&smid=url-share

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjst.bsky.social/post/3mkzoybeut22v

Adam Sawyer (@adamjst.bsky.social)

"The incident was one of at least 780 in which staff members at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities used physical force or chemical agents to control immigrant detainees during the first year of the Trump administration."
Gift link: wapo.st/4tdgBRA

-# Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers
The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care.

Bluesky · May 4, 2026, 12:40 PM

[indigo grotto]

from the methodology section: https://github.com/wpinvestigative/ice-reports

[indigo grotto]

few days ago
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-officials-criticize-ice-after-clash-outside-brooklyn-hospital-leads-to-8-arrests

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mkzwizsiu225

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

Now: I’m at a press conference in Bushwick, Brooklyn across the street from Wycoff Medical Center where ICE violently abducted someone early Sunday morning in coordination with NYPD.

Community Board Chairman Robert Camacho directly addresses cops watching nearby:

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Bluesky · May 4, 2026, 2:55 PM

[indigo grotto]

Includes video before the Bushwick Hospital incident
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/04/video-ice-agent-tasing-man-wyckoff-brooklyn-hospital/

[indigo grotto]

During the night of the hospital incident
https://bsky.app/profile/thecity.nyc/post/3mkzzm4ii2k2n

THE CITY (@thecity.nyc)

-# ↩ THE CITY (@thecity.nyc)
As the demonstrators arrived, federal agents pepper-sprayed several of them, eyewitnesses told THE CITY.

While agents were inside with Chidozie, who was being treated in the emergency room, the crowd of protesters grew, staying outside the hospital until early morning Sunday.

-# [FNTV - Freedomnews TV on Instagram: "CHAOS OVERNIGHT as ICE Agents rush a detainee out from hospital during protester stand off in Brooklyn NYC

ICE dragged a man in custody out of the Wyckoff Hospita...](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DX4SxhYkYxo/)

236 likes, 49 comments - freedomnews.tv on May 3, 2026: "CHAOS OVERNIGHT as ICE Agents rush a detainee out from hospital during protester stand off in Brooklyn NYC

ICE dragged a man in custody out of...

Bluesky · May 4, 2026, 3:50 PM

[indigo grotto]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/immigration-detention-ombudsman-closure_n_69f8facee4b0115dd7bf98e5?dzk

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ml35tpfgr22y

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

NEW. The Senate Judiciary and HSGAC reconciliation bills are out. They would fund, mostly through September 2029:

- $38.2 billion for ICE
- $26.1 billion for CBP
- $5 billion for a DHS deportation slush fund.
- $1.5 billion for DOJ criminal enforcement
- $1 billion for Secret Service ballroom work

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Bluesky · May 5, 2026, 2:39 AM

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3ml44budsek27

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer.

His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

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Bluesky · May 5, 2026, 11:43 AM

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/bbkogan.bsky.social/post/3ml4dwxg6xk2a

Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social)

My table for the new reconciliation money

Two big takeaways:
1) tons of money for DHS with far *less* accountability or oversight than is typical
2) taken together with OBBBA, ICE can run at roughly quadruple capacity through 2029 even with no additional money, but CBP will run out next year

Bluesky · May 5, 2026, 2:00 PM

[tiny pagoda]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-administration-closes-office-investigating-detention-abuse-amid-rising-deaths-in-ice-custody/ar-AA22rqvW

Trump administration closes office investigating detention abuse amid rising deaths in ICE custody

[indigo grotto]

https://www.notus.org/immigration/border-czar-ice-surge-new-york

Border Czar Threatens an ICE Surge in New York

“You’re gonna see more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen before,” Trump border czar Tom Homan said at a conference, adding that mass deportations will mean “collateral” arrests of any undocumented person they find.

[brave swift]

The above reporting has unfortunately mischaracterized (as a lot of coverage has) the amount of deportation and ICE activity in NY state as marginal, when local coverage would inform one that, even as late as this week, DHS agents have gotten into clashes with protesters that just dont reach national levels of coverage comparatively. So this open threat seems to, albiet with the plausible deniability of vaguity, be suggesting a response akin to Minnesota, however realistic such a threat would actually be.

[indigo grotto]

from May 5, 2026
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/05/05/ice-midway-blitz-chicago-trump-silverio-villegas-gonzalez

Illinois State Police launches investigation into deadly ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González

The probe is the most high-profile independent inquiry that’s been announced in response to Operation Midway Blitz, during which federal agents also shot Marimar Martinez in Brighton Park and routinely used pummeling force and chemical irritants.

Also from Chicago on April 30, 2026 - Final Report from Accountability Commission that investigated Midway Blitz has been released to the public
Article: https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2026/04/30/pritzker-illinois-accountability-commission-operation-midway-blitz-trump-immigration
Report: https://ilac.illinois.gov/2026-04-iac-final-report.html

[rain trout]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/05/trump-jobs-immigrants-americans-ice-raids/

[halcyon basalt]

NEWSMAX: Are we staying strong on the idea of deportations for all illegals, or have we moved to criminal illegal aliens as the focus?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No. We're staying focused on all illegals, without question. Truth is, we're purposely trying to be a little more quiet.

https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DYAAukriQ6M?

[indigo grotto]

More info from yesterdays border expo in Arizona

https://azmirror.com/2026/05/05/ice-director-todd-lyons-admits-he-didnt-know-some-deportation-countries-existed/

[rain trout]

https://bsky.app/profile/alexip718.com/post/3ml55zoq6qs2k

Alex Ip 葉清霖 (@alexip718.com)

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans.

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

-# Alex Ip 葉清霖 (@alexip718.com)
BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

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Bluesky · May 5, 2026, 9:47 PM

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ml7hn3kvxc2c

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

Update on ICE's "Detention Reengineering Initiative": GEO Group's CEO said today that "the warehouse project has been paused, and [DHS] is evaluating how to proceed with this initiative..."

He also acknowledged that, as part of the plan, ICE is looking to buy upwards of 10 of GEO's existing jails.

-# Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 (@elizabethweill.bsky.social)
Breaking: On today’s quarterly earnings call, GEO Group CEO George Zoley calls litigation against immigration jails “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional," and that "the logical solution to much of that is federal ownership of the facilities."
www.thecarceralreport.com/p/geo-group-...

Bluesky · May 6, 2026, 7:44 PM

[rain trout]

https://www.thecarceralreport.com/p/geo-group-ceo-calls-litigation-against

[halcyon basalt]

LOOKOUT reports on a woman who miscarried in an Arizona immigration detention center after ICE claimed she was lying about being pregnant:

https://www.lookoutnews.org/ice-said-she-wasnt-pregnant-then-she-miscarried/

https://www.threads.com/@boltsmag/post/DYA2OlUidM9?

[pure agate]

The cruelty is horrific

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/more-than-16000-people-removed-san-diego-region-ice/4020365/

More than 16,000 people removed from San Diego region by ICE since January 2025

Of the more than 16,000 removals by ICE in the first quarter of the year, 10,847 were Mexican nationals, 996 from Guatemala and 544 from Venezuela, with smaller figures from 116 other countries.

[untold charm]

This talk may be of interest to those who lurk in here: https://discord.gg/BwUfFrBb?event=1502314212075110481

[indigo grotto]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/08/trump-administration-parents-arrested

[indigo grotto]

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/11/florida-ice-police-arrest

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mllmkt64pk2c
https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mllmkyr76k2c
https://bsky.app/profile/projectsaltbox.com/post/3mllmqefk2s2c

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

OMB updated one of ICE’s detention-related funding accounts on April 30.

The overall amount of money did not change. Instead, OMB shifted more than $26 million into 3rd quarter availability while reducing both expected carryover balances and 4th quarter authority.

Bluesky · May 11, 2026, 3:45 PM

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

-# ↩ Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)
In plain language: the government didn't add more money to this account.

What did change is the timeline. OMB now appears to expect the account to be used faster, with less money left sitting unused at the end of the fiscal year — a possible sign of increased detention and removal activity ahead.

Bluesky · May 11, 2026, 3:45 PM

Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)

-# ↩ Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com)
One important note: unlike most ICE detention funding, this account is not funded through ordinary taxpayer appropriations.

The money comes from the breached bond fund itself.

Bluesky · May 11, 2026, 3:48 PM

https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/double-amputee-rodney-taylor-released-from-ice-custody/

According to Taylor he endured horrific conditions at the Stewart facility.

“At one point they refused to feed me for three weeks because they expected me to walk the length of a football field to get some food,” Taylor said. When he complained about poor conditions, he said, he was placed in segregation for three days.

“Stewart is not equipped to hold detainees,” he said. “There is black mold in the water reserves.”
...
“There are times he cannot take a shower,” Danis-Taylor told Capital B earlier this year. “He can’t do it with the general population; he has to remove his prosthetics and then he crawls across floors covered with mold and feces to shower.”

[strange oxide]

It could also be a reassessment of how much spending they actually are doing, cost overruns requiring this kind of adjustment isn't unusual and there was reporting some time ago from geo group that ice was reconsidering buying warehouses and were maybe going to buy older jails instead (if anything at all)

[indigo grotto]

https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/

[rain trout]

https://reason.com/2026/05/12/a-u-s-citizen-is-suing-ice-for-arresting-him-twice-he-just-got-arrested-a-third-time/

[indigo grotto]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195

10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies

A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/mandatory-detention-ice-cases-rulings-database-00913988

Explore the data: 10,000 rulings against Trump in ICE cases

Here’s POLITICO’s database of how the courts have ruled on Trump’s mass detention policy.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trump-taps-former-career-ice-official-lead-agency

Long-time federal immigration official David Venturella will lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency spearheading President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

Venturella will replace outgoing ICE acting Director Todd Lyons, who last month announced he would leave his position by May 31, the DHS official told States Newsroom on Wednesday. Venturella will also take on the role on an acting basis. ICE has been without a permanent, Senate-confirmed director since Trump first took office in 2017.

[indigo grotto]

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-immigration-raid-ice-dhs-fbi-federal-tort-claims

[indigo grotto]

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ices-nationwide-co-working-solicitation

[indigo grotto]

https://azmirror.com/2026/05/13/911-call-reveals-ice-pepper-sprayed-47-detainees-in-overcrowded-mesa-holding-facility/

[halcyon basalt]

Some good news

https://www.threads.com/@cnn/post/DYTGz6CkvRL?

[indigo grotto]

https://sanjosespotlight.com/federal-detention-center-planned-in-south-county/

[untold charm]

A reminder of today's stage talk for those who lurk in here: https://discord.gg/bellingcat?event=1502314212075110481

[indigo grotto]

https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3mlthw56myc2w

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social)

Trump’s Border Patrol chief abruptly resigned amid allegations he traveled abroad to solicit sex workers

-# Trump Border Patrol Chief Abruptly Quits Amid Report He Traveled Abroad To Solicit Sex Workers

Bluesky · May 14, 2026, 6:43 PM

[shadow bloom]

"Using Federal Election Commission records, The Appeal has compiled information on every member of Congress who received campaign contributions from the top contractors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." Their database lets you search among congressional representatives who received campaign contributions from the executives of ICE contractors, with Palantir CEO Alexander Karp being the top donor. https://inthesetimes.com/article/immigration-customs-enforcement-ice-palantir-congress-donations

[strange oxide]

https://bsky.app/profile/jbendery.bsky.social/post/3mlu456x7zc2a

Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social)

NEW: The Senate parliamentarian has rejected major provisions in the GOP's reconciliation package -- aka the $72B spending bill for ICE + Trump's ballroom.

These bits now need 60 vs 51 votes to pass:

*ALL CBP funding
*Funds for initial screenings of unaccompanied migrant kids
*$2.5B for DHS

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Bluesky · May 15, 2026, 12:45 AM

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/honduras-deportations-without-children/687153/?

https://www.threads.com/@nxthompson/post/DYYXA_ZFiQW?

[halcyon basalt]

https://www.citizen.org/article/ice-detention-center-profiteers/

Breaking: a new Public Citizen report just dropped: For-profit detention companies like GEO Group and Core Civic are paying ICE detainees $1 a day to cook, clean, and run their facilities — then threatening solitary if they refuse.

Meanwhile, GEO Group's profits jumped from $32M to $254M in one year.

[latent kettle]

https://bskye.app/profile/profzeke.bsky.social/post/3mlyg2i3nz22c

[indigo grotto]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/deported-family-us-citizen-girl-brain-tumor-denied-parole-rcna344944

Throughout April, the family received three separate refusal letters — for the mother, the father and one noncitizen sibling — that did not specify why they were denied. Denial letters customarily do not give cause.

A spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that processes humanitarian parole applications, told NBC News that “ICE has jurisdiction” over parole decisions for previously deported people. ICE did not respond to a request for comment.
...
An NBC News analysis of data from USCIS found that the number of denials of humanitarian parole applications more than doubled during the first nine months of President Donald Trump’s second term compared to the last year of the Biden administration.

From January to September 2025, according to the most recent publicly available data, the Trump administration denied about 14,500 humanitarian parole applications and approved close to 1,400. The Biden administration denied 5,122 humanitarian parole applications and approved 3,935 during its last year.

Even though fewer new applications were being filed under Trump, the rate of denials grew, the data shows. As of Sept. 30, there were 32,013 pending humanitarian parole applications, and waiting times are up, averaging between six and 15 months.

USCIS did not comment on the findings, but it has previously said that the agency has been working to stop “broad abuse of humanitarian parole authority” as well as terminating various types of family reunification and parole programs over the past year.

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ice-firearms-trainer-was-involved-in-at-least-4-deadly-shootings/
archived: https://archive.ph/P37jB

[halcyon basalt]

“The researchers said they considered 145,000 [family separations] to be their most accurate estimate.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/brookings-institution-report-family-separations.html?unlocked_article_code

https://www.threads.com/@jacobsoboroff/post/DYfFkAOFBjI?

[rain trout]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/memphis-safe-task-force-still-operating-aclu-lawsuit-cameras-filming-ice-harassment-homeland-security-tennessee-highway-patrol/

[indigo grotto]

Opinion piece by a political appointee for eight years in the Department of Homeland Security, including serving as chief of staff for former Deputy Secretary John Tien
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/the-administration/5885561-senate-confirmation-ice-director/

Venturella was a senior executive for more than a decade in the GEO Group, the detention conglomerate currently housing 86 percent of detainees in ICE custody. Upon his arrival as a political appointee last year, Venturella oversaw Homeland Security contracts for immigration detention centers after receiving a federal ethics waiver related to his obvious conflict of interest — overseeing contracts overwhelmingly given to his former employer. Furthermore, the big beautiful bill added $45 billion for immigration detention centers through 2029. The GEO Group stands to receive a significant share of those funds.
...
The Senate and the public deserve answers as to whether the man directing ICE’s detention expansion has a financial stake in its outcome. With billions flowing and oversight gutted, this ICE director cannot simply be appointed — he must be confirmed by the Senate.

[ivory wing]

https://www.tiktokez.com/@moreperfectunion/video/7641742856620625166

More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion)

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Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money. We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price. It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it. Producer: @maeryan Research: Lucy Dean Stockton Editor: niklaak Supervising Producer: Court Fuller Videographer: Michael Cimpher

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EmbedEZ • 1 - 1 of 1 · May 19, 2026, 11:05 PM

[halcyon basalt]

Most green-card applicants will need to go abroad to apply for permanent residency at an American consulate, rather than filing from within the U.S. as they do now, the Trump administration announced Friday. https://on.wsj.com/3RosdEg

[rain trout]

https://thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u-s-citizen-stopped-in-lafayette-shackled-and-detained-in-louisiana-ice-facility/