A year into Trump's mass deportation push has left viral videos, memes, a dramatic increase in funds for immigration enforcement, and thousands affected. With @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , we asked: what's the toll?
My latest for @propublica.org
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NEW: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
We are tracking the increase in these cases 👇
And for more context on how federal district judges are generally responding to these filings, @kyledcheney with @politico has been reviewing hundreds of cases and their outcomes: t.co/IQMbdxu3UX
To keep tabs on this historic rise, we are publishing a habeas case tracker: t.co/7sYJihZuL8
So far this year, immigrants are filing on average more than 200 habeas petitions daily across the country arguing that their detention is unlawful. The Western District of #Texas leads the country with 1,300+ filed in the last three months,
@ProPublica found. www.propublica.org/article/habe...
NEW: The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”
By @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
A new directive asks USDA workers to check backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists. Their names are being sent to security experts. One critic called it a “throwback to McCarthyism. By my @propublica.org colleagues www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have upended industry.
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And just little more context from me: I spent years reporting on body-cams. (I know.)
Here's a piece I did for @propublica.org and the New York Times Magazine on how law enforcement has often undermined the promise of them:
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
Last week, a federal judge ordered immigration agents in Chicago to use body-cams: "That is not a suggestion."
Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him*
They had body-cams -- that weren't on
I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing
4/ Some ICE officers on the scene reacted emotionally to the incident. One said: “What the fuck?” Another told me: “This is a real problem.“
2/ Journalist L. Vural Elibol and other photographers apparently wanted to understand why ICE agents were following a woman into a public elevator. As they tried to enter the elevator, a supervisor from the ICE team at the New York Field Office shouted, “Get out the fucking elevator!”
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
In rural Tennessee, 16 middle schoolers waiting for cheerleading practice to start made a TikTok video seeming to role play a school shooting.
The sheriff's office charged every single one with a crime.
www.propublica.org/article/soci...
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For months, we had been talking with Carmen, Lina and Doris about the void their sons' detention in #ElSalvador had left. They wondered whether they were eating, if they were cold. Were they alive?
Following the men's release, these families sat with us to talk about what they lived through.
We published their stories as part of an effort to understand - when neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments had released the names of the men sent to CECOT - who these men were, and why they had been sent to the infamous prison.
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What @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , @micarosenberg.bsky.social , @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social , and a group of Venezuelan journalists from @cazadoresdefakenews.info and Alianza Rebelde Investiga uncovered was chilling:
We also published a first-of-its kind database where you can learn more about the men’s lives in Venezuela, how they came to the U.S., and how they got caught up in the system.
You can also reach out to us if you have more information.
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To read the full story: www.propublica.org/article/vene... in collaboration w/ @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social and our colleagues from @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga, among many others who made this work possible.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson said the U.S. is not responsible for the conditions of the men’s detention in El Salvador.
And a DHS official insisted the men were all members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The Salvadoran government denied any mistreatment and pointed to videos of the men leaving the prison as proof they were in good shape.
Several of those interviewed said suicide crossed their minds. “I’d rather die or kill myself than to keep living through this experience," 39-year-old Juan José told us he thought at times. But he found solace in the Bible, the only book they had, and his faith.
"The prison director told us: Welcome to hell, where you enter alive and leave dead," said Wilmer, when describing the torture and beatings he endured over four months.
The 39-year-old had come to the U.S. to help pay for his mother's cancer treatment.
Andry, 40, wondered if he would ever be able to embrace his mother again. He tries to make sense of how the U.S. government accused him of being a gang member and terrorist.
“We are a group of people who I consider had the bad luck of ending up on this black list,” he told us.
Watch three of the more than 230 men the Trump administration sent to #ElSalvador talk about the moment they arrived at #CECOT, how they say the guards tortured them and beat them daily: youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI from @g-dvalle.bsky.social and the entire team @propublica.org and in Venezuela.
The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs.
What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses.
www.propublica.org/article/vene...
