First reporting I’ve seen identifying someone taken to Guantanamo. Appears to be someone who got a CBP One appointment and was in custody from the moment he appeared at a POE for inspection.
I was worried about this. I know it may seem like a blip amongst all the terrible news from detaining immigrants at Gitmo and in El Salvador but knowing how hard people detained, community members, organizers, and lawyers fought to end this contract, its hard to take in www.wbrc.com/2025/02/04/e...
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Some context for this. There are really two kinds of immigration enforcement operations: targeted and worksite.
In targeted operations, ICE DDOs (immigration cops) get lists of targets, track down each person, and go arrest them.
In worksite raids, they burst into a job site and grab people.
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Infographic outlining job & compensation of an incarcerated fire crew member
Infographic explaining the danger of being an incarcerated fire crew member
As wildfires blaze in California, we're reminded of the incarcerated people who are deployed to fight them – an extremely dangerous job that pays just dollars per day.
A worker standing in a snowy Washington field
Ruben can tell you how hard it is to work in the snow for 8 hours. Numb fingers and toes, wet clothes from the snow falling from the branches, and slippery/muddy conditions make it difficult and dangerous. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker holding a sign in a snowy field saying Solidarity with Amazon workers
Farm workers in solidarity with Amazon workers.
Los campesinos en solidaridad con los trabajadores de Amazon.
#SolidaritySeason
New 🧵: Texas has had a human smuggling law for 25 years. In the last decade, the Legislature has repeatedly broadened it + increased its punishment. That occurred again last year when lawmakers created a mandatory minimum 10-year sentence for those convicted.
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NEW Nearly half of the 1.4 million people in the U.S. immigration system with final deportation orders cannot be sent back to their home countries, according to internal ICE data. It’s one of several obstacles Trump’s mass removal plan will face www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
shit i used the wrong sticker again!
Carceral immigration tech is on the rise - like ankle monitors, facial recognition apps, and surveillance watches. Now, investors "openly salivate[] over the potential profits they could see from a Trump immigration regime" -@katyaschwenk.bsky.social @levernews.com
www.levernews.com/inside-the-p...
ICE already goes out into communities every day to pick up individual targets. ICE officers generally can’t enter non-public buildings, so they often talk people into giving permission. These daily operations will increase, as will “collateral” arrests of others unlucky enough to be near a target.
New from @akelalacy.bsky.social –
NEW: Biden’s EPA is delaying federal funding for a climate group over its support for Palestine
theintercept.com/2024/11/29/b...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
At this moment the following should be prioritized:
- creating space to listen & understand need from the most impacted
- fundraising for mutual aid, bail, legal rep
- creating rapid response networks
- determining "safe" zones incl. areas of joy
- working class theory of change organizing only
“From Ahmed to Zain.”
Al Jazeera tallied by name some of the at least 17,400 children who have been killed in Gaza.
435 were named Ahmed.
935 were named Mohammed.
710 were babies.
1,793 were toddlers.
7,900 were younger than 12.
Just now—“Texas is offering the incoming Trump administration a tract of more than 1,400 acres on which to stage its mass deportation operation when it enters office in January, as the transition team begins to make preparations for the ambitious project.”
My thought on the mass deportations is that I think a lot of people are, in my view, wrongly looking for something like a military coup, which would look like deputizing the military to go house to house and sweep up immigrants or people who might be immigrants. But I think that it’s going to look a lot more like policing, like policing people are used to, which is why I’m concerned. Because I worry that when it’s not immediately obvious to everybody, that they will say, “Oh, well, whatever. He can’t really do it.” And there’s been a lot of press about, it’s too expensive to do mass deportations. There’s no place to hold people, etc. And I’m like, look, you have states already doing it, and the costs have evidently not been a barrier. Not saying it doesn’t cost money, but it really hasn’t been a barrier.
"I think a lot of people are [imagining mass deportations as] something like a military coup... But I think that it’s going to look a lot more like policing, like policing people are used to, which is why I’m concerned." @jesspish.bsky.social
www.theborderchronicle.com/p/what-role-...
People have responded to a humanitarian crisis by forming organizations and stepping up for migrant families. People like Liliana Carlos.
Will be in the mountains and deserts and forests on Saturday and it's long overdue.
Trump's first targets for deportation may be Chinese and other Asian nationals, alarming Asian Americans and harkening back to America's first immigration enforcement policies, the 'Chinese Exclusion Acts'.
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
