Lover, but also fighter :: Courage is always an option, but you must be willing to choose it. "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt."
A depressing reality as a journalist is that often the most valuable stories are the ones the social media algorithm/people care the least about. One of my worst performing videos for Mother Jones is about a family of asylum seekers who had a father deported by ICE. It is likely my best work.
ICE Took Him. Now His Family Lives in Fear.YouTube video by Mother Jonesyoutu.be
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.
Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.
The Associated PressBREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
IMPORTANT to know that the vast majority of Haitians with TPS entered the country legally at ports of entry, not illegally. The majority have NEVER violated the law. The admin stripped their status by breaking the law, but today SCOTUS says courts can't do anything about that.
Aaron Reichlin-MelnickBREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.
And Justice Sotomayor goes there in her Al Otro Lado dissent (where SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to nullify asylum guarantees if they stop people at/outside the border): "The current asylum system developed in response to the international moral reckoning that followed the Holocaust...."
Last October, the Trump administration abruptly stopped paying third-parties for detainee medical care, significantly impacting those who are pregnant, postpartum, or nursing, and who relied on this care. thepreamble.com/p/pregnant-w...
Pregnant Women Are Being Denied Food in ICE CustodyReports from detainees paint a troubling picture of detention conditionsthepreamble.com
there is no progressive way to say 'blood & soil'—we have to just reject the idea that belonging is a birthright. full stop
Liberal Currents“The people who made New York what it is are people like the ones who live in the large Chinese immigrant community near my neighborhood. Or people who moved here from Puerto Rico, as Lopez’s parents did. Or people who moved here from Mexico, or from Italy. Orfrom Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin”
After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Update: he came back and is staying
David KurtzBREAKING: Judge dismisses criminal case against Abrego Garcia as vindictive prosecution storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.
Liz DyeBREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Hundreds of thousands of TPS holders are helping drive our country’s economy: 🔹$29B in annual contributions 🔹$7.8B in annual taxes paid 🔹$20B to social security over 25 years
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA
World Press Photo announces Photo of the Year 2026The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.n.pr
one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.
NPRICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide." n.pr/4sa0F1S
"I can’t explain it, but it’s the weirdest, creepiest number I’ve seen in a long time. You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."
Austin Kocher, PhDJose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano died in ICE custody on March 25 at Adelanto, CA. He is the 14th person to die in ICE detention in 2026. That's one death every 6 days holding with what I can only call morbid precision.
I have a new piece on why the US is so much better at immigration than Europe. As someone who's lived in and studied both, I've been thinking about it a lot. Anyone who opines on immigration on either side would benefit from acknowledging the complete and total US superiority on the issue.
Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*
Michael HobbesNot going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf