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Harnessing the power of American voices to enact policy change that guarantees full labor, civil and political rights for immigrants and their families. www.AmericasVoice.org

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 6m
Congratulations @hincapie.bsky.social on being named the next President of the @kennedyhrc.bsky.social! 👏
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Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center @kennedyhrc.bsky.social · 5h
Meet @hincapie.bsky.social, our incoming President. From Medellín to the front lines of the fight for immigrant justice and democracy, Marielena has spent more than two decades turning her lived experience into a force for change. We can’t wait for you to get to know her!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1h
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. 1/
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. All encounters with federal agents should be recorded and documented if it is safe to do so. Witnesses can reach out to us to share what they see or to seek help.

Chaotic, warrantless immigration raids and roving patrols spread fear and disrupt lives and livelihoods. They do not belong here; hard working immigrants do.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1h
“Look at what happened to Renee and all these victims. So I won’t stop. I have a voice, and I do matter, and I don’t want it to keep happening," said Marimar Martinez. "So I want to spread awareness because what’s happening is not normal. We shouldn’t stay here and normalize what’s happening."
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Woman sues Trump administration after being shot five times by immigration agent
Marimar Martinez, a Chicago woman who was shot five times by an immigration agent, sued the federal government Monday for damages, with her attorneys saying new analysis of the scene will prove the…
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CHIRLA @chirla-org.bsky.social · 2h
This morning, CHIRLA stood alongside our faith community on the final day of the 8-day, 96.5-mile pilgrimage from Adelanto Detention Center to the Detention Center in LA. ✊🏽 We came together with our neighbors to call attention to the cruel conditions inside detention centers in CA & the country. 🕊️
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 4h
"Cárdenas expects the financial fallout of ICE’s enforcement surges to persist long after federal immigration crackdowns end. She pointed to research... which found that once federal agents move into an area, consumer spending drops — and does not return to normal once they’re gone." #EndTheICETax
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 4h
“Mass deportations do not just have a human impact, and obviously it is a horrific thing that’s happening to immigrant communities that are affecting people and families,” said @vcardenas.bsky.social. “But there’s also an economic cost, and in this instance, a pocketbook cost to all Americans.”
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ICE raids could cost Maine billions of dollars and thousands of workers, new report says
‘If immigrants continue to be taken from their jobs and communities, Maine simply will not have enough workers to replace them,’ Gov. Janet Mills said.
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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 4h
ICE puts seven warehouses purchased for detention on the market open.substack.com/pub/projects...
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ICE puts seven warehouses purchased for detention on the market
The properties were among 11 warehouses ICE bought for $1.07 billion to expand detention capacity. Seven are now being marketed for sale at a steep discount.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h
“A majority of voters are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country,” NPNA said. “As of July 2026, only 35 percent of voters approve of our government’s current priorities, with 60 percent disapproving—the lowest ratings regarding inflation, foreign relations, jobs, and the economy.”
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Voters: It’s Your Right And Duty As American Citizens To Have Your Say On Trump’s America This November
Citizenship Month 2026 is a reminder that power is ultimately in the hands of American voters.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4h
"In the past, most unaccompanied minors in ORR custody were children who had recently crossed the US-Mexico border by themselves—not kids who arrived with a parent and had been living in the country for years." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 6h
𝟓𝟎𝟔 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 That includes more than 100 Americans questioned about their citizenship status, at least 70 American children and teens detained, at least 63 Americans detained while recording, and roughly a dozen U.S. citizens (mainly children) deported. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 05/10/2026
13 states have voter registration deadlines TODAY, and 4 others are beginning in-person early voting. Check out our interactive map to see important dates for your state: bit.ly/3UjBBrc
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We still have so many questions,” Lorenzo Jr. asked during one Congressional hearing. “What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected behind anonymity while my brother and I stand before cameras showing our faces, proudly saying our first and last names.”
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“I’m trying to use that anger and channel it in a more positive way.” #ICYMI: TIME has recognized Ronaldo and his brother Lorenzo Jr. as Latino Leaders 2026 for their efforts to seek justice and protect immigrant families. ✍️: @tusk81.bsky.social americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/time-names...
TIME is honoring the sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston dad who was brutally shot and killed by ICE while on his way to work this past summer.

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Photograph by Harmon Li for TIME
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📍 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃, 𝐎𝐇: Hundreds gathered over the weekend to mourn and remember the life of Pierre Damas Bel. "The service was somber, at times passionate, and included calls to action and encouragement to come together.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Hundreds gather in Springfield to remember Haitian student Pierre Damas Bel at funeral service
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is a...
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"CNN spent a month in Hettinger to examine the impact of immigrant workers & how they were viewed in a rural part of the country that mostly voted for Trump. The documentary... reveals life in the community just as it was getting more foreign workers for a vital local resource – teachers in schools"
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Inside a tiny prairie town relying on immigrants for hospital work | CNN
CNN spent 30 days chronicling life in Hettinger, North Dakota, where long-established residents and foreign workers come together.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 02/10/2026
DHS violence is out of control. They are shooting people in broad daylight, pointing guns at U.S. citizens, and terrorizing our communities, including right here in Northern Virginia. We owe it to the victims and their families to investigate this misconduct and hold these agents accountable.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/kF8tK8UEcAU
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz @wassermanschultz.house.gov · 02/10/2026
A whistleblower told us that ICE detained hundreds of people in a garage and chained them overnight in Miramar, flagrantly violating a court order banning them from holding people longer than 12 hours. This treatment—without due process—is torture. We must keep fighting back.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another death in ICE custody, a 21-year-old who died by suicide after his mother was detained, and the Supreme Court allowing third-country deportations to resume for now. These are not isolated stories. Read our new #AbuseOfPowerWatch newsletter by @yunao08.bsky.social for more.
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Abuse of Power Watch - October 2nd
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government’s abuses of power.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“What is happening in the name of our government is cruel, criminal and calculated. It is Stephen Miller’s intent to drive out of this country every nonwhite person he possibly can.”
baptistnews.com
Do not become numb to the cruelty of this administration
Another day and another news report of a Trump administration cruelty related to immigrants and immigration policies.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back in Austin by an ICE agent who wasn't wearing a body camera, weeks after DHS promised every officer in the field would have one," said @repcasar.bsky.social: pingree.house.gov/news/documen...
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Reps. Pingree, Garcia, Casar Call for Accountability After Three ICE Shootings and Body Camera Failures
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 02/10/2026
As of October 1, many immigrants will begin to lose access to Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage, leaving many without access to the essential health care they need. What immigrants need to know about the new restrictions ⤵️ bit.ly/4dfuYj8
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What Immigrants Need to Know About the New Medicaid Eligibility Restrictions
Congress has introduced Medicaid eligibility restrictions for immigrants who have experienced domestic violence and human trafficking, among others.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is leading a field hearing on the impacts of mass deportation and ICE's new proposed facility. “With supercharge funding, we’ve witnessed a brutal mass deportation campaign that trampling on the Constitution, targeting our communities, and in fact, it’s proving deadly.”
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Field Hearing : Examining the Community Impacts of Mass Deportation and Proposed ICE Warehouse
YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 02/10/2026
Deporting people to countries where they have zero ties is indefensible. We will not back down. We will keep fighting to protect our communities.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Following the horrific killings of Houston dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Maine dad Johan Sebastián, ICE claimed that agents would be equipped w/body cams by the end of August. But The Post reports that the recruit who shot Garcés Pérez in the back was not using his government-issued body cam👇🏽
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"With a bullet still lodged in his back, Garcés Pérez appeared in court in a wheelchair. His attorneys said he still urgently needs medical care, 10 days after being shot." Wilber should be receiving the medical care he urgently needs, not sitting in a courtroom in pain. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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Judge keeps immigrant delivery driver shot by ICE in custody for alleged assault
Prosecutors presented a video from cameras at a nearby business, but the shooting of Wilber Garcés Pérez wasn’t captured on the video shared in court.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Enough of treating Wilbur like his life doesn’t matter, like his pain doesn’t matter, like whether he lives/dies doesn’t matter” Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot in the back by an ICE recruit. 11 days later, he still has a bullet lodged in his body. ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social
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ICE Promised ICE Agents Would Have Body Cams By August. The Recruit Who Shot A DoorDash Delivery Worker Wasn’t Using One
As ICE again attempts to escape accountability, Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez remains in detention and in need of urgent medical care.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renée Good was senselessly killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Her mother Donna Ganger spoke to us about her daughter and her fight for change to end this violence. Oversight Dems will keep fighting for justice and make sure that nobody in this country has to live in fear.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: After ICE detained Minerva Terrones, her 21-year-old son Samuel, who had been diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia, lost the support she gave him. Weeks later, he died by suicide. A federal judge later found his mother had been held illegally. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latino history is American history. For centuries, Latino communities have helped shape this country, and today, the more than 60 million Latinos continue to "help fuel our economy and enrich our nation as entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, entertainers, scientists, public servants, and much more.”
A social media graphic with a orange to red gradient background and the list of Latin American countries in alphabetical order (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela) with the main text saying "Latinos have always been here and always will be."
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Everybody stepped up in Oswego and decided the safety of our own was more important.” Two men stayed on a roof of a home in Oswego, NY for nearly six hours Wednesday as federal immigration agents tried to arrest them.
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How strangers helped two men evade an immigration arrest: ‘Everybody stepped up in Oswego’
On the fly, a crowd hatched a plan to rescue two men stuck on a roof for six hours to avoid the Border Patrol.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Ronaldo visits the site where his father was killed at least once a day, and every day he finds someone there who wants to talk,” TIME reported. “Sometimes it’s a neighbor, but often it’s a traveler from other parts of Texas, from Arizona, from New Mexico, from Minnesota.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“On his first full day of his second term as president, Trump rescinded an internal government policy that generally discouraged immigration raids at ‘sensitive locations,’ such as schools, hospitals and churches.” Recall that this was a Project 2025 demand: americasvoice.org/blog/armed-a...
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Armed Agents Storming Churches, Schools, and Hospitals: The Potential Devastation of Project 2025’s ICE Raids - America's Voice
Tucked into the immigration priorities of the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025 plan is a provision that, despite its two-sentence brevity, would have devastating consequences by allowing Ste...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The family of Renee Good has sued the Trump administration over her fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January. "Good, 37, was ​shot dead in her car by a US ICE agent on January 7, when she ‌and her wife joined one of the city's daily protests against masked and armed federal agents"
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Renee Good's family sues Trump administration over fatal Minneapolis shooting
The family of Renee Good, one of two US citizens fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, sued US President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over her killing duri...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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The Progressive Caucus @usprogressives.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"ICE is an agency of masked men and unmarked vehicles with a blank check from Donald Trump" @repcasar.bsky.social
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Friday, I'm hosting a field hearing on the impacts of mass deportation and ICE's proposed warehouse on San Antonio's East Side.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am less pessimistic about this than I am about the third-country removal case, but I have no illusions that this is an easy case for advocates. But this is a situation where nearly every federal judge in the country has already weighed in, and the vast majority have rejected Trump's views.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.”
"A moral obligation"

Rivas grew up in El Salvador during another tumultuous era. A military coup in 1979 led to a deadly decade-long civil war between the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government and a left-wing guerrilla group backed by Cuba. 

Rivas decided to become a Catholic priest at age 27. He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.
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