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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Wisconsin Rep. Mark @pocan.house.gov FTW:

Stephen Miller @ @Stephe... • 4h
NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.

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Racist fuck. Go back to 1930's Germany.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

Late last month, three days after Abrego Garcia’s family filed its lawsuit over his deportation, government attorneys began discussing how to undo the mistake and bring him back. In their conversations, officials went so far as to float the idea of having the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador make a personal appeal to the country’s president for Abrego Garcia’s return. But first, the State Department’s legal team wanted more information from DHS about his alleged role in the MS-13 gang. The thin evidence supplied in response was met with skepticism from the State Department lawyers. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally when he was 16 years old, was one of 23 Salvadorans deported on March 15. But his name had not appeared on an internal list of 10 gang members sought by President Nayib Bukele.
Attorneys at DHS had other concerns. They were aware that, six years ago, a judge had granted Abrego Garcia protected status over fears that he could be targeted for violence should he be returned to El Salvador. That protection was still in effect and had been violated by the March 15 deportation. They wanted to know if U.S. diplomats could ask the Salvadoran government to keep him separated from Barrio 18 gang members who had threatened him in the past and might harm him.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

so they’re really going with the “keep a habeas petition in your pocket just in case you get disappeared” theory of due process, huh?

10. As part of the notice procedure, the alien is informed that he or she can make a telephone call to whomever he or she desires, including legal representatives. ICE ensures that telephones are made available for the aliens and that the aliens have access to the telephone lines.
11. Although there may be fact-specific exceptional cases, in a general case, after an alien is served with Form AEA 21-B, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 12 hours, including the ability to make a telephone call, to indicate or express an intent to file a habeas petition. If the alien does not express any such intention, then ICE may proceed with the removal, though such removal may not actually occur for many more hours or days, giving the alien additional time to express an intent. If the alien does express an intent to file a habeas petition, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 24 hours, to actually file that petition. If the alien does not file such a petition within 24 hours, then ICE may proceed with the removal, though such removal may not actually occur for many more hours or
days, giving the alien additional time to file the petition. Further, because aliens subject to the AEA are often detained for several days before removal, they frequently have much more time to express an intent to file a habeas petition or to actually file such a petition. Moreover, these timeframes are consistent with, if not more generous than, the timeframes used for expedited removal procedures under Title 8.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

BREAKING: DOJ claims that the Trump administration did not violate a court order barring it from third-country removals without providing process when three people were sent to El Salvador b/c the Defense Department sent them to El Salvador on March 31, not DHS, and DOD isn't a defendant.

4. _________________, an identified Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member, was
removed to El Salvador on March 31, 2025, "by the Department of Defense on a flight with no DHS personnel onboard." Id. at 11 22, 27. DHS did not direct the Department of
Defense to remove _____________________. Id. at 1 27. The Department of
Defense is not a defendant in this action.
5. ____________________, an identified TdA chief, was removed to El Salvador on
March 31, 2025, "by the Department of Defense on a flight where no DHS personnel onboard." Id. at 11 16, 18. DHS did not direct the Department of Defense to remove __________________. Id. at 9 18. The Department of Defense is not a defendant in this
action.
6. ____________________, an admitted TdA gang member, was removed to El
Salvador on March 31, 2025, "by the Department of Defense on a flight where no DHS personnel onboard." Id. at 14 10, 12. DHS did not direct the Department of Defense to
remove _____________________. Id. at 4 12. The Department of Defense is
not a defendant in this action.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Wow, this is the first time we've heard this number. Previous reporting suggested it was $6 million. So now it's $15 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars to imprison people in El Salvador without trial.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/04/2025

thinking of becoming a full on pocket constitution guy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

rollingstone.com

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador

Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Unless there was another sealed filing which isn’t on the docket (a real possibility), it would appear that the administration has failed to provide the required information about what they are doing to try to get him back.

DECLARATION OF MICHAEL G. KOZAK
1, Michael G. Kozak, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, declare under penalty of perjury as follows:
1. I am Senior Bureau Official in the Bureau of Wester Hemisphere Affairs, United States Department of State. As Senior Bureau Official, 1 am a member of the Senior Executive Service responsible for, among other things, coordination of the conduct of our diplomatic activities in the countries of the Westem Hemisphere, Before that, I was Senior Coordinator for Afghan Refugees in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration of the United States Department of State and have held various other roles in the Department of State since 1971.
I am aware that the instant lawsuit has been filed secking the return of Kilmar
Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador. I provide this declaration based on my personal knowledge, reasonable inquiry, and information obtained from other State Department employees.
3. It is my understanding based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed this 12th day of April 2025.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

politico.com

Inside the DOGE immigration task force

The taskforce, led by Musk confidante Antonio Gracias, is providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole and terminating visas.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/04/2025

If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This can be summarized as "pound sand, Your Honor."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

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Congressional Hispanic Caucus @hispaniccaucus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Jennifer, the @hispaniccaucus.bsky.social stands with you. We demand that the Trump administration correct this wrong and bring Kilmar home ✊🏽 #kilmarabregogarcia

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a legal right to be in America. He’s a husband, father and working man. Not a criminal. Yet he was deported to a gulag in El Salvador with no due process and Presidents Trump and Bukele refuse to return him to his family in the U.S.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Yet ANOTHER story of a Venezuelan man ripped away from his family in the U.S. because of his tattoos; in this case a tattoo of a rose and a tattoo of a crown. It’s been three weeks and his wife and kids have no idea what’s happened to him. Like others, El Salvador is holding him incommunicado.

In the early hours of January 29, 2025, the famly went to a regular check-in appointment with ICE in Charlotte. Luz, who was pregnant at the time, says when an officer called Zambrano Perez's name, they didn't suspect anything because he had never had issues before. But, then the office started asking him if he was involved with any criminal group and inquiring about his clothing and tattoos. Zambrano Perez has a tattoo on his hand of a crown with his name on it that he got when he was 15 years old. He has another tattoo of a rose.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Another huge story from today. An unknown number of people admitted through the CBP One program with a one-year grant of humanitarian parole got messages today telling them they have to leave the country within 7 days.

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Al Otro Lado @alotrolado-org.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

An administrative error–that’s all it took to rip him from his wife + 5 yr old, + transfer him to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador. A man's life has been destroyed due to the US gov's disgraceful incompetence + not even SCOTUS is holding this admin accountable. abcnews.go.com/Politics/app...

abcnews.go.com

Supreme Court delays midnight deadline for Trump administration to fix mistaken deportation of Maryland man

Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a temporary administrative stay -- putting off a deadline for the government to return a mistakenly deported man to the U.S.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation

Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for Columbia graduate’s release

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The pattern of ICE apparently hustling its detainees over a state border to frustrate habeas petitions in the jurisdiction where they were detained continues. Remember that ICE didn’t disclose Öztürk’s location, publicly or to her counsel, until she reached Louisiana.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm extra mad at the DOJ here for saying the guy they illegally deported should have, in 72 hours: 1) Filed a motion to reopen in immigration court 2) Filed an emergency stay request 3) Filed a petition for review in the 4th Circuit. What difference would it have made? They deported him illegally!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Is now a good time to say that people convicted of crimes deserve rights, due process, and not to be deported, let alone to a third country slave prison

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AILA @aila.org · 25/03/2025

"The families and lawyers of dozens of other Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who had been detained by ICE say their relatives and clients have similarly disappeared over the past week, with no explanation provided by the government over where they may be."

wapo.st

They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared.

Deportation proceedings are often shrouded in secrecy. But lawyers say the lack of information about the Venezuelan migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act is nearly unprecedented.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."

The Court need not resolve the thorny question of whether the judiciary has the authority to assess this claim in the first place. That is because Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on another
equally fundamental theory: before they may be deported, they are entitled to individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all. As the Government itself concedes, the awesome power granted by the Act may be brought to bear only on those who are, in fact,
"alien enemies." And the Supreme Court and this Circuit have long maintained that federal
courts are equipped to adjudicate that question when individuals threatened with detention and
removal challenge their designation as such. Because the named Plaintiffs dispute that they are
members of Tren de Aragua, they may not be deported until a court has been able to decide the
merits of their challenge. Nor may any members of the provisionally certified class be removed
until they have been given the opportunity to challenge their designations as well. The Motion to
Vacate will thus be denied.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

Declaration of S.Z.F.R. 1. I am a woman from Venezuela and I am in detention at Webb County Detention Center in Laredo Texas. My initials are S.Z.F.R. 2. On March 9 at 7 a.m. I was in my dorm in El Paso and was told to get my things together and I was being transferred to another facility. There was one other woman and 14 men who were also transferred with me. 3. I was supposed to have a merits hearing for my asylum claims on March 10th. 4. They took me to the airport in El Paso and I was put on a plane. Already on the plane were many Venezuelan men and three other Venezuelan women. We flew to Laredo. 5. When we got to Laredo we met up with another group of Venezuelan men. 6. There were at least 10 Venezuelan women on the plane. We arrived March 9 in Laredo and were taken to Webb County Detention Center. 7. Thursday of last week, March13th, we were told to gather our belongings and we were driven toward the airport for about an hour. We were told we were being deported to Venezuela. We never made it to the airport. We were sent back to Webb and told it was because of a plane malfunction. 8. On Friday again we were told to gather our belongings and put on the bus at Webb and sat on the bus for about 15 minutes and then were taken back to Webb. 9. Saturday morning we were again told to gather our belongings and get on the bus. We went to the airport and 8 women were put on the plane with me.

When we got on the plane there were already over 50 men on the plane. I could see other migrants walking to the plane but we took off before any additional people boarded. 11. Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said “there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.” 12. I asked where we were going and we were told that we were going to Venezuela. 13. Several other people on the plane told me they were in immigration proceedings and awaiting court hearings in immigration court. 14. We were not allowed to open our window shades. 15. We landed somewhere for refueling. We were there for many hours. We were arm and leg shackled the whole time. 16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn’t want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA. 18. After we landed but were still on the plane a woman opened the shade. An officer rushed to shut the shade and pushed her down by her shoulders to try and stop her from looking out. The person that pushed her down had HOU-02 on his sleeve. 19. I saw out the window for a minute and I saw men in military uniforms and another plane. I saw men being led off the plane. Since I’ve been back in the U.S. I have seen news coverage and the plane I saw looks like the one I’ve seen on TV with migrants from the U.S. being delivered to El Salvador.

20. All the men got off the plane. The remaining women asked what happens to us? I was told that the President of El Salvador would not accept women. I was also told that we were going back to detention in the U.S. 21. We left in the middle of the night and landed in the early morning in Laredo. The 8 women who were on the plane were all returned back to the U.S. /s/ S.Z.F.R. S.Z.F.R.

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

No criminal record. No association with TdA. No due process. Our Venezuelan LGBTQ client who was wrongly accused of association w/Tren de Aragua remains in an El Salvador mega-prison notorious for human rights violations. Being an artist with tattoos is not a crime.

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Boasberg reminds everyone that Congress did in fact create a court for this -- the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. It has never been used; Boasberg was chief of this court until this year!

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

WaPo: "Trump’s migrant roundups have a crucial ally: Public opinion" Paragraph 5: "White House has said some of the deportees did not have criminal records and have not been charged with any crimes" Poll headline is based on: 57% say people who haven't broken laws in U.S. should NOT be deported

The Washington post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Trump's migrant roundups have a crucial ally:
Public opinion One Democratic voter said, "We're empathetic, but we kind of went too much in the other
direction."
Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT

Screenshot of WaPo/Ipsos poll finding that 57 percent of Americans think people who "have not broken laws in the United States except for immigration laws" should NOT be deported

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Have also heard that the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which has specific oversight authority over ICE detention, has also been completely gutted and largely destroyed by a Reduction in Force.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part:

"Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen.

On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses.

As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship.

The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours.

All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated.

The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk.

After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s
wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."

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Roll for Sanity @rollforsanity.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

You know, there's historical precedent for kidnapping people, sending them to another country, & making them do forced labor. The name escapes me but I seem to remember we FOUGHT A WHOLE FUCKING WAR to stop it Even worse is we're paying the labor camps to keep them this time

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airehada.bsky.social @airehada.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Now seeing multiple cases in which the U.S. Attorneys Office is indicting folks in federal court in Texas for improper entry from years ago (a misdemeanor under 8 USC 1325), who are now settled out in different parts of the country but arrested by the US Marshals & Border Patrol in Maryland, DC & VA

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Jose shares, "I'm working pruning in the pistachios. I earn CAs minimum wage. It's really hard because I don't earn enough to support my family. The wages are very low and everything is very expensive. My salary is not enough." #WeFeedYou

A CA farm worker pruning pistachio trees

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Human Rights First @humanrightsfirst.org · 22/02/2025

The Trump administration’s horrifying deportations of people seeking asylum violate U.S. and international laws that protect people from return to political, religious and other persecution. humanrightsfirst.org/library/unla...

humanrightsfirst.org

Unlawful Deportations of Asylum Seekers to Panama, Costa Rica and Elsewhere Must Stop - Human Rights First

Washington, D.C. — In the wake of reports that the Trump administration has deported people seeking asylum from religious and other persecution to Panama and other countries, Human Rights First calls ...

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Vera Institute of Justice @vera.org · 20/02/2025

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that could displace people experiencing homelessness and increase penalties for some crimes in Washington, DC. Harsher penalties and more criminalization will not make us safer.

dcnewsnow.com

Trump expected to sign executive order cracking down on homelessness, public safety in DC

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — In the District, President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order cracking down on public safety and beautification. The order was first reported on by…

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/02/2025

The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

nytimes.com

Fired Park Rangers Try to ‘Open Some Hearts’ on Social Media

Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about their firings and share their love of the National Park Service.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 20/02/2025

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

nbcnews.com

On a U.S. deportation flight of mostly Asians to Costa Rica, half will be minors

A flight carrying primarily Asian undocumented migrants, 65 of whom are minors, is expected to land in San Jose, Costa Rica on Thursday afternoon.

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