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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An ICE Air flight originating in Alexandria, LA, w/ stops in Miami & San Juan, is en route & expected to arrive in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia at 3:28pm local. This marks the 1st time ICE Air has flown to St. Lucia, carrying third country nat’ls under a non-binding agreement w/ the US

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The only reason my client’s asylum app was denied (and he was ordered removed but granted withholding of removal) is the Biden-era “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” (CLP) rule, which was found unlawful in June. This is true of so many of the folks I talk to who’ve been deported to third countries.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I wear a few somewhat incongruent hats these days. I am proud that, wearing one of them, I was fortunate enough to play a tiny part in bringing this phenomenal team effort to fruition. This report is hard to read because it’s heartbreaking. But please do read it - and share it widely 🙏

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I requested my great grandfather’s alien enemy file from the National Records Archive. 300ish pages arrived in parts. Some is just paperwork- immigration forms, the alien enemy questionnaire, etc. Parts feel too personal to share here- letters from his young daughters, pleading for his release.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’ve lived in Quebec for like 8 years now and this is still how I feel most days haha

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is his letter to his family when they were “interned.” It makes me both sad and angry how accepting he and many were of all of this. In a sense, we have come a long way since then- with the ACLU et al jumping into action at the first hint of the AEA invocation. If only the courts could save us.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I found part of my great grandfather’s alien enemy file online at the National Records Archive today (ordered the rest). I noticed right away that he got a hearing notice and there were Board decisions in his case. At least, minimum due process seems to have been given.

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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Join @aiisforg.bsky.social and Densho to learn more about the history of the Alien Enemies Act and Angel Island’s role as a WWII detention site, and make connections between past and present. 📅 Tuesday, May 13, 12:00-1:00pm PST 💻 Virtual Event 📋 Register: bit.ly/angel5-13

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Matter of W-G-R- was my case, so I feel like I know an intellectually dishonest and contrived BIA decision when I see one … Today’s decision in Matter of A-A-R- is definitely both of those things. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Japanese American history is more important today than perhaps ever

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yes. It’s horrifying on a very visceral level, even to those of us in following generations. We grew up hearing these stories.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

How do I know the Alien Enemy Act will be applied to people who are no one’s enemy at all? It was applied to my great grandpa, Issei Matsuura, a Japanese Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest. He immigrated from Japan in 1915, and he and his wife saw the Japanese community in Guadalupe, CA through so much.

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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case. Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942 Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*. #LawSky #Skystorians

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“Without due process, Trump’s sweeping allegations are unproven,” San Jose Nikkei Resisters told AsAmNews, “and to impose detention and deportation without evidence or lawful charges are the actions of a police state.”

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This a thousand times. “Why don’t they just apply for citizenship?” Well, do I have a story for you… 🫠

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A propos nothing in particular…

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The “enemy alien” in my family was my great grandfather, Issei Matsuura. He was a Buddhist priest, who immigrated from Japan to Guadalupe, CA. With his wife, he ran a children’s home for the kids of Japanese migrant workers during the Spanish Flu Pandemic. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

83 years since EO 9066. Here is my mom with her parents - she was born into imprisonment at Gila River Relocation Center. She spoke kind and firm words of encouragement to me this past week when I told her of my efforts to get immigration lawyers to Guantánamo. www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-b...

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Stephanie Chang @stephanielilychang.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today in the Michigan Senate, I shared reflections on Fred Korematsu Day and the importance of courageous Americans standing up against unjust executive orders, then and now. #fredkorematsu Watch here: youtu.be/-q02Mw8xpRA?...

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Senator Chang on Fred Korematsu Day

YouTube video by Senator Stephanie Chang

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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today we honor Fred T. Korematsu. During WWII, the U.S. gov’t forcibly incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (many U.S. citizens). Fred defied the gov’t’s orders & refused to report to the camps. He challenged the incarceration’s constitutionality & lost before SCOTUS in 1944. 1/2

Susan Serrano, Eric Yamamoto, and Minal Shah with Fred Korematsu

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Reyna Montoya @reynaemontoya.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I love America, and because I do we CANNOT forget that the US forcibly relocated & incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in 10 concentration camps. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

One of the Chinese government’s best kept secrets is the vast system of colonial boarding schools in Tibet, eerily reminiscent of the residential schools in the US and Canada.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This is what I have always assumed and why it’s important to get a variety of narratives out there in the open, not just the ones that suit a narrow agenda.

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy New Year. We started 2025 by sharing osechi ryori with our family and friends. May each of us be a light in the darkness this year.

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