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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2025
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data. (Published May)
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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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Migrant Clinicians Network @migrantclinicians.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Weekly Win: After decades of restrictions, the U.S. Forest Service will now provide N95s for wildfire fighters. A vital step forward for health & safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... @nytimes.com
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social thank you for your outstanding reporting!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2025
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
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He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to…
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 19/07/2025
While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.
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Migrant Clinicians Network @migrantclinicians.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Today, MCN’s @amyliebman.bsky.social testified before OSHA, joining colleagues nationwide in support of a strong, enforceable federal heat standard to protect workers.
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Migrant Clinicians Network @migrantclinicians.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Read MCN's position statement in English and Spanish. Mass detention and deportation efforts can have severe, lasting impacts on the physical and mental health of immigrant families. www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2025/ap...
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APHA @apha.org · 09/04/2025
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...
Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. Logo
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Heartbreaking.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
What remains of the CDC after Tuesday’s cuts is a hobbled agency, with a smaller global footprint, devoting fewer resources to environmental health, occupational health and disease prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
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C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/03/2025
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are deporting innocent men without any due process to a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer, autism awareness, and loving their mothers.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Trump administration to nominate acting director to lead CDC Susan Monarez is an experienced health administrator who has expertise in new health technologies. www.cidrap.umn.edu/p... Photo: James Gathany / CDC
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2025
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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Migrant Clinicians Network @migrantclinicians.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social shares how MCN equips health centers to become the community hub during disasters. MCN provides extensive resources and technical assistance, you can see some of the resources on our Disaster Preparedness page: www.migrantclinician.org/disaster-pre...
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Climate for Health @climate4health.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Community Health Centers are uniquely positioned to mobilize communities around climate health impacts on the frontline. This mobilization starts before the disaster.
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Climate for Health @climate4health.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Amy Liebman from the @migrantclinicians.bsky.social shares a framework on the climate impacted migrant, showing the many touch points of climate change on health. #OurPlanetOurHealth
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/02/2025
Phenix Lumber was the deadliest workplace in America over the past five years. OSHA inspectors issued them more than 100 safety violations and millions in fines. Yet deaths and injuries continued.
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It was the deadliest workplace in America. So why didn’t safety regulators shut it down?
OSHA issued over 180 citations and millions in fines to this Alabama sawmill, the deadliest workplace in America, but the mayhem didn’t stop.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.
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Migrant Clinicians Network @migrantclinicians.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New @sentientmedia.org article featuring MCN's @amyliebman.bsky.social: "In her role at Migrant Clinicians Network, Liebman is working to increase knowledge of H5N1 among clinicians... 'We need to think about this disease in terms of worker health and safety'" sentientmedia.org/tracking-bir...
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Tracking Bird Flu Is Largely Left to States. Under Trump, the Federal Government Might Step Even Further Back.
With human infections of avian flu present in the U.S., workers remain most vulnerable to the virus.
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @propublica.org bring the fears and realities of workers on dairies, factories and restaurants to light as they prepare for the potential of deportation
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How One Immigrant Community Is Coping With the Threat of Deportation
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but wh...
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Rebecca Katz @rebeccakkatz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Part 2 (b/c Bluesky only lets us post 59 seconds at a time)! LET'S GO WIN RACES!!
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Rebecca Katz @rebeccakkatz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excited to be joining the fight w/ Tommy McDonald & Julian Mulvey - We've worked on some of the biggest, toughest, most innovative races in the country. We’re launching Fight to help a new generation of candidates meet the moment. If you want to run a different kind of campaign, join the Fight.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Had an awesome time chatting with Jon Stewart & @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social talking about how to fight the dumpster fire. Gear up. It’s time to brawl.
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
@Danielle Ofri offers an important primer for all clinicians
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Opinion | How Doctors and Nurses Can Protect Undocumented Immigrants
Doctors have a responsibility to reassure their patients, regardless of immigration status, that they are welcome and protected.
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Meanwhile....the beauty of immigrant communities reminds us why we are a country of immigrants
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As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires
Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A taste of what's to come and it will ripple through out the entire community.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 10/01/2025
New reports mark 2024 as the first full calendar year with more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of human-caused global warming above pre-industrial levels. Top European scientists say our society is unprepared for these new climate challenges.
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Global Warming Surges Well Past 1.5-Degree Mark in 2024 - Inside Climate News
International agencies coordinate release of annual climate data to highlight the past year’s “exceptional”—and dangerous—climate conditions.
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Outstanding reporting by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @maryamjameel.bsky.social
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Smart commentary on what the next administration needs to do to combat bird flu. By @lborio.bsky.social and @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Biden faltered on bird flu. Here’s how Trump can course-correct.
The Biden administration’s bird flu response has been too slow. Now comes a test for Trump’s White House.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 04/01/2025
Elderly people are at high risk from extreme heat. But in Mexico, one of the fastest-warming countries in the Americas, the worst rates of heat deaths are hitting young adults and children.
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Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People - Inside Climate News
Elderly people are at high risk from extreme heat. But in one of the fastest-warming countries in the Americas, the worst rates of heat deaths are hitting young adults and children.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
3 new @nejm.org papers on #H5N1 today "highlight the urgent need for vigilant surveillance of emerging mutations and assessment of the threat of human-to-human transmission" (from overview, text below) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This underscores what I hvae been observing for years.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/12/2024
Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Many thanks to @amymaxmen.bsky.social for this deep dive on the timeline of the US H5N1 outbreaks, which features an animation created by my @pandemiccenter.bsky.social colleagues. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News
Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ...
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I wonder how many states will follow LA. And are tbey going to invest in more hospital beds that will be needed from anti public health strategies?
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Los Angeles County confirms avian flu in cat deaths as more cases suspected The three cats with suspected infections don't have any known exposure to raw milk, and investigators are examining other potential sources, including raw meat. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/12/2024
Breaking News: California declared a state of emergency over a bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle. The virus has been detected in 645 herds.
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California Declares an Emergency Over Bird Flu
Officials have discovered the virus in 645 herds of dairy cattle, more than in any other state so far.
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Amy Liebman @amyliebman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
We know far more workers die from the #heat than is reported. Hannah Critchfield and Juan Carlos Chavez offer a horrifying accounting of unreported worker deaths if Florida.
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Florida workers died in the heat. Their deaths were kept from authorities
A Times investigation found twice as many workers have died across the state from heat than officials know.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"That means being cleareyed about priorities and expanding the number of powerful interests that stand to benefit from more aggressive climate action." 3/3 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
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Opinion | Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump
Climate purity is a recipe for failure.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/11/2024
When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @maryamjameel.bsky.social (Published Feb. 2023)
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Death on a Dairy Farm: What Really Happened to 8-Year-Old Jefferson Rodríguez
When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different…
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