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Anna Oakes

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Children & Families Reporter at The Current via Report for America. Prev covered immigration and migration for Documented, Passblue, Al Jazeera, and others. Signal: annao.06

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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Some belated news: I am so pleased to have joined The Current as their Children & Families Reporter, via @reportforamerica.bsky.social. I’m covering the intersections of health and education across Lafayette Parish in Louisiana. I moved here last week and am very excited to be here!
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How a UN Agency Helps to Enable US Policy on Third-Country Deportees passblue.com/2026/06/30/h...
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@hellgatenyc.com election night livestream tonight! Don’t miss @nickpinto.bsky.social biking around Elmhurst!
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
On Sunday, Benito Miranda, a three-tour Iraq War veteran, was detained by ICE. He'll likely be deported to Mexico. Reported for @aljazeera.com with the support of @pulitzercenter.org. aje.news/bl5ib6
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Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from the US
Trump's push for mass deportation has heightened fears that immigrant veterans of the US military could be expelled.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New York has the fifth largest dairy industry in the country. Its farmworkers say they face fear, exploitation, and lost wages.
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Immigrant Dairy Workers Rally to Fight Mistreatment at N.Y. Farms
New York has the fifth largest dairy industry in the country. Its farmworkers say they face fear, exploitation, and lost wages.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A photog covering Delaney Hall had to ditch her camera bag with $10K of gear an injury. The bag was gone when a friend went to get it, but an airtag showed the bag was at the house of a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutors office, prosecutors now say: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/o...
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Officer Stole Injured Photog's Cameras After Delaney Hall Protest, State AG Says
An AirTagged keychain led investigators to $10,000 in missing camera equipment at the home of a sergeant assigned to the Essex County Prosecutor’s office after clashes at a Newark ICE detention facili...
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
For my @documentedny.bsky.social dispatch from Delaney Hall, I spoke with family members of detainees who are holding a hunger and labor strike to protest the facility's conditions: documentedny.com/2026/05/29/d...
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Calls to Shut Down Delaney Hall After Mistreatment Allegations
The treatment of detainees at the New Jersey detention facility has prompted a weeklong hunger and labor strike, as well as mounting protests, arrests and violent backlash.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A day inside an NYC immigration courtroom where "mega master" dockets were rolled out, the latest Trump admin tactic to roil immigration courts. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/02/t...
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Trump Administration Unfurls Mass Deportation Proceedings in NYC Immigration Court
An immigration judge Monday had a docket of 121 cases in a single day.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/05/2026
NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
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Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Experts we spoke to said this racial disparity was an indication of the use of racial profiling, while ICE in its own account of theses arrests, sometimes submitted in court, described officers stopping a person based on their appearance, developing a justification for arrest after the stop...
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Almost all of the arrests we found were of immigrants from Latin American countries, far greater than the share of unauthorized immigrants in the region. When we compared street arrests in bureaucratic setting like at ICE check-ins, Latino immigrants were just 55% of the cases we found.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 15/05/2026
"I'm their only hope." "Remittances sent home from family members in the U.S. are a lifeline for about a third of families in Haiti." "[M]ore than six million people in Haiti, including 3.3 million children, are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance." #USA #Haiti #Labour #Immigration
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For Haitian Immigrants, a Proposed Remittances Ban Sparks Fear of Deadly Consequences
The Trump administration's proposal to end remittances sent from the U.S. to Haiti could cut off a vital financial lifeline for those in the unstable nation.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
if you’re facing eviction and your landlord says it’s because of “demolition” … turns out there is no legal definition of what that means great new story from @smaldo.bsky.social:
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To Evict Tenants, NYC Landlords Now Claim ‘Demolition.’ Is It Valid?
‘Good Cause’ tenant protections enacted in 2024 left a big opening for property owners to not renew leases. But do apartment renovations count as demolition?
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Advocates have published a second letter written from inside the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, signed by 300 detained people. “Judges in this detention center…carry out deportations and mass expulsions without properly reviewing cases. We live with anguish and fear of appearing in court.”
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 05/05/2026
A Manhattan synagogue is hosting an event promising the sale of land in the West Bank this evening, for the first time since City Council passed a bill intended to limit protests near houses of worship. Mayor Mamdani's spokesperson told Hell Gate the mayor is opposed to the sale.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My latest for @passblue.bsky.social ⬇️
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 20/04/2026
A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement on Long Island and in counties north of New York City allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
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Outside NYC’s ‘Sanctuary City,’ Local Police Routinely Collude With ICE
A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In her recent work, Rawya El Chab explores the legacy of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which tore apart the Lebanese Left. With the support of Round Earth Media and the IWMF, and @aidaalami.bsky.social's careful editing, my latest for @hyperallergic.com: hyperallergic.com/rawya-el-cha...
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Rawya El Chab Tends to the Wounds of Lebanon's Civil War
The latest segment of her performance series “Crossing the Water” chronicles life under military occupation after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
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EL PAÍS América @elpaisamerica.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Más detenciones y menos supervisión: un informe alerta del aumento de muertes en centros migratorios del ICE dozz.es/h_0sao
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Más detenciones y menos supervisión: un informe alerta del aumento de muertes en centros migratorios del ICE
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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine you are a teen in Minnesota, fearing that your immigrant parents will be abducted by ICE. You get an email from a military recruiter, who is also an immigrant, telling you that you can enlist and get a green card for your parents. 1/2 taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...
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Recruiter told students that enlisting can lead to Green Cards for parents
The Parole in Place program is not available until after service members enlist, and it often requires a lawyer.
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OR Books @orbooks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
For its inaugural episode, we welcomed author and scholar Behrooz Ghamari on ORdio, the OR Books podcast, to discuss his new book, The Long War on Iran. See the full episode on the OR Books Youtube, or at the link in our bio.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
ICE's impact on the Ecuadorian community in NYC has been devastating.
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24% of Immigrants Detained in NYC Are From Ecuador - Documented
ICE's impact on the Ecuadorian community in NYC has been devastating.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
En tiempos de persecución y criminalización de los inmigrantes en todo EEUU, la Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer representa un espacio comunitario de optimismo, orgullo y apoyo para cientos de estudiantes y sus familias. Para @elpaisamerica.bsky.social: elpais.com/us/migracion...
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Una escuela de mariachi de Nueva York persiste y prospera en los tiempos antimigrantes de Trump
En medio de la persecución de los inmigrantes en todo Estados Unidos, la Academia Nuevo Amanecer es un punto comunitario optimista y apoya a cientos de estudiantes y familias
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 16/03/2026
Amazon has paid just $5,400 of the more than $9.8 million in fines and penalties related to illegal idling that it owes the city. buff.ly/tRv2gVn
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Amazon Owes Nearly $10M Unpaid Fines for Idling in New York City - Streetsblog New York City
Amazon owes more than any other other company issued fines through the city's citizen idling enforcement program.
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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
¡Mariachi en Nueva York! de @annaoakes.bsky.social
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Una escuela de mariachi de Nueva York persiste y prospera en los tiempos antimigrantes de Trump
En medio de la persecución de los inmigrantes en todo Estados Unidos, la Academia Nuevo Amanecer es un punto comunitario optimista y apoya a cientos de estudiantes y familias
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems passblue.com/2026/03/08/h...
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Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems
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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · 06/03/2026
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.
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Newark’s school meal contractor also feeds an ICE detention facility. Advocates want that to end.
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Newark public schools have a $12 million contract with Driscoll Foods, which supplies food to Delaney Hall, the controversial ICE facility nearby. Advocates want the BOE to cut ties when their contract expires in June. Latest for @chalkbeat.org: www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2026/...
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Newark’s school meal contractor also feeds an ICE detention facility. Advocates want that to end.
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facil...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed. Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social: documentedny.com/2026/02/09/v...
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Visitors to Delaney Hall Wait for Hours in an Unheated Tent to See Their Loved Ones - Documented
The tent, purchased by county officials, was installed after complaints about the lack of protection against cold temperatures.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 09/02/2026
The technology deployed on the border includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones. And border tech isn't staying at the border.
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How AI Surveillance Tech is Creeping From the Southern Border Into the Rest of the Country
Surveillance technology has long been part of policing the border. ICE’s growing raids are bringing it to many other areas.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A mother and her 2 young kids, including her US citizen 4-year-old daughter, were trapped in a hotel room for weeks without contact from the outside world as the Trump administration sought to deport them. "We were experiencing a nightmare," she told @thecity.nyc. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/28/i...
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ICE Detained a 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen and her Honduran Family in Hotels for Weeks
The mother and her two young children, one of them born in the United States, were not able to contact the outside world for nearly three weeks while being held in hotel rooms in Queens and Louisiana.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations. theintercept.com/2026/01/29/t...
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Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities
A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
“I just want my children to grow [up] safely,” she said. “Is that too much to ask?” 
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As the U.S. Moves to End Haiti’s TPS, Families Brace for the Unthinkable - Documented
The decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti has left thousands of families facing the prospect of returning to a country engulfed by violence and political collapse.
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Eduardo Cuevas @cuevasreports.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Amidst bike thefts and ICE raids, delivery workers have been organizing their own self defense networks. I followed one of these groups, El Diario de los Deliveryboys, on their Virgen de Guadalupe procession for @documentedny.bsky.social. documentedny.com/2025/12/16/b...
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Bicycles and Blessings: Delivery Workers Honor Our Lady of Guadalupe in Annual Procession - Documented
Now in its fifth year, this caravan of deliveristas marked the feast day by pedaling to 14 immigrant businesses across Washington Heights, East Harlem, and the South Bronx.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/12/2025
Emergency calls were made to 911 at least 15 times a month from Stewart Detention Center for six months in a row as of November 1.
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ICE Prison’s 911 Calls Overwhelm a Rural Georgia Emergency System
The 911 operator couldn’t send an ambulance because it was already responding to another call from ICE’s Stewart Detention Center.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
With @nickpinto.bsky.social at Cuomo headquarters for @hellgatenyc.com Tune into the liveliest livestream in the city, starting now! www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...
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Clarissa A. León @clarissaleon.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Documented went down and spoke with vendors who said federal agents stormed Canal Street without warning — leaving dozens detained and the community in shock and confusion. 📝 @KEXU3 and @Anna_Oakes1 🔗 documentedny.com/2025/10/23/ice-raid-chinatown-vendors-arrested
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'This is Lawless Terror': Chinatown Reacts to ICE's Street Vendor Raid on Canal Street - Documented
Confusion, fear and outrage grip NYC after ICE arrests and detains street vendors, some of whom had legal status or U.S. citizenship.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 22/10/2025
As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained. As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters. MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Dina and her husband spent their life savings to flee Venezuela. This week her husband was detained by ICE, in front of their children, during a mandatory asylum hearing. In July, she told me how her family longed for safety and stability after years of precarity. tinyurl.com/3uknzf5y @thecity.nyc
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Mayor Adams Closed NYC’s Migrant ‘Welcome Center.’ More Arrive Every Day.
Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the Roosevelt Hotel’s closure and the city’s handling of the migrant crisis. A mother who spent a year there offered her own mixed assessment.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
These high-profile cases are already having a chilling effect on immigrants' speech across the country. documentedny.com/2025/10/10/mahdawi…
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, says he has been placed under surveillance by ICE without explanation, and is facing years of uncertainty while his asylum case is resolved.
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The $470 Million Surveillance Program Watching Immigrants Across the U.S. - Documented
A. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, says he has been placed under electronic surveillance by ICE without explanation, and is facing years of uncertainty while his asylum case is resolved.
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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Federal authorities are using immigration law to limit the First Amendment rights of noncitizens. Legal experts warn that this extension of executive power can be used to censor citizens’ speech, too. My latest for @documentedny.bsky.social: t.co/ySnyXiLrpl
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/09/2025
ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)
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EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware
This statement can be attributed to EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper QuintinIt was recently reported by Jack Poulson on Substack that ICE has reactivated its 2 million dollar contract with Paragon...
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Juwan-DEMO_1.1 @juwanthecurator.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
Being a NYC government official and trying to bribe Katie Honan is like being an affiliate of a Gotham crime syndicate and trying to bribe Batman. This is comically dumb as hell
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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“If we didn’t have international graduates ... we could not stay open — because what do you do if you miss 80 to 90% of your doctors? You’re done.” @annaoakes.bsky.social spent time at a struggling Brooklyn hospital, and documented how the closing of America is rattling its workforce.
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Visa Whiplash Threatens Foreign Doctors Who Keep This Brooklyn Hospital Running
Residents at Brookdale Hospital mostly come from overseas, working in jobs American medical students overlook.
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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
What a way to end my work day: arranging for law enforcement to pick up a potato chip bag stuffed with cash.
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