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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How that supposed "bargain" has played out in the state which has most embraced 287(g) Task Force Model agreements, the moment ICE had the money to not have to rely SOLEY on those state and local law enforcement officers it had deputized. Always was going to be "And", not "Or".
Line graph of monthly immigration arrests in Florida, broken out by "287(g) Program" in orange, rising to more than 1,000/month after July 2025 and spiking further after April 2026, and "At Large Arrest" in blue, rising to more than 1,500/month in spring of 2025 before falling below the 287(g) Program levels until June 2026, after which it skyrockets to 3,000/month.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Missed it this morning, because who wants to read that site and @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social didn't bother posting it here or in their release proper, but again, the things that have happened in Miramar these last few months are absolutely horrific. 342 people. Some for more than three weeks.

Oversight Dems
@OversightDems
🚨 We have received whistleblower reports alleging dangerous conditions and serious mistreatment of detainees at two ICE holding facilities in Miramar and Orlando, Florida. Some of the allegations at these facilities include:

—A woman who was seven months pregnant was detained for three weeks.
—A person with hypertension was detained for 17 days.
—A person in their 60s with several vascular disorders including hypertension and blood clots was detained for 15 days.
—A person in their 60s with HIV/AIDS was detained for more than 14 days.
—The Miramar facility was at one point 600% over capacity, holding 342 people at a 50-person facility.
—Cells at the Miramar facility are significantly overcrowded, regularly reaching 200% to 300% over capacity.
— More than 100 people have been forced to sit and sleep on the concrete floor of the sally port, a large warehouse-like structure without proper ventilation, at the Miramar facility.
—When sleeping in the sally port at Miramar, detainees are fully shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and belly chains.—Because of overcrowding in the Orlando facility, at times detainees are only able to stand in holding cells.
—Detainees are held under bright lights 24/7.
—People at the Orlando facility have been detained for up to two weeks at a time without seeing the light of day or breathing fresh air.
—Consistently clogged toilets have led to urine and feces overflowing onto the floor of the holding cell at the Miramar facility.
—Facility management has refused to service the portable toilets at the Miramar facility, leading to people tracking urine and feces on their shoes all day.
—Hygiene products including soap, hand sanitizer, and menstrual products are limited or not provided at the facilities.
—Detainees at both facilities are forced to wear the same unwashed clothes, including underwear, for weeks at a time.
—At Orlando, black mold is visible in the air vents and individuals have reported respiratory discomfort and headaches.
—Both facilities are severely understaffed. At Miramar, at times only three officers have been left to supervise more than 300 people at times.—Due to insufficient staffing at the Orlando facility, staff were initially instructed to shackle people for 24 hours a day.
—Staff at the Miramar facility have shackled elderly people with serious health issues and limited mobility for 16 hours a day.
—Officers have been forced to rely on 911 for all medical care as there are no medical staff onsite. However, officers at the Miramar site were instructed to stop calling 911 for non-emergency situations.
—Individuals at the Miramar facility have reported chest pain, fainted, and become sick, with one detainee throwing up blood. 
—Legal access and family communication are generally restricted.  
—The Orlando facility deleted booking records for people they accidentally detained against court orders.
—Both facilities have attempted to hide these horrible conditions from members of Congress performing oversight.
—Leadership has threatened retaliation against officers who speak out about these conditions.
—A White House official allegedly visited the Miramar facility, suggesting that the administration is aware of these conditions.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No office building operating normally should be generating the amount of garbage that we've been seeing come out of Miramar. They've had to pile it on a rented trailer just to get it across the parking lot to the overflowing dumpster area.
Heavy-duty garbage bags oiled high in the entrance to the Miramar garage with detained people on the background.Heavy-duty garbage bags and pallets piled on and near a U-haul trailer in the dumpster area of Miramar.Heavy-duty garbage bags and pallets piled on and near a U-haul trailer in the dumpster area of Miramar.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Includes photos from a whistleblower. By the end of July they were arresting and holding so many people in the building for days and weeks straight that they started blocking off the sallyport with an SUV or van and "converted" the building's garage into overflow detention space.
Dozens of people inside the Miramar field office garage being used as multi-day holding, with folding chairs, foil emergency blankets, and piles of heavy-duty trash bags off to the side.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the things you can about the OIG report on Krome'a "unannounced inspection" is that, as bad as the overcrowding conditions were at the end of May when inspectors finally arrived, ICE's own internal records (via standing FOIA) show it was conveniently in between two much-worse periods.
Two line graphs of detention stints by data obtained by the Deportation Data Project: (in turquoise) daily number of people overnight in Krome North SPC, mostly flat at 500 or so until spiking to more than 1700 in March 2025 then decreasing to between 800-1200 throughout April and May, before spiking to 2000 by the end of June 2025; and (in orange) the people overnight in the temporary Krome Hold Rooms, usually negligible by ICE policy but suddenly around 500 people throughout February 2025.


https://app.deportationdata.org/?agency=ice&dataset=detention-stints&tab=chart&s=eJxNjsFKw0AURX8l3PUrhFQR306sUNB2JLorYRja13RknAnT12Ap-XeZItLluRwu54IRPCcc1SkYbuxtGiVH3x8UBPXfAsbOnUHoJYGxd1sfvF6HPIBhbUxRrAXhJ4M3aOrmblY_zpo5qMB9gfoBHWHvg0o-gi_Q81Cu-5xOAwjbFL_AeFovChx82GWJ4M2_mE9Brl4oQaIS1adob3JSqfERhNGFEvLamtVLtTbt57L6eH8G_S1L87aoWmNW6KZumn4BHntOag
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pretty sure the answer is 'no', but the England Airpark ICE family detention center isn't actually holding people yet, right? Because it's now in GettingOut/Telmate's list of supported facilities. Anyone who's been checking GTL more frequently lately notice when this first appeared?
The GettingOut messaging app's list of supported detention centers in the state of Louisiana, now including an entry for "ICE_LA:England Airpark Facility"
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Florida is still running one of these (non-soft-sided) facilities under the purported 287(g) authority that allowed the Everglades camp to dodge oversight and pass (lack of) responsibility around, continually imprisoning more than 1,000 people. No oversight inspections are or have been scheduled.
Although FSSF ceased operations in June 2026, the issues raised by the Department’s 
management response regarding ICE’s level of oversight and responsibility for immigration
detention remain consequential. For example, the Baker Correctional Institution (also known as 
“Deportation Depot”)26 is a state-operated detention facility that continues to operate in 
Sanderson, Florida. Baker, which opened in September 2025, housed 1,028 detainees as of 
August 27, 2026. ICE’s own documentation lists contractually obligated standards for Baker as 
“N/A” (as we found for FSSF) and Baker has not been internally inspected by ICE’s Office of 
Detention Oversight nor was it scheduled for inspection in FY 2026 or FY 2027.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One other thing you can see in the FOIA data: Milo was in fact charged for the visa overstay like DHS tweeted, not e.g. failure to remove conditions. If someone failed to file on time or had their 751 denied, NTA'd be 237a1D, right? Would there be a diff if denied for fraud during 751 adjudication?
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Maduro was removed from power on January 3, 2026, and that executive authority in Venezuela passed to another official who now leads the Interim Government. The respondent’s claim is based primarily on her opposition to former President Maduro’s government..." 😐
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1460306/dl?inline

A-E-V-M-, 30 I&N Dec. 20 (BIA 2026)	ID 4241 (PDF)
(1) The removal of former President Maduro from power and the ensuing transfer of executive authority constitute a change in country conditions in Venezuela for purposes of assessing an applicant’s prospective fear of persecution.

(2) Remand is required because the Immigration Judge did not sufficiently assess the effect of the changed country conditions on the respondent’s particularized risk of future persecution.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't THINK this is the one I was thinking of, but still. I don't have the IJ order at hand, so I don't know how they get to this level without just bowing to the "flight risk such that no monetary bond would be sufficient" pressure.
STATUS REPORT PURSUANT TO MAY xx, 2026, ORDER (xxx)
1. On May xx, 2026, this Court issued an Order granting in part the Petitioner's petition (See
2.
xxxx).
The Court's Order directs the Respondents "shall afford Petitioner an individualized bond
hearing...by May xx, 2026...". The Court's Order further directs Respondents to file a
status report "upon the completion ofthe bond hearing indicating (1) that an individualized
bond hearing was afforded and (2) the outcome of that bond hearing."
3. On May xx, 2026, an Immigration Judge issued an order granting Petitioner's release from
Custody under bond of $120,000 (See Exhibit A, Order of the Immigration Judge).
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I do think this is really significant news (or else I'm doing this wrong? Am I?) By May '25 every FL sheriff & state agency (and tons of municipal PDs) had signed on to TFM 287(g). Within ~3mo was the leading mode of non-custodial imm. enforcement No longer. And not because 287(g) arrests declined
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In case anyone is curious about how detention during the tenure of this "subject matter expert in detention facility compliance" who "brings direct, hands-on familiarity with the standards and physical realities of short-term adult detention environments" went...
Tweet linking to https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/families-concerned-over-living-conditions-at-krome-detention-center/3573640/:

‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention Center
Family members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility.
www.nbcmiami.com
Alejandra Caraballo

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"The Nicaraguan man... had an argument... with a guard who he says called him the n-word.

He says his hands and feet were then painfully shackled, and he was put in a four-by-four-foot square in the recreation yard that he says guards call 'the box.'"
https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-07-22/alligator-alcatraz-detainee-punishments

wlrn
The Nicaraguan man, who is Black and asked WLRN not to use his name for fear of government retaliation, claims that over the weekend he had an argument about new detainee clothing rules with a guard who he says called him the n-word.
He says his hands and feet were then painfully shackled, and he was put in a four-by-four-foot square in the recreation yard that he says guards call "the box." He says he was directly in the Everglades sun and heat, for several hours, with no water.Three ICE notifications of detainee deaths in Florida:

Illegal alien from Jordan in ICE custody passes away in Miami hospital
October 15, 2025
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Detainee Death Notifications

Cuban national dies in ICE custody
June 29, 2025
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Detainee Death Notifications

Canadian national in ICE custody passes away
June 25, 2025
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Detainee Death NotificationsThree ICE notifications of detainee deaths in Florida:

Haitian national in ICE custody passes away
April 29, 2025
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Detainee Death Notifications

Ukrainian national in ICE custody passes away at Miami-area hospital
February 24, 2025
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Detainee Death Notifications

Honduran national in ICE custody passes away at Miami-area hospital
January 24, 2025
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Detainee Death Notifications
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People in Miramar whose stint has been A WEEK OR LONGER:
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Even granting the field office's vague, unsubstantiated claim of a waiver for up to 72 hours still being in effect, the number of people in Miramar exceeding even that ridiculous "limit":
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Number of people held in Miramar overnight for more than 24 hours (ICE PBNDS proscribes overnight stays in hold rooms for more than 12 hours) over this enforcement surge:
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What's driving this, here in the land of 287(g)? Don't think I can zoom in on SFL, but playing around w/the DDP data, statewide 287(g) enforcement was basically flat May->July. But at-large (ICE) arrests skyrocket This isn't policy hitting capacity crunch. They could stop, but are choosing not to
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To be clear, this is a HOLD ROOM, not a detention facility. Temporary rooms in a random office building behind a Publix. 196 people stuffed into a few bare concrete cells. 26 Federal Plaza peaked at 180. Baltimore peaked at 183.
An orange chart of the nightly detained population at the ICE field office in Miramar, Florida, spiking sharply in June of 2026 up to a maximum of 196 people detained on August 5, just before the end of the data range.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Voted for a lot of reprehensible people in my life. No moral abstention available as an eligible voter; FPTP always comes down to the least bad option. As a back-bench vote in a Dem majority, this smug bigot is clearly the less-bad vs. some GOP But as chair of a subcommittee in his area of most...
Tweet from @RepMoskowitz:
I’m honored to be named Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.

At a moment of enormous change across the region, I’ll work to strengthen America’s relationships with Israel and our Gulf allies, expand regional peace, advance American diplomacy, and ensure our foreign policy is grounded in strength, security, and reality. I’m ready to get to work.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In 11th Cir many ICE is detaining are entitled to bond hearings. Requests for custody redeterminations are filed in the court w/jurisdiction over facility of confinement. EOIR has taken the position that there is no court w/ jx over the Miramar field office, so motions for bond are denied.
Marlene says Yajaira is currently being held at an ICE detention center in Spokane, Washington. Her family has spent thousands of dollars to hire an attorney to file a habeas corpus petition on her behalf—one of the only legal avenues for immigrant detainees to obtain release from ICE detention on bond.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fucking hell.
At least five others - three Cuban men, ​one Brazilian man and one Cameroonian woman - refused to get off the plane in Liberia, according to three sources familiar with the incident, one of whom was a Honduran deportee on the flight.
Authorities then told them they would be flown to the U.S., but the plane instead headed to Malabo, in Equatorial Guinea, ​where the five were forced to disembark against their will, two of the sources said.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Also among them, Delva said, were people who were born outside of Haiti but were sent to the country because they had a parent who was Haitian. This included individuals born in Chile as well as the Dominican Republic. Upon arriving, the returnees are greeted by the National Migration Office staff and given the equivalent of $76.40 to get home, courtesy of the Haitian government.

The amount isn’t enough to cover a one-way ticket to Port-au-Prince, which is around $250. However, it will help some people get through gang-controlled roads, which come with their own risks.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OK in a Broward race I guess nobody covering it or vetting the candidates really cared enough about to even click on a Twitter link about, at least a little relief. x.com/EugenBold/re...
Election results as two blue horizontal bars:
Broward Commissioner, District 6
0% expected vote in
WINNER
Caryl Shuham
8,135
41.96%
Eugen Bold
5,394
27.82%
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I guess if anything is surprising it's that they waited this long. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
We recognize that in Matter of C-B-, 25 I&N Dec. 888, 889 (BIA 2012), we stated that to “meaningfully effectuate the statutory and regulatory privilege of legal representation,” an Immigration Judge “must grant a reasonable and realistic period of time to provide a fair opportunity for a respondent to seek, speak with, and retain counsel.” However, we did not cite any authority for this proposition, and the language in Matter of C-Bdeparts from the clear statutory text. The respondent in Matter of C-B-correctly asserted that he was given only 8 days between the service of his NTA and his first hearing, which was in violation of section 239(b)(1) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. § 1229(b)(1), but Matter of C-B- does not reference the statutory language. The statement in Matter of C-B- regarding the legal standard it purported to create with respect to the right to counsel departed from the text of the statute and is dicta.0F0F 1 We withdraw from this statement in Matter of C-B- as setting forth a statutory or regulatory mandate. See INA § 239(a)(1)(E), (b)(1), (b)(3), 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(1)(E), (b)(1), (b)(3). Thus, the only statutory or regulatory time requirement that is necessary to safeguard an alien’s privilege of legal counsel is that the first hearing may not be scheduled earlier than 10 days after service of the notice to appear. INA § 239(b)(1), 8 U.S.C. § 1229(b)(1).
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Update: LOL
In his complaint, Alston also alleged he faced retaliation for voicing concerns about “a governance structure under which the President has been expected to assume responsibility for institutional performance while possessing no meaningful independent hiring authority of senior leadership and no independent spending authority without initial Board approval.”
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Finally home with a chance to read the declarations, and while I'm sure the practitioner grapevine is quick enough that this is mostly old news by now...yeah, this isn't really sua sponte musing anymore: IJs were apparently informed this is EOIR's official position en masse last Friday. ☹️
10. At least one Immigration Judge in the San Francisco Immigration Court has raised the question sua sponte whether he has authority to terminate—not only administratively close— removal proceedings following the District Court’s order in this case. Therefore, the Court’s order may and will be read to vacate the entire rule now codified at 8 C.F.R. § 1003.18, not simply the provision governing administrative closure.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Couldn't be clearer this is about meeting empty arrest quotas—these airport arrests are NOT the "applicants for admission" of last year's mass arrests they pretended they could detain 4ever These are lawful admissions who WILL get bond, just after days in hold rooms, weeks in detention, and $10K's.
Pourrain was separated from his teammates. That was when someone on the team—who knows the attorney—contacted her, and she in turn reached out to ICE officers who told her, she says, that the young man would be detained and that he “could seek bond with an immigration judge or sign for voluntary self-deportation.”
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
And the final word in the process is, I assume, one last, smug filing: 'Hey judge, small update, we sent him to Africa before you could rule, no more case, might as well dismiss.'
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Aug 3, 2026

STATUS REPORT by WARDEN, MOSHANNON VALLEY ICE PROCESSING CENTER. (Lew, David) (Entered: 08/03/2026)
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
5 men were detained after their proceedings were unlawfully, pretextually dismissed that 1 day. All Cubans in basically identical circumstances, all going on their 4th year waiting on their applications for relief. 4 eventually won release on habeas. Mr. Garcia's was still pending at his removal.
Fue el vuelo más largo y triste de sus vidas. Unas 22 horas hasta la República Centroafricana, aunque antes hicieron escala para dejar a algunos migrantes en Senegal y Nigeria. En todo ese tiempo solo les dieron una botella de agua y unos panes.

“Nos esposaron de pies, manos y cintura, no podíamos ni rascarnos la cara en el avión, ni ir al baño”, cuenta García, quien hasta ahora permaneció en Estados Unidos con un estatus I-220A, el mismo que ha impedido la legalización de más de 500.000 cubanos. Sin haber cometido ningún delito, las oficiales del ICE lo detuvieron el día en que se presentó ante el juez en la corte de inmigración de Miami, en enero, y lo encerraron en el centro de Alligator Alcatraz. García conserva nítido un recuerdo del momento en que cruzó la frontera por Arizona en 2022: “El oficial me dijo: ‘Bienvenido a los Estados Unidos, usted acaba de llegar a un país seguro”. Hoy la frase le parecía una burla.It was the longest and saddest flight of their lives. Some 22 hours to the Central African Republic, although they stopped first to drop off some migrants in Senegal and Nigeria. During all that time, they were given only a bottle of water and some bread.

“They handcuffed us at our feet, hands, and waist. We couldn’t even scratch our faces on the plane, or go to the bathroom,” says García, who until now has remained in the United States with I-220A status, the same status that has prevented more than 500,000 Cubans from legalizing their status . Without having committed any crime, ICE officers detained him the day he appeared before a judge in Miami immigration court in January and locked him up at the Alligator Alcatraz detention center. García vividly remembers the moment he crossed the border in Arizona in 2022: “The officer told me, ‘Welcome to the United States. You have just arrived in a safe country.’” Today, the phrase seems like a mockery.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
June 2025, ICE purported to grant all its hold rooms a waiver up to 72h. June 2026, a federal judge vacated the policy, reinstating the 12h limit, absent a FO's individualized and temporary grant after application for specific operational needs. AFAIK, Miami ERO has produced no evidence of such.
The Miramar office is not designed to be a long-term holding facility. Officials there obtained a waiver allowing ICE to hold people for up to 72 hours instead of the usual 12. But Wasserman Schultz said that explanation did not match what happened to Rodriguez Caglianone, who remained there for eight days.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
ICE ERO: Despite a court order, we must conduct arrests at NYC immigration courts because agitators make it too dangerous to arrest people anywhere but the NYC immigration courts. For example, two weeks ago someone staged a fire at a NYC immigration court.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70993525/109/1/african-communities-together-v-lyons/

7. In recent months, ERO has experienced substantial difficulty when conducting enforcement actions in public due to disruptive agitators and criminals who impede lawful immigration arrests or otherwise hinder ICE and DHS operations. For example, on July 21, 2026, the Department of Justice charged Andrew Arrabaca with felony arson after he allegedly set fire to the employee entrance of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building at 26 Federal Plaza.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Continuing the recent(?) "longstanding community and familial ties are actually ADVERSE factors for bond because that means they have more to lose when we deny their relief" logic. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was in the context of South Miami having their lawsuit dismissed without getting the official declarative judgment they wanted, and the state really did try to slice things VERY thinly in comparison to, e.g., the Fort Myers situation:
To the contrary, Defendants have threatened enforcement only when the circumstances surrounding a city's refusal to execute a 287(g) agreement revealed that the municipality inin fact banned or discouraged those agreements or is failing to use best efforts to support the enforcement of federal immigration law. In Fort Myers, for example, the City refused to execute a 287(g) agreement that its local police department strenuously recommended. Id.1 70-72. "By failing to approve the [police department's] 287(g) agreement' despite the department's strong insistence, Fort Myers had evinced an "implicit[] ... sanctuary policy" barring 287(g) agreements. Id. | 75. But that is worlds different from the barebones hypothetical South Miami has proposed, most obviouslybecause nothing suggests that South Miami has rejected a 287(g) agreement proposed by its local police department.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As a constituent of Pizzo and Cassel, I know the bar can go pretty low with @browarddems.bsky.social, but inviting this Eugen Bold guy (an ostensibly "Democratic" candidate for County Commission District 6) to speak at a crucially timed party meeting has to embarrass whoever's supposed to be vetting
Tweet of Senator Chris Van Hollen visiting and advocating for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was illegally sent to a prison in El Salvador, and a reply by @eugenbold:
"Can you fight for the American citizens currently held by Hamas as hard as you are fighting for criminal illegal aliens?"@eugenbold approvingly replying to a far-right UK conspiracy theorist outraged by Prince William referring to Islam as "a religion of peace":

@liz_churchill10:
"Prince William preaches that Islam is the ‘Religion of Peace’ that other Faiths must learn from.

He’s the same gutless Royal as his father…ditching Christianity while Britain burns under grooming gangs and stabbings.

Defender of the Faith? 

More like Defender of the Invaders."

@eugenbold:
"What mental universe does 
@RoyalFamily
 and 
@KensingtonRoyal
 inhabit? Wildly disconnected from the grim realities of their subjects. Obtuse and gleefully presiding over their civilizational suicide."@eugenbold retweeting Islamophobic trash by British racist and open fascist Tommy Robinson.Email from the Broward Democratic party announcing its final monthly meeting of its Executive Committee before the August primary, with Eugen Bold as one of three featured speakers.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Do note, though, for all the rightful attention on ICE cruelty and the profit-seeking of their private detention contractors—the staff here are Federal Bureau of Prisons personnel from the Department of Justice.
After families shared their stories in the media to expose these conditions, which included direct testimony from the men inside, they say the men who spoke out were targeted for retaliation inside the detention facility. According to family members, correctional officers warned detainees that they could not speak publicly about conditions inside the facility and have since placed several of those men in solitary confinement. One family says their loved one was told he would remain in solitary confinement for 30 days simply for speaking to the press.

“Our loved ones are being punished for telling the truth,” said family members coming forward at the event. “No one should face retaliation for exposing inhumane treatment. We are demanding transparency, accountability, and immediate action to protect every person inside this facility.”
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73538413/9/rosales-fulez-v-miami-field-office-director-enforcement-and-removal/

Petitioner takes no issue with the Court’s legal analysis in ordering the Petition transferred to the Western District of Louisiana. Rather, Petitioner insists that the Court’s conclusion that she was no longer in this District at the time the Petition was filed was an “error of apprehension.” (DE [7] p. 2). In support, Petitioner has put forth additional evidence which she suggests confirms her location in this District at the relevant time. Putting aside that the Court’s “apprehension” of the facts was of Petitioner’s own making, the additional evidence fails to set forth facts of a “strongly convincing nature” that Petitioner was not already located in the Western District of Louisiana at the time the Petition was filed.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The next day, her third day at Miramar, she drops off ODLS. Transfer in progress. At 8:37am, a flight leaves Opa-locka, FL for Alexandria, LA. Sure enough, ODLS updates to Richwood Correctional, in Monroe, LA. The Western District of Louisiana, in the 5th Circuit. The fear from the start.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a365c9&showTrace=2026-06-26&leg=1

A map of the southeast United States, with a rainbow trace from Opa-locka in southeast Florida to Alexandria in central Louisiana, by flight GXA6181 (tail N318NV) on 2026-06-26, with departure time 12:37:55Z and arrival 14:40:52Z.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I could have missed it previously (especially since other cases like Pablo Sequen are styled as immigration habeas with filings remotely restricted), but I think this may be the first time ICE has had to put into writing any nuts-and-bolts of how their dismiss-and-arrest scheme at courts has worked?
4. Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (“OPLA”) Metro Region ERO embedded 
counsel sends an arrest referral spreadsheet to the SDDO for review daily. ERO utilizes detailees 
to review the cases referred on the spreadsheet from OPLA to highlight possible individuals for 
arrest. Detailees review the DHS law enforcement electronic databases, specifically, Enforce Alien 
Removal Module (“EARM”), to verify if an alien has any prior encounters with ERO, the Criminal 
Alien Program, or has violated the Alternatives to Detention program. 
5. The SDDO then reviews the vetted cases highlighted by detailees for criminal 
history and cross references criminal electronic databases, including immediately conducting a 
National Crime Information Center (NCIC) check and obtaining a digital record of arrest and 
prosecutions (RAP) sheet from the New York Integrated Justice Portal (eJustice). ERO also 
reviews USCIS databases to determine whether an alien has any pending applications.7. The SDDO reviews the criminal history of an alien pursuant to the April 27, 2021 
Memorandum. If the potential target alien poses a threat to public safety, then the SDDO refers the 
case to the OPLA ERO embed counsel for a legal sufficiency review by forwarding the EARM 
biographical information of the alien, NCIC rap sheet, and eJustice database query to the counsel. 
Once the SDDO receives legal sufficiency review, the SDDO refers the case to the Field Office 
Director (“FOD”) for approval of the arrest.9. The FOD will then email the approved list of targeted enforcement actions to the 
SDDO in advance of the aliens’ hearing dates and the SDDO will execute the I-200 administrative 
warrant. Prior to conducting the enforcement action at or near the relevant EOIR immigration 
court, the SDDO will have the I-200 in hand and arrest the alien pursuant to the I-200.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just the smuggest, self-satisfied assholes, as real people with meaningful lives in the United States are detained for months going on years under this unlawfully expanded "expedited" process.
Make the Road argues that A.A.R.P. counsels otherwise.
Again, we disagree. In A.A.R.P., the detainees were not given
constitutionally adequate notice that they were subject to
removal under the Alien Enemies Act and lacked “sufficient
time and information” to “actually seek habeas relief” before
removal. 145 S. Ct. at 1367–68. The Court required notice of
the Government’s asserted authority and procedures sufficient
to permit detainees to pursue habeas in a meaningful way. Id.
at 1368. The Court did not hold that the government must
provide the detainees with an objective on-the-one-hand-onthe-other-hand memo about whether Tren de Aragua was an
arm of the Maduro regime, walk them through a corpus
linguistics of “invasion” as it was understood in 1798, or
explain the XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War with France to
provide historical context for the Act. The holding was about
notice of the action and a realistic opportunity to seek
relief — not notice of every conceivable counterargument.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Last person I knew of still there got transferred out on Monday, so that tracks. But worried that the state uses a summer interregnum to moot out the lawsuits, pocket the federal dollars in reimbursement, avoid the hurricane-season bad press, & resurrect it for a fresh enforcement surge in the fall
A DHS spokesperson said Tuesday afternoon that it is a precautionary measure amid hurricane season.

Agency officials cite the facility’s “soft structure,” which could put detainees at risk should a storm roll through.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
White hot fucking rage at this historically repulsive man
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Welcome home to Justo Betancourt, whose Daughter, Arianne, fought very hard to free her father from Alligator Alcatraz. Enjoy your Freedom together!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Not entirely coincidentally, the HQ of the GEO Group will also be located in the new FL-25 congressional district. Florida Democrats don't need an ass so chummy with GOP prison profiteers continuing to represent them. Primary is August 18. Registration as a Dem in order to vote in it by July 20.
Congressman Jared Moskowitz smiling next to former GEO Group executive VP/prison profiteer, former GOP legislator, and current FAU president Adam Hasner.Congressman Jared Moskowitz smiling next to former GEO Group executive VP/prison profiteer, former GOP legislator, and current FAU president Adam Hasner.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Authorities notified them that they had limited permission to stay in Mexico—in most cases, for the duration of 10 days...By continuing to accept deportations but failing to offer...ways to legalize their stay in the country, Mexico is effectively leaving them in an indefinite legal limbo."
Under Mexican law, people who initiated an asylum claim with COMAR are required to stay in the state where they filed the claim while it is pending. In practice, this leaves Cuban deportees trapped without support in cities where organized crime and other security risks are high. Tapachula, in Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, is a known transit hub where migrants are routinely targeted by smuggling networks, extortion rings, and human traffickers; Villahermosa, in Tabasco, has experienced sustained violence linked to disputes between rival cartels and was one of the states with the highest homicide rates in Mexico in recent years. “We are stranded here,” said Camilo, a 51-year-old Cuban man deported to Tapachula after 21 years in the United States. “They left us here like dogs.”
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Oh my god, he's somehow become even more pissy as he's had to issue these time and again over the last week.
ORDER

CHARACTERISTIC of the undersigned’s upbringing, surrounded by law-abiding immigrants who left oppressive conditions in search of a rule-following citizenry in a country that offered a better life, there was one maxim that rang true above all others: one respected and followed his parents even when they were wrong.

Today that same principle applies with the concept of vertical precedent. Despite the superior and well-reasoned plain-meaning analysis of the dissenting judge in Hernandez Alvarez v. Warden, Federal Detention Center, Miami, 2026 WL 1243395 (11th Cir. May 6, 2026) (Lagoa, J.), this Court is duty-bound to follow the majority opinion authored by its parent court. The Eleventh Circuit ruled that aliens who are detained within the country, rather than upon arrival at the border, are not subject to mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) but are instead entitled to a bond hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1226. Because § 1225(b)(2)(A) by its plain language applies to non-admitted aliens who are inspected in the interior, the rule created in Alvarez should not have comefrom any court but instead from Congress.

It is Congress who is empowered to enact this country’s immigration laws, and Congress saw fit to fashion a mandatory detention scheme in § 1225(b)(2) and a more flexible scheme permitting detention, bond, or parole under § 1226(a). In this Court’s view, Alvarez effectively dismantles that scheme contrary to congressional will. That the Executive branch proceeded against aliens subject to § 1225(b)(2)’s mandatory detention scheme pursuant to § 1226(a) for nearly 30 years demonstrates only the Executive’s discretion in enforcement matters, not § 1225(b)(2)’s inapplicability. Executive memoranda indicates that decision was a conscious choice. See 62 Fed. Reg. 10312, 10323 (March 6, 1997) (“Despite being applicants for admission, aliens who are present without having been admitted or paroled (formerly referred to as aliens who entered without inspection) will be eligible for bond and bond redetermination.”) (emphasis added).Accordingly, in this Court’s view, Alvarez interprets sections 1225(b)(2)(A) and 1226(a) in a way that effectively eliminates one of the two congressionally authorized means of removing aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States. The result is both damage to the political will as expressed by Congress and also to the Executive’s prerogative in choosing between multiple lawful means to achieve a common end. While the insistence of courts to do Congress’s work has historically resulted in consequences damaging to the country, inferior courts must follow their appellate authorities—right or wrong. Consequently, this Court faithfully follows binding precedent as expressed in Alvarez.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In case "David Venturella" sounds familiar, from the New York Times back in February: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity.

He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back.

The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency’s Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.

The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported, an outcome that may well have happened regardless of Mr. Zampolli’s meddling. But the ICE official’s willingness to spring into action for a Trump ally — even one in a low-level, largely ceremonial role — reflects a recurring theme of the second Trump administration: The levers of the federal government can be pulled to settle a personal score.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Grateful that they did pause the ACA pretermissions (though, like on Friday, it's always jarring for one to pop up mid-masters as the previously filed ones work their way through the dockets 🙁). But weird that two months later I don't think we have any firm explanation why they stopped filing them?
In mid-March, ICE attorneys received an email directing them not to file new motions to pretermit cases, The Seattle Times reported, but that cases where motions had already been filed could continue. DHS did not respond to CBS News' request for comment on the memo.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The only Southern District of Florida judge (at the time of the publication of this list) who had endorsed the Trump administration's ridiculous "mandatory detention for all applicants for admission" policy, Raag Singhal.https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72503628/14/enriquez-guerra-v-field-office-director-ripa-garret-us-immigration-and/

"ORDER

CHARACTERISTIC of the undersigned’s upbringing, surrounded by law-abiding immigrants who left oppressive conditions in search of a rule-following citizenry in a country that offered a better life, there was one maxim that rang true above all others. One respected and followed his parents even when they were wrong.

Today that same principle applies with the concept of vertical precedent. Despite the superior, well thought out plain meaning analysis of the dissenting judge in Hernandez Alvarez v. Warden, Federal Detention Center, Miami, 2026 WL 1243395 (11th Cir. May 6, 2026) (Lagoa, J.), this Court is duty bound to follow the majority opinion authored by its parent court. The Eleventh Circuit ruled that aliens, like Petitioner, who are detained within the country rather than upon arrival at the border, are entitled to a bond hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1226."
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
😒
Not everyone has made the cut.
Joe Bovino, a Florida immigration attorney, advanced far in the Trump administration’s process. He is the author of several books, including one that he advertises as a “field guide” to Latinas in the United States. The book includes sexually explicit descriptions of body types and an image of a zipper to rate women’s “promiscuity.”
Bovino was recently assigned to the Miami immigration court, records reviewed by The Post show. But when the Justice Department issued press releases announcing the new judges this month, his name wasn’t on the list.
In text messages with The Post, Bovino said he didn’t know why he was pulled. He said that it was “obvious” his books were meant to be humorous and emphasized that they were written “years ago.”
“I enjoyed it while it lasted,” he said of the training. “Lots of patriots and good people involved.”
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Morbidly curious how that's playing with all the longtime webex-only judges they've recently forced to return to court in-person full time (and as more and more of the ICE ACCs get to appear by video from random call centers too).
The recruits are being offered signing bonuses, [highlighted in blue]the opportunity to work from home[/highlighting], and even the flexibility to keep their day jobs and moonlight as judges after hours. New hires can earn up to $207,500 a year and 25 percent signing bonuses in some Democrat led-states such as California.
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Bob511 @bob511.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A lot of this going around in appellate courts lately.
The majority expands the scope of our review of the district court’s injunction under the guise of evaluating the district court’s legal conclusions, but in doing so, does not grapple with the ongo- ing trend in this circuit to “ignor[e] and/or revis[e] the district court’s factual findings and fail[ ] to apply the clear error stand- ard . . . .” Fla. Decides Healthcare, Inc. v. Fla. Sec’y of State, No. 25- 12370, 2025 WL 3738554, at *9 (11th Cir. Sept. 9, 2025) (Abudu, J., dissenting) (quoting Otto v. City of Boca Raton, 41 F.4th 1271, 1285 (11th Cir. 2022) (Jordan, J., dissenting)). We are not supposed to redetermine the facts for ourselves. Today, by vacating the district court’s preliminary injunction, the majority ignores the district court’s careful and extensive fact finding, attributing fault and error where there was none.
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