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carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Love seeing white ladies with Mexican flag bumper stickers driving around Edina 🥰

carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Great to be with @swaempls.bsky.social today; reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to the rest of 2026; everyone was so deeply involved in responding to the surge; I’m so proud of everyone’s work; I also noticed how reflecting on it brings up so many feelings, still lots of healing work to be done

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ first challenge in office was figuring out what to do with Section 24, a gang of immigration agents who were causing chaos with “highly visible and extreme” raids on immigrant communities. So she defunded them. More @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...

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A Piece of Work | Kim Kelly

Workers can no longer count on the Department of Labor.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

"The lie they’re telling you is that they’re going after the “worst of the worst,” but we must fight for everyone. The strategy of 'good' immigrant versus 'bad' immigrant ultimately targets all immigrants," says @silkys13.bsky.social. politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w...

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“We Must Fight for Everyone” for Immigrant Justice

PRA Senior Research Analyst Ethan Fauré speaks with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss how abolition is the key to a strategy for combating the Trum...

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carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Reminds me of how immigration attorneys are now writing “confidential address” in humanitarian visa applications, not to protect the client from their abuser but from the federal govt

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/07/2025

super valuable breakdown of how ICE has built a propaganda arm and what goes into it:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you” and ignore any such court order. Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.21 - Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove's statement because, to Mr. Reuveni's knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership - in any Administration – had ever suggested the Department ofJustice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a "fuck you.” Mr. Reuveni was in disbelief, because, on the contrary, the Department of Justice consistently advises its clients of their obligation to follow court orders, not to ignore them. Mr. Reuveni knew that it was absurd and unlawful to do otherwise, a proposition that Mr. Reuveni felt even more certain of after a brief conversation with his supervisor, August Flentje, shortly after the meeting.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Verification of the rune patch guy being with ICE bsky.app/profile/bsch...

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 08/04/2025

Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan. Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450. www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...

More than 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor in support of detained children, mother

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carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

#teslatakedown Golden Valley, MN, with my little protester, and my other two kids who stayed in the car, because they were afraid there would be snipers 😳🥹, thankfully there were none!

Protester holding sign that says “Hands OFF my 91-year-old grandpa’s veterans benefits”

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We gotta find better ways to describe these arrests, man. "Detained" ain't cutting it. Getting your car window busted out and getting dragged away isn't "detained." Getting stopped on the street and disappeared for writing an OpEd isn't getting "detained." The language needs to match the action here

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Had missed this story in the Miami Herald about a man that already been granted refugee status being removed under the Alien Enemies Act declaration to CECOT. The other identified removals I'd heard of were undocumented or asylum seekers, first I'm hearing of approved refugees being targeted

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Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison

E.M. and his girlfriend fled persecution in their native Venezuela in 2021 and dreamed of making a new life in the United States.

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carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

At my #immigrationlaw office meeting, we made 🌺 to celebrate our wins and one 🦋 to remember clients of ours, a family, deported last month after an #ICE check-in: reflecting on this loss, I’m now using this quote by @mayaschenwar.bsky.social from #Letthisradicalizeyou as my battle cry

To believe that even if we don’t make it, we are all still worth fighting for, to the last breath.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal. Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return. Now they will be rewarded with deportation.

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carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Seeing what Timothy Snyder wrote about back in 2017 play out in real time today with Trump declaring an “invasion” at the border, which he is using to find a state of “exception” or “emergency” allowing ICE to invoke the #AlienEnemiesAct to arrest whoever they deem is a terrorist or criminal

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Wow! These are conditions that in the past decade we have seen inside border patrol detention facilities. But with the administration ramping up arrests, and ratcheting down releases, this level of overcrowding is becoming more common in the interior. These conditions are completely illegal.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This. Folks who are rightfully angry at current immigration policy and suppression of free speech need to listen to what activists have been arguing about criminalization & policing (even the "war on terror) have been arguing for decades, and most recently, since Summer 2020

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carlylsl.bsky.social @carlylsl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My stomach dropped opening my email just now: Trump is attempting to vilify #immigrationlawyers for fulfilling our duty of zealously advocating for our clients. This is an attack on due process & attempt to silence those who work to protect the most vulnerable among us. @aila.org: bit.ly/41SLtet

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AILA Rejects Administration’s Dangerous Restrictions on Immigration Attorneys

AILA President Kelli Stump and Executive Director Ben Johnson reject a chilling directive by the Trump Administration ordering sanctions, reviews, and stricter oversight of attorneys in asylum and imm...

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