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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
While we don’t have a smoking gun yet, there is reason to believe that earlier this year the Trump admin ordered USCIS to arbitrarily cap the number of immigrants who can become citizens each month. Backlogs in the naturalization process are now skyrocketing.
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 08/10/2026
Person shot during encounter with federal agents in NYC's Marble Hill, NYPD says gothamist.com/news/person-...
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Person shot during encounter with federal agents in NYC's Marble Hill, NYPD says
Police say the person is conscious and receiving treatment at a hospital. The NYPD says its officers were not involved.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lmao
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
Homeland Security 7
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.
thecityreporter.nyc
Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
He was just 26 years old. He leaves behind a wife and a toddler. You did not deserved this, Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Your life was cut short, by a bullet, shot by a U.S. federal agent, for no good reason. They were not even looking for you. You didn't do anything wrong. May you rest in peace.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
syracuse.com
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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Matt Privratsky @mattprivratsky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.
Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in
Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals
will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge
decision.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hakeem Jeffries went from “no masks” to “no masks in an arbitrary and capricious fashion.” Schumer has adopted a similar position. At some point, you have to take a stand on something. Not allowing armed men in masks to roam our streets seems like an easy one. Apparently not.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Do not fall for this garbage. DHS came into my city with an offensive posture, conducted itself as an invader, often attacked residents without any plausible connection to immigration enforcement, violently seized people off the streets. Now it’s our fault people died?
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026
Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler bit.ly/3LKWxGC
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.
MSNOW headline: News
Trump administration plans to deport 40 İranians days after mass killings in Iran
Two of the deportees are gay and terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23/01/2026
What made the child a threat JD? Was it the floppy ears or the Spider Man backpack?
Liam Conejo Ramos in a floppy blue hat and SpiderMan backpack that a man is holding on to.
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Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This isn’t even an immigration arrest! It has nothing to do with immigration. It’s a crackdown on dissent
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
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Charles @charliebrowniest.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/11/2025
This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The Trump admin has a new propaganda video claiming that DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values." Micah Bock, the Trump appointee in the video, was accused in college of rubbing his erection against a sleeping woman and claiming she was "asking for it." h/t @jasonpaladino.bsky.social.
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Decline is a choice. 

Under 
@POTUS
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@Sec_Noem
 the era of government failing its citizens is over.

We are retaking our country with blinding speed, enforcing the law, and providing for the American citizens who need it most. 

This is just the beginning.

@MicahBock.

The video is paused at a moment where Bock is saying DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/08/2025
1. The situation in Florida is growing more tense with the erasure of Pride crosswalks. After state officials painted over the Pulse Memorial sidewalk in Orlando, Florida Citizens painted them back. Now the state has sent 7 squad cars to stare at the crosswalk. Subscribe to support our journalism
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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors
The move comes after citizens repainted the Pulse memorial sidewalk in Pride colors.
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I spoke with Andry Romero.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Andry Hernandez, one of the detainees who was also released just over a week ago, told NPR that guards routinely beat prisoners with batons in the hallway — or dragged them to a small, windowless cell known as "La Isla," or "The Island," where the abuse was even more brutal.

According to Hernandez, 32, the prisoners would be dragged out of their cells for complaining about their conditions, taking a bath outside designated hours, or even for making too much noise.

Hernandez, who is openly gay, said he was once taken by the guards to "La Isla" after guards noticed him bathing with a bucket outside designated hours.

He said that he was beaten by three guards wearing masks. And forced to perform oral sex on one of the guards. After a couple of hours, he was dragged back to his cell.

"CECOT was hell on Earth," Hernandez told NPR from Capacho, Venezuela, where he's now back with his family.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
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Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
From two weeks ago.
NYPD

NYPD ANNOUNCES RECORD-LOW SHOOTING VICTIMS IN FIRST HALF OF 2025
July 1, 2025
City Ties All-Time Low for Shooting Incidents
Summer Zones Deliver Record Drops in Violence
Transit Robberies Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly
Two Decades
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 120 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
MAYOR BASS: “They need to leave right now. This is UNACCEPTABLE.” The mayor showed up as Trump’s Gestapo/ICE marched through MacArthur Park like an invading army. Ridiculous. They left. (h/t FOX LA)
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 111 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero, about ten years ago, goofy & hopeful.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.

His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.

That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate. 

Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.
Rapid Response Analysis: “Reconciliation” Spending Provisions Related to Immigration Enforcement and the Border JULY 2025
House & Senate Topline Budget Comparison
Spending Category House of
Representatives
Senate Difference
Construction and maintenance of
border wall, CBP checkpoints, and
CBP facilities
$51.6 billion $51.6 billion None
Border Patrol agents and vehicles,
and Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center improvements.
$8.3 billion $7.8 billion $500 million
decrease
Border technology and vetting $6.3 billion $6.2 billion $100 million
decrease
Operation Stonegarden (funding to
state and local law enforcement
agencies to support border
enforcement)
$450 million $450 million None
Border processing, including for
unaccompanied children, Remain in
Mexico, and expedited removal
$2.2 billion $2.1 billion $100 million
decrease
Prosecutions of noncitizens,
compensating local governments
for incarcerating noncitizens,
combatting drug trafficking,
immigration judges
$2.8 billion $3.3 billion $500 million
increase
Detention capacity expansion $45 billion $45 billion None
Enforcement and removal, including
hiring ICE agents, transportation
costs, and detaining families
$26.7 billion $29.9 billion $3.2 billion increase
Sponsor vetting and sheltering
unaccompanied children
$3.1 billion $0 $3.1 billion decrease
State immigration and border
enforcement cost-reimbursement
funds
$12 billion $13.5 billion $1.5 billion increase
DHS cost-reimbursement fund for
border enforcement
Not included $10.0 billion new
DOD support for immigration and
border enforcement
$5 billion $1.0 billion $4 billion decrease
Total2 $163.3 billion $170.7 billion $7.4 billion increase
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
miamiherald.com
Cuban man who lived in the U.S for 60 years dies in ICE detention in Miami
Isidro Perez is the fifth person to die in ICE custody in Florida since January
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Charles @charliebrowniest.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This bill will transfer money from Medicaid to immigration prisons and inflated ICE budgets. Urge your senator to vote NO!!
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 106 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero, as a young man, dressed for the The King’s Festival, in his hometown in Venezuela, for which he designed the costumes.
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