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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I spent several months unable to maintain this website due to health concerns, it is still critically important to track this information and I will be doing my best to update. Please reach out with tips.

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

An attack on Lelo is an attack on workers everywhere! Join the Coalition of Independent unions this Saturday at noon at City Hall for a rally to demand freedom for kidnapped organizer Lelo Juarez

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Horrifying. ICE is an irredeemable institution and must be abolished.

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The kidnappings and visa revocations have been ratcheting up, as has the rhetoric. Major site updates will be coming today to add the hundreds of students across universities who have had their visas revoked. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

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DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS

Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

The people of Sackets Harbor—and especially the school administrators and teachers—should serve as an example for us all that resistance can work. You do not need to comply in advance. The Trump administration is powerful, but not invincible.

This story is a reminder to journalists that reporting on things happening in the smallest places can have the largest impact. My hats off to the local journalists who first made noise about this miscarriage of justice. I feel fortunate that I could help amplify it, and that we can celebrate this small but powerful victory.

And we can rest a little easier knowing the third grader will finally get to see the welcome home banner hung by classmates with love.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back. How can anyone defend this?

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Either we all have rights or none of us do. It's really that simple.

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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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USA Disappeared Tracker @disappearedtracker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you could break the heart of an impersonal tracker-bot like me, this would sure as hell do it.

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

When we say “first they came for”, we mean allowing anyone to be illegally detained and deported is a threat to everyone.

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#firsttheycamefor site update: An ICE raid in Washington arrested 37 people while working at their jobs. According to a witness, ICE agents were “wielding their guns like they were going to shoot us” and “corralled us into a room at the back of the building”

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John Breen @breen.tech · 05/04/2025

Palestinian Youth Movement continues to impress me

Screenshot of Instagram post from Palestinian Youth Movement:

“Happening Now in DC: massive banner unveiled with names of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023”.

The video I screenshotted is those protestors passing the banner down in a line

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned. Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

There were more than 100,000 people at the rally in Boston! The crowd stretched from City Hall all the way to Boston common. Inspiring speakers plus the Dropkick Murphys! #HandsOff

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Big turnouts for today's #HandsOff! protests nationwide, including in smaller towns and cities — here's Portland, Maine We have the momentum

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#firstheycamefor site update: Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez is 73 years old and has lived in the US for 45 years. He was arrested by ICE on his way to work on Monday. In addition to the cruelty of ICE, it’s disgraceful that a man of his age must work and can’t have a dignified retirement.

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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records. It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation. IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

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DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants

The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#firsttheycamefor site update: DHS has been cancelling visas for international students at many universities across the country. DHS does not notify the schools and so they only find this information if reviewing SEVIS records proactively.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 04/04/2025

they're trying to kill her over an op-ed

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 05/04/2025

Must-read from Mahmoud Khalil: “It is incumbent upon each of you to reclaim the University and join the student movement to carry forward the work of the past year.” www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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A Letter to Columbia

<i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detained at the Central ...

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The President of El Salvador responded with a gif.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If the government’s position is that being trafficked to El Salvador by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller amounts to a final and irreversible deprivation of all rights, then it seems to me every federal court has a duty to permanently enjoin the practice as soon as it possibly can.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Our movements are facing compounding and intersecting horrors at the hands of the US and Israeli governments. And our power comes from our ability to keep organizing — and that’s why we’re not stopping.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I submit that rather than having to write opinions about prisoners trapped in hot showers as a punishment, we stop treating people like this. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp...

Defendants contend that Burkle could have used the shower water to clean the feces and vomit from the cell floor. Further, Defendants argue that Burkle's defecation and vomiting was less severe than that previously held to violate the Eighth Amendment in Taylor v. Riojas, 592 U.S. 7 (2020), because Burkle had not shown a clogged drain.
It is well-established that filthy and unsanitary cell conditions may violate a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights. See, e.g., id. at 9 n.2 (holding that "massive amounts" of feces in plaintiff's seclusion cell, his being deprived restroom facilities, forced to relieve himself in his cell, and forced to sleep on the cell floor violated the Eighth Amendment); Palmer, 193 F.3d at 352-53 (determining that plaintiff's confinement to a small area without restroom facilities and in unsanitary conditions for seventeen hours deprived him of the basic elements of hygiene); Gates, 376 F.3d at 338-40 (holding that plaintiff's confinement to unsanitary cell conditions implicated the Eighth Amendment's protections); see also Hope v. Harris, 861 F. App'x 571, 584 (5th Cir. 2021) (vacating district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claim against one defendant after finding that mold. urine and feces covering cell had

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks to all the new followers! This is a community-driven project. If you want to contribute (code improvements, graphic design, tips, ideas), please reach out via DM or email. ICE tries to operate in secret & more people are being arrested than we currently know about. Redundancy is important!

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#firsttheycamefor site update: 2 international students at NC State had their visas revoked last week and had to leave the US. There’s no indication that they participated in political activism. Thank you to a follower for the tip - grateful for your help in bringing attention to their stories.

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#firsttheycamefor updated to include the story of Wilson Martell-Lebron, arrested by plainclothes ICE officers in the middle of his trial by jury. The presiding judge held an ICE agent in contempt of court for alleged obstruction of justice.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/04/2025

it’s hard to get americans to care about people in prison, but it’s *bad* for trans women inside & a lot of us rn are one wrong interaction away from being entangled with the law, through no fault of our own. if you’re cis & there’s a trans person in your life you care about, you should read this.

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USA Disappeared Tracker @disappearedtracker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Abusive arrests are also conducted by private security forces.

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First They Came For @firsttheycamefor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#firsttheycamefor site update: DHS cancels the visa of a student at the University of Oregon. They claim that the student has been charged (not convicted) with a crime. Student has “fears of returning to their country of origin.” Link to article on site. #abolishICE #freeMahmoudKhalil

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McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · 01/04/2025

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I hope everyone understands that they can put in a fake CI quote any time they want. Wearing a Bulls jersey plus a lie about you gets you sent to hell in El Salvador.

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LivingTheDream @adosis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief,’’ Sandoval-Moshenberg told me. “If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—b/c the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, & no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights! They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."

Plaintiffs allege that, on March 12, 2025, Abrego Garcia was stopped by ICE officers, who informed him that his immigration status had changed. Id. ¶¶ 48–50; see also Cerna Decl., infra Ex. C, ¶ 11. After being detained, he was questioned about gang affiliations and transferred ultimately to a detention center in Texas. Compl. ¶¶ 53, 56; Cerna Decl. ¶¶ 2, 11. Plaintiffs allege Abrego Garcia was told he would be removed to El Salvador and detained at the CECOT prison there. Compl. ¶¶ 56–57 & n.1. On March 15, although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error. Cerna Decl. ¶¶ 12–15. On March 16, a news article contained a photograph of individuals entering intake at CECOT. Id. ¶ 59. Abrego Garcia’s wife identified one of the detainees depicted as her husband based on his tattoos and head scars. Id.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That it was less than 72 hours between his arrest and ICE illegally putting him on a plane to El Salvador (which ICE itself admits should not have happened!) shows how slapdash this operation was. Of course, ICE would never have admitted this kind of colossal screw-up if they hadn't been sued.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 31/03/2025

A Minnesota State University, Mankato student was detained by ICE on Friday “for reasons that are unknown to us,” said President Edward Inch in a letter to the campus in Mankato.

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Second Minnesota university student detained by ICE

A Minnesota State University, Mankato student was detained Friday, and a University of Minnesota student was detained Thursday. Reasons for both arrests are unclear.

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Shocking, cruel, and unconstitutional. ICE has failed to answer any questions regarding the shocking arrest of Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk. The nation witnessed the horrific moment when the Turkish student was abducted and detained by Trump’s masked squad of ICE…

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.

Letter from the University President indicating that a grad student has been detained by ICE. No more specific information is provided.

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Outerspace79 @outerspace79.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

make no mistake. "Immigrants" are just an excuse. A label. Same as Jews during Nazism. Once they can kidnap "Immigrants" and nobody will protest, they will come after you. 100% guaranteed. They are already calling people protesting against musk "terrorists". ICE is a freaking Gestapo.

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Gare Davis @bishonentype.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I wrote about another green card Colombia student protester who has been forced into hiding as ICE attempts to kidnap and strip her of her permanent residency status.

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Seems like claiming to be an ICE agent would be a great cover story for any and all hooded thugs to kidnap somebody off the street. Seems like it'll be increasingly hard to keep track of who's being kidnapped on the government's orders and who's being disappeared for some other reason.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."

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