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Huy Tran

@huytranon.bsky.social
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Executive Director of SIREN Child of refugees, social justice advocate, Raider Nation for life, nature lover, and karaoke mic hog. Statements and opinions are my own.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Havent posted in awhile but needed to share some joy. Me today after @lasvegasraiders.bsky.social go 2-0.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Blue Turn Indivisible @blueturnindivisible.org · 22/08/2026
Yeah, right, 10 detainees. Ditto @huytranon.bsky.social "“I don’t believe for a second that they’re only going to be housing 10 people at any given moment”. Absolutely not, even if "only 10"! #ICEoutOfTheBay (see from @sanjosespotlight.com).
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Feds say South County ICE facility will hold minimal detainees - San José Spotlight
Federal officials say a planned ICE facility in South County will typically house about 10 detainees, according to the most detailed official statement yet released outlining the project.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
3 deaths by ICE this week is grabbing headlines and each one is gruesome and tragic. This is on top of 52 deaths in detention centers. It's been awhile since I recognized American exceptionalism...
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Dying in Detention
The 73-page report, “Dying in Detention: Rising Deaths in an Expanding US Immigration Detention System,” documents the increasing number of deaths in ICE custody through expert statistical and medical...
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is tragic - there are members of my family who fought along US soldiers during the Vietnam War. I can't imagine the betrayal and anger I would feel if my supposed ally sought to deport a loved one and killed them in the process. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and aggravated his asthma, the death report shows.
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#TrumpCurse
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Honestly one of the best matches I've seen. #MexicovEngland
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On a heavy SCOTUS news day like today, NPR accidentally published an article saying that Alito retired. This would've been the best news today but now I can only sit dreaming of what could have been...
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A 5-4 decision on the constitutional grounds for BRC is appalling...this should've been a slam dunk...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/06/2026
We applaud SCOTUS' decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 19/06/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the Supreme Court's historical test for gun laws is 'unworkable' and needs to go.
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Supreme Court justice wants to scrap 'failed' Second Amendment test
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the Supreme Court's historical test for gun laws is 'unworkable' and needs to go.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas and North Carolina, according to an Axios news report. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE agents accessed voter files in Texas and North Carolina
ICE agents were reportedly given access to personal voter files in Forsyth County, North Carolina and Webb County, Texas.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What I'm taking from the Knicks' win is that Trump cursed them in Game 3. Congrats @ny-knicks.bsky.social
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2026
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wild that this even has to be asked.
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Democrats, Republicans ask Trump administration not to ship Afghan allies to unsafe countries
Dozens of U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald ​Trump's administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who worked ‌with U.S. forces during the wa...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/06/2026
BREAKING: We’re suing multiple Florida police departments on behalf of our client, Robert Dillon, who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit in a city he’s never been to because he was misidentified by facial recognition technology.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ugh...every member of the CA delegation @sirenimmigration.bsky.social targeted for the reconciliation bill voted against it except for 1 - Valadao. The final vote count was 214-212. One more flip would've prevented another $70B going to detention and deportation...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 04/06/2026
Senate Republicans just started a marathon voting session known as vote-a-rama in the Senate. Not to improve your life. Not to lower your costs. But to funnel $70 billion more to ICE and the abuses I saw at Delaney Hall. Not another dime.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I cant tell if they finally grew a spine or if they just got fed up with gas prices.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I've waited long enough - just filled out my ballot and mailing it in tomorrow. #cagov
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"From the tail end of the Biden administration through much of Trump’s first year, the average wait time for a [DACA] renewal was about 15 days. Since then, that wait time has increased by nearly five times." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Sen. Kelly pushes permanent citizenship for DACA recipients as renewal delays spike
Immigrant rights groups and elected officials, including Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, are calling for the creation of a permanent pathway to citizenship for people who came to the country as minors, even ...
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is the first two paragraphs!!!
Mary S. McElroy, United States District Judge.
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) possesses immense
prosecutorial authority and discretion. As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors,
when wielding this awesome power against a state, a company, or certainly against
vulnerable children, will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the
judiciary.
DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has
misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Texas court”). It did so in an
obvious effort to shield it’s recent investigative tactics—previously rejected by every
other court to review them—from this Court’s review, in favor of a distant forum that
DOJ deems friendly to its political positions.1 Its representatives have, under oath,
1 The presiding judge in the Texas court has branded “the Department of Justice, the
world's largest law firm” a “frequent forum shopper.” Opening Remarks from Judge
Reed O'Connor [2024 TX Chapters Conference], The Federalist Society (Oct. 22,
2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMTt9pxWBhA [https://perma.cc/GR7AH6N8]. It is clear that the DOJ has done so here.misrepresented salient facts. It has misled the parties with whom it was negotiating
in Rhode Island, who have now been placed in an untenable and unprecedented
procedural position. And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their
conduct, the senior attorney—who was present at many of the events that took place
in this case—sat silently by as his counterpart, a junior attorney who has been
practicing law for approximately six months and had no relevant information, was
forced to answer questions about DOJ’s blatant disregard for the proper course of
negotiations.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This reinforces why we need to shut down #FCIDublin @iceoutofca.bsky.social @iceoutofsmc.bsky.social @sirenimmigration.bsky.social
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 11/05/2026
Oudone Lothirath was a 57-year-old Laotian refugee who came to the U.S. as a child in the 1980s. ICE detained him on Jan. 6 amid the Minneapolis sweeps. He missed 4 of 5 scheduled chemotherapy sessions for terminal Hodgkin's lymphoma. He later entered hospice.
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crapstorm.bsky.social @crapstorm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
@kenjennings.bsky.social perfect question Ken
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Pope Leo on Friday named a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk to be bishop of West Virginia" From fleeing violence to working construction and other jobs, Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala embodies the dignity of immigrant labor and the power of perseverance.
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Pope Leo picks formerly undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics
Pope Leo, who elevated Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala and the Rev. Robert Boxie III, has drawn a clear contrast with the Trump administration on immigration and the Iran war.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/04/2026
A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...
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'We don't know what will happen to us': U.S. deportees in limbo in DRC
15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Tax 'em all
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 15/04/2026
The Trump administration just fired the immigration judges who ruled against deporting Rümeysa Öztürk (Tufts) and Mohsen Mahdawi (Columbia). I want to be clear about what this actually is and isn't 🧵
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"Morales alleges three separate CBP agents said they didn’t believe him when he told them he had a birth certificate, Social Security card and other ways of proving his citizenship. The officers threatened him with a fraud charge & 5 years’ imprisonment if he didn’t sign a voluntary departure order"
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Report: DHS deported a U.S. citizen arrested near San Antonio
The man, picked up in the Texas Hill Country town of Fredericksburg, said officers refused to see his documents and threatened him with fraud charges.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting.
She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said.
ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities.
After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/04/2026
NEWS: Eric Swalwell suspends his campaign for governor
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wow - and peaceful transition hopefully!
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Good read
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There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse
Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“Trump promises mass pardon to staff before leaving office. In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, say people familiar with the remarks.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office
In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the remarks.
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ICE Out of CA coalition @iceoutofca.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We're horrified and outraged by ICE's shooting of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez. We hope he’ll make a full recovery and are keeping his family in our thoughts. AG @robbonta.bsky.social MUST investigate the Turlock PD's possible collusion with ICE - AND the shooting itself. Our full statement ⬇️
We are horrified and outraged by ICE's shooting of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez. We hope Mr. Mendoza Hernandez will make a full recovery and we are keeping him and his family in our thoughts. 

As the coalition that led efforts to pass California's Sanctuary State law, SB 54, we are profoundly alarmed by reports that the Turlock Police Department may have colluded with ICE following a traffic stop of Mr. Mendoza Hernandez last week. If this is true, the Turlock Police Department bears responsibility for ICE's violence as well. 

We demand that the California Attorney General immediately launch an investigation into the Turlock Police Department’s possible collusion with ICE - and the shooting as a whole - to uncover the truth. 

We affirm that no matter where we were born or what we look like, we are all human. We all deserve to be treated with dignity. ICE and its corrosive violence and abuse have absolutely no place in our state. 

The ICE Out of California Coalition
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Your reminder that even if the war truly ended tonight, and Iran let every tanker sail through the Strait tomorrow, oil does not teleport, wells have been shut down and will take weeks or months to reopen, storage facilities have been destroyed, and refining capacity has been significantly damaged.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Definitely another #TACO, which in this case is a good thing since we aren't committing war crimes.
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Another #TACO - thank goodness...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/04/2026
New ICE arrest data just dropped via the Deportation Data Project's FOIA lawsuit. I spent hours validating it so you don't have to. Here's what the numbers actually show. 🧵
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases as all Noem-era contracts are reviewed @urbanviewradio.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases as all Noem-era contracts are reviewed
The new Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, was sworn in last week to lead a department that was steeped in controversy during Kristi Noem's tenure but also central to President Trump's mas...
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Habeas petitions: one of the most powerful tools to challenge unlawful detention, and too many people don’t know their rights. @aila.org Flyer now available: Habeas Petitions—What You Need to Know. @urbanviewradio.bsky.social
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Huy Tran @huytranon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Ironically our invasion of Iran should reinforce why we need to maintain and expand investment in renewables, but that will never get through his thick skull.
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