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J Lu

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Lover, but also fighter :: Courage is always an option, but you must be willing to choose it. "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt."

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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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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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What a despicable act to send these people back to danger
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ve made a deliberate attempt to stop responding to these pieces of deportation propaganda, in part because their entire point is trolling and they WANT the angry responses. But the same time, we cannot make this stuff normal. It’s deeply wrong; a perversion of good things for fascist purposes.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/08/2026
The new H-1B tax will be announced tomorrow. The original $100K tax was ruled illegal in court. The White House has cooked up its successor: a $103K tax on *all* private sector H-1Bs. Much more drastic than the original: NO EXCEPTION for people already in the US (like grads of US universities)—>
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of many critical 2028 platform planks has to be the shuttering of ICE, and candidates should be explicit in their messaging that the electorate should send them a Congress that will help make this possible, and that if it doesn’t, they will work to abolish ICE through executive avenues
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Good @gelliottmorris.com piece showing Trump's deportations are unpopular in *all* the swing states. Key point: Republicans know Trump is deeply vulnerable on the issue, even if pundits refuse to see it. He discusses my piece on Susan Collins/Dems at length: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/even-repub...
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Even Republicans in Congress can see how unpopular Trump's immigration agenda is
Trump's deportation agenda is underwater in every swing state. Plus, Sabato moves 13 House ratings toward Democrats. Your weekly political data roundup for August 2, 2026.
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A depressing reality as a journalist is that often the most valuable stories are the ones the social media algorithm/people care the least about. One of my worst performing videos for Mother Jones is about a family of asylum seekers who had a father deported by ICE. It is likely my best work.
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ICE Took Him. Now His Family Lives in Fear.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25–365 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. BARBARA, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT [June 30, 2026] JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part. Executive Order No. 14160 establishes new exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (2025). The Court today holds that the Order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. I respectfully disagree with the Court’s constitutional holding. In my view, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 U. S. C. §1401(a). Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.
Held: Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States
and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
At the human level, the World Cup is beautiful snackstack.net/2026/06/29/t...
Have you seen the photos and videos of Lawrence, Kansas welcoming the Algerian World Cup team and its fans? I should have known that a Midwest college town could step up like that but, well, I didn't. There's the old Kansas guy who made an Algerian flag the size of a field. The University of Kansas marching band showing up at training sessions to play the Algerian national anthem. The partying when Algeria beat Jordan in their second game. The mayor trying harissa. The chamber of commerce (!). posting wild scenes from a watch party in a blocked-off street. The random Kansans yelling "inshallah Algeria wins tonight” or wearing Riyad Mahrez jerseys and tearing up while they talk about their pride in hosting this team.“We’re so happy they came here to be part of this community,” the mustachioed man in that last video says. I want to print that up and put it in every classroom and public space as an aspirational, neighborly ethos to replace the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/06/2026
Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.
An ADSBx map showing GlobalX N570TA going from Mesa, AZ, to El Paso, to Miami and Caracas, then returning to Miami via Curacao on June 24, 2026.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
IMPORTANT to know that the vast majority of Haitians with TPS entered the country legally at ports of entry, not illegally. The majority have NEVER violated the law. The admin stripped their status by breaking the law, but today SCOTUS says courts can't do anything about that.
Chart shows Haitian migrant encounters by entry method, January 2021 to January 2025, showing that after mid-2022, nearly every entry was legal.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And Justice Sotomayor goes there in her Al Otro Lado dissent (where SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to nullify asylum guarantees if they stop people at/outside the border): "The current asylum system developed in response to the international moral reckoning that followed the Holocaust...."
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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Last October, the Trump administration abruptly stopped paying third-parties for detainee medical care, significantly impacting those who are pregnant, postpartum, or nursing, and who relied on this care. thepreamble.com/p/pregnant-w...
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Pregnant Women Are Being Denied Food in ICE Custody
Reports from detainees paint a troubling picture of detention conditions
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
there is no progressive way to say 'blood & soil'—we have to just reject the idea that belonging is a birthright. full stop
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026
After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Update: he came back and is staying
The White House actually posted a marked-up NYT headline on X saying he's never coming back.
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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.
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FWD.us @fwd.us · 28/04/2026
Hundreds of thousands of TPS holders are helping drive our country’s economy: 🔹$29B in annual contributions 🔹$7.8B in annual taxes paid 🔹$20B to social security over 25 years
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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2026
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA
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World Press Photo announces Photo of the Year 2026
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 01/04/2026
"I can’t explain it, but it’s the weirdest, creepiest number I’ve seen in a long time. You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."
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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have a new piece on why the US is so much better at immigration than Europe. As someone who's lived in and studied both, I've been thinking about it a lot. Anyone who opines on immigration on either side would benefit from acknowledging the complete and total US superiority on the issue.
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Go Sixers Go @gosixersgo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Philadelphia, you are the best
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The vibe of the Halftime Show
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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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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.
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hey man, this sucks @pykea.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"don't be clever, just be brave" is most of the rest of our lives, y'all
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026
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La Repubblica @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis, agente federale uccide un uomo: “Colpito al petto da distanza ravvicinata”. www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/01/24…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/01/2026
If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I appreciate the people who have been raising attention to this and related issues, and hope this will be of interest to you @carlygoodman.bsky.social @akalhan.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @immlawachall.bsky.social
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As fear of ICE raids descend upon Guadalupe Celebrations (patch.com/illinois/des...), Pope Leo to preside at Mass for Friday’s Feast; ironically, last year Leo celebrated Mass as “Bob” filling in for Francis who was ill — Amid the current crackdown on migrants, Leo’s words bear a close watching.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
UNHOLY ESCORT December 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe Artist: Katie Jo Suddaby
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“It was enough to turn a man's stomach to see the way they were naturalizing this morning. Wretched, filthy, bestial-looking Italians and Irish, the very scum and dregs of human nature filled the office so completely that I was almost afraid of being poisoned by going in.” — George Templeton Strong
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 27/11/2025
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