Katie Blankenship @kat12birdy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Hi all, thanks for covering this story about our client. Please consider tagging and uplifting @sanctuarysouth.bsky.social's work so we can continue holding the government accountable. We'll be filing Maksym's wrongful death claim in the coming days and happy to provide more updates. 030 0
Katie Blankenship @kat12birdy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025#trans #transrights #transdayofvisibility #immigrantrights @sanctuarylegalservices.com 010 0
Katie Blankenship @kat12birdy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025“They chose the wrong people” to target. Trans visibility today has never been more important. Please share. My greatest honor is to work for and with and beside the beloved trans immigrant community. 121 0
Katie Blankenship @kat12birdy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Mich!! So beautiful, 100% right on, and love you so much. So honored to be in this work with you 010 0
Reposted by Katie BlankenshipSanctuary of the South @sanctuarysouth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"‘… they are housing people in ways that are illegal … and leading to gross harm and death,’ Blankenship said, adding that ICE contractors are paid up to $200 per detainee each day. ‘… they are simultaneously closing the window of release so they can keep them inside and line their own pockets.’" 051 0
Reposted by Katie BlankenshipSanctuary of the South @sanctuarysouth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"‘The facility is becoming seriously overcrowded as the Trump administration systematically denies bond and parole to keep immigrants incarcerated, with men crowding into a room meant for visits with attorneys and women sleeping on buses in a parking lot.'" 131 0
Reposted by Katie BlankenshipSanctuary of the South @sanctuarysouth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"Sanctuary of the South [SOS] has been at the Krome North Service Processing Center in South Florida where the Ukrainian refugee and at least one … other recently died. … [Katie Blankenship, founding partner of SOS] is working to file a wrongful death lawsuit." truthout.org/articles/law...truthout.orgLawsuit Alleges Trump’s Guantánamo Transfers Aim to “Instill Fear” in ImmigrantsThree have died in ICE custody as Trump rapidly expands government capacity to surveil and incarcerate immigrants. 132 0