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Feral Human Rights Lawyer

@natcad.bsky.social
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Border human rights lawyer. Associate professor of law. Studying migrant disappearance. Making records for now and later. Impatient. Punching up. Rio Grande Valley - Tucson - San Diego. Thoughts and views my own and not that of my employer.

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To be a broken record, this is another example of the ways that DHS uses enforced disappearance as a way to facilitate immigration enforcement. We need enforced disappearance legislation in this country. Thread. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To be a broken record, this is another example of the ways that DHS uses enforced disappearance as a way to facilitate immigration enforcement. We need enforced disappearance legislation in this country. Thread. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"‘Hi, just following up again on the email I sent you last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, and the week before that, that you haven’t responded to,’” she said. “And they know they don’t have to because there’s no accountability.”
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is an enforced disappearance and should be reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Voluntary Disappearances immediately. I’m always happy to walk folks through the steps. It’s very easy: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
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Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is an enforced disappearance and should be reported to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Voluntary Disappearances immediately. I’m always happy to walk folks through the steps. It’s very easy: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is a simultaneous problem of DHS mislabeling children as adults and sending them to adult ICE detention. Another headline would be “at least 1 in every 5 people ICE and CBP arrested since February is a child: kennedyhumanrights.org/press/immigr...
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Immigrants’ rights organizations file FOIA lawsuit over illegal age determination procedures for unaccompanied immigrant children - Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center
Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights, the National Immigration Project, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana last week filed suit for records of a government investigation on coercion of...
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026
Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...
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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.
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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.
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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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
/ @estrelladelpaso.bsky.social “said that many of the children it aids ‘are survivors of trafficking, violence, and persecution,’” the report continues. "Without access to attorneys, said the organization, ‘children win the right to stay less than 1% of the time.’”
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is so important. More people have been detained and deported since what happened in Minnesota. Pl
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
f your loved one has been taken by the government and there is no information about their fate or whereabouts, even for a short period of time, you can report their disappearance to the UN here: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
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Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Trump administration still disappears immigrants in less extreme situations that can result in their inability to contact a lawyer or allows the government to more easily deport them without due process. These situations, too, can and should be reported to the UN WGEID.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This Mandela Day marks one year since the Venezuelan men held in a Salvadoran torture prison while in US custody were released. Reporting their disappearances to the UN helped us obtain critical admissions that they were held in US custody.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This Mandela Day marks one year since the Venezuelan men held in a Salvadoran torture prison while in US custody were released. Reporting their disappearances to the UN helped us obtain critical admissions that they were held in US custody.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in the head in front of his 3-yr-old daughter in his car today and didn't even try to pretend that the agent was acting out of concern for his own safety the way they usually do. No, he did it "out of concern for *public* safety." This seems very bad.
CNN headline: ICE officer "fearing for public safety" shot fleeing man, DHS says after hours of silence...
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don’t wanna say anything too radical, but when government agents kill someone I do not care what paperwork the victim had.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/07/2026
Mexico’s Sheinbaum announces criminal charges request in US over ICE deaths aje.news/r5hlzv
Mexico’s Sheinbaum announces criminal charges request in US over ICE deaths
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.
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Mexican Man Killed by ICE in Houston Was Not the Target
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Absolutely horrific facility. Every time I have visited clients there, bugs have fallen from the ceiling onto my head and the floor and table around me. My clients, though, were unfazed, given their experiences in the parts of the facility I couldn’t see: one.npr.org/i/kpbs-s139-...
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🔊 Listen Now: California lawmakers weigh ending charity tax break for Imperial County ICE detention center
KPBS Radio on NPR One | 1:23
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Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican man in Houston on Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop, federal authorities said, what appeared to be the first deadly ICE shooting since Minneapolis in January. W/ @davidnakamura.bsky.social @arelisrhdz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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ICE officer fatally shoots Mexican man in Houston during traffic stop
The incident appears to mark the first deadly shooting by federal immigration officers since Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minneapolis in January.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/07/2026
"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I feel bad for the players who did not ask to get thrown into this political situation. USMNT’s leadership had a choice to make: accept the spoils of a corrupt deal made by a despot, or choose not to play the player who had a red card, despite FIFA’s corrupt decision. They chose wrong.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have always been a US soccer misandrist, so this is more than fine for me.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Te Lo Suplico Virgencita De Guadalupe La Rosa De Guadalupe
ALT: Te Lo Suplico Virgencita De Guadalupe La Rosa De Guadalupe
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Do British soccer announcers cringe at the way that US Americans pronounce French names the way that I cringe when British announcers pronounce Spanish names?
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Oh dang. I’ve been saying the same in my little tirades at home. Call it the New Reconstruction. Call it something else. It is a form it transitional justice that we sorely need.
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I saw the gorgeous new mural dedicated to Wong Kim Ark in SF Chinatown today! He’s the Chinese American who sued the U.S. government in 1898 and established birthright citizenship for all babies born in the U.S. It’s a huge mural and I could not get it all in one shot.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Honestly, voting in favor of kneecapping a Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment should be an impeachable offense.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Honored to have talked to @mattshuham.bsky.social about what a better, more humane, and just immigration system could look like.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
They’re trying to deport the children again, this time on a larger scale, and they’re using that “someone lost the kids” lie as an excuse.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
They’re trying to deport the children again, this time on a larger scale, and they’re using that “someone lost the kids” lie as an excuse.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 USC 1232(a)(5)(D)(i)) GUARANTEES that unaccompanied children have a right to full removal proceedings. Idk what HHS and DHS are trying to do, but it smells both illegal and cruel: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Senator Ron Wyden accuses US health agency of plan to deport more than 500 migrant children
Wyden says in a letter addressed to Robert F Kennedy Jr that HHS is preparing an ‘unprecedented legal framework’
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com
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The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism
The court took a look at Trump's obviously bigoted handling of the Temporary Protected Status program and said, "Nothing to see here."
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am begging people who care about immigrants in big cities and far away from the border to be mad about this. We have seen over and over again Congress trade away meager protections for people in the interior while mega funding Border Patrol and hurting asylum seekers at the border.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court today holds that the Executive Branch may
circumvent all these mandatory procedures by having U. S.
immigration officers stand at the border and physically
block noncitizens from setting a foot onto U. S. soil. They
may do so even if the asylum seeker is at the threshold of a
port of entry designated to receive all noncitizens who seek
entrance into the country. Even if the port of entry has ample capacity to inspect that person, including an available
asylum officer trained to process asylum applications. Even
if the asylum seeker is certain to be persecuted, or killed, if
she is turned away.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Immigration case: Trump can stop people in Mexico, and prevent them from applying for asylum, because they haven't *arrived* in the US. Alito calls the case "straightforward" but Soto's dissent explains that standing two feet into Mexico shouldn't allow Trump to deprive people of human rights.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Clarence Thomas in one sentence: "And, even if the Due Process Clause does prohibit some discrimination, it would not do so in a case about immigration status."
painting of Clarence Thomas smoking cigars with some of the worst people on earth
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Court has not only failed to uphold the law but they also a basic moral test of the values that our country claims to hold dear.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Now is a great time for cities and states to commit to observing Nelson Mandela International Day. We can’t allow white nationalism to erase the legacy or world peace leaders like Mandela. Find a way to celebrate this year on July 18, and include your neighbors: www.un.org/en/events/ma...
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Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July, For Freedom, Justice and Democracy
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Now is a great time for cities and states to commit to observing Nelson Mandela International Day. We can’t allow white nationalism to erase the legacy or world peace leaders like Mandela. Find a way to celebrate this year on July 18, and include your neighbors: www.un.org/en/events/ma...
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Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July, For Freedom, Justice and Democracy
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
JUST IN: The D.C. Circuit has agreed to consider reviving Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings against the administration for defying his orders in the Alien Enemies Act case. The full bench will have oral arguments in September, storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order Sent – #01208862466, Att. #1 in In re: Donald Trump (D.C. Cir., 25-5452) – CourtListener.com
PER CURIAM ORDER, En Banc, [2179802] filed granting the unopposed motion of 174 Former Judges to participate as amicus curiae [2173014-2]; The Clerk is directed to file the lodged Amicus brief [217306...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
About to find out whether SCOTUS thinks it’s okay to still review a case rather than dismiss it when a party shows evidence that the reason for appeal was based on (checks notes) lies.
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