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@ACLU Deputy Director of Government Affairs on immigrants' rights. Politics and news on immigration, human rights and civil liberties.

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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 2h
ICE has shot another person on an American street and is yet again acting like that is ok. In a new surge, communities are reporting masked men tackling people to the ground. This is a new normal, and it's making our democracy unrecognizable. We connected the dots here www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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New ACLU Report Sounds the Alarm on How Trump Administration’s Mass Deportation Agenda is Eroding Democracy | American Civil Liberties Union
Report shows deportation machine is being used to silence critics, consolidate presidential power and carry out a white nationalist agenda – and calls...
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 2h
So ICE shoots into a car, apparently with a 5 year old boy inside. The car crashes, in a mostly residential neighborhood as kids are walking home from school. DHS's response is to blame the NYPD and the city of New York. Rank cowardice.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 06/10/2026
The report calls on members of congress to restore and defend transformative immigration reform - to protect, not only our neighbors, but the bedrock of our democracy.
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76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy | American Civil Liberties Union
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 06/10/2026
Ahead of the release of the report, the Contrarian spoke with one of the authors, Sarah Mehta, a human rights lawyer at the ACLU. She explained to us what third-country deportations are, and how Trump’s immigration policy is designed to create fear. Watch the conversation:
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Trump’s Terror Campaign Deports Vulnerable Immigrants to Dangerous Third-Countries
Lower courts and legal activists fight back against Trump’s vicious mass deportation agenda
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nick Miroff's latest: ICE will now keep officers involved in deadly force incidents off the street until the completion of an investigation. That's welcome news, but it comes as ICE street arrests are escalating all over the country. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule
Officers under investigation can no longer return quickly to the streets.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
11 days ago, the AP broke a story about ICE's plans to equip officers with electric-pain-delivery gloves. But we still don't know how ICE plans to use these gloves -- whether they'll be used on kids, pregnant people, the elderly, US citizens, in large crowds. www.npr.org/2026/08/12/n...
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ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 10/08/2026
Will have more on this tomorrow, but as noted in the thread below ⤵️, we may finally have a location for ICE's long-planned 287(g) National Coordination Center: the small town of Adams, TN. Here's the contract summary for the contract awarded to Koniag Services: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
Map of the midwest/Appalachia/mid-Atlantic states, with a marker showing the small town of Adams, TN to the northwest of Nashville, TN, near the Kentucky border.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 10/08/2026
When you consider they've also requested proposals for a statewide transportation contractor in Texas to help move ICE detainees, with contract references back to this coordination center? Well, it sure sounds like a more sophisticated logistics network for humans.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We are way past the moment for "please take off the masks" and "please wear a body cam." ICE is a danger to our communities and must be replaced. We need an immigration management system that supports all our families to thrive. share.google/0MGIZUkLwrEV...
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The Chaos and Cruelty of ICE
“Violent immigration enforcement isn’t just a threat to public safety, it's a threat to the very cornerstone of our democracy,” write Naureen Shah and Denise Bell.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/07/2026
Read our new report in full.
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Improving Asylum at and Beyond the U.S. Border: The Case for a Fair and Effective Protection Framework With a Modern Border and Reception System | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU report, Improving Asylum at and Beyond the U.S. Border, explores how the Trump administration’s attacks on asylum and other humanitarian protections are weakening the U.S. immigration system ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/07/2026
NEW: Our latest report shows how President Trump's attacks on the asylum and refugee system aren’t border policy — they’re an attack on legal immigration. Ending our protection system hurts the economy and longtime residents. It’s not a durable or defensible solution.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I joined LegalAF bsky.app/profile/lega... with Michael Popok @mspopok.bsky.social for a special briefing on ICE -- why and how ICE agents are abusing people across our country - including kids. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WIw...
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Trump Poll Numbers PLUMMET as ICE CAUGHT Abusing Hundreds of Children!!!
Popok is joined for a special briefing of our audience by Naureen Shah, Director of Immigration Policy for the ACLU, about their just out "Agents of Chaos and Cruelty" Report documenting widespread…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Shah: The Trump administration’s vision for our future is one where either 100 million people have just disappeared and the country looks, frankly, just a lot more white, or those people are still here but are in a permanent underclass…
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW POD: Trump built a national police force to go after immigrants. Now, with a budget bigger than most militaries around the world, it’s bringing the war on the southern border home to roost. w/ @naureenshah.bsky.social & @naynagupta.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Trump’s National Killer Police Force
Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · July 24 · 44m
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Trump admin has bulldozed our immigration system from within - sacrificing kids fleeing traffickers, dissidents & victims of torture A new report @aclu.org shows gutting our asylum system isn't a durable or even logical solution - it's cruelty as policy www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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New ACLU Report Examines How Trump Administration’s Anti-Asylum Policies Undermine U.S. Immigration System Already on Brink of Collapse | American Civil Liberties Union
Report argues that the Trump Administration’s bid to end asylum fails to provide long-term border solutions, harms U.S. economy
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
HAPPENING NOW, I'm joining Austin Kocher and Denise Bell for a live conversation on the ACLU's new report on ICE abuses, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty. Tune in now >> t.co/CqCUlkIiwq
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"Agents of Chaos and Cruelty": A Conversation with the ACLU's Naureen Shah & Denise Bell about ICE's Reckless Attacks on American Communities
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Join me Wednesday at noon ET with Naureen Shah and Denise Bell of the ACLU, authors of a bold new report on 1,200+ immigration enforcement incidents across eight states.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“They hired a bunch of fucking clowns and they look sloppy as shit.” Yes, admitting you have a problem is the first step. It's time to replace this broken, cruel system that serves no one. theintercept.com/2026/07/21/i...
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ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest
Updates to ICE's dress code ban deportation officers from wearing jeans, hoodies, and graphic tees, according to a leaked document.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tomorrow: I'm joining longtime human rights researcher Denise Bell and @austinkocher.com to break down ACLU's new report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty — the pattern of abuse by immigration agents, and what comes next. Tune in: austinkocher.substack.com
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Austin Kocher | Substack
Decode the U.S. immigration system with clear analysis backed by data and designed for curious readers. Click to read Austin Kocher, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16/07/2026
3-year-old Orlin was murdered after ICE separated him from his mother, Wendy. This can never happen again. Today, I’m introducing Orlin’s Law to stop family separation and prohibit ICE from detaining or deporting immigrant parents unless they pose a public safety threat.
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New bill would prohibit ICE from separating parents from children
The proposal is named for a 3-year-old Florida boy who was killed after ICE deported his mother.
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Council on Criminal Justice @counciloncj.org · 03/06/2026
How have local & federal authorities coordinated on immigration enforcement in the past & what has changed? Watch our Centering Justice webinar w/ @artacevedo.bsky.social, Ken Cuccinelli, & @naureenshah.bsky.social, w/ mods Khalil Cumberbatch & @marclevin.bsky.social: counciloncj.org/event-record...
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Event Recording: Collaboration or Conflict? Local Police and Immigration Enforcement - Council on Criminal Justice
The Council on Criminal Justice's Centering Justice Initiative and a panel of leading experts discussed how law enforcement and immigration officials work together to address one of the most complex a...
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United We Dream @unitedwedream.org · 13/05/2026
At today’s Senate Spotlight Forum on DACA, United We Dream’s Executive Director is raising the voices of immigrant youth and our families all across this country. Not temporary half-measures, but a real pathway to citizenship. Pass the DREAM Act now. Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Fixed this headline for you: "Mullin refuses to commit to doing anything at tense confirmation hearing" www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Mullin presents himself as a different kind of DHS secretary during tense confirmation hearing
“My goal at six months is that we’re not in the lead story every single day,” Mullin told senators.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sharing my new piece for ACLU calling on lawmakers to pivot from Noem's firing to an affirmative vision for what immigration should look like - www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
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Trump’s Firing of Noem Signals Need for New Vision on Immigration
s Department of Homeland Security faces funding shutdown and loses Kristi Noem, Congress should push for a new path forward on immigration.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It was never about Kristi Noem. It has always been about Stephen Miller - who remains behind the curtain.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/02/2026
At least 77.2 million people — 32% of the country — now live in a county with a local law enforcement agency that has enlisted in the 287(g) program. Our new report, Deputized for Disaster, examines how these dangerous collaborations between local police and ICE endanger our communities.
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ICE is Rapidly Expanding Dangerous 287(g) Agreements with Local Police
The ACLU’s research details the Trump administration’s dangerous expansion of the 287(g) program, making law enforcement and state agencies act as ICE agents.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A new ACLU report documenting ICE's expansion of the 287(g) program to build out a national deportation policing force. The administration is enlisting thousands of state and local police to conduct dragnet-style enforcement. www.aclu.org/press-releas... www.aclu.org/publications...
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Deputized for Disaster | American Civil Liberties Union
Deputized for Disaster, details how the Trump administration is drastically expanding the federal 287(g) program to transform state and local law enforcement into a national deportation policing force...
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Starting in 8 minutes- voices from Minnesota testifying before Democratic members of Congress, live in Minneapolis
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 14/01/2026
500+ organizations have signed on to our letter calling on Congress to refuse more funding for ICE & CBP and demand real accountability. Congress must leverage its budget negotiations to make clear that the cruelty and lawlessness we have seen is unacceptable, and it must end now.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
From tonight’s rally and press conference in DC, calling on Congress to say no to more ICE funding
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
NEWS: Bloody Week Triggers National Revolt Against ICE Funding migrantinsider.com/p/bloody-wee...
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Bloody Week Triggers National Revolt Against ICE Funding
They are zip-tying children and dragging people from cars. Now, a coalition representing millions of Americans is telling Congress: Enough is enough. Read the letter that could shut down DHS.
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Last night, more than 400 civil rights groups wrote Congress demanding they rein in ICE and Border Patrol -- using the power of the purse that Article I gives them. Congress helped create this mess by injecting $170 billion into deportations last summer www.aclu.org/documents/co...
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Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Refuse to Fund ICE Without Reforms | American Civil Liberties Union
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/01/2026
The Minneapolis pastor had observed "ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic" and insisted they take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” trib.al/k06XIZQ
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Roosevelt High Principal Christian Ledesma said: "I am actively watching my own children process this trauma alongside their classmates. I saw the terror in young faces as armed agents showed up on the school lawn." bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
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Minneapolis school closures follow chaotic scenes involving border agents outside Roosevelt High
Customs and Border Patrol agents were involved in an apparent operation in the hours after Renee Good was shot dead by an ICE officer.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/01/2026
As Trump continues his quest for Venezuela's oil, remember that the president stripped the legal status away from 300,000 Venezuelans in the US last October, launching the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
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Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented
Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/11/2025
Veterans from every corner of the country came to DC this week to send one unified message to Congress: no troops on our streets. Service members signed up to defend the Constitution, not to police their neighbors. 📸 Will Martinez
A white older man in a suit with military lapel pins and a cap smiles and holds up a sign that reads: "Veterans say: No troops on our streets. ACLU." He stands before stone steps.A group of people stand in the Capitol rotunda, smiling. Many are wearing suits and some are wearing hats that say "No troops on our streets."Four people stand smiling, posing in a hallway of the Capitol.
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 25/09/2025
Border patrol is patrolling the dangerous border between the Loop and... the other part of the Loop
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was retaliated against and faces imminent deportation from his home and family - just for doing the job he loves. Please join us in calling to Free Mario now action.aclu.org/send-message...
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Free Mario Guevara
ICE detained journalist Mario Guevara for over 100 days for his reporting, despite orders that he be released on bond. Now, an immigration board has issued a final removal order - and he could be depo...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/08/2025
Sending military troops to police civilians undermines public trust, puts soldiers in legal and ethical jeopardy, and puts all of us at risk. If you’ve ever served in the military, join us and @commondefense.bsky.social to send a message to the Defense Department: No troops in our communities.
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Military, Veterans, and Families in Defense of the Constitution
Take action with ACLU People Power!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/08/2025
After making him suffer in an El Salvador torture prison, the Trump administration will stop at nothing to deport Kilmar Ábrego García. They're trying to take him from his family and home to a country he has zero connection to, a punishment for fighting for his rights. This is unjust and cruel.
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Trump administration might deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda | CNN Politics
Until Friday, it wasn't clear whether officials would let Abrego Garcia's criminal trial conclude before they initiated any removal proceedings.
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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 14/08/2025
🚨 ALERT🚨 DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints. What does this mean 👉🏽
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DC Police (MPD) has announced that they will start collaborating with ICE at traffic checkpoints
Aug 14 onwards

What does this mean?
- MPD has started to set up traffic checkpoints  with federal agencies (like ICE) to stop people
- During the traffic stop they can ask about a person’s immigration status
- MPD can also share immigration status information of a person stopped at a checkpoint with ICE so that ICE can come and detain them
- Warning: ICE may be present at MPD precincts in an attempt to take custody of a person after release

Important to understand:
- The Trump administration does not care about the law. Even if you do everything right, they can detain you.
- Still, it is important to know your rights, b/c of potential legal recourse after MPD or federal agents violate them

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Call for active enforcement, text for sightingsRemember you have the right to:
- Remain silent 
- Refuse to sign documents
- Refuse to consent to a search
- Film the police in public
- Ask if you are being detained or if you free to go

Remember these best practices:
- Do not carry false documents
- Make sure a trusted friend/relative knows your correct A-Number and country of birth
- Make sure a trusted friend/relative has a copy of your important documents
- Create an emergency plan for you & your family: familiesuniteddcmetro.org

Scan this qr code for a list of available legal, direct service, and mutual aid resources in the DC, MD, and VA area: bit.ly/migrant-resources-dmv
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Kash Patel fantasy of what the FBI deployment into DC looks like
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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland, and Baltimore, across the country. That should alarm everyone, not just Washingtonians” live-awp-dc.pantheonsite.io/press-releas...
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ACLU-D.C. Statement on Trump’s Deployment of National Guard and Federalization of D.C. Police - ACLU of DC
Without D.C. Statehood, D.C. remains vulnerable to this kind of dangerous political exploitation.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/08/2025
Members of Congress were turned away at an ICE detention center in Brooklyn today while exercising their right to conduct oversight of the facility. ICE has no power to turn them away without reason.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/08/2025
Forcing a pregnant woman to sleep on the floor, denying a child with a brain tumor treatment — these are just some of the damning allegations about ICE detention made in a new report from Senator Ossoff. This report adds to what we've long known: ICE detention is dangerous and puts lives at risk.
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Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds
Sen. Jon Ossoff's office found "510 credible reports" of abuse against immigration detainees, according to a report first obtained by NBC News.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
From this month's edition of The Onion.
ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

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Naureen Shah @naureenshah.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Superman is undocumented. And masked deportation squads terrorizing families is everything the lore of superheroes rejects. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
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Dean Cain, Who Played Superman, Says He Is Joining ICE
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ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"We have filed numerous lawsuits for prisoners at Miami Correctional because conditions in the prison almost certainly violated their basic constitutional rights.
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ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Statement from our executive director, Chris Daley, regarding reports that Miami Correctional Facility will be used for immigration detention:
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