Reposted by Saira Hussainbrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure. 51660488
Reposted by Saira HussainDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822401169
Reposted by Saira HussainElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026“We don’t actually know if [automated license plate readers are] functioning in the way that they’re supposed to in terms of helping public safety, but we do know that they are definitely invading people’s privacy,” EFF’s @sairahussain.bsky.social told @lancasteronline.bsky.social.lancasteronline.comLancaster County lawmakers support regulating Flock camerasAcross Lancaster County, video cameras are recording the license plates of passing cars, along with their vehicle make, model and paint color, and storing that information in searchable databases. 412533
Reposted by Saira HussainElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/09/2026“You’re not going to be able to stop this mass surveillance technology by moving to another vendor,” EFF’s @sairahussain.bsky.social told @theverge.com. “The only thing that is going to solve this whole problem is not relying on this technology.”theverge.comWhat happens after a town de-FlocksFlock is just one piece of the mass surveillance puzzle. 112828
Reposted by Saira HussainAnil Dash @anildash.com · 04/09/2026I was in a public space that had a TV news channel on ("news"), and it was one of those useless "here's a white lady in court" stories where they do 24/7 coverage for a few weeks, and I genuinely wonder: how do we get them to do the same coverage of our gov murdering people in international waters? 1127745
Reposted by Saira HussainElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/08/2026EFF’s position is that ALPR mass surveillance—the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion—should not exist. Because it nonetheless does, EFF also urges courts and state legislatures to impose strict, enforceable restrictions.eff.orgEFF's Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its HarmsAutomated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query after the fact. Networked across a city, ... 313845
Reposted by Saira HussainKnight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 14/07/2026Breaking: A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an immigration policy targeting noncitizen researchers, advocates, fact-checkers, and trust and safety workers based on their work. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...knightcolumbia.orgFederal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers 211962
Reposted by Saira HussainElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/07/2026Cities across the nation are re-evaluating whether to allow mass surveillance by Flock ALPR cameras. Want to find out whether your local police are using Flock to scan for immigrants targeted by ICE? EFF tells you how. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgAre Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified 18847
Reposted by Saira HussainEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative 252368510
Reposted by Saira HussainElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/06/2026When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgAre Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified 4188109
Reposted by Saira HussainMario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Meta’s conclusion that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgSeven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition PlansMeta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong. 031
Reposted by Saira HussainAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026reminds of that old bible story of how people were hungry and jesus conjured himself a security detail bsky.app/profile/carl... 471824421
Reposted by Saira HussainSean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 05/02/2026"Although the law is clear, deep-state actors in the federal government have for decades" thwarted me, I will write in my next brief. 37719
Reposted by Saira HussainPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/01/2026If nothing else today, I got USA Today to print my analogy of the significance of ICE administrative warrants. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 291523215
Reposted by Saira HussainRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it. 6362061343
Reposted by Saira HussainChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Literally 10 days ago, Hoeven introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re... 23574238
Reposted by Saira HussainPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."zeteo.comDHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota. 482500812
Reposted by Saira HussainPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1 7083422860
Reposted by Saira HussainOsita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 24/01/2026We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them. 523259337861
Reposted by Saira HussainMatt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year. 142207027875
Reposted by Saira HussainMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/01/2026in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission 13341898
Reposted by Saira HussainBill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 24/01/2026“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”bringmethenews.comBREAKING: Federal agent shoots man in south MinneapolisA Bring Me The News reporter was near the scene, and recorded multiple gunshots. 7249442253
Reposted by Saira HussainWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Rapid responders still out there, tracking ICE. In spite of everything, even now. Heroes 264722764
Reposted by Saira HussainAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous. 148178992998
Reposted by Saira HussainAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation. 11292690615897
Reposted by Saira HussainNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority. 8998152486
Reposted by Saira HussainBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net . 2266163682
Reposted by Saira HussainWilliam C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs. 142750910
Reposted by Saira HussainCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/10/2025Putting aside Kilmar Ábrego García’s fate in immigration court, which is not a real court: He has been winning at every step of the federal judiciary, in a maze of criminal and civil cases, and that’s why the Trump administration is throwing everything at him. This streak continues in Tennessee: 5852206
Reposted by Saira HussainCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages 534360615
Reposted by Saira HussainChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Always remember that Brad Karp decided it wasn’t worth standing up for the rule of law when his firm of Paul Weiss was targeted. Never forget it, not for a minute. 291457310
Reposted by Saira HussainKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... 5953971144
Reposted by Saira HussainKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 02/05/2025JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... 11466911844
Reposted by Saira HussainRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory. Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were … 18728701062
Saira Hussain @sairahussain.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Let's call this out for what it is: a kidnapping. This is every parent's worst nightmare. 040
Reposted by Saira HussainAdam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Massachusetts federal court will allow @aaup.bsky.social First Amendment challenge to Trump administration's unwritten policy targeting noncitizen "speech that could be construed as pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel" to move forward. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 229048
Reposted by Saira HussainElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/04/2025US citizens aren't legally required to carry citizenship documents, but “the law is divorced from reality,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffpost.com - the practical reality is that DHS, CBP, and ICE “may not necessarily be following case law at the moment.”huffpost.comYou Don't Have To Carry Proof Of U.S. Citizenship. But Amid ICE Detainments, You Might Want To.Just last week, a U.S. citizen was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 12348130
Reposted by Saira HussainJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 23/04/2025this is, by definition, not an "immigration crackdown" 11040161010
Reposted by Saira HussainJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025This drives me mad. If polls say voters don’t disapprove of disappearing people to gulags, then the voters are fucked up and need to be persuaded or shamed into decency. You can’t just treat a view like that as an unshakeable given. There’s no modus vivendi with a fundamentally indecent electorate. 422452466
Reposted by Saira HussainSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025How are things going with respect to the discovery before Judge Xinis in Abrego García? Well, the government describes as a “false premise” that it “has been ordered to facilitate Abrego García’s release.” (That’s *literally* what #SCOTUS held.) pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/84/578815/09... 1183568987
Reposted by Saira HussainJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comNew images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes themWithout scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk. 7242906813511
Reposted by Saira HussainCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 22/04/2025Mahmoud Khalil's baby arrives: "My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family in an attempt to silence Mahmoud’s support for Palestinian freedom.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/n...nytimes.comMahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour. 03015
Reposted by Saira HussainAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000. 685169764396
Reposted by Saira HussainDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now. 20269751562
Reposted by Saira HussainMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 270178315375