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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is getting worse! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u.... Gift Article
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ICE Warehouse Plan Faces Delay Over Lack of Environmental Reviews
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Pope names members with U.S. ties to Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Pope Leo XIV has chosen four U.S. Catholics to serve in a Vatican office that focuses heavily on immigration.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
‘People should be scared’: convictions in US ‘antifa’ trial set dangerous precedent - The Guardian apple.news/AKhz394ZzTY2...
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‘People should be scared’: convictions in US ‘antifa’ trial set dangerous precedent — Guardian US
Experts say verdict gives Trump officials scope to crack down on leftwing views using spurious ‘terrorism’ label
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
ICE mistakenly told agents to arrest people in immigration courts, DOJ admits www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... “Based on our discussions with ICE today, this regrettable error appears to have occurred because of agency attorney error,” Clayton wrote.
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ICE mistakenly told agents to arrest people in immigration courts, DOJ admits
Top ICE official quietly sent memo to clarify agency’s arrest policy after months of chaos in courthouse hallways
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
apple.news/AbhVtIr7mQB-... “The medical consensus is clear. The conditions children in detention face can meet the criteria for adverse childhood experiences (ACE), and therefore they should not be held in immigration custody. ”
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What ICE Detention Does to a Child — New York Magazine
Stunted growth. Nightmares. Bed-wetting. These are just a few of the symptoms of children held in immigration custody.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Explore this gift article from The NYT. read it for free without a subscription. Mr. Castro says his pressure campaign is working. On his first visit in January, there were 1,100 people at Dilley. On Monday, he said, the number of detainees was down to about 450. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
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Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
apple.news/A1QXhu1PlQDK... The words we use matter!
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People Use The Exact Wrong Word When They Talk About The Holocaust. That Mistake Is Costing Us Dearly Today. — HuffPost
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“…one tactic this administration is trying to use is to overwhelm those who resist so that they are ineffective,” Tihinen said. “…take care of their mental health in this political climate and that obsessively doomscrolling or watching the news 24/7 will likely overwhelm them and burn them out.”
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There's Something Weird Happening With Some Trump Supporters — And It Might Piss You Off — HuffPost
When Joe Rogan starts to see
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This is why we witness!! With or without Kristi Noem, this abomination of state criminality & terror continues, along w/our demand for full accountability & reparations for all of its victims @witnessborder.bsky.social @hofferdal.bsky.social @austinkocher.com @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A report from our convening in South Florida at the Everglades Detention Center (aka Alligator Alcatraz, aka Everglades Concentration Camp) witnessattheborder.org/posts/uw4h6z...
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3/6/26 — Witness at the Border
Lee Goodman witness report from South Florida
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Haitian man who had been living in Mass. dies in ICE custody after untreated toothache
U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren as well as U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent a letter on Thursday to the Trump administration demanding "a full investigation" into the man's death.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation — The Minnesota Star Tribune
There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Blue Triangle spotted in this C-SPAN video #bluetrianglesolidarity www.facebook.com/share/r/1Ui9...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“We’re seeing people who actually win their immigration cases just languishing in jail.”
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Migrants languish in US detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits — The Associated Press
Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump’s second term, at least partly because a new policy generally prohibits immigration judges from releasing detainees while their dep...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
gift article from The NYT. You can read it without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o... “we do not need to use our own version of the Gestapo-like tactics of federal law enforcement. We do not need to thirst for our enemies’ blood or pretend that some lives matter more than others.”
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Opinion | The Risk We Face in Opposing Trump
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
apple.news/At4Ey9D5rRB6... Chicago police said they responded but found no signs of anyone having been struck by gunfire where the alleged shooting took place. “There are no reports of anyone struck by gunfire,” the Chicago police said in a statement.
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Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago — Guardian US
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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'Disturbing', 'disgusting', 'unconstitutional': Judge says of Chicago ICE facility — USA TODAY
U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman heard from witnesses staying at an ICE facility amid President Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “Today in the country and the world, I wonder whether we can even recognize our country, because we were founded on these principles and our Lady of Liberty has stood where so many of our immigrants have entered as a sign of hope, as a place of justice.”
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As Trump cracks down, faith groups step up for immigrants: ‘What has happened to our heart?’
Nuns, bishops and laity from California to Texas have created a network of help to uphold church teachings
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... “officials have retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation orders by forcibly separating them from their children, … The officials misclassified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care.🤬
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Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’
Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
www.npr.org/2025/09/28/n... After burning several blocks once made up of homes and shops, the mob killed 28 Chinese people and injured another 14, in what is one of the deadliest incidents of anti-Chinese violence in U.S. history.
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Wyoming town erects new monument to violent, anti-immigrant history
At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... ICE coming after veterans isn’t theoretical.
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Veterans Are Not Exempt From ICE's Terror Campaign
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is terrorizing immigrant communities, which include veterans. Many are being rounded up for deportation.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
wapo.st/4pKK5pq Pres. Trump announced Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” and escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.
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Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary
The action escalates a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sotomayor wrote ... “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
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Supreme Court lifts limits on immigration raids in the Los Angeles area
The raid sparked major protests in Southern California. President Donald Trump deployed troops from the California National Guard and Marines in response.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
And, what is happening to the roughly 150 non-Koreans detained during the raid? apple.news/AQvRdfuGEQWm...
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South Korean workers detained in Georgia ICE raid to be sent back to South Korea following negotiations, official says — CNN
South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Georgia Thursday will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations, an official announced Sunday.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
apple.news/AduxNONkLTBS... The decision affirms a previous July order from Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who told ICE officers in a memo that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
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Appeals board rules undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings — The Washington Post
The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed a July order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that denied bond hearings for undocumented immigrants.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
apple.news/AYMlreQK6SEC... “Unlike migrants detained at or near the border… the people the administration are now targeting have long since entered the country,That means that they have a weighty liberty interest in remaining here and therefore must be afforded due process under the 5th Amendment,”
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Judge says Trump effort to expand speedy deportations of migrants violates due process — CNN
A federal judge on Friday blocked a Trump administration effort that aims to speed deportations of migrants detained in the interior of the United States, slamming it as a violation of due process.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Disaster-aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
apple.news/A7XHc7cpfSN6... Sheahan, whose job consists of running ICE’s “day-to-day operations,” according to her official bio, has alienated many career officials who dislike being bossed around by a 28-year-old who has never worked in immigration enforcement.
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Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement — The Atlantic
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
apple.news/ADsXyLqW0TMy... “money is about to get more expensive to send, thanks to a new tax tucked into President Donald Trump’s new spending bill. The 1 percent tax passed as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill enacted by Congress last month and will go into effect starting January 1, 2026.”
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This hidden tax will drain billions from the world’s poorest families — Vox
Immigrant rights activist Guerline Jozef can’t count the number of frantic texts, calls, and emails she gets daily from Haitians in the United States terrified that some day soon, they won’t be able t...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
#bluetrianglesolidarity #istandwithimmigrants
Picture of group wearing Blue Triangle buttons.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"Please understand that what's happening here in the city of Los Angeles, we are the canary in the coal mine. What you see happening in MacArthur Park is coming to you ... So wake up." apple.news/A0p8OOduLQ9C...
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Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.'s MacArthur Park — Los Angeles Times
Agents on horseback and in armored vehicles participated in a daytime raid in the heart of Los Angeles' immigrant community.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"What the govt wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood that they will face torture or death," apple.news/ATXzTZhYiTx-...
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Supreme Court paves the way for Trump to send migrants to South Sudan — NBC News
The Justice Department had sought clarification of a recent Supreme Court decision that cleared the path for the administration to quickly deport immigrants to
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The budget sends children back into the hands of traffickers and abusers, all while dismantling lifesaving protections. We must raise our voices NOW. 📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This #FathersDay, the families of those disappeared to El Salvador’s CECOT prison are missing their dads, sons, and partners, unsure if they will see them again. Families belong together and free. Take action to demand their safe return: bit.ly/cecotaction #BringThemBack
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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“These children are truly alone. They have no one to speak for them,” said Director of Legal Services Marion Donovan-Kaloust. The Trump admin is detaining unaccompanied kids longer, targeting their caregivers, and stripping them of legal protections. This is an attack on children. 🔗 bit.ly/3FvImSL
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Trump’ immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone’
Advocates say unaccompanied minors are being detained longer and used as bait to arrest those who care for them
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's #fathersday Sunday, exactly 3 months to the day since over 200 migrant men were transferred to a notorious prison in El Salvador #CECOT, with no #dueprocess. Many of them are fathers! Celebrate Fathers by using your right to peacefully protest! #nokings #freethem
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Video of Padilla being forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference sent immediate shockwaves on both coasts Thursday. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Recriminations erupt after Noem guards tackle Padilla
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers,” Padilla said.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Vineyard immigration activists are urging people to report what they see — including photos and videos — to the LUCE Immigration Justice Network of Massachusetts’ hotline at 617-370-5023. www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/27/i...
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ICE agents make arrests on Vineyard - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Updated  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — along with assistance from other federal agencies — made multiple arrests on the Island Tuesday morning. Officers wearing masks and vests tha...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“It’s not clear if the pause that Sauer is seeking would resolve the dispute over the men previously destined for South Sudan. Those men are being held at a U.S. military base in Djibouti“ apple.news/Ajys8sv1ZQQm...
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DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties — POLITICO
The administration is challenging a judge’s ruling that blocks the deportations unless certain procedures are followed.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Join us in requesting that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus visit CECOT on Father’s Day. forms.gle/3Sv4X4UpdmmV...
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Letter to Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Please consider signing on to the following letter to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus urging them to send a delegation to CECOT on Father’s Day. We write to you as a group of constituents...
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Trump administration has transferred thousands of acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-border...
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Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border
Land transfer has locals, hunters, and land conservationists warning of creeping militarization
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The Trump administration sends a single 60-passenger plane to Cuba every month, … at that rate, it would take almost 700 years to send back the estimated 500,000 Cubans who arrived during the Biden administration and now lack protected status. www.wptv.com/news/trump/t...
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Trump's immigration crackdown unnerves Cuban exiles long shielded from deportation
Amid record arrivals of migrants from Cuba, President Donald Trump in March revoked temporary humanitarian parole for about 300,000 Cubans. Many have been detained ahead of possible deportation.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#bluetrianglesolidarity #istandwithimmigrants #freethem @immdef.bsky.social
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“The recipients of the notices were informed that they had 30 days to contest, in writing, under oath, and with evidence as to why the penalty should not be imposed.”https://apple.news/A-CSCdu55T5aLSyXKYk-gbA
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Low-income migrants fined up to $1.8 million by Trump administration — Reuters
Wendy Ortiz was surprised to find out she was being fined by U.S. immigration authorities for being in the country illegally - but it was the amount that truly shocked her: $1.8 million.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Attended a small protest this morning organized by Nauset Citizens Alliance. It was fairly typical, some honks of support, a few passersby in their MAGA hats being nasty, and good conversation with like-minded people. I passed out a few Blue Triangle buttons and stickers.
Protesters at a street corner in Orleans MA
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Lee Goodman at Navy Pier (Chicago): #bluetrianglesolidarity He had a weapon in a holster on his hip. His shirt said, “Security.” “If you like migrants so much, why don't you bring them home?” he asked me, then he went on, “They are all criminals. Ninety percent of them are criminals. MS-13.”
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“And while more dismissals of the trespassing charges are expected, most, if not all, defendants are still facing illegal entry charges and remain in federal custody at jails across southern New Mexico.” www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
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Federal judge dismisses more than 100 border trespassing charges related to military zone
In a blow to the Trump administration’s new military mission on the southern U.S. border, New Mexico’s top federal magistrate judge has ruled the government had no probable cause to
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“Activists like Wade from Sonoma County have called the deportations “kidnappings,” arguing that Avelo’s participation contradicts the welcoming values of the communities it serves, like New Haven.” aviationsourcenews.com/avelo-airlin...
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Avelo Airlines Faces Escalating Criticism After First ICE Deportation Flight
Avelo Airlines faces escalating criticism, political backlash and safety concerns over carriage of restrained pax on ICE deportation flights.
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Witness at the Border @witnessborder.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
US Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship - Reuters apple.news/AdPCNab5kR5m...
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US Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship — Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised on Thursday to consider Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to limit birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies bor...
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