Felipe De La Hoz

For new followers: I’ve spent about a decade writing on immigration, from explanatory to feature to opinion to investigative. Always looking to talk if you have insight, from inside gov’t, civil society, or if directly impacted. Signal is felipedlh.58, anonymity assured (do NOT use work devices)

Kind of crazy that the plan here was apparently for Trump to somehow steal the election for them

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

For @boltsmag.org, I looked at the ongoing dissolution of the ICE detention contract in NY's Orange County; these have gotten less attention that the also-banned 287(g) agreements, but are very significant, and the local sheriff's posture is making a once-sleepy race more heated

Trump take trip

The Panopticon was a thought experiment but the technology is now genuinely there to make it a reality and we have to grapple with what that means for us as a society. /yes, I am aware that others countries had this debate and went with total surveillance decades ago.

*spins wheel* the nursing union is working with *spins wheel* the reanimated remains of Strom Thurmond to *spins wheel* ban hydroelectric research

Interesting point but also “undocumented children” born in the U.S. is an oxymoron. Anyone born in U.S. jurisdiction is a U.S. citizen or national (or, in very few cases, a permanent resident)

luv 2 enroll in health insurance that's $620 a month as a freelancer, the system works

Whatever you are expecting — whatever at all — I can promise that you are not prepared for You Can See Everything and you must run, not walk, to see this film

In @newrepublic.com I argue that the Trump era has dynamited the premise that large corporate interests can or will act in concert to protect their commercial interests. Trump rolled them and liberals can, too, on the road to popular economic and social policy

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

While the administration is bleating about the nonexistent issue of mass noncitizen voting in federal elections, it is actually promulgating the inverse: keeping potentially hundred of thousands of would-be citizens from being able to vote in the midterms

Hey you guys remember a few months ago when the Trump administration black-bagged a sitting head of state and then we all just moved on

Incidentally, North Lake was formerly a noncitizen-only federal prison (a specific subset of BOP prisons that are all privately run) where I found sudden transfers during the height of COVID led to mass spread. I’m unsurprised things are still terrible there as an immigration detention center

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Just caught my cat trying to drink the water from the vat I use to heat photo development chemicals. Girl your clean, fresh water is ten feet away, what are you doing???

TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social on the relationship between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the influencers covering his office. "Informing the public is not what they signed up for. Reporting is complicated, expensive, messy, and opens you up to potential liability." flaminghydra.com/who-will-inf...

Patel incidentally was made acting special agent in charge of the New York field office last year

As I wrote this summer, New York has recently become one of the states with a state-level cause of action for violations of the Constitution. If and when Oscar Belga is released (or, potentially, while detained), he could under this law individually sue the ICE agents involved in his shooting

I’d seen mention of the raid, but Reuters reports it was related to the immigration paperwork her father filed decades ago. This is another salvo in the admin’s effort to indicate to every immigrant, whether they’ve since naturalized, whether they’ve become a member of Congress, that we aren’t safe

I kept thinking the Cuni guy (Bronx shooter) looked familiar and then I realized I saw him last year at the ICE raid in Chinatown, where he was pretty front and center. Dude loves the attention

Another day of staring longingly at the coats I've waited all year to wear but cannot because it is still 72 in mid-October

It's a good thing this guy is so incredibly unpopular because this is how you start a pogrom

This is going to be a real test of both whether the mayor is willing to take concrete action that is squarely within the city’s power to investigate and, if reasonable, prosecute a federal agent; and whether the NYPD is willing to go through with that. I wrote about the process here

Even if your assumption is Musk is a net positive for the U.S. (a very shaky premise) he obviously did not receive an H-1B as *today's* Musk, and as has been extensively covered, would have been detained and deported for his unlawful presence and work under policies he and Vance both support now

I have literally used this exact formulation, truck and all, to talk about the damage done to public health

I also feel like if I were an ME voter I'd be annoyed by the laziness of using a base AI template for your flyer, which is so immediately recognizable and makes it look like any ad for a local sandwich shop or a shitty martial arts studio

I have now seen a few FB marketplace listings like this and I just have to wonder what's going on. Are these AI generated and no one even checks if the car rendered correctly? are they showing you the underside but for some reason editing it so the car looks flipped?

One thing I’ve found striking in recent years is the extent to which I hear Gen Z / Alpha use this algo-speak in real life

Not a naturalization issue per se but I’ve been waiting a year and a half to hear back from USCIS on something relatively routine and my lawyer has let me know I should expect to wait another year based on what he’s been seeing

Guys is it good to be cooking outside in October

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned