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“Historically speaking, immigration control is one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of governance in U.S. law and life.” Kelly Lytle Hernandez #immigration

This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

NEW: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.

May she ride off into the sunset. (end scene).

Freedom of the press??????

I’ve been mad about the government & Medicaid ever since Red states refused Medicaid expansion because they didn’t want to pay into it. The latest Dr. Oz confusion about whether the DME supplies will be stopped for six months OR new suppliers will be stopped is infuriating. We know who is a fraud

Measles Just Hit an ICE Facility. I've Seen What Happens Next. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... How I wish Paul Farmer was still alive to speak on this. He famously studied and treated Tuberculosis in prisons.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The irony is real. 🙄 DHS says Venezuela is safe for immigrants to return; State warns Americans to leave www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... For more great content like this subscribe to the Miami Herald app here: www.miamiherald.com/subscribe

How many temporary blocks are in force right now? Temporary winning by immigrants is not the same as permanent fairness. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Two things are NOT true at the same time. Truth 1. Maduro was an unelected, unsafe leader and needed to be removed. The US government is involved in leadership change there. False 2. Venezuela is a safe place for 600,000 previous holders of TPS to be deported home, immediately. (TPS revoked)

Do we care about the safety of oil more than the safety of a half a million Venezuelans holding legal TPS status in the USA? #immigration

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

The US Government thinks they will be controlling the Venezuela government for years? Venezuelan TPS holders need a good group of lawyers-because they deserve to be here in the United States. #immigration

This NPR piece explains the oxymoron between the US government taking #Maduro and at the same time, insisting Venezuelans under TPS go home. You cannot apply for refugee status from inside the USA and all asylum is on hold. www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

Pictorial by the NYT. I still can’t imagine how 500,000 Haitians will suddenly become undocumented in a few weeks. TPS is ending for all. What will happen? In One Year, Trump’s War on Immigration Alters the Face of America www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

These pauses are affecting every path to legal residency in the USA. #immigration DHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries www.npr.org/2026/01/02/g...

Now that Maduro is out of Venezuela, all Venezuelans who are fighting in the courts for #TPS ought to receive it. They have perfect evidence of qualifications to stay in the USA. Rubio said the military wasn’t focused on a regime change. (while everyone else said it was going to happen).

Millions of Americans who purchase their health insurance through Obamacare are ringing in the New Year with an unwelcome gift: health care premiums that are more than doubling in most cases, thanks to Republican lawmakers who failed to agree on a plan to extend the enhanced tax credits.

Thank you @clareraynor.bsky.social! 💙💙💙🤗💕

Anyone else locked out of Blue Sky for the last few days?

Miller views immigration as a cultural threat to his whiteness. Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

How do these DHS people sleep at night? share.google/DHP089TJ0sTB...

Inhumane conditions continue. Federal judge denies another request to shut down Alligator Alcatraz www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Maybe now we will see what is happening in ICE detention centers. share.google/mR91sSZhEXeq...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Certainly this is the intention of ICE raids. It’s not about public safety. How ICE raids and tariffs can hurt Hispanic business in South Florida www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...

The saddest part of this is DHS is ending the program for those who have already arrived and gone through the legal steps. Work permits are being taken. #familyreunification Trump administration ends family-reunification parole program for Cubans and Haitians www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Brilliant research by the Miami Herald exposes #DeSantis corruption. DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

So-even if you are just on a visitor’s visa-you can’t come here to the USA- if you are “fat”or have diabetes——for fear you will use health services the government eventually foots the bill for apnews.com/article/immi...

Imagine the kind of person who would spend this money to live legally in the United States. . . Trump's 'gold card' program goes live, offering US visas starting at $1 million per person apnews.com/article/trum...

New Navy jurisdiction over California’s desert doesn’t just chase migrants; it torpedoes the distinction between soldier and cop. By expanding militarized zones despite record-low arrests, Trump rebrands domestic policing as national defense so the border stays permanent, khaki-clad theater of war.

The ACLU doesn't make shit up. They got people inside to see what was going on. "People are physically and sexually abused by the guards" is a fact. I don't see how fighting back when assaulted by these criminals is forbidden. It's self defense. It's self preservation.

So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.

Everything in the US is for sale to the wealthy all over the planet, whether friend or foe. Citizenship, work visas, security guarantees, key industries, advanced military capabilities, AI and sensitive tech. For the right price, anyone can have whatever they want from us. bsky.app/profile/atru...

ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.

Former DOJ attorney Liz Oyer just said something that should stop everybody cold: The Justice Department has started calling Immigration Judges “Deportation Judges.” She breaks down what that shift means: for due process, for families, & for a system already weaponized against the most vulnerable.

TWENTY-THREE DEAD: Inside the Torture, Neglect, and Silence of ICE Detention open.substack.com/pub/theallen...

This Prison Rehabilitated Inmates. Until ICE Paid to Fill It With Immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u... A depressing look at a community positive prison rehab facility turned into a concentration camp by the Trump admin and a willing Republican governor sycophant.

Trump administration will expand travel ban to more than 30 countries, Noem says apnews.com/article/trav...

Good news! www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Cruelty redefined by the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. ‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leave US amid parent deportations www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I doubt Trump has met anyone from Somalia. He othered this people group without cause. What to know about Somalia as Trump wants Somalis in the US to leave apnews.com/article/soma...

Just the fact that the PAP airport is closed to commercial airlines-should tell you something. The two mile gang free perimeter around the airport has not been possible. ‘Intentionally harmful.’ South Floridians react to end of TPS for Haitians www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...