Amy Zeidan, MD

Emergency Medicine Physician | #womeninmedicine #ultrasoundfirst #WelcomeWithDignity

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Immigrants are frequently being sent all over the country, and families and attorneys often don’t know where they are. https://t.co/5BfN8ZdI8D

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

Forcing immigrants pursuing green cards legally to leave behind their homes, their jobs, and in some cases their families betrays the very promise that built this country.

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

It has now been more than 72 hours since Karla - a DACA recipient - was abducted from her home in Tucson.

She has no criminal history.

She has been here since she was one year old.

Her treatment is an absolute disgrace.

https://t.co/W2eTosTbcA

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

Oudone Lothirath was a 57-year-old Laotian refugee who came to the U.S. as a child in the 1980s. ICE detained him on Jan. 6 amid the Minneapolis sweeps. He missed 4 of 5 scheduled chemotherapy sessions for terminal Hodgkin's lymphoma. He later entered hospice.

[ProPublica @propublica]

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men.

So when we started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, we wondered how often it was happening.

We began to count 🧵

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost https://t.co/q3f3LLIJZP

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

Denny Adan Gonzalez, a 33-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 28 at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia in a suspected suicide. He is the 18th person to die in ICE custody in 2026, and the 48th since January 2025.

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

67% of the Trump administration's newly hired immigration judges have no immigration law experience listed in their public biographies, according to a Washington Post analysis. The court backlog is already over 3 million cases. Last week's numbers, one by one.

[Jose Olivares @jlosc9]

🚨NEW🚨 An immigrant died on Tuesday night inside the Stewart Detention Center, a privately-run ICE jail in Georgia.

ICE has not released any information about the death.

CoreCivic, the private company that runs the facility, confirmed his death to me this afternoon.

Details are scarce, with CoreCivic's statement only saying Stewart staff found "an unresponsive individual inside of his living area" and that EMS arrived but the person died inside the detention center.

A source told me the person may have died by suicide inside a solitary confinement cell. The source said the person who died may have been a Cuban man, in his 30s, who may have had some type of altercation with a guard on Sunday and was sent to solitary. "Liquid chemicals," may have played a role in his death, but it has not been confirmed.

This is the 30th immigrant to die in ICE custody since October.

Stewart has had a series of tragic suicides in the past decade. In 2019, I obtained footage of a separate suicide death inside the solitary confinement unit at Stewart: https://t.co/t00IaMMWmo

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A safety net for the most vulnerable Americans is being quietly dismantled, and not enough people know about it.

The Trump administration is finalizing a rule that would gut SSI, the program that provides a basic check to severely disabled Americans. 

According to reporting by ProPublica, the rule would penalize disabled adults simply for living at home. If a relative they live with receives SNAP, the value of their bedroom and any household income would be deducted from their SSI check, cutting benefits by up to a third or ending them entirely. 

As many as 400,000 disabled adults and low-income seniors could be affected.

These are not people gaming the system.

SSI serves 7.5 million Americans, and fewer than one in three applicants is approved. The process takes years and requires medical and vocational evaluations. The average household supporting an SSI recipient on SNAP earns just $17,000 a year.

The administration calls this rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. It is not. 

One 22-year-old with intellectual disabilities profiled by ProPublica would lose about $330 a month, saving taxpayers $11 a day. If her father can no longer afford to keep her at home, taxpayers will pay hundreds of dollars a day to institutionalize her instead.

This policy costs more, helps no one, and punishes families for taking care of their own.

https://t.co/5VaVJPrV0W

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

ICE has locked away members of our community that have committed no crime without bond. At the South Texas Immigration Processing Center, I met many folks who have called America home for decades and have done nothing wrong while here—and yet they are kept in ICE prisons.

A federal court just ruled this practice unconstitutional. ICE can’t keep breaking apart families and traumatizing our neighbors. https://t.co/zfMtQ8NEt1

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

The numbers are stark, but numbers alone don't capture what's at stake. These are people with lives, families, and legal rights.

Read: https://t.co/LJ9OIXxSo9

For deeper analysis visit: https://t.co/OsE3UXMggP

Full Report: https://t.co/TlUeIYvxQD

[Amy Zeidan, MD @Amyjwal]

Save the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT) - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/JndBOvXbZ9 via @Change

[Allen S. Keller @AllenKellerMD]

My colleagues and I are deeply concerned that NYC Health + Hospitals’s decision to close the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture puts highly vulnerable patients at risk.

For 30 years, we have cared for more than 10,000 survivors of torture from over 100 countries.

There could not be a worse time to close this program.

@NYCMayor @AOC @RepJerryNadler

https://t.co/CBdIYV6djC

[lomikriel @lomikriel]

BREAKING: A flight to return an Egyptian family late Saturday, despite federal courts ordering their release, abruptly turned around after a TX judge ruled that the 6 should remain pending litigation.
Latest Trump v. judiciary. Stay tuned @TexasTribune https://t.co/8uPbCGUT9W

[AILA @AILANational]

Senate Judiciary Democrats are calling for an investigation into Trump admin attacks on legal immigration, including indefinite holds in immigration processing & re-reviews of previously approved green card & naturalization applicants. This is a much-needed call for transparency.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

This is outrageous and undermines the rights of every single American.

A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration not to detain or remove the El Gamal family.

ICE waited until the family had left Texas, then defied the judge's order.

If they can ignore a court order to go after this family, anyone could be next.

ICE must release the Gamal family.

[Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum]

A freeze on work permits and other benefits for immigrants from travel ban countries has dragged on for five months.

People losing jobs and income have filed dozens of lawsuits challenging the policy. They're securing a limited number of court wins.

https://t.co/lSaIDeWRn9

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

ICE just released the El Gamal family.

What took place today can only be described as an extraordinary rendition. 5 kids/mom kidnapped by feds in violation of multiple court orders as punishment for crimes committed by someone else.

A dark moment in US history. Mobilize now.

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

Under Biden, 264 mothers were detained and 30% were deported. Under Trump, that's jumped to 800 mothers detained and 60% deported.