@SarahDnycity Frontier Timber, based in @TownofClaytonNC is running a timber theft scam preying on the elderly, particularly elderly widows, and people of color.
A study of 3.4 million records over 13 years concludes: “Child maltreatment mortality rates did not appear to decrease with higher foster care entry rates or increase with decreasing foster care entry rates.” https://t.co/RSSMAwlEm8 #childabuse#fostercare#childwelfare
New study makes clear: huge numbers of children, whom family police agencies rushed to tear from their homes because supposedly it would reduce fatalities, suffered all the harm of needless #fostercare for nothing. https://t.co/RSSMAwlEm8 #childabuse#childwelfare
NCCPR blog: Rhode Island tears apart families at a rate more than 80% above the national average. It’s #1 in #childwelfare spending while getting dismal results. These priorities explain why: https://t.co/omMKoJwwps #childabuse#fostercare#childwelfare
ICYMI: NCCPR Blog: Rhode Island’s family police agency plans to spend up to $26 million to buy and renovate the notorious "House of Pine-Sol" RTC and warehouse 16 girls there: https://t.co/omMKoJwwps #childabuse#fostercare#childwelfare
[1/5] Back when I was a reporter, the first time I did a story specifically about the harm done by the “child welfare” system was more than 40 years ago, when I produced a documentary for the public television station in Rochester.
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are questioning and detaining Native Americans.
Leticia Jacobo, an Indigenous woman, was supposed to be released from an Iowa jail after serving time for a traffic violation. Instead, she was stopped at the door.
Jail staff told her she wasn’t being released after all, because ICE had placed a detention hold on her.
She was told she’d be free at midnight. Midnight came and went. Rather than being released, she was treated as if she were undocumented.
She was already dressed in a jumpsuit for deportation.
Leticia is 24 years old. She grew up in Arizona’s Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community. She is Native American. She had her tribal ID with her.
None of that stopped ICE from labeling her an “immigrant.”
Only later did jail staff admit they had made a “mistake,” claiming they confused her with another inmate who had the same last name. After that admission, she was finally released and sent home with her mother.
That explanation should alarm everyone.
This wasn’t a harmless clerical error. It’s the predictable outcome of an enforcement system that increasingly relies on names instead of verified identity.
ICE is not just operating inside jails. Agents are also stopping, questioning, and detaining people during street encounters, often without judicial warrants and with little immediate oversight. In these situations, enforcement frequently depends on name-based database matches, not confirmed identity.
At the same time, federal agencies are sharing large amounts of passenger name data, further expanding the number of ways someone can be flagged, misidentified, or detained.
When enforcement works this way, confusing one person for another isn’t a small mistake, it’s a due process failure. People can be treated as deportable first and sorted out later, if they’re lucky.
And as more of these cases come to light, DHS continues to deny they’re happening at all.
They are lying.
Exposes of needless foster care and poverty-confused-with-neglect and big wins for family advocates highlight part two of our 2025 Year in Review: https://t.co/BW9nTFV3Sb #childabuse#fostercare#childwelfare#familypreservation
In #childwelfare the horror stories go in all directions all year long. Here’s our 2025 review of some of what happened to children thrown into #fostercare – in the name of child safety https://t.co/FptME7bG0D
What often happens is local police will arrest people for a minor offense, then flag them to ICE for pick up at the local jail.
So even a traffic stop can mean deportation.
Learn more from our recent briefing here 👇
https://t.co/5gpjISaXOL
This woman has been locked up for ten months while suffering from leukaemia
Just another example of how ICE is a disability justice issue
She’s being denied medical care. She’s lost 70lbs. She’s coughing up blood
It’s cruel & inhumane
Make noise for Yari before it’s too late