Allison Norris

Legal Director, immigration attorney, anti-trafficking advocate.🗽Previously with @CCADW and @Am4ImmJustice. Go 'Canes 🙌

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

Rubi isn’t so sure about the donut

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

Absolutely wild. Texas colluded with the DOJ in a sympathetic district to circumvent the rulemaking process.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: Texas sued DOJ to block a Biden-era rule that allowed immigration judges to indefinitely close deportation cases.

DOJ, however, immediately sided with Texas and asked the judge to block the rule. Judge Reed O’Connor agreed.

All in one day.

https://t.co/TON0kmUC5d

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

Anyone want to share an uber to the University of Maryland? 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Metrorail Info @Metrorailinfo]

UPDATE: Red Line: Trains are now single tracking between NoMa-Gallaudet and Fort Totten due to a switch problem outside Rhode Island Avenue. Customers will continue to experience delays in both directions.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

A sexual assault victim told WaPo that she would "no longer risk turning to the police" because DC police cooperate with ICE. https://t.co/fPwymQ3gyq

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is an extremely clear violation of international and domestic law; someone who has won protection from deportation to their own country on account of persecution cannot just be deported to that country by “chain.“

[Ibraheem Abioye @DrAbioye]

The idea is to find a group of people most people regard as terrible examples, use them to make revoking passports a more acceptable form of punishment, then expand it from there.

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

More joint MPD enforcement with federal agents without license plates.

This time in front of a bilingual elementary school in DC.

To evade constitutional protections, ICE relies on MPD to pull over immigrants for minor infractions.

Traffic stops then turn into deportations.

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

Highly recommended reading. The administration has been detaining and deporting survivors of human trafficking even though they are witnesses in law enforcement investigations and are supposed to be protected from enforcement.

[The Cut @TheCut]

The Trump administration vowed to protect trafficking victims. Instead, it is targeting immigrant survivors for detention and deportation — putting them in even graver danger — even when they have legal status. https://t.co/dSjOhJE5Ho

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

I don’t think most people understand that due process and basic fairness are no longer part of our immigration system.

[Bridget Cambria @BridgetCambria8]

Just had a refugee client released from immigration custody after 6 years, 1 month and 22 days in "civil" immigration custody. More than 5 different facilities over that span of time. Longest detained case that I've ever encountered.

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

New Post story reveals MPD policies that block relief for immigrant crime victims.

MPD refuses to certify victim requests in cases where an arrest is made — violating federal guidelines.

Instead, MPD sends victims to USAO, but USAO blocked all U-visa requests for most of 2025.

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

This is a great example of how immigration enforcement is weaponized for labor trafficking and exploitation.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Homeowner waits until construction job is nearly done—then calls ICE on 6 of her own workers.

Woman even provides the ladder used by agent to detain men—who she owes $10,000 for 3 day job.

"She called the damn law on us and now we're totally screwed!" men yell in Spanish. "They surrounded us!—They surrounded us!"

Agents even left behind the workers' van with doors wide open—filled with thousands of dollars worth of tools.

The arrest was broadcast live for about 30 minutes by a co-worker—identified as Bryan Polanco.

"Seeing it is not the same as experiencing it," he explains.

"I’ve seen many videos, and sadly today I had to experience it."

At the end of the video he gets the woman who called ICE on camera: "It is the same woman. Tidying up the house, and still with hatred in her heart."

The incident occurred in Cambridge, Maryland.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Congress needs to impeach @USCISJoe immediately. By not processing applications, he's refusing to do his job, forcing immigrants out of their jobs to cause them to self-deport. It's criminal mismanagement of our legal system. And he's defrauding immigrants of their money.

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

Law School: in theory, this is how it should all work

Me: what about in practice

Law School: in what

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

It was never about illegal immigration

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

42 new immigration judges and NOT A SINGLE ONE hired from the immigrant defense bar. Zero. One new judge’s last job was compliance at a biotech firm.

This comes after they fired/pushed out at least 100 experienced judges they thought might be too willing to grant relief.

[UMD SAFE Center @UMDSAFECenter]

For #HumanTraffickingAwarenessMonth, @SusanEsserman joined Lt. Governor @arunamiller and Secretary of State @SenatorSusanLee to recognize Maryland’s commitment to stepping up to combat human trafficking as the federal government steps back.

[Ade Ferro 🟧 🌻 @adeferr]

TODAY: A Venezuelan woman with green card was detained in NY by 🧊. The Latina 🧊 officer told her the green card was “not valid” because it was granted under Biden.
The woman called the police. Officers showed up while she was being taken to an 🧊 office”and literally saved her.

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

Some of those people are there and can't be released because of the Laken Riley Act, which Rep. McCail Delane voted for.

[Rep. April McClain Delaney @RepAprilDelaney]

I was the only member of Congress allowed inside, and the viral video is real—ICE is holding people in a 12-hour Baltimore facility for days on end, without showers, adequate food, or basic human dignity.

This is unacceptable and un-American.

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

@RHoyt58547 Roy, we were talking about whether they were being held for long periods of time in the Baltimore Hold room. Did you forget?

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

It's well documented that people have been held for days in the Baltimore Hold Room. https://t.co/s30pfsOt4d

[Roy Hoyt @RHoyt58547]

@allisonnorris Im sure this is bullshit

[Allison Norris @allisonnorris]

@RHoyt58547 Not sure what that means