Dan Melo

Immigration lawyer and author of Borderlines. Bran flake enthusiast. Bag holder.

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Book is out today from @Zer0Books! You can get it through most major retailers but you can do one better and get it through @redemmas:

https://t.co/aRy5quh6Ay

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Launched my law practice today. To all my organizers, journalists, and government accountability friends, if you want to get actual responses to your Freedom of Information Act requests, I'm your dude. https://t.co/NfWbo9EdNl

[@DanWernerLaw @DanWernerLaw]

1/10 @splcenter has just laid off 80+ of the most talented advocates I've known & entirely eliminated its immigrant justice and Teaching for Justice programs. SPLC leadership is all about spin, and they'll put a spin on this. But make no mistake, this is a win for the right wing.

[SPLC Union @SPLCUnion]

Make no mistake - laying off dozens of employees, many of whom were Union activists, less than a year before we will bargain our second contract was no coincidence.

[SPLC Union @SPLCUnion]

The dismantling of the full Immigrant Justice team ends SPLC’s decade-long commitment to the rights of migrant workers and the deep coalition work to advocate for immigrants’ rights and decriminalize migration across the Southeast.

[SPLC Union @SPLCUnion]

The layoffs of all 16 staff in the Southern Immigrant Freedom Initiative and its office closure will decimate free legal representation to detained immigrants across Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.

[SPLC Union @SPLCUnion]

Today, @splcenter - an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for “hoarding” donations - gutted its staff by a quarter.

[Georgetown Privacy @GeorgetownCPT]

Our report, Raiding the Genome, uncovered the extent of DHS’s DNA collection program and examined its on the ground impacts. We also asked: is it legal?

Our answer: We don’t think so.

New thread 👇

[Georgetown Privacy @GeorgetownCPT]

🚨NEW REPORT 🚨In "Raiding the Genome: How the U.S. Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing," we investigated a federal program under which DHS agents take our most sensitive information: DNA.

Here’s what we found 🧵

https://t.co/LhRiFV9odX

[Bram E. Gieben @weaponizer]

ICYMI at the weekend, here's my conversation with @J_Myles_TIR of @TIRShowOakland on apocalypse films, dive bar gigs, capitalist realism and the darkest timeline 🫡 https://t.co/JnEeadNn1E

[Bram E. Gieben @weaponizer]

🚀 PREORDER NOW! 🚀 My book THE DARKEST TIMELINE is now available, shipping 28 June from Revol Press! Reserve a copy: https://t.co/iYgp6rEPAm

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

This really is the worst fucking timeline. https://t.co/mYiQ4AW5Fm

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Remember that time everyone thought the treatment of immigrants was going to get better with Biden?

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

NEWS — The Biden administration has indicated to Congress that it's open to a new Title 42-like border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as an expansion of immigration detention and deportations, to get GOP to back Ukraine aid.
https://t.co/ldRXt8eRx8

[Bram E. Gieben @weaponizer]

"The very moment we turned to state power in an effort to secure and defend human universality that universality itself evaporated."

Great essay from Revol Press co-founder @danjmelo on universal human rights and citizenship

https://t.co/o1hR688oBR

[Bram E. Gieben @weaponizer]

Excited to announce I have a book coming out with @_leftaesthetics new imprint REVOL PRESS in 2024! New essay on the politics of 'Joker' and 'Midsommar' at https://t.co/xlzUsIwiAe More soon!

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Each immigration detainee at Farmville (privately run) costs the gov $8,000 A DAY.

*checks notes*

That's $292k a year, more than the median salary at @Google. Talk about wealth redistribution.

https://t.co/LhrOShY8Xt

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Each immigration detainee at Farmville (privately run) costs the gov $8,000 A DAY.

*checks notes*

That's $292k a year, more than the median salary at @Google. Talk about wealth redistribution.

https://t.co/LhrOShY8Xt

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Under Biden, private prison company GEO Group (GEO.N) saw its revenues from ICE contracts for detention centers and remote monitoring of immigrants
jump to a record $1.05 billion in 2022, up nearly 40% from the previous year, corporate filings show.

https://t.co/bmstuxmPXa

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Under Biden, private prison company GEO Group (GEO.N) saw its revenues from ICE contracts for detention centers and remote monitoring of immigrants
jump to a record $1.05 billion in 2022, up nearly 40% from the previous year, corporate filings show.

https://t.co/bmstuxmPXa

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Yoooo inflation really did come for everybody

[Jim Roberts @nycjim]

Total number of criminal charges now faced by RICO defendant Donald Trump: 91.
https://t.co/7rqIZSXIuQ

[Dan Melo @danjmelo]

Expert inspectors found "negligent" medical care, "unsafe and filthy" conditions, racist abuse, inappropriate pepper-spraying of mentally ill detainees and other problems even contributed to detainee deaths.

These reports almost never become public.

https://t.co/LytbGjLWsY