Jonathan Ryan

Attorney, Irish-Texan, American. Human rights enthusiast. CEO of Advokato.

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

ICE is playing trick or treat with migrant kids.
Take money and go back to danger.

Stay and fight, and we’ll jail your family.
Refuse, and you’ll be locked in custody.

This is not policy. It is extortion.

Read the new Firewall: Freaky Friday https://t.co/bM77Psf0hn

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

Over Labor Day weekend, the gov’t tried to deport Guatemalan kids in the dead of night.

I was there when buses arrived. Kids stripped of rosaries. Staff crying.

A judge stopped it...for now. But this fight will go to SCOTUS.

🔗 Read it here 👇
https://t.co/tmTj6qAMlo

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

New: Texas legislators left the Capitol to protect democracy.

Across the country, professionals are asking what it means to stay in place and still resist.

Neutrality is no longer safe. Silence is no longer an option.

Our first action launches Aug 11.
https://t.co/TbKXMY520i

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

I drove a mother of five to her ICE check-in.

Her 10-year-old son is fighting cancer.

I waited to see if they’d let her come home.

What happened next still haunts me.

Read the latest from The Firewall:

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

They’re doing it again.
Tearing kids from their parents.
No charges. No explanation. Just silence.

I’m representing the children.
I’ve seen the pain.
You need to see it too.
Read the truth they buried:
https://t.co/IGWpEdmwOr

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

Under a new ICE memo, the U.S. will now remove immigrants to dangerous third countries with only six hours’ notice.

No court review. No lawyer. No removal order to that country.

Not deported. Disappeared.

It's "them" now.

You might be next.

https://t.co/uL1ntM6VAF

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

Masked ICE agents stormed a medical clinic with no warrant and no ID.

This wasn’t enforcement. It was a test:
Can they invade any space and take anyone?

New from The Firewall:
"They Came Through the Clinic Door"
🔗👇https://t.co/npayn7nMRJ

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

On July 4, we honor a revolution against a distant king.

Yet millions of immigrants live under the same power: taxed without representation, fined for existing, erased by a stroke of the President’s pen.

Their fight is to have rights at all.

Read: https://t.co/rpMNH026n1

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

The US just passed a $100B plan to cage, break, and bury immigrants alive.

10,000 new ICE agents. 45B in new detention centers. 46B in walls.

They call it “The Big Beautiful Bill.” We call it a line we will not cross.

Read the report:
https://t.co/vJscv9v4wy

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

When the van disappears into the fog, ask yourself: is this an immigration raid or the arrest of a dissident?

And does it matter?

The regime is here.

"The War Comes Home"

What begins with war abroad ends with a knock at your door.

https://t.co/3p7TVK8kyj

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

What the regime does to immigrants today, it will do to you tomorrow.

SCOTUS just gave the Executive Branch the green light to disappear people.

No notice. No hearing. No accountability.

This is the line we must defend.

Read it here: https://t.co/vF0E7PLymH

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

Juneteenth wasn’t delayed. It was denied.

And the system that made it possible is still alive, just with new targets.

Slaves. Migrants. Now teachers. Lawyers. You.

This isn’t history. It’s a blueprint.

Read: “Juneteenth Is a Warning”
https://t.co/ZPQ8cx5mbF

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

The regime is testing how far it can go.
First they are coming for immigrant children.
Next they will come for you.
If we do not stop this now, we will lose what is left of our freedom.
My most urgent piece yet:
"They Are Building the Cage Around Us Now."
https://t.co/mta2sL1jiB

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

Martial law was just rehearsed on the streets of LA.

Under the banner of an ICE raid.

This is the Trojan Horse of American authoritarianism.

If we let it pass, there may be no 2026 election to save.

Read this now. Then act.

https://t.co/ZOdSIGjqXJ

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

In 2017, the Muslim Ban wasn’t just policy. It was a test.

We passed.

Will we again?

👉Read: "They're Banning Muslims Again. What Will You Do About It This Time?"

https://t.co/2alY3hlW6B

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

The robes are costumes.

The agents know.

The prosecutors obey.

This is not law. It is disappearance with paperwork.

My latest:

"If You Were That Judge, Would You Have Opened the Door?"
https://t.co/4sinEmlQu6

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

NEW: What If the Courts Don’t Care?

Men were flown into danger. No hearing. No warning. No justice.

Now SCOTUS is being asked to bless it.

Part Three of DISAPPEARED: A Nation on Trial is out now.

👉 Read & share: https://t.co/ZKa6kG0mjK

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

🚨 NEW: The U.S. is no longer just deporting people. It’s trading them.

Libya. South Sudan. Equatorial Guinea.

Men disappeared to countries they’ve never seen — because someone struck a deal.
👇
https://t.co/cYSiFTKa3e

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

NEW: The U.S. government has disappeared immigrants under the cover of past convictions.

They handed out contradictory removal orders. Denied hearings. No interpreter. Then made people vanish.

This isn’t immigration enforcement. It’s authoritarianism.
🔗https://t.co/mahRDfiWwh

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

As I told The Guardian:
🗨️ “This is a death penalty case with traffic court-level procedure. Or rather, this procedure wouldn’t even fly in a traffic court.”
We honor the fallen today. But the country they died for is slipping away.
We must fight for the living.

[Jonathan Ryan @jonathandryan]

🚨New article: On this Memorial Day, the U.S. is quietly disappearing immigrants to war zones—possibly as bargaining chips in foreign policy deals.
One of my clients was sent to South Sudan, then claimed to be going to Burma. The cover-up is unraveling.
🔗https://t.co/bgHWFHwE79