MAGA: “If you’re here legally, you have nothing to worry about.”
Also MAGA: “Just comply and show your ID.”
The reality:
A U.S. citizen. Born in Colorado. Mother of four. Stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana. Shackled. Detained in an ICE facility anyway.
She showed agents her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE reportedly called them “fake,” handcuffed her, chained her ankles, interrogated her, and transported her to a detention center. She was released hours later only after legal intervention.
The lesson is not “show your papers.”
The lesson is that papers don’t protect you when power decides not to read them.
This is not “law and order.”
This is state abuse.
Fight Trump. Fight ICE: https://t.co/VXiWmshWgj
🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE:
Photos suddenly gone. A website scrubbed. Stock photos depicted as company execs. A business "partner" that says they've never worked together.
The Trump admin gave a no-bid multimillion-dollar contract to surveil immigrants to a firm steeped in mystery.
Politico reported that in analyzing 11,600 immigration cases over the past 10 months, federal judges had ruled against ICE in more than 10,400 of the cases or roughly 90% of cases, a stunning rebuke of Trump's immigration policies. Yeoman's work by @kyledcheney
https://t.co/EVnnnVSsMw
ICE detain high school senior—days before graduation.
"They chained my feet, my waist, and my hands," he said.
"I told them I was a student, they said it didn’t matter."
"Agents now wake us up at 4:00am every day to eat—but there’s only 1 plate and 1 spoon for 8 people—we have to share."
Luis Fernando Cabrera was pulled over for a traffic stop by Texas Department of Public Safety—who then called ICE.
He was driving home from working nights to support his family—in time to take his nephew to daycare in the morning.
Luis was a good student as well as a star soccer player at Northeast Early College High School in Austin, Texas.
Trump, Miller, and Markwayne have decided to close the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in immigration detention centers.
Yeah, you read that right. Despite 49 deaths of detained immigrants, detention centers will operate and profit without oversight.
It is clearer than ever: Reforms are not enough! Congress must STOP funding DHS, pass my Melt ICE Act, and dismantle DHS.
Remember this drawing from a 5-year-old in ICE detention? Yesterday marked her 300th day in captivity at Dilley.
Shut Dilley & free the El Gamal family!!
People are dying in immigration detention at record levels.
Meanwhile, the Trump appointee in charge of detention oversight works about 5 hours a week—& testified he wasn’t even aware of the detention standards he’s supposed to enforce.
https://t.co/hBQ2GuJy8V
Attempted suicides. Fights. Disease. Hunger. Dozens of calls to 911 and interviews with detainees offer a disturbing portrait of conditions at the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. https://t.co/aRiTcEzhry
Citing reporting by @propublica and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: https://t.co/rN1pw2wIWG 1/
BREAKING: It's now being reported that Trump's federal agents at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas are raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children.
This happened after Pro-Republica published multiple letters from the children, like the one below from Ariana V.
What ever happened to Free Speech? This is like 1930s Germany!
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents. https://t.co/57qi3tlENb
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little to no real oversight.