HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The Home Office's own (excellent) research summary says a) asylum seekers come to the UK primarily because of social networks/ties b) welfare and labour market policies are *not* a big "pull factor" c) safe routes would help freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Our new paper finds compelling evidence that immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes from an unlikely source: crime victims. Immigrant victims are way less likely to be victimized by their family & other people they know, who are likely to be other immigrants www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Doing illegal unconstitutional tariffs is the embarrassment
Ramirez is the one who is saying you won’t see defunding
NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...
13. arrest people for filming/reporting on cops' faces? What's coming: 14. arrest people for informing people of their rights? 15. deport US citizens? 16. strip citizenship of US-born persons? 17. denaturalize for free speech?
9. deport to foreign prisons? 10. ignore statutes? 11. spend $$ not appropriated? 12. ignore court orders?
3. trespass on private property? 4. detain people in unconstitutional conditions? 5. reject birth certificates as evidence of US citizenship? 6. deny citizenship to US-born children? 7. require a US passport to speak freely? 8. deport without due process?
The most important immigration fights right now are about the Constitution. None of it has anything to do with the substance of immigration policy. If you stand with ICE, you stand against the Constitution. Can the govt... 1. racially profile? 2. set up checkpoints wherever they want?
They will not. They want Kamala Harris for president.
This is the progressive view. www.axios.com/2025/06/11/i...
Voting to repeal something is not at all the same as voting against it to begin with. I have not seen any sign of Democrats coalescing around the views that they will end all tariffs or cut ICE funding or even rescind the Big Horrible Bill's ICE mass deportation funding.
"From 2017 to 2023, immigrants were 44 percent less likely than US-born Americans to be victimized by violent criminals and were 64 percent less likely to be harmed by someone they knew." www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Our new paper finds compelling evidence that immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes from an unlikely source: crime victims. Immigrant victims are way less likely to be victimized by their family & other people they know, who are likely to be other immigrants www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Have the Democrats promised to end tariffs? Have they said they’d repeal the mass deportation funding? Any of them? Clearly and unequivocally?
📍 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍: Federal agents arrested two firefighters battling the Bear Gulch wildfire, ordering them to line up, despite risking their lives to protect the community. A firefighter said: "You risked your life out here to save the community. This is how they treat us." #AbuseofPowerWatch
We note that the Trump administration is actively trying to target immigrant victims bsky.app/profile/davi...
Read our study here: cato.org/policy-analy...
"The fact that immigrants report crimes more frequently suggests that they provide an additional public safety benefit beyond merely committing fewer crimes: helping bring offenders to justice," the analysts said. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
USA Today covers our study on immigrant crime reporting before the crackdown. My sense is that there's never been a time when immigrants, legal and illegal, were more concerned about interacting with law enforcement in this country. DHS believes that's a good thing!
NEW PAPER! We look at immigrant criminality from the perspective of victims. Criminals tend to victimize the people in their community. If immigrants are setting off a crime wave, immigrants would be their 1st victims. Do we see that... no! Just the opposite... 🧵 www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Important read 👇
Define significant? He has basically appointed everyone who agrees with him. As any nativist knows, most billionaires are not nativists
READ AND SHARE THE WHOLE PAPER HERE: www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Let's try to stop all violent crime because violent crime represents the most severe violation of someone’s rights. And it’s exactly for this reason that we should oppose mass deportation. It’s not just taking resources off the target: it’s only adding to the rights’ violations.
That’s because the Trump administration is trying to deport immigrants who report crimes. This is perhaps the most evil and counterproductive component of Trump’s mass deportation plan: if you care about stopping crime, you want immigrants to help!
We can see that police requesting legal status more frequently for immigrants through the U visa program. Notice the upward trend stopped under Trump 1.0, restarted under Biden, and unfortunately, it’s reasonable to expect a catastrophic change now…
We find that immigrants worked with police on more than 5 million crimes from 2017 to 2023, resulting in at least half a million arrests (only includes arrests within 6 months, known to the victim). Immigrants were helping law enforcement before the mass deportation crackdown.
NOT DONE YET: from 2017-23, before the recent crackdown has changed everything, the victimization survey shows that immigrants also REPORT VIOLENT CRIMES more frequently to the police than the US-born… even though we know many were scared to do so!
The media likes the immigrant-killing-American story way more than the reverse, but every time an immigrant is randomly attacked, it is likely they saved a US-born citizen from facing the same fate. If they weren’t there, it statistically would have been one of you.
Immigrants do commit crimes, even with US-born victims. But the data indicate that the reverse is more common: immigrants are more likely to be violently attacked by the US-born, lowering the rate of violent victimizations for YOU, the US-born citizen.
Robberies are the exception that proves the rule. It’s the one violent crime most likely to be committed by random people. Once we look at victimization rates where the victim knew the perp, we find immigrants again were HALF as likely to be victims of robberies!
IT GETS BETTER: We see that immigrants were way less likely to be victims for EVERY major type of violent crime: assaults, aggravated assaults, sex offenses, and threats. But wait… what about those robberies?
The Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh has shown immigrants are much less likely to be incarcerated than US-born. Countering skeptics, our paper shows that the immigrant/US-born gaps on violent victimization rates by known offenders align PRECISELY w/ gaps in incarceration rates!
We find that immigrants were 64% less likely to be violently victimized by someone they know OR by a family member than the US-born. Noncitizens (half of whom are illegal) were half as likely to be victims of violent crimes by people they know than the US-born.
Is this b/c immigrants are less likely to COMMIT crimes? Well, when victims are asked if they knew the offender, immigrants were significantly less likely to have known or seen the offender before, meaning the victimization rate by perpetrators immigrants know is even lower!
We find that offender and victim demographics are highly correlated and that from 2017-23, immigrants were 44% LESS LIKELY to be victims of violent crime: among citizens, noncitizens, young, old, in cities or not
NEW PAPER! We look at immigrant criminality from the perspective of victims. Criminals tend to victimize the people in their community. If immigrants are setting off a crime wave, immigrants would be their 1st victims. Do we see that... no! Just the opposite... 🧵 www.cato.org/policy-analy...
More FAKE assaults
Opposition to evil is to important to be left to the Left. "Let's get those billionaires at the ICE office." Aside from that making no sense at all, billionaires are, in general, far more in favor of protecting immigrant rights than "workers." Defend our country intelligently please.
Understand this man's family are all US citizens. His wife, his kids, are Americans. Only this administration would cavalierly say: "get out" to its own people.
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)
We have known for at least a yr that Trump would send troops into sanctuary cities to boost ICE enforcement and inflame everything to the point that he has an excuse to declare them in rebellion & invoke the Insurrection Act, which will justify more troops & more permanent occupation by midterms
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
Yesterday, our atty left the DTLA federal building “B18” & what she witnessed was disturbing. Her client has been trapped in a basement room w/ 50 others since Tuesday. ❌ No beds ❌ No showers ❌ Same clothes ❌ Sporadic meals ❌ No medical care after a violent arrest
They are bringing this nationwide: bsky.app/profile/clan...
It is completely absurd to waste law enforcement money to go after people who are not a threat to others, but particularly obscene to do so when there are so many other people without authorization to remain here. pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
Pew finds that in 2023, 14 million "unauthorized" immigrants were in the US. BUT it finds that six million, or 44 percent, were actually authorized to stay here at that time. Trump has obliterated those protections and is trying to deport them all indiscriminately!
ICE lied to courts about its use of illegal profiling. We can't trust the government to tell us the truth about what it's doing because it is controlled by liars from the top down. www.cato.org/blog/anti-pr...
New ICE recruitment ad just dropped via Jesse Welles
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New ICE recruitment ad just dropped via Jesse Welles
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Not many people signing up for DHS Sec. Noem's dystopian self-deportation app.
Some people are saying this is the most anti-white rant a deputy chief of staff for a president has ever given
Another FAKE assault!
Outstanding photojournalism out of El Salvador following people deported to, and released from, CECOT.
NEW— ICE vehicles chased a landscaping truck through Takoma Park, MD, on Monday about a mile from DC, which ended with the truck crashing on someone’s lawn and narrowly missing another car, multiple residents confirm to me. Video shows ICE going into a backyard to find/arrest the men from the truck.
They’re not sending their best
DHS, the agency currently shrugging off fact that their PR guy relentlessly posted Nazi memes, today announced that anything that it deems endorsement of what DHS deems an antisemitic ideology will result in denial of any discretionary benefit application. www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
Coming to a Barnes & Nobles near you: "ICE Raids for Toddlers: How to Explain to a 3-Year-Old Why You're Reporting His Aunt to ICE" -By Kristi Noem, Illustrations by Donald Trump.
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"The men, identified as Ricardo Chavez and his brother, reportedly hold legal status to live and work in the United States."
At Trump’s request, multiple red state governors are sending hundreds of armed National Guard forces into DC. This military occupation of the district is unprecedented and unjustified. If it’s allowed to stand, this country will be well on its way to becoming a police state. 1/22
Not constitutional. Even DUI checkpoints only cleared USSC 5-4, and those have a clear public-safety rationale. Of course they’ll make the same argument here, it’ll just be complete bullshit. If “safety” just means whatever the State says it means, then you’re not safe from the State.
Vegetables cost more. Service is slower. Jobs are harder to fill. It’s not a mystery: deportations + tariffs are gutting the workforce and driving up prices. We’re all paying for Trump’s mass deportation crackdown.
Amazing. They violate the Constitution every day and they lie relentlessly wusa9.com/article/news...
More fake assaults!!
No principled person can be MAGA because it has no principles.
You can read the whole thing here: www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice...
Here's the line from the district court order, where the district court judge responds to the claim that they aren't solely relying on these factors. The judge was correct to call out the lies! caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis...
But here's the most horrible thing. Despite the court order in LA, there's been effectively no let-up in these types of profiling arrests nationwide. So ICE was told, "You're violating the Constitution in LA." It craters its operation in LA, but it just doubles down elsewhere!
When we look at street arrests in LA without criminal charges, convictions, or removal orders, the decline is even more extreme: 83% drop in these types of arrests since July 12. These arrests were previously almost unheard of in LA.
The government told the district court that it was not profiling. It explicitly said that its court order would not affect ICE's operations at all because it does not rely "solely" on the prohibited factors. In fact, they were lying about this.
New ICE data show that the court order banning profiling reduced ICE arrests in LA by 66%! In other words, ICE is effectively admitting that TWO THIRDS of LA arrests were unconstitutional profiling. Did they admit this to the court? NO! They lied to the courts...
Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.
A pic I took on a farm in Idaho in 2014. The immigrant is working with his US-born boss to pull a calf out of a cow. Americans and immigrants work together to make a more productive economy, but these immigrants were more than just employees to this farmer. They were like family
HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls
From the white supremacist book the official DHS account is referencing: "The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world, operating freely across every nation’s frontiers, and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of them all."
ICE is a threat to freedom of religion
Thanks for the correction! I'd be interested to know if anyone succeeds in getting released on these grounds. bsky.app/profile/mich...
The government brief even states that they have no authority to interrogate anyone except for aliens. NONE. Yet they cite this as their authority for doing what they are doing, which is profiling people who they don't have reason to believe are "aliens." That's illegal!
All these arguments are so dangerous because they basically say that the government can continue to conduct these stops and no one can stop them EVEN IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL. That's terrifying. And that might be exactly what happens
They also argue the court can't enjoin the govt because it applies to people other than the named plaintiffs. But since the govt is profiling people WITHOUT KNOWING WHO THEY ARE, there is no way to provide any relief except through an injunction that applies to everyone!
Overall, what the govt argues is more frightening than if it was just arguing for racial profiling. It starts off by saying it plans to deport 10% of LA & use profiling. But here it says no one illegally stopped can sue b/c they can't prove it's likely to happen again!
Unfortunately, a key part of the government's argument is that the district court's order threatens to upend this state of total impunity. This argument should be laughed off by any serious person, but given what it has already said about lawsuits against CBP, SCOTUS may find it most compelling! AH
There is another "remedy" for 4th amendment violations, which is the rule that allows for the exclusion of evidence obtained through an illegal search. But that constitutional rule doesn't apply to immigration courts and certainly won't be voluntarily applied by this regime.
But the DOJ says Muehler v. Mena, 544 U.S. 93 (2005) found otherwise, but it didn't at all. This was a case against state and local officers under 42 USC §1983, which doesn't cover suits against the feds AT ALL. And the person was not awarded damages. They are trying to deceive the court?
SCOTUS hasn't ruled directly on whether you can sue ICE agents, but multiple appeals courts have said even if ICE shoots you, you can't sue them. Here's the 5th circuit summarizing how these claims are all getting shot down. ICE agents also have near-total immunity.
SCOTUS has repeatedly said there are no damages for Border Patrol agents' unconstitutional conduct. A CBP agent beat up a small business owner at his business, not crossing the border. SCOTUS said that it would COMPROMISE NATIONAL SECURITY to let him sue the agent who illegally beat him up. 🤯
The Justice Department absurdly says that there's no reason to stop its racial profiling program because racially profiled individuals can sue for damages for wrongful CBP/ICE detentions. They are lying! And its citation does not remotely demonstrate it. CBP/ICE acts with near-total impunity.
I love how they still have the "press 2 for espanol" option on this. I thought English was our OFFICIAL language!
The situation is already dire and it’s about to get much worse if SCOTUS unleashes ICE from any limits on illegal profiling. My take: t.co/93JcpuyYSn
The rule of law is alive and well for traffic offenses? really?
The situation is already dire and it’s about to get much worse if SCOTUS unleashes ICE from any limits on illegal profiling. My take: t.co/93JcpuyYSn
