A couple days ago, January 22, I published this in Streetlights: From the Quakers: Ways to help immigrants
I spotted this article: The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship: Trump hopes to gut birthright citizenship via executive order. In lawsuits filed across the country, immigrants seek to stop him. Shawn Musgrave, The Intercept, January 22 2025
Video posted yesterday, January 23, 2025:
ICE posted this. (1) The message is missing the "who, what, when, where, why, how." (2) The message was posted to X, Elon Musk's platform. (3) The message has no alt text.
HuffPost: Though ICE doesn't comment on ongoing investigations, "Homan said later Thursday [January 23] the number of arrests so far was closer to 1,300 people, adding that collateral arrests of citizens or others legally allowed to be in the country would be higher than normal because so-called sanctuary cities were not helping ICE agents." In other words, he blamed city officials, saying that because they didn't cooperate by turning in the people he was targeting, he had to go broad and arrest everyone.
Trump’s Mass Deportations Have Officially Begun: The White House is directing its shock-and-awe strategy inward. Roque Planas, HuffPost, Jan 27, 2025
Laken Riley Act
"The Laken Riley Act is a proposed United States law that requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants charged with or convicted of theft-related crimes, assaulting a police officer, or a crime that results in death or serious bodily injury like drunk driving. The Act would also allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for alleged failures in immigration enforcement.
The bill was introduced following the murder of Laken Riley by an illegal migrant, who had previously been cited for shoplifting, on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. On January 22, 2025, the House agreed to the Senate version of the bill with a 263–156 vote. The bill is awaiting presidential signature.
Trump will likely sign the bill today, January 24.
Here are some things I found a while back:
Anyway, barring some miracle, it seems increasingly likely that a sizeable minority of Senate Dems are about to join with the entire Senate GOP to greenlight a law that will hand Ken Paxton and any random federal judge more power over immigration than any state or judge has ever had in US history.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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congress will rubber stamp mass detention and deportations by handing yet more unaccountable power to local police (and in some cases, perhaps among these 48 people with a D next to their name, pretend that’s not exactly what they’re doing)
— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) January 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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"Two US military flights bound for Colombia overnight [January 25–26, 2025] were turned back, according to a flight tracker, after Petro wrote in a post on X [January 26] that he is denying the entry of American planes carrying Colombian migrants." CNN
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