"For weeks, I spoke to🚨Chicago-area #immigrants held in a MI detention cen months after they were arrested w/o warrants -or ordered deported."

#ICE #Detention #DeathCamps💔are destroying IMMs' lives, many ppl are sick, some are close to death, others were released or deported -then died, they've been separated from their families -some permanently, lost their jobs -lives disrupted, & some have LOST EVERYTHING‼️

Dems🚨must hold the line on #ICE funding.
#Torture #DHS #USPol
blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/1…

Paul Moses focuses on how "border czar" Tom Homan's Catholicism, with its fervent support for Trump-Miller's ethnic-cleansing crusade, clashes with the Caatholicism of Popes Leo and Francis and the US Catholic bishops aligned with those popes.

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #EthnicCleansing #immigrants #PopeLeo
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Francis X. Rocca notes that for years now, the US Catholic bishops have pushed "right-coded concerns," notably, an anti-abortion message. But with Popes Francis and Leo, they are now slowly aligning themselves to oppose the cruelty of Trump's ethnic-cleansing program — though many Catholics (notably white ones) continue supporting that program.

#Trump #StephenMiller #EthnicCleansing #immigrants #PopeLeo
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theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

— and to face what the facts tell us about those who have most institutional and economic power in the Catholic church in the US and their role in bringing the nightmare of MAGA to us.

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics wield enormous disproportionate influence in the Trump regime and on the Supreme Court.

There are those who claim that adverting to these facts is racist.
It's precisely the opposite of racist to do so —

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics do not represent the entire US Catholic church by any means. Catholics of color do not dance to the white Catholic tune.

However: institutional and economic power in the US Catholic church is solidly in the hands of white Catholics. A majority of the US Catholic bishops are white Catholics.

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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So why do some commentators (I'm included) focus on the fact that white Catholics have voted three times in a majority for Trump, and along with white evangelicals, are the only religious group continuing to support the cruelty of the ethnic cleansing agenda of the Trump regime?

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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PRRI reported this week that white evangelicals and white Catholics stand out from all other religious groups in their support for Trump and Stephen Miller's cruel ethnic cleansing program with mass deportation of immigrants and mass incarceration of immigrants in holding camps.

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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“Let us love the stranger among us because we are them, and they are us.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, NYC Interfaith Breakfast, February 6, 2026
youtube.com/watch?v=uoU9Img_B4…

#lovethestranger #immigrants #neighbors #love #justice #integrity #lovingkindness #wildflowers #californiapoppies #california #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #nature #humanity

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Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others.

After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

propublica.org/article/dilley-…

#News #ICE #DHS #Texas #Immigration #Children #Immigrants #Family #Art

nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion…

#immigration #migration #immigrants #migrants #asylum #adaptation #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #survival #extinction

An OR family is mourning the loss of their father shortly after they say he was deported. Detained:➡️caught Covid & pneumonia in a cold cell➡️deported➡️hadn’t lived in MX for >30 yrs➡️💔died alone there. The family blames #ICE. Given his treatment in #detention➡️deported while sick:➡️warranted.

The fed govt is committing #CrimesAgainstHumanity in its quest to deport millions of ppl. Imagine the 10s of 1000s💔of #immigrants who’ve met similar fates‼️

#DHS #Protest #USPol
whsv.com/2026/02/21/no-one-des…

"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
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theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

One idea to deal with this reality in the context of #climate driven mass #migration is to create separate new cities for #refugees #migrants #immigrants in more habitable parts of the world ( #US #Canada #Europe #Russia )

I explore this idea in #fiction - see tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#climatechange #adaptation #humanrights #bookstodon #books #climatefiction

"Plans are underway to double the detention capacity of the Trump administration’s federal police force by converting massive, industrial warehouses unsuitable for people to live in into detention centers."

~ Cameron Stephenson

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
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"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 real oversight."

~ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
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"Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas."

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
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"Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US."

~ Leah Feiger

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
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wired.com/story/ice-expansion-…

news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/05/t…

In "A New Faith", the entire #city of Sequoia (fictional) is built and runs on this #cooperative #community idea

All the residents are #climate #refugees #migrants #immigrants

tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#climatechange #climatecrisis #bookstodon #books #hopepunk #climatefiction #migration #adaptation #immigration #extinction #survival

news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/05/t…

In "A New Faith", the entire #city of Sequoia (fictional) is built and runs on this #cooperative #community idea

All the residents are #climate #refugees #migrants #immigrants

tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#climatechange #climatecrisis #bookstodon #books #hopepunk #climatefiction #migration #adaptation #immigration #extinction #survival

theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…

This is totally backwards #EU #Europe #UK - instead focus on creating new #cities where #migrants and #immigrants can thrive not just survive.

#Climatechange is a major driver for this. And things are not getting any better on that front. #Adaptation through #migration is one way to help #climate #refugees

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
propublica.org/article/life-in…

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Trump #USPolitics #Law

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
propublica.org/article/ice-dil…

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

The Prime Minister of #Spain 's clear explanation of why thriving societies should accommodate #immigrants.

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'Challenges are not driven by migrants’ ethnicity, race, or language. but by the same forces that affect our own citizens: poverty, inequality, unregulated markets, barriers to education and health care.

We should focus our efforts on addressing those issues, because they are the real threats to our way of life'

#Immigration
nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion…

archive.ph/VtQS8

did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?

of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power

it refers to a real event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May…

it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech

from the play "Sir Thomas More"

here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory

(#Gandalf, #Magneto, etc)

on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"

#FuckICE #ICEout

hamiltonnolan.com/p/waiting-fo…

Not just a theoretical Q - would #immigrants #migrants be more likely to be acceptable to the host nation if they had a city of their own? There is no effort at integration. There are no pathways to full citizenship of the host nation. More of a long-term tenant situation where the immigrants pay rent to the host nation. Asking this in the context of the mass #migration because of #climatechange already underway globally.

"If they gun me down
in my own street someday
may my crime be compassion."

These are the opening lines of a powerful poem by Michael Dubois entitled "If They Call Me a Domestic Terrorist" and featured by Joyce Vance today. See below for the entire poem.

#AlexPretti #Trump #CBP #ICE #violence #murder #execution #immigrants #Minneapolis
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"Protesters in Salinas join nationwide shutdown against ICE”—Report by Chris Hamilton, #MontereyHerald

“This is the salad bowl of the world. There’s a lot of farmworkers here,” said Victoria Gomez, a lifelong Salinas resident at the city hall protest. “These people that are here, planting and harvesting vegetables and fruits for us and for the rest of the country. I think they at least deserve some respect enough to speak up for them.”
montereyherald.com/2026/01/30/…

#MontereyCounty #Salinas #immigrants #SalinasValley #ICE #NationalProtests #NationalStrike #NationalShutdown

Monterey County students, including at North Monterey County High School and Salinas High School, protest ICE and immigration policies. — Report by Felix Cortez, #KSBW. ksbw.com/article/monterey-coun…

#MontereyCounty #Salinas #Monterey #immigrants #SalinasValley #PajaroValley #ICE #NationalProtests #NationalStrike

"Jan. 27, during the #Monterey County Board of Supervisors meeting, the Sheriff’s Office will present the latest Truth Act report, a transparency report about its interaction with ICE.
....
“‘Whistlemania,’ events where people create whistle kits that can be used to alert others about the presence of ICE, happens tonight from 5-6:30pm at the SEIU Local 521 Hall in #Salinas, with the next taking place Wednesday, Jan. 28, from 3-5pm at County Supervisor Chris Lopez’s office in #KingCity.”

—#MontereyCountyNow report by Celia Jiménez

#MontereyCounty #SalinasValley #immigrants #ICE montereycountynow.com/blogs/op…

"Someone help me understand how it's possible to hold both roles with integrity, with honor, because the gospel that I believe in, the foundation, says that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Joy-Ann Reid addresses "people who have a problem with the fact that we came into the church to confront an injustice and do not have a problem with the fact that you have an ICE director, not just an ICE agent, as some people have said, but the director of the ICE field office in the state of Minnesota, also serving as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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joyannreid.com/p/america-2026-…

(continued from /8)

"one that's compatible with democracy, one that celebrates pluralism, and one that is willing to put itself on the line, right, to help bring those things into reality."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Jones replies:

"If we don't want Christianity to be associated with ICE, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with Trump, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with the Nazis and the racists, we're going to have to build and put out there a different version of Christianity that people can in fact see," (continuedf in /9)

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Stop believing in God. I said, yes, it's fine. I've heard it all. You might be done with religion, but sadly, for better and for worse, religion is not done with America and American politics. And if you simply dismiss all religion, religious people, then you're dismissing a huge chunk of America that is motivated by God and religion, which now, unfortunately, because we have ceded the ground, it has been taken over by MAGA."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"I've always said this, folks, you need to publicly hear and see from faith leaders, especially white Christians. You need like a public face. You need a reclaiming of Christianity, of religion, of religious values, of religious language. Because you and I know this, Robbie, and this is much to the chagrin of many progressives and liberals.

They say religion's stupid. You guys are idiots."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Wajahat Ali (who is Muslim) responds by underscoring how critically important it is for people of faith, for other white Christians, to challenge this white supremacist distortion of Christian faith. He says that progressives and anti-religionists are making a huge mistake in taunting and not supporting those believers who are trying to wrest ownership of the Christian tradition from MAGA:

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"I mean, part of it is that because inside of white Christianity, the largest Protestant expression of Christianity stems directly from this move to say that, oh, no, actually enslaving others is completely compatible with the gospel and the worship of Jesus and the worship of white Jesus."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"They were like, No, no, no. We think this is perfectly consistent with the gospel and the Jesus that we worship. They founded an entire denomination on that. And that denomination has become the largest Protestant expression of Christianity in the country today. So if we're confused about, like, why is this so easily acceptable?"

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"This is the denomination I grew up in, was founded in 1845. And they were founded that year because they decided that they could no longer be in fellowship with their Northern brethren because the Northern brethren were saying to them, It's inconsistent to call yourself Christian and enslave others based on the color of their skin."

#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."

~ Minneapolios Star Tribune

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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startribune.com/death-of-man-a…

"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-cou…

Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.

Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,

“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."

Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"'Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,' the official explained.

The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct."

#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #immigrants #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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"Now the visible targets of border enforcement are increasingly immigrants who have built their lives in the U.S. – neighbors, friends, co-workers – as well as anyone who opposes ICE’s tactics, like Renee Good."

#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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