There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
NYT: Immigration Agents Detain a Reporter in Nashville
By Emily Cochrane and Hamed Aleaziz
"The detention of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez ... raised fears that she had been targeted for her reporting."
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“3,182 individuals were held in at least one of the nine facilities. The oldest was 91-years-old; the youngest was a 1-year-old girl.
they’re tucked into strip malls & industrial parks. officially, the agency lists only one facility in Colorado.
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
See also: tactical
Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.
Pending Home Sales have fallen to lowest level ever recorded 📉🏡
New Pentagon estimates reveal the U.S. government is spending $1 billion a day on Trump's war with Iran.
Kash Patel fired FBI counterterrorism agents with expertise on Iran just days before the war began.
@benniethompson.bsky.social and I are demanding that Patel explain himself in front of the Homeland Security Cmte and take steps to protect Americans from Iran-backed terror attacks.
New Epstein documents show DEA investigated Epstein & 14 others for drug trafficking, prostitution, & money laundering in operation "Chain Reaction." Trump dismantled it in 2016. Sen. Wyden (D-OR) found JP Morgan Chase didn't report $4 billion in $$ transfers. TR Sec. Bessent refuses to cooperate.
With the national average price of gasoline up 9.4c/gal today and continuing to climb, it will be another top 10 largest daily rise in the national average- currently #6, following the fourth largest (12c/gal) yesterday.
Ah yes, one of those successful wars that lasts forever
Q: Do we know how the suspect acquired these guns?
AUSTIN PD: The guns were acquired legally
A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet.
This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.
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Political satire is definitely going to be a section in a university history course somewhere because man, it is dead
Last May, Tennessee Highway Patrol joined ICE on the streets of Nashville.
We @lighthousereports.com + partners mapped the traffic stops and used 1M+ ICE records, dashcam video, and court files to show how supposed routine encounters became deportations.
"The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again and again and again—to force the United States government to comply with court orders," he writes.
NEW YORK — “growing outrage” after a nearly blind refugee father dropped off by border patrol and left to find his way home in the cold was found dead
I look forward to follow up stories on the South African immigrants with details on what they hoped for vs their actual experience. My gut tells me they’re probably in for disappointment
This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
A Utah college Republican leader deleted a controversial post on immigration calling for the deportation of all children. https://ow.ly/QxUS50YlRH1
NPR: The DOJ has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
Don't let your eyes fool you; this is exactly what it looks like... a modern-day American Gestapo. The USA is an absolute disgrace of a country.
I don’t know if it’s geological, but the tallest skyscrapers are built on the ends of the island where the bedrock is higher and stronger. Possibly mid manhattan just won’t support a bridge as well?
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A former ICE attorney says he was given secret instructions that contradict written constitutional guidance. Not in the manual.Not in writing. Just… verbally.
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Future generations are going to be puzzled that the Epstein files sparked literal violence including an assassination attempt. This is going to look like the Masonic Panic of the 1820s in retrospect.
