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Rocio Rosales

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sociologist, ethnographer studying immigration, informal economies, race/ethnicity. UC Press author of Fruteros http://tinyurl.com/rum7zdp

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"DHS did not publicly acknowledge that one of its agents had fatally shot Ruben Martinez in South Padre Island, Texas, until last month, when a lawsuit brought by a nonprofit government watchdog group unearthed the agency's narrative of the incident."

Free gift article wapo.st/47zaMFZ

08.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 9149 πŸ” 5979 πŸ’¬ 603 πŸ“Œ 1524

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

07.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 4671 πŸ” 1875 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 30
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

22.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 8095 πŸ” 4394 πŸ’¬ 338 πŸ“Œ 376

Police in St. Paul are investigating an immigration arrest last month that left a man with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. Immigration agents have claimed his injuries were caused by him β€œrunning into a wall,” but it’s a false narrative agents beat him during the arrest.

20.02.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 3706 πŸ” 916 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 23

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

15.02.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 14007 πŸ” 4656 πŸ’¬ 273 πŸ“Œ 113

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧡

09.02.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 11577 πŸ” 7425 πŸ’¬ 199 πŸ“Œ 828
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'Things are not getting better': US Rep. Escobar raises red flags over ICE center U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar raised new concerns over conditions in Camp East Montana after a visit, citing detainees not given time to speak with lawyers.

"Things are not getting better. They are getting worse"

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, made another oversight visit at Camp East Montana last week. During her visit she met with women detained in Minnesota, detailing how many were still in their snow boots.

My story for the El Paso Times

05.02.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 24
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

25.01.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 4779 πŸ” 3150 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 150
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23.01.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 19275 πŸ” 5629 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 237
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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

24.01.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 4733 πŸ” 2860 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 450
A Baptist church sign reads Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers for They Play the Music of Salvation

A Baptist church sign reads Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers for They Play the Music of Salvation

In Minneapolis

13.01.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 13375 πŸ” 2961 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 72
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: β€œA 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

08.01.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 27419 πŸ” 9375 πŸ’¬ 629 πŸ“Œ 378
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

08.01.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 33147 πŸ” 9052 πŸ’¬ 512 πŸ“Œ 417

Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.

23.12.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 5254 πŸ” 1569 πŸ’¬ 269 πŸ“Œ 84

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody.Β That's 30 deaths since Trump took office.Β It'sΒ appalling & unacceptable.
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ICE is requiredβ€”by lawβ€”to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

18.12.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 5219 πŸ” 2202 πŸ’¬ 249 πŸ“Œ 138
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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

06.12.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 10480 πŸ” 2798 πŸ’¬ 338 πŸ“Œ 416
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WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe.

Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

06.12.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 964 πŸ” 469 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 31
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Third Country Deportation Watch Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.

Just want to make sure everyone knows about this microsite!

If you have suggestions for what would be valuable added resources to collect and share on the site, please email us.

www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

06.12.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

ICE is back in OC grabbing people off the streets. 3 people confirmed taken already.

25.10.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 568 πŸ” 286 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 6
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The East Wing was first added in 1942, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily to provide office space for the First Lady’s staff and to conceal a newly built underground bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during World War II.

20.10.2025 20:45 πŸ‘ 5534 πŸ” 1922 πŸ’¬ 580 πŸ“Œ 238

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

09.10.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 5501 πŸ” 1767 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 65
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

01.10.2025 12:58 πŸ‘ 24936 πŸ” 7222 πŸ’¬ 566 πŸ“Œ 460

Another victim of Dallas shooting has passed: Mr. GarcΓ­a-HernΓ‘ndez.
"An official with ICE identified the three victims of the shooting as Mr. GarcΓ­a-HernΓ‘ndez, Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela and Norlan Guzman-Fuentes of El Salvador. Family members of Mr. Guzman-Fuentes said he was killed."

30.09.2025 22:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

29.09.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 10029 πŸ” 4704 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 162

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked β€” what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers β€” what would we say?

Authoritarianism β€” let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

30.09.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 34653 πŸ” 10374 πŸ’¬ 643 πŸ“Œ 278
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A good samaritan and community watch member were brutally arrested while documenting a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, one was hospitalized while the other was detained for eight hours.

By Izzy Ramirez

The full story: lataco.com/feds-injure-...

30.09.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 504 πŸ” 317 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 24

What the actual fuck is Trump even talking about? He just went on Truth Social to declare the racist β€œGreat Replacement” conspiracy is β€œno longer a theory.” This is the same extremist garbage that inspired the Buffalo and El Paso mass shootings. He’s recycling message-board rants like their policy,

29.09.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 3851 πŸ” 955 πŸ’¬ 121 πŸ“Œ 43

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

25.09.2025 19:15 πŸ‘ 22359 πŸ” 5640 πŸ’¬ 1228 πŸ“Œ 321

Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can β€œsee in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.

28.08.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 22351 πŸ” 6625 πŸ’¬ 677 πŸ“Œ 224