Responding to oversight questions from the D.C. Council, Interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll says MPD can't say how many immigration and other arrests were made by federal agents on patrol with D.C. officers from August to December of last year; the data isn't tracked, he says.
I would much rather have a dozen noncitizens vote than millions of citizens not be able to.
idk who needs to hear this, but keep your food distribution and your rapid response separate if you're doing it in cars. ICE has license plate readers and you don't want to lead them right to people who are hiding.
The operation in Washington, D.C. alone is projected to cost upwards of $660 million if it runs through the end of this year as expected, according to new data released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. n.pr/45FbxN0
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
As this hell year ends, we choose to look back on the beautiful things we did for each other.
ICE watches & community defense.
Feeding & clothing each other when folks were scared to leave their homes or out in the cold.
Court support & bail funds.
May next year bring more justice & more peace.
Over the past eight weeks, the dismissal rate of the Trump DOJ's criminal complaints in D.C. has risen to 21% — compared to 0.5% over the past decade.
Some errors came after senior officials made public statements that strayed from the allegations in sworn court filings, violating department rules.
“There is a reason why federal agents know exactly where to do detentions and jumpouts. MPD has surveilled Black and Brown people in DC for years, and their collaboration has given feds a demographic and cultural map of our communities.” @dcmigrantmutualaid.org
"For generations immigrants have been invisible constituents of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser previously rallied in our neighborhoods… and today she betrays us, handing our communities to masked agents. Immigrants are Washingtonians," says one speaker.
Yet again, anti-trans bigots are actually making it easier for adults to abuse children.
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… but people are homeless because of “mental health.” Mmkay.
While evictions rise, the city is also cutting funding to 1) rent relief 2) street outreach 3) permanent supportive housing & other housing voucher programs & 4) shelters
If we’re talking purely money, it costs more to provide appropriate housing support for someone the longer they are unhoused.
Alternatively:
Maybe it’s not all a distraction from the Epstein files, and it’s all authoritarian bullshit that they would be doing regardless?
400 to each location or in total?
it’s bad no matter what, but we had 2000 in the ~60 square miles of DC.
Putting people in mental health jail is still criminalization.
It’s still trying to disappear people who don’t fit into the capitalist demand that everyone be a “productive worker.”
It’s still violent. And that’s not even getting into the fact we know forced commitment does not work.
Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.
From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
Homeland Defender (Immigration Services Officer) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Citizenship and Immigration Services Field Operations Directorate Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. This entry-level role requires no college degree and offers up to $50,000 in signing and retention bonuses. If you're driven and ready to serve with pride, join USCIS and become a vital part of homeland security!
overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
“Keeping your morale up is essential to resistance. Do not surrender in advance. Our adversaries aim to cow us into submission because they know that they cannot subdue us by brute force alone…
Even when things seem grim, keep your hopes up and keep fighting. Defeatism only serves the enemy.”
“The deal exempts the Commanders from property taxes on the stadium and the surrounding development; it exempts the Commanders from sales taxes on personal seat licenses; it gives the Commanders the exclusive right to develop housing and retail around the stadium, at the low price of $1 per year…”
“The man was being held under a partnership between Nassau County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which the county provides 50 jail cells for immigration detainees and receives federal reimbursement in return.”
Local cops are complicit in immigrant violence.
A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.
ICE shot and killed a man in the Chicago suburbs last week. In the days since, we've seen a laundry list of escalating violent behavior from the feds: reckless driving, destroyed property, dawn raids, intimidation and threats against reporters, witnesses assaulted and threatened with pepper spray.
We cannot have a society if the American Right does not drastically change and they have no interest in this. It's their last and possibly only chance to enact their project. They're deeply, deeply unpopular and mired in corruption and scandal. All they have is violence.
There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.
If you're still pretending that the Republican Party has the slightest interest in democracy, or the Constitution, you're either a complete imbecile or you're working with them.
The emergency has ended, yet the collaboration continues. Bowser’s appeasement of Trump has done nothing but hurt the District. MPD & ICE are individually deeply harmful, together they compound that harm. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Police “can be in many places more than ICE can. They know how to do traffic checkpoints. They can block streets. What you’re giving them is a demographic and cultural map of the city.”
