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With almost no advance warning, DHS has suspended its Acquisition Forecast Planning System tool. Contractors relied on this to see what new contracts the agency would be soliciting — and so did we. Now it looks like no new advanced notice will be given between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5.

"New York county jails billed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement around $20 million for detaining thousands of immigrants for the agency since early last year." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I keep saying this: Stephen Miller is trying hard to preemptively scapegoat someone ELSE in case the GOP loses Texas. But they're naming him by name. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Not only is this toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social valuable purely for the content they've curated, I'm also just a huge fan of the design. Accessible, visually engaging, easy to navigate. Good stuff.

A surveillance reckoning has arrived. Congress can respond to that reckoning and protect our privacy, but it is asleep at the wheel. It's time to wake up.

The Office of Management and Budget released its first fiscal 2027 apportionment of ICE’s OBBBA operations money on Oct. 20. Of about $43.5 billion in the account, OMB cleared about $7 billion for this year and held $36.6 billion for fiscal 2028. Let's take a peek.

Delta is still helping ICE and there are still 2 flights moving our friendals and neighbors out of MN each week, so we're back at it again across from baggage claim 10 at MSP until 10pm tonight.

"Many jails have contracts that enable them to rent out beds to the federal government to detain immigrants. These contracts are a perverse way for sheriffs to rake in millions of dollars ... and are voluntary. Local governments can and should cancel them[.]"

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A must-read. We all need to talk more about 287(g), including people in places that don't participate. What's happening in my state is what's freeing up more ICE agents to invade yours.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this is the playbook. Public records requests, local media investigations, sustained push back at public meetings, dig into deeper issues of transparency/accountability with local PD. It's more or less all there in Gordonsville.

Cook County bars its contractors from giving residents' data to ICE or data brokers The ordinance applies to every company with a Cook County contract and follows years of pressure over a jail notification vendor... https://fineprint.report/feed/cook-county-contractor-data-ice-data-brokers

Federal officials won't say one way or the other, but lawsuits filed under the National Environmental Policy Act appear to have shut down Alligator Alcatraz, a prison camp for people rounded up by ICE. We ignore at our peril the role of environmental regulations in slowing authoritarianism.

SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...

“The student underwent surgery for injuries to his wrist, she said, and was left with bruises and lacerations. Soto said a school resource officer obtained security footage from a nearby grocery store and confirmed that the people who had detained the student are agents with ICE.”

A new Al Jazeera Faultlines documentary investigates the "very preventable" September 2025 death of 39-year-old Ismael Ayala-Uribe in California ICE detention. Watch the full report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMIwRtMhrmc

🧊 They will come for all of us if we remain complacent.

Boston Dynamics workers ask top execs not to allow use of their robotic dogs by ICE. The execs said No. @bostonglobe.com @yogevtoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/b...

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE said Antonio Moreida jumped onto the hood of their vehicle. Now a local police investigation concludes that an ICE agent struck him with his SUV. The routine lying by ICE is the result of the example set by leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.

Reports of inadequate prenatal care, difficulties accessing drinking water, and delayed medical treatment are deeply troubling and reflect the longstanding concerns about the treatment in ICE detention centers that we have heard from our clients, especially pregnant women.

Congress needs to act to protect privacy and dismantle the surveillance state. Make your voice heard:

🧊✈️ The 5th Circuit is Texas, Louisiana & Mississippi, which explains why my ICE flight maps all look like this ⤵️

Despite a federal court order restricting data sharing between ICE and the IRS, ICE has enlisted data broker ThunderCat Technology to break longstanding taxpayer privacy protections. 

These state-level lawsuits against state sanctuary laws are going to become a big deal as they move through the courts. (Also, I think the influence of the Claremont Institute cannot be overstated here)

The Data Liberation Project is looking for volunteers to help gather more data about how often books are rejected and what titles are denied to readers inside prisons.

DHS agents knocking on doors to ask people about their immigration status and whether they've voted likely violate the Voting Rights Act, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday. The order covers nine states through Election Day. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-d...

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This is huge: the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted today to close the data-broker loophole that let ICE access local records, including sensitive personal information, through vendors like LexisNexis. Read more about the ordinance amendment: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/21/c...

Southern Border Communities Coalition with powerful condemnation of authorization to use "Heat Ray" at U.S./Mexico border www.southernborder.org/sbcc_condemn...

Today, the Cook County Board voted unanimously to close the data broker loophole allowing residents' data to make its way to ICE via commercial data brokers like LexisNexis. Inspiring organizing effort by @conmijente.bsky.social, @justfutureslaw.bsky.social @ocadchicago.bsky.social & others!

Remember when Trump claimed his cruel deportation agenda would help American workers? He couldn’t be more wrong. Watch.

Replace "Boeing 737s" with "empty warehouses" and you've got the same play that DHS under Noem pulled. And a source on background told us in February the sales were meant to help well-connected Trump affiliates offload industrial properties that were liabilities on their books.

Today’s Opening Statement features our announcement that The Marshall Project is suing ICE and CBP to disclose the identities of people detained in immigrant jails. Plus a look at the consequences of poor conditions inside St. Louis’ jail. mailchi.mp/themarshallp...

Good to see this, as the $10k William Walters gave to a Noem-linked super PAC is likely a tiny fraction of the corruption here. Remember this tidbit NBC News reported back in March? Salus called it defamatory and threatened to sue but hasn't done so. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Deeply and truly humbled that two of our articles on the Trump administration's use of private prison contractors and surveillance tools are included in @aclu.org's report on the many ways mass deportation is breaking our democracy. This is a must-read catalog of American fascism's growing reach.

Don't worry guys, I filed a report on Tom Homan via the new White House 'fraud ledger', in case any other concerned citizens were thinking of doing so.

"As of March 30, board-managed holdings in Palantir totaled ~$158 million. 'For the last 10 years I'd been really proud of having a pension. I actually realized my future is invested in weapons manufacturers & companies like Palantir'." @jvpseattle.bsky.social & Washington for Peace and Justice 🫡

BOSTON:

Amentum Services stands to earn nearly $2.8 billion running Camp East Montana, the tent detention camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, under a revised no-bid justification from ICE. That is more than double the $1.2 billion estimate reported in July. The document describes the camp as "temporary."

500 people detained at the nation's largest ICE detention center are on a hunger strike to protest prolonged detention and filthy conditions. Some have been detained for months, others years, while they wait for hearings. Read more: