Had you heard about sex workers getting caught up in ICE raids? I sure hadn’t.

Per Truthout:

In other labor sectors, worksite raids sparked massive outpourings of solidarity and creative resistance, including “Adopt a Day Laborer” campaigns and street vendor buyouts. But sex workers are left to fend for themselves.

“Our undocumented sex worker fam are terrorized and without resources,” wrote Cocoa Makati, coordinator of DecrimSexWorkCA. Sex work is migrant women’s day labor; massage parlors are their “Home Depot.”

https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/

h/t @mu @sarahc @lisamelton

#immigration#ICE#SexWork #uspol

"In New York, ICE attorneys are concealing their names, something that has never happened in the history of this country."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/10

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-nazi-cruelty-report-dhs-discovers

"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."

Rachel Berkebile

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/12

https://sightmagazine.com.au/news/in-the-us-united-church-of-christ-synod-denounces-ice-raids-as-domestic-terrorism/

"Amazing. New CNN poll has Trump's approval on immigration absolutely tanking. It's down to 42-58. A 19-point net swing against him on this issue in just the last few months.

Curious what those who keep saying we're in the midst of a huge societal backlash to 1965 immigration law think of this."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/14

https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3lu3qaoqr222y

ABC7: Mexico considering legal action over migrant's death during ICE raid at cannabis farm in Camarillo

https://abc7.com/post/mexico-considering-legal-action-migrants-death-during-ice-raid-cannabis-farm-camarillo/17148414/

#ICE#VenturaCounty#Fascism#LagunaIncident#Camarillo

"The Trump administration’s third-country deportation deals are being conducted in secret, and neither the State Department nor Immigration and Customs Enforcement will discuss them. With the green light from the Supreme Court, thousands of immigrants are in danger of being disappeared into this network of deportee dumping grounds."

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/16/trump-third-country-deportation-eswatini-africa/

#ICE #immigration#USpol

"The measure was approved by a vote of 627-8, with one abstention, at the UCC’s 35th biennial General Synod, which began on Friday and continued through Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. The resolution reaffirmed a prior resolution from the 31st synod, in 2017, 'On Becoming an Immigrant Welcoming Church.'”

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/13

"The administration sure is working HARD to avoid accountability, because they know the shit they’re doing is criminal, that there is a chance that someday this regime will not be in charge and the rule of law will return, 'just following orders' won’t cut it, and they know what they’re doing will disgrace their family names for generations to come."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/11

"It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of 'alligators and pythons' at the Collier-Dade facility. Common decency requires that we remember the individuals being detained are fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of distressed relatives."

~ Catholic Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/9

https://www.miamiarch.org/CatholicDiocese.php

"There is little doubt that as Americans learn more about what mass deportation actually entails, their opposition to it has grown. Intended in part to spur 'self-deportation,' cruel and draconian facilities like 'Alligator Alcatraz' might actually be compelling voters to leave the Republican tent."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/8

"He noted that while the Chinese have internment camps for Uyghurs—whose treatment by China Secretary of State Marco Rubio has condemned—we learned of them through satellite imagery and hacked documents, not a CCP marketing campaign.

'They’re embarrassed by it,' he said. 'We sell merch.'”

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/7

"'“I think it’s the first time in human history a detention camp, a concentration camp, an internment camp is selling merch, so that’s pretty depraved,' Thomas Kennedy, a veteran immigration advocate and consultant for the Florida Immigration Coalition, told me."

~Adam Carrasquillo

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
/6

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/alligator-alcatraz-and-why-mass-deportation-is-doomed-polling

TIL: Snopes doesn’t actually fact check anymore. They ask the fascists what is true and take their word….
(See LA tow trucks taking ICE vehicles h/t LA resident
@ErickaSimone)
#snopes #factcheck #rightwing #ice#LAProtest