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2 days later, #CBP transferred her to #ICE custody in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was sent to Louisiana the following week, where she spent over a month detained at the Richwood Correctional Center. On April 5, she was transferred to the detention center in Pompano Beach, FL. She died there nearly 3 wks later.

6 other people have died in ICE custody since the start of the 2025 fiscal year, acc/to agency data.

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#MarieAngeBlaise was transferred between multiple facilities

#ICE *says* Blaise entered the US w/o admission or parole "on an unknown date & place."

Acc/to ICE, #CBP encountered her on Feb 12 at the international airport in Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands, attempting to board a flight to Charlotte, NC.

"On the same date, CBP issued Blaise a Notice of Expedited Removal, charging inadmissibility as an immigrant without a valid immigrant visa," it said.

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This outrageous story didn't generate a ton of national attention last week, but as someone from the area where it occurred I think it speaks both to the cruelty of DHS's mass deportation campaign and the inhumane lengths the regime will go to solve the logistical problem presented by trying to detain millions of people in order to deport them.

Rashida Tlaib (D-MI12) is reporting that Customs and Border Protection is snatching people on the Ambassador Bridge and detaining them at a holding facility there that is not designed to be used as a long term jail. As this report indicates, conditions are brutal, several American citizens have been detained for days at a time, and most of the families detained there simply made a wrong turn onto a poorly labeled road.

truthout.org/articles/tlaib-cb

Tlaib: CBP Has Detained 200 in Michigan Where People Took Wrong Turn to Canada

"Last month, Tlaib visited an immigrant jail where Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is holding and “disappearing” people who cross the Ambassador Bridge, in Detroit, a one-way toll road.

Between January 20 and March 21, CBP has detained at least 210 people this way, Tlaib discovered, with over 90 percent of them having crossed the bridge by accident, taking the wrong turn on the road — a mistake frequently made by people living in the area, locals say. Tlaib said in a press conference that advocates in Michigan have long called for better signage and directions around the bridge.

Immigration advocates say that the immigrant jail is not built to hold people long term, and that officers have denied detainees proper medical care, food, and access to legal counsel."

Folks, as someone who has driven in the area and almost ended up on that very same bridge, because of that very same road multiple times, I have no problem at all believing ICE snatched up 210 people in two months at that crossing. The important issue here however is that our white nationalist regime is so desperate to meet Trump's fundamentally racist deportation quotas that they're lying in ambush for migrants who are almost certainly not a danger to public safety, just people who struggle with Detroit's byzantine network of roads.

Furthermore, the fact that CBP is shoving entire families into a small facility designed to temporarily hold people trying to cross the border, speaks to the sheer scale of this ongoing ethnic cleansing operation. The United States already has what most believe to be the largest migrant carceral system in the world, and we're repurposing border jails to lock up whole families in horrifying conditions for as long as twelve days? As the article notes, there's already been one suicide attempt at the jail and while I'd argue that caging brown people for being born on the wrong side of an imaginary line was already a crime against human decency, locking people up in a makeshift dungeon without adequate provisions to hold them is an internationally recognized violation of human rights. The fact that we're basically torturing families for making a wrong turn onto the bridge is just the fascist cherry on top of this cruel and repugnant sundae.

Vehicles enter the United States from Canada across the Ambassador Bridge at a U.S. Customs port of entry in December 13, 2004, in Detroit, Michigan.
Truthout · Tlaib: CBP Has Detained 200 People at Michigan Bridge Where People Mistakenly Enter CanadaTlaib said the detentions, which occurred over the course of just two months, are “outrageously cruel and inhumane.”…

#HouseRepublicans unveiled their #HomelandSecurity budget reconciliation bill late Sunday night.

It contains $46.5 BILLION for building the #BorderWall — nearly 3x as much as #Trump spent on the wall in his first term.

That would be enough money to fund the #immigration #courts for 55 yrs straight.

$5B for #CBP facilities
$4.1B for 3k new BP agents & 5k CBP officers

It does not include a budget for #ICE. That gets decided by #JimJordan’s #Judiciary Cmte on Wed.

#law
homeland.house.gov/wp-content/

Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18 – two young German tourists, were handcuffed, dressed in prison uniforms, jailed overnight in Honolulu, Hawaii, then deported.

Their crime? Booking just two nights in a B&B. Victims of Trump’s ICE power-tripping.

This is not border control — it’s institutionalised terrorism.

Don't travel to US if you can avoid it.

"A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk."

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-d

NBC News · New images could change cancer diagnostics. ICE detained Harvard scientist who analyzes them.By Jean Lee

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US #Border

Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
#privacy #security #cbp #4thAmendment

wired.com/story/how-to-protect

WIRED · How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US BorderBy Lily Hay Newman

"According to CBP, every single person arriving at a U.S. port of entry is subject to inspection...While most people will pass through without issues, it's still important for travelers to know their rights and how to handle any stops.

Here's a guide on what to do if you're stopped at U.S. borders."

usatoday.com/story/travel/news

USA TODAY · Some warrantless searches are legal: What to do if you're stopped by border controlBy , USA TODAY

🚨”Is the Trump admin hell bent on destroying the US #tourism IDU?
(Trump’s destroying everything he can, in his 1st 100 days)

German teens arrived in Honolulu to begin their 5-wk trip but were pulled into secondary by #CBP, denied admis, sent to a det fac, and deported to Japan *they’d not booked accommodations & were accused onf preconceived intent *were coming to work but didn’t have a work visa (ESTA +VWP: allowing them up to 90 days for tourism). “
-N Glazer
#USPol
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

Daily Mail · Surprising reason why two teen girls were jailed and deported while visiting HawaiiBy Lauren Acton-Taylor

#ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets

Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to bring together data from a wide variety of other U.S. gov agencies, including the Dept of Labor ( #DOL ), Health & Human Services ( #HHS ), Dept of Housing & Urban Development ( #HUD ), & the #IRS to make a centralized database to identify #immigration targets, according to a document viewed by 404 Media.
#cbp #privacy #surveillance

404media.co/ice-plans-central-

404 Media · ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find TargetsA document viewed by 404 Media describes ICE's plans to incorporate data from the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into a tool called ATrac.

It's nice to dream of unfeasible, palatable or even ideal solutions to extreme problems.

But the cargo train of reality always runs those over.

If the tRump regime keeps ignoring the courts, the United States is headed, inexorably, to a civil war. If they disregard the Law, then only lethal force will stop them.