ICE Tracker: Torture Victim, Idaho State Lawmaker, Alabama Student—All Targeted
Plus, Rep. Biggs is big mad about a new app that tracks ICE activity and Tom Homan Slammed by John Harwood
Good afternoon! Migrant Insider had two ICE stories yesterday, including this scoop by
about a brand new app called SignalSafe where users are sharing sightings of immigration agents—
Pablo’s story had Rep. Andy Biggs big mad on X. The Arizona Republican implored attorney general Pam Bondi to unmask the makers of an app where the public can drop a pin on a map with what they see in their communities:
X users were quick to point out the ridiculousness of Biggs’ complaint, including
and congressional candidate Curtis Morrison:
I wrote our other ICE story yesterday about an ICE raid on the Idaho farm of Republican Idaho State Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen after she was reported to the agency for speaking out against Trump's immigration policies—
More News Reporting on ICE
THE BULWARK: ICE tried to deport torture victim Adriana Quiroz Zapata to Mexico despite a court ruling protecting her, but Mexico rejected her, exposing the agency’s reckless push for mass deportations.
reports.CHICAGO TRIBUNE: A Venezuelan migrant, José Gregorio González, detained by ICE, is set to be temporarily released to donate a kidney to his brother Alfredo Pacheco, who is suffering from end-stage kidney failure, following advocacy efforts and a petition supported by over 1,700 people.
NJ.COM: Rafael Gonzalez, a 57-year-old Venezuelan immigrant seeking political asylum, suffered a massive heart attack in an ICE detention center in Louisiana after being unexpectedly detained during a routine immigration appointment in Newark, New Jersey, leaving his daughter Dayana pleading for his release.
BOSTON GLOBE: ICE, under scrutiny in Rümeysa Öztürk's case, is the federal agency tasked with immigration enforcement, often criticized for aggressive detention and deportation tactics, which here clashed with legal and free speech disputes over her transfer from Massachusetts to Louisiana.
NOTUS: International students detained by ICE, including Alireza Doroudi from the University of Alabama, are being held in remote Louisiana facilities like the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility, raising concerns among lawmakers about the lack of transparency and due process in these detentions.
Homan Watch
THE HILL: The local county’s Democratic Party is helping promote a rally this Saturday, at which supporters will march from the local visitor’s center to Tom Homan’s house in Sackets Harbor, New York.
slams Tom Homan, Trump’s deportation czar, as the poster boy for cruelty in an administration already drowning in incompetence and corruption, and eager to punish without evidence, like sending a mob after a scapegoat.