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Felipe De La Hoz

@felipedlh.bsky.social

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Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, @theverge.com temporary writer, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Feb 20

For new followers: I’ve spent about a decade writing on immigration, from explanatory to feature to opinion to investigative. Always looking to talk if you have insight, from inside gov’t, civil society, or if directly impacted. Signal is felipedlh.58, anonymity assured (do NOT use work devices)

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 15h

I mean you can talk shit all you want but actually invading a neighbor’s sovereign territory is a different ballgame. I suspect some of the crazier cabinet members and Miller are gung-ho about it but probably been shot down by the actual generals

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 16h

What the fuck are we doing here. How've we let things get like this

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 22h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 18h

In fairness, I was traveling, but I completely missed that there'd been yet another lethal strike on a boat in the Caribbean. We're getting to the point where the military murdering boatloads of civilians is a below-the-fold kind of story. We're in a very dangerous place

Trump says U.S. struck 5th boat accused of carrying drugs off coast of Venezuela, killing 6

President Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat he accuses of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

www.cbsnews.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19h

Each one of these guys looks like they would try to flush a hard drive if the FBI were at the door

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is a little different though in that it's already been the expectation for immigrants to carry this documentation for over seven decades, and it's the advice of every immigration lawyer. The way they'd want to enforce Comstock would be quite novel

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

Actually I think the registration requirement was instituted in 1940 and the requirement to have registration documents on person at all times is from 1952. Still, long time

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

Specifically, Congress in 1940 created this requirement, codified as 8 USC 1304(e) — "Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card"

8 U.S. Code § 1304 - Forms for registration and fingerprinting

www.law.cornell.edu

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

The throughline of the Trump administration on immigration is picking up a bunch of tools left laying around from a century and a half of bad policy and using them to the hilt

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

People are acting like this is some crazy escalation but this has been the law for a long time (albeit one rarely enforced)

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

I’m surprised his new posting hasn’t really come up but I suppose it’s not directly germane to this arrest

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

Early July, yeah. He was considered effective in NJ and was moved to juice numbers. The imm court operations preceded him but I think it’s been his call to expand, plus bring in agents from HSI / other agencies to do imm enforcement

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t seen this reported anywhere yet and I honestly haven’t had time to fully report it out myself but Patel was brought in about three months ago to run the NYC ICE field office with a mandate to increase arrests

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot the Marc Benioff owned Time. One more in the litany of formerly great outlets devoured in short order by Trump-friendly billionaires

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

Wait is part of the structure here that CBSN is just going to start aggregating FP grist?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

Reposted by Felipe De La Hoz

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

Were you recently in USCIS? Can you perchance DM me?

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You, and frankly a good chunk of your newsroom, are an embarrassment to the profession

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

Look at the people go wild. This is popular! Increasingly popular!!

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

When in Rome

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

“Hell of an act, what do you call it?” “Breakfast!”

Enormous plate of chilaquiles, rice, beans, and two eggs. My feeble attempts to eat it have thus far yielded few results

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

This was a “small” latte. I even had to confirm with them, I was like “are you sure this is mine, the small?” It was!

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

I have had a very productive and interesting trek through Salt Lake City thus far but I have to say the portions here would kill me in six months flat

An omelette with melted cheese, bacon, avocado, and mushrooms taking up about half a large plate. The other half is dominated by an imposing pile of hash browns. Flanking this is the largest scone I’ve seen in my life, a behemoth of fried dough

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

Insofar as Congress will have a role, I think it’ll be oversight investigations and support for a Dem president taking a broad view of accountability

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

I think the sheer discontent being engendered by the admin currently could help Dems overperform to the point of at least smoothing some of these imbalances, but I also think this is going to have to come from the executive using the expansive powers Trump has taken for himself

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

Aaron often providing necessary context that does not, as his critics sometimes suggest, excuse the system, but further illustrates the ways in which it is rotten to the core

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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