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Jasmine Razeghi
@razeghj.bsky.social
Comms @ MacArthur Justice Center

Previously @americanprogress.bsky.social + @americanprogressaction.org 🧢

Opinions are my own
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Resources for police and ICE encounters, specifically for folks in the DMV & Texas residents.

@aclutx.bsky.social
bit.ly/migrant-resources-dmv
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From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:

"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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MacArthur Justice Center has a form for people who were detained inside the Broadview ICE facility to report on their experiences. Family and friends of detainees can also fill our this form on behalf of someone who is or was detained inside Broadview.
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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The Illinois ACLU, MacArthur Justice Center and Chicago law firm Eimer Stahl have issued a joint statement regarding the court visit to the Broadview ICE facility earlier today, noting they will "reserve any detailed observations for our legal filings and presentations in the weeks ahead."
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Journalism helped save an innocent man’s life. Fantastic work by @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social of @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
Incredible. Jess has been on this story for YEARS. The victim's mother recently told her – in a quote that was shown to the state's Pardon and Parole board, contributing to their clemency recommendation – “They should let him live. I don’t think they should execute him.” The governor listened.
BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“Eugenic policies & laws return time & time again like poison ivy.”

America’s legacy of eugenics is alive & well in Trump’s White House, @seemiaroll.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric & dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path.
America’s legacy of eugenics is alive and well under Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric and dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path
prismreports.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Federal govt keep denying bond hearings to immigrants even though the feds keep losing habeas petitions. Their goal is to make people desperate enough that they’ll sign up for voluntary deportation, inflict pain so people leave, even if they have deep ties and good records in USA
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government’s mandatory detention of Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, the day care teacher arrested at a Chicago preschool, is illegal and she must be given a bond hearing.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Look at the highlighted claim and keep in mind that since the start of September, federal immigration agents have killed a man, shot a woman with live rounds and who knows how many others with pepper balls, destroyed car windows, caused property damage at residential buildings, etc., etc.
I dunno about that.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I now propose Kim Davis sink back into obscurity and never return. May she never know peace and always be reminded that it doesnt pay to be a homophobe. Also, as ever, protect Trans rights because there is no LGB coalition without the T. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage right
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation

chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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“There were about seven other day laborers on the corner there that scattered, and [the agents] seemed to just grab the first person they could get their hands on,” a witness told @katieprout.bsky.social.

Horrifying reporting on unhoused people disappearing: chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...
Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared
Abductions by federal immigration agents follow recent city-sponsored evictions of homeless residents from public parks.
chicagoreader.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Magistrate judge plans visit to ICE Broadview facility amid lawsuit over conditions

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Magistrate judge plans visit to ICE Broadview facility amid lawsuit over conditions
The visit has been tentatively planned for Thursday morning, and details will be sorted out early next week.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"After bravely sharing their harrowing accounts of what it is like to be detained in Broadview, we are... relieved that they no longer have to be held in inhumane conditions and can be safely returned to their families," attorney Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthur Justice Center said in a statement.
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Van Brunt: "These are fake phone numbers. These are not real."
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Plaintiffs attorney Alexa Van Brunt says they still don't have a working phone number that lets attorneys reach their clients.

She says they just received a new one from the feds, and "it still doesn't work. It is disconnected."
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is presiding over a remote status hearing that just began over conditions inside the ICE facility in Broadview.
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A video is going viral of a man in Fitchburg who appeared to suffer a seizure while holding a baby as immigration authorities tried to detain him.
Video shows immigration authorities detaining man having apparent seizure, holding toddler in car - The Boston Globe
A video of immigration authorities apparently trying to detain a man who is holding a toddler, while bystanders are yelling for his safety, has gone viral.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Food behind bars often fails to meet the standards of basic nutrition.
What’s in a Prison Meal?
The ongoing fight for more, and better, prison food.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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At least 20 people have died in ICE custody in 2025, making this year the deadliest in decades. With increases to ICE’s funding, workforce, and detention space, the system riddled with abuse and neglect will undoubtedly be more life-threatening in 2026.

www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
It's the deadliest year for people in ICE custody in decades; next year could be worse
There have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody in 2025, the deadliest year since 2004. As the agency is ramping up hiring and increasing detentions, concerns remain about how to stop the trend.
www.npr.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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new: federal agents have targeted rideshare drivers at o'hare on at least ten separate days since october 10.

in some cases, agents returned to abduct drivers multiple times in a single day, taking as many as ten to 20 people each time.

via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:
‘Like shooting fish in a barrel’ - Chicago Reader
Federal agents have repeatedly terrorize rideshare drivers at O’Hare International Airport.
chicagoreader.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"As federal immigration authorities sweep the Chicago area, the order likely puts a limit on how many people can be held in the facility overnight"

On the temporary restraining order on the broadview facility, which has been a human rights disaster: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/b...
Federal judge issues temporary restraining order, finding substandard conditions at Broadview immigration facility
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered government officials to provide immigration detainees at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview enough food, water and bed space.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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NEW: Judge Gettleman just ordered ICE to improve "serious conditions" inside its Broadview facility in Chicago.

Yesterday, people testified in court that they were crammed into overcrowded and filthy cells for days, with little access to lawyers, and pressured into deportation.
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Van Brunt says investigation into Broadview will be ongoing, but doesn't think the condition improvements they're seeking aren't outlandish.

"I think we are asking for some pretty basic fixes at this point," she says.
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM