Michelle Lapointe
@michlapointe.bsky.social
Legal director at the American Immigration Council. Mom, runner, former Fenway Park tour guide. Opinions my own.
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
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#BREAKING: Iowa’s anti-immigrant law, SF 2340, stays blocked!
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
Appeals Court Upholds Block on Iowa Anti-Immigrant Law
The law empowers state officials to arrest and deport people, a power that, under the U.S. Constitution, belongs to the federal government.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#BREAKING: Iowa’s anti-immigrant law, SF 2340, stays blocked!
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
The 8th Circuit has affirmed what advocates have said all along: states can’t make their own deportation laws. This ruling keeps thousands of Iowa families safe and together.
A win for dignity, due process, and the rule of law.
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BREAKING: DC District Court just granted our emergency motion, filed with @immigrantjustice.bsky.social, stopping ICE from locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention centers once they turn 18.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
October 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
BREAKING: DC District Court just granted our emergency motion, filed with @immigrantjustice.bsky.social, stopping ICE from locking up unaccompanied immigrant children in adult detention centers once they turn 18.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
Locking up young people in ICE jails only inflicts more harm on vulnerable youth.
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BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
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The state is fighting to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps earlier this year in an argument that mirrors one from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
State fights to keep confidential full record of THP participation in immigration enforcement • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee fights to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps this year.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The state is fighting to keep information confidential about the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s participation in mass immigration sweeps earlier this year in an argument that mirrors one from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.
Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent…
Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In his entire answer he notably never once denies taking the $50,000.
Proud to stand with @tirrcvotes.bsky.social and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social to challenge this law.
A legal challenge to a new state law that criminalizes the act of concealing or sheltering individuals illegally in the country had its first day in court Wednesday. @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports on the suit filed by The Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Lutheran clergy seek to temporarily block new law making it a crime to 'harbor' immigrants • Tennessee Lookout
The Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America challenged a Tennessee law criminalizing the sheltering of immigrants.
tennesseelookout.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Proud to stand with @tirrcvotes.bsky.social and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social to challenge this law.
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🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
September 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨 Today the U.S. Supreme Court rubber stamped EXPLICIT racial profiling during DHS immigration raids. This green lights the worst ICE & CBP practices we are seeing against Latino communities around the country. We can expect this racist enforcement to expand rapidly.🚨
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This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
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The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend.
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
BREAKING: Trump makes his first appearance at the US Open. There were audible boos and a few light claps.
Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.
Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.
September 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend.
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...
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🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
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NEW: @reuters.com got its hands on a document from the Guatemalan government further undermining the claims the Trump admin made publicly (and to a federal judge) that the attempted deportation of 600 children in the dead of the night was requested by parents.
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NEW: @reuters.com got its hands on a document from the Guatemalan government further undermining the claims the Trump admin made publicly (and to a federal judge) that the attempted deportation of 600 children in the dead of the night was requested by parents.
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Public health is under assault. The purge of CDC leadership, people with decades of experience guiding the nation’s response to health threats, dismantles the very programs and direction that keep Americans safe from infectious diseases, chronic illness, injuries, and violence.
August 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Public health is under assault. The purge of CDC leadership, people with decades of experience guiding the nation’s response to health threats, dismantles the very programs and direction that keep Americans safe from infectious diseases, chronic illness, injuries, and violence.
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Today is a good day to #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼.
➤ Journalist #MarioGuevara has been detained for over 70 days.
➤ He is the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S.
➤ He faces no charges and resides legally in the U.S.
➤ ICE keeps him imprisoned for livestreaming law enforcement.
cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...
➤ Journalist #MarioGuevara has been detained for over 70 days.
➤ He is the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S.
➤ He faces no charges and resides legally in the U.S.
➤ ICE keeps him imprisoned for livestreaming law enforcement.
cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...
CPJ files declaration in support of detained journalist Mario Guevara - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., August 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists filed a declaration of support on August 20, 2025, in the case of reporter Mario Guevara, as part of the American Civil Liberties...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Today is a good day to #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼.
➤ Journalist #MarioGuevara has been detained for over 70 days.
➤ He is the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S.
➤ He faces no charges and resides legally in the U.S.
➤ ICE keeps him imprisoned for livestreaming law enforcement.
cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...
➤ Journalist #MarioGuevara has been detained for over 70 days.
➤ He is the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S.
➤ He faces no charges and resides legally in the U.S.
➤ ICE keeps him imprisoned for livestreaming law enforcement.
cpj.org/2025/08/cpj-...
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The federal immigration case against a jailed, Spanish-language journalist has been bolstered by the help of a metro Atlanta sheriff’s office, public records show. Mario Guevara’s two-month confinement in immigration detention has drawn outcry from free press and immigration advocates.
ICE relied on sheriff’s office to fight releasing Spanish-language reporter in Georgia, records show • Georgia Recorder
The federal immigration case against a jailed, Spanish-language journalist has been bolstered by the help of a metro Atlanta sheriff’s office, public records show. Mario Guevara’s two-month confinemen...
georgiarecorder.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The federal immigration case against a jailed, Spanish-language journalist has been bolstered by the help of a metro Atlanta sheriff’s office, public records show. Mario Guevara’s two-month confinement in immigration detention has drawn outcry from free press and immigration advocates.
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The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane
First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.
August 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane
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CDC shooter expressed discontent with coronavirus vaccines before firing hundreds of bullets at headquarters Friday, officials say
The attack has left many CDC employees angry at RFK Jr’s criticism of the agency and false claims about vaccines.
The attack has left many CDC employees angry at RFK Jr’s criticism of the agency and false claims about vaccines.
After CDC shooting, its employees turn their anger to RFK Jr. and Trump
Documents from the shooter’s home showed his discontent with coronavirus vaccines, authorities said. CDC workers want RFK Jr. to denounce vaccine misinformation.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
CDC shooter expressed discontent with coronavirus vaccines before firing hundreds of bullets at headquarters Friday, officials say
The attack has left many CDC employees angry at RFK Jr’s criticism of the agency and false claims about vaccines.
The attack has left many CDC employees angry at RFK Jr’s criticism of the agency and false claims about vaccines.
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The CDC shooting is just one in a line of attacks by right wing radicals fueled by hate talk from President Trump and his allies.
They fill up dangerous people with anger and lies (like the COVID vaccine is "poison") and then arm them with military weapons. A toxic combination.
They fill up dangerous people with anger and lies (like the COVID vaccine is "poison") and then arm them with military weapons. A toxic combination.
NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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After CDC shooting, its employees turn their anger to RFK Jr. and Trump
Investigators allege the shooter targeted the agency because of his coronavirus vaccine beliefs, according to two CDC officials briefed on the case.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The CDC shooting is just one in a line of attacks by right wing radicals fueled by hate talk from President Trump and his allies.
They fill up dangerous people with anger and lies (like the COVID vaccine is "poison") and then arm them with military weapons. A toxic combination.
They fill up dangerous people with anger and lies (like the COVID vaccine is "poison") and then arm them with military weapons. A toxic combination.
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NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
After CDC shooting, its employees turn their anger to RFK Jr. and Trump
Investigators allege the shooter targeted the agency because of his coronavirus vaccine beliefs, according to two CDC officials briefed on the case.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement the day of the shooting.
Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement the day of the shooting.
Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
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CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.
Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report
Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences
Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences
August 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.
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Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report
Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences
Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences
August 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report
Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences
Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences
I want to live in a country that funds CPB and not CBP.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
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August 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I want to live in a country that funds CPB and not CBP.