Kari Hong
@prof-kari-hong.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer • Ninth Circuit advocate • Past and current prof • Hockey player
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You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
I am so proud to be a Minnesotan.
I'm working on a 50 page law review that is perfectly summarized by my two new favorite Minnesotan sons.
I'm working on a 50 page law review that is perfectly summarized by my two new favorite Minnesotan sons.
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I am so proud to be a Minnesotan.
I'm working on a 50 page law review that is perfectly summarized by my two new favorite Minnesotan sons.
I'm working on a 50 page law review that is perfectly summarized by my two new favorite Minnesotan sons.
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🎙️Tune in to our latest Freedom to Thrive Podcast episode, “Courage is Contagious,” where host Hector Flores sits down with world-renowned artist and activist Dread Scott.
In a moment defined by fear, Dread reminds us that courage is what keeps movements alive.✊🏽
www.freedomtothrive.com/episodes/
In a moment defined by fear, Dread reminds us that courage is what keeps movements alive.✊🏽
www.freedomtothrive.com/episodes/
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🎙️Tune in to our latest Freedom to Thrive Podcast episode, “Courage is Contagious,” where host Hector Flores sits down with world-renowned artist and activist Dread Scott.
In a moment defined by fear, Dread reminds us that courage is what keeps movements alive.✊🏽
www.freedomtothrive.com/episodes/
In a moment defined by fear, Dread reminds us that courage is what keeps movements alive.✊🏽
www.freedomtothrive.com/episodes/
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ICE repeatedly questioning and detaining Native Americans is proof the raids aren’t targeting people based on their citizenship status, but on the color of their skin.
ICE are settlers on Native land.
ICE are settlers on Native land.
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ICE repeatedly questioning and detaining Native Americans is proof the raids aren’t targeting people based on their citizenship status, but on the color of their skin.
ICE are settlers on Native land.
ICE are settlers on Native land.
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WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
WTF? ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security.
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ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
Sadly, I think this a real possibility to invoke the AEA
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Sadly, I think this a real possibility to invoke the AEA
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
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If maybe all the FBI wasn’t doing bullshit immigration duty they could find the Brown murderer
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If maybe all the FBI wasn’t doing bullshit immigration duty they could find the Brown murderer
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
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ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
What local government and local police can--and should--do to protect us from ICE
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If Washington won't rein in ICE, our communities must • Daily Montanan
Columnists Kari Hong and Doug James say that if Immigration and Customs Officials won't rein themselves in, it will be up to local Montana communities to do it.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What local government and local police can--and should--do to protect us from ICE
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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How long are we as a civil society going to let ICE do what they are doing.?
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
How long are we as a civil society going to let ICE do what they are doing.?
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Sanctuary Cities 2.0 ✊🏽 Local leaders are finding new, lawful ways to push back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sanctuary Cities 2.0 ✊🏽 Local leaders are finding new, lawful ways to push back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
In New Orleans, where “Operation Catahoula Crunch” is underway, officials say being undocumented is a *CIVIL ISSUE* & they won’t help ICE enforce civil law 🧵
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ICE is literally being used by a fascist criminal regime as their personal army to assault, abduct, kidnap, imprison and terrorize people of color and their perceived enemies. They aren’t a lawful agency, they’re a criminal Gestapo.
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ICE is literally being used by a fascist criminal regime as their personal army to assault, abduct, kidnap, imprison and terrorize people of color and their perceived enemies. They aren’t a lawful agency, they’re a criminal Gestapo.
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220 judges, including 23 appointed by Trump, have ruled that this administration’s mass detention policies are unlawful.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
220 judges, including 23 appointed by Trump, have ruled that this administration’s mass detention policies are unlawful.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
They are sending tens of thousands of innocent immigrants into for-profit prisons with subhuman conditions and no access to attorneys. It’s horrific.
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She needs to sue them for kidnapping. Get their damn names and faces on record. Why ICE is allowed to behave in ways that police are not allowed to (though of course they do) is beyond comprehension.
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
She needs to sue them for kidnapping. Get their damn names and faces on record. Why ICE is allowed to behave in ways that police are not allowed to (though of course they do) is beyond comprehension.
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MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military.
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military.
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
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Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
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“‘I’m a US citizen, please help me,’ she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’”
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show ID
In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle.
www.miamiherald.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“‘I’m a US citizen, please help me,’ she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’”
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump’s secret police have detained nearly 200 US citizens this year. This is illegal and it’s a danger to our democracy. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...