Margaret Cargioli

Ysqueibel is only 25 years old. No criminal record. He entered the U.S. with a CBP One appt. He has benign tattoos, including a rosary. He spent over 4 months at CECOT. He is so brave and his family fought so hard to free him. His mother would tell me how she longed to be with her son. They are finally reunited. She shared this video with us at @ImmDef.

I held the House floor for an hour last week to highlight how ICE and CBP are terrorizing families and the horrific conditions in the nation's largest child detention center in Dilley, Texas. My constituent Diana made it out, but kids are still in there having thoughts of depression and even suicide. I will do all I can to help them, because kids deserve compassion. Not cruelty.

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Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever. When his mother asked for help, the staff said it was all “mental.” A vulnerable child at the Dilley trailer prison was suffering and ICE denied their reality and their needs. It’s shameful and must stop. I am calling for ICE to provide proper medical care to Kaleth and to release him and his mother Joani immediately.

🚨THERE IT IS: Tom Homan announces that despite Trump signing an order to pay TSA workers, ICE agents will remain at airports INDEFINITELY. Why? Because Trump is turning ICE into his own heavily armed security force that could be deployed at his whim. We cannot normalize this.

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress.

Today, I was notified of another death that occurred in ICE custody, bringing the total to 45 deaths under the second Trump administration. These are not just numbers, they’re people. It’s devastating and we can’t let it continue. We need accountability & we must dismantle ICE.

“The average time in custody for unaccompanied children has skyrocketed, from around 37 days to nearly 200 days.” Neha Desai from the National Center for Youth Law has seen firsthand how the Trump admin has ripped families apart and the harm it has caused.

We need to outlaw for-profit private immigration jails and hold all those involved in detaining children and separating families accountable. I will continue to hold hearings to expose these horrors. And when we have the gavels back, we will get justice.

SO proud of @AyannaPressley for pulling this off. This is a huge achievement that took a tremendous amount of leadership, foresight, and organizing. Support her!

🚨SCOOP: @AyannaPressley Forces Floor Vote on Haitian TPS House Democrats — with a critical assist from two Republicans — just stripped Speaker Johnson of his ability to bury Haiti TPS. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ayanna…

BREAKING: Today, a federal court ruled in favor of justice. ICE is now required to provide detained individuals at the Florida facility, cruelly nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” with access to legal counsel.

Gomez: I have a constituent who died in ICE custody. I have another constituent who was eight months pregnant and was deported—we couldn’t even locate her in the system. We didn’t know what had happened to her until she was finally able to reach her husband.

Immigration detention is no place for a child.

“It makes a mockery of due process.” The Trump admin is trying to replace lawyers for unaccompanied children with video presentations and limit them to one consultation. Protect Kids: treatkidslikekids.org.

ICE tried to buy a vacant Big Lots warehouse in Durant, Oklahoma. The Choctaw Nation, which came out in force against the deal, just bought it instead. projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-nati…

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BREAKING: The 8th Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, joins the 5th Circuit in endorsing the Administration's reading of section 1225(b)(2) as allowing mandatory detention of long-time non-citizens who had entered without inspection. This decision will subject countless non-citizens within the circuit's jurisdiction to punitive mandatory detention without an opportunity for a bond/release. This is the Avila case. The oral arguments on this issue are tomorrow on the 11th Circuit. We are waiting for the 9th Circuit to issue their decision which will also likely be 2-1. The question is which way. Bad, bad, bad day. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/03/2…

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court.

PabloReports: What’s your message to undocumented immigrants who are thinking about taking a flight? Is it safe for them to be at airports? Castro: To be honest, I wouldn’t go over there. We’ve had people reach out who are citizens and are worried, people who are permanent residents and are worried, and I know the undocumented community is concerned as well—even people who are going through the asylum process.