Professor Vanessa A. Baird

I have questions. No. Wait. I do not.

I agree 100% with Bill Kristol and I wish more Democratic electeds would say this - and, to be clear, the 2003 version of me would never have believed anyone who told me that I would be tweeting this in 2026.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

I’m told by another big city DA what’s next: Minneapolis police will arrest the ICE agents who fired the shots and they will be indicted. Qualified immunity only applies if conduct is “reasonable.” This wasn’t.

"I think it's a disappointing and sad commentary that free speech has gotten the brand of a right-wing issue. Now, you know, why should that be? There's no, by definition, it's just free speech, whether it's from the right or from the left. But people who defend and extol free speech, they tend to be branded as right-wingers because of this, I think, what you correctly identify as an ironic intolerance. I sometimes refer to the mythical place called the left pole. Just as when you're at the North Pole, all directions are south, the left pole is the mythical spot from which all directions are right. So any opinion that does not conform to this orthodoxy is branded a right-wing opinion, including people who are, by no stretch of the imagination, ideologues of any sort, including right-wing ideologues."

Wait till you get to the answer!

State employee sues Colorado governor over ICE information sharing A state employee, Scott Moss, director of the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in Colorado’s Department of Labor and Employment has sued Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), alleging that the governor has ordered state employees to share information about sponsors of unaccompanied minors with federal immigration agents in violation of laws Polis has signed. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Senator ‘Senadora’ Julie Gonzales, a progressive member of the Democratic Socialists of America who sponsored SB 276, that further extended existing prohibitions on Colorado authorities limiting sharing of information with federal immigration, bemoaned the actions of Gov. Polis, "In order to investigate those crimes, they go to the courts and get. Sign off from judges." The Colorado Senate on April 22, 2025, approved SB 276 which aims to protect illegal migrants in 'sensitive locations' (schools, churches). The lawsuit stems from an April 24 ICE subpoena seeking information on 35 sponsors of migrant minors who are under the age of 18, in the U.S. unlawfully and without a parent or guardian, released to a 'sponsor,' until their immigration proceeding.