Memo Torres
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Award-winning journalist. The Daily Memo. Apple Maps 'Where Memo Eats'. On Netflix, KCRW occasionally. 3rd-gen landscaper. Product of immigrants. Golden Bear.
Another day, another death, another child loses her father to ICE. Credit to Cosecha NJ and Radio Rebeldia for their reporting.
ICE’s strategies have evolved a bit and are influenced now by Border Patrol, including using racial slurs and terms like “Tonk,” which is a term used by Border Patrol agents that refers to hitting people in the head with a flashlight. I explain how on @connectwithjacob.bsky.social
50th Death in ICE Custody Turned 29 while Dying of Medical Neglect Prisciliano Trejo Ricano 29-year-old Mexican Died July 24, 2026
ICE drop and leave their gun magazines in the street after one of their vehicles broke down in Compton this morning. Credit to @lahoodlove & @siempreunidosla
7/27/2026 5:42 a.m. SOUTH L.A. Avalon & Vernon: ICE violently pulls a young man out of a parked vehicle by the neck
ICE has been in San Fernando Valley, CA every day now for the last couple weeks targeting Panorama City, Pacoima, Van Nuys and surrounding areas likely working out of their new field office in Van Nuys. This was in North Hollywood this morning on Lankershim and Cohasset St. This is just one of many.
Breaking out of Colorado, a guard at a Colorado ICE detention center shoots a female protester as she walked away from a verbal confrontation while he tried to walk into work. Full story here: coloradonewsline.com/briefs/color...
Welcome to the AI SURVEILLANCE TECHNO REPUBLIC: How ICE and federal agencies are targeting U.S. citizens through alleged "Kavanaugh Stops" of racial profiling, HSI surveillance of activists, and NSPM-7's expanded domestic terrorism definition with Al tools from Palantir.
In their cars, in the streets, and in custody, the deaths by ICE keep coming.
The Adelanto ICE Detention Center in CA is averaging 2nd out of 212 known detention centers across the U.S. in keeping the most detainees in solitary confinement based on DHS’s own reports between October 2025 through March of 2026 averaging about 90 people each month.
This comes as its being reported that DHS has paused vehicle stops during their operations due to two recent killings by ICE agents of two innocent people who were not targets of their operations.
Update on the court case against Adelanto’s ICE detention centers. The U.S. is contradicting itself.
Retaliations continue at Adelanto as guards in full riot gear allegedly storm cells and disappear detainees who spoke with Congress members. @lataco.bsky.social
Family members have been reaching to groups sounding the alarm that their loved ones in the Adelanto ICE facility are being retaliated against for speaking with Congress members about the inhumane and abusive conditions they are experiencing from the guards.
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SB1105, “Protect California Rights Acts” is under attack by CA Police Chiefs and unions. Call your CA state senators and tell them you need this to pass to protect our communities from ICE using local police against them. SPREAD THE WORD
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Erika Arhuiz Vega died after suffering severe medical neglect at Core Civic’s privately owned ICE detention center in California City and being deported back to Peru. This isn’t the first case like this either and we fear that there is and will be more. @lataco.bsky.social
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“This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives.” This is how the DHS ends their press release announcing the death of Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes in ICE detention in California. @lataco.bsky.social
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We went out to visit California City Detention Center and found a whole new fleet of vehicles waiting in the lot. @lataco.bsky.social
This week, four posts, all about death at the hands of ICE. 😞 We haven’t even gotten to the conditions in Texas Detention Centers, pregnant women and children suffering medical emergencies. 😖