Matt Shuham

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Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jun 5

An emotional moment outside Delaney Hall as a man is released from the largest immigration jail on the East coast:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Feb 27

Attorney General Pam Bondi says 30 additional people will face federal charges for the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul last month. (That's on top of those already charged, who include Don Lemon and others.)

Tweet from Pam Bondi that reads:
Today,
@thejusticedept
unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack on Cities Church in Minnesota.

At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, with more to come throughout the day.

YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you.

This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith. 🇺🇸

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 27

An image from earlier this month in Minneapolis: A masked agent in an unmarked car, entering a federal building while flashing the exact type of "a-okay" sign that's often used as an ironic white power troll. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 12

Pepper spray deployed as well, including against this protestor:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 12

More tear gas, this time back at the Whipple federal building, supposedly because protesters are in the street

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 12

The people of Minneapolis are hounding immigration agents wherever they pop up. Earlier today:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 12

Earlier tonight- a scuffle between an activist and right-wing provocateur Nick Sorter (who’d ripped the activist’s face shield from her hands). Federal agents, who’d issued warnings to clear the road, deployed what I believe was teargas.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 11

More pepper spray and pepper balls from federal agents:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 11

Protesters demonstrate an orange pepper spray stain:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 11

Federal agents, led by Border Patrol honcho Greg Bovino, confronted protesters at the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis. At least one man says he was pepper sprayed.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 10

It’s real-feel 4 degrees F and this protest started 3 hours ago

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

The protest is beginning to disperse a bit, I’m going to head out.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

The scene at Columbus Circle:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

Timelapse of the protest and police response passing 54th north on 8th:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

Large police response:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

A sense of the crowd, which is now going north on 8th Avenue.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Jan 3

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Dec 19

This photo of Bill Gates and a person whose face is redacted, from the Epstein files, shows two doors bearing the Signature Aviation (a.k.a. "Signature Flight Support") logo. Source: Epstein’s estate, via the House Oversight Committee. H/t @gnobes.bsky.social for spotting the Signature logos.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 22

Update just now: "I'm told this man, Erick Montes, has been released. He’s now in the hospital with a broken hand," HuffPost's Igor Bobic reports.

HuffPost's Igor Bobic reports in a Twitter post:

NEW: I’m told this man, Erick Montes, has been released

He’s now in the hospital with a broken hand

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 16

Photos of the crowd:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 16

After several hours of marching through midtown Manhattan, this Stop Starving Gaza/Stand With Gaza march has reached Columbus Circle and is winding down. I got here at the tail end of it, and I’d still say I saw thousands of demonstrators.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 12

Immigration detention is not like federal or state prison; people aren’t sent there after receiving a sentence, and it’s not supposed to be a punishment. But that’s how the administration is using it, threatening "detention for months" for people who don't "self-deport."

Another selection from the story:

The Trump administration, particularly Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has been explicit that it is leveraging the terror of languishing behind bars, for months or even years, in order to coerce people into leaving the country.

In March, after the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan men, without charge, to El Salvador’s most infamous prison for indefinite detention where they faced brutal beatings and alleged sexual assault, Noem shot a video from inside the prison.

“I also want everybody to know: If you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face,” she said. She called the prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, “one of the tools in our toolkit.”

Then, in May, Noem said, “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest.”

And during a July press conference marking the opening of the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center ― the tent city was erected on a Florida Everglades airfield in a matter of days, and is already renowned for its terrible conditions and ostentatious cruelty ― Noem, sitting next to Trump, held up a flier urging undocumented people to leave the country.

“If you don’t,” she warned, “you may end up here.”

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 12

In April, Trump terminated a legal aid program for people in immigration proceedings who've been found mentally incompetent to represent themselves. In June, Senate staffers saw "self-deport" posters ("Do you want to go home?") inside the Behavioral Health Unit at the infamous Krome detention center

Text from my linked HuffPost story:

When Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) visited Florida’s infamous Krome detention center in June, his staff observed that the center’s Behavioral Health Unit ― “a unit dedicated to assisting individuals with mental health needs” ― had “a flyer in a common room in the unit that asked, ‘Do you want to go home?’ and provided information about how to self-deport.”

Two months prior, the administration had ordered legal service providers to discontinue the National Qualified Representative Program, which for over a decade provided government-funded attorneys for people in immigration proceedings who’ve been found mentally incompetent to represent themselves.

Three weeks ago, a federal district judge ordered the administration to reinstate the policy, writing in a motion granting plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction that without the program, “People who have been adjudicated by immigration courts to be mentally incompetent under existing procedures will be left to do precisely what a court has just found they are not capable of doing—represent themselves in legal proceedings.”

“Although Defendants insist that there are sufficient safeguards in place without the NQRP to mitigate the harm to individuals deemed mentally incompetent, the record provides substantial reason to conclude otherwise,” Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote.

It’s not clear how many people who qualified for that program gave up their legal rights in the intervening months.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 2

Yeonsoo Go, daughter of Episcopal priest Rev. Kyrie Kim, was arrested by immigration agents in Manhattan Thursday following a routine visa hearing. A rally was held today at 26 Federal Plaza to call for her release, & in support of others detained there. Photos from the Episcopal Diocese of NY:

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 1

Here is footage of NY State Assembly Member Claire Valdez and NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán being arrested from inside the building housing Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand's NYC offices, ~1:35pm. Cabán's was "demanding that Israel stops starving Gaza," her office told me.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 1

Just spoke outside the building to Alexa Avilés, who left earlier and was not arrested. But Cabán and Valdez are still inside and do likely face arrest bsky.app/profile/matt...

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 1

Police gave a warning that remaining protesters face arrest, and arrests have begun. Most of the protesters left voluntarily before arrests began, but dozens remained seated

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 1

“No genocide, let Gaza live, let aid in now”

Matt Shuham@mattshuham· Aug 1

“Not in our name, not on our dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes” Police are starting to arrive