Matt Cameron
Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at http://deportnation.com
- Having read the transcript, she never once seriously questions the justice of what just she is being told to do, just the mental stress and physical exhaustion the work is causing her. Telling that this is what you say when you are puttimg smething on the record that will get you fired anyway
- A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
- Reposted by Matt CameronShe wasn't a general assignment AUSA roped into this. If you believe someone who was deporting people before choosing to join the fight to keep people detained during the middle of the ICE occupation was actually trying to fix the problem from the inside, I think you're a little naïve and credulous.
- Reposted by Matt Cameronif you really tried to do that to ICE you would in fact abolish it. that thing would no longer be ICE
- Reposted by Matt Cameron“abolition is ridiculously utopian. you know what’s realistic? peaceful dragon unicorn bunnies.”
- Reposted by Matt Camerongoddamnit
- Reposted by Matt CameronThis was such a great convo!
- Reposted by Matt CameronTo anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available... That's already been official ICE policy for over two years. www.ice.gov/news/release....
- Reposted by Matt CameronThis is huge. Massachusetts is home to tens of thousands of hardworking Haitian TPS recipients who enrich the culture of our state, contribute to our economy, and help ensure we meet the needs of elders and patients in our health care and elder care industries - this victory belongs to them.
- BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- We are waiting on an order by the end of the day from Judge Reyes in DC as to whether ~350K Haitians will be going out of status and Trump will be able to begin the long promised ethnic cleansing of Springfield OH tomorrow. I remain optimistic based on how the hearing went last month but uggggh
- As expected, Judge Ana Reyes has extended Temporary Protected Statys protections for people from Haiti, who need these safeguards more than anyone who has ever received them. "Having neither [the law nor the facts] on her side, Noem pounds X.“
- Reposted by Matt CameronHundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
- Reposted by Matt CameronI didn’t bring any of my gear because surely they wouldn’t gas a daytime march with a bunch of kids, right?
- Reposted by Matt CameronI just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
- Reposted by Matt CameronThis rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.
- "I don't have a problem with Trump," a Fortune 500 VP tells me at an airport bar in Minneapolis. "It's how I was raised." Genuinely baffled, I ask: "Were you raised to respect billionaires? Because I wasn't." She nods. "It's a tax bracket thing." I truly hope to never understand this
- Reposted by Matt Cameron8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
- "Our foreign labor class is full granted political rights" "All visas are a bridge to citizenship" It remains absolutely incredible to me that the people running our immigration system choose to remain so willfully ignorant as to the first thing about our immigration system
- This funding repeal is the single most necessary legislative act of the second Trump term so far and it is not even close. I will literally sleep better at night if they can hold the line and get this done
- My day in Minneapolis learning in realtime with state legislators from around the country what it is like to actively not just practice but *live* in resistance here was the single best antidote to doomerism I have found in the past twelve months
- I have much more to say about this than this medium can convey, but the most significant takeaway for me was (1) it is much worse than you think here but (2) also so much better
- After 24 hours in Minneapolis I think I have a very good understanding of why people live here! It absolutely rules, even in January. I just haven't come to understand *how* yet
- As someone who left Boston after a major snowstorm with temps in the tens to come to a place which i had to buy a whole new layer of clothes just to be able to comfortably stand vigil in what consistently feels like subzero, I will freely admit these people are made of something else
- My day started with an inspirational speech over breakfast from Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and ended with new friends around the corner from the deeply touching memorial to Alex Pretti's murder only five days ago
- Also I am just kind of kicking around Minneapolis now after having crested the wave of exhaustion from not having slept last night, meeting dozens of people, taking a break to file a habeas petition, and crushing hard on the very first person i met here so i welcome your ideas
- Reposted by Matt CameronMassachusetts folks, the LUCE ICE Hotline is ☎️ 617-370-5023. If you see ICE in your area, call and report. And spread the word! Full sheet of stickers here: tinyurl.com/5eddfvrt Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.
- This is like the 214th thing in the past year that would have been a bona fide Scandal in the late 1900s
- Not to be that guy but ICE and CBP would still be fully funded thanks to the cursed July funding bill, they are just using the rest of DHS as leverage. Which is fine, but I do also think that people should clearly know that
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- I've heard enough: Bruce Springsteen has just given us the single best traditional protest song written in my lifetime. It is a beautiful tribute to the anger, the tenacity, & the simple hope that ICE can end that Minneapolis has shown the world in the past two months youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
- I have been waiting most of my adult lifetime for someone to write a song like this, and appropriately enough I just heard it for the first time after touching down in New Jersey on my way to Minneapolis
- This moment needs more songs that we can sing and appreciate in community, and this one has it all: a clear narrative, an inspirational chorus, and an unambiguous statement of Noem and Miller's moral responsibility. Springsteen even manages to smoothly incorporate a chant of ICE OUT NOW 12/10
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View full threadAnd just to round this thread out, a special appreciation of the best nontraditional protest song of our times youtu.be/WkZ5e94QnWk?...
- Reposted by Matt CameronI once met a guy at the border who had come to America, rather than Europe which was closer to where he’d fled, in part because of the way he heard Bruce Springsteen talk about it. I think about that guy a lot, I’m sure he’s happy to hear the boss has his back.
- I've heard enough: Bruce Springsteen has just given us the single best traditional protest song written in my lifetime. It is a beautiful tribute to the anger, the tenacity, & the simple hope that ICE can end that Minneapolis has shown the world in the past two months youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
- ICE was never going to allow its head to testify under oath when they could just moot this by releasing the petitioner, but there is also no reason that every federal judge can't just start doing this in every habeas case in which ICE refuses to follow the law (many such cases!
- "ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some agencies have in their entire existence."
- Reposted by Matt CameronAmerican Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, also represented Alex Pretti, issued a statement Monday night calling for the resignations of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
- This @vermontgmg.bsky.social piece came out only 11 years after DHS was created, and it is well worth a read now both to better understand what CBP really is and the inherent danger of rapidly ramping DHS agencies up www.politico.com/magazine/sto... www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
- US citizen volunteers who are putting themselves out there as observers need to be aware that ICE does have statutory authority to arrest anyone for any federal crime if they witness you doing it. They also believe that 18 USC 111 makes it a crime to look at them funny, so you can do the math there
- Reposted by Matt CameronThe Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...
- a lot of people making this point, which I totally understand! but still want to say this: ICE and CBP are actual federal law enforcement officers, and if we treat them like a white nationalist street gang just because they are acting like one we risk ceding them that much more accountability
- I mean obviously we need to recognize them for what they are, but we can see and understand that they are violent white nationalist cowboys while still holding them to the standards that are supposed to apply to law enforcement
- CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
- I watched the entire DHS press conference which Bovino just held a few minutes ago. They are tripling down on the fascism. Bovino could not have not been more clear that there is nothing that can't be justified in the name of immigration enforcement, and that there will never be consequences for ICE
- In none of his appearances today did Bovino acknowledge that this was in any way regrettable or could have been prevented. Because he doesn't regret it, and he wants it to happen again. Terrorizing anyone who is trying to hold them accountable is their only play rn
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View full threadIt was obvious from how Bovino answered this question that his only concern in this situation was that the public not learn the killers' names. He is at best absolutely indifferent to people under his command wantonly executing people in the street, and more likely privately celebrating it
- Reposted by Matt CameronBoo hoo? He’s walking away from a KILLING and he says BOO HOO?
- Reposted by Matt CameronMy friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?
- Ilan Wurman works overtime to justify rescinding birthright citizenship and fascist home invasions, pass it on
- Reposted by Matt CameronDHS said agent Jon Ross “saved lives” by killing Renee Good. He saved no lives while taking a life. There is a more plausible case to be made that Alex Pretti saved the lives of the women he was shielding from DHS’s assault. Who knows how far they’d have gone? He was a hero.
- I think that it is important to notice when people may have actually been called to action to do the right thing, and while I won't believe this until I see it i am ready to give it exactly as much time as it takes to see it to see if they are actually doing the right thing
- Reposted by Matt Cameronthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- Reposted by Matt CameronI attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
- Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you, bro" Alex Pretti's last words were "are you okay?" I am mad. I am not okay.
- We we will never know if Silverio Villegas Gonzalez had any last words before ICE shot him and left him to bleed out in the street and straight-up lied about what happened
- Geraldo Lunas Campos's last words as he was being choked out by a CBP officer in a Texas detention camp were "no puedo respirar" ("I can't breathe")--the same as George Floyd's and any number of other victims of police violence
- As of the new year more people had died in ICE custody in the past 12 months than any other year other than 2003. Here are their names and stories www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
