KatherineHawkins
Senior Legal Analyst for the Constitution Project at @pogowatchdog. Trying to annoy CBP for rights violations as badly as I used to annoy the CIA. Personal account; views are my own, etc.
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsHas there been a single shooting by immigration officers over the last year in which DHS did *not* blatantly lie about what happened?
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsone area where popularism is most preposterous is where voters are quite obviously confused
- Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsThe idea of buying commercial warehouses and converting them into detention camps is so viscerally chilling to people that it's being opposed even in places which might otherwise support new prisons.
- Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsAmerican citizen shot by ICE: The agent who shot me sent disgusting text messages to his Border Patrol buddies, literally bragging about how many times he shot me. I got sick to my stomach seeing how a federal law enforcement officer will talk this way about shooting me, a woman who he swerved into.
- I had a moment of confusion where I thought this was a “My Cousin Vinnie” reference
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsSolidarity with the staff at WaPo this morning. I've been working in advocacy media relations for nearly a decade and have watched as countless journalists of the highest integrity are treated at best like cattle and at worst like pests in the homes of their billionaire employers.
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsYet another reminder that Homeland Security routinely lies as a matter of policy after its violent clashes with immigrants, protesters and observers. it’s the Department of Homegrown Impunity.
- Reposted by KatherineHawkins"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." "it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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- This has been my personal position since the CECOT mass rendition to torture in defiance of a court order
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsJodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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- Quel surprise. bsky.app/profile/hale...
- New:Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
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- I’ll say it: DC is doing worse at organizing protests against and opposition to ICE activities than other cities. Much as I love my hometown.
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsRemember that in addition to arresting reporters, the regime deported journalist Mario Guevara after detaining him while covering No Kings Day protests. “His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.”
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsI visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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- well this is the fakest “demand” I’ve heard yet bsky.app/profile/kget...
- Portland Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
- This is stupid and awful enough that there’s a non zero chance the awful Supreme Court reverses it (not holding my breath or saying it’s a high chance obviously) bsky.app/profile/gabr...
- 11th Cir., 2-1, holds that it was not clearly established that it would violate a person's right to bodily integrity for sheriff's deputy to drive drunk at night without lights, hit the person's car, and then flee leaving person to die. QI for deputy. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsFederal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."
- Reposted by KatherineHawkins"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
- “You called us killers so we had to kill more people” bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsIt’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
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- And none of them can pick up a fucking snow shovel bsky.app/profile/chan...
- Tell everyone you know HALF A BILLION $ apnews.com/article/trum...
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsAn extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
- BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz cancels contempt hearing Friday where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in last month. "ICE is not a law unto itself," Schiltz writes. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- A fake investigation is better than “you there, keep shooting people” but its not a real investigation www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsHUGE news! This is about a Trump admin effort to arrest thousands of screened and vetted refugees in Minnesota and fly them to Texas to be jailed and then interrogated. After the interrogation is over, people are being dumped on the street and told to find their own way back.
- REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsPersonally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia
- This is dumb. bsky.app/profile/sahi...
- Miller makes a lot more sense than Noem. (both is fine) bsky.app/profile/prem...
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsSince we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
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- WTF Tim Walz. bsky.app/profile/kenk...
- I don’t want the national guard in DC here but could they find some damn snow shovels while they are? Could the park police stop racial profiling checkpoints to jail community members and do the same?
- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsWhen Congress pressed CBP for a report on Pretti’s killing, CBP offered answers to a list of questions. It also supplied the questions itself.
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- Delighted to see that Doolittle’s on here! bsky.app/profile/nkal...
- “I’m really mad so thank you for letting me vent. Abolish ICE. We keep us safe.” @seandoolittle.bsky.social and other athletes opened up to us about the DHS murders and the campaign of state terror being waged in Minneapolis and beyond. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsimmigration matters were at stake in 24 of 42 instances (57 percent) in which judges found officials had misled the courts. Immigration also topped the list of instances where judges have found noncompliance with orders: 19 of the 31 were immigration. www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...
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- Reposted by KatherineHawkinsIncredible interview. In awe of this woman's bravery. A true patriot. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
