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.
- 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.“
- "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
- "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
- 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
