Patrick Walls
Unemployed (pls hire me) | US Senate, Sojourners alum | Opinions are my own
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Patrick WallsThis decision puts even more pressure on plaintiffs and district courts outside the 5th Circuit. Unless the habeas is filed before a person is transferred to the 5th Circuit, a person may remain locked in appalling conditions, never even allowed to ask for bond.
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- Reposted by Patrick WallsAWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
- BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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- Reposted by Patrick WallsDave has been *relentless* in his federal courthouse coverage of the fallout of DHS cases against Chicagoans. Much of his reporting is done at great personal cost. Please support him today:
- Reposted by Patrick WallsJD Vance gets loudly booed at the Olympics.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsBlumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.
- Reposted by Patrick Wallseven if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him
- Reposted by Patrick WallsI'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
- Reposted by Patrick WallsI sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsNeither the President nor Vice President of the United States can make a public appearance in front of a non-partisan crowd either in America or abroad without being booed.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsVice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsJust heard back from DHS on why they abruptly expedited Ramos' asylum hearing: “These are regular removal proceedings. This is standard procedure and there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process." (This is not standard procedure.)
- Reposted by Patrick WallsRamos' parents, originally from Ecuador, were set for their asylum hearing in late Feb. DHS abruptly moved it up to THIS MORNING. They are not in the U.S. illegally and have no criminal record. DHS is simply trying to end their asylum claims.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsHAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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- Reposted by Patrick WallsFor those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
- Reposted by Patrick Wallsembarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down
- Reposted by Patrick Walls"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."
- Reposted by Patrick WallsOver the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
- Reposted by Patrick WallsSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by Patrick WallsYOU CANNOT BE A UNITED STATES SENATOR IN PRIVATE
- The only thing here that matters: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time." So tired of this reputation-laundering nonsense. I don't care what you think - I care what you do. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Patrick WallsIn NE Minneapolis and Columbia Heights today, Weds. 2/5/26, ICE has been focusing on schools and schoolbus stops. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLBUS STOPS. This is their “softer touch”
- Reposted by Patrick WallsA good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
- Reposted by Patrick WallsMy friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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- Reposted by Patrick WallsKelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Patrick Wallsthere is a kind of person that would dunk on this, but this sort of reflection over a seemingly tiny thing is exactly the sort of civic virtue that we need to be encouraging more of
- Reposted by Patrick WallsMark Kelly voting for Trump's judicial nominees remains truly insane.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsIf every single ICE + Border Patrol agent was assigned to go be menacing outside a polling place, with only one agent at each location, that still wouldn't cover even half of all in-person voting sites in the United States.
- i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Patrick WallsAaron Peterson "refused to give a direct answer on whether Trump can run for president in 2028. ... refused to give a direct answer to the question of whether Trump lost the 2020 election." thealaskacurrent.com/2025/12/15/s...
- Reposted by Patrick WallsSo (7) says to preserve—but strikes me more as create—the right of state and local govts to file criminal charges in excessive force cases. Details will matter, but if that’s a statutory waiver of supremacy clause immunity, that strikes me as potentially a REALLY big deal.
- Reposted by Patrick Wallsi think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Patrick WallsThis should also include a GAO audit of DHS, particularly ICE, CBP, the office of the secretary, and the funds provided in the OBBA. How has/is the money being spent, how effective is it, where are there patterns of waste, fraud, & abuse. Congress controls the GAO. Let's go!
- Reposted by Patrick WallsSome significant asks on there. Legislative text will matter quite a lot.
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- Reposted by Patrick WallsThis isn't abolition, but this includes a lot of good demands. Prohibiting Kavanaugh stops that the Court expressly allowed, requiring state consent for large operations, allowing states to sue DHS for any violations (!) Oh, and removing Kristi Noem.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsWorth noting that Demand 5 is an end to Kavanaugh Stops
- Reposted by Patrick Wallsin real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
- Reposted by Patrick Wallsit's probably fine
- Reposted by Patrick WallsStriking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)
- 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 Patrick WallsNot enough. Every single ICE and CBP agent should be out of Minnesota. The terror campaign must stop. ICE must be abolished.
- Reposted by Patrick Walls"New documents confirm in the government’s own words that what prompted the raid was more pedestrian: allegations that immigrants were squatting in the complex. And the landlord had given federal officials, who were already targeting immigrants in Chicago, the blessing to search the building."
- Reposted by Patrick WallsWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by Patrick WallsI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsIzolde is a super cool person who's been dealing with a lot of health issues and a shitty job market. She really really needs help paying her rent today, so please give if you can! <3
- ko-fi.com/iafishman/go... in 24 hours' time i will need a rent check in the box. if we get close enough to the goal i can probably find the difference for a rent check, but rn i am sitting at $650/2200. please help me keep us housed for now #TransCrowdFund #MARequest #MABoost #HelpSky #mutualaid
- Reposted by Patrick WallsIn a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.
- Reposted by Patrick WallsYou may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
