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>>Kseniia Petrova never imagined she would face significant immigration issues, but it has been 68 days since she was detained at the Boston airport while traveling with undeclared frog embryo samples.

The Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher associate was in the United States legally.

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Petrova, 30, was sent to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana where she continues to await a judge’s decision on whether she will be deported to Russia, where she fears she will be imprisoned or worse.<<

boston.com/news/national-news/
#Russia #Immigration #Detention #Harvard #Louisiana #USPol

Boston.com · Harvard researcher held in Louisiana awaits judge's decision on deportation to RussiaThe Russian-born scientist was in the United States legally.

"...An additional 4,000 unaccompanied #children are held in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (#ORR), awaiting placement with parents, #family members, or friends. While these children are not held for any criminal or delinquent offense, most are held in shelters or even juvenile placement facilities under #detention-like conditions."

prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie20

...another, nother, nother side to #prison #reality this article covers many quite well

www.prisonpolicy.orgMass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

#politics #concentrationcamps #ice #detention #cruelty #immigrations #deportation #trump #Texas #greed

[ Yep definitely a concentration camp with all the cruelty that implies. TENTS in the Texas heat of summer? Sadistic but hey money can be made. These co also do music concerts. Something to keep in mind.]

highly sought after as Trump to pour billions of dollars into building detention facilities Why the contract was posted and then canceled is unclear.

propublica.org/article/ice-can

ProPublicaICE Awarded a $3.8 Billion Contract to Hold Immigrants on a Military Base. Days Later, It Was Canceled.
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Amplify: R MOC are quietly advancing what could become the largest expansion of IMM enfor funding in US history—b/w $175-$345B IN TAXPAYER$. All of it teed up to underwrite a deportation regime engineered to hum thru the next admin—& likely the one after that.

They're calling it “border.” Bro Culture is demanding a national interior enforcement matrix powered by🚨mass: #surveillance #detention & #deportations—facilitated by experimental AI tools -led by S Miller.

#USPol migrantinsider.com/p/washingto

Migrant Insider · Washington’s Deportation JackpotBy Pablo Manríquez

[This time around, #Trump isn’t just separating & jailing #immigrants, he’s separating & jailing families who are long time residents.]

THE #IMMIGRANT FAMILIES JAILED IN #TEXAS

#Children have long been put in migrant #detention if they were apprehended at the #border. Today, lawyers have found, #families are being removed from stable lives in the #UnitedStates.

#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #EthnicCleansing
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th

The New Yorker · The Immigrant Families Jailed in TexasBy Jack Herrera

>>Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

Hermosillo said he tried to tell people at Florence Correctional Center that he was a U.S. citizen, but was dismissed. "They say, tell your lawyer," he recalled. <<

popular.info/p/us-citizen-wron
#Nogales #Arizona #NewMexico #Detention #Immigration

Popular Information · U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is falseBy Judd Legum

"An Indonesian father of an infant with special needs, who was detained by federal agents at his hospital workplace in Minnesota after his student visa was secretly revoked, will remain in custody after an immigration judge ruled Thursday that his case can proceed."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visaBy Coral Murphy Marcos
#aapi#aanhpi#visa

Does the arresting officer ask this question at EACH and EVERY traffic stop? If not, this is #profiling and #racial #discrimination. That's #illegal. This officer should be facing #civil #rights violation charges. Meanwhile, keep the pressure on. Highlight every #detention. Get the #press involved. Shine a #light on these #wrong #arrests.

cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-go

#ICE#police#fascism