Feds Criminalize Aiding #Protests Against #ICE

The #Trump administration is targeting nonviolent acts like identifying masked agents and handing out #PPE in support of LA’s #AntiICE movement.

Akela Lacy
July 23 2025

Excerpt: " 'Roving patrols' operating without reasonable suspicion and denying access to #lawyers violated the Fourth and the Fifth Amendments, the judge wrote. 'What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening.'

"Now, those accused of helping the anti-ICE movement are facing prosecution or investigation. Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted a man after he handed out #FaceShields to people protesting ICE in Los Angeles two days after President Donald Trump deployed the #NationalGuard.

"#AlejandroOrellana, 29, pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to aid and abet civil disorders. According to a grand jury indictment, the face shields were 'advertised as designed to protect from chemical splashes and flying debris.'

" 'Alejandro Orellana’s arrest for distributing supplies is an outrageous violation of #CivilRights and should be a wakeup call to people everywhere,' said California attorney Thomas Harvey.

" 'This appears to be a targeted, political attack on resistance to a military incursion on our communities,' Harvey said. 'Distributing supplies to protesters is not a crime. It’s a critical role to help keep people safe — especially in the face of some of the most violent police repression I’ve seen since the #Ferguson uprising.' "

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/feds-criminalize-protests-masked-ice/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/sQii5

#ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #CriminalizingDissent #CivilRightsViolations #Authoritarianism #USPol #WeKeepOurselvesSafe #WeKeepEachOtherSafe

Invisible Prisons: How We Let This Happen

Immigration detention is supposed to be civil not punishment.

 But across the U.S., immigrants are being held in jail-like conditions under a patchwork of outdated and inconsistent standards, many without ever being charged with a crime.

In this episode, Joa pulls back the curtain on a system designed to look like bureaucracy but feel like incarceration. We explore how ICE contracts with private prisons and local jails, how per-bed payments create financial incentives to detain more people, and why detainees experience drastically different treatment depending on where they’re held.

We also trace the language and policies that make it easy to ignore this injustice and who profits from our silence.

What You’ll Learn

• Why ICE detention isn’t supposed to be punitive—but often is
• What the PBNDS and NDS standards are, and why they matter
• How local governments and corporations profit from detaining immigrants
• The role of dehumanizing language in public apathy
• Why this system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as intended

Resources Mentioned

• ICE Detention Standards Overview (official)
• Appendix: ICE Detention Facilities & Assigned Standards
• DHS Office of Inspector General Report on Oversight Failures
• American Bar Association Detention Guide for Practitioners
• “Cultish” by Amanda Montell – on groupthink, misinformation, and language as power

Call to Action

• Share this episode with someone who thinks immigration detention is just “processing.”
• Ask your local representatives if your county jail has a contract with ICE (search: IGSA).
• Support organizations working to end immigration detention and expose profit motives, like Detention Watch Network, Freedom for Immigrants, and ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

#civilRightsViolations #dehumanization #detentionReform #forProfitPrisons #ICEAbuse #immigrantJustice #immigrationDetention

"We've Been Essentially Muzzled": Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump

#TrumpAdministration #EducationCivilRights #CivilRightsViolations #ProPublicaInvestigation #Civil

https://www.juancole.com/2025/02/essentially-department-investigations.html

https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114006256652358690

https://www.thedailybeast.com/samuel-lawrence-inmate-who-died-in-fulton-county-jail-had-disturbing-injuries The family of an Atlanta inmate who died days after filing a civil rights complaint against the same jail that Donald Trump briefly found himself in last month say the 32-year-old suffered bite marks and other substantial injuries before his death.

The revelation came on the same day authorities confirmed a tenth death this year alone at the Fulton County Jail #civilliberties #prisonreform #policebrutality #civilrightsviolations #humanrights