This story by ⁦Nicole Hensley 📰⁩ (and others like it by her & others preceding this trial) is one of the most brutally devastating I have ever read. Horrific to think what happens just outside our doors & we never know. The man was found guilty today. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/oHpyFZz

This week, the UK will likely pass a law saying Rwanda is 'safe' to deport asylum seekers to. Meanwhile, I was recently denied boarding on a flight to Rwanda, presumably because of my journalism on the treatment of refugees there. (THREAD) 1/

Other states are trying to replicate Texas's SB4 law and it's worrying many immigrant communities

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In today’s The Washington Post, with record-breaking migration, comes record-breaking death. A Texas border county has struggled to keep up.

Our dispatch w/colleagues Marina Dias & Daniele Volpe, who made images along with the amazing Jabin Botsford

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As always on a night like tonight:

Scrutinize who is posting.

Be careful when sharing.

Question if visuals are what they appear to be, and if they were captured when people suggest.

Watch out for bad actors in the information space.

And big ups to all the immigration reporters and editors and experts out there !

Here’s Governor Abbott at TPPF *today,* hours after the Texas Solicitor General argued to the Fifth Circuit that #SB4 is consistent with Arizona v. United States, publicly explaining that SB4 was modeled on Justice Scalia’s Arizona *dissent* (at 1:12:00):

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Listening to 5th Circuit hearing on SB4.

And it's incredible that Texas' lawyer doesn't know how the law would be applied if a person entered through another border state and later moved to Texas.

'I confess your honor, I don't know,' the Texas lawyer said.

What a roller coaster ride today!

New re #SB4 : A federal appeals court late Tuesday night stopped a state law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border — hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed it to go into effect.

w/ Uriel J. García
texastribune.org/2024/03/19/tex…

📄 On behalf of the Government of Mexico, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the entry into force of Texas law SB4, which seeks to stop the flow of migrants by criminalizing them, and encouraging the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling that violate…

Speaker of the Texas House: 'Compliance with state law is not optional; it is mandatory. Any local law enforcement agency that refuses to enforce Senate Bill 4 is abandoning their sworn duty to uphold the rule of law.'

A Mexican federal official says the country will not accept people expelled under Texas' immigration law SB 4. This will complicate Texas' efforts to implement the law.

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So Barrett and Kavanaugh basically say the 5th Circuit's gamesmanship around issuing an 'administrative stay' is unusual but doesn't rise to the point where she thinks they should intervene yet, but she says if the 5th Circuit doesn't rule soon, DOJ should come back to SCOTUS.