@HoltzmanAlex

Director of Deportation Defense Clinic @Hofstra_Law; alum @SafePassageProj @IJCorps & community organizer; nature; blues, baseball & bball; views mine; he/him

 New York, NY
Joined January 2015
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I’m sure the people hired for these jobs will treat all cases with complete professionalism and in an unbiased manner.
Ken Klippenstein
@kenklippensteinOct 14
Department of Homeland Security job posting: "defend your culture ... against illegal foreign infiltration"
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NEW: The Trump admin just cut the time that a refugee has to submit a formal response or an objection to a Notice of Intent to Terminate refugee status from the current period of 30 days to just 10 days. This new rule, issued without warning, goes into effect tomorrow.
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David J. Bier
@David_J_BierOct 9
ICE agents shot a man in front of his 5-year-old child during yet another botched traffic stop.
Noah Hurowitz
@NoahHurowitzOct 8
Replying to @NoahHurowitz
Photos of the aftermath of the shooting, provided to me by a neighbor
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Noah Hurowitz
@NoahHurowitzOct 8
Photos of the aftermath of the shooting, provided to me by a neighbor
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This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed. This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities. Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery. Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children. Abolish ICE.
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ICE shot someone in Manhattan today. Details are still coming in.
NYPD NEWS
@NYPDnewsOct 8
At around 4pm today, there was a shooting involving federal law enforcement agents in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx. The NYPD was not involved in the incident and was not on scene at the time of the shooting. The individual who was shot is at a nearby hospital and is currently conscious and receiving medical attention.
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Laiken Jordahl@LaikenJordahlOct 6
Just brutal to see. DHS contractors just plowed through the last of the four ancient cottonwood trees in Arizona--a tree older than the border itself--to make way for a double border wall through critical jaguar habitat. A dozen protestors were arrested today trying to stop this travesty.
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The New York Times
@nytimesOct 2
Breaking News: A judge halted border wall construction across the Big Bend region in Texas, a project that has faced fierce local opposition. nyti.ms/3VktG0h

Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas

The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.

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A core tenet of fascism is to claim that all of society's problems are actually caused by a minority group, thus requiring the state to use its full power to attack that group.
TheBlaze
@theblazeSep 29
Vance: “A lot of the problems that exist in American society would be solved just by deporting illegal aliens. Lower housing prices, lower rent, lower violent crime.”
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Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheneySep 25
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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Eric Lee
@EricLeeAttySep 25
Board of Imm. Appeals rules against Mahmoud Khalil, denying Mot. to Reopen based on bias. BIA says "we aren't biased" but then includes this remarkable attack on Khalil's lawyers for arguing that BIA is subject to political pressure, pointing to purge of judges. BIA is a joke!
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I’m declaring a State of Emergency for Nassau, Suffolk, New York City and Westchester as this powerful coastal storm bears down on the region. We’re expecting dangerous coastal flooding, strong winds and potential power outages through the weekend. Take this storm seriously. Stay alert, avoid unnecessary travel, and text 333-111 for realtime updates.
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NBC News
@NBCNewsSep 22
A man is recovering from injuries to his head, neck and teeth that he sustained after ICE officers mistakenly targeted him in a Chicago suburb. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vid…

Video shows injured man on the ground after ICE mistakenly targets him

According to police, the man reported injuries to his head, neck and teeth; DHS did not respond to questions about the man’s injuries or why ICE officers did not render aid to him.

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ICE likely violated the Constitution when agents delivered a warning notice to a man in Rochester, New York, over a caustic email he had sent the agency’s leader months earlier, a federal judge ruled. wapo.st/4gVDqX4

ICE likely violated First Amendment by issuing warning to critic, judge rules

Federal agents came to the home of a Rochester, New York, man who had written a scathing email to ICE’s acting director. He later sued DHS.

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This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
amanda moore 🐢
@noturtlesoup17Sep 16
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. According to Sakariye, guards say the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes straight from DC. motherjones.com/politics/202…

The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Wow. @DHSOIG did a surprise inspection of the Krome detention center in Miami in May 2025, at the peak of overcrowding. They found a system in total breakdown; every part of the facility was over capacity, detainees were commingled, and the kitchen was serving unsafe food.
tanvi@TanvimSep 15
What DHS OIG found when it did an unannounced inspection of ICE's krome detention center: overcrowded housing units and holding cells, overflowing vats of raw chicken, frozen food out in direct sunlight. oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/fi…
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The DeSantis administration releases a statement saying that they'd make this outrageous cage "even smaller if we could." The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said it violated every detention standard and posed a significant danger to health and safety.
Claire Healy@clurhealySep 14
Replying to @clurhealy
Read the full statement from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's office below:
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Julia E. Ainsley@JuliaEAinsleySep 14
In response to the report on immigrants being held in cages in Alligator Alcatraz, DeSantis' Communications Director, Alex Lanfranconi said, in part "While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we’d make it even smaller if we could.”
Julia E. Ainsley@JuliaEAinsleySep 14
🚨🚨New IG report shows cage that held immigrants at Alligator Alcatraz Signs said it was for “calming” ; detainees said it was for punishment. @strickdc nbcnews.com/politics/nationa…

DHS watchdog finds immigrants were held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone...

The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector...

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Julia E. Ainsley@JuliaEAinsleySep 14
🚨🚨New IG report shows cage that held immigrants at Alligator Alcatraz Signs said it was for “calming” ; detainees said it was for punishment. @strickdc nbcnews.com/politics/nationa…

DHS watchdog finds immigrants were held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone...

The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector...

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