Mario Carrillo

"What many Americans are experiencing for the first time is what border communities in the Southwest United States have lived with for decades: the steady normalization of surveillance as daily life." – "A Warning to Americans From a Border Resident: Once Militarization Starts, It’s Hard To End" by Mario Carrillo americasvoicecnn.substack.com

"Border residents recognize the pattern."

In a new guest post, @mariocarrillo.bsky.social traces how border militarization took hold. From the Bowie High School lawsuit to today’s normalization of surveillance and checkpoints.

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DHS should shutter the El Paso ICE camp, @repescobar.bsky.social & Dems said, noting at least one of the 3 deaths there was in part to 'poor medical care by staff.' Another a homicide involving staff. ICE alleged suicide in a third, but won't release the autopsy.

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I don't know what level of dystopia we've reached when we tout expanding immigration detention by tens of thousands as job opportunities for local communities.

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

I'm not doing a lot of posting here, but I can tell you, Maine is absolutely under seige. When ICE comes in, they come bringing terror.

This is an important insight. Miller, Vance, and co see immigrants as the enemy, as the other. But they also see anyone siding with immigrants, citizen or not, as the enemy, too. And they want to make sure people see that aligning with immigrants makes you vulnerable to state violence.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published a big new report on the growth of ICE detention in Trump's first year back in office. Not only do we track the rising scale of the detention infrastructure, we explain how changing enforcement tactics have shifted the profile of who is locked up by ICE.

Migrant Workers Win Farm Union Contract, Protecting Them From H-2A Visa Wage Cuts - Documented Wafler Farms, an apple orchard in upstate New York, had spent years fighting the United Farm Workers' attempt to unionize.

“Union contracts are not subject to this unilateral federal wage cut, so the workers at Wafler farm will now make thousands of dollars more each year than they would have without a UFW contract.“

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my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration

Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.

"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence."

Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
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One of the many tragic things about Renee Good’s murder is that it happened because this administration’s hatred of immigrants and its obsession to making these raids a show to make people afraid. Her death was entirely avoidable but this administration doesn’t seem to give a shit.

Tracking the Venezuela Conversation in U.S. and Venezuela WhatsApp and Telegram Groups Over the Course of 72 Hours This article examines how discussions about Nicolás Maduro’s arrest evolved over 72 hours on WhatsApp and Telegram in the United States and Venezuela. Analyzing English- and Spanish-language messages,...

Since the U.S.’s extraction and arrest of Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, an ongoing debate has unfolded in English and Spanish in the spaces where there are few “editors,” no algorithmic feed, and no single narrative in control – on WhatsApp and Telegram public groups. ddia.org/en/tracking-...

Who could have predicted that sending heavily armed, poorly trained federal agents into American neighborhoods could have ended like this? It's shocking yes, but not surprising sadly. Sending strength to folks in Minneapolis today.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.

Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

As you navigate today's news, remember that all of this is very, very fucking heavy. We're navigating uncharted territory in this country and it takes a fucking toll on us, y'all. Just important to take a breath and tread lightly.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism. An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries. This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement. These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats. This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available. 12:41 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 51.2K Views

DHS's first official statement is out, and they call the woman who was shot a domestic terrorist who they claim was trying to kill an ICE agent.

As a reminder, Tricia McLaughlin's post-shooting statements have been proven to be false MULTIPLE times in the past. They are simply not trustworthy.

Today we launched Borderly, a passion project of mine and a 4-part podcast series that will focus on the border and stories from the El Paso/Juarez region. Was honored to have Dr. Yolanda Chavez Leyva, oral historian at UTEP be our first guest. Hope you can listen. open.spotify.com/episode/2WF5...

‘Unchecked Authority’: Senate Report Details ICE and CBP’s Brazen and Unlawful Abuses Against Americans “Kavanaugh stops” in action: Among U.S. citizens harassed or detained by mass deportation agents include a six-year-old girl despicably used as human bait in order to lure her father.

A Senate investigation documents “brazen lawlessness” by ICE and CBP, including rejecting proof of U.S. citizenship, using excessive force, and fabricating charges.

As @tusk81.bsky.social writes, "This harassment campaign has been unsparing, even snatching up American children."

Total victory on this issue; members of Congress will again have the right to conduct surprise inspections of ICE detention centers.

‘The Holy Family Were Refugees’: Church Nativity Scenes Push Back On Trump’s Ugly Mass Deportation Agenda “If the Holy Family had been in Charlotte two weeks ago, they would have been putting the baby Jesus in handcuffs because he wouldn’t have his papers,” said one faith leader.

Across Illinois, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, faith communities are refusing to stay silent. Churches are using their nativity scenes to call out the Trump administration’s cruel and chaotic anti-immigrant policies that are tearing families apart right now.

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🚨 Earlier today, my office was notified by a local stakeholder about the death of a detainee at Camp East Montana.
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Look For The Helpers: Americans Come Together To Protect Immigrant Neighbors From buying out food vendors’ products to blowing whistles in order to warn about immigration agents, Americans are finding new and creative ways to defend immigrant communities.

From Seattle to L.A., Chicago, and now Charlotte, communities are stepping up as Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda grows more violent and indiscriminate.

"The ways that community members are helping their immigrant neighbors truly are ingenious and varied."

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"So law and order means something to [Latino voters], but not the way that it's being exercised right now.”

@weareunidosus.bsky.social’s @cmartinezdc.bsky.social also explained that Latino voters feel Democrats aren’t showing progress while Republicans are offering only cruelty w/o accountability.

When Immigrants Succeed, America Succeeds - America's Voice Without the skills and entrepreneurial spirit of immigrant business owners, our national economy would be stagnant, local communities would be less vibrant, and midwesterners would be missing out on a...

Immigrant entrepreneurs are powering local economies across the country.

"In fact, the New American Economy’s 2019 study found that immigrant-led businesses 'employed almost 8 million American workers and generated $1.3 trillion in total sales'"

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Don’t forget that Trump thinks his enforcement actions aren’t going far enough.

Looking at this a bit more closely, this guy won PRECISELY BECAUSE he raised the "salience" of immigration via attacking ICE raids, and this won by a sizable margin in one of the most important swing counties of all, Bucks County in Pennsylvania.

As @tusk81.bsky.social wrote, "During the past several weeks alone, we’ve seen mass deportation agents operate with an accelerated ruthlessness and impunity"

And that was before ICE showed up at a daycare w/o a warrant.

When Trump said they "haven’t gone far enough," this is exactly what he meant.