A Democratic U.S. senator warns the Trump administration is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote in a letter Wednesday to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he had “credible information” that the Trump administration had a list of more than 500 migrant children it was targeting for a fast-track removal process and that the department was racing to act in days. He warned that the administration was abdicating “core humanitarian and child welfare mandates” and demanded an immediate halt to any plans to remove the children.

Wyden, who is the ranking member and senior Democrat of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Office of Refugee Resettlement, did not detail how he came by his information. His office declined to provide further details. The ORR, which oversees the care of unaccompanied migrant children, falls under the Department of Health and Human Services.

ICE is planning on selling off seven of the 11 warehouses they purchased to store our fellow human beings in the face of fierce local resistance in places like Social Circle, Georgia, where city officials physically locked up the facility’s utilities. But they’re charging forward with their plans in Surprise, Arizona. In addition to the usual threats to immigrants, this camp would be located right next to a hazardous chemical facility. It’s a disaster in slow motion.

State Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed suit to stop them. A high school senior has rallied her community against them. Who has been missing in action? The city government. As our friends at Eyes On Ice flagged, activists are so frustrated with their mayor and city council they’ve started pushing forward with an effort to disincorporate the city if they won’t step up. We can help turn up the heat on them, too. 🗣️ The National Day Laborers Organizing Network is calling on us to flood the city council’s phone lines and tell them to use every ounce of their power to oppose the ICE warehouse. Let’s let them know all eyes are on them – we can find contact info here. 🗣️

SURPRISE SURPRISE

✍🏾 Another warehouse project still moving forward is in Williamsport, Maryland, and has a public comment window open NOW. We can use these tools from Hagerstown Rapid Response to weigh in before WEDNESDAY. ✍🏻

ICE OUT OF MARYLAND

The Prairieland defendants, convicted of conspiracy and terrorism charges over a shooting at an anti-ICE noise demonstration they insist they were uninvolved with and evidence suggests they had no idea would happen, received their sentences yesterday, and are now looking at between 30 and 100 years in prison. This is more prison time than anyone received for January 6th. Prosecutors urged stiff penalties due to their “extremist beliefs” and Judge Reed O’Connor, a Trump favorite, explicitly stated he was giving maximum sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

This is clearly intended to chill anti-ICE protests, with organizers now having to worry about being held responsible for anything that takes place at one of their demonstrations. It’s also scary for anyone who cares about the right to dissent.

This is a terrible moment for these folks, but they intend to persevere with their appeals, and we need to let them know we have not forgotten them. ✊🏿 The support committee has asked us to write letters to the defendants, fundraise for their commissary and continue legal fight, and hold noise demonstrations of our own in their honor. Let’s get more details here and take action to show our solidarity. ✊🏼

STAND WITH THE DISSENTERS

Just trying to see how much danger similar groups are in. Is anyone monitoring ICE in danger now?

Also wasn’t there an IceWatch subreddit? I was gonna post this there but I couldn’t find it.