The A in this transcript is a Homeland Security Investigations regional director in charge of many agents. However, he wasn't quite sure whether his employer is also responsible for REAL ID. Guess he didn't fly anywhere last year. These are the people who want the power to arrest anyone they feel like.

“What Americans are starting to realize is there’s been an entire surveillance industry erected around them,” - @IJ's @Robert_Frommer tells @govtechnews on the proliferation of Flock cameras. govtech.com/spotlight/why-fl…

Last week, I got to examine my first witnesses in court. And I couldn't have asked for a more important case: Leo, a U.S. citizen and construction worker, testified about being detained by ICE three times in the past year. Each time, he had his documents. None of it mattered. 1/

🚨 @IJ attorneys just wrapped up a daylong hearing in our case on behalf of Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen repeatedly detained by immigration officers for no good reason. IJ Sr. Attorney Jared McClain and Leo talked with reporters afterwards. It will be a few more weeks before the judge issues a decision on a possible injunction against DHS.

Videos of his first arrest went viral. He's shared his story widely, even appearing before Congress. He's actively suing the Trump administration. So why do immigration officials keep detaining this U.S. citizen in Alabama? My latest for @propublica propublica.org/article/immig…

Leo, a Florida-born Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen, was tackled and shackled by ICE on May 2—arrested for a THIRD time. 1/

This order contains the following footnote, which has no relevance to the legal analysis and isn’t referenced again in any way

"@IJ hopes that the Supreme Court’s textualists will eventually acknowledge the absence of a police-power exception in the takings clause’s text." - @GeorgeWill on our work seeking compensation for innocent people whose property is destroyed by SWAT. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause be supported by “Oath or affirmation” before a warrant can issue, but the Supreme Court effectively removed that requirement in Jones v. US. Today, @IJ filed a cert. petition in Mendenhall v. Denver, urging the Court to put it back.

I tried the criminal case. The officer lied on the stand and was only caught because my client happened to have a dash cam secretly recording. The State stubbornly took Justin to trial in criminal court and the officer’s lies on the stand hurt him bad in the federal case.

Speaking as a private citizen and voter, this is not normal behavior. It must be stopped. Judge Milliron uses the authority of the bench to threaten people with jail for merely doing their jobs.

HUGE @IJ VICTORY No qualified immunity for a raging town councilman who came onto our clients' property, cut their food truck's water line & allegedly told them to "go back to your own country." The court ruled Parksley, VA & Councilman Henry Nicholson are liable for damages.

Months later, Sec. Noem continues to lie about ICE’s unconstitutional arrests of U.S. citizens. Yesterday, @IJ client Leo was one of three U.S. citizens wrongly arrested who attended the Senate Judiciary’s DHS oversight hearing. 1/

St. Paul cop Heather Weyker framed more than 30 people in a fake trafficking ring investigation. Her investigation fell apart, but not before she ruined dozens of lives. Today, the Supreme Court let Weyker off Scot-free when it denied cert. in @IJ's case for Hamdi Mohamud. 1/

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

🚨🚨🚨 @IJ just scored a major First Amendment and qualified immunity victory for Noah Peterson! At the direction of the mayor, police in Newton, Iowa arrested Noah in 2022 for criticizing the mayor and police at city council meetings. We sued. And we won in court. 1/

Here's part of @ICEgov 's response to us:

to stay true to character McLaughlin should put out a statement denouncing this as an untrue report filled with partisan falsehoods only for her to confirm it by leaving a few weeks from now

Part of what allows this to happen is that we let law enforcement officers swear affidavits on matters they have no firsthand knowledge of. @IJ is trying to change that.

At this point, any claim that an ICE/Border Patrol agent was assaulted should be presumed to be a lie.