Consider: when CBP and ICE agents can shoot and kill and kidnap people with no warrants and no consequences, the lesson sent to anyone who could be profiled as undocumented (basically all racialized people) becomes "if you go to court to defend yourself, you might never see your family again."

I'm getting calls from people facing eviction or foreclosure or debt collection lawsuits and they're not doing anything because they are terrified of ICE, even if they have legal status, even if the case against them is bullshit.

And no one is talking about this.

I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments.

For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.

That's a weird way of saying "keeps violating court orders," ABC. Just wondering what would happen if a judge told me to do something and I said I "declined the request"

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-administration-declines-judges-request-return-college-student/story?id=129936369

Not sure if it's because I'm trans or Jewish or my tattoos or what but I just had a gas station attendant refuse to sell me gas and tell me he'd cancel any pump I tried to use so that's fun

I am begging people to stop treating politicians like automatons with Robert House's little remote controls on their necks.

They have agency. If they're voting for something, or hiring someone, or doing something, or confirming someone, it's because they want to.

Reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.