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@jaredmcclain.bsky.socialReposted by @unraveledpress.com

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing. Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
@jamesstout.bsky.socialReposted by @unraveledpress.com

BP are technically first responders, but as we can see here and we have seen countless times through the years, they do not respond to help people who they don’t think need help. Because of international cell phone agreements, it can also be very hard to call 911 in remote border areas.

@shaunvids.bsky.socialReposted by @unraveledpress.com

i resent how there's a stable of a couple dozen dudes whose whole thing is 'has a racist blog' & they regularly get mainstream newspaper and magazine profiles. i have trouble keeping track of them all, i'm like 'what did he do again' & check his wikipedia & it's ah, has a racist blog, that's all

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BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

prospect.orgFederal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American ProspectA Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
@vimiller.bsky.socialReposted by @unraveledpress.com

Former Joliet police lieutenant Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, per Illinois State Police. Harrison’s charges make him at least the third Will County law enforcement officer accused of misusing the surveillance technology this year.

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Note: Rockford is *very* far from Chicago. Not the same metro, not the same county, a solid 90 minute drive in favorable traffic. Agents have also been seen in Kankakee yesterday and today...totally opposite side of the state, an hour or so south of Chicago.

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Social media reports and videos from late last night also show Rockford police arresting what appears to be a minor child at a demonstration outside the Radisson where locals have seen ICE vehicles. At least one other person also arrested; the child suffered injuries.

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We don't yet know precisely how many people ICE has snatched from the area. between yesterday and today. Sounds like at least a dozen, likely more. So far today they've also fanned out to detained someone in Freeport (25 miles west) and across the state line in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:

From Sara Dady Facebook page Image of black pathfinder SUV Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.
@tusk81.bsky.socialReposted by @unraveledpress.com

MartĂ­n Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped set off the Delaney Hall hunger strike, is free.

"I don’t have words,” he said while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.”

religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...

@azrww.bsky.socialReposted by @unraveledpress.com

The few residents that were allowed to speak at the Marana Council meeting tonight criticized town officials for their lack of action and failure to address the concerns about the ICE camp and the open intention to fill it over capacity — some estimates reaching over DOUBLE the originally 550 limit.

A sign being held up in the Marana Town Council meeting. It says “concentration camps are un-American”
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