Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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Senior Fellow @immcouncil. Tweeting on immigration policy and data. Formerly immigration lawyer with @IJCorps. Views my own, retweets =/= endorsements.

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1Oct 20, '25This is incredible. Just incredible.72.8×9.7M60k3.6k8.5k
2Oct 8, '25The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots55.2×7.4M35k8.7k4.2k
3Jul 1, '25Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.44.6×5.9M75k12k2k
4Mar 20, '25NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player tortured by the Maduro re40.5×5.4M21k7.6k3.4k
5Sep 5, '25This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The operation went sideways within minutes, when a fishing boat was unexpectedly at the lan39.6×5.3M57k11k11k
6Mar 30, '25NEW: An ACLU filing sheds light on how "Andry," the gay make-up artist sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador, ended up labeled "Tren de Aragua" by ICE. Documents filed by ICE show39.3×5.2M17k3.9k2.8k
7Mar 2, '25Many of the literal Founders of this country voted against making English the official language of the nation in the late 18th century.39.2×5.2M140k8.7k3.9k
8Jan 26, '25There was a moment earlier today when a lot of Trump people were claiming victory over Colombia. Trump even posted a "FAFO" memo on truth social. Very shortly after, Colombia impos32.5×4.3M55k4.1k2.3k
9Aug 16, '25After officers refuse to show badges or even say what agency they are with, a bystander tells an agent "You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?" The agent responds28.6×3.8M11k2.5k1.3k
10Jan 21, '25A sitting member of Congress calls for the deportation of a bishop who asked Trump to show mercy to those in the country who are afraid. We are in a dark moment in this country and26×3.5M105k11k3.4k
11Mar 18, '25The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison with no due process include: - A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally. - A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because 25.8×3.4M19k5.1k2.5k
12Jan 31, '25She says at the end of the clip that fentanyl has killed "tens of millions of Americans." That number struck me as unlikely, so I went and looked up the CDC statistics. Total combi23.9×3.2M53k5.8k2.5k
13Mar 3, '25It would be an egregious violation of the Constitution's First Amendment to attempt to punish someone for advising another person of their rights under the law.23.2×3.1M86k5k2.2k
14Jul 3, '25With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets 21.9×2.9M24k7.6k2.5k
15Oct 7, '25Chicago just finished a summer with the fewest murders since 1965.21.8×2.9M64k7.2k1.4k
16Sep 17, '25Get it? The joke is that we might kill some totally innocent people! Haha that’s funny, right?21.4×2.9M129k14k3.7k
17Oct 19, '25This 50s nostalgia is so pathetic.19.9×2.7M110k3.8k1.6k
18Jan 26, '25The White House just got this wrong in a press release. Embarrassing.19.7×2.6M65k4.4k667
19Sep 5, '25Yeah, Vietnam, a war famously lost because we were Too Woke.19.5×2.6M88k4.9k2.3k
20Mar 18, '25NEW! The Trump administration ADMITTED last night that many of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison are people with NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Stunningly, they argue th18.3×2.4M11k4.4k1.5k
21Oct 11, '25Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the17.7×2.4M71k7.6k3.5k
22Oct 5, '25Stephen Miller has now declared this Trump-appointed judge an insurrectionist. To emphasize, the judge painstakingly examined all the protest happening in Portland before Trump act16.7×2.2M16k4.8k1.3k
23Oct 2, '25In this raid, they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into U-Haul vans. And now they're bragging about it. U.S. citizens had their doors smashed down and were f16.2×2.2M16k7.7k1.9k
24Mar 15, '25🚨 Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over nation16×2.1M14k4.8k1.8k
25Feb 21, '25Rolling Stone is out with evidence that Musk's people fired: - Lawyers who keep drunk pilots out of the sky - Staff who make sure flight routes account for new hazards like buildin15.9×2.1M43k13k4.2k
26Jul 6, '20This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through 15×071k55k2.5k
27Mar 30, '23There is literally a crystal clear provision of the Constitution that says no state may refuse an extradition request from another state. So what DeSantis is saying here is that he14.7×2M19k4.4k282
28Aug 6, '25My great-grandfather helped invent chemotherapy. He’s part of the legacy of how breakthroughs in medical science have saved so many lives. And now we’re going to throw away years o14.6×1.9M36k6.8k796
29Apr 7, '25Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him re13.6×1.8M24k6.4k1.7k
30Apr 18, '25Wow. Diplomatic pressure absolutely worked. Van Hollen got in, met with Mr. Abrego, and becomes the first person to have ANY meeting with any of the people sent to El Salvador on M13.6×1.8M44k4.1k1.1k
31Sep 30, '25I gasped when I saw the front page of this decision; Judge Young includes a postcard sent to him asking "Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I ha13×1.7M23k6.2k3.3k
32Mar 26, '25NEW: @MotherJones reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men11.8×1.6M14k4.4k1.4k
33Nov 3, '25INSANE story. Basically a kidnapping. A woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her. Armed agents jumped out, pulled her by the legs 11.7×1.6M20k7.4k2k
34Jun 23, '25NEW: the victim of this beating has been identified as Narciso Barranco, a father of three U.S. Marines. According to @KTLA, he was working as a landscaper when DHS officers grabbe11.3×1.5M13k4.9k1.5k
35Mar 22, '25NEW: A @TIME photojournalist was on hand in El Salvador as prison guards beat a man who is likely to be Andry, a gay Venezuelan barber/makeup artist who was seemingly falsely accus11.2×1.5M11k3.8k1.2k
36Jan 3, '24In the video, a mom and her two small children wade across the river and calmly walk up to a waiting law enforcement officer, who points them towards the processing area. There is 11.2×1.5M19k2k405
37Sep 12, '25A South Korean electrician thrown into an ICE detention center says "I will never visit the United States again." He was helping build a factory that is (was?) going to employ thou10.7×1.4M38k8.8k1.6k
38Jun 10, '25A man pretended to be an ICE agent, went into a business, tied up the woman working there, and stole $1,000. This is what people have feared.10.4×1.4M40k11k1.8k
39Oct 23, '25A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.9.5×1.3M48k11k2.7k
40Jan 22, '25Leaked documents from the Trump admin show that ICE wants four new detention centers with 10,000 beds each, and fourteen smaller facilities with 700-1,000 beds each. That would lik9.3×1.2M13k5.8k1.1k
41Apr 24, '25Vance is simply not telling the truth about what happened. Mr. Abrego DID get a hearing. And at that hearing, the judge ruled that the ONE THING that the government could not do wa8.9×1.2M37k4.8k1.2k
42Mar 25, '25Today I testified on behalf of @immcouncil in front of House Homeland's Border Security and Enforcement subcommittee. I testified about how Trump's diversion of thousands of law en8.5×1.1M1.9k547275
43Mar 16, '25People on the flight sent to El Salvador had ZERO opportunity to contest the government’s evidence. Many said they were falsely accused of belong to Tren de Aragua. One person had 8.5×1.1M16k4.3k1.1k
44Apr 18, '25Wow. Bukele reportedly staged the "margaritas" picture deliberately to undermine the meeting with Van Hollen.8.3×1.1M25k4.1k1.4k
45Apr 22, '25After having terminated lawyers for unaccompanied children, the government is now making toddlers represent themselves in deportation proceedings.8.3×1.1M14k5.3k1.9k
46Jun 1, '25What infuriates me so much about this operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic7.8×1M35k6.4k1.1k
47Jul 19, '25Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump admin, is FREE. He was wrongfully accused of being a gang memb7.6×1M25k5.5k993
48Apr 16, '25SO PROVE IT. Present ANY evidence that he's part of MS-13 that's not the tainted "police informant" stuff from 2019 -- six years ago! You keep making these claims but the moment yo7.4×983k22k2.5k671
49Jun 12, '25This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now. It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website. The Department of Commerce has no immigration f7.1×940k12k3.8k1.2k
50Aug 12, '25Trump's people at DHS are referencing here "Which Way, Western Man," a book by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson that was published by an American Neo-Nazi organization, the7.0×935k15k4.5k2.2k
51Apr 1, '25Vance is badly wrong here. In 2019, a police informant alleged the guy was in MS-13. He spent a year in ICE detention as a result, then won his case. He’s been out for the last fiv7.0×929k14k2.3k1.1k
52Oct 21, '25It would appear that he's tearing down the entire East Wing without any Congressional oversight or legal approval — even though he doesn't own the building and is using, reportedly6.9×914k13k3.4k755
53Apr 15, '25MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing co6.7×893k13k4.6k1.3k
54Sep 30, '25WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did i6.6×874k15k4.2k803
55Oct 1, '25Just to emphasize how racist this is, you cannot tell whether someone is an "illegal alien" by looking at them. So what Vance is basically saying is "you've probably noticed that t6.5×868k30k5.8k1.3k
56May 8, '25The new Pope didn't post once in 2024. In 2025, he posted 5 times: - Criticized JD Vance's take on Jesus - Posted article critiquing Vance's statements on deportation policies - Re6.5×866k13k2.5k952
57Dec 24, '23Show this video to anyone who claims there’s an “invasion.” It’s just people. Not a hostile army, not a faceless horde. Just… people.6.5×863k11k1.2k370
58Oct 1, '25That is an outright lie. You can read the text for yourself; the Medicaid section starts on page 55. There is nothing in there AT ALL about “free healthcare” for undocumented immig6.4×852k15k5.1k1k
59Jun 17, '25This guy HELPED OUR TROOPS. He hasn’t broken a single law. He was doing everything “right” to seek asylum. And yet ICE threw him in detention anyway, with the goal of handing him t6.3×840k12k3.3k523
60Apr 19, '25This is OUTRAGEOUS. A Minnesota man was arrested and handcuffed at his workplace by ICE and thrown into detention. ICE had SECRETLY revoked his visa without telling him, and then a6.2×825k15k4.7k1.2k
61Sep 5, '24That's roughly $1,841 per person. By comparison, a bus ticket to New York costs about $215, while a flight costs about $350. It would have WAY cheaper to just give migrants money f6.2×823k12k2.7k429
62Sep 27, '25This is UNACCEPTABLE. A Border Patrol agent was caught on camera saying that when people in his custody would ask for a doctor, he'd refuse to get them medical help — in part becau5.8×776k20k7.6k1.7k
63May 22, '25The letter Noem sent to Harvard cites no law violated, no regulation broken, no policy ignored; just a threat to punish Harvard for their refusal to hand over FIVE YEARS of video o5.7×756k16k4.1k749
64Feb 22, '25No one at DOGE is going to be personally reviewing 2 million emails about what people did each week. Everyone in the government already has a supervisor they report to. This is a t5.6×748k13k2k462
65Apr 14, '25We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the forei5.6×740k14k3.8k723
66May 21, '25This is an extraordinary embarrassment to the American people; the president of the United States randomly flipping through printed out news articles he's clearly never read, with 5.5×727k11k2.7k551
67Nov 5, '25This is precisely why clear identification on federal agents is so important.5.3×709k31k8.7k1.5k
68Jun 7, '25The U.S. government is “demanding” that people stop using certain political rhetoric. That is appalling. The government cannot order people not to speak in ways they don’t like.5.3×705k21k4.4k759
69Sep 1, '25Congratulations to Trump for single-handedly making the U.S. tourist economy experience the worst year in the world.5.3×703k17k3.2k402
70Jul 9, '25🚨 This is an extraordinary document for an extraordinary time; the Catholic Church authorizing parishioners to indefinitely skip Mass out of fear that they will be detained and de5.1×686k12k3.9k810
71Jun 6, '25🚨NEW: ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully at5.1×685k11k6k855
72Jun 20, '25ICE arrested a guy with legal status TWICE this week! The same guy! Twice! And had to release him both times because he has status!5.1×680k18k4.4k670
73Aug 20, '24To recap: Maria Bartiromo, a major Fox News personality, claimed that a wife of a friend saw tents outside multiple Texas DMVs registering hundreds of migrants to vote. The local c5.1×678k12k4.3k317
74Apr 30, '25INCREDIBLE image: Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @Reuters camera dr5.1×673k21k4.6k1.4k
75Mar 4, '25This BBC graphic is a good way to show why reciprocal 25% tariffs will cause prices on some goods to go up far more than 25%. A piston used in a car engine made in Michigan will cr5.0×666k11k2.9k1.7k
76Apr 2, '25She's 50. She's been here since she was 11. She got here a few years too late to benefit from the Reagan amnesty, and so had few options to get a green card until recently, when sh5.0×665k12k2.4k915
77Apr 17, '25It is literally a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, VP, or any senior White House employee, to "request, directly or indirectly, any officer4.9×648k15k5.4k977
78May 10, '25Normally refugees have to pay for their own travel to the U.S. by taking out travel loans which have to be paid back. Trump has fully suspended the refugee program for all other pe4.8×642k13k4.1k945
79Sep 30, '25"War is Peace" is one of the three core slogans of the fascist government in 1984, and it's pretty damn chilling to see the Secretary of Defense demanding that the U.S. Armed Force4.7×632k22k4.5k1.6k
80Apr 3, '25It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 340 million, should have a 4.7×630k13k1.2k680
81Apr 17, '25This is STUNNING. One of the plaintiffs in the Alien Enemies Act case who did get taken off of a plane had a court hearing just 48 hours later — and ICE didn't even offer ONCE PIEC4.7×624k17k4.9k1.3k
82Apr 16, '25"Everyone from El Salvador knows what it means when you wear a Bulls hat" is literally the meme:4.5×602k31k1.8k738
83Sep 29, '25NEW: @reuters uncovers that the Trump admin is prosecuting the LOWEST number of drug trafficking cases in decades. Why? Because the Trump admin has diverted so many law enforcement4.3×579k12k4.4k1.1k
84Mar 27, '25I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat or if you oppose immigration or support it, this is not the behavior of responsible adults who are charged with the nation's wellb4.1×552k17k1.8k308
85Oct 24, '25Videos like this make it extremely clear that DHS claims that agents are not racially profiling are just ridiculous. They're going up to people who look Hispanic and asking them wh4.1×547k14k3.9k896
86Oct 17, '25So the ICE officer refuses to follow lawful orders and actively resists arrest, while questioning whether one of the cops is Haitian (a veiled threat). If he was an immigrant, DHS 4.0×530k13k2.8k997
87Oct 18, '25So the people on these boats are “terrorists” who can be killed without any due process, but if they don’t die in the initial strike, they just get released and go home with a warn3.9×524k11k2.5k564
88Jun 7, '25He’s married to a U.S. citizen and ICE has agreed in the interest of discretion to let him to stay here since 2008. How does it benefit the country to deport him now, after 17 year3.7×490k12k1.1k392
89Apr 28, '25First off: the 20 million number is wrong. But even if it was right, that would suggest that 96.5% of the undocumented population has no criminal record at all, pretty much erasing3.4×455k15k1.7k673
90Jun 23, '25Stephen Miller’s quotas have broken the systems ICE is supposed to use to keep track of people. People go missing after they’re arrested. They never get logged into the Detainee Lo3.3×440k11k4.5k729
91Aug 14, '25ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the ba3.2×423k12k2.9k772
93Apr 7, '25We sent this man to rot in a prison in El Salvador because he had tattoos that said “mom” and “dad” with little crowns over them. He grew up in a town famous for its Three Kings Da3.1×410k15k3.5k474
94Apr 22, '25ICE went into the database where foreign students are tracked and deleted the record of at least 1,700 or more people because they had some minor interaction with law enforcement —2.9×392k12k2.8k552
95May 1, '25Under what possible law would be it be a crime to post information about law enforcement officers? This seems to raise very serious First Amendment issues.2.9×389k11k1.5k632
96Jul 14, '25The normalization of a type of policing not seen before in American history continues.2.9×381k15k2.5k340
97Oct 11, '25A huge portion of the chaos that you are seeing in the United States today is directly due to one man; Stephen Miller, an unelected political operator who by many reports has more 2.8×379k11k3.1k503
98Apr 7, '25The Trump administration sent Andry and hundreds of other people with NO CRIMINAL RECORDS to El Salvador because of their tattoos. NONE got any due process. No judges, no hearings,2.2×300k11k2.9k541
99Sep 15, '25They kicked millions of Americans off of Medicaid to fund this.1.8×245k12k2.3k262
100Sep 23, '25I think it's a problem when the President of the United States is divorced from reality.1.6×217k14k930198

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