Danilo Zak
@DaniloZak
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Refugee and immigration policy + advocacy @CWS_global • Mets apologist • Tweets my own
Joined June 2020
The State Dep't released July refugee data earlier this week! A short thread: Topline: 6,486 resettled. More signs of progress in the rebuild of a refugee program devastated by Trump. But-- much more is needed to create a resilient, sustainable USRAP that meets global need. 1/
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Cellphone footage from Minneapolis appears to show a federal Border Patrol agent kneeing a man in the face multiple times while other agents hold him down on the pavement.
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🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @ZDRoberts after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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🚨NEWS: Sen. Patty Murray OPPOSES ICE funding increases "in any bill that gets released" and for real accountability measures for the agency.
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This is complete nonsense. The Supreme Court already held, 9-0, that the process used to sent people to CECOT violated due process. There wasn’t even a single dissent. Weiss is making up a “debate” that has already been settled.
New: See the memo Bari Weiss sent to some 60 Minutes staff on Sunday:
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Multiple sources confirming this is the spiked CECOT story This story is confirmation of what we already knew/suspected — so @bariweiss is correct in that front. That being said, @60Minutes confirming that America knowingly sent innocent, nonviolent immigrants to be knowingly
*If* this is the spiked @60Minutes cecot episode, it confirms what we all suspected: We (the United States) and El Salvador committed significant, and inhuman, human rights violations, and got it wrong in 50-90% of the cases. As a country, we need to hold the executives who
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I have been working to confirm information surrounding this tweet all day in between my newscasts. This is what I have found. The Department of Homeland Security ignited a firestorm in a local immigration case after posting a statement on X accusing Jair Celis, a 29-year-old
DISGUSTING AND REVOLTING! @sltrib has completely lost the plot in their indefensible spin for a SODOMITE AND CHILD ABUSER. Here are the facts: Jair Celis Lecuona has a criminal history for sodomy of a child and sexual abuse of a child. Lecuona entered the U.S. on a tourist visa
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Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without
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"The US should..." Accept refugees from a variety of countries: 53% Not accept any refugees: 19% Only accept White South Africans: 3% YouGov / Dec 5, 2025
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ICE agents handcuff a US citizen and drag her from her car as she screams that she is a US citizen. Watch this braiding of the Trump administration's cruelty and incompetence.
If a secret police force can rip a U.S. citizen from their car and throw them into an unmarked vehicle for no reason, then no one in this country is actually safe from this administration.
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🚨We're sounding the alarm: privatizing legal aid for unaccompanied kids puts their lives & rights at risk. This RFP is not about improving services; it’s about dismantling a network that has held the govt accountable for abuses like family separation and midnight deportations.
🚨 BREAKING: Trump is moving to privatize legal aid for migrant children — and hand it to a for-profit ICE contractor. Yes, the same agency trying to deport them would help control their “legal support.” Advocates say it breaches confidentiality, strips protections, and pushes
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Torture on US soil: Per Amnesty International, guards have tortured non-citizen detainees in "Alligator Alcatraz," shackling them & confining them in small boxes in the sun. The brutal methods pioneered at Gitmo & Bagram have come home. Another perilous rubicon crossed...
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There is a lot happening but don't lose track of this ICE effort:
Scoop: The Trump administration is prioritizing the deportation of Afghan nationals who were previously ordered to leave the United States, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times. https://t.co/EP6fokMhNX
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Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people. More coming soon.
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This is the way. Thank you for your moral clarity and steadiness @mustafababak @Afghan_American. If you’ve been following the fallout from last week’s horrid shooting in DC, watch this and continue to look for thoughtful and principled voices in this moment.
Our Co-Founder @mustafababak spoke with @BBCNews about the D.C. violent shooting of two National Guardsmen and it's impact on Afghan allies across the U.S.
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The murder of a National Guard member was horrific, intolerable violence and the shooter must be met with swift justice. Exploiting one person’s heinous act to target Afghan families, some of whom fought alongside our service members against the Taliban, betrays our American
The Trump administration said it is halting all asylum decisions and has also paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports after this week’s shooting of two National Guard members.
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"This guy was thoroughly vetted, and we let him into the U.S. because abandoning people who fight alongside us is strategically unwise" is precisely the kind of complex truth that Trump is incapable of grasping.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
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The fear of many in my circles is that Trump will in one swoop kick out the thousands of actual honest Afghan heroes who helped the USG in battle, betraying them+the hundreds of vets (@alexplitsas , @MickMulroy so many others) who assisted in bringing them over.
Republicans seek severe immigration crackdown over D.C. shooting: "Deport them all. Now."
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Evacuate Our Allies Coalition Statement in Response to Shooting of Two National Guardsmen in Washington, DC.
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They are not unvetted. They are one of the most highly vetted populations to ever come into the U.S. and yet many of us who advocated for them also pointed out that an Afghan Adjustment Act would have allowed an even further level of vetting. You would not support it in Congress.
I remember back in 2021 criticizing the Biden policy of opening the floodgate to unvetted Afghan refugees. Friends sent me messages calling me a racist. It was a clarifying moment. They shouldn't have been in our country.
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