Immigration reporter, Arizona Daily Star Email: ebregel@tucson.com Reach me on Signal: emdashbregs.28
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Immigrants confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after the U.S. deported them there without notice/due process, report worsening, dangerous conditions: "We’re living a nightmare." tucson.com/news/local/subscr…
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New: Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese firms with empty offices and military ties nytimes.com/2026/11/07/busin…
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The fate of these Afghans — including a gay man married to a U.S. citizen who's lived here since he was a child in the early 1980s — is still up in the air. This was only a temporary reprieve, but ICE is still saying it wants to deport these people to Afghanistan via Pakistan.
JUST IN: Judge Caproni has barred the Trump administration from conducting — until at least Saturday — any deportation flight of Afghans to Pakistan, which advocates fear might lead to a handover to the Taliban.
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Exclusive: ICE investigated how dozens of detainees died. The findings are ‘damning’ sfchronicle.com/us-world/art…
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If built, the proposed SpaceX data center near Willcox Playa in Cochise County would be Arizona’s largest data center and one of the largest in the United States. ➡️ Find link to story in bio
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NEW: Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested in AI Industry propublica.org/article/burgu…
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RT @Anna_Giaritelli: 👀 Post-election text from tenured ICE source
This source and others have lamented to me that the new hires have inade…
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Anger over aggressive ICE operations helped sink Republicans in Texas.
Hispanics flooded the polls & 77% of all Texans in @NBCNews exit polling said immigration enforcement was a crucial or major factor in their vote for Congress.
@SuzGamboa & me
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People started showing up here in Cochise before 4:30 for a private meeting held by SpaceX about a proposal for a massive more than 700 acre campus for data center buildings and a battery energy storage system.
A petition against it has more than 1,700 signatures
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Journalists: Don't do this.
Hello my name is Olivia Reingold and I used ChatGPT to brighten and sharpen an image of a woman in Valentino shoes and a Chanel bag.
After processing, it still shows these same things: a woman wearing Valentino shoes and a Chanel bag.
She is a real (and chic!) woman, really wearing those items. The observation holds.
Here’s the photo I took:
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AZGOP needs to move on from Cyber Ninjas era. Stop fielding freaks, geeks & amoral grifters for statewide races. Stop lying about “election fraud.” Focus on real issues. RNC must go from the party for malicious corruption to the party for the middle class m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsJ9Dl…
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At the Maricopa County supervisors meeting just now, Republican Supervisor @ThomasGalvin said his party's election lies have "led to the destruction of the Republican party here in Arizona, and frankly around the country."
ALT Republican Maricopa County Supervisor Thomas Galvin: "A message to my constituents and to my party, the Republican party. Arizona needs to move on from the Cyber Ninjas era. And my fellow Republicans need to stop lying about allegations and conspiracy theories about election fraud. I saw previous colleagues on the board of supervisors endure death threats, and were driven out of office. I had three new colleagues come into office and then I saw them subjected to the same things. They all came in telling voters that they respected their concerns about election conspiracy theories, but they quickly learned and saw that those conspiracy theories had no merit. And where they saw improvements to be made, they fought for improvements to be made. All three of them. Mark Stewart, Debbie Lesko and Kate Brophy McGee. But to my fellow Republicans who have been trafficking these lies for the last six years, you need to stop. Because you have led to the destruction of the Republican party here in A
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Sources said the same thing to me 👇🏼
SCOOP: Some ICE across the country were instructed to take a lighter approach to arrests during Election Day on Tuesday, multiple agency sources tell @realDailyWire.
The sources said the orders were not formally written, but were given verbally.
One ICE source described Tuesday as “an easy day” for officers, saying they were told not to arrest illegal immigrants on the streets, but rather to pick up only those being transferred from local jails.
Another said they were told to temporarily halt vehicle stops, a move the agency employed briefly in July following officer-involved shootings in Texas and Maine.
"We don’t want to give the left any reason or idea that we’re interfering somehow or intimidating people on Election Day," said one agency source.
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GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz told us she warned the White House that ICE operations were hurting the local economy and that the crackdown should focus on criminals and cartels, not “hardworking” immigrants.
Tejano singer Bobby Pulido defeated her last night by 20%+ points.
In a key race in South Texas, Tejano music singer and Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido is hoping to win back the Latino voters who swung towards President Trump and Republicans in recent years, including by focusing on concerns over ICE’s operations.
His opponent, Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz, has tried to distance herself from President Trump’s deportation crackdown, telling @camiloreports she’s told the White House ICE operations are hurting the local economy.
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Yeah, AI doesn't give you accurate info at all Rachel. I prefer to actually do reporting and research instead of relying on a computer to tell me what to think.
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Democrats will represent the ENTIRE U.S.-Mexico border in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Latino and immigrant communities are tired of being terrorized and our borderlands vilified.
Last night, the voters of our vibrant, thriving communities made that clear.
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As part of last night’s shocking blue tsunami, voters selected candidates with tough policies on data centers at all levels of government, in a clear rebuke to the industry’s buildout in states across the country. wired.com/story/the-results-…
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Google is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI.
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(1/2)❗️The ICE Air removal flight that was expected to carry Afghans to Pakistan today has been postponed. Due to pressure from veterans, advocates, members of Congress & Americans across the country, no Afghan nationals will be deported today.
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JUST IN: Judge Caproni has barred the Trump administration from conducting — until at least Saturday — any deportation flight of Afghans to Pakistan, which advocates fear might lead to a handover to the Taliban.
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