Did you have immigration lawyer watch list on your 2025 authoritarianism BINGO card? If so, congrats! But for everyone else, it’s yet another sad slide into federal control to learn that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted what appears to be a covert roster of immigration attorneys buried on its own website.
The list was discovered by attorney Arlene Amarante, who stumbled upon the list while interacting with ICE’s website and found her own name on it. The list has since been pulled from the website, which is usually what agencies do when a documents is totally normal. Now Al Otro Lado, an immigration advocacy group, has filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding to know who created the list, why it existed, and what ICE thought it was doing cataloging attorneys in the first place.
Yeah, it’s suspicious, but the article makes a lot of unsupported characterizations, like “watchlist” and “covert roster” when the facts presented just say it was a list she found by browsing their site.
You are 100% correct, and the source is entirely left leaning. Bias matters. I don’t think the concern presented by the article is disingenuous when considering the blatant disregard of the law we have seen coming from the executive branch this term.