Resistance Rising: Four Major Victories Against Trump’s Deportation Machine

Judges freed detainees, exposed a lie, and protected thousands—while NJ drags the regime to court

In courtrooms from New Jersey to Nevada to Massachusetts, the resistance is winning. Hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack this edition right now to make sure everyone knows that federal judges are dismantling the regime’s immigration prison machine.

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NEW JERSEY DRAGS THE REGIME TO COURT

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill — March 10, 2026

New Jersey went to federal court on April 7 with an emergency motion to stop DHS from converting a warehouse in Roxbury into an immigration prison, before construction starts as early as late May.

The regime’s own ICE director said he wanted deportation to run “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.” New Jersey’s lawsuit made sure the court saw that quote.

A federal judge in Maryland already found that DHS’s plan to convert a similar warehouse into a prison was likely unlawful. Same crime, different zip code—only now there’s precedent.

Governor Mikie Sherrill put it plainly: “The Trump Administration has ignored State and local officials in pushing its ill-conceived plan forward because it knows the local impacts are indefensible, and this facility will not make the community safer.”

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport warned: “The court needs to step in before the damage is done, not after a lengthy case renders it too late.”

A JUDGE KILLED MANDATORY DETENTION

Judge Richard Boulware

The regime’s mandatory detention policy meant one thing for non-citizens—if ICE picked you up, you stayed locked up. No bond hearing. No judge. No criminal record required. It didn’t matter if you’d lived in the US for decades and never been charged with a crime.

Since the policy was implemented, more than 100 judges nationwide had already ruled it a due process violation. And on April 3, US District Judge Richard Boulware II in Nevada threw the policy out. He ruled it violates federal law and the Fourth Amendment, and causes “irreparable harm.”

Starting now, up to 60 people a week locked up under this policy in Nevada can go home. Michael Kagan of the UNLV Immigration Clinic said it’s already happening—bonds are being granted this week that would’ve been denied before. Kagan said the policy “wasn’t about a danger to the public. It was just about locking up undocumented immigrants.”

The regime locked the door. A federal judge just opened it.

COURTS STOP TRUMP’S ELECTION SCHEME

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell

The regime spent a year demanding voter data from states across the country and called it election security. Their own attorney admitted in open court that was a lie. The real plan was to cross-reference the data with federal immigration databases to identify and hunt noncitizens. They were trying to weaponize voter registration against your neighbors.

When states resisted, the regime sued. On Thursday, a Massachusetts judge found the DOJ offered “no basis—none,” and dismissed the case. That’s now the fourth court to do so. An Oregon judge ruled the DOJ had forfeited its right to be taken at its word. Even a Trump-appointed judge in Michigan agreed.

Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell said: “The privacy of our voters is not up for negotiation.”

Seventeen Republican-led states willingly handed over the data. Democratic attorneys general are fighting back and winning in court. Remember that in November.

REGIME GETS CHECKED

Ethiopian activists protesting outside the White House

DHS has been stripping Temporary Protected Status from people living legally in the US by claiming conditions in their home countries have improved. For Ethiopia—a country still at war—that claim is a lie.

Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts wasn’t having it. “Perhaps it has been a banner year for disaster recovery and geopolitical stability worldwide,” he wrote. “The evidence, and common sense, suggests otherwise.”

On April 8, Murphy blocked the regime from ending the legal protections that allow people from conflict zones to live and work in the US. Status and work authorizations remain in place.

Amaha Kassa of African Communities Together said: “We are celebrating alongside over 5,000 of our neighbors who can finally exhale.”

The judges and lawyers didn’t give up. Nor did the 5,000 Ethiopians who waited for the ruling, or the people of Roxbury. And neither will we.

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Onward!

Scott

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I have two questions for you today.

Roxbury’s mayor and council are Republicans. Does bipartisan resistance change how you see the fight?

Elections are in Hungary today. Do you think Orbán will lose? If so, how do you think it will impact Europe, and Trump?