Changelog¶
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February 13, 2026 — Follow the Money + Denaturalization + Metro Surge¶
The largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history is over. And they're building something worse.
Operation Metro Surge — Concluded¶
Read the full intelligence report →
On February 12, White House border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge — 71 days, 3,000+ agents, 4,000+ arrests. The cost:
- Renée Good, 37, U.S. citizen — shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross (Jan 7)
- Alex Pretti, 37, VA ICU nurse — shot ~10 times by CBP agents Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez (Jan 24)
- 14+ federal prosecutors resigned — including all four leads on the $250M Feeding Our Future fraud case
- 96+ court order violations found by Federal Judge Patrick Schiltz
- $46 million in lost revenue on Lake Street alone
- Minneapolis U.S. Attorney's Office gutted: 70 attorneys → 17
The agents aren't being disbanded — they're being redeployed. "Agitator" investigators remain to target the protest movement. The infrastructure for the next operation is intact.
Follow the Money — Who Profits from Detention¶
New infrastructure page mapping the financial ecosystem of the deportation machine:
- GEO Group donated $3.7M in the 2024 cycle, received $1 billion+ in new ICE contracts since inauguration
- AG Pam Bondi lobbied for GEO Group (paid $390K), now refuses to recuse from detention policy
- Stephen Miller owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock while directing mass deportation policy — Palantir has $900M+ in federal contracts
- Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28), Ranking Member of DHS Appropriations, is the #1 Democratic recipient of private prison money — GEO Group is his top lifetime donor
- Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) received $609K from AIPAC (his #1 donor) while Camp East Montana — where 3 people died — sits in his district
Financial connection data available for download.
Denaturalization — The Citizenship Revocation Machine¶
Read the full infrastructure report →
YELLOW ALERT ISSUED: The Trump administration is building a quota-driven machine to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans.
Key findings:
- 100-200 denaturalization referrals per month per USCIS field office — vs. a historical average of 11 cases per year nationally
- 26 million naturalized citizens potentially affected
- DOJ's Shumate Memo (June 11, 2025) elevated denaturalization to a top-five enforcement priority
- Project 2025 called for this on pages 143-144 — the Heritage Foundation blueprint, implemented
- No statute of limitations — decades-old applications can be targeted
- No right to appointed counsel — citizens must hire their own lawyers
- Communities most targeted: Latino, Black, Muslim, South Asian, Filipino
The denaturalization program connects to the SAVE Act (DHS controlling voter eligibility), birthright citizenship attacks, and the broader effort to redefine who counts as American.
Data Exports for Researchers¶
All 52 case records and 15 facilities are now available as downloadable CSV and JSON files. Full data dictionary included. CC0 licensed — researchers, journalists, and advocates can use this data freely.
oilcloth on Bluesky¶
We're now on Bluesky: @oilcloth.bsky.social
Follow for real-time updates, intelligence findings, and engagement with the accountability community.
February 12, 2026 — Project Renamed: Mortui Vivos Docent¶
"The dead teach the living."
This project was formerly published as The Deportation Machine. We discovered the name was already widely used — most notably by Adam Goodman's 2020 Princeton University Press book — and needed something distinctive.
We chose Latin: Mortui Vivos Docent. The phrase comes from forensic medicine, inscribed above autopsy rooms as a statement of purpose. It belongs to no single nation or denomination. It says exactly what we do: we examine the dead to learn the truth.
The old URL (oilcloth.codeberg.page/the-deportation-machine/) redirects here automatically. No links are broken. The work continues.
February 12, 2026 — Cabinet of Horrors + FOIA Toolkit + Detention Database¶
The largest single update in project history. 9 Cabinet dossiers. 11 FOIA requests drafted. The machine has names now.
Cabinet of Horrors — Gabinete de los Horrores¶
Every death documented in our dossiers happened because specific people made specific decisions. The Cabinet of Horrors names them and connects them to consequences.
Leadership:
- Kristi Noem — DHS Secretary. Labeled Renée Good a "domestic terrorist." 53+ custody deaths on her watch. Visited CECOT. Toured Angola slave plantation as detention model.
- Stephen Miller — The architect. 900 leaked Breitbart emails promoting white nationalist content. 5,556 children separated from families. Daily 10am DHS control calls. Palantir stock.
- Tom Homan — "Border Czar." Directed Operation Metro Surge. Family separation architect. "Zero tolerance."
- Todd Lyons — Acting ICE Director. 96 court order violations. Medical payment halt. Inspection collapse.
- Pam Bondi — Attorney General. Shut down FBI investigation of Good shooting. Refused investigation of Pretti. Zero civil rights investigations into 32 detention deaths.
- JD Vance — Vice President. Called Good a "deranged leftist." Called Pretti an "assassin." 33 bomb threats in Springfield from his amplified lies.
Field-level — the ones who pulled triggers:
- Gregory Bovino — CBP Commander. False "massacre" claims about Pretti. Found "outright lying" under oath by federal judge. Antisemitic remarks.
- Charles Exum — CBP Agent. Shot Marimar Martinez 5 times, bragged "5 rounds, 7 holes." Evidence tampered (vehicle driven to Maine).
- Jonathan Ross — ICE Officer. Killed Renée Good. 6 prosecutors + FBI supervisor resigned over obstruction of investigation.
Historical:
- Emily Hobhouse — The woman who documented British concentration camps during the Boer War. 27,927 Boers dead (22,074 children). ~20,000 Black South Africans. She showed what one person with a notebook can do.
Every. Official. Gets. Named.
FOIA Toolkit — Open Source for Activists¶
We built a complete Freedom of Information Act pipeline — then open-sourced it. 11 requests drafted and ready to file:
- 5 individual death investigations (Brutus, Abdulkadir, La, Gaspar-Andrés, Gantchev)
- 3 facility records requests (Delaney Hall, Camp East Montana, Moshannon Valley)
- 2 policy/infrastructure requests (TITUS $55B contract, Operation Metro Surge)
- 1 DHS Inspector General request (Camp East Montana autopsy bypass — see below)
Every template, every strategy, every fee waiver justification — published CC0 so other activists can fork and file their own requests. 100% of unfiled requests get nothing.
BREAKING — Camp East Montana Autopsy Bypass¶
After the El Paso County Medical Examiner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos's death a homicide (asphyxia from neck/torso compression — a detainee saw guards choking him while he said "no puedo respirar"), ICE sent the next body to a military hospital.
Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, died January 14. His body was routed to William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss — which doesn't release autopsy reports to the public. The county ME tried to take custody. By the time the jurisdictional dispute was resolved, the military had already completed the autopsy.
Also at Camp East Montana:
- TB outbreak (2 cases) + 18 COVID cases
- Operator: Acquisition Logistics LLC — $1.2 billion contract, no prior corrections experience, HQ is a single-family home in Richmond, VA
- 60+ federal standards violations in first 50 days (ICE's own oversight unit)
- December 8 warning letter to Todd Lyons predicted deaths. Two men subsequently died.
- Fort Bliss previously held 100,000+ Japanese Americans during WWII
Exported Detention Database¶
Comprehensive mapping of the detention network beyond U.S. borders:
- CECOT (El Salvador) — 40,000 capacity, torture documented by HRW
- TITUS domestic network — 20+ mega-warehouse locations with capacities and costs
- Third-country destinations — Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Eswatini, Ghana, Costa Rica, Panama
- CECOT-model exports — Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica building their own
About Page — Why We Use These Words¶
New foundational page explaining our framing:
- Concentration camps — Not a metaphor. Five criteria from the historical definition. All five met.
- Genocide — UN Convention (1948) Article II applied to the evidence
- Mortui Vivos Docent — The bipartisan apparatus, Clinton through Trump II
- Named victims. Partner organizations. Historical precedents. CC0 license.
Spanish Translations¶
Three new pages available in Español:
- Página de información (About page)
- Contexto histórico (Historical Context)
- Base de datos de detención exportada (Exported Detention Database)
Codeberg Community Infrastructure¶
Issue templates now live for community contributions:
- Intelligence tips — report unreported deaths or incidents
- Corrections — report errors in existing dossiers
- Additional sources — submit sources we missed
- Translations — contribute in Haitian Creole, Somali, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and more
- Pull request template with verification checklist
Contribute: codeberg.org/oilcloth/mortui-vivos-docent
Also Updated¶
- 59 dossiers enriched — many expanded to 400-800+ lines with deep source verification
- Exported detention database updated with Camp East Montana contract details
- Source scope boundaries formalized (Epstein/trafficking out unless directly tied to immigration)
- Codeberg README rewritten with all new sections
February 11, 2026 — Major Intelligence Update¶
Four new items published. The largest single update since the site launched.
Indigenous Americans Targeted by ICE¶
Eleven documented incidents across five states. Eight tribal nations targeted. ICE agents have demanded "papers" from Native Americans on sovereign tribal land — people whose ancestors walked this continent for 15,000 years before the United States existed.
The through-line is devastating: Fort Snelling, the site of a concentration camp where 1,700 Dakota people were imprisoned in 1862, is now used as an ICE staging area. The machinery of forced removal has never stopped — it just changed uniforms.
Key findings:
- Members of the Tohono O'odham, Oglala Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux, Yakama, Oneida, Mohawk, and other nations targeted
- The Oglala Sioux Tribe has banned ICE from the Pine Ridge Reservation
- American Indian Movement (AIM) patrols and prayer camps activated in response
- ProPublica documented 170+ U.S. citizens wrongfully targeted — Indigenous Americans disproportionately affected
- ICE Commander Bovino admitted targeting people based on "how do they look"
Wilder, Idaho — An Entire Town Raided¶
On October 19, 2025, ICE raided Wilder, Idaho (population ~1,100) during a recreational soccer game at La Catedral Arena. 105 people were arrested. 75 were deported. That's 4% of the town's entire population in a single operation.
A 14-year-old U.S. citizen was zip-tied while caring for her younger siblings. School attendance dropped to 80% the next day — children were afraid to leave their homes.
The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit on February 10, 2026 — the first major legal challenge to ICE operations under the second Trump administration.
The structural contradiction: Wilder voted 91% for Trump in 2024. The people who built this town's agricultural economy — who planted and harvested the crops — are now being removed from it. Planting season starts in weeks.
Federal Agent Conduct Pattern Analysis¶
A cross-cutting analysis of DHS, CBP, and ICE misconduct drawn from all published dossiers and 50+ independent sources. This isn't a single incident — it's the pattern.
What we documented:
- Halloween masks and skull patches worn during raids — deliberate intimidation tactics
- Window smashing — 50+ documented incidents of agents breaking windows rather than knocking
- K-9 attacks on detained individuals
- Chemical weapons (tear gas, pepper spray, pepper balls) deployed against protesters and communities
- Systematic disinformation — a table of 10 documented false statements by DHS officials, each debunked by independent evidence
- An escalation arc from normalization to lethal force to retaliation against witnesses
The report traces the institutional lineage: GAO-18-405 documented CBP's misconduct rate at 5x the national law enforcement average. Senator Ossoff's investigation found 1,037 credible abuse reports. This isn't new. It's accelerating.
TITUS Contract — $55 Billion in Detention Camps¶
The Navy's TITUS contract (previously WEXMAC) allocates $55 billion for detention infrastructure construction. Six named contractors. For context:
- NASA's entire annual budget: $25.4 billion
- Federal Bureau of Prisons: $8.5 billion
- HUD affordable housing: $10 billion
- Detention camp construction: $55 billion
The United States is spending more than double NASA's budget to build a ghost network of concentration camps.
Also Updated¶
- 59 dossiers now published (up from 53), all with public versions
- Weekly geographic sweep report for February 8, 2026
- Source reliability framework added to methodology — five-tier system for evaluating media outlets
- Several existing dossiers updated with new corroborating evidence
February 10, 2026 — Site Launch + 53 Dossiers¶
Mortui Vivos Docent went live at oilcloth.codeberg.page/mortui-vivos-docent/
Launched with:
- 53 individual dossiers documenting ICE custody deaths, federal shootings, and immigration enforcement violence
- Violence tracker covering documented incidents nationwide
- Geographic sweep — first weekly intelligence report covering all 50 states + 5 territories
- Alert system — active RED and YELLOW alerts for emerging situations
- Full methodology — OSINT framework, verification standards, legal & ethical guidelines
Featured Dossiers at Launch¶
- Alex Pretti — VA nurse shot ~10 times by federal agents in Portland while filming with his cellphone. Government claimed he had a weapon. Video evidence from 5 independent sources showed agents removed his legally carried firearm before shooting.
- Renée Nicole Macklin Good — Mother of four killed by Minneapolis police during a federal task force operation. Died January 7, 2026.
- Raymond Mattia — Tohono O'odham Nation member shot 38 times by Border Patrol on his own tribal land.
- Alberto Castaneda Mondragon — Suffered 8 skull fractures from ICE baton beating in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Portland Tear Gas Attack — Chemical weapons deployed against protesters, including an 8-month pregnant woman.
Active Alerts at Launch¶
RED — Camp East Montana death cluster (multiple deaths at single facility)- RED — Minnesota violence cluster (Good, Pretti, Castaneda Mondragon)
YELLOW — Portland chemical weapons deployment
February 7-9, 2026 — Deep Research Phase¶
Before the site launched, intensive research produced:
- 6 dossiers deep-researched overnight (Feb 9-10): Pete Sumalo Montejo, Nenko Stanev Gantchev, Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, Marie-Ange Blaise, Hasan Ali Mohd Saleh, Nhon Ngoc Nguyen
- First geographic sweep completed: 101 incidents across 47 jurisdictions. 7 deaths. 3 shootings. Chemical weapons in 2 states.
- Kyle Wagner arrest dossier opened — documenting federal arrest patterns
- Julio Sosa Celis dossier opened
- Alberto Castaneda Mondragon flagged as URGENT after discovery of 8 skull fractures
February 5-6, 2026 — Foundation¶
The project began with systematic documentation of every known ICE custody death. Initial batch of 49 dossiers created from ACLU death reports, government records, and news sources.
Core principles established:
"Every. Human. Matters."
Document ALL victims regardless of citizenship. No person is disposable. No death is acceptable."Every. Claim. Gets. Verified."
Three-source rule. Bellingcat-standard methodology. Label confidence levels explicitly.
About This Changelog¶
This is a living document. As new intelligence is published, it appears here first. Each entry links to the full dossier or report.
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