Lens
Coverage of Lens in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Stuck in purgatory’: ICE detention times in Louisiana stretch on for years
Orolua Eluonyechie, detained by ICE since April 2024, has not seen his son in two years and faces prolonged detention amid policy changes enabling mass deportations. Louisiana's federal courts are overwhelmed with over 1,200 habeas petitions in 2026 from detained immigrants seeking release or deportation resolution.
- ICE seizes Palestinian grandfather twice, despite judge’s order to free him
ICE detained a Palestinian grandfather, Akram Mahmoud Omar, twice despite a federal judge's order to release him after he suffered a heart attack in custody. The judge ruled ICE violated Omar's constitutional rights by detaining him and denying him time to prepare for deportation, but ICE re-detained him 10 days later.
- Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
Mercek is a newly developed desktop IDE for AWS ECS, created by a user who found it tedious to log into the AWS console repeatedly. The tool is open source and available on GitHub, addressing a gap in the ecosystem similar to Lens for Kubernetes.