Federal immigration authorities intensified a weekslong operation in the Twin Cities over the weekend following the Wednesday killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Residents pushed back, led by a growing network of rapid responders hounding U.S. ICE and Border Patrol vehicles and agents across the metro …
Read More »DHS Reinstates Advance Notice Rule for Lawmakers Visiting ICE Facilities, Defying Court Order
The Department of Homeland Security has again imposed a requirement that members of Congress provide advance notice before inspecting immigration detention facilities, issuing a new policy designed to sidestep a federal court order that blocked similar restrictions last month. The policy, dated Jan. 8 and submitted Saturday in federal court, …
Read More »ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Driver Through Car Window in Minneapolis
An ICE officer fatally shot a woman driving an SUV through her car window in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The deadly confrontation immediately ratcheted up the intensity of what was already a brutal crackdown on Minnesota and its immigrants by the Trump administration — and in a community with …
Read More »Judge Blocks Effort to Re-Detain Immigrant Wrongly Deported Under Trump Policy
A federal judge early Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, issuing an emergency order only hours after she had directed his release from an immigration facility in Pennsylvania. The move marks the latest legal setback in the government’s attempts to deport the 30-year-old, whose case …
Read More »Data Shows Over One-Third of ICE Arrests Under Trump Targeted People With No Criminal Record
More than one-third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal history, according to newly released internal data that offers one of the clearest views yet of the government’s expanded immigration enforcement strategy. The …
Read More »Trump Administration Launches Immigration Raids in New Orleans, Minneapolis
The Trump administration on Wednesday launched immigration enforcement operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis, expanding a crackdown that has been accompanied by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric from the president and heightened fear in immigrant communities. The Department of Homeland Security said the New Orleans operation was aimed at “criminal aliens roaming …
Read More »Helicopters, Tear Gas and Handcuffs: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Turns Chicago Into a Flashpoint
Federal immigration raids in Chicago have escalated into chaotic scenes of helicopters, chemical agents and mass detentions, sparking outrage from Illinois officials and civil rights advocates who say the Trump administration’s tactics resemble a “military invasion” of U.S. neighborhoods. Residents awoke last week to federal agents rappelling from helicopters onto …
Read More »Gunman Who Attacked Dallas ICE Facility Sought to ‘Cause Terror,’ FBI Says
The gunman who opened fire on a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Wednesday hated the U.S. government and wanted to “cause terror” by killing federal agents, authorities said Thursday, revealing new details about the deadly attack. Federal investigators identified the shooter as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, who …
Read More »Two Killed in Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility, FBI Probes Anti-ICE Motive
A deadly shooting at a federal immigration facility in Dallas on Wednesday left two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees dead and one critically injured, prompting an FBI investigation into what officials described as an act of targeted violence. The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. No …
Read More »Homeland Security Chief Noem Confirms Expanded ICE Operations in Major Cities
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that the Trump administration will expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in major cities, including Chicago, escalating tensions with Democratic leaders who have vowed to resist federal intervention. Appearing on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Noem confirmed that ICE operations already underway …
Read More »Trump Administration Set To Mobilize National Guard in 19 States for Immigration Crackdown
The Pentagon confirmed Friday that up to 1,700 National Guard troops will be activated across 19 states in the coming weeks to assist the Department of Homeland Security as President Donald Trump pushes forward with his nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration and crime. Documents obtained by FOX News show deployments …
Read More »Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Immigration Detentions Based on Language, Job
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a temporary restraining order barring immigration agents from detaining individuals based solely on their language, job, or presence in certain public areas, in a major rebuke to tactics used in Trump administration immigration raids across Los Angeles. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of …
Read More »ICE to Access Medicaid Data of 79 Million Under Trump Directive
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials will gain access to the personal data of over 79 million Medicaid enrollees under a new agreement signed Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. …
Read More »Marines Deployed to Florida to Assist ICE in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Trump administration is ramping up its military involvement in immigration enforcement, with the U.S. Marine Corps deploying 200 service members to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Florida, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. The Marines, from Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 stationed in North Carolina, are being dispatched as …
Read More »How the Megabill Allows Trump to Expand Mass Deportations, Curb Immigrant Benefits
President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending cut bill cleared early Thursday has as its centerpiece $170 billion for the administration’s immigration crackdown, helping fulfill the president’s 2024 campaign promise of mass deportations of people without permanent legal status. The measure, passed by the House 218-214, would fulfill several of …
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