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A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future

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When agents came to his workplace armed with guns, gas canisters, and artificial intelligence, Abdikafi Abdurahman Abdullahi, known as Kafi, fought back with quick wit and street smarts. The Somali American engineer-turned-Uber driver is one of the few people willing to speak publicly about being subjected to the Department of Homeland Security’s new facial recognition […]

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Footage Contradicts DHS Claim of Dropping Refugee at “Safe Location” in Buffalo

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“They abandoned him in the parking lot of a closed Tim Hortons in the middle of a winter evening,” noted an observer.

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya Refugee Dumped by Border Patrol, Dies in Cold

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On Tuesday evening, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in Buffalo—five days after Border Patrol dropped him off on a street corner without notifying his family, who had moved away from the area. The story of Shah Alam’s arrest in February […]

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Watch: Gregory Bovino Asks Our Journalist to Bake Him a Pie

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It all started when Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted that “Gregory Bovino has to go.” Bovino—the erstwhile roving warlord atop President Donald Trump’s Border Patrol junta—had other ideas. And those ideas involved armed federal agents. And pie. “Nah, gubner, too busy leading agents to arrest illegal aliens,” Bovino responded. “Besides, Chicago may need another double […]

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Watch: Four Shocking Months With Gregory Bovino

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You have “nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out.” That’s what Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino said in December, as he and his entourage of masked agents patrolled a residential neighborhood in Kenner, Louisiana, a diverse suburb of New Orleans. Asked by a […]

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US Citizens Describe Being Shot, Harassed, and Threatened by Immigration Agents

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“My own government attempted to execute me — and when they failed, they chose to vilify me,” testified Marimar Martinez.

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What Democrats Need to Know to Truly Reform ICE

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This post originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. On Friday, I testified in front of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission,” the state government body he set up after the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” attack on Chicago last summer and the precursor of the even larger federal […]

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What Democrats Need to Know to Truly Reform ICE

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This post originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. On Friday, I testified in front of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission,” the state government body he set up after the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” attack on Chicago last summer and the precursor of the even larger federal […]

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Minneapolis Is the Violent Reckoning the Gun Rights Movement Has Long Wanted

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This story was co-published with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. On December 31, in the waning hours of 2025, the Washington Post reported on an internal ICE document that concerned the agency’s “wartime recruitment” strategy, or rather its attempt to expeditiously swell its ranks of deportation officers. The memo, according to […]

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The Power of Mocking Trump’s Pathetic Monsters

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Over a few weeks this January, two Minneapolis sisters repeatedly left their homes and headed out to mock, insult, and record Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who until recently was leading the disastrous and violent anti-immigrant operation of the city. The first time they heard him speak, the women, who uploaded their street surveillance of […]

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