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Kristi Noem Doubles Down on the Violence

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In her second day of hearings before Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday to acknowledge that federal agents have and continue to violently detain US citizens in Minnesota and across the country. Forget about that, Noem suggested—blame Democrats. “Today [Democrats] are defending citizens because they know they […]

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She Quit Her Job to Fight for Her Father’s Freedom—and for Everyone Else Inside Alligator Alcatraz

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On a recent Sunday afternoon, Arianne Betancourt stood across the road from the infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention camp that opened last year in Florida by the Everglades. Her 54-year-old Cuban father, Justo Betancourt, is among the roughly 1,500 immigrants detained there.  Before her father’s arrest, Betancourt, a 33-year-old Miami native, spent her days guiding […]

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“How Am I Going to Sell My House With This Crap in My Backyard?”

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In the wintertime, when Elizabeth Jacobus steps out onto her front porch for a smoke break, she can see the hulking warehouse through a barren thicket of trees. At night, the 470,000-square-foot facility gleams under the watch of industrial floodlights. “You should come back when it’s dark,” she told me. “It looks like the sun […]

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Even Republicans Are Losing Patience With Kristi Noem

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Kristi Noem faced frustration from some Republicans during a Senate oversight hearing Tuesday over how she’s handling her job as secretary of homeland security. During the nearly five-hour hearing, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) criticized Noem for refusing to take responsibility for the killings of two U.S. citizens, Renée Good and Alex […]

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24,403 Lawsuits and Counting: How Habeas Corpus Became the Front Line of Immigration Defense

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When I spoke last December to Dan Gividen, an immigration attorney in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, he tried to sum up how his law practice has been transformed over the past year with some back-of-the-napkin math. Prior to 2025, he said, half of his caseload was comprised of removal defense in immigration court; a fourth […]

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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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Judge Rules ICE’s “Third-Country” Deportations Are Unconstitutional

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A lawyer for migrants in the case called the ruling “a forceful statement” that the White House has ignored the law.

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Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish Police

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“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

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