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ICE’s Spending on Weaponry Is Up More Than 700 Percent Over Last Year

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal government contracting data by Popular Information. Records from the Federal Procurement Data System reveal that ICE has increased spending on “small arms, ordnance, […]

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Portland Feds Are Escalating Chaos at ICE Protests

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In another dizzying plot point around President Donald Trump’s attempts to federalize the National Guard, three judges on the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2–1 decision on Monday that Trump has the authority to deploy the Guard in Portland.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mother Jones (@motherjonesmag) […]

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More Than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents

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This story was published first by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive our biggest stories as soon as they are published. When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t […]

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To Understand That Horrific Chicago Apartment Raid, Go Back in Time—to Texas

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Months before hundreds of federal immigration agents raided a rundown apartment complex in Chicago—some even rappelling onto the roof from Blackhawk helicopters in the early hours of September 30—local law enforcement had repeatedly visited the building to try to remove some immigrants living there, according to a longtime tenant. The immigrants, many from Venezuela, had […]

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Appeals Court: Trump Can’t Deploy National Guard on Chicago’s Streets

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The Trump administration has suffered yet another in its series of recent legal losses—this time over its attempt to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois. On Monday, state and local officials filed a lawsuit over federal officials’ attempt to take over and deploy National Guard troops in Illinois, alleging the move was “unlawful and dangerous.” […]

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Massive DHS “Self-Deportation” Contract Challenged as Secretive and “Unlawful”

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. Earlier this year, the […]

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How a New Firm With DHS Ties Won a $915 Million Contract to Help Immigrants “Self-Deport”

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. Earlier this year, the […]

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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion Detention Deal

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When the […]

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American Gulag

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An army of masked ICE agents snatching people when they show up to work, to church, to their child’s day care, to immigration court. A return of family separations. That deportation flight ASMR video the White House posted on X. Kristi Noem posing in front of ­tattooed detainees at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. When […]

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Inside the Hell of Alligator Alcatraz

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When the Alligator […]

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American Gulag

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An army of masked ICE agents snatching people when they show up to work, to church, to their child’s day care, to immigration court. A return of family separations. That deportation flight ASMR video the White House posted on X. Kristi Noem posing in front of ­tattooed detainees at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. When […]

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The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State

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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here. When Congress passed […]

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