The deal — a major concession from Democrats — funds DHS and its immigration-related agencies for another two weeks.
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“No work. No school. No shopping. Stop funding ICE.” That’s the rallying cry behind the campaign for a nationwide general strike on Friday, seeking to galvanize opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. This week, I went to the University of Minnesota, my alma mater, to speak to some of the students behind the effort […]
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Just before being put on board her deportation flight, Melissa Tran’s wrists and ankles were shackled to a chain around her waist. It had been more than 10 hours since she’d been given any food or water; for the last seven she had been sitting on a bus on the tarmac. There was no company […]
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler Read Post »
“I said in March, if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed,” said Homan.
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Trump Border Czar: Anti-ICE “Rhetoric” Responsible for DHS’s “Bloodshed” Read Post »
My heart was in my throat as I watched the video emerging late Tuesday. A disturbed, angry man had just rushed Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis and assaulted her. He sprayed her in the chest with vinegar from a syringe, then was tackled by security and arrested. Omar reacted defiantly, […]
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The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence Read Post »
ICE has violated more orders this month than some agencies have “in their entire existence,” Judge Patrick Shiltz said.
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Fed Judge Blasts ICE for Violating Nearly 100 Judicial Decrees in January Alone Read Post »
“Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans,” said Sen. Ed Markey.
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Senator Calls to Abolish ICE, Says Voting to Fund DHS Supports “Murder” Read Post »
As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE—is coming under increasing scrutiny. A new tool, launched Thursday, follows the money making it happen. Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge […]
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Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out. Read Post »
“Alex Pretti was one of us,” an NIH worker who asked not to be named told me over the phone. That’s a phrase I’ve been hearing a lot since Saturday, when the 37 year-old Veterans Affairs nurse was assaulted and then fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis. The circumstances of the killing—called an execution […]
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Alex Pretti Was a Hero. To These Workers, He Was a Colleague, Too. Read Post »
Liam and his father are currently detained in a Texas prison that one immigration lawyer has said is a “horrible” place.
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Trump Administration Barred From Deporting 5-Year-Old Used by ICE as “Bait” Read Post »
Last night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper broadcast an exclusive interview with the woman who was first seen in early videos posted of federal agents killing Alex Pretti last Saturday. Stella Carlson was standing close to the deadly skirmish, and ended up as the citizen with the best vantage point to record the shooting—holding her camera phone […]
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The Definition of Heroism and Bearing Witness: An Extraordinary CNN Interview. Read Post »
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Ms. Magazine. The brutality we are witnessing in Minnesota, at the hands of thousands of poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men who have full reign to hunt and harass anyone who is non-white, is nothing short of state-sponsored terror. It is a horrific illustration of what unfettered power […]
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ICE Violence Is Fueled by Misogyny and White Nationalism Read Post »
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