<p>“This is beyond my dreams,” children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call minutes after he was freed from an Ohio jail where he’d been detained since the spring. “I’m still overwhelmed by the surprise.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ayman-soliman-dhs-deportation-free-ohio?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ayman-soliman-dhs-deportation-free-ohio?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/aym</span><span class="invisible">an-soliman-dhs-deportation-free-ohio?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ohio/" rel="tag">#Ohio</a> <a href="/tags/cincinnati/" rel="tag">#Cincinnati</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a></p>
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<p>Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened<br>---</p><p>The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/kri</span><span class="invisible">sti-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/kristinoem/" rel="tag">#KristiNoem</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/fema/" rel="tag">#FEMA</a> <a href="/tags/disaster/" rel="tag">#Disaster</a> <a href="/tags/aid/" rel="tag">#Aid</a></p>
<p>Massive <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> raid on <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'</p><p><a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> said federal agents with <a href="/tags/cbp/" rel="tag">#CBP</a>, the <a href="/tags/fbi/" rel="tag">#FBI</a> & the <a href="/tags/atf/" rel="tag">#ATF</a> arrested 37 people in the raid.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/militarystate/" rel="tag">#MilitaryState</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/dueprocess/" rel="tag">#DueProcess</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/autocracy/" rel="tag">#autocracy</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <a href="/tags/gestapo/" rel="tag">#Gestapo</a> <a href="/tags/sturmabteilung/" rel="tag">#Sturmabteilung</a> <a href="/tags/coup/" rel="tag">#coup</a> <a href="/tags/trumpcoup2/" rel="tag">#TrumpCoup2</a> <br><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chicago.suntimes.com/immigrati</span><span class="invisible">on/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated</span></a></p>
<p>Documents Reveal Real Reason for Raid on Chicago Apartment Building<br>---</p><p>The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/chi</span><span class="invisible">cago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way and overwhelmed challenges to their arrests.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.</p><p>They’ve had their necks kneeled on.</p><p>They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.</p><p>At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.</p><p>Revisit our Oct. 2025 story:<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/imm</span><span class="invisible">igration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>Today, Congressional Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of Trump's immigration dragnet: the American kids — including some featured in ProPublica's reporting — who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ame</span><span class="invisible">rican-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a></p>
<p>Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:</p><p>“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a></p>
<p>Legal experts called DHS’ move to use driver’s license data for citizenship checks more evidence of federal overreach.</p><p>“The administration wants to get as much data as it can, however it can, whenever it can.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dhs</span><span class="invisible">-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#Security</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing<br>---</p><p>Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/vid</span><span class="invisible">eos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a></p>
<p>They lied about Renee Nicole Good, they're lying about Alex Jeffrey Pretti</p><p>It's what they do, and the Media just 'both sides' it like a Government lying about the death squads is just normal politics. </p><p><a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/icemustbedestroyed/" rel="tag">#ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED</a> <a href="/tags/minneapoilis/" rel="tag">#Minneapoilis</a> <a href="/tags/alexjeffreypretti/" rel="tag">#AlexJeffreyPretti</a> <a href="/tags/reneenicolegood/" rel="tag">#ReneeNicoleGood</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPOL</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPOLITICS</a> <a href="/tags/timwalz/" rel="tag">#TimWalz</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a></p>
<p>Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office says a bipartisan <a href="/tags/funding/" rel="tag">#funding</a> deal has been reached to avoid a government <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#shutdown</a> as <a href="/tags/senate/" rel="tag">#Senate</a> <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> try to set up a Thursday vote.</p><p>The deal, according to the minority leader, includes the separation of the 5 bipartisan appropriation bills that <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> had asked for & a 2-week stopgap funding extension for <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a>.</p><p>Senate <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> leadership is now taking steps to schedule a vote for Thursday night.</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-01-29-26?post-id=cmkzuzwml000f3b6p8b0rkied" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-01-29-26?post-id=cmkzuzwml000f3b6p8b0rkied"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/politics/live-news</span><span class="invisible">/trump-news-01-29-26?post-id=cmkzuzwml000f3b6p8b0rkied</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/icymi/" rel="tag">#ICYMI</a>: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.</p><p>(Published Nov. 2025)<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/kri</span><span class="invisible">sti-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/kristinoem/" rel="tag">#KristiNoem</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/advertising/" rel="tag">#Advertising</a></p>
<p>NEW: When asked if top aide Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem replied, “No.” </p><p>But internal DHS records contradict her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-misled-senate-judiciary-corey-lewandowski-contracts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=3-04" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-misled-senate-judiciary-corey-lewandowski-contracts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=3-04"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/kri</span><span class="invisible">sti-noem-dhs-misled-senate-judiciary-corey-lewandowski-contracts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=3-04</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/kristinoem/" rel="tag">#kristinoem</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#dhs</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#congress</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a></p>
<p>DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases<br>---</p><p>The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/dhs-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dhs</span><span class="invisible">-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#DHS</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/domesticviolence/" rel="tag">#DomesticViolence</a></p>
<p>READ! <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/trump-taps-markwayne-mullin-for-homeland?r=j0lyx" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/trump-taps-markwayne-mullin-for-homeland?r=j0lyx"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/trump-taps-ma</span><span class="invisible">rkwayne-mullin-for-homeland?r=j0lyx</span></a> ".. <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> Senator and never-ending mouth, <a href="/tags/markwayne/" rel="tag">#Markwayne</a>'s more WWE heel than man of the people.</p><p>You know that cousin always telling you how you do everything wrong--when they haven't held a job since Titanic was in theaters and did 2 stints upstate? That’s Mullin" <a href="/tags/dhs/" rel="tag">#dhs</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/middleeast/" rel="tag">#middleeast</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a></p>