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ICE Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Unaccompanied Migrant Children Office, Triggering Alarms
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ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations.
#News #ICE #Immigration #Refugees #Children #Goverment #Trump
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News report from Philadelphia where a criminal is posing as ICE assaulted and robbed a woman.
Good luck visiting this lawless land for a holiday, where anybody with a mask and a tactical vest can abduct you off the street and everyone else is supposed to look the other way.
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #ICE #Immigration #CivilRights #Violence #Protest #Chicago #LosAngeles #Oakland #Portland
One of the things I really missed about Twitter after leaving there a few years ago were the independent, on-the-ground, local #journalists covering #protests, local weather #disasters, etc. It was a *great* way to get accurate, timely info.
>>> I'd love to be able to get a list of local people doing this kind of work if you know of anyone on Mastodon. For now, I've come across this guy on bluesky who's got good coverage of #LA #ICE action: @ acatwithnews.bsky.social
Build #community ✌️
Since Trump took office, immigration officials have more than quadrupled the number of 287(g) agreements with law enforcement agencies across 40 states, giving local officers authority to function as deportation agents in jails and the streets.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-deportation-police-287g-program-expansion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
An EPA complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that a harmful disinfectant was being used without proper protection at an ICE facility in California.
Last week, the case — filed against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor — was dropped without explanation.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Children #Family #Trump #USPolitics
Going to start this book today. Seems timely. The eBook is free.
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
🚨 Want to resist ICE agents?
EDIT: This is a general training session about organizing resistance to the Trump agenda, not just against ICE
There's a virtual training session on Wed, March 19, 8 PM Eastern/ 5 PM Pacific
"Do Not Comply: a training to organize resistance in your community"
https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/759508/
Note: "Can’t make the call? Register and we’ll send you a recording in a few days."
I was watching Handmaid’s Tale (S5, E6), and when Gilead’s masked goons caught Elisabeth Moss’s character, I thought— ‘ICE.’
"Noem isn’t doing homeland #security. I’m not sure she knows its meaning. Like habeas corpus, which she thinks is an Ecuadorian offshoot of MS-13. Instead of safety and security, Noem’s turned the agency into the rabid attack dog she wanted Cricket to be"
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LA Times: L.A. Army veteran with Purple Heart self-deports to South Korea under threat of deportation
"...An Army veteran who grew up in Van Nuys and was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea this week as he was threatened with being detained and deported by federal immigration forces.
On Monday, veteran Sae Joon Park, who legally immigrated from South Korea when he was seven years old, grew up in Koreatown and the San Fernando Valley and held a green card..."
US soldier's son, born on Army base in Germany, is deported to Jamaica
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5373845-us-soldiers-son-born-on-army-base-in-germany-is-deported-to-jamaica/
#ICE #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
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Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps.
#News #Trump #Immigration #ICE #Migrants #Immigrants #Detention #History
Children of vendors in #LosAngeles are having to run the family business while their parents hide from #ICE monsters. Their community stands with them. 💔
A candle for Minnesota. For the protesters across the country. For the people who are protecting their neighbors, blowing whistles, standing up for families and immigrants and civilians and children.
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work
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GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Prison #Washington #Law #Migrants #Immigration #Trump
I have an inkling that the purview of #ICE (with a military budget higher than that of Israel or Brasil) will soon miraculously extend beyond "immigration". They can't control the US security establishment fast enough, so they will form a militarized militia for domestic use.
In Chicago, a sanctuary city, immigration rights advocates say ICE has unlawfully picked up at least 22 migrants, creating warrants after some had already been detained.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Chicago #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Law #Migrants #Immigrants
The dust has not even settled from the announcement that ICE will be receiving more funding than the entire US prison system, and that a new concentration camp is opening in Florida, and already Trump is announcing he will deport US citizens.
Cynthia Olivera is a Canadian who’s been living in the US since she was 10 years old.
She’s now in ICE custody, after being grabbed at her green card interview.
The 45 year old wife and mother of 3 has been moved between detention facilities while her husband begs ICE to let her get on a plane to Canada.
They’re willing to pay. She’s willing to leave. But she can’t escape.
This is why we call them concentration camps.
There’s no due process. Some people go in and never come out.
Also worth noting her husband voted for Trump because he supported his mass deportation plans.
He didn’t think it would impact people “like them”. Only “others”.
This is why we fight for the rights of everyone.
We aren’t safe until everyone is safe.