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ICE agents accused of hit-and-run in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
A new #Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter #federal #misinformation after #immigration agents fatally shot 2 residents during the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown, deepening an unprecedented divide, experts said Monday.
Minnesota also went to court to preserve evidence from the Saturday shooting of #AlexPretti after its own investigators were blocked from the scene by federal authorities.
#ReneeGood #law #murder #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP
https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-immigration-dhs-minnesota-lawsuit-8a7feeca54864980bf936e888e0ca506
The Vile and Heartless Murder of Nurse Alex Pretti by #ICE in #Minneapolis
Oof.
Gregory Bovino is a real scary motherfucker
Do they come more Nazi then that?
No wonder he is called #ICE SS Officer Gregory Bovino
So…ice tried to go into the Ecuadorian Consulate, an act of war, today.
🤦♂️🤬
The chief federal judge in #Minnesota says the #Trump admin has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants & ordered the head of #ICE to appear Friday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in #contempt.
In an order Monday, Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz said #ToddLyons, the acting director of ICE, must appear personally in court. Schlitz took the admin to task over its handling of bond hearings for immigrants it has detained.
#law #DueProcess
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-ice-b0cec9d1c5bae4b62469011775082300?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-27-Breaking+News
Here's one point: masked thugs in mismatched camo are breaking laws that include abducting, assaulting, and executing people, and the regime is attempting to force us all to refer to this as "law enforcement". For all the many criticisms one might aim at US law enforcement, members typically wear blue, show their faces, and doctrinally aspire to behave transparently and professionally (please don't @ me with your critiques of law enforcement or hashtag ACAB comments; this is not meant as a defense, only a contrast. I've been beaten and teargassed by cops and witnessed far worse so I am acquainted with this aspect of US "law enforcement").
In other words the regime is attempting to change consensus reality so that Americans accept that the phrase "law enforcement" includes random, unprovoked breaking and entering by heavily armed masked men into homes or vehicles, assaults, and summary executions on the street, targeting all citizens. They want this to be a normal and accepted occurrence anywhere and at any time. Much as one might criticize previous administration's immigration policies---and one might really really criticize those---this attempt to shift consensus on "law enforcement" to include summary executions of anyone and all the rest is new (It is not new for certain groups; what I think Snyder is saying is that it'd be new for everyone to be targeted in this way, and for most people to accept that's just how it is now).
Snyder also points out that the border plays an important role here because it is where the country, and therefore the law, ends. In other words, it's not coincidental that the regime chose to elevate ICE. Historically, authoritarian regimes have a marked tendency to expand the lawlessness and indefiniteness of border zones to include the entire territory of the country, and the current regime is no different. Immigrants and immigration aren't the only targets here. The larger aim is to indefinitely suspend the rule of law nationwide by making the entire nation into a border zone (Recall the Texas governor kidnapping immigrants and shipping them to "blue states", a classic attempt to spread resentment of immigrants throughout the country). Again, this is a narrative move, an attempt to shift consensus reality.
So, one way to resist is to simply not accept either of these attempts to change reality. Continue to refer to what's happening as unacceptable, not who we are, etc. Continue to point out that out of control border "enforcement" has led to street executions. Continue to name these actions as the criminal acts of thugs. Continue to pressure people with power, such as lawmakers, to do the same. Not out of some misguided or naive nationalism or patriotism, but in order to keep a stake firmly planted in the ground against the forces attempting to move it. This is something we can all do.
Incidentally, all eyes on Haitian and Haitian-American people in Ohio over the coming weeks. The Haiti Temporary Protected Status designation ends this coming Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Haitians in Springfield were specifically abused during the Trump campaign. The US has a long history of abusing and dehumanizing Haitians dating back at least to Thomas Jefferson, so the Trump campaign rhetoric was no outlier or anomaly. Haiti is also one of the countries specifically named in the US State Dept's announcement about indefinitely halting immigrant visa processing. It would not be surprising if the next ICE "surge" targeted Haitian immigrants in Ohio given how the groundwork's been laid.
#USPol #ICE #history #authoritarianism #tyranny #resistance #resist #narrative #immigration #Haiti
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115941002997555962
Right now, there's not a lot I can do about the horrors happening in Minnesota, but I can donate to help people there survive financially. I added another $50 to this fund organized and vetted by Heidi Li Feldman.
If you can afford it, don't just rage. Rage and donate.
32 People Died in ICE Custody in 2025, as #Minneapolis Killings Spark Outrage
“Of those who died in #ICE custody last year include Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose death in #Texas has been ruled a homicide.
Also Wael Tarabishi, who died of a rare genetic disease thirty days after his father, Wael’s primary caregiver, was detained by ICE after a routine check-in at an immigration facility in Dallas.”
https://people.com/deaths-ice-custody-last-year-as-fatal-shootings-spur-outrage-11890261
"If any one day could define the hazy transition from slow to rapid decay — 24 hours that truly defined the decline of the American empire from its pedestal as a global superpower — it would have to be March 23."
~ Will Bunch
#Trump #LaGuardia #AirTravel #airports #ICE #ClimateChange #InsiderTrading #Iran #war #oil #gas #corruption #authoritarianism
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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.
#ICE Agent Charged in #Minnesota #Shooting Is #Arrested in Texas
Law enforcement officials from Minnesota & Texas on Friday arrested an #Immigration & Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a #Venezuelan immigrant this year & lying about it.
The agent, Christian Castro, 52, was arrested in Texas after investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tracked him down.
#law #Trump #immigration #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/ice-agent-arrested-minnesota-shooting-immigrant.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
To thank the brave people of #MN any order of my fishcaves will have an automatic $50 coupon applied. Their grace, courage, and restraint are not only a model for other cities, but may very well have averted full on Civil War, at least for now. #ice out of our cities.
https://www.ebay.com/usr/crystal_fish_caves
#FishFriday #handmade #crafts #fedigiftshop #pets #art #abolishice
Thanks to Melissa Hellmann of The Guardian (US) for reporting on the lesser known victims of #ICE so far this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/deaths-ice-2026-
Please check out and share my post for #ResistAndHeal:
“The Resistance Playbook (January 2026 edition)”
#protest #ICE #HealOurCulture #resist #Indivisible #indivisibleCLT #resistance
#DOJ Playbook in #Minnesota∶
Investigate Foes, Protect Allies
The #Trump “Justice” Department has often cast aside normal procedures intended to seek #accountability in favor of pushing #prosecutors & the #FBI to focus on critics of the #immigration crackdown.
#law #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/politics/minnesota-justice-department-trump-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The Constitution's supremacy clause bars local interference with federal officers when they act reasonably, within the scope of their duties.
But when agents cross that line, experts said, there's an obligation to try to hold them accountable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Police #CBP #ICE #FBI #Law #Constitution #USPolitics #Immigration
Democrats in the United States Congress must show they are serious about fighting back and need to take a lesson from the legislators in New Zealand who refuse to let #Parliament ignore their voices. To paraphrase MTV "It's time to stop being polite and start being real" #RESIST
tinyurl.com/yc3bn9cs
@democratsabroad @uspolitics @aiop #ElbowsUp #GOPtraitors #GOP #Trump #GQP #NoTrumpNoKKkNoFascistUSA #democrats #USpolitics #senate #house #queer #ice #NewZealand #congress
There goes America's #tourism industry!
Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian from Vancouver, was imprisoned by #US border officials for 12 days.
She was arrested by #ICE as she crossed the border from Mexico at the San Diego border, sending her and her family into an #immigration system rarely seen from the inside by #Canadians.
“Next thing you know, I’m taken. And for two weeks, I haven’t been told anything. Moved in different cells. Sleeping on cement, sleeping in different jail cells.”
“No one deserves to go through that, what I witnessed,” Mooney said, adding that women from all over the world were there, all with different backgrounds and different stories.
ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Migrants #Trump
The drummer for #Austin, #Texas metal band #LordBuffalo, who is a #legal #GreenCard holder, was seized by #ICE off of a plane as the band was departing for a European tour. His current whereabouts are unknown.
#immigration #law #Trump #StateSponsoredAbduction
https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/05/14/lord-buffalo-forced-to-cancel-european-tour-after-u-s-border-police-detained-their-drummer/
“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
#ICE #SanDiego #OtayMesa
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.
The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #Law #USPolitics #Trump #Immigrants #Legal
#Democrats demand new restrictions to #Trump #immigration crackdown & threaten a #DHS shutdown
Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete & insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on Trump’s immigration crackdown & threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.
#law #DueProcess #ICE #CBP #UseOfForce #CivilRights
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-ice-white-house-homeland-security-funding-84d4b2e5a7123f2b316cca4857b7762a