
ICE Detention Center Contractor Endangered Detainees, Destroyed Homicide Evidence
One of ICE’s largest detention centers is conveniently located only miles from the US border in El Paso, Texas. Erected on an apparently unused section of the Ft. Bliss military base, the det…
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Bill Introduced That Would Codify The Right To Record Federal Law Enforcement Officers
Good news! (Maybe?) Federal legislators have introduced a bill that, if passed, would finally guarantee the right to record law enforcement officers. Here’s Reason’s CJ Ciaramella with …
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Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry
Young Americans are suing the president for violating rights with executive orders that fuel the climate crisis
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Administration ‘Aliens’ Website Proudly Announces ICE Has Arrested Over 700 US Citizens
This is hardly the worst thing about the administration’s aliens.gov website but it’s still worth noting. Let’s get to the worst stuff first. The site URL is aliens.gov, which wou…
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DC Court Orders ICE To Stop Engaging In Warrantless Arrests
Judge Beryl Howell has now told ICE at least twice: it’s not allowed to grade its own papers. Since Trump’s return to office, the federal government has been engaged in a months-long pu…
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US Citizens In ICE Detention Centers Is The New Normal In Trump’s America
Behold this utter bullshit, uttered by the Trump administration’s “border czar” Tom Homan: White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he’s “sure” Immigration and Customs Enfo…
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Looks Like A Police State To Me, Says Federal Judge Handling Migrant Detention Cases
Under Trump, DHS, ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have violated every single right affected by their daily work. When you’re trying to perform 3,000 arrests per day, you can be slowed down by thi…
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No Surprise Here: Inspection Reveals Dozens Of Violations In El Paso ICE Detention Center
I’m not here to cut the Trump administration any slack or engage in both-sides bullshit, but this is something that has always been true: we treat anyone imprisoned or detained as less than h…
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Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal
ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblo…
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Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges
The administration has burnt the “presumption of regularity” to a crispness normally reserved for conquered bridges succumbing to heat death. It is now well known that the Trump adminis…
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