Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing ‘influencers’ on edge in #Ohio: ‘I’m scared to go outside’
ICE launched ‘Operation Buckeye’ and ‘influencers’ claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after #Trump repeatedly used racist language against group
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/ohio-ice-somali-community

from #TheGuardian
March 9, 2026

#ICE agents have been turning up in cars around Somali-owned businesses and schools that teach children from immigrant backgrounds. Rightwing so-called “influencers”, including leaders at #TurningPointUSA, have followed suit.

Since then, Somali-owned businesses have struggled to attract customers and schools have closed due to low attendance fueled by the presence of federal agents and anti- #immigrant provocateurs.

Today, the #Somali community in #Columbus, which numbers around 60,000 people, is still reeling from the fallout.

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Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing ‘influencers’ on edge in Ohio: ‘I’m scared to go outside’

ICE launched ‘Operation Buckeye’ and ‘influencers’ claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after Trump repeatedly used racist language against group in December

The Guardian

CALL FOR LEQAA KORDIA's RELEASE
[this appeal is copied from the March 4 Drop Site Daily on dropsitenews.com]

Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old #Palestinian woman from Paterson, New Jersey, has spent nearly a year in #ICE detention in Texas after speaking out against #Israel’s war in #Gaza, despite an #immigration judge twice ruling that she is eligible for release. Drop Site joins the IMEU Policy Project, MPower Action, Jewish Voice for Peace ACT, and the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action in calling for her immediate release. The link below allows users to send emails and make calls to your member of Congress on Leqaa’s behalf:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-free-leqaa-kordia-from-ice-detention?source=direct_link&referrer=group-drop-site-news&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgivebutter.com%2Fsupport-dropsite

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Minnesotans Keep the Heat on Despite ICE ‘Drawdown’
https://world-outlook.com/2026/02/20/minnesotans-keep-the-heat-on-despite-ice-drawdown/

from #WorldOutlook
Feb. 20, 2026

After nearly three months, the largest anti-immigrant operation in #US history has officially “ended” — beaten back by a massive, sustained, and well-organized resistance involving hundreds of thousands throughout the state of Minnesota and across the country.

At its peak, the surge involved 3,000 federal agents from #ICE and the Border Patrol — a 2,000% increase over the normal deployment in the state, and more than twice the size of the combined police forces in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes #Minneapolis and St. Paul.

These agents have functioned as a hostile paramilitary force to carry out “retribution” against Minnesota and the #immigrant communities that #Trump calls “garbage” and “animals” who have “destroyed #Minnesota.”

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Minnesotans Keep the Heat on Despite ICE ‘Drawdown’

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, February 19, 2026 — After nearly three months, the largest anti-immigrant operation in U.S. history has officially "ended” — beaten back by a massive, sustained, and well-organized resistance involving hundreds of thousands throughout the state of Minnesota and across the country. The fight for immigrant rights is at the center of turning the tide, of winning workers to the understanding that “an injury to one is an injury to all.” Convincing rank-and-file workers to take up the campaign for legalization of their immigrant brothers and sisters is part of pulling together the forces needed to fight for better working conditions and democratic rights for all. The success of the fight in Minnesota, which has drawn tens of thousands of working people, youth, and others into action — many of them for the very first time, is an example of where we need to begin.

World-Outlook

Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centers

from #CommonDreams
Feb. 13, 2026

President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.

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Trump's Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions | Common Dreams

The Trump administration's aggressive anti-immigration agenda has sparked fierce opposition in cities where federal agents conduct raids. Plans to acquire warehouses as detention centers—or concentration camp—for immigrants are now raising concerns about human rights abuses.

Common Dreams

The Woman #AlexPretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
“I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/

from #TheIntercept
Feb. 13, 2026

Video footage captured by another bystander shows that just as Pretti managed to stabilize the EMT, agents shoved the other woman to the ground. As Pretti and the EMT attempt to help her stand up, multiple agents surround the group and begin to spray them with cans of chemical irritant. Some of the agents continue pursuing the women, while others separate #Pretti from the group and begin beating him.

“I was saying to the agents, “We’re leaving! We’re leaving. We’re leaving!’ — just trying desperately to like get them to stop,” the EMT said.

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The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.

One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.

The Intercept

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on ICE, officials and tech workers said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.Vs3Z.wp4uTUF3mn_X&smid=nytcore-ios-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article]
Feb. 13, 2026

The Department of Homeland Security (#DHS) is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose #ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

In recent months, #Google, #Reddit, #Discord and #Meta, which owns #Facebook and #Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the DHS, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests.

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Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

The New York Times

Houston High School Students #Protest ICE, Defy Attempts to Restrict Free Speech
Similar Student Protests Spread in Dozens of #US Cities on February 6
https://world-outlook.com/2026/02/09/houston-high-school-students-protest-ice-defy-attempts-to-restrict-free-speech/

from #WorldOutlook
Feb. 9, 2026

On Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, students at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas, walked out as part of a coordinated regional effort involving several area schools, including Cypress Falls and Conroe High Schools, to protest operations by #Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) amid fears that its agents will be allowed onto school property to detain students and their families.

The Houston Chronicle article reproduced below on the Bellaire walkout conveys important developments in the fight to oppose #deportations across the United States.

The widespread high-school student walkouts on January 30 are now being followed by new and similar grassroots initiatives at schools around the country.

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Houston High School Students Protest ICE, Defy Attempts to Restrict Free Speech

On Friday, February 6, 2026, students at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas, walked out as part of a coordinated regional effort involving several area schools to protest operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid fears that its agents will be allowed onto school property to detain students and their families. The widespread high-school student walkouts on January 30 are now being followed by new and similar grassroots initiatives at schools around the country. At the same time, Texas governor Greg Abbott and other local authorities and school districts are threatening suspensions and even criminal charges against students and teachers accused of exercising such freedom of speech and assembly. 

World-Outlook

Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans Trained to Monitor ICE Occupation
Federal Gov’t Tries to Defuse Resistance with Cosmetic Changes
https://world-outlook.com/2026/02/07/nearly-30000-minnesotans-trained-to-monitor-ice-occupation/

from #WorldOutlook
Feb. 7, 2026

This activity is coupled with mass #protests that have included rallies by tens of thousands and walkouts by high school students after federal goons murdered in cold blood two of these volunteer observers — #US citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti. In response, the #Trump administration is trying to diffuse the growing resistance through cosmetic changes.

On February 4, White House “border czar” #TomHoman announced that the Dept. of Homeland Security (#DHS) would reduce by 700 the number of agents deployed to #Minnesota. State officials, #immigrant rights and community groups, and those involved in resisting the DHS “Operation Metro Surge” since early December reacted with skepticism.

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Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans Trained to Monitor ICE Occupation

Federal Gov’t Tries to Defuse Resistance with Cosmetic Changes. This is an article that first appeared on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) News. It describes an explosion in the number of trained volunteer observers — now nearly 30,000 across Minnesota — who monitor and record the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents. This registers the breadth of popular resistance to the terror by federal thugs deployed by the Trump administration to crack down on immigrant workers and undermine everyone’s democratic rights in that state. This activity is coupled with mass protests that have included rallies by tens of thousands and walkouts by high school students after federal goons murdered in cold blood two of these volunteer observers — U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. In response, the Trump administration is trying to diffuse the growing resistance through cosmetic changes.

World-Outlook

#ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice-minneapolis-legal-observers-abduction/

From #TheIntercept
Feb. 9

In #Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as the surrounding suburbs, tens of thousands of #immigrant families are relying on churches and mutual aid for food and financial support. People have not left their homes for weeks. Local schools have reverted to Covid-era online measures to support immigrant students too terrified to come to class. Those students who still attend in person are transported by #US-born neighbors and family friends. Campuses at all grade levels are patrolled by volunteers in fluorescent vests, an effort aimed at deterring federal agents’ practice of targeting parent pick-up and drop-off sites.

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“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers

In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

The Intercept

🚨 The #GhostFlights: #Deportation Flights #Disappearing Thousands Arrested by #ICE

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 6, 2026

"We've been tracking the Ghost Flights, disappearing migrants, moms, asylum seekers, and others arrested in Minneapolis, who are quickly grabbed and taken away at a private terminal at Minneapolis international airport.

"The charter airlines are making it harder to track them, but here's what we found: #GlobalX, #Eastern and #Omni based in #TulsaOK, have operated most of these, with Sun Country also operating some of the flights.

"These secretive flights take those arrested to deportation hubs in isolated areas, where they are sent to prison, deported to other countries, or constantly shifted on flights. These secretive hubs are in #DadeCollier in the Florida Everglades; Alexandria in central Louisiana; and Harlingen on the Texas border.

"Those arrested are boarded shackled in chains from their wrists to their feet, and often denied water and food, and abused. While these secretive flights disappear people, their families desperately search for them.

"The flights out of #MesaAZ in the #Phoenix area are deporting hundreds on each flight to #Venezuela. A recent flight out of Mesa deported those arrested to #Russia and #Iran. The past flights show the men were immediately given #Draft notices for military service when they arrived in Russia. Protesters and political #AsylumSeekers face worse.

"As for the chartered airlines, the main contract is held by #CSI in #AlbuquerqueNM, who contracts out the other airlines.

"Yesterday, a Ghost Flight landed in #Guantanamo and then #Haiti. These are #moms, #workers, asylum seekers, #LegalResidents, and most are whisked away and denied due process. More than 2,000 have been deported from #Minneapolis.

"Other major hubs for deportation flights are #ElPaso, #Miami, #SanAntonio, and #TacomaWA. The deportation flights are arriving in every region of the world, the Americas, Asia, and Africa." 😱

Read more (includes flight maps):
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-ghost-flights-deportation-flights.html

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The Ghost Flights: Deportation Flights Disappearing Thousands Arrested by ICE

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