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.

#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#US #USpol #politics #news

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care'
Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for #immigrants’ rights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/ice-arrest-oregon-shop-owner

from #TheGuardian
March 6, 2026

The moment 19-year-old Emely Agustin spotted the group of masked #immigration agents tackling a woman face down on the pavement, her heart dropped.

She saw the woman’s red jacket.

“Oh my fucking God. That’s my mom!” she screamed.

It was the morning of 5 November in Cottage Grove, #Oregon, and masked officers with #ICE had dragged Juanita Avila out of her van. The agents pinned her down as she cried out for her daughter, who started filming. Juanita, a legal permanent resident, had her green card in her pocket, but officers handcuffed and detained her.

#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#deportations #USA #US #USpol #politics #protest #news

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

#FreeLeqaaKordia
#FreePalestine
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#LeqaaKordia #Palestine #news #politics #USpol
@palestine

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.”

#AbolishICE
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#immigration #deportations
#USA #USpol #politics #protest #news

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.

#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#ICE #USA #US #USpol #politics #news

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.

#AbolishICE
#DueProcessForAll
#DefendFreeSpeech
#StopTheDeportations
#deportations #immigration
#USA #US #USpol #politics #Trump #news

A New Jersey Primary Shows the Depth of Democratic Fury
In the NJ Primary, '#AbolishICE' Looks Like A Winning Message
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/new-jersey-democratic-anger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.dIhF._-U0lSVrqloB&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article]
Michelle Goldberg
Feb. 9, 2026

When #AnaliliaMejia, the former political director of #BernieSanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, held town halls during her recent congressional primary race in #NewJersey, she’d invite people to stay afterward for a training on nonviolent resistance to #ICE. Voters, she told me, are desperate “to understand how rising authoritarianism functions, how it’s moved in other countries, how we can best resist it through nonviolence, noncompliance and education.” Running in a special #election to fill the seat formerly held by New Jersey’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill, Mejia was determined to do “more than just traditional politics,” she said.

...She called for ICE to be abolished, not just reformed.

#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DueProcessForAll
#news #politics #USpol

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.

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#immigration #deportations #ICE
#USA #USpol #politics #news

#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.

#AbolishICE
#StopTheDeportations
#DueProcessForAll
#news #politics #USpol #deportations

A ‘Terrifying Line Is Being Crossed,’ Warns #Minneapolis Mayor as More ICE Horror Stories Emerge
In an interview with the New York Times, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described “marauding gangs of guys just walking down the street indiscriminately picking people up.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mayor-jacob-frey-interview

from #CommonDreams
Jan. 31, 2026

According to a Saturday report in the #NYT, concern over #ICE’s brutality has grown to such an extent that many #Minnesota residents, including both documented immigrants and #US citizens, have started wearing passports around their necks to avoid being potentially targeted.

CNN on Friday reported that ICE has been rounding up #refugees living in Minnesota who were allowed to enter the US after undergoing “a rigorous, years-long vetting process,” and sending them to a facility in Texas where they are being prepared for #deportation.

#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#immigration #immigrants
#USA #USpol #politics #Trump #news