Under Trump:🚨BORTAC/BORSTAR agents: sent into the sts of maj US cities. Result➡️largest known deployment of these agents in US history. Many of the agents’ ID's: remained hidden from the pub. Dec to use: an offensive, heavily armed paramil units for st-level IMM sweeps in Am cities is a 1st *bellwether➡️Trump admin’s: militarizing dom LE ops.

Tactical units:🚨once res for executing high-risk warrants, conflicts with armed drug cartels, manhunts...
#DHS #StateViolence #USPol
https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/

"It is clear that #borderRegimes—state institutions designated with the sole authority to deport and restrict entry—have today become a central mechanism for white supremacist worldmaking. What set of forces gave rise to these regimes, though, and how did they attain such wide-reaching, brutal strength? There is no shortage of historical antecedents." - #RobynMaynard

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/hunted-and-banned/
#ICE #ICEterror #USpol #UShistory #BlackHistory #racialCapitalism #stateRepression #stateViolence

How do you mourn when the words for #grief have been stolen? Following the January 2026 massacres in #Iran, people protested by reinvented mourning in the city of #Karlaba. Mina Khanlarzadeh explores how grief finds new language when the old is poisoned by #stateviolence:

https://valuepast.hypotheses.org/6355

Safety guid rollbacks🚨encourage a reckless approach at the border, feeding:⬆️in USE OF FORCE across US cities -2 #DHS ees. Emboldens:🚨excessive force➡️cycles back to the border when these guys finish their rotations” -1 DHS ee.

That reality & Bovino’s role in shaping it: underscored by an inv *found: specific border region overseen by Bovino🚨*the highest ratio of use-of-force incidents to assaults on agents of any of the 20 #CBP sectors in the nation.
#StateViolence #USPol
https://prospect.org/2026/03/11/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-dhs-immigration-trump/

Body camera ft newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to & after an #ICE agent killed US cit Ruben R Martinez in Mar 2025 & contradicts🚨the #DHS’s acct of the killing.

Martinez was 23 when an agent🚨killed him in his car last spg in S Padre Isle, TX. Last mo, ICE finally con that one of its agents killed Martinez.

But DHS's #ICE:🚨quick to deflect blame. DHS claimed that Martinez “intentionally ran over” an agent.

#Murder #StateViolence #Protest #USPol
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/new-footage-yet-again-contradicts-dhs-claims-about-its-killing-of-a-us-citizen/

#Texas #CoverUp:🚨R Reyes' son, 23-yr-old American citizen Ruben R Martinez, was shot & killed by an #ICE agent nearly one year ago.

While Martinez' death was reported when it occurred in Mar 2025, ICE's involvement wasn't publicly disclosed until last mo.

I'm just a mother (DT voter) in doubt, bc I know my son -he's not a threat."
She said the fed govt urgently needs to reform how IMM agents conduct their duties.

#Murder #AbolishICE #DHS #StateViolence #Protest #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mom-ruben-ray-martinez-killed-by-ice-texas/#

#DHS Sec #KristiNoem🚨will be replaced by R Sen Mullin, Trump's #1 lackey, & she's rewarded with another job in the regime.

"Our next DHS Sec🚨says he'd like to see more LETHALITY at "home." We aren't turning the page from A Prettis."
-D Bier

This rogue regime is a joke. Mullin is an ignoramus, has no management skills... Nothing will change at #ICE #CBP...
#TrumpRegime #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #Corruption #DeathCamps #AbolishICE #Inhumane #StateViolence #PoliceState #Protest #Uprising #USPol

The Trump admin🚨wants to spend $220M to ARM IMM AGENTS WITH ~17,800 new Tasers, a massive increase from the current 4,300 in the field.

#ICE🚨🚨🚨 plans to buy the Tasers & unlimited cartridges & to obtain training for the agents. The plan for a 5-yr contract is outlined in a fed govt’s contracting database entry from Feb. 24. This could be a major boon to Axon *co that MFGs them *spent nearly $2.5M last year lobbying Cong...
#PoliceState #StateViolence #DHS #Protest #USPol
https://www.notus.org/immigration/taser-contract-immigration-customs-enforcement-220-million