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DHS Cites Cuba And Venezuela As Law Enforcement Models For ICE In a social media post, DHS listed Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE.

To defend ICE’s tactic of profiling and demanding documents from anyone they encounter, DHS argues that other governments, including dictatorial regimes in Cuba and Venezuela, do the same. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social
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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.“

Most US adults believe President Trump has overreached in his use of federal immigration forces
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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martínez in Chicago, evidence shows A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…

The Tribune has obtained evidence from the case of a Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol that offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at one of the highest-profile investigations of Operation Midway Blitz.
UPDATED STORY here with video and texts between agents
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The US Administration ordered her to seized off the street by masked agents, imprisoned incognito for weeks, all for thoughtfully expressing an opinion with zero advocacy of violence or harm to anyone.

Sickening, anti-Conservative, anti-constitutional, anti-American.

We are far better than this.

In this week's Receipts, I wrote about "Coalie," the Trump admin's anime-like new mascot for coal; and other failing efforts to revive manly sectors like mining and manufacturing. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article) Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." Judge Fred Biery
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A major census test faces cutbacks — with postal workers tapped to help count The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year's field test of the 2030 census and has added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff.

Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s 2030 census field test, and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with US Postal Service workers, raising concerns about the U.S. Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count

Stephen Miller, Not Kristi Noem, Is Driving U.S. Immigration Policy Available evidence indicates that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, not Kristi Noem, is driving U.S. immigration policy.

Immigration policy is unlikely to change so long as Stephen Miller and the goal of mass deportation remain. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis compared Miller to the Lord of the Rings villain Grima Wormtongue, the advisor to King Theoden. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

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Opinion | What Worries Me About Trump’s New Fed Pick

My take on Kevin Warsh: Markets have breathed a sigh of relief that Trump isn't trying to install Hassett as Fed chair. But Warsh is also a political animal; he just hides it better.
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The White House could not be clearer here.

It opposes immigration, period.

It is radically, ideologically, categorically dead-set against immigration itself—against “all visas”.

Against the very same immigration that brought Miller’s refugee ancestors to the United States.

For decades, nativists have said that mass deportation was about "the rule of law." Now we can see that they never cared about the rule of law at all. The Administration Misleads & Ignores Courts Most Often in Immigration Cases www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...

‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms

Latinas for Trump cofounder "worried for the first time that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might stop her son, a young adult, because he looks Hispanic"
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JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Immigrants save lives too

Trump And Miller Slashing Legal Immigration By 33% To 50% New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.

New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce **legal** immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.
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ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs.

US citizen says he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing half-dressed.
He was later returned home without explanation or apology, he said.

Trump And Miller Slashing Legal Immigration By 33% To 50% New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.

A 33% to 50% legal immigration cut: “Analysts note there's no policy justification for the reductions in legal immigration other than a desire of Stephen Miller & others to allow fewer immigrants the opportunity to live in the US.” @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she was taken to the hospital for an MRI with hands and legs shackled

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

In which DHS says a U.S. citizen can be detained for speaking in Mexican accented Spanish. How many people in the US would be subject to being detained on this basis?

Relying on Molina v. City of St. Louis, 59 F.4th 344 (8th Cir. 2023), Defendants argue that Plaintiffs' retaliation claims must fail because the First Amendment does not protect a right to observe law enforcement officers, which it is not inherently expressive conduct. (See Dkt. 46 at 37-38.) But Molina does not control the outcome here. In Molina, the defendants appealed from a denial of qualified immunity to individual officers at the summary-judgment stage. 59 F.4th at 337. Under that framework, which required the plaintiff to establish that defendants had violated a "clearly established" right, the Eighth Circuit held that, in 2015, there was no clearly established First Amendment right to observe the police. Id. at 340. Whether a right was clearly established is a separate inquiry from whether a right is constitutionally protected. Therefore, the Court disagrees that Molina forecloses the conclusion that there now exists a First Amendment right to observe and record law enforcement officers. See id. at 340 n.2 ("It is not beyond the realm of possibility that a First Amendment right to observe police exists[.]")

In Friday's preliminary injunction — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — order and opinion out of Minnesota, this paragraph stuck out to me. For reasons.

DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.

The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.

The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.

This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.

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North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during protests in north Minneapolis, leading to three of their six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.

A father says he was with his six children when they were hit by munitions deployed by law enforcement in response to demonstrations that turned violent in Minneapolis.
Three of the children went to the hospital, including a 6-month-old baby, who stopped breathing after being hit by tear gas

Immigration Lawsuit Filed To Protect H-1B Spouses A new immigration lawsuit aims to protect the spouses of H-1B visa holders likely to lose work authorization under a new federal rule.

New lawsuit: In Trump’s first term, USCIS changed the process so H-1B spouses couldn’t work due to delays in approving renewals of work permits. After the Biden admin changed the process, the Trump team changed it back. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis.

University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.

Global Refuge statement on refugee arrests in Minnesota Global Refuge strongly condemns the Trump administration’s arrest and detention of lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota.

NEW: @globalrefuge.bsky.social condemns the Trump administration’s arrest & detention of lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota, upending decades of U.S. policy and inflicting needless harm on families who were invited to rebuild their lives in safety.

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YouTube video by Presidents' Alliance on Higher Ed & Immigration Explore our Legal Pathways That Work Hub!

Navigating employment-based immigration options can be complex.

The Legal Pathways that Work (LPTW) initiative helps students and graduates understand their options.

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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

I don't understand how this is legal...? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...