Jonathan Blitzer

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ald. Jessie Fuentes handcuffed by federal agents as ICE crackdown escalates in Chicago - Windy City Times Federal agents handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) and threatened to arrest her Oct. 3 at Humboldt Park Health. The agents, who Fuentes said appeared to be with Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Judge’s order for the release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.

A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.

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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’ WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
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Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Alabama Construction Site Raids - Institute for Justice Earning an honest living is fundamental to being an American. What’s deeply un-American is the government using masked agents to harass hard-working Americans at work. […]

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Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning.

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New — DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs responds to ICE shoving a photojournalist to the ground, leading him to be escorted out in a neck brace by medics.

Says nothing on whether injuring the press violates ICE standards, nor if the officer will face any repercussions.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Detained immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra says she feels ‘vulnerable’ 6 months after arrest Attorneys for Denver immigrant-rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra filed a renewed motion seeking her release from detention Monday, arguing that her six-month imprisonment violated her constitution…

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A good samaritan and community watch member were brutally arrested while documenting a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, one was hospitalized while the other was detained for eight hours.

By Izzy Ramirez

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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

First review of my new book LONDON FALLING, from Kirkus. At a moment when every day feels like a month and every month feels like a year, April 7 is still a very long way off. But the book is available for pre-order now. 🙏

Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say

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Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

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Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

“'They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,' said the agent, who said he worked in the 'intelligence unit.'" nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-pol...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Inside Trump’s Chaotic Overhaul of the H-1B Visa Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sowed confusion over whether new fees were annual and applicable to existing visa holders.

"Lutnick also told meeting attendees that the administration would discuss 'suspending' all other green-card categories so the gold-card path would represent the only way to immigrate permanently." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Donald Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines The dismissal of Erik Siebert sends yet another ominous message about the risks of refusing to do the President’s bidding, and the lengths to which he will go to punish perceived enemies.

Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines, via @ruthmarcus.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

They Helped Oust a Dictator. Now the New Regime Is Coming for Them.

They Helped Oust a Dictator. Now the New Regime Is Coming for Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...