Federal agents use fake job offer, rental truck to trap day laborers in LA raid
A Penske rental truck became the centerpiece of a controversial Westlake Home Depot immigration sting that concealed immigration enforcement agents inside the vehicle.
Federal agents use fake job offer, rental truck to trap day laborers in LA raid – a Penske rental truck became the centerpiece of a controversial Westlake Home Depot immigration sting that concealed immigration enforcement agents inside the vehicle.
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ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants
This morning, ICE sent out a memo offering cash bonuses for quick deportations.
The New York Times reached out to DHS about the memo.
It then got cancelled.
Story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
05.08.2025 22:48 — 👍 352 🔁 160 💬 15 📌 12
PBS North Carolina cutting staff after losing federal funding
PBS North Carolina announced Tuesday that it plans to cut staff due to the loss of federal funding for public media.
The loss of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding will mean a nearly $5 million cut for PBS North Carolina.
It's giving "voluntary separation offers" to most of its staff, freezing hiring and eliminating vacant positions.
www.wunc.org/term/news/20...
05.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 7
Six years ago, a gunman in El Paso murdered 23 innocent people and wounded 22 others in the worst targeted attack against Latinos in U.S. history.
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Border Patrol arrested an LA cyclist for looking ‘startled and nervous’ court records show
A federal judge blocked immigration agents from detaining people based solely on race or language as felony charges mount against residents who resisted deportation raids.
Court records show Border Patrol arrested an LA cyclist for looking ‘startled and nervous.'
A federal judge blocked immigration agents from detaining people based solely on race or language as felony charges mount against residents who resisted deportation raids.
31.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 41 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 3
"We find a robust association between exposure to police violence and (a) weakened beliefs about the legitimacy of the law and (b) an increased propensity to engage in offending behavior over time."
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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"Experts warn that whenever the priority becomes hiring law enforcement agents quickly, standards immediately collapse and misconduct follows."
-- This writer at @thebulwark.com
26.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 416 🔁 141 💬 28 📌 8
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch
21.07.2025 11:47 — 👍 4145 🔁 2695 💬 380 📌 536
Two things both true:
The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home.
And.
It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.
19.07.2025 02:07 — 👍 9585 🔁 2205 💬 100 📌 38
Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.
"The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz."
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HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
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“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”
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Armed Federal Agents Swarm LA’s MacArthur Park—Mayor Bass Says “They’ll Be Gone Soon”
Chaos unfolded Monday morning in Los Angeles’ Westlake district as more than 100 federal agents in tactical gear swarmed the streets surrounding MacArthur Park. Armored vehicles, unmarked SUVs, and…
BREAKING: Over 100 armed federal agents—Border Patrol, ICE, and others—descended on LA’s MacArthur Park. Tactical vehicles. Protesters. Chaos. Mayor Bass rushed to the scene and gave just four words: “They will be leaving soon.” Something big is brewing. #LA #Immigration #MacArthurPark
07.07.2025 18:56 — 👍 283 🔁 122 💬 27 📌 16
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
05.07.2025 02:52 — 👍 40394 🔁 10692 💬 1344 📌 448
How Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could sink rural Texas health care | Editorial
Rural Texans are already facing a healthcare crisis. Trump's Big Beautiful budget bill will only make things worse.
Every single one of these coming Texas hospital closures are intentional choices made by GOP congresscritters and senators. They understood exactly what they were doing and Mitch McConnell said everyone would get over it. This bill screws rural Texas and it's pathetic Dems aren't messaging abt it.
03.07.2025 12:35 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Being disappeared to a foreign gulag is the equivalent of being buried alive. We cannot forget them.
02.07.2025 03:30 — 👍 2937 🔁 809 💬 29 📌 9
the interesting thing about the Diddy verdict is that House Republicans are about to vote to take away healthcare from tens of millions of Americas
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