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‘Flagrant Constitutional Violation’: Fulton County blasts affidavit that backed FBI’s 2020 election raid “The Fourth Amendment demands ‘probable cause’—not ‘possible cause.'"

The search warrant affidavit that initiated the FBI’s Fulton County raid last month failed to provide evidence that a crime had been committed, argued county officials in a new legal filing.

The filing marks the county’s latest effort to reclaim the materials seized by the FBI during the raid.

Well said.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer pushed for voter fraud evidence from US intelligence agency A lawyer leading efforts to bolster U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" pushed a U.S. intelligence contractor to search for evidence of voter fr...

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A lawyer leading efforts to bolster U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" pushed a U.S. intelligence contractor to search for evidence of voter fraud in that race, ... ground.news/article/desp...

Immigrants Use Less Welfare at Every Income Level The data consistently show that immigrants report less welfare use than native-born Americans across income levels and poverty statuses. Whatever one’s views on immigration policy, the claim that immi...

Immigrants help make America great. www.cato.org/blog/immigra...

Because Bondi doesn’t care.

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”

The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

So will Orban in Hungry simply block this?

Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy (Gift Article) Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.

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They are ruining America.

Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...

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At No Kings San Francisco last year.

It is our flag, not the fascists.

jesus christ

They just lie and lie.

You’re really quiet about this JD!
Any update?

Portland, Maine

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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

They’re not even bothering to pretend it has anything to do with immigration now.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed.

Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

El Paso medical examiner rules death in ICE camp a homicide Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrain...

A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.

It’s a fact.

He’s such a disgusting creep. Zelensky’s reply tho (NY Times bsky.app/profile/mati... )

The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Gift Article) As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.

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'We can't just withdraw from our territories,' —Zelensky says following his meeting with Trump Zelensky tells Fox News' Bret Baier that Ukraine has demonstrated concrete steps toward peace over the past month and raised the possibility of a referendum on the peace plan. At the same time, a refe...

Zelensky told Fox News that while Russia’s territorial advances over the past two years may create the impression that Ukraine is losing, those gains have come at an enormous cost, with about 400,000 Russian soldiers casualties over the past year and roughly 31,000 killed each month.