Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies
The Torres family story came to public attention after the teenβs father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers represented the federal governmentβs overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died, her family announced on Saturday.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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ICE OUT
Cartoonists against ICE
Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities!
*4-panel comics*
*3:4 Instagram format*
Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy *
Use these hashtags:
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#iceoutmpls
#iceoutcomics
Make your own #ICEoutComics. Big love to @trungles.com, one of the organizers of this initiative, who made this instructions graphic.
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it β in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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I thought this was pitchbot
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6 MN federal prosecutors resign amid investigation into Renee Good's widow: report
U.S. Justice Department attorney Joe Thompson, who has been the face of the Minnesota fraud investigations, has resigned.
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Justice Department attorney Joe Thompson, who has been the face of the Minnesota fraud investigations, has resigned.
Reports say he and others resigned after being pushed to investigate Renee Good's widow.
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DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
Trump is now upset and has asked the Department of the Interior to crack down on stickers covering his face on annual national park passes. They are attempting to claim that placing a sticker over his image voids the pass entirely.
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Imagine reading this quote about the U.S. Beyond depraved
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Nov. 23, 2014 | Twelve-Year-Old Tamir Rice Dies of Injuries After Being Shot by Police
Learn more about our history of racial injustice,
On this day in 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy, died from injuries inflicted when he was shot by a white police officer the day before. Tamir was playing in a park near his Cleveland home when a police car approached him.
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Her feelings have changed some over time. She discusses it on her podcast Reclaiming.
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What a photograph.
βNearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicagoβ¦β
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign youβre not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Never forget this beautiful baby walking out into that mob. β€οΈRubyβ€οΈ
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Nothing new under the sun
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Thank the gods
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Oh no am I a dog person now?
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Nearly half of Americaβs childrenβ48.9%βnow grow up in families considered poor, according to Oxfamβs 2025 inequality report. Itβs a statistic that should shake the nation to its core: in the wealthiest country in human history, almost one in two kids are struggling to meet basic needs.
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FUCK ICE
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General Motors is axing nearly 1,700 jobs across Michigan and Ohio, gutting its EV and battery operations just months after boasting record profits and raising its outlook β a move that perfectly captures the moral bankruptcy of corporate Americaβs current layoff spree.
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What Trumpβs Venezuela Strategy Is Really About
A top diplomat who served in Trumpβs first term explains the presidentβs more aggressive approach.
Trump hates Maduro because they're alike. "[A]ll of the institutions have been wrecked. You have to fix them all. Education. They had a medical system that was really the envy of the region." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Thank you, Chicago.
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If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.
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One resident of the apartment building ICE raided told Reuters that agents broke down her door, then "told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son."
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but donβt appear to present clear physical threats.
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