ICE dramatically cut its basic training amid a hiring spree meant to speed up the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, records obtained by The Post show, corroborating a whistleblower’s claim.
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ICE dramatically cut its basic training amid a hiring spree meant to speed up the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, records obtained by The Post show, corroborating a whistleblower’s claim.
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L.A. voters could be asked this year to redesign their government in dramatic ways, by switching to ranked-choice voting, adding 10 members to the City Council and reworking the duties of other city elected officials
@melissagomez.bsky.social has the latest
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In Los Angeles County immigration courts — among the largest in the country — the trend is substantially starker: no-shows made up 56% of the asylum hearings in January, compared with 14% a year earlier.
“That’s not fluctuation ...That’s collapse.”
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A day of history, joy and anxiety in 'Tehrangeles' as a dream seems suddenly possible
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He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, he uncovered a surveillance network on California’s border
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About $100 million in state funding for transportation projects in Boyle Heights, Skid Row and other parts of L.A. is in jeopardy -- largely because the city doesn't have enough staff to carry out the projects.
More from the LAT's @melissagomez.bsky.social
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
We lost an incredible LA Times colleague, Jeanette Marantos. She was a dedicated reporter - when an ICE raid on a cannabis farm broke out last July, Jeanette, whose beat was plants, was first on the scene and central to making sure we had accurate, quick information.
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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. 🧵
In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE
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"In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school."
In Minnesota, sending a child to school is an act of faith for immigrant families
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"Bad Bunny’s performance isn’t just the story of the ascendancy of a single performer, or of one genre, or even of Latin music more broadly... America’s pop culture today is multilingual, polycultural and international at its very core."
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The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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"In a system where acquittals are statistical outliers, experts say the federal public defender’s office’s recent wins raise questions about prosecutorial decision-making and the credibility of cases being brought."
great story by Brittny Mejia
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“States can’t just generally regulate ICE conduct, because the federal government gets to regulate that,” he said. “But states can provide remedies against federal officials when federal officials violate federal constitutional rights.”
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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“I describe that day as if you’re on an airplane and it’s really bad turbulence, and you have to keep your cool because, if you don’t, you lose the entire building,” said Emmanuel, an assistant principal. “It felt like we went through war.”
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An incredible story here about a journalist who used to document displacement is now living it.
"After a life spent both crossing borders and freely reporting on those who struggled to overcome them, I didn’t expect one to rise up beneath my feet."
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"A 5-year-old boy wearing a Spider-Man backpack and an oversized hat was detained with his father by immigration authorities, one of 4 students who have been apprehended in a suburban Minneapolis school district during the past two weeks, school officials said."
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"Lois is absolutely fierce. She’ll stand up and say what’s really going on."
Great Q&A with Lois Henry about @sjvwater.bsky.social's must-read coverage, by @raineytime.bsky.social:
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The Israeli military struck and killed three journalists Wednesday as they traveled in their car south of Gaza City, rescue officials and reporters said, the latest in a series of attacks Israel has launched despite a ceasefire that began in October.
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"In a report this week, U.N. scientists warn that the world has entered a new era of “global water bankruptcy” — a term that starkly underlines the urgency of efforts needed to protect what remains." by @ianjames.bsky.social
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"Don’t treat our responsibilities as self-evident; convey to audiences why we do what we do and how it affects their lives. If we’re “making ourselves the story” in this instance, well, it’s because hostile entities are intent on making us a cautionary tale."
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Across the country Indigenous nations are warning their citizens they may be targeted by ICE and to carry tribal IDs. If this is not evidence of racial profiling, I don’t know what is.
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As a journalism educator, I spend much time considering our objectives & responsibilities. For @newrepublic.com, I lay out a notion I think should be self-evident: journalism has an inherent right to self-defense. We are under no professional obligation to be even-handed with attempts to destroy us
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11 stunning moves by Trump in his first year back in office, by @kevrector.bsky.social
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The document says the ICE agent, Officer Brian Palacios, allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game.
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Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.
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A teenage boy with dark hair and a black and gold football jersey holds his helmet, standing on the side line of a green football field
I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
