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ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen in Los Angeles Area In Southern California, advocates are raising more alarm over ICE’s use of force in immigration raids, after agents shot a 25-year-old U.S. citizen in the Los Angeles area as he attempted to warn the federal officers that children would soon gather at a school bus stop where the officers had just pulled over a vehicle. Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was shot while trying to leave the scene and reversed his car in panic. A bullet remains lodged in the back of his right shoulder. Jimenez was then arrested, accused of assaulting an officer, which his lawyers deny. He was released from jail on bond last week as he faces federal charges. The shooting came about a week after ICE agents shot a Mexican immigrant they were attempting to arrest during a botched operation in L.A. late last month.

In an attempt to warn ICE officers that children were nearby, a U.S. citizen was shot. ICE agents hide behind masks, swearing they’re under threat + their lives are at risk. It's a lie that fuels violence w 0 accountability. It’s *our* lives at risk, not ICE agents’.

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Immigration agents are raiding California hospitals and clinics. Can a new state law prevent that? Legal experts say the new California law can’t fully protect immigrant patients because federal authorities are allowed in public places, such as hospital lobbies and parking lots.

ICE continues to terrorize schools, homes + now hospitals–waving guns in staff’s faces, even to shackling patients, Gov. Newsom has signed SB 81 to prevent ICE from entering medical facilities w/out proper docs. But let's face it, ICE is lawless.

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Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

Pregnant women are being horrifically mistreated in ICE custody. This is an outrage, one that unveils the glaring hypocrisy of the “pro-life” party who claim to be for protecting the unborn yet are fine w endangering the lives of immigrant mothers + their babies.

In August, ICE agents in full tactical gear blew the front door off a home in order to violently arrest an expectant mom who was getting back from a medical check-up.

“… an agent turned an outdoor surveillance camera away from what was transpiring—an act she caught on camera and shared w/KTLA.”

Community rallies behind Afghan refugee facing expedited removal A legal challenge to Ali Faqirzada’s deportation is pending in federal court; meanwhile, the community that took him in is rallying to his defense.

Our client, Afghan human rights advocate Ali Faqirzada, was detained by ICE moments after being found to have a strong asylum claim. Read how Ali's community has rallied for his release.

Join our campaign to #FreeAli: bit.ly/FreeAliFaqirzada

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L.A. County has passed a vote to provide rent relief to families affected by ICE immigration raids. Rent relief funds will be available via an online portal for those who apply within the next two months; however, this does not diminish the horrific treatment people have endured.

An Inside Look at the Asylum Process

And listen to this powerful podcast in which Lauren share’s her family’s story which exposes the cruel myth of “doing things the right way” and lays bare just how broken-and inhumane- our asylum and immigration systems have become. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/57dC...

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Donate to Help Us Keep Our Family Together, organized by Bechir Blagui Dear friends and community, Many of you generously supported our family’s journey b… Bechir Blagui needs your support for Help Us Keep Our Family Together

They are doing everything they can to keep their family together and secure the right for Bechir to stay in the US and not be deported back to the danger he fled. Please consider a donation to their GoFundMe. Every dollar counts. Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/standingwi...
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Navigating Bechir’s asylum case has placed immense emotional and financial strain on their family, and most importantly, it puts at risk the well-being and unity of their children—ages 7 and 9—who have already endured more than most kids their age ever should. 2/4

The Trump admin’s policies aren’t just destroying the lives of immigrants - they’re devastating the lives of American families too; families like the Blaguis.

Lauren is a US citizen whose husband Bechir is trapped in the impossible maze of our asylum system + whose family may be torn apart. 1/4

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.

ICE stormed an apt complex by helicopter as families slept, zip-tying children + US citizens. Used chemical agents near a public school. Shot a woman they say was trying to run over agents. W/ zero accountability + ruthless tactics, ICE has become a modern-day Gestapo.

An Inside Look at the Asylum Process

The asylum system is a maze that tears families apart. 🎧
Hear from a U.S. citizen fighting to keep hers together—and learn why “doing things the right way” is a cruel myth.
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As our communities have been under attack, @alotrolado-org.bsky.social have been at the forefront of humanitarian support to refugees, deportees and have been trying to protect the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. During October, the profits from every shirt sold will be donated to AOL.

Our Border Rights Project Director, Nicole Ramos, + Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales reveal how border lawyers are being surveilled + harassed by U.S. & Mexican authorities. Defending asylum seekers shouldn’t come with a target on your back. Read the essay @knightcolumbia.org : knightcolumbia.org/c...

Surveilling Border Lawyering

In a new essay for our Regardless of Frontiers series, Jaya Ramji-Nogales (@templelaw.bsky.social) and Nicole Ramos (@alotrolado-org.bsky.social) discuss the U.S. government’s surveilllance and harassment of lawyers who serve migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. knightcolumbia.org/content/surv...

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

“I am always nervous.”

ICE has detained multiple U.S. Citizens based on their physical appearance, leaving many traumatized from the horrific treatment. Constitutional rights are eroding right before our eyes, and the presidential administration is not only allowing it but encouraging it.

ICE began shipping immigrants to this tiny California town. Chaos has reigned ever since ICE began sending immigrants to a new California detention center in small town in August. Since then, it has been inundated with activists, desperate families and utter confusion.

🚨 Another detention center has opened in California City—illegally, without permits. Inside: no clean water, no medical care. Outside: immigrant families are too afraid to leave their homes. Fear is the point. We refuse to accept it.

YouTube video by CNN Hear from children left behind when their mother was deported

Thank you, Melanie Hicken at @cnn.com , for telling the stories of American kids impacted by immigration actions. The investigation found 100+ US citizen children were left without parents due to Trump’s deportation efforts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywd...

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