Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino, who has overseen the Trump administration’s violent immigration crackdown in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, known as “Operation Metro Surge,” is reportedly being demoted to his old position in California. Bovino’s departure comes as reports indicate that President Donald Trump is deeply upset with how Americans have reacted to the operation…
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Immigrant rights advocates and elected Democrats are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shut down an immigrant jail outside of El Paso, Texas. New evidence calls into question the official narratives about the recent deaths of two men held at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss Army base in West Texas. Geraldo Lunas Campos and Victor Manuel Diaz are…
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A Border Patrol agent shot a person in Arizona and left them in critical condition on Tuesday morning, local officials say, marking at least the sixth person shot by federal immigration agents in just three weeks. Around 7:30 am local time, emergency responders arrived on the scene, in Arivaca, Arizona, to a person in custody and in critical condition, according to the Santa Rita Fire…
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Amid growing calls for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one House Democrat is calling for the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be dismantled. In a social media post on Monday about federal officers’ killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, Rep. Delia C. Ramirez, a Democrat representing part of Chicago, pointed out that DHS’s purpose since its…
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Impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have gained dozens of cosponsors in just the past few days, as the horrific Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis spurs a major decline in support for the administration’s immigration raids among lawmakers. The articles now have over 140 House cosponsors, a major increase from 111 on Friday. Rep.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) has said that the Trump administration is grasping at straws after President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration is launching an investigation into the oft-targeted Democratic lawmaker, in the wake of the horrific Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti this weekend. In a post on Truth Social Monday, Trump said that the DOJ and Congress are…
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