Family Says DHS Is Withholding Location of Hospitalized Pro-Palestine Protester

The family of detained Palestinian Columbia University activist Leqaa Kordia said on Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is withholding information on her whereabouts and health after she was rushed to the hospital on Friday. Kordia’s family and legal team have said that ICE officials are refusing to give any information about where she has been hospitalized…
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Noem Faces More Calls to Resign After Gutting FEMA, Abandoning Disaster Victims

Secretary Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was already facing scrutiny as temperatures plunged and winter storms rolled across much of the United States at the end of January. The expansive winter storms came just after immigration officers ultimately under her command killed two people in Minnesota. The killings heightened public anger against Immigration and Customs…
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Schumer Subtly Pivots, Saying ICE Can Wear Masks in “Unusual” Circumstances

Senate and House minority leaders Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) subtly weakened their already tepid demands for ICE reforms in a press conference on Wednesday — before negotiations with Republicans even started. In a press conference about the Democrats’ demands, the two leaders reiterated their belief that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other…
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Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms

On February 3, as Donald Trump was doubling down on his push to “nationalize” elections, Steve Bannon, MAGA’s version of Rasputin, promised his War Room podcast audience that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be deployed to swarm polling places during the upcoming midterm elections. “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November…
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Majority of Voters Support Impeaching Kristi Noem, Polling Finds

A majority of voters believe that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached, new polling finds as backlash to her unconstitutional raids of U.S. communities grows. Data for Progress finds that 52 percent of likely voters say that Noem should be impeached for her handling of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good.
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Judge Blocks Noem’s Latest Attempt to Stop Democrats From Inspecting ICE Jails

A federal judge issued an emergency order on February 2 temporarily blocking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s latest effort to prevent Democratic lawmakers from making unannounced inspections of federal immigration jails, where at least 38 people have died since Donald Trump returned to the White House. “Unlawful secrecy has fueled the deadliest era in Department of Homeland Security…
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