Authoritarians Will Target Effective Legal Organizing, Minnesota Defendant Warns

The U.S. government is attempting to use conspiracy charges to imprison organizers, just as it did in its war against the Black Panther Party, New Left, and other 1960s and ‘70s radicals through its counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO. Through this method, the Trump regime shares the goal of the Nixon administration of disrupting and attempting to destroy domestic opposition to its…
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Federal Immigration Policy Takes Center Stage in Minnesota’s Primary Elections

In Minnesota, glossy political mailers, sensationalized television ads, and campaign stunts meant to animate voters in this year’s primary elections all focus on one common theme: immigration. The August 11 elections come as Minnesotans are learning more about the devastating impacts of “Operation Metro Surge,” which brought thousands of federal law enforcement agents to the state on a…
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ICE Stationed Undercover Agent Outside of Ilhan Omar Town Hall Meeting, She Says

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) is demanding answers from the Trump administration after she discovered that an undercover ICE agent was stationed outside of one of her town hall meetings, raising fears of intimidation by the agency just days before the state’s primary election. Last Thursday, local law enforcement who were coordinating security for the event in Richfield, Minnesota…
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CoreCivic CEO Tells Shareholders They’re Benefiting From Mass Deportation

Revenue grew more than 27 percent for private prison operator CoreCivic as the Tennessee company profited from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that support the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, according to a shareholders’ report released last week. Revenue from ICE, alone, increased more than 50 percent compared to the same three-month period…
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Gabriela Soto Links Miscarriage to Stress of Husband’s ICE Detention

In the wake of a third ICE death at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, we speak with Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martín was one of the leaders of the May hunger strike at the immigration jail. Martín was transferred to Elizabeth Detention Center, New Jersey’s other ICE facility, during the hunger strike at Delaney. Gabriela is calling for the closure of both facilities.
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