A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for…
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The Guardian has published newly-released body camera footage showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents using facial recognition technology to identify farm workers in Oregon after violently arresting them. The videos were initially released in court in an ongoing class action lawsuit against ICE’s arrest practices – which include arresting people without a warrant…
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On Thursday, hundreds of demonstrators from the Northeast region of the United States gathered outside the Citizens Bank annual shareholders’ meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, to protest against the company’s financial relationships with for-profit prison corporations that operate facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A group of organizations calling themselves the De…
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) introduced a bill on Thursday to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using warehouses and other similar buildings as detention centers, as the government gears up for a campaign of mass incarceration of immigrants that has been likened to the building of concentration camps. The bill, known as the “Ban Warehouse Detention Act…
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The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District…
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On Thursday, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced that the people of Minnesota’s Twin Cities will receive the Profiles in Courage Award for their resistance to President Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown earlier this year. The annual award — named for a book written by President John F. Kennedy listing figures who displayed courage and political integrity throughout U.
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