The Trump administration’s new head of Operation Metro Surge, “border czar” Tom Homan, suggested on Thursday that anti-ICE protests forced federal agents’ hand in the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in a chilling statement on free speech. In remarks at the Bishop Whipple Federal Building, the site of many protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in…
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On Wednesday, a federal judge issued a stark warning to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying that he would no longer tolerate failure to comply with court orders. Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, the chief U.S. district judge for the District of Minnesota, had previously issued an order on Monday demanding that ICE acting director Todd Lyons appear in court or risk being held in…
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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) has come out swinging in favor of abolishing ICE and blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), demanding that Democrats use their leverage to do so after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) released a tepid set of demands for a funding vote in the coming days. In a short video posted to social media on Wednesday evening…
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A federal judge has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Minneapolis resident and Ecuadorian immigrant, and his father, who are both being detained in a Texas prison by immigration authorities. Liam and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents earlier this month…
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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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