New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday threatened the Trump administration with legal action over federal immigration agents’ use of city parking lots to stage raids, which the Democratic elected official said amounted to “unlawful commandeering” of public property. “This use of city property in furtherance of federal immigration enforcement is unauthorized and is therefore illegal…
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The Trump administration has reportedly deported dozens of LGBTQ immigrants who sought or were granted asylum for their sexuality and gender to third countries where they face danger of persecution and criminalization, a new report says. In an investigation published this week, Reuters identified 40 cases where these LGBTQ individuals were sent to countries that either criminalize same-sex…
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After setting up robust rapid-response groups to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abductions and stopping the buying up of warehouses to detain thousands of immigrants, activists are now focusing on other ways they can disrupt the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations. On the East Coast, some are targeting the parking spots that ICE uses for staging arrests. In Buffalo…
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Federal prosecutors in Texas charged a Venezuelan national and father living in Austin on Tuesday with assaulting, resisting, and impeding a federal officer, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sideswiped his car and shot him in the back Sept. 20 without warning as he was turning around to park. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, entered the U.S. in 2024 with a valid work…
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The lawsuits filed this week by the survivors of Renee Good, who was shot dead Jan. 7 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, make the general claim that Ross had no reason for killing the 37-year-old mother of three. But plaintiffs make two more specific allegations that particularly trouble me as a 40-year law enforcement veteran who trained other officers.
The lawsuits say at least one ICE agent told Good, who was in the driver’s seat of an SUV, that she could leave the scene where ICE agents were working at about the same time other agents were ordering her out of her car. The lawsuits also allege that agents at the scene not only failed to provide aid to Good after she was shot but also stopped a doctor from trying to help her.
These are but allegations. The government has claimed Ross fired in self-defense because he feared she was about to run over him with her vehicle, and a court may eventually decide whether he was justified. But the allegations that Good was given conflicting orders and denied medical aid after she’d been shot describe failures I’ve seen before and know have no place in professional policing.
The allegations that Good was given conflicting orders and denied medical aid after she’d been shot describe failures I’ve seen before and know have no place in professional policing.
As someone who has led police officers, I have defended them when they are right. I know a vehicle can kill an officer as surely as a gun can, and agents are right to respect that. But that’s why sound
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court in Texas on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region, in a victory for opponents who have pushed back against a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump.
Landowners, businesses and environmentalists in the region have united to oppose the planned projects, which are part of a $46 billion effort by the Trump administration to line the southern border with a mix of 30-foot-tall steel walls, vehicle barriers, roads and surveillance technology.
Judge Kathleen Cardone said in her ruling that the plaintiffs were “likely to succeed on the merits of at least one of the claims in suit, that there is a likelihood that they will suffer serious, irreparable harm without an injunction, and that the balance of the equities and the public interest weigh in their favor.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection defended the project in a statement Friday.
“We stand by our assessment and remain confident in our legal authorities to secure the border while preserving the unique landscape of the Big Bend region,” the agency said. “We are working with the Department of Justice on next steps.”
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The judge’s ruling includes Big Bend National Park, where opposition to the wall prompted the administration to briefly pause construction.
Opponents of the border wall project have argued that the 500-mile-long Big Bend region of Texas is so remote and the landscape so rugged that it serves as its own deterrent to illegal immigration and that the administration violated the law when it issued