Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is buying up to $20 million worth of gloves that can allow agents to issue a painful electric shock to force people into compliance, granting the agency yet another tool as it extrajudicially abducts and kills people across the country. According to a notice posted by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, ICE is planning to spend between $10…
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Earlier this year, a 16-year-old student at a Los Angeles high school was looking forward to starting his junior year, where he planned to try out for the school’s varsity tennis team. His parents were both college psychology professors. But in April, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested the family, who immigrated from Iran more than a decade ago, after U.S.
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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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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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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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