A man with advanced kidney disease who once worried he could be the fourth person to die at the largest immigrant jail in the Northeast says he was surprised and relieved to be released last month. As Truthout previously reported, Izzy Aly was arrested in December at the Philadelphia International Airport as he flew home to Florida from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services-approved…
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New guidance distributed to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the country in recent days said that the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations that officers have with protesters or people who are subjected to immigration enforcement — leaving the agency to investigate its own violent encounters with the public following at least two recent killings by ICE agents.
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The Trump administration has finalized immigration rules shortening several forms of visas for foreign visitors and residents in the U.S., with particular emphasis on students and the press. The rule changes, announced last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), end the “duration of status” system, which had allowed foreign visitors on certain visas to remain in the country…
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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, according to several of his close relatives.
David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, those relatives said. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared with AP a voicemail allegedly from Brouillette from last winter in he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.
Brouillette’s ex-wife Ashley Brouillette identified David Brouillette as the officer who killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in the coastal Maine city of Biddeford on Monday. The Department of Homeland Security has not released the name of the officer. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said that Guerrero was not the person that ICE was seeking.
Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly DHS has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since Trump launched the crackdown after retaking office, including Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national who was shot to death while in his car near his home.
DHS has said the “vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.”
Brouillette did not respond to text messages or an email seeking comment. Three relatives who said they had spoken to him since the shooting, including an ex-wife and daughter, said he told them he acted in self-defense.
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Floods, storms, wildfires, and other disasters can strike in every state and district, and members of Congress in both parties have incentives to improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the nation’s premier disaster relief outfit. However, current FEMA officials in the Trump administration were notably absent from a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on…
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Joe Scarborough called House Speaker Mike Johnson a “liar” after he dodged a reporter’s question about Monday’s deadly shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Maine.
During a news conference Tuesday, Johnson was asked about Johan Sebastián Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man who became the second immigrant in a week to be killed by immigration agents, following the shooting of 52-year-old Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. “I don’t know anything about this event,” the speaker told reporters, adding that he was “a little busy yesterday.”
“You guys can mock me for not knowing that,” Johnson continued. “I worked about 22 hours in the last few days.”
On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” Scarborough said he didn’t buy Johnson’s attempt to feign ignorance. “I’m not going to mock you for it, Mike. I’m just going to call you a liar, because that’s what you are,” he said. “You know exactly what happened yesterday.”
“You have fathers, husbands, grandfathers being gunned down in Houston. Gunned down in the street for no reason in Biddeford, Maine. And the killers whisked away. No justice, no investigations, no real investigations allowed by local authorities who have seen their city streets being turned into killing zones. And you don’t know about that?” he said.
The MS NOW host said Guerreo, a young father who worked two jobs to support his family, typifies the vision of America promoted by another prominent Republican, President Ronald Reagan.
During his final days in office in 1989, Reagan spoke about the contributions of immigrants to the U.S. “Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever