by Cedric Alexander | Oct 3, 2026 | immigration, Opinion, Politics, White House
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
by The Associated Press | Oct 3, 2026 | immigration, News
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
by Thomas Kennedy | Oct 2, 2026 | Florida, ICE, immigration, News Analysis, Temporary Protected Status, TPS, Venezuela
The City of Doral is in crisis. Since Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, the Florida municipality has found itself in the crosshairs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with ongoing raids and targeted operations that seem to be intensifying in recent weeks. Nearly half of Doral’s population is from Venezuela, the largest population of Venezuelans in any city in the United…
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by Mike Ludwig | Oct 2, 2026 | First Amendment, free speech, ICE, immigration, Mahmoud Khalil, News, Palestine, Salah Sarsour, Trump Administration
Shortly before announcing his own retirement, a federal immigration judge in Chicago ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration can deport Palestinian-American human rights activist Salah Sarsour under a controversial law that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has used to target activists who speak out against Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Sarsour is an award-winning human rights activist…
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by Sharon Zhang | Sep 30, 2026 | Bigotry, Donald Trump, immigration, Islamophobia, Markwayne Mullin, Muslim Ban, News
The Trump administration bragged about reductions in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries in a post on social media on Tuesday, touting its discriminatory and white supremacist policies as it moves to increase immigration from white populations. Sharing information from an analysis by libertarian think tank Cato Institute, the White House posted a graph showing that legal…
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by Julianne McShane | Sep 30, 2026 | Crime & Courts, immigration, News
The Department of Justice has filed a judicial misconduct claim with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against several federal judges in Minnesota after they publicly critiqued the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.
The complaint, filed Wednesday, focuses on comments made by Judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim and anonymous judges in the District Court of Minnesota who spoke to The New York Times for a story, published Sept. 17, about how their court was affected by the turmoil of the immigration surge in Minneapolis. The DOJ complaint asks the Eighth Circuit to force the judges’ recusal from all cases, civil and criminal, involving the Department of Homeland Security.
The unprecedented move would affect all but one active judge in the District of Minnesota, which has been overrun by immigration litigation in large part due to last winter’s surge in enforcement. It was unclear which active judge would not be affected.
In a post Wednesday morning on X announcing the claim, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter called the judges’ interviews “an unethical partisan press tour,” adding, “Judges who covet publicity undermine public confidence in the rule of law.”
The complaint calls Schiltz’s and Tunheim’s conduct “particularly egregious.” Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, told the Times the administration’s repeated disregard of court orders “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” Tunheim, who was appointed by Bill Clinton, told the Times the government “wasn’t arresting, in my view, people who were dangerous criminals on the street.”
The complaint alleges that Schiltz’s comments were “overtly political” and “outrageous,” and that they “plainly support the inference that [he] consciously or subconsciously covets publicity.”
