Months before ICE agents’ tactics were put in the national spotlight by the deaths of two civilians in Minneapolis, José Castro-Rivera, a young man from Honduras, was hit by a vehicle on a busy interstate highway in Virginia. He was running to escape arrest during what ICE officers described as a “targeted, intelligence-based immigration enforcement operation.” Castro-Rivera, 25…
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After the extrajudicial killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, federal officials were quick to put the blame on him. Pretti was accused of planning a “massacre” of cops, while videos depict him filming and rendering aid to a woman before he was shot in the back. This has been the Trump administration’s playbook since federal agents occupied Minneapolis: A controversial use of force…
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Immigrant rights advocates and elected Democrats are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shut down an immigrant jail outside of El Paso, Texas. New evidence calls into question the official narratives about the recent deaths of two men held at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss Army base in West Texas. Geraldo Lunas Campos and Victor Manuel Diaz are…
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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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As a federal court weighs the legality of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, new polling shows that the American public is deeply skeptical of the White House’s ability to be the sole investigative authority in the latest killing of a Minneapolis resident by immigration agents. According to a YouGov survey conducted on Sunday, only 24 percent of…
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Newly unsealed memos by the State Department on the Trump administration’s push to deport pro-Palestine student advocates have confirmed that officials knew the cases against the students were shaky and likely to run up against their First Amendment rights. The documents were unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday. The case, brought by academic groups, has been full of bombshell revelations…
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