Articles tagged: ICE Controversies & Resistance

Killings, protests, judicial blocks, or local/state pushback against immigration crackdowns.

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Community Defense Groups Take the Last Stand Against ICE in LA

Organizers argue that LA’s sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their immigrant neighbors safe. The post Community Defense Groups Take the Last Stand Against ICE in LA appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Claudia Villalona

Dodgers Donate $1 Million To L.A. Immigrant Families Impacted By ICE Raids

After a federal judge confirmed Donald Trump‘s control of the California National Guard, the Los Angeles Dodgers are giving back to those in the community impacted by recent ICE raids. On Friday, the 8x World Series champs announced a $1 million donation in p…

Deadline by Glenn Garner

What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood

How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps. The post What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Justin Caffier

ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths

Jaime Alanis' death shows the horrific consequences of a secret police force behaving with utter impunity. The post ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Natasha Lennard

Nancy Mace’s Latest Brain-Rot of Choice? ICE Detentions

I’ll tell you, one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube these days are the court hearings where illegals are in court and ICE shows up to drag them out of court to deport them,” Mace told Fox News.

Jezebel by Danielle Han

A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota

A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.

The Atlantic by David A. Graham

Trump’s immigration crackdown turns deadly in Minneapolis

A woman was fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis on Wednesday, just days after the Trump administration deployed thousands of new immigration agents to the city. What happened? This is a breaking news story, and more details will almost certainly c…

Vox by Cameron Peters

WATCH: Fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis

ABC News has verified video of the moment an ICE agent opened fire, fatally shooting a woman behind the wheel of an SUV in Minneapolis.

ABC News by ABC News

Trump’s menacingly dishonest response to the Minnesota ICE shooting

Renee Nicole Good sat idling in her car Wednesday, observing an ongoing ICE operation. The 37-year-old then attempted to drive away, reportedly at the instruction of one federal agent on scene. In response, another ICE officer shot her to death.  It is possib…

Vox by Eric Levitz

Wife of Dead Woman Inconsolable After ICE Shooting: Video

Dramatic new video shows the aftermath of the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minnesota ... with her spouse breaking down in tears, saying she can't breathe. Check it out ... The clip begins showing the crowded street filled with law…

TMZ by TMZ Staff

Minneapolis Reacts to ICE’s Killing of Renee Nicole Good

Tensions are high in the city after an ICE officer fatally shot Good while she was in her car. Kristi Noem and Trump have said the shooting was justified, sparking outrage from mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz.

The New Yorker by E. Tammy Kim

Judge Tears Into ICE Over Its Inhumane Facilities, Insane Amount Of Lying

This ruling was released in the middle of last month and I really wish I had gotten to it sooner. Let’s not pretend this will change anything about how this administration full of white Christian nationalists will treat detained migrants. And it definitely wo…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

New Video Shows Moments Before Deadly Minnesota ICE Shooting

A new angle of the shooting that killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier this week has been released ... and it appears the driver was maneuvering to pull away from the agents, not trying to run them over. CNN released the new angle taken…

TMZ by TMZ Staff

UPDATE: Agent's footage raises new questions about tactics...

UPDATE: Agent's footage raises new questions about tactics... (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:'Fucking bitch'... Minnesota prosecutors will conduct own review... America Watches Shooting and Comes to Two Different Concl…

CNN by Curt Devine, Thomas Bordeaux, Allison Gordon, Kyung Lah

This media spin on the ICE shooting will make you sick

Mainstream media is spinning the ICE shooting incident to paint Renee Nicole Good as a hero instead of an agitator, and while BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales admits that life lost is “always a tragedy” — she’s not pleased with the media’s biased reaction.“When lif…

TheBlaze by BlazeTV Staff

Trump's Goon Homan Threatens 'More Incidents' If Y'all Aren't Nice To ICE

Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, joined Kristen Welker on Meet the Press to continue the right-wing talking points following the jaw-dropping fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Obviously, the protests that ens…

Crooksandliars.com by Conover Kennard

Tarlov: 'Spare Me About The Rhetoric'

Fox's Jessica Tarlov hit her counterparts on The Five on their ridiculous whining about the rhetoric coming from the left after the shooting of Renee Good by Trump's ICE thugs in Minneapolis. Tarlov was also one of the few on her network to take apart the nar…

Crooksandliars.com by Heather

Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’

The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.

Wired by Dell Cameron

The Minnesotans trying to stop ICE

When Renee Good was shot by an ICE officer last week in Minnesota, it brought attention to the robust effort to combat US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Twin Cities. Residents of Minneapolis and the surrounding areas are joining decentralized netw…

Vox by Danielle Hewitt, Noel King

DHS Says ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Suffered Internal Bleeding

Jonathan Ross -- the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good while she was behind the wheel of her car in Minneapolis last week -- reportedly suffered internal bleeding from their confrontation ... according to Trump administration officials. Two…

TMZ by TMZ Staff

DHS: ICE officers in Minneapolis shoot Venezuelan man in the leg

The Department of Homeland Security says the shooting happened after the agent came under attack. Protestors have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, clashing with federal agents, after Renee Macklin Good's killing last week.

NPR by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE

Isaac Chotiner interviews Deborah Fleischaker, a former D.H.S. oversight official, on ICE’s accountability mechanisms, which have been “gutted beyond recognition.”

The New Yorker by Isaac Chotiner

Can the ICE shooter be prosecuted?

The Twin Cities, and much of the nation, are still reeling from ICE agent Jonathan Ross shooting and killing Renee Good last week. The local resistance to the federal immigration forces deployed in and around Minneapolis has grown, and the Trump administratio…

Vox by Ariana Aspuru, Noel King

How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis

In the hours and days after news and videos spread of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, a small army of right-wing, pro-Trump creators, journalists, and influencers descended on the city and flooded social media. They filmed protests; r…

Vox by Christian Paz

Federal Officer Shoots Undocumented Migrant In Minneapolis

One week after Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent, a federal officer has shot another person during a targeted operation in Minnesota, authorities said. Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, tells TMZ ...…

TMZ by TMZ Staff

Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition

As masked and armed men in combat armor swarmed throughout the Twin Cities, Gov. Tim Walz took to primetime television to ask Minnesotans to film ICE. The videos, he said, would "create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans - not just to establish …

The Verge by Sarah Jeong

Inside the Somali-Led Resistance to Trump’s Assault on Minneapolis

Somalis are fighting back, from homemade sambusas for protesters to foot patrols on the lookout for ICE. The post Inside the Somali-Led Resistance to Trump’s Assault on Minneapolis appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Fatima Khan, Meghnad Bose

How much can a city take?

I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled here to raise our daughters in a freezing state that had always welcomed us warmly. As the ongoing occupation by over 3,000 ICE age…

The Verge by Scott Meslow

The Scale of ICE Protests in Minnesota

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in o…

Bsky.app by John Gruber

ICE’s growing lawlessness, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Over the past few weeks, ICE’s actions have gotten a l…

Vox by Cameron Peters

How Minnesota became the center of a political crisis

In the days leading up to Renee Macklin Good's death, the political situation in Minneapolis had turned combustible. Her shooting has exposed how colliding forces set the stage for the ongoing crisis.

NPR by Elena Moore

Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online. The video, shot by civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Ar…

Associated Press by Jack Brook, Sarah Raza

The Trump administration’s unchecked abuses in Minnesota

On Saturday, a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti at close range after Pretti had been pepper-sprayed, beaten, and forced onto his knees by other agents.  Pretti, 37, was a US citizen and reportedly in the area to observe a…

Vox by Cameron Peters

Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?

The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration officers sent to Minnesota by President Donald Trump, wrestle a man to the ground and repeatedly strike him.…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

Masked Federal Agents Kill Another Minneapolis Resident in the Street

Federal immigration agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday morning, the second time this month that federal agents killed a civilian.Video of the incident shows at least seven masked agents working to tackle the man to the groun…

The New Republic by Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

Creators and communities everywhere take a stand against ICE

It's not surprising when the guy who's been yelling about the horrors of late-stage capitalism on Instagram for the last five years turns his ire towards ICE. But something different has been happening over the week or so, following the most recent shootings …

The Verge by Terrence O’Brien

The killing of Alex Pretti is a grim turning point

By this point, you’ve probably seen the videos — or at least heard about what’s in them. They show a man named Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who is filming ICE activity in Minneapolis, intervening when federal agents assault a woman. In response, the agents grab …

Vox by Zack Beauchamp

Trump Border Control Official Taken Apart Over Alex Pretti Killing

Border Control chief Greg Bovino was eviscerated Sunday on CNN, when anchor Dana Bash tore into the Trump Administration's story that Alex Pretti was killed because he was brandishing a weapon and was there to massacre border patrol agents. Bash…

TMZ by TMZ Staff

ICE Execution in Minneapolis

ICE repeatedly shot and killed Alex Pretti who posed no threat to anyone. The US we once knew is over.

Nakedcapitalism.com by Yves Smith

An American Murder

Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it’s only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showe…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

So what if Alex Pretti had a gun?

Increasingly, the Trump administration’s defense of Alex Pretti’s killing has come to center on the fact that he had a gun. “We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct and impede law enforce…

Vox by Zack Beauchamp

ICE in Minnesota: Latest stories and updates

Since early January, a massive surge of federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis has provoked national outrage. There have been two fatal shootings by federal immigration agents since the year began. On January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen,…

Vox by Vox Staff

Minneapolis killings put a focus on use of body cameras

Federal immigration enforcement authorities are facing scrutiny and criticism over their tactics, including the lack of body-worn cameras, following the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

NPR by Ximena Bustillo

How Trump transformed ICE, in two charts

Just a year into his second term, Donald Trump’s new, militarized immigration force is on full display. Agents in masks and plate carriers are seemingly everywhere, first in Chicago last year and now in Minneapolis, where they have killed two US citizens and …

Vox by Cameron Peters, Melissa Hirsch

Why DHS is investigating its own killings, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: After killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the week…

Vox by Cameron Peters

The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti

A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both.  Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the woman upright — until a pack of masked, camouflaged officers w…

Vox by Eric Levitz

How long can ICE keep ignoring federal courts?

The chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, just issued a remarkable order commanding the head of ICE to appear personally before him to explain why he should not be held in contemp…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

How to help the resistance to ICE in Minnesota — and beyond

In recent weeks, Minnesota has borne the brunt of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration strategy, with federal officials detaining thousands of people, from preschoolers to, occasionally, US citizens. Minnesotans on the ground have responded in tu…

Vox by Sara Herschander

Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds After ICE Shootings in Minneapolis

Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to events in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after two people were shot and killed by U.S. federal immigration agents this month. In an internal memo to Apple employees, obtained by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Cook said he is "heart…

MacRumors by Joe Rossignol

How the Minneapolis killings look from Trump country

The shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by federal agents in Minneapolis have enraged many people across the country. NPR wanted to know what supporters of President Trump's immigration policy think about the shootings.

NPR by Frank Langfitt

ICE invades Minnesota and Minnesotans fight back

The Trump administration has flooded Minneapolis and other parts of Minnesota with federal agents as part of its immigration crackdown, Operation Metro Surge — detaining children, intimidating protestors and community organizers, and killing multiple people. …

The Verge by Adi Robertson

What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act

Jelani Cobb on the historical parallels between the Trump Administration’s paramilitary crackdown on immigrant communities in Minneapolis and the unrest fomented in the years before the Civil War by attempts to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb

The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis

As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school, Emily Witt reports. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe.

The New Yorker by Emily Witt

The Casual Cruelty Of The GOP’s Migrant Purge

Yeah, there’s the overt cruelty. There’s the murder of protesters. The chasing of day laborers across Home Depot parking lots. The snatching and separation of children from parents. The day-in, day-out portrayal of migrants as filthy leeches from “shithole” c…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

Democrats’ demands to reform ICE, briefly explained

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. A series of recent polls hammer home just how unpopular ICE has become: Almost half of voters say they’d lik…

Vox by Caitlin Dewey

Americans Love Their Neighbors

Statistics say this is a time of disconnection. Minnesota’s response to ICE shows otherwise.

The Atlantic by Julie Beck

What We Saw in Minneapolis

Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

ProPublica by Cengiz Yar, Peter DiCampo

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

ProPublica by J. David McSwane

Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance

While the Trump administration continues its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, anti-ICE protests continued in Minneapolis and around the country — from Los Angeles to rural Maine — over the weekend. In the Twin Cities area, meanwhile, this acti…

Vox by Christian Paz

How to tear gas children

The day after the second general strike in Minneapolis, the labor unions of Portland, Oregon, marched in solidarity. It was the warmest day that Portland had seen in a while, with sun peeking out from the clouds here and there. Many people had brought their e…

The Verge by Sarah Jeong

MN Police Chief Intervenes To Free A US Citizen Arrested By Federal Officers

No doubt this will be spun as some form of Minnesota-specific obstruction, but until that happens, let’s just appreciate the fact that not all cops are willing to be appendages of the Trump administration’s bigoted migrant purge. Here are the details, courtes…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

A victory for Haitian immigrants, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration’s attempt to end deportation …

Vox by Cameron Peters

Brothers of Renee Good call for action in Congress

The brothers of Renee Good, killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, called on Congress to do something about the violence on American streets as a result of immigration operations.

NPR by The Associated Press

DOJ Prosecutors Directly Contradict The DHS’s Oregon Shooting Narrative

The two murders by immigration officers during Trump’s vengeful “surge” in Minneapolis, Minnesota have grabbed most of the headlines recently. And deservedly so. The violent rhetoric used by nearly every administration official — combined with a lack of train…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter

Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable. The post “Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter appeared first on The Interc…

The Intercept by The Intercept Briefing

This whistle fights fascists

Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause. The bestselling romance novelists helped raise half a million dollars for Georgia voting rights in 2020. Now, their cause is whistles, because whistles let neighbors alert each other …

The Verge by Sean Hollister

The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE

Two judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a court dominated by MAGA Republicans, just handed the Trump administration broad authority to lock up millions of immigrants — provided that it can get those immigrants to Texas, Louisia…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground

Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over people aren't being tear gassed or rounded up by ICE or, in t…

The Verge by Gaby Del Valle

Makers Are Building Back Against ICE

In hacker spaces and at their homes, creative protesters are laser-cutting and 3D-printing tools to resist an occupation.

Wired by Boone Ashworth

Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped?

ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks. The post Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Natasha Lennard

Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt

A federal judge in Minnesota held a Trump administration attorney in civil contempt for “flagrant disobedience of court orders” in the case of a noncitizen swept up in the immigration crackdown there earlier this year.

CNN by Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed

The Judges and Juries Saving the Republic From Trump

The Supreme Court has enabled many of the Trump administration’s worst abuses over the past 14 months, particularly when it comes to his mass deportation plans. The justices’ shadow docket has largely served as a Pez dispenser for injunctions to stay the most…

The New Republic by Matt Ford

Trump Won’t Stop Trying to Punish Kilmar Abrego Garcia

A federal judge must decide whether Abrego is the target of a “vindictive prosecution” by the Trump administration. The post Trump Won’t Stop Trying to Punish Kilmar Abrego Garcia appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Liliana Segura

Minnesota Judge Shuts Down DHS’s Attempt To Expel Thousands Of Refugees

The Trump administration is purposefully cruel. That much cannot be argued, not when it has deliberately sent deportees to foreign torture prisons, dumped them in war-torn countries with histories of human rights abuses, and stranded people its has been order…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges

The administration has burnt the “presumption of regularity” to a crispness normally reserved for conquered bridges succumbing to heat death. It is now well known that the Trump administration will do whatever it wants to do, whether or not it’s supported by …

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and th…

NPR by Kat Lonsdorf

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal

ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers — told ICE agents they don’t need judicial warrants to arrest p…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

ICE Detainment Center Guards Allegedly Set Up Suicide Death Pools

Say what you will about cops — even the federal ones — but they have nothing on the people charged with guarding people who have been detained or imprisoned. The cruelty of cops is slightly tempered by the fact that anyone with a cell phone, dash cam, or door…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

Immigration Officers Continue To Lie About Their Murders

Flooding cities with federal officers more used to dealing with border crossings and customs enforcement has led to multiple killings by these officers. They’re not trained to do what they’re being ordered to do. And their new hires aren’t being given the tra…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

What happens when ICE shows up at New York City hospitals?

Anti-ICE protesters outside Glendale Memorial Hospital in California on July 17, 2025. Fears of immigration enforcement at hospitals have grown since the Trump administration lifted restrictions on ICE activities at such sensitive locations. Health care pr…

Gothamist by Caroline Lewis

Trump Has Brought American Paramilitary Violence Home

Hours after Renee Good was gunned down on a Minneapolis street by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent inside her Honda Pilot, Aurin Chowdhury, the council member for Minneapolis’s Twelfth Ward, told me the city was under siege. “We’re already in a ma…

The New Republic by Caleb Brennan

ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony

It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re illegal. Courts have repeatedly criticized quotas because they create incentives so perverse they’d make /b/ board denizens uncomfortable. Since…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

The people dying in ICE custody

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: People are dying in ICE custody at a record pace. What…

Vox by Cameron Peters

Why did DOJ seek to dissolve Abrego Garcia injunction? #politics

Deportation fight over Abrego Garcia to Liberia The Trump administration asked a judge to dissolve an injunction blocking the government from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia again so it can move toward a quicker deportation to Liberia. What the government argu…

Alltoc.com by AllToc

ICE heads to the airport

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are deployi…

Vox by Cameron Peters

What is ICE actually doing at the airport?

I arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport nearly five hours before my domestic flight. This is not my way - usually I roll up to the airport 30 minutes before boarding - but not even I have enough hubris to think that my good luck is more powerful th…

The Verge by Gaby Del Valle

Morning news brief

Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war in Iran, postponing threatened strikes on its power plants, but Iran denies such talks happened; ICE agents were deployed to U.S. airports Monday.

NPR by Michel Martin

Leaked database shows ICE pays off local cops...

Leaked database shows ICE pays off local cops... (Second column, 9th story, link) Related stories:PALANTIR turns poisonous on midterms campaign trail... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron

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Meet the New ICE

Same as the old ICE?

The Atlantic by Hanna Rosin

The sneaky way Trump’s lawyers are supercharging ICE

Shortly after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, his administration started illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a bond hearing or other method of avoiding incarceration while an immigration judge determines if they are in t…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

After the Minnesota surge, ICE is moving to a quieter enforcement approach

ICE seems to be changing from aggressive immigration enforcement on city streets to an apparent return to operations that rely heavily on local law enforcement. But even in Florida, where sheriffs are required to cooperate with ICE, some conservative sheriffs…

NPR by Meg Anderson

Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.

NPR by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

Democrats want to ban ICE from turning warehouses into detention centers

A bill introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from converting warehouses and similar buildings into immigrant detention centers, an attempt to slow President Donald Trump's mass deportations campaign. The Ba…

The Verge by Gaby Del Valle

Mamdani condemns ICE action at Bushwick hospital, says NYPD didn’t coordinate

Brooklyn Brought President Antonio Reynoso speaks at a rally Monday, May 4, 2026, outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick. Immigration advocates and local officials also condemned the action and praised the effort by New Yorkers to disrupt ICE. …

Gothamist by Ben Feuerherd, Arya Sundaram, Elizabeth Kim

US Citizens In ICE Detention Centers Is The New Normal In Trump’s America

Behold this utter bullshit, uttered by the Trump administration’s “border czar” Tom Homan: White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he’s “sure” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have detained U.S. citizens, “but we don’t deport them.” …

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

US CITIZEN STOPPED, CHAINED, SHACKLED BY ICE...

US CITIZEN STOPPED, CHAINED, SHACKLED BY ICE... (Second column, 6th story, link) Related stories:Battle Over Immigration Crackdown Comes to Parking Lot... AGENTS SPRAY SENATOR... DHS Secretary Floats Plan To Halt International Flights …

Thelensnola.org by Delaney Nolan

“Warehousing Human Beings”

Former immigration judge Andrea Sáenz and American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the conditions at Delaney Hall and other ICE detention centers across the U.S. The post “Warehousing Human Beings” appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by The Intercept Briefing

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyd…

404media.co by Joseph Cox

Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder

At the time that this post was written, at least 50 individuals had died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The deaths were due to a lack of care for people with chronic medical issues like heart…

Boing Boing by Séamus Bellamy

Another Fatal ICE Shooting

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo of Houston is the latest person to be killed by officers shooting into cars.

The Atlantic by Nick Miroff

Who Can Hold ICE Accountable?

A new shooting in Texas. Still no proper investigations into the shootings in Minnesota.

The Atlantic by Hanna Rosin

ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers

Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other…

The Verge by TC. Sottek

The ICE crackdown never ended

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Two fatalities, a surge in arrests, large protests in the streets — the past two weeks of US immigration new…

Vox by Caitlin Dewey

ICE is quieter but still deadly

In less than a week, two people have died during encounters with ICE — one in Texas and another in Maine. The incidents have put immigration enforcement back in the headlines and raised new questions about how ICE is carrying out President Donald Trump’s prom…

Vox by Hady Mawajdeh, Sean Rameswaram

ICE Orders Halt Vehicle Stops After Deadly Shootings by Federal Agents

Five ICE officials said orders came down to stop vehicle stops, a go-to tactic that had helped lead to a spike in immigration detentions. The post ICE Orders Halt Vehicle Stops After Deadly Shootings by Federal Agents appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Karl Loftus

How ICE Arrests Went Quiet — and Got Even More Deadly

ICE just killed two immigrants in one week. Democrats running for office need to commit to abolishing the deportation regime once and for all. The post How ICE Arrests Went Quiet — and Got Even More Deadly appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Natasha Lennard

Man killed by ICE came to Maine seeking better life for young daughter

BIDDEFORD, Maine - The woman stood in a hallway of her apartment building, pressing her hands up against a window as she took in a scene of unfathomable viol...

The Washington Post by Ted Hesson,Joanna Slater,Carlos Alberto Buitrago Pinto and Samantha Schmidt, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post

ICE Agent Who Shot Immigrant In Maine Has Shocking History Of Violence

When the Trump administration announced it was lowering hiring standards and shortening the length of training for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers so that the agency could have more warm bodies to aid in President Donald Trump’s racist mass depor…

Crooksandliars.com by Emily Singer

Tom "Bag o' Cash" Homan says people killed by ICE should have complied

Trump Border "Czar" Tom Homan's message is clear: when masked men come for you, surrender first and ask questions after they bash your head into the pavement. Make the violence more convenient for the government, or suffer the consequences? This Republican t…

Boing Boing by Jason Weisberger

Florida Fires Expose Violations Of Over 100 Court Orders By ICE, DOJ

The Trump administration continues to pretend migrants don’t have due process rights. It does this despite racking up nearly 10,000 rulings to the contrary — losing in roughly 90% of the petitions brought by ICE detainees. While the Fifth Circuit continues to…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

Trump’s National Killer Police Force

ICE and Border Patrol’s purviews have transformed from immigration enforcement to being a political tool of the White House — all under the pretext of public safety. The post Trump’s National Killer Police Force appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by The Intercept Briefing

Not Everyone at ICE Went Along With Trump’s Order to Reinstate Vehicle Stops

On Wednesday, ICE distributed new vehicle stop policy guidelines, though it’s not clear if all of ICE’s regional offices will resume the stops. The post Not Everyone at ICE Went Along With Trump’s Order to Reinstate Vehicle Stops appeared first on The Interce…

The Intercept by Karl Loftus

Fatal Shooting in ICE Operations

Trump’s ICE crackdown grows with new funding and hires as deaths and abuse claims draw review.

Al Jazeera English

FAFO: Miami Restaurateur Regrets Trump Vote As Haitian TPS Ends

As ICE raids continue in Little Haiti in Miami, a restaurateur finds he can no longer operate due to staffing shortages. D'oh. Source: The Grio Wilkinson "Ken" Sejour, who owns Miami Chef Creole, says customers and others in the community are scared, and he m…

Crooksandliars.com by Ed Scarce

ICE Opportunism Expands To Passengers On Domestic Flights

Things used to be normal. We used to be doing alright here in the United States, limiting ourselves to catching people at the borders or picking up migrants with criminal charges or convictions with detainers at local jails. Now, it’s just a constant swarm al…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a comment about opportunistic ICE arrests: ICE keeps trying to find more victims to prove the false narrative of how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, s…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Immigration arrests soar, hitting 50,000 in July

Since taking over in March, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pivoted from the confrontational style of immigration enforcement of his predecessor, Kristi Noem. The latest data is reflective of a strategy that is working

NPR by Vanessa Romo

Deported! Milo Yiannopoulos Was Just Sent Packing by ICE

On Joe Rogan in 2016 he carved out one exception: “handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants.” He didn’t make the cut. Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-right prov…

Thoughtcatalog.com by Jerome London

Trump administration video showing Haitian deportees in chains sparks outrage

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security video shows men, handcuffed and in chains, boarding a deportation flight to Haiti this week. Critics say the Trump administration is "bragging" about sending Haitian immigrants "back to a war-torn country" after rescindi…

CBC News by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

A federal judge just discovered a whole new way to place ICE above the law

For a brief moment last week, it appeared that an ICE officer, who allegedly shot a man during the early 2026 occupation of Minneapolis and then lied about it, might actually face legal consequences for his actions. Christian Castro, the now-suspended ICE off…

Vox by Ian Millhiser

ICE Officer Charged With Lying to Investigators After Shooting Someone

An ICE agent has been charged by federal prosecutors with lying about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.The Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, reports that officer Christian Castro, who allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Ce…

The New Republic by Hafiz Rashid

China demands answers after man dies in ICE custody

China is demanding a probe into the death of a 51-year-old man who died hours after entering an ICE facility in the U.S. territory of Saipan.

USA Today by Marc Ramirez and Hannan Adely, USA TODAY

Federal court dismisses Trump DOJ’s lawsuit over ICE activity in NJ

US Representative Seth Moulton appears with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill at a roundtable discussion about veterans issues on August 19, 2026 The ruling comes after federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit in response to Gov. Mikie Sherill’s executive order ba…

Gothamist by Giulia Heyward

Judge rules ICE sought to 'inflict punishment' on immigrants held in NY

Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, on August 14, 2025, in New York City. A federal judge ordered rules put in place to end 'inhumane' conditions at 26 Federal Plaza be made perman…

Gothamist by Arya Sundaram, Catalina Gonella

What the Prairieland Jury Never Got to Hear

Lawyers for an anti-ICE protester tried to argue his shot was a ricochet. The theory was squashed by gaps in the evidence and a judge’s suppression. The post What the Prairieland Jury Never Got to Hear appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Adam Federman, Sara Van Horn

ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care

Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. The post ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Tanvi Misra

Supreme Court will review Trump admin.'s mandatory immigrant detention policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review a Trump administration policy denying bond hearings for immigrants as the government carries out a sweeping crackdown. The justices will consider whether immigrants who have been living in the…

Yahoo Entertainment by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent”

Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country. The post Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent” appeared first on The Intercept.

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NJ immigrant at the center of Delaney Hall protests released from ICE custody

File photo of a scene outside of the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark. Over the summer the facility became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration enforcement. A judge ordered the Peruvian man's release, citing concerns about condit…

Gothamist by Michael Sol Warren, Arya Sundaram

Man hospitalized in New York shooting involving federal agents, NYPD says

By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child ‌present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, according to ‌the mayor, city…

Yahoo Entertainment by By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke

ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem

After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike. The post ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Akela Lacy

What we know about the ICE shooting in NYC

Still shot from a video released by NYPD shows an ICE agent pointing a gun at a vehicle driven by Oscar Belgal. A federal immigration agent shot a Dominican immigrant in the neck in Marble Hill Thursday night. [ more › ]

Gothamist by Karen Yi

Fox Hacks Justify ICE Shooting Up Car With 5-Year-Old Inside

No matter how irresponsibly these rogue agents act, you can count on the propagandists on Fox to have their back. Rather than be horrified that ICE agents decided to shoot up a car in the middle of a residential neighborhood where people were picking their ki…

Crooksandliars.com by Heather

Five-Year-Old Traumatized After Watching ICE Shoot His Father

The New York Times described what happened when a plain clothes officer, with a drawn gun, approached the SUV driven by Dominican immigrant Oscar Belgal: “As the boy sat in the backseat, officers in plain clothes surrounded the car, Mr. Belgal accelerated and…

Crooksandliars.com by NewsHound Ellen

ICE admits to using Roxbury, NJ warehouse site to process immigrants

An ICE vehicle parked outside a warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey that the Trump administration plans to convert into an immigration detention facility. The agency is under a court order not to use the site for detaining arrestees, but acknowledged it proce…

Gothamist by Mike Hayes