ICE Propaganda Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love”

Scoop Harrison, Consequence.net

The Department of Homeland Security had soundtracked a video with The Cure, imagining "life after all the criminal aliens are deported." ICE Propaganda Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” Scoop Harrison

ICE Will Hold Immigrants in Jail Accused of “Excessive, Invasive” Gynecological Procedures

Jose Olivares, The Intercept

The Georgia facility gained notoriety for allegations that women received “often unnecessary” gynecological treatment, at times lacking informed consent. The post ICE Will Hold Immigrants in Jail Accused of “Excessive, Invasive” Gynecological Procedures appea…

Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US

By Renee Hickman and Lizbeth Diaz, Yahoo Entertainment

CHICAGO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -When Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was 12 minutes late for his shift at Tom & Jerry's Gyros, a diner on Chicago's northwest side,...

First US flight with third-country deportees arrives in Guatemala

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

The flight brought three Hondurans and 56 Guatemalan nationals, according to Guatemala’s IGM migration agency.

WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys return to court as deportation saga continues

ABC News

Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia went to court in Maryland on Friday for an evidentiary hearing in which witnesses testified about the steps taken to remove him from the U.S.

Trump suffers another defeat on birthright citizenship

Carl Samson, NextShark

A federal appeals court ruled last Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship violates the Constitution...

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Allison Sherry, NPR

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Sam Levin in Los Angeles, Yahoo Entertainment

Data shows a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white. And this is according to this administration’s own press release, which celebrates the fact that we’re now the inverse of the words engr…

Apple Reportedly Bans App Designed to Document Abuses by ICE

Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com

Apple is silent on the matter.

Appeals Court Subtly Lets The Trump Administration Know It’s Just Being Racist By Demanding An End To Birthright Citizenship

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

It’s not enough to go after the “worst of the worst.” It was never a sustainable effort, what with migrants committing fewer crimes than natural citizens. The attempt to rid the country of as many non-white people as possible under Trump always had to go bigg…

Trump calls to jail Chicago mayor, Illinois governor in immigration dispute

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Trump slams Chicago mayor and Illinois governor resisting his mass deportation campaign as US troops arrive in state.

Trump’s Immigration Theater: Pulling Cops Off Child Sex Crimes To Chase Landscapers

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

So let me get this straight. The same administration that claims fentanyl is such a dire threat that it justifies sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China is simultaneously pulling federal agents off drug interdiction duties to chase undocumented la…

Trump’s vague and confusing immigration policies are the point

Felipe De La Hoz, The Verge

In August, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that adjudicates and grants immigration benefits like visas, residency, and naturalization, put out a bizarre three-page policy alert. Among other things, it noted vaguely that the agency woul…

Judge Says Govt’s Prosecution Of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Looks Vindictive, Orders Hearing

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

A brief-ish history of events leading up to this point: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was one of hundreds of migrants rounded up by ICE, denied of their due process rights, and dumped into an infamous torture prison in El Salvador, a country overseen by a man who clai…

Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem’s shambolic ICE tour

Sophia Tesfaye, Salon

Miller and Noem try to sell Trump’s troop takeover — but even Fox News is no safe space

Trump’s War on Drugs

Collateral Damage, The Intercept

Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror. The post Trump’s War on Drugs appeared first on The Intercept.

Hundreds of US National Guard troops arrive in Chicago

BBC News

Troops from Texas have been sent on a controversial mission to support President Trump's immigration crackdown.

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem visits ICE facility at center of Portland protests

Meredith Deliso, ABC News

Noem met with local law enforcement officials at the ICE facility, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

It Definitely Looks Like I Was Wrong About The Iowa School Superintendent Arrested By ICE

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

A lot has happened since last week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent Ian Roberts being arrested by ICE first hit the front page here at Techdirt. A lot of new information has come to light, almost all of it obtained by Des Moines Regist…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will continue to sponsor H-1B visas and cover fees. Read his memo to staff.

Geoff Weiss, Business Insider

In an internal message, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reiterated his support for Trump's H-1B changes and shared personal reflections on immigration.

Hundreds Are Disappearing from Alligator Alcatraz

Danielle Han, Jezebel

In one of the country’s most notorious detention centers, detainees are disappearing from court records and ICE’s online locator system.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

Jaclyn Diaz, NPR

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

US visa no longer a passport to love for Indians after Trump H-1B squeeze

Yahoo Entertainment