45 m. ago PHOTO ESSAY: Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns

Just before noon on a sunny Friday earlier this month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a children’s play cafe.

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88 m. ago US agent’s daring plot to coax Nicolas Maduro’s pilot into turning on the Venezuelan leader and delivering him into custody

There was even a final machination aimed at rattling the Venezuelan president about the pilot’s true loyalties

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2 h. ago Takeaways from AP's report on a U.S. plot to recruit Maduro's pilot to betray Venezuelan leader

A veteran U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and deliver him into U.S. custody to face drug trafficking charges

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3 h. ago A federal agent's daring plan: Recruit Maduro's pilot to turn on the Venezuelan leader

A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman

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18 h. ago Ring doorbell footage shows terrifying moment masked men pretending to be federal agents break into home before zip

The suspected armed robbers targeted a home in Jurupa Valley, California

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41 h. ago Man fleeing immigration agents is fatally struck by a vehicle on a Virginia highway

A 24-year-old man fleeing federal immigration agents trying to detain him in Virginia has been fatally struck by a vehicle

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52 h. ago As Trump cracks down, faith groups step up for immigrants: ‘What has happened to our heart?’

Nuns, bishops and laity from California to Texas have created a network of help to uphold church teachingsCatholic parishioners rushed to deliver food boxes to immigrants too terrified to leave their homes in the California city of Coachella after federal immigration agents swept through Latino neighborhoods during the summer.Just south of Arizona’s border in Nogales, Mexico, Catholic nuns, laypeople and volunteers at the Kino Border Initiative, despite rising threats against aid workers, cook and serve two meals daily for immigrants who have been deported or lost their chances at US asylum in Donald Trump’s crackdown. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago ICE removes MGMT’s ‘Little Dark Age’ song from “propaganda” social media post after band issues takedown request

The song accompanied a video showing federal agents arresting protesters outside the ICE facility in Portland

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3 d. ago Trump was planning to send troops to San Francisco. Now he’s not. Here’s why | Joe Eskenazi

The US president’s reversal was as capricious as his original plan. What if local billionaires had urged him to stick with it?This story was published in collaboration with Mission Local.The mayor of San Francisco said on Thursday that Donald Trump had simply called him – no go-betweens or consigliere required – and told him there would no longer be a deployment of federal agents or troops to the city.Joe Eskenazi is an editor and columnist for Mission Local. Io Yeh Gilman and Xueer Lu contributed reporting Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Two high school students detained and ‘assaulted’ by ICE agents when they joined a protest in Chicago, officials say

City and school officials blast federal agents after teens briefly detained during intense clashes in Little Village neighborhood

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4 d. ago Trump spares San Francisco from federal law enforcement surge after mayor asks ‘very nicely’

Daniel Lurie, along with Silicon Valley tech leaders, managed to convince the president to stand downDonald Trump rarely has kind words for Democrats, especially those who stand in his way. But on Thursday the president offered something unfamiliar: a compliment.As federal immigration agents mobilized at a US Coast Guard base in the Bay Area, Trump credited San Francisco’s new mayor, Daniel Lurie, for “very nicely” persuading him to stand down from a planned “surge” of federal law enforcement into the city. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Daniel Lurie: the millionaire mayor who got Trump to back off (for now)

San Francisco’s mayor, along with Silicon Valley leaders, managed to stop the president’s law enforcement surgeDonald Trump rarely has kind words for Democrats, especially those who stand in his way. But on Thursday the president offered something unfamiliar: a compliment.As federal agents mobilized at a US Coast Guard base in the Bay Area, Trump credited San Francisco’s new mayor, Daniel Lurie, for “very nicely” persuading him to stand down from a planned immigration enforcement “surge” in the city this weekend. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Shots fired at vehicle after it backs into US Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area

Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents

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4 d. ago Trump backs down on sending federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Protesters flood streets in show of resistance, as president calls off deployment after speaking with city’s mayor and Silicon Valley leadersDonald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding into the streets.The Bay Area region had been on edge after reports emerged on Wednesday that the Trump administration was poised to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, a city in the East Bay, as part of a large-scale immigration-enforcement plan. By early Thursday morning, hundreds of protesters had gathered outside the Coast Guard base, holding signs with slogans such as “No ICE or Troops in the Bay!”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago As federal agents ramp up Chicago immigration crackdown, more elected officials caught in crosshairs

As federal agents ramp up an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an increasing number of elected officials in the Democratic stronghold are getting caught in the crosshairs

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4 d. ago What to know about Coast Guard Island in California, where federal agents have headed

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base

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4 d. ago Trump cancels plans to send federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Mayor Daniel Lurie says he spoke with Trump as protesters took to streets in anticipation of a large-scale deploymentSan Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has said that Donald Trump was cancelling plans for a “federal deployment” to the city as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in anticipation of a major immigration operation.Lurie said he spoke with the president late Wednesday evening, amid reports of that dozens of federal agents were headed to the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Protesters gather as federal agents arrive in San Francisco area

Protesters have gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are arriving to help to support federal efforts to track down immigrants in the country illegally

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4 d. ago San Francisco Bay Area braces for Trump’s immigration crackdown

Administration has reportedly sent more than 100 federal agents to US Coast Guard base near the California regionThe San Francisco Bay Area is bracing for a major federal immigration enforcement operation that could start as early as Thursday.The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday that the Trump administration has sent more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, across the Bay from San Francisco, as part of a large-scale immigration enforcement plan. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Federal agents sent to San Francisco area, which mayor says is meant to incite ‘chaos and violence’

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area

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