19 h. ago My travels through Chicago: tear gas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown

Donald Trump recently launched ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ in the city and threatened to send in the National Guard. The mood is febrile, with fears things could get worseAt 5am on a warm September morning a small crowd of protesters assembles in the dark. They are gathering outside the Broadview immigration processing centre, a two-storey brick structure in the Chicago suburbs that has the ambience of a US outpost in a foreign war. Windows are boarded with plywood. Fences are lined with razor wire and black cloth. Masked Ice agents appear sporadically, dressed in military fatigues – tactical helmets, flak jackets and rifles.The protesters begin to heckle each time an agent turns up for work or leaves through a chainlink gate. “Quit your job!” they chant. “Take off your mask!” Continue reading...

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36 h. ago How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename Operation Midway Blitz, has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests. With political violence on the rise, they speak to a new generation of political candidates and organisers, including Kat Abughazaleh, to find out if worse is still to come Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Second detainee dies one week after Dallas ICE facility shooting: ‘His death is a senseless tragedy’

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández was a father of four children — and expecting a fifth — when he was shot outside the ICE facility

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3 d. ago US deports 120 Iranians back to Tehran in Trump immigration crackdown

Uncommon instance of cooperation between the two countries reportedly came after months of talksIran has said that 120 nationals being deported from the US under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown will fly back this week.“One hundred and twenty people should be deported and flown home over the next couple of days,” foreign ministry consular affairs official Hossein Noushabadi told the Tasnim news agency. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Mahmood launches immigration crackdown as she overhauls main route to gain British citizenship

It comes just one day after Sir Keir Starmer branded Nigel Farage’s plans to abolish indefinite leave to remain ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’

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5 d. ago Illinois senator demands to meet with Ice amid clashes at immigration facility

Dick Durbin renews push to talk to Trump officials as operations and protests escalate at Broadview facilityAfter days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials.Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be “accountable for its actions” amid the administration’s “cruel immigration crackdown”. The post on Sunday morning came after Saturday night protests and arrests at an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Chicago area center in Trump's immigration crackdown sparks complaints of inhumane conditions

A boarded-up building in a small Chicago suburb has become the front line of a federal immigration crackdown in the nation's third-largest city

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8 d. ago Deadly Ice shooting comes as violence spikes amid Trump immigration crackdown

Trump officials seek to tie attacks to ‘radical left’ as agencies accused of violent tactics against migrants and protestersWednesday’s deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (Ice) facility in Dallas comes as the agency has heightened its crusade against undocumented people and bolstered its self-image of being under siege from violent enemies.Little is known of the motives of the gunman who opened fire on the detention center near Love Field airport from a nearby roof, killing a detainee and wounding two others before killing himself. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Latinos in Memphis worry about possible immigration crackdown by Trump's crime task force

President Donald Trump has created a task force to fight crime in Memphis

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8 d. ago Deadly shooting on Dallas ICE office reflects widely varying security levels

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities have varying security levels, with some heavily secured and others more exposed

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9 d. ago Texas Ice facility shooting: one dead and two injured, and ‘anti

Authorities said all three people shot were detainees at Dallas facility and that alleged shooter killed selfTexas Ice facility shooting – latest updatesTexas Ice facility shooting: what we know so farOne detainee has been killed and two others injured in a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas, officials said.Authorities have also confirmed that the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. NBC News, citing multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, reported that the suspect has been identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Officials reportedly identify Dallas Ice facility shooter; DHS corrects death toll down to one person killed – live

Joshua Jahn killed one detainee and severely injured two other before taking his own life, NBC News reports, as JD Vance blames Democrats for surge in political violenceFull report – Three people shot at Texas Ice buildingTexas Ice facility shooting: what we know so far about deadly attackThe Kremlin on Wednesday brushed off a comment by US president Donald Trump describing Russia as a “paper tiger”, and said president Vladimir Putin valued his efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia was a bear, not a tiger, and “there is no such thing as a paper bear”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Texas Ice facility shooting: two dead and one injured, and ‘anti

Authorities said all three people shot were detainees at the immigration facility located in Dallas and that alleged shooter killed selfTexas Ice facility shooting – latest updatesTwo people have been killed and another was injured in a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning, officials said.Authorities added that the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ICE shooting: Two dead including gunman as 'sniper' opens fire at Dallas immigration facility

The suspect was found near ammunition that had ‘messages that are anti-ICE in nature’, FBI says

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9 d. ago FBI investigating deadly Dallas ICE shooting as ‘targeted violence’

US Senator Ted Cruz says incident is another ‘politically motivated’ attack

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9 d. ago The Latest: 3 people shot at a Dallas ICE facility and the shooter is dead, official says

Federal authorities have reported a shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas

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9 d. ago One dead and two injured in Texas Ice facility shooting; shell casings reportedly found with anti

Authorities said all three people shot were detainees at the immigration facility located in Dallas and that alleged shooter killed selfUS politics – live updatesOne person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning, officials said.Authorities added that the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 3 people shot at a Dallas ICE facility and the shooter is dead, official says

The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says three people have been shot at a Dallas ICE facility and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

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1 week ago Nigel Farage's latest immigration latest crackdown plan could reignite Brexit war with Europe

The European Union has issued a warning to the UK over Nigel Farage's immigration plans, which would see EU citizens with "settled status" stripped of their benefits

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1 week ago ‘Everyone’s at risk’: Trump’s immigration crackdown reaches Bethlehem

ICE raid on construction site divides Pennsylvania swing town that is focus of years-long FT project

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