6 h. ago Artist accuses Homeland Security of stealing his work for meme that promotes deporting one

Trump administration repeatedly comes under fire for appropriating artists’ work to promote anti-immigrant agenda

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7 h. ago US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist’s work without consent

Hiroshi Nagai, in a post on X, has objected to his artwork being used by the agency to promote its deportation agenda The US Department of Homeland Security is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using his work without permission to promote deportations.In a post on X on New Year’s Eve, DHS posted a photo featuring a pristine and empty beach with palm trees and a vintage car. Written across the photo was “America after 100 million deportations,” along with a separate caption that said: “The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hits back as Trump administration freezes state’s child care funds amid fraud claims

The Minnesota governor and 2024 Trump campaign rival accused the president of wrongfully ‘demonizing’ the entire Somali community in Minnesota in the wake of fraud investigations

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3 d. ago Trump's 'emergency' wrecking ball team aims to demolish a dozen more DC buildings as East Wing lies in ruins

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is taking aim at more than a dozen of Washington, D.C.'s historic buildings, pushing to have them quickly demolished.

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4 d. ago Homeland Security says a fraud investigation is underway in Minneapolis

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that federal Homeland Security officials are conducting a fraud investigation in Minneapolis

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7 d. ago Federal judge to hold hearing on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being vindictively prosecuted

A federal judge has canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in its human smuggling case against him

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9 d. ago Trump approves deployment of 350 national guard members to New Orleans

Critics say deployment is unwarranted and could cause fear in the city, which has seen a decrease in violent crime ratesThe Trump administration is deploying 350 national guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the new year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by border patrol is under way.Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on Tuesday that guard members, as they have in other deployments in large cities, will be tasked with supporting federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Parnell added that the national guard troops will be deployed through February. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement

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1 week ago Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released from detention, advocates say

A prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist has been released after spending nine months in immigration detention

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1 week ago US drops plan to deport Chinese national who exposed Xinjiang abuses, rights activists say

The Department of Homeland Security has dropped its plan to deport a Chinese national who entered the country illegally after his plight raised public concerns that the man, if deported, would be punished by Beijing for helping expose human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region

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1 week ago Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra can be released on bond, advocates say

Supporters of a prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist say an immigration judge has ruled that she can post bond and be released after spending nine months in detention

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1 week ago The Trump administration spends $3,500 every time an immigrant self

The Department of Homeland Security has branded self-deportation a ‘dignified’ route out of the country. But advocates warn those who choose to do so may not be able to return for years — or at all. Kelly Rissman reports

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2 w. ago Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter says she had an "absurdly invasive" pat-down at an airport security checkpoint on Thursday

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2 w. ago Trump suspends green card lottery program that allowed Brown University and MIT shootings suspect into the US

In a post to X, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said President Trump has directed to suspended a green card lottery program

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2 w. ago Coast Guard drops references to swastikas and nooses being 'potentially divisive'

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” have been removed

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2 w. ago Illinois panel's first meeting over federal misconduct focuses on chemical agents

A commission formed to document alleged harassment and abuse by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area has focused its first public hearing on the wide use of chemical agents

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2 w. ago Police investigation launched at North London council over fraud and money laundering

Police investigation launched at North London council over fraud and money laundering  My London

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2 w. ago DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled

The Justice Department has embarked on a months-long effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers during protests of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies

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2 w. ago Minneapolis police chief criticizes ICE tactics after clash with protesters

Minneapolis' police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters on Monday

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2 w. ago The Trump administration keeps picking fights with pop stars. It’s a no

By using music from SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo in ICE videos, the government is playing a game of rage-baitLast week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland Security employee – I picture the worst sniveling, self-satisfied, hateful loser – got to work on the official X account. The state-employed memelord posted a video depicting Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials arresting people in what appeared to be Chicago, celebrating the humiliation and incarceration of undocumented immigrants as some sort of patriotic achievement. The vile video borrowed, as they often do, from mainstream pop culture; in this case, a viral lyric from Sabrina Carpenter’s song Juno – “Have you ever tried this one?,” referring to sex positions – overlaid clips of agents chasing, tackling and handcuffing people, cheekily nodding to all the methods in ICE’s terr...

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