45 h. ago At least 200 border patrol agents to flood New Orleans in coming weeks, report says

Local businesses have posted signs that prohibit ‘ICE Access’ in their buildings amid reports that federal immigration agents are heading to New Orleans

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55 h. ago What Chicago's fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression | Zoe Williams

A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentalityEarlier this year, the Trump administration reversed the convention that nobody would be snatched by immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE, by a school, church or hospital. Since then, teachers have reported classrooms a third empty, as parents are too scared to send their kids in – volunteers walk them there and back.In the Rogers Park area of Chicago, a group of citizens are organising to resist such immigration raids. Sometimes, it’s simple non-violent tactics, such as slowing officers down by walking in front of them. Last month, 50 people rushed to a church, where the congregation was trapped, having got word that there were ICE agents waiting outside. Maybe their most evocative tactic is whistles – coded blasts for when a convoy is suspected to be ICE agents, a different code when it’s confirmed. They have numerous accounts of undocumented migrants warned ...

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3 d. ago Assistant principal and his brother plotted to kill ICE agents and police officers in Las Vegas, Feds say

Mark Bennett was allegedly planning to travel to Las Vegas to obtain weapons which could carry explosive rounds

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3 d. ago Indigenous actor says ICE agents branded her tribal ID ‘fake’ during stop

Elaine Miles said her son and uncle were also previously detained by ICE over tribal ID questions, but later released

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4 d. ago Karoline Leavitt's family member was swarmed by ICE agents while picking up son from school as child's father tell her to 'self deport'

A woman with family connections to Karoline Leavitt was 'terrified' and 'frantic' as she was swarmed by ICE agents and arrested while trying to pick up her son at school.

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5 d. ago FEMA agents couldn’t survey Chicago storm damage because ICE had swarmed the area for raids: report

FEMA agents were reportedly concerned that presence of ICE agents would spark backlash from community members and impede operations

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7 d. ago Anger after ICE agents seize high school intern, 16, at Rhode Island court in mistaken identity error

An ICE agent was seen in the courthouse photographing the teen before the incident

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7 d. ago ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break, family says

Christian Jimenez, Oregon high school senior, faces possible obstruction charges after traffic stop by immigration agentsImmigration officers detained a student at a high school in Oregon during his lunch break on Friday, according to the student’s family.Seventeen-year-old Christian Jimenez, a US citizen and senior at McMinnville high school, was driving his father’s vehicle around 12.30pm during lunch when agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stopped him, his older brother, Cesar Jimenez, told Oregon Live. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ICE agents arrest Brit mum cradling her baby son in US green card interview

A heartbroken US husband said his British wife was unexpectedly arrested and detained by ICE agents when she was carrying out a final stage in her immigration process

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1 week ago FBI hacked into Signal group chats of immigration activists who watched court proceedings in New York, report says

The FBI allegedly described the activists, who observe court cases to ensure good legal practices, as ‘anarchist violent extremist actors’

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1 week ago A groundswell of activism takes hold in the US: ‘We are a bridge to the future’

Everyday people from blue and red states alike are leading actions such as protests, boycotts and mutual aidPeople in the US: Have you gotten involved in community organizing this year?As thousands of ICE agents storm streets, schools and emergency rooms across the country, communities are training up on their rights, recording incidents of abuse and screaming at officers to impede deportations.As opponents of LGBTQ+ rights try to erase queer history and safe spaces, residents have repainted rainbows across crosswalks paved over by officials and are organising their own record-keeping and mutual aid networks. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’

With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safeThree teachers drove through a quiet neighborhood in southern San Diego, the sun not yet fully up over the horizon. They drank coffee and talked about their jobs. The start of the school day was still an hour or two away.Suddenly, mid-conversation, they spotted something: what appeared to be an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, driving right past them. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Over 130 immigrants arrested in North Carolina as ICE agents swarm churches in deportation crackdown

Federal agents arrested at least 130 people within the first day of operations in North Carolina’s largest city

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2 w. ago California cop tried to stop a man pointing a gun at a female driver. It was a plainclothes ICE agent

The FBI has requested that ICE agents identify themselves in an effort to prevent criminals from donning masks and posing as federal agents

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3 w. ago A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realizeA young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration and ruling against it time after time after time, in response to the blizzard of lawsuits filed by human rights and environmental groups, states, cities and individuals. A senator speaking nonstop for 25 hours and another flying to El Salvador to find out what happened to his kidnapped constituent. The biggest day of protest in US history as an estimated 7 million people showed up for No Kings on 18 October in small towns and red counties as well as big blue cities.Weekly protests at Tesla salesrooms earlier this year that succeeded in damaging the brand, depressing global sales and prompting Tesla CEO Elon Musk to retreat from his Doge slash-and-burn project. Federal workers resisting sometimes...

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3 w. ago School principal issues apology after dressing as an ICE agent for Halloween

James Black, principal of Mount Blue Middle School in Farmington, came under intense scrutiny after a viral photo showed him dressed as an ICE agent.

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3 w. ago ICE agent sent text bragging 'She had seven holes, boys' after shooting woman at protest, feds say

A border patrol agent bragged about how many times he shot a woman after she allegedly tried to strike him with her car.

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3 w. ago Judge slams ICE for ‘fictional’ case seeking to jail migrant for 20 years. The agent involved cut himself breaking the Honduran man’s car window

A Texas judge warned that allowing the case to stand would give agents ‘carte blanche’ to commit abuses

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3 w. ago FBI encouraging ICE agents to identify themselves amid a surge of crimes by impersonators

FBI warned that anonymous agents harm ‘trust between the local community and law enforcement officers’

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3 w. ago ICE agents crash into American paralegal's car 'as she was driving to get coffee'... then drag her out and detain her for hours

Dayanne Figueroa, 31, claims she was forcefully snatched by immigration agents in Chicago after an unmarked SUV sideswiped her Benz as she drove to get a coffee.

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