23 h. ago Democrats say Trump is illegally blocking them from visiting Ice detention: ‘The goal is to bully us’

Confrontations are playing out nationwide as lawmakers conduct checks of facilities where thousands are being heldThe Arizona representative Yassamin Ansari toured a detention facility in May where immigrants rounded up as part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportation were being housed. She described what she saw inside as “sickening” and “worse than prison” – immigrant detainees were held in overcrowded, moldy cells and many reported that they did not have reliable access to food, water or medical care.Two months later, Ansari returned to the remote desert complex to conduct another congressional oversight visit. This time, she was denied entry. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago US judge hears if Trump team broke law during LA Ice protests

Federal judge began hearing evidence and arguments on deployment of national guard and marines to curb protestsUS politics live – latest updatesA federal judge in San Francisco on Monday began hearing evidence and arguments on whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed national guard soldiers and US marines to Los Angeles after protests over immigration raids this summer.The Trump administration federalized California national guard members and sent them to the second-largest US city over the objections of the California governor, Gavin Newsom, and city leaders, after protests erupted on 7 June when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers arrested people at multiple locations. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago DAN HODGES: Starmer needs to admit the truth: migrants DO commit more crime than native Brits. This is a national crisis

Several weeks ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger - the former actor and governor of California - was invited on to leading US chat show The View. A few days earlier, Los Angeles had been gripped by serious disorder following attempts by Immigration And Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to arrest suspected illegal migrants.

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4 d. ago Check, please! Owner of ‘Trump Burger’ MAGA joints is nabbed by ICE and called ‘illegal alien’ facing deport

Not even branding a burger with the name Trump could protect a Texas restaurant chain owner who the feds say has overstayed his visa amid ICE’s mass deportation push.

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4 d. ago Trump Burger owner in Texas faces deportation after Ice arrest

Roland Beainy from Lebanon, who opened chain of restaurants in support of president, says charges ‘not true’ The owner of a Donald Trump-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under the command of the president detained him.Roland Mehrez Beainy, 28, entered the US as “a non-immigrant visitor” from Lebanon in 2019 and was supposed to have left the country by 12 February 2024, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spokesperson told the Guardian. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda

The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amids the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the USFormer Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he has signed up to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), in order to support US president Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.The federal law enforcement agency has aggressively ramped up immigration raids since Trump’s return to the White House and was recently awarded $75bn in extra funding as part of his “big beautiful bill”, which includes billions for hiring an additional 10,000 Ice agents by 2029. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump calls old foe Andrew Cuomo as he considers intervening in NYC mayor’s race to thwart Mamdani: report

Trump has previously called for the arrest of Mamdani if he wins the election and defies his mass migrant deportation effort

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7 d. ago Trump administration tried to reopen deportation proceedings for man who was long dead: ‘They’re very negligent’

Government rushes to reopen years-old removal proceedings to boost Trump’s mass deportation agenda

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8 d. ago My travels in Trump’s Florida: Maga superstars, gen Z Republicans – and the shame of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Is the US in a new gilded age of inequality? On a 400-mile journey from a triumphant conservative youth summit to a hastily constructed immigration detention centre, the answer became clearer Anywhere but Washington: fearmongering, mass deportations and self-enrichment – videoThe mezzanine floor of the Tampa Convention Center buzzes chaotically with rightwing chatter: conspiracy theories, grievance politics and Christian nationalism. Look in any direction and someone in front of you, washed in sharp studio lights, is drawing a crowd and creating content.Ahead of me, Russell Brand sits on a white sofa, broadcasting live on the conservative video-streaming service Rumble – his guest is the “alt-right” influencer Jack Posobiec. To the left, along an alleyway lined with small broadcast booths, is the longtime Donald Trump adviser and self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, who is holding court on a podcast. To the rear, on a large metal scaffold, is Steve Bannon’s War Room channe...

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8 d. ago Trump’s agriculture secretary doubles down on suggestion people should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

Comments come after Secretary of Agriculture suggested last month that Medicaid recipients and automation would replace undocumented farm workers facing mass deportation

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8 d. ago Maine cop arrested by ICE transferred to second detention center, report says

Homeland Security verified that Jon Luke Evans was authorized to work in the U.S. in May, Maine officials said

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8 d. ago ICE arrests dropped in July as backlash to raids and mass deportation plans stalled operations

Arrests by immigration agents fell, but daily removals were up in July, data shows

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8 d. ago Israeli cabinet meeting postponed as tensions rise over Netanyahu’s occupation plan

Officials said prime minister was planning offensive to fully occupy Gaza, but resistance reveals splits in governmentIsrael-Gaza war – live updatesAn Israeli security cabinet meeting, which had been expected to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for the “full occupation” of Gaza, has been postponed amid mounting tensions over whether the plan is feasible.Amid a stalling of ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, Israeli officials had briefed local and international media that the prime minister was considering an expansive offensive, aimed at taking full control of the Palestinian territory after 22 months of war against the militant group Hamas. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump’s new gilded age: fearmongering, mass deportations and self

Donald Trump's second presidency has led to allegations of pervasive self-dealing. From the acceptance of a luxury jet from the state of Qatar, to the creation of a Trump cryptocurrency, the president has been accused of monetizing the White House while enacting a swath of extreme policy. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel across south Florida, visiting Turning Point's student action summit, meeting the Republican strategist Steve Bannon, and witnessing events at the harsh new detention centre "Alligator Alcatraz". Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Noem wants ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention centers near airport runways across US to boost migrant deportation ‘efficiency’

Trump administration’s mass deportation machine is working at ‘turbo speed’ to open more ICE facilities, officials say

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9 d. ago The Trump administration is using ‘fascist propaganda’ to promote its mass deportation campaign, experts say

Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has embraced new tactics — and bizarre memes and historical references — as it carries out its mass deportation campaign, writes Josh Marcus

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1 week ago White House denies Stephen Miller’s alleged ‘arrest targets’ for ICE agents exist

A court filling last week stated that ‘no such goal has been set as a matter of policy, and no such directive has been issued to or by DHS or ICE’

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1 week ago Manchester United new stadium plans explained as £4.2bn project stalls

Manchester United plan to build a 100,000-seater stadium next to Old Trafford, which the architects Foster and Partners have referred to as New Trafford Stadium

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3 w. ago Photos of 'Good Trouble' protests across the US, from Chicago to Mar

The “ Good Trouble Lives On ” national day of action took place around the United States to protest President Donald Trump’s controversial policies such as mass deportations and Medicaid cuts.

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4 w. ago US citizen and Army veteran spent three days in jail after being arrested in California immigration raid

George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard for the Glass House Farms in Camarillo, was arrested last Thursday and released three days later without being charged with a crime

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