34 h. ago Judge blocks Trump from sending National Guard into Portland as protesters clash with federal agents outside ICE facility

An Oregon federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending the National Guard into Portland, as the city contends with hundreds of protestors at an ICE facility.

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39 h. ago Kristi Noem blames JB Pritzker after she’s refused access to a bathroom during visit to Illinois ICE facility

Video showed Noem and her team approaching the Village of Broadview Municipal Building, located in a suburb of Chicago, but being loudly refused by the staff inside

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65 h. ago Noem visits Chicago area ICE facility as agents detain multiple protesters outside

Federal agents have detained several people near an immigration facility outside Chicago

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3 d. ago ‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to HondurasIt was a highway exit sign that gave away their final destination: Alexandria, Louisiana.They were driven in the back of an immigration enforcement truck – their belongings confiscated and their passports seized. Rosario* and her two US citizen children – one of whom has stage 4 kidney cancer – had no idea where agents were planning to take them. Continue reading...

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5 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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5 d. ago A Mexican man shot at a Dallas ICE facility has died, becoming the attack's second victim

A second detainee shot in an attack on a Dallas immigration field office last week has died

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5 d. ago Second victim dies following shooting at Texas immigration facility

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a father of four, ‘succumbed to his injuries after being removed from life support’ A second person who was shot recently at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Dallas, Texas has died, according to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which is representing his family.LULAC announced in a news release on Tuesday that Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, had “succumbed to his injuries after being removed from life support following the [24 September] sniper attack on the Dallas Ice facility”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Chicago officials blast Trump’s plan to send in 100 National Guard troops: ‘This is no way to live’

The move comes after several people involved in anti-ICE protests outside an immigration facility in Chicago were reportedly charged with assaulting officers

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6 d. ago Detainee killed in shooting at Dallas ICE facility identified as 37

Federal officials say the man who was fatally shot when a gunman targeted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas last week has been identified as a 37-year-old detainee from El Salvador

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7 d. ago Trump demanded federal Troops go to Portland to protect ICE facility. Arrests outside it have been dropping for months

Portland mayor responded to Trump’s demands by saying the number of troops needed in the city was ‘zero’

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7 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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7 d. ago Children left short of clean water and sleep amid ‘prolonged’ detention by Ice, watchdog groups allege

Legal experts speak of ‘cruel’ and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facilityChildren, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.Legal experts able to witness conditions made a barrage of allegations about deprivations, violations of legally agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known Ice center currently holding families. At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, kids and their parents described a “prison-like environment” where the guards reportedly call them “inmates” despite them not being criminals, and said they live in “cell-like trailers”.prolonged, vaguely exp...

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8 d. ago Trump tells Hegseth to send troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities using ‘full force’

Trump’s demand for Portland comes after he deployed troops to other Democratic-led municipalities, including Los Angeles and Washington

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9 d. ago ‘It’s all performative’: why are shooters leaving messages on shell casings?

The use of markings on ammunition is a new trend of shooters trying to ensure their messages are disseminated publicly, experts sayIn the past month, the US has had to reckon with three deadly, high-profile shootings, and in each one, investigators have dealt with a seldom-seen piece of evidence in shooting cases, high-profile and otherwise: messages the shooter left on shell casings and firearm magazines.The suspect in the 27 August shooting at Annunciation Catholic school in Minneapolis allegedly left several firearm magazines with messages like “suck on this” written in white marker. Tyler Robinson, the man who’s accused of killing Charlie Kirk, allegedly engraved his bullet casings with “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “Bella ciao.” Authorities say the man who’s suspected of opening fire at an US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Texas this week wrote “Anti-Ice” on his bullet casings. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ice detainees death toll reaches 16 amid concerns over ‘horrendous’ conditions

Rising toll worries activists as mass detention in US increases after Trump returned to White House in JanuaryDeaths occurring in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have reached at least 16 since January amid increasing mass detention across the country and growing concerns over conditions.On Sunday, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, a 39-year-old Mexican national and former “Dreamer” – those given protections after being brought to the US as undocumented children in the past – died after being held at an Ice facility in Adelanto, California, according to a statement from the federal agency. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Officials say Dallas immigration facility shooter ‘intended to kill Ice agents’ but was not part of ‘any specific group’ – live

Officials said shooter used Ice tracking apps to monitor agents’ movements; Trump blames rise in political violence on ‘radical left not the right’Dozens of House Democrats have signed a letter to Donald Trump and secretary of state Marco Rubio, urging the administration to recognize Palestinian statehood.The letter, led by California Democrat Ro Khanna, has 46 signatures, and lawmakers will send it to the US president on Friday, according to plans first provided to the Guardian. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Internet reminds JD Vance that he once called Trump ‘Hitler’ as he demands left stop using ‘Nazi’ to describe opponents

In a fiery speech after a shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Vance said the left must stop its rhetoric about the Trump administration

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1 week ago Dallas Ice shooting suspect engaged in ‘high degree of planning’, FBI says

Kash Patel says alleged gunman downloaded document on Dallas homeland security facilities and searched ballisticsThe FBI said on Thursday that the suspect in the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in Texas the day before had engaged in a “high degree of planning” before the attack.The FBI director, Kash Patel, said in a post on X that the alleged perpetrator downloaded a document titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” containing a list of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Former FBI director James Comey expected to be indicted on criminal charges, reports say – US politics live

Comey has long been focus of Donald Trump, who sacked him from FBI role in early months of presidencyA gunman, who wrote “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet, fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas from a nearby rooftop on Wednesday, killing a detainee and badly wounding two others before taking his own life, officials said.President Donald Trump and members of his administration seized on the attack as the latest instance of what they characterized as an escalation of politically motivated violence incited by the left.Donald Trump demanded an investigation of what he called “triple sabotage” of his UN address on Tuesday: a malfunctioning escalator, a faulty teleprompter and an apparent sound problem in the hall. UN officials said the US delegation was responsible for the first two, and the third was less dramatic than Trump claimed.JD Vance, the vice-president, claimed without evidence that a gunman who opened fire at an Ice facility in Dallas, killing one...

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1 week 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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