67 h. ago Firefighter arrested by border agents while tackling blaze was on track for legal status, lawyer says

Two firefighters were arrested this week while battling the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington state

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3 d. ago Lawyers demand Border Patrol release firefighter arrested while battling Washington wildfire

Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire

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4 d. ago Two firefighters battling Washington state’s biggest wildfire arrested by Border Patrol agents

The men were picked up Wednesday as they battled the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula

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4 d. ago Border Patrol operation at wildfire in Washington state sparks criticism

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol action at the site of a wildfire on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula has sparked condemnation from Sen. Patty Murray, who says firefighters put risk their lives to keep communities safe

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4 d. ago Border agents arrest two firefighters who were tackling an active blaze in Washington

Two firefighters working to control the largest wildfire in Washington state were arrested on Wednesday by immigration officials.

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5 d. ago Immigration advocates alarmed over detention of Daca recipient: ‘No legal basis’

Border patrol agents arrested Catalina Santiago, granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 AugustCatalina “Xochitl” Santiago had already made it past the security line at the El Paso airport when two border patrol agents called her in for questioning and whisked her away to an immigration detention center.Nearly a month after her arrest, she and her family still aren’t clear why she is detained. Santiago is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program – which has allowed her to legally live and work in the US. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump's deportation goals

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ramping up its hiring efforts to support President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals

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2 w. ago Firefighters forced to cut open child’s playground slide to release middle

The man was found ‘feet and head first’ inside the slide, according to the local fire department

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2 w. ago Federal agent fires weapon during immigration stop in Southern California, officials say

A federal agent fired three shots at a moving vehicle after the driver sped off following an immigration stop in Southern California

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2 w. ago Photos of border patrol arresting a woman selling food and workers at an LA car wash

U.S. border patrol agents made more arrests in Los Angeles and the surrounding area, arresting a woman selling food outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles and workers at a car wash in Montebello, California.

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2 w. ago Newsom says California will push to redraw maps in riposte to Texas plan

Masked border agents circle venue at which governor outlines bid to counter Republican-led redrawing effortGavin Newsom, California’s governor, said on Thursday state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan to counter the Republican-led map-drawing effort in Texas aimed at securing a House majority after the midterm elections.As he spoke at the Japanese American National museum’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy – a venue deliberately chosen for its symbolism – federal agents, armed and masked, fanned out across the complex, led by Gregory Bovino, head of the border patrol’s El Centro sector. Local news footage showed a man being led away in handcuffs. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gavin Newsom blasts Trump's 'sick and pathetic' Border Patrol raid 'message' to Dems

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump after Border Patrol agents reportedly arrested a person outside his planned press conference in Los Angeles

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2 w. ago Feds seek death penalty for member of radical ‘Zizian’ group accused of murdering US border agent in Vermont shootout

Prosecutors charged Milo Youngblut, 21, with murdering Border Patrol officer David Maland — one of six deaths connected the enigmatic

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2 w. ago As Newsom bashed Trump in LA auditorium Border Patrol swarmed outside and made arrest: ‘You poked the bear’

Donald Trump, you have poked the bear. We will punch back,’ the California governor said

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2 w. ago Member of cultlike Zizian group faces new murder charge in border patrol agent’s death

A woman accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a Vermont traffic stop in January has been indicted on murder and other new charges that make her eligible for the death penalty

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3 w. ago The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel

The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Border Patrol? It’s almost impossible to divide superheroes along political lines. Captain America might seem like a patriotic, commie-bashing lunatic, as he was in the 1950s comics during the McCarthy era, until you remember that he has also spent much of his fictional career telling corrupt government agencies to shove it. And, in the Marvel Comic Universe, at least, he went on the run rather than sign up for an authoritarian superhero registry. Superman was once the square-jawed poster boy for US exceptionalism, cheerfully posing on propaganda comic covers urging readers to buy war bonds, but he’s also been written as a Kansas farm boy so suspicious of concentrated power that in one storyline he renounced his citizenship to avoid being used as a pawn of US foreign policy.Bar a few outliers – Iron Man cheerleading the military-industrial ...

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3 w. ago Border Force search charity row boat mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

A group of charity rowers were stopped and searched by a Border Force patrol boat after MP Rupert Lowe mistakenly identified them as “illegal immigrants” on social media.

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3 w. ago Border patrol agents hide in rental truck during ‘Trojan Horse’ raid outside LA Home Depot

The company said they were not made aware that its trucks would be used in the operation

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3 w. ago Federal agents hid in back of rental truck at start of raid outside LA Home Depot

U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented Penske truck and made arrests at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an immigration raid

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3 w. ago ‘We’re not leaving’: Border Patrol uses ‘Trojan Horse’ unmarked truck to resume deportation raids

Critics say raid uses same tactics barred under recent federal court ruling

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