9 h. ago Popular Oregon vineyard owner arrested by ICE agents outside his church: ‘Everything was taken from him’

‘I was crying, I was a mess,’ Moises Sotelo-Casas’s daughter says. ‘He was in chains at his feet’

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57 h. ago Trump team tells ICE to stop making arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants: report

President Donald Trump was reportedly unaware of the scale of the ICE operation, leading to a shift in enforcement at hotels, restaurants and farms

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63 h. ago Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump

Guardian analysis sharply contradicts president’s claim that officials are targeting ‘criminals’ for deportation from USThe federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency has exponentially increased the arrest and detention of immigrants without any criminal history since the second Trump administration took office, a data analysis by the Guardian shows.The information sharply contradicts Donald Trump’s claims the authorities are targeting “criminals” for deportation as part of his aggressive anti-immigration agenda. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ICE preparing $45bn expansion of immigration detention facilities to meet arrest quota

Trump officials are looking to tent companies, private prison operators and disaster-relief providers for a “massive expansion” of immigration detention facilities, according to a new report

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4 d. ago LA protests live: Federal judge orders Trump to return control of National Guard to Newsom

President Donald Trump was ordered Thursday night to return control of the thousands of National Guard troops he deployed in Los Angeles to California Governor Gavin Newsom

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4 d. ago LA protests live: California Senator Alex Padilla dragged out of press conference after confronting Kristi Noem

Los Angeles enforces a second consecutive curfew to crack down on criminal activity as anti-ICE protests erupt in other major cities

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4 d. ago Ramming cars and raiding churches: The ways ICE is becoming more aggressive in arresting migrants

Tactics deployed by ICE agents to detain migrants are becoming more aggressive, a catalogue of recent high-profile incidents show

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4 d. ago LA man faces 8 years in prison for ‘spitting at an ICE agent’ after being charged with assaulting a federal employee

Omar Pulido Bastida was charged with assaulting a federal employee after spitting in an ICE agents face.

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4 d. ago US immigration agency flies drones capable of surveillance over LA protests

CBP claims in statement that they are ‘providing officer safety surveillance when requested by officers’LA protests – live updatesCustoms and Border Protection is flying surveillance drones over the Los Angeles protests, the agency confirmed in a statement on Thursday. The drones in question are MQ-9 Predators, some models of which are equipped with technology that would enable high-altitude surveillance. In a statement to 404 Media, which first reported the presence of the drones, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the drones were deployed to support “our federal law enforcement partners in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with aerial support of their operations”. Ice conducts raids and arrests, activity that has ramped up under Donald Trump’s administration and against which protesters in Los Angeles have been demonstrating.CBP also said in a statement that its air and marine operations were “not engaged in the surveillance of firs...

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4 d. ago LA protests live: Marines to take to Los Angeles streets Thursday as Newsom slams ‘stone cold liar’ Trump

Los Angeles enforces a second consecutive curfew to crack down on criminal activity as anti-ICE protests erupt in other major cities

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4 d. ago Man ‘fitting the general description’ of someone wanted by ICE arrested at courthouse. It turned out to be a US Marshal

The brief detention took place at Tucson’s immigration court in Arizona

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4 d. ago LA protests live: Trump declares Los Angeles ‘safe and sound’ after military intervention as rallies spread nationwide

Los Angeles enforces a second consecutive curfew to crack down on criminal activity as anti-ICE protests erupt in other major cities

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4 d. ago LA protests live: Trump admin threatens military deployment nationwide as rallies flare up across US

Los Angeles enforces a second consecutive curfew to crack down on criminal activity as anti-ICE protests erupt in other major cities

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4 d. ago LA protests live: Curfew enforced for second night as more than 400 arrested over anti

Authorities enforce curfew in downtown area for second night as protests against ICE raids pop up in other major cities

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5 d. ago Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say

Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas, saying local facilities had not prepared for influxLA protests – live updatesAs federal agents rushed to arrest immigrants across Los Angeles, they confined detainees – including families with small children – in a stuffy office basement for days without sufficient food and water, according to immigration lawyers.One family with three children were held inside a Los Angeles-area administrative building for 48 hours after being arrested on Thursday immediately after an immigration court hearing, according to lawyers from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), which is providing non-profit legal services in the region. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ICE is using a tracking app to identify people who can easily be deported – then arrest them

Information about more than 700,000 individuals is on the app and available in a ‘baseball-card-style format’

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5 d. ago Noem asks Hegseth to exceed Trump’s order and force the military to arrest LA citizens to protect ICE agents

Noem wanted US troops to have arrest power to combat ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ she claimed were active in Los Angeles

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5 d. ago Protesters have a right to wear masks – despite Trump’s double standard | Jan

Standing by one’s identity makes sense in certain contexts. But there is a host of valid reasons for lawful demonstrators to remain anonymousDo protesters have a right to hide their faces? Donald Trump, who likes to show and see his own face as often as possible, clearly does not think so. One demand to universities has been that they outlaw masking at demonstrations; in response to protests in California, the US president demanded on social media that anyone wearing a mask be arrested immediately.Never mind the apparent double standard, as Ice agents refuse to take off face coverings and hide their name tags, defying any accountability; there is a widespread sense that standing by one’s identity is a crucial part of standing up to unjust power. In fact, that intuition is at the core of civil disobedience. But it is not plausible in our present moment; what’s more, there is a long countervailing tradition of validating citizens’ right to anonymity. As recently as the mid-1990s, it w...

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6 d. ago Bystanders jump in front of ICE vehicles with arrested migrants inside after raid on meat packing plant

Horrified locals threw themselves in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans which had been loaded with dozens of illegal migrants picked up in a raid on a food plant.

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6 d. ago Stephen Miller meeting with ICE officials was the spark for LA protests and National Guard call

Trump’s anti-immigration architect reportedly told ICE to ‘just go out there and arrest aliens’

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