13 h. ago Trump wants 10,000 more deportation agents. Experts say it’s an impossible goal — and dangerous

The administration hopes an historic injection of taxpayer cash can fix hiring challenges for an agency facing intense political and legal scrutiny, Alex Woodward reports

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38 h. ago Democrats push bill that would ban ICE agents from wearing face masks

Under new bill, immigration law enforcement personnel would be banned from using non-medical face coverings

Politics

47 h. ago Ten charged with attempted murder after allegedly ambushing Texas Ice agents

Federal prosecutors described ‘planned ambush with intent to kill Ice correction officers’ on 4 July in AlvaradoTen people have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly ambushing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents in Texas on 4 July.Federal prosecutors said attackers drew the agents out of an Ice detention center in Alvarado, Texas, with fireworks and by vandalizing vehicles. They allegedly shot a police officer in the neck and unloaded between 20 and 30 rounds on immigration agents, and were later apprehended by local law enforcement near the scene. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Democratic senators introduce bill to prohibit Ice agents from wearing masks

Immigration officers would be prevented from wearing masks and be required to display badge numbersUS politics live – latest updatesDemocratic senators introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban immigration officers from concealing their identities while engaged in immigration enforcement activities.The “visible act”, introduced by senators Alex Padilla of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, comes in the wake of scenes of masked immigration agents in unmarked vehicles snatching people off the street without meaningfully identifying their agency or presenting a warrant, prompting observers to liken Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) arrests to kidnappings. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Democrats push bill that would ban face masks for ICE agents and force them to ID themselves

Under new bill, immigration law enforcement personnel would be banned from using non-medical face coverings

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3 d. ago Ice ‘politically targeted’ farm worker activist Juarez Zeferino, colleagues say

Detention comes amid Trump crackdown against perceived political enemies, including immigrants and labor leadersFarm worker activist Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, 25, was driving his partner to her job on a tulip farm north of Seattle one March morning when they were pulled over by an unmarked car. A plainclothes agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) emerged and shattered Juarez Zeferino’s front window before handcuffing him, his partner said.The officer drove Juarez Zeferino to a nondescript warehouse – the same one he and other activists had years ago discovered is an unmarked Ice holding facility. After his 25 March detention, dozens gathered outside to demand his release. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ICE agents blasted for arresting migrants at LA car wash on July 4

One video showed a raid at a West Hollywood car wash, showing a man who alleged to have been in the country for 30 years.

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4 d. ago ‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures

Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on WhitehallDuncan Campbell on the power of protestFrom the suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s; from the battle of Cable Street against the British Union of Fascists in 1936 to the Anti-Nazi League marches four decades later; from the million marchers against the Iraq war in 2003 in London to the massive turnouts across the country two decades later against the war in Gaza, protest has been a vital and constant part of the fabric of British society. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Shocking moment boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is arrested and shackled by Trump's ICE is revealed in new footage

The 39-year-old was taken into custody in the Los Angeles area on Thursday and is being processed over alleged connections to the Sinaloa Cartel.

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6 d. ago Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr arrested by Ice over alleged cartel ties

Boxer Chávez Jr arrested by Ice in Los AngelesDHS flagged him as threat but let him re-enter USLinked to Sinaloa cartel and faces deportationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has arrested Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr in California and begun proceedings to deport him, citing cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for weapons trafficking and organized crime.Chávez Jr, 39, the son of the legendary world champion Julio César Chávez Sr, was taken into custody by Ice agents on Tuesday in Studio City, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for celebrity residences. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he had been living in the US unlawfully and posed a significant threat to public safety. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Former world champion Julio César Chávez Jr arrested by Ice over alleged cartel ties

Chávez Jr arrested by Ice in Los AngelesDHS flagged him as threat but let him re-enter USLinked to Sinaloa cartel and faces deportationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has arrested the Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr in California and begun proceedings to deport him, citing cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for weapons trafficking and organized crime.Chávez Jr, 39, the son of the legendary world champion Julio César Chávez Sr, was taken into custody by Ice agents on Tuesday in Studio City, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for celebrity residences. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he had been living in the US unlawfully and posed a significant threat to public safety. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Exposing themselves to minors’: ICE agents ‘caught on video urinating on grounds of LA public school in broad daylight’

The school has called it a “deeply concerning” incident which allegedly happened near to where class was in session

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7 d. ago Idaho student stabbings suspect pleads guilty to murder to avoid death penalty

Ex-criminal justice student Bryan Kohberger admits to killing four University of Idaho students in 2022Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 that stunned and terrified the campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.Kohberger, who was a criminal justice graduate student at nearby Washington State University, admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. He was set to go to trial in August. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago White House posts bizarre AI ICE agent photo as Trump visits 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Donald Trump joked detainees at the new Alcatraz facility in the Florida Everglades would have to 'know how to run away from an alligator' to escape - as he toured the site on Tuesday

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8 d. ago Teacher, 26, 'confessed to sex with student in staff room before being arrested'

A teacher has been charged with third-degree sexual conduct with a 16-year-old boy, as the educator is said to have confided in a colleague about the relationship

Society

1 week ago Throwing their bodies on the gears: the Democratic lawmakers showing up to resist Trump

Republicans may literally own social media platforms, but some Democrats are buying back legitimacy with protestsA flock of Ice agents, some masked, some sporting military-operator fashion for show, smooshed New York City comptroller Brad Lander up against a wall and handcuffed him in the hallway of a federal courthouse in early June, shuffling the mild-mannered politician into an elevator like the Sandman hustling an act off the stage 10 miles north at Harlem’s Apollo Theater.Like at the Apollo, Lander’s arrest was a show. News reporters and cellphone camera-wielding bystanders crowded the hall to watch the burly federal officers rumple a 55-year-old auditor asking for a warrant. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Heavily armed federal agents blow door off suspect’s home. He wasn’t there — but girlfriend and kids were

Officers blow off door and window before sending in drone to clear house room by room

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2 w. ago Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence

At hearing, US attorney general claims she’s unaware of reports that officials have hid their faces during roundupsThe attorney general, Pam Bondi, professed ignorance of reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during roundups of undocumented people, despite widespread video evidence and reports that they are instilling pervasive fear and panic.Challenged at a Wednesday Capitol Hill subcommittee hearing by Gary Peters, a Democratic senator for Michigan, Bondi, who as the country’s top law officer has a prominent role in the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy, implied she was unaware of plain-clothed agents concealing their faces while carrying out arrests but suggested it was for self-protection. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What to know about debate over protesters and ICE agents wearing masks amid immigration crackdowns

People fearful of being arrested for wearing masks while protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles and other cities have voiced anger over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents covering their faces

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2 w. ago New York teacher, 22, arrested after sending 14 year old student 'nude pictures'

A 22-year-old New York school worker was arrested for allegedly sending inappropriate content to a 14-year-old boy over three months, police have said.

Society