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DHS Pressures Platforms for Identities of Anti-ICE Users

Providers could resist the subpoenas, which have sparked lawsuits

(Newser) - The Department of Homeland Security is pressuring tech companies to disclose the identities behind social media accounts that criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, say officials and tech employees familiar with the requests. Over the past several months, Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta have received hundreds of administrative...

Feds Open Perjury Probe After ICE Officer Shot Venezuelan

Meanwhile, felony assault charges have been dropped against that immigrant, another

(Newser) - Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said Friday that his agency opened a joint probe with the Justice...

ICE to Spend $38B Turning Warehouses Into Detention Sites

Immigration agency's plan would create network of large regional processing and removal centers

(Newser) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving ahead with a sweeping plan to turn industrial warehouses into a national network of immigrant detention hubs, with an estimated price tag of $38.3 billion, newly released documents show, reports the Washington Post . The records, posted on New Hampshire's state website...

Ring Drops Deal With Surveillance Company

Move follows backlash over Super Bowl ad

(Newser) - Amazon's Ring is backing away from a controversial law-enforcement tie-up before it ever switched on. The home security company says it has scrapped a planned integration with Flock Safety, a surveillance firm whose automated license plate readers and camera networks are widely used by police—and, according to some...

Feds Drop Charges Against Man Shot by Agent in Minneapolis

'Newly discovered evidence' undercuts government's version of events

(Newser) - A federal judge in Minneapolis on Friday ordered the dismissal of felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence emerged undercutting the government's version of events. In a highly unusual motion to dismiss filed late Thursday, US...

Filing: IRS Mistakenly Shared Taxpayer Info With DHS

News comes amid deal between agencies to share info to identify, deport undocumented immigrants

(Newser) - The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies' controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people who are illegally in the US, according to a new court filing. The...

DHS Shutdown Nears as Negotiations Go Nowhere

With Congress leaving town, agency is on track to shut down Saturday

(Newser) - Members of Congress are heading out of town with one of the government's key departments about to go dark. After a Department of Homeland Security funding bill fell eight votes short of advancing on Thursday, lawmakers in both chambers began a weeklong recess that makes an early Saturday shutdown...

Immigration Crackdown in Minnesota Is Over

Border czar Tom Homan says surge will end, pronounces it a success

(Newser) - The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests, and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday. "I have proposed and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude," said Homan at a news conference, per the AP . Homan...

Salesforce CEO Booed by His Own Employees

Staff urge Marc Benioff to cut ICE contracts after he joked that the agency was monitoring workers

(Newser) - Salesforce's boss is under fire for an ICE joke that landed with a thud. During a company conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, CEO Marc Benioff reportedly asked international employees to stand, then quipped that ICE agents were in the room watching them—a remark that elicited boos and...

Alex Pretti's Parents Have a Question: Why?

Michael and Susan Pretti say their son was killed for no good reason in first major interview

(Newser) - In a Denver-area living room, a cardboard box stuffed with hundreds of letters now doubles as a counterpoint to how the Trump administration has portrayed Alex Pretti. In a detailed piece for the New York Times , Jack Healy talks with Michael and Susan Pretti less than three weeks after their...

Walz Says Crackdown Could End Within Days

He says he hopes to hear more from feds soon about 'occupation' of Minnesota

(Newser) - Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in "days, not weeks and months," based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials. The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Monday with border czar Tom...

Judge Blocks California's Mask Ban for Federal Agents

But ruling leaves state's ID requirement for law enforcement in place, for now

(Newser) - California's attempt to unmask federal agents just ran into a constitutional snag, though not a complete stop. A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday blocked the state's new ban on face coverings for federal law-enforcement officers, ruling that the law illegally singled them out by exempting state...

Liam Is Home, but Maybe Not for Long

DHS seeks to end asylum claims of 5-year-old Minn. boy at center of ICE storm

(Newser) - Federal immigration officials are moving to fast-track the deportation case of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, according to their attorney. The federal government filed a motion on Wednesday to speed up removal proceedings and shut down the Minnesota family's asylum bid, said their legal team, per MPR...

Anti-ICE Chant From Crowd Throws Wrestlers for a Loop

Las Vegas fans echo challenger Brody King's stance

(Newser) - A Las Vegas wrestling crowd briefly turned a title bout into a political rally Wednesday night, erupting into an anti-ICE chant that stopped the action. Before the opening bell of the AEW World Championship Eliminator Match, a loud, repeated, expletive-laced chant targeting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spread through the...

Texas Man Charged After Fight With Teen Protesters

Police say he was the 'primary aggressor' in clash during student anti-ICE walkout

(Newser) - A Texas man is facing assault charges after a confrontation with teenagers at an anti-ICE student walkout turned into a brawl caught on video. Police in Buda, south of Austin, say 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle was arrested Tuesday on two counts of assault causing bodily injury, People reports....

Prosecutor Who Said 'System Sucks' Fired

She said she was swamped by surge of immigration cases in Minnesota

(Newser) - A Minneapolis prosecutor who openly vented about her immigration caseload in court is now out of a job at the US attorney's office. Julie T. Le, a lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement who had been detailed to the US attorney's office in Minnesota, was removed from that...

Feds Barred From Using Tear Gas on ICE Protesters

Temporary order bans chemical, projectile munitions in Portland, Ore., in most cases

(Newser) - Federal officers are temporarily barred from using tear gas at protests outside a Portland immigration building, an Oregon judge ruled Tuesday, just days after agents fired gas into a crowd of demonstrators that local officials described as peaceful and which included young children. US District Judge Michael Simon ordered federal...

Immigration Agents Draw Guns, Arrest Activists in Minneapolis

Activists had been trailing agents' vehicles

(Newser) - Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested some activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, a sign that tensions have not eased since the departure last week of a high-profile commander. At least one person who had an anti-ICE message on clothing was handcuffed while face-down on the...

Disabled Son Dies After Caregiver Dad Detained by ICE

Maher Tarabishi's detention preceded rapid decline of 30-year-old son Wael

(Newser) - A Texas family says a bureaucratic decision cost a disabled man his last days with his father, as well as a final goodbye. In 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowed 62-year-old Jordanian national Maher Tarabishi, who'd overstayed a 1994 tourist visa and then been rejected for asylum, to stay...

As Dems Argue DHS Funding, Some Republicans Want More

Johnson faces pressure to figure out a compromise, prevent prolonged shutdown

(Newser) - House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown as debate intensifies over the Trump administration's sweeping immigration enforcement operations, per the AP . Johnson signaled he is relying on help from President Trump to...

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