The Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist. The Raids Do.
The voter fraud is a ghost. The armed agents at the doors are real. "They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!" — President Donald Trump, after Los Angeles County refused to run a 20,000-n…
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The Sixtieth Person to Die in ICE Custody
A 48-year-old man from El Salvador was found dead in a Georgia detention warehouse with a ligature around his neck, and the agency that held him counted his death as number sixty. "When our country de…
The Bullet They Left in His Neck
An agency shot a 28-year-old father in front of his five-year-old son. A week later, the bullet is still in his neck, and no one in charge of him will say whether he will ever get surgery. "Oscar Beng…
ICE Shot a Father. The Mayor Got a Lecture.
After federal agents shot a father in front of his five-year-old son, the mayor of New York learned that his city answers to no one he can call. "There is no justification for what we have seen today.…
They're Prosecuting the Protest Before It Starts
In a quiet Vermont town where ICE's national spy hub sits among the farmland, the state's top prosecutor spent the eve of the biggest protest the center has ever faced filling out charging papers on t…
Shot by ICE. Charged by ICE. Bullet Still Inside.
The man ICE shot in Austin is now facing up to 20 years in prison for assaulting the government that shot him. "Rather than provide the life saving medical care he needs, DHS and the government are pl…
The Court Said No. The Plane Flew Anyway.
An appeals court struck down the deportation program, and two private jets kept flying over the Atlantic. "The point is to scare people. With countries like Palau or Eswatini, the point is that the Ad…
America's Disappearances, Now Digitized
The government has a new way of making people vanish: it simply stops saying where they are. "To me, it's just another iteration of disappearing people. Why would we do that in the United States of Am…
Fifteen New York Sheriffs Answer to No One
Fifteen sheriffs have decided that the constitution they swore to defend has exactly one article, and that article is about them. "I don't answer to Kathy Hochul. I don't answer to Tish James. I answe…
DOJ Blocked the Real Charge Against the ICE Shooter
An agent shot a man through the door of an occupied house with two toddlers inside. The government decided, over a prosecutor's screaming objection, that the only crime was the lie he told afterward. …
DOJ Charges ICE Agent With Lying, Not Shooting
The federal government indicted its own ICE agent for lying about a shooting, and the prosecutor who fought to get a real charge fired the same week, and the man who fired him is now on leave. "This i…
ICE Is Buying AI to Hide Its Agents From You
A federal agency is spending taxpayer money on AI to keep its officers unfindable, while its own employees worry the same tool will be turned on them. "If things go sideways they may just throw all yo…
ICE Is Buying Shock Gloves Nobody Can See
The manufacturer calls them an "invisible partner." The user manual warns they can cause sudden death. "Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobo…
ICE Takes a 5-Year-Old on His Way to Soccer
He was on his way to a soccer game when they took him. "The detention of Liam and my brother-in-law was cruel; they are not criminals, they were simply on their way to a soccer match." — Patricia Rese…
ICE's Passport Office
An administration that calls a foreign government a death machine quietly hands its passport to that same government's agents and books a seat for a dozen of its dissidents. "Iran has requested that I…
They Said Conspiracy. The Paperwork Says Casting Call.
The government said it was hunting a conspiracy. The paperwork shows it was running a casting call. "You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time." …
CORCA Turns Shopping Malls Into ICE Checkpoints
The retail lobby is funding a surveillance state and selling it as shoplifting prevention. "Congress has never debated or authorized ICE to lead domestic law enforcement efforts against retail theft, …
ICE Is Equipping Agents With Covert Shock Gloves
An agency with a documented record of excessive force just requested $20 million for weapons that can be deployed without witnesses noticing. "They will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slig…
ICE Gets Domestic Policing Power Over Shoplifting
tags: surveillance, ice, retail, civil liberties A bill aimed at stopping thieves at Walmart would turn immigration agents into a domestic surveillance force. "ICE cannot be trusted." — Nina Patel, se…
A Tiny PA Town Became America's Most Efficient ICE Trap
A tiny Pennsylvania town turned its police force into an immigration dragnet, catching a Chinese dissident who had fled persecution to deliver Amazon packages in America. "America is a country built o…
ICE Claims Immigrants Weaponize Cars. Courts Keep Proving It Wrong.
The government claims immigrants are ramming cars at its agents. Courts keep proving it wrong. "The scariest thing is we can't get the truth from this administration even when it's staring us directly…
Fox Guarding the Henhouse: FBI Stepped Off ICE Cases
The federal government has quietly instructed its oldest investigative agency to step aside while an increasingly lethal enforcement force investigates itself. "The fox is guarding the henhouse." — Aa…
ICE Insiders Warn: The Arrest Quotas Are Killing People
An agency insider says ICE operations should be shut down because they are killing people. The White House has ordered 2,000 arrests a day. "I would shut down ops until we got a handle on s--t. Not do…
Trump Spurred ICE Chaos to Look Tough on TV
An immigration agency operates like a traveling carnival of lawlessness, with a president who fueled the chaos because he wanted it to look tough on television. "It's just surreal. I can't believe thi…
ICE Killed a Man in Maine. No Body Camera. Again.
An agency with $20 million in new body camera money killed another man without recording what happened. "I watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband's dead body on the ground. I watched …
ICE Lies, Kills, Detains Witnesses in Houston
A father driving his construction crew to work is shot dead because federal agents saw a white van and someone who "resembled" their target. "That is a lie. It is impossible for them to say that they …
FBI Raids Home, Then Offers $200,000 for Informants
The federal government raids a home with flash bangs, then offers the person it terrorized $200,000 to betray her neighbors. "We know that you're struggling financially. We know that the people you ho…
ICE Tracks You to Your Hotel for Criticizing It
ICE Tracks You to Your Hotel for Criticizing It An American man sends an angry email to the head of ICE, and five months later federal agents find his hotel room. "Like any American, [ICE's response] …
ICE's Cash Surge: 10,000 Arrests and Ignored Court Orders
An agency flush with cash is arresting people at courthouses, on the way to soccer games, and while walking to church. Federal judges have told them to stop. ICE has not. "We're witnessing ICE, yet ag…
Trump Orders Secret ICE Surge: 10,000 Arrests in Five Days
After ICE operations ended in bloodshed last year, the administration tried something new: do it quietly, with no cameras and no fanfare. "If you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we wi…
ICE Detained a Nun Walking to Mass. Then Even Republicans Were Appalled.
ICE detained a Catholic nun walking to Mass in full habit. The most ruthless immigration enforcement apparatus in American history could not find a more absurd target. "She was very distraught and sca…
U.S. Deported 146 to Venezuela. Then the Earthquake Hit
venezuela, deportations, trump, earthquake The United States deported 146 people to Venezuela on a Wednesday morning. By afternoon, twin earthquakes had killed over 1,700 in the country. The hotel whe…
FBI Called Anti-ICE Protesters At Home Asking Them To Inform
After protesters arrested at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey, federal agents called them at home asking if they would inform on their fellow demonstrators. "I think the real intent is to divid…
Trump Built A Fair. Nobody Came.
A president promised a Golden Age celebration for the 250th birthday of the country, then built a plywood ghost town on the National Mall and told everyone the crowds were "incredible." "The Crowd was…
30 Years for Moving a Box: Prairieland Sentences Shatter Justice
A Texas judge just handed down a sentence longer than any January 6 convict received. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears that have been mongered ab…
51 Dead in ICE Custody, and the Government Stopped Counting
The Trump administration has built a detention system that kills people and then stopped counting the dead. "Your Administration either failed to account for this predictable result or proceeded despi…
The FBI Is Turning Anti-ICE Protesters Into Snitches
The FBI is calling arrested protesters at their homes and asking them to spy on their friends. "They were asking me to inform." — John Mark Rozendaal, a cellist who played at Delaney Hall ICE protests…
Life in Prison for Wearing Black: The Prairieland Sentencing
Eight people convicted of terrorism for showing up to an ICE facility on the Fourth of July go before a federal judge today, with some facing decades behind bars for wearing black and holding a megaph…
DOJ Indicts 15 For Conspiracy Over Meetings And Posts
The Justice Department indicted fifteen people in Minnesota for conspiracy to impede federal officers. The most violent act documented in the ninety-four-page indictment? One defendant knocked a set o…
US Pays Africa to Lock Up Its Deportees
The United States is paying African nations to imprison people it deported who have no connection to those countries, and almost nobody is watching. "What was done to me was pure evil. What I have los…
ICE Promised Talks to Striking Detainees. Sent Batons Instead.
The government promised negotiations with striking detainees. It sent batons instead. "My nephew can't see right now because he was hit on the head with a baton." — A detainee's aunt, speaking to The …
ICE Guards Beat Detainees Who Were Promised Negotiations
Detainees at an ICE facility in Newark went on hunger strike to protest horrific conditions, then were told negotiations would begin. Instead, guards hit them with batons and pepper spray. "My nephew …
The Federal Government's Recruitment Campaign Is Radicalizing White Supremacists Into Joining ICE
American counterterrorism analysts warned their fellow law enforcement agencies that the federal government's own recruitment campaign could radicalize white supremacists into joining ICE. "Violent ex…
Trump's Deportation Campaign Created a Market for Fake ICE Agents
The government of the United States has spent the better part of a year manufacturing terror in immigrant communities. It has done this with raids, with public threats, with the deployment of armed ag…