#borderpatrol — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/people/49134/ Senate passes budget plan for ICE, Border Patrol in bid to reopen DHS #BorderPatrol #dhs #HomelandSecurity #ICE #ICEFunding #JohnThune #PartialGovernmentShutdown #Senate
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Speaking of California, there is this report of CBP putting automated license plate readers in remote areas that log all traffic:
https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/alpr-border-patrol-caltrans/
When a camera like this is in a remote area, it becomes an easy target for physical destruction by direct action warriors. This goes double for anything owned or operated by ICE or CBP. You can bet these would not last long in Minneapolis.
Short of that, if there is little traffic it should be safe to stop out of range of the camera, cover up license plates, drive past the camera and out of range, then remove the covers. Only cops would make an issue of it, and some remote roads see few cops.
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Looks Like A Police State To Me, Says Federal Judge Handling Migrant Detention Cases
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https://www.europesays.com/news/21042/ Texas Can Arrest and Deport People Who Illegally Cross at Mexico Border, Court Says #AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion #AppealsCourts(US) #BorderPatrol(US) #Cornyn #deportation #FederalStateRelations(US) #Headlines #IllegalImmigration #John #Ken #News #Paxton #SupremeCourt(US) #TopStories #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment
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Rand Paul Slams DHS Nominee Markwayne Mullin Over Violence Remarks, Raising Alarms on Leadership
A heated Senate clash reveals troubling acceptance of political violence by DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin. Rand Paul raised urgent concerns about his leadership and accountability.
#authoritarianism #BorderPatrol #democracyCrisis #DHSNominee #governmentAccountability #ICE #MarkwayneMullin #mediaCriticism #politicalViolence #ProgressivePolitics #RandPaul #SenateHearing #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oMR -
The medical examiner in #Buffalo, #NY has ruled that the death of a nearly #blind man left alone by #BorderPatrol agents on a frigid night was a #homicide, a finding that could [better] lead to #criminal charges.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a #Rohingya #refugee from #Myanmar, died in February after the agents dropped him off outside a closed Tim Hortons doughnut shop. His death triggered outrage in Buffalo & around the nation.
#Trump #law #immigration #murder #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP
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The medical examiner in #Buffalo, #NY has ruled that the death of a nearly #blind man left alone by #BorderPatrol agents on a frigid night was a #homicide, a finding that could [better] lead to #criminal charges.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a #Rohingya #refugee from #Myanmar, died in February after the agents dropped him off outside a closed Tim Hortons doughnut shop. His death triggered outrage in Buffalo & around the nation.
#Trump #law #immigration #murder #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP
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The medical examiner in #Buffalo, #NY has ruled that the death of a nearly #blind man left alone by #BorderPatrol agents on a frigid night was a #homicide, a finding that could [better] lead to #criminal charges.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a #Rohingya #refugee from #Myanmar, died in February after the agents dropped him off outside a closed Tim Hortons doughnut shop. His death triggered outrage in Buffalo & around the nation.
#Trump #law #immigration #murder #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP
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The medical examiner in #Buffalo, #NY has ruled that the death of a nearly #blind man left alone by #BorderPatrol agents on a frigid night was a #homicide, a finding that could [better] lead to #criminal charges.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a #Rohingya #refugee from #Myanmar, died in February after the agents dropped him off outside a closed Tim Hortons doughnut shop. His death triggered outrage in Buffalo & around the nation.
#Trump #law #immigration #murder #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP
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The medical examiner in #Buffalo, #NY has ruled that the death of a nearly #blind man left alone by #BorderPatrol agents on a frigid night was a #homicide, a finding that could [better] lead to #criminal charges.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a #Rohingya #refugee from #Myanmar, died in February after the agents dropped him off outside a closed Tim Hortons doughnut shop. His death triggered outrage in Buffalo & around the nation.
#Trump #law #immigration #murder #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP
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Medical Examiner Rules That a #Rohingya #Refugee’s Death Was a #Homicide
An autopsy showed that the man suffered dehydration & hypothermia after #BorderPatrol agents dropped him off on a cold night in Buffalo. Gov #KathyHochul condemned their actions as #cruel & #inhumane.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #HumanRights #fascism #Tyranny #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/nyregion/rohingya-refugee-buffalo-homicide-medical-examiner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Medical Examiner Rules That a #Rohingya #Refugee’s Death Was a #Homicide
An autopsy showed that the man suffered dehydration & hypothermia after #BorderPatrol agents dropped him off on a cold night in Buffalo. Gov #KathyHochul condemned their actions as #cruel & #inhumane.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #HumanRights #fascism #Tyranny #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/nyregion/rohingya-refugee-buffalo-homicide-medical-examiner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
There are scores of people who have never recovered, or been recovered, from an #FSB interrogation.
They’re a hard organization to describe because nothing like the FSB exists in the #USA. To get even remotely close, you’d have to ask the #CIA to birth a seven-headed hydra with the faces of the #FBI, #DEA, #NSA, #Immigration, #BorderPatrol, #CoastGuard, and the #Navy Seals with a hangover and a grudge.
Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
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"Border Patrol agents left a partially blind refugee who spoke little English in the parking lot of a Buffalo coffee shop the night of Feb. 19 shortly before the man disappeared, according to security camera footage reviewed by The Washington Post. He was found dead five days later.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was found dead Tuesday evening near an arena in downtown Buffalo, about five miles from where the federal agents had dropped him off after they picked him up from the county jail.
Relatives had spent days searching for Shah Alam, whom they described as in poor health. The circumstances surrounding the Rohingya refugee’s death prompted an outcry from Democratic officials, who called for further investigation.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents “released a blind father from custody and left him to find his way home alone,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said Thursday. “He never made it. New Yorkers deserve answers and accountability.”
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan said Wednesday that Shah Alam’s death was “preventable” and “deeply disturbing.” The decision by CBP personnel to leave Shah Alam alone was “a dereliction of duty,” Ryan said."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/02/26/buffalo-refugee-border-patrol-death/
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Footage Contradicts DHS Claim of Dropping Refugee at “Safe Location” in Buffalo
“They abandoned him in the parking lot of a closed Tim Hortons in the middle of a winter evening,” noted an observer. -
Footage Contradicts DHS Claim of Dropping Refugee at “Safe Location” in Buffalo
“They abandoned him in the parking lot of a closed Tim Hortons in the middle of a winter evening,” noted an observer. -
Clown Empire, dying....
#USPOL #USPOLITICS #USMilitary #BorderPatrol #Texas #CBP #Drones #Lasers
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Nearly Blind Rohingya Refugee Found Dead After Being Stranded by Border Patrol
Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s family spent days searching for him in sub-freezing temperatures before his body was found. -
#ICE & #DHS: #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver (HBO)
Feb 16, 2026 #lastweektonight
"John Oliver discusses ICE’s repeated atrocities over the past months and explores the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. How it started, who runs it, and how many hats #KristiNoem owns."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KDUOHEZFk#USPol #ICESucks #AbollishDHS #AbolishICE #SepareteFEMA #FEMA
#PrivatePrisons #DetentionCenters #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NineEleven #Profiling #WarantlessSurveillance #SurveillanceState #Orwellian #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
Lying sacks of sh*t!!! #ICEOutForGood !
#Trump's #borderCzar says a 'small' security force will stay in #Minnesota
by Alina Selyukh
February 15, 2026"#Homan said an additional security force — described in size only as 'small' — will stay to 'respond to when our agents are out, and they get surrounded by #agitators and things got out of control.' "
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/15/nx-s1-5715151/minnesota-immigration-homan-security-force-stay#USPol #NPR #AbolishICE #DefundICE #AbolishCBP #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #SilencingDissent #Disappearing #ImmigrantsRights #Authoritarianism #SecretPolice #Gestapo
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What to know about Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend
By Meg Kinnard
"Only agencies under the DHS umbrella, such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration, are affected. Depending on how long the shutdown lasts, some federal workers could begin to miss paychecks." GOOD!
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-ice-funding-7bf62bc50ca0a6a6013a714bee2ffdb4
#ICEOutForGood #DefundICE #DefundDHS #DefundCBP #AbolishICE #USPol #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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The Woman #AlexPretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
“I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.
C. Frances, February 13 2026
Excerpts: "One of the women involved in the confrontation, who was the closest civilian to Pretti when he was killed, said that in the immediate aftermath of the shooting she identified herself as an emergency medical technician and moved to perform CPR. Federal agents restrained her, said the woman, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution by the government.
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"Government agencies have an obligation to give basic health care to people that they have arrested or detained, according to to Xavier de Janon, the director of mass defense at the National Lawyers Guild."
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/
#USPol #DefundICE #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #AbolishCBP #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #ICESucks
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"Free the captives
Fire to the cages
Make sure they can''t build again..."#KleeBenally, Dec 22, 2017
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAo1b2JqHwU#CapitalismIsTheEnemyOfMotherEarth #CapitalismIsTheEnemy #IndigenousAction #FridayNightMusicVideos
#MusicForTheResistance #RestInPowerKleeBenally
#RIPKleeBenally #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrison #PrisonersOfWar #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
#Resist #DefundICE #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #NativeAmericanActivists
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Recent #Fed #Court ruling affects right of #HabeasCorpus claims and means #Minnesota's immigrants ensnared in #BorderPatrol detentions and sent enmasse to #Texas deportation centers have little chance of returning north.
#ICE claims to have detained 4,000 people in Minnesota since Operation Metro Surge began in December, and likely few will make it back from El Paso to face typical trials.
https://www.startribune.com/court-ruling-means-minnesota-immigrants-sent-to-texas-may-have-little-chance-of-returning/601580036?utm_source=gift #GiftLink #SharedStory #MPLS
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This trans street medic was among 67 protesters arrested at Minneapolis hotel hosting ICE agents
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/minneapolis-hotel-ice-arrests-67
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Trump ending deportation surge in Minnesota, says border czar
Trump has agreed to end his unprecedented and hotly protested deportation surge in Minnesota, White House border czar Tom Homan said, with many immigration enforcement agents set to return to their home states over the next week. #unitedstates #donaldtrump #tomhoman #iceagents #borderpatrol #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow…
https://fllics.com/en/video/trump-ending-deportation-surge-in-minnesota-says-border-czar/
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Minnesota AG says Trump’s immigration ‘war’ is about ‘retribution’
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison testified before a US Senate committee, telling them 'this war on Minnesota is retribution... and it comes at a great cost,' referring to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the state. #minnesota #unitedstates #donaldtrump #borderpatrol #iceagents #News #Reuters #Newsfeed 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow…
https://fllics.com/en/video/minnesota-ag-says-trumps-immigration-war-is-about-retribution/
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#MarimarMartinez, a teaching assistant & #US #citizen, was shot 5 times by a #BorderPatrol agent in October while in her vehicle. She was charged with a felony after #DHS officials accused her of trying to ram agents with her vehicle. But the case was dismissed after videos emerged showing an agent steering his vehicle into Martinez’s vehicle.
#Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
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Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations
#BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.
#MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-chicago-shooting-crackdown-border-f05c446c37bf0cd7e7e2ad1dcfa104b1 -
Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations
#BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.
#MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-chicago-shooting-crackdown-border-f05c446c37bf0cd7e7e2ad1dcfa104b1 -
Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations
#BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.
#MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-chicago-shooting-crackdown-border-f05c446c37bf0cd7e7e2ad1dcfa104b1 -
Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations
#BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.
#MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-chicago-shooting-crackdown-border-f05c446c37bf0cd7e7e2ad1dcfa104b1 -
Lawyers of #Chicago woman shot by #FederalAgents say documents show how #DHS #lies about investigations
#BorderPatrol commander Greg #Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an #immigration crackdown last year, acc/to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the #Trump admin of mishandling the investigation & spreading lies about the #shooting.
#MarimarMartinez #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-chicago-shooting-crackdown-border-f05c446c37bf0cd7e7e2ad1dcfa104b1 -
#ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
February 10, 2026
Excerpt: "As of January, ICE’s expansion is heavily concentrated in a few key states. #Texas has at least 9 leasing projects underway. In #Harlingen, located near the US border with Mexico, a lease has been awarded at 222 East Van Buren, in the same building as the city’s Department of Labor–aligned outpost. (ICE has already detained dozens of Harlingen-area residents.) In the #Woodlands, a district near #Houston, ICE appears poised to move into an office building at 1780 Hughes Landing Boulevard, blocks away from a Primrose preschool. In #ElPaso, ICE is moving into the Epicenter Office Community, a large campus of buildings right off Interstate 10 near many local health providers and other businesses. In #SanAntonio, ICE is considering a move into a building located at 15727 Anthem Parkway, near apartment buildings, dozens of restaurants, and the Methodist Hospital Landmark. In #EaglePass, ICE appears to be looking at a move into a building at 3381 US Highway 277, where at least one government office—the Drug Enforcement Administration—is already located.
"A Trump administration official recently told WIRED that #California and #NewYork are 'next' for the type of fraud investigation that culminated in 3,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis. At least seven leasing projects are underway in California. In #Sacramento, ICE has installed security features at the John E. Moss building ahead of further expansion. The location is already the site of a Justice Department immigration court. In Irvine, a city in Orange County located an hour’s drive from #LosAngeles, ICE is moving into offices on 2020 Main Street, located right next to the airport and a childcare agency. In #VanNuys, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, ICE is expanding its offices at the James C. Corman federal building that also has offices for the IRS and Health and Human Services. Further expansion of ICE offices is also underway throughout the state, in federal buildings in Los Angeles, at San Diego’s Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse and federal building, and in Santa Ana’s federal building. The #SantaAna federal building is located within blocks of a church, the stadium for one of the nation's top high school football programs, and many government services.
"In New York and #NewJersey, ICE is expanding its physical footprint rapidly. In #RoselandNJ, less than an hour’s drive from New York City, ICE is moving into a building at 5 Becker Farm Road. The building is located near the Roseland Child Development Center. In #WoodburyNY, a hamlet in #LongIsland, ICE is moving into offices located at 88 Froehlich Farm Boulevard, near an expedited passport center. In #NewWindsor, New York, a town within driving distance of New York City along the Hudson River known for the Storm King Art Center, ICE is moving into offices at 843 Union Avenue. All three of these locations are within an hour and a half from a warehouse in #ChesterNY, that DHS is pursuing as an immigrant detention center.
"The same pattern plays out in dozens of other cities across the US. ICE’s expansion includes not just its own preexisting space—or sharing an office with other government agencies—but also situates its agents near sensitive civilian locations.
"That often includes places of worship. In #Hyattsville, Maryland, ICE is expanding its offices at the Metro 1 building on 6505 Belcrest Road, which sits a few blocks from a Lutheran church. In #Tennessee, OPLA is planning to move into the #Nashville House office building, a business center in the city near multiple churches. The #OneCityCenter building in #PortlandME, where ICE plans to expand its offices, is within walking distance to at least six churches, a mosque, one synagogue, and a Salvation Army adult rehab center. [Good to know. We'll be there protesting!]
"Several planned ICE office spaces are located near schools and early-childhood care centers. ICE is poised to move into a building on 1000 Westlakes Drive in the #Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, suburb of #Berwyn; the Hillside Elementary School is about a mile away. In #Hartford, Connecticut, OPLA is poised to expand existing ICE office space in the Abraham A. Ribicoff federal building, which sits two blocks from the Betances elementary school. Back in Tennessee, ICE is ready to move into offices at 5904 Ridgeway Center Parkway in Memphis, in a building near the private all-girls Hutchison School. In the #ColumbusOH, suburb of #Westerville, OPLA appears ready to move into a small office building at 774 Park Meadow, near the Oakstone Academy High School. In #MeridianID ICE is moving into the Portico at Meridian Center, which is located near the Spalding STEM Academy high school. And in #OakbrookIL, a suburb of #Chicago, ICE is moving into the Oakbrook Gateway, an office building located near both a Bright Horizons daycare center and a hospice center.
"Many other planned locations are near hospitals and medical offices. In #YorkPA, ICE’s OPLA division has leased space at Yorktowne Medical, a facility with multiple medical offices. In #ColumbiaSC, ICE is poised to move into offices at 1441 Main Street, which sits blocks away from the Prisma Health Baptist Hospital. In #NaplesFL, ICE is poised to move into offices at 75 Vineyards Boulevard, close to Physicians Regional Pine Ridge campus hospital.
"Other locations appear to be strategically situated near buildings that ICE either currently uses or could use to detain immigrants. The #Hyattsville location is about an hour and a half from a warehouse DHS recently purchased that ICE has said will be used to detain immigrants, as is a second office marked for OPLA use in #CockeysvilleMD.
"Among the many ICE leasing projects underway in Florida is Research Commons, a building located in #Orlando at 12249 Science Drive that’s less than 25 minutes away from another warehouse identified by the Post as a potential large-scale detention center. The York, #Pennsylvania, location is also an hour and 20 minutes away from a warehouse recently purchased by ICE for nearly $90 million that a Republican congressman said will be used as a processing and immigrant detention facility.
"In Alexandria, Louisiana, ICE is moving into a building on 1201 3rd Street, located right in the city’s historic downtown center and a 16-minute drive from the Alexandria Staging Facility, where immigrants have been detained, transferred, and then deported.
"#AlexandriaLA has emerged as a key location for ICE’s activities in the state and around the country, and an investigation from The Guardian alleged a pattern of abuse and alleged due process violations at the Alexandria facility that’s operated as a deportation 'hub.'
"This is just a sampling of the dozens and dozens of lease locations in the process of being awarded to ICE in every single GSA leasing region, which spans the entire country and US territories. ICE agents and officers will share buildings with doctors, restaurants, and businesses. They’ll expand existing offices and move in with unrelated government agencies—at 801 Arch Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for example, they’ll share space with the DMV."
Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/BQfRW#USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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“De Facto #Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront #ICE, #CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
#DemocracyNow, February 11, 2026
"House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out #MassDeportations. 'These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,' says Illinois Congressmember #DeliaRamirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of #immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. 'This is more than #authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,' says Texas Congressmember #AlGreen, who also spoke at the hearing."
Read / watch / listen:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/11/ice_congress#USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DetentionCenters #ICERaids #Terrorism #ViewerSupportedNews #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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#Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?
From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.
Nick Turse, February 2 2026
" '#Terrorist' is the word that the Trump administration employs to describe the victims of its most egregious acts of #StateViolence.
"President Donald Trump has used the word 'terrorist' to justify the #ExtrajudicialKillings of civilians in the #CaribbeanSea and #PacificOcean. And his deputies used it to explain away the killings of #AlexPretti and #ReneeGood in Minneapolis by federal agents." 'Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua #NarcoTerrorists,' Trump wrote following the initial boat strike on September 2, 2025. He said the attack 'occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters.'
"Secretary of Homeland Security #KristiNoem said that Good and Pretti were guilty of '#DomesticTerrorism.' And top White House adviser #StephenMiller used similar language to describe both.
"These killings were conducted thousands of miles apart by different agencies in very different contexts. But the connection between them could be more than semantic."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/02/trump-nspm-7-domestic-terrorist-minneapolis-alex-pretti/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7VepO##USPol #ICESucks #DomesticTerrorist #CriminalizingDissent #TrumpSucks #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #DefundICE #DefundDHS
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At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”
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At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”
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At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”
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At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”
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At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”
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“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer”
Local law enforcement officials also did not investigate when a #BorderPatrol agent shot & wounded a UScitizen in her car in #Chicago less than a month later. Or when an #ICE agent in #Phoenix shot a #Honduran man during a traffic stop later that month
local police did not open investigations into 6 of the 12 shootings by on-duty fed agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & #immigrants since Sept
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi
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OpEd: #StateTerror Has Arrived
By M. Gessen, Jan. 24, 2026
Excerpt:
"After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."Please look at this list with me. Since early January, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded its operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., federal officers have: killed Renee Good, a white middle-class mother; menaced a pregnant immigration lawyer in her firm’s parking lot; detained numerous U.S. citizens, including one who was dragged out of his house in his underwear; smashed in the windows of cars and detained their occupants, including a U.S. citizen who was on her way to a medical appointment at a traumatic brain injury center; set off crowd-control grenades and a tear gas container next to a car that contained six children, including a 6-month-old; swept an airport, demanding to see people’s papers and arresting more than a dozen people who were working there; detained a 5-year-old. And now they have killed another U.S. citizen, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an I.C.U. nurse with no criminal record. It seems he was white. The agents had him down on the ground, subdued, before they apparently fired at least 10 shots at point-blank range.
"Confronted with a list like this — a deluge like this — we look for details that might explain why these people were subjected to this treatment, details that might reassure us that we, by contrast, are not in danger. Good was in a relationship with a woman, and her partner, who is butch, spoke impertinently to an ICE officer, so there, Good wasn’t your average white mother after all. ChongLy Thao, the man who was dragged out of his house in his underwear, is an immigrant from Laos; he is not white, and presumably he speaks with an accent. The woman on her way to the medical appointment and the family with six kids drove through areas where anti-ICE protests were taking place. The 5-year-old child’s family doesn’t have permanent status. Little is known about Pretti at this writing, but his father said he did participate in protests and he might have been carrying a gun (legally).
"We don’t focus on these details in order to justify the federal agents’ actions, which are plainly brutal and unjustifiable; we do it to force the world to make sense, and to calm our nerves. If we don’t talk back, if we alter our routes to avoid protests, if we are lucky enough to be white, straight, natural-born Americans — or, if we are not, but we lie low, stay quiet — we will be safe. Conversely, we can choose to speak up, to go to protests, to take a risk. Either way, we tell ourselves, if we can predict the consequences, we have agency.
"But that’s not how state terror works.
In the 1990s, when I talked to people in the former Soviet Union about their families’ experiences of Stalinist terror, I was repeatedly struck by how much people seemed to know about their circumstances. Time and time again, people would tell me exactly what had led to their family members’ arrests or executions. Jealous neighbors had reported them to the authorities, or colleagues who had been arrested named them under duress. These stories had been passed on from generation to generation. How could they come to know so much, I wondered. They couldn’t. People crafted narratives out of suspicions, rumors and hints, to fill a desperate need for an explanation."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/G46SJ#ICEOut #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ICEOutForGood #USPol #Authoritarianism #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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🚨 The #GhostFlights: #Deportation Flights #Disappearing Thousands Arrested by #ICE
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 6, 2026
"We've been tracking the Ghost Flights, disappearing migrants, moms, asylum seekers, and others arrested in Minneapolis, who are quickly grabbed and taken away at a private terminal at Minneapolis international airport.
"The charter airlines are making it harder to track them, but here's what we found: #GlobalX, #Eastern and #Omni based in #TulsaOK, have operated most of these, with Sun Country also operating some of the flights.
"These secretive flights take those arrested to deportation hubs in isolated areas, where they are sent to prison, deported to other countries, or constantly shifted on flights. These secretive hubs are in #DadeCollier in the Florida Everglades; Alexandria in central Louisiana; and Harlingen on the Texas border.
"Those arrested are boarded shackled in chains from their wrists to their feet, and often denied water and food, and abused. While these secretive flights disappear people, their families desperately search for them.
"The flights out of #MesaAZ in the #Phoenix area are deporting hundreds on each flight to #Venezuela. A recent flight out of Mesa deported those arrested to #Russia and #Iran. The past flights show the men were immediately given #Draft notices for military service when they arrived in Russia. Protesters and political #AsylumSeekers face worse.
"As for the chartered airlines, the main contract is held by #CSI in #AlbuquerqueNM, who contracts out the other airlines.
"Yesterday, a Ghost Flight landed in #Guantanamo and then #Haiti. These are #moms, #workers, asylum seekers, #LegalResidents, and most are whisked away and denied due process. More than 2,000 have been deported from #Minneapolis.
"Other major hubs for deportation flights are #ElPaso, #Miami, #SanAntonio, and #TacomaWA. The deportation flights are arriving in every region of the world, the Americas, Asia, and Africa." 😱
Read more (includes flight maps):
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-ghost-flights-deportation-flights.html#ReaderSupportedNews #DefundICE #StopTheDeportations #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #ICESucks #KristiNoemSucks #USPol #SilencingDissent #Disappeared #Orwellian
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Whoa...Minneapolis Shooting | ICE Shooting | ICE Minneapolis | Minneapolis | Minnesota | Maria Alfonsina Martinez | Marimar Martinez Shooting | Marimar Martinez ICE Shooting | DHS Shooting In Washington DC, a Congressional forum by Democrats heard the testimony of Marimar Maria Martinez, a Chicago-based woman, who was shot by a Border Patrol Agent during a vehicle incident in Brighton Park late last year. #MinneapolisShooting #ICEShooting #ICE #DHS #CBP #BorderPatrol #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ReneeGood, #MarimarMartinez #MariaAlfonsinaMartinez #ImmigrationEnforcement #PoliceBrutality #CongressHearing, #BreakingNews, #LiveNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUV9AiMfrs0 -
#DHS NIGHTMARE grows as HORRIFIC texts between #borderpatrol agents BRAGGING about repeatedly shooting #MarimarMartinez, a young woman and US citizen, get read ALOUD by #Democrat #RobertGarcia during congressional hearing. #JohnIadarola and #SharonReed break it down youtu.be/mtFfWQb4abo?...
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"It can't be White Supremacy because Alex Pretti's shooters were Latino"
What's the Spanish for 'Kapo' though?
I can believe fascists would betray their own race for fascism....White People do it all the time...and anyway, they shot White People, not their own.
#ICE #ICEMUSTBBDESTROYED #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Facists #Nazis #DHS #BorderPatrol #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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"It can't be White Supremacy because Alex Pretti's shooters were Latino"
What's the Spanish for 'Kapo' though?
I can believe fascists would betray their own race for fascism....White People do it all the time...and anyway, they shot White People, not their own.
#ICE #ICEMUSTBBDESTROYED #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Facists #Nazis #DHS #BorderPatrol #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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"It can't be White Supremacy because Alex Pretti's shooters were Latino"
What's the Spanish for 'Kapo' though?
I can believe fascists would betray their own race for fascism....White People do it all the time...and anyway, they shot White People, not their own.
#ICE #ICEMUSTBBDESTROYED #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Facists #Nazis #DHS #BorderPatrol #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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"It can't be White Supremacy because Alex Pretti's shooters were Latino"
What's the Spanish for 'Kapo' though?
I can believe fascists would betray their own race for fascism....White People do it all the time...and anyway, they shot White People, not their own.
#ICE #ICEMUSTBBDESTROYED #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Facists #Nazis #DHS #BorderPatrol #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy