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ICE Goons Give ‘Sick’ Response to ‘60 Minutes’ Report

Trump’s immigration agency mocked a deported father’s sexuality in an extraordinary attack. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s immigration enforcers…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #departmentofhomelandsecurity #dhs #Ghana #Houston #ICE #Immigration #immigrationandcustomsenforcement #Mali #MarkwayneMullin #Texas #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/786822/

Massive Groups of Volunteers Are Ready to Face Down ICE at the Polls

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/massive-groups-of-volunteers-are-ready-to-face-down-ice-at-the-polls/

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/65181/ Political appointee turnover at unprecedented levels under Trump administration #ChrisPiper #CommerceDepartment #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #ExecutiveBranch #PartnershipForPublicService #PoliticalAppointees #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #SeniorExecutiveService #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouse&ExecutiveBranch

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/62738/ Trump Judges Savaged by Colleagues Over ‘Sham History’ #Constitution #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldJTrump #FederalCourts #FederalCourt #ice #immigration #judge #justice #MAGA #trumpland

https://www.europesays.com/3328256/ Amish woman uses weed whacker to scare off illegal migrant allegedly threatening to kidnap her at knifepoint #amish #arrests #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ice #IllegalImmigrants #kidnappings #migrant #Pennsylvania #StatePolice #USNews

https://www.europesays.com/3328254/ Family of Orange County teen detained by ICE receives wave of support, hope for a ‘miracle’ #arrest #asylum #AsylumSeekers #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ice #Immigration #OrangeCounty

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/60924/ Hochul calls on ICE to release Guillen, Lin #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #GovKathyHochul #JoeMorelle #LocalGovernment #StateGovernment

https://www.europesays.com/people/276357/ Donald Trump Throws ICE Barbie Aide Corey Lewandowski Under the Bus #CoreyLewandowski #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #KristiNoem #Trump

https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/47374/ What The U.S. Military’s ‘Heat Ray’ Weapon Does To Your Body #DepartmentOfDefense #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #IllegalImmigration #immigration #Pentagon #USMilitary #Weapons

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/57342/ Pentagon allows DHS to test military-grade heat ray for potential use at US-Mexico border #ActiveDenialSystem #Defense #Defense&Pentagon #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #MilitaryGradeHeatRay #pentagon #PeteHegseth #USMexicoBorder

https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/46549/ Pentagon allows DHS to test military-grade heat ray for potential use at US-Mexico border #ActiveDenialSystem #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #MilitaryGradeHeatRay #News #Pentagon #PentagonNews #PeteHegseth #UsMexicoBorder

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/56712/ House passes short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown before the election #Congress #CustomsAndBorderProtection #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #HouseAndSenate #HouseAppropriationsCommittee #MikeJohnson #RosaDelauro #Senate #TomCole #USCongress #USSenate

DHS launches nationwide ICE operation targeting illegal immigrants accused of SNAP food stamp fraud https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/58018/ #benefits #crime #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #FoodStamps #fraud #ice #IllegalImmigrants #NewYork #NewYorkFood #USNews

https://www.europesays.com/3323197/ Federal government renews temporary protected status for Ukrainian refugees #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #deport #Dhs #EmoryMorsberger #extend #extended #HelpingUkraineUS #ice #Immigration #Refugees #Sudán #TemporaryProtectedStatus #tps #Ukraine #Ukrainian #Vatican #WhiteHouse

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/55143/ Senator rings alarm bells on waste and fraud at DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ForeignPolicy #GaryPeters #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #SecureAmericaAct #SenateHomelandSecurityAndGovernmentalAffairs #USForeignPolicy

Accountability Without a Reign of Terror

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — October 20, 2026

Day One

There is a difference between justice and vengeance, and the United States is going to have to remember that difference very quickly.

On March 5, 2026, President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem from her position as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Her removal followed months of public controversy surrounding immigration enforcement operations and the conduct of federal agencies under DHS authority.

The removal of Department of Homeland Security leadership did not come out of nowhere. It came after months of public outrage over immigration operations, federal conduct during enforcement actions, and several deaths that were captured on video and circulated widely across the country. Americans saw those events for themselves. They watched those videos replayed again and again, examined them almost nanosecond by nanosecond, argued about them in public, and reached their own conclusions about what happened.

That reality creates a difficult problem. When an entire country has already seen the evidence, the idea of a completely untouched jury becomes nearly impossible. But the solution to that problem cannot be to avoid accountability altogether. When the public record already contains evidence of possible crimes, the legal system has a responsibility to investigate, document, and prosecute where appropriate.

At the same time, accountability must not turn into a political purge.

History offers many examples of what happens when a society swings from injustice into vengeance. The French Revolution began with legitimate grievances about corruption and abuse. It ended, for a time, with a cycle of accusations, tribunals, and executions that damaged the very idea of justice. The United States cannot allow itself to fall into that same trap.

The Danger of the Scapegoat

One of the most common mistakes after a political crisis is the creation of a scapegoat. When a large system fails, people look for a single name to blame. That approach is emotionally satisfying, but it rarely reflects reality.

If crimes were committed by officials at the Department of Homeland Security or by officers acting under federal authority, then those crimes must be investigated. But focusing on one figure alone would miss the larger problem. Large bureaucracies do not act by themselves. Policies are written by lawyers, approved by supervisors, implemented by field commanders, and defended by political leadership.

In other words, systems fail collectively.

Accountability must therefore follow the chain of responsibility. That includes the political leadership that created the environment, the administrators who authorized policy, the officers who carried out actions on the ground, and the legal advisors who attempted to justify those actions after the fact.

Without that broader investigation, punishing a single official would only disguise the deeper institutional problems that allowed those events to occur.

Justice Requires a Public Record

The most important part of accountability is not punishment. It is documentation.

Courts matter, but so do investigative commissions, public hearings, inspector general reports, and civil litigation. These processes establish the historical record. They determine who knew what, who gave the orders, and how decisions were made inside government institutions.

Once that record exists, the consequences can take many forms. Some individuals may face criminal prosecution. Others may face civil liability, professional discipline, or permanent disqualification from public office. The goal is not revenge. The goal is clarity.

A democratic society cannot move forward if it refuses to examine what happened.

Structural Reform

Accountability must also address the structure of government itself.

The Department of Homeland Security was created during a moment of national fear after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Over time, that department accumulated enormous authority across immigration enforcement, intelligence coordination, border control, and domestic security operations. In practice, the result has been a complex bureaucracy with overlapping jurisdictions and limited transparency.

Critics across the political spectrum have argued for years that this structure has become difficult to supervise and prone to abuse. The controversies surrounding federal immigration enforcement and the conduct of certain operations have only intensified those concerns.

Serious reform must therefore consider whether the current structure still serves the public interest. That could include reorganizing agencies, redistributing responsibilities across existing departments, or dismantling parts of the system that have become ineffective or dangerous.

Healing Without Forgetting

The United States faces a familiar historical challenge. After periods of political conflict, nations must decide how to restore stability while still confronting wrongdoing.

Ignoring abuses allows them to return. Pursuing revenge destroys the legitimacy of the justice system. The path forward lies somewhere between those extremes.

That means conducting real investigations, bringing credible cases to court, and allowing the legal system to function openly. It means documenting what happened so future generations understand how these events unfolded. And it means reforming institutions so the same failures cannot easily occur again.

Justice requires accountability. But justice also requires restraint.

If the United States can remember both of those principles at the same time, the country has a chance to repair itself without repeating the worst mistakes of history.

For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com

This article is part of the long-term WPS News historical archive project and may later be preserved in printed collections for libraries and research institutions.

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/52941/ US Bars DeepSeek From Civilian Federal Agencies and Government Contracts #ChinaAIProcurementRestrictions #DeepSeek #DeepSeekFederalContractBan #DeepSeekRemovedFromCivilianFederalAgencySystems #Defense #Defense&Pentagon #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #FASCSAExclusionRemovalOrder #MarkwayneMullin #pentagon #USGovernmentBansDeepSeekFromFederalContracts

Feds Grant Temporary Reprieve to 100K From Ukraine, Sudan

More than 100,000 people from Ukraine and Sudan can stay in the United States without immediate risk…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #Deportation #Sudan #TemporaryProtectedStatus
https://www.europesays.com/ukraine/58219/

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/48920/ Sen. Markey goes ‘On the Record’ #AbolishIce #BostonInternship #BostonPolitics #ChuckSchumer #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DHS #EdMarkey #ice #MarkeyPost #MaryAnneMarsh #MassachusettsPolitics #MassachusettsSenateRace #MauraHealey #OnTheRecord #PoliticalCampaigns #PoliticalParties #PublicRecords #Question1 #Question3 #Question5 #Question8 #RahmEmanuel #RobGray #SenateDemocrats #TrumpImpeachment #WCVB

Texas voter registrations hit record 19 million

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/774210/

https://www.europesays.com/news/88624/ Texas voter registrations hit record 19 million #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #elections #Hays #Headlines #News #TexasSecretaryOfState #TopStories #WellCHomepage

https://www.europesays.com/people/269366/ Mamdani leads New York Democrats in demanding parking lot owners ban ICE #democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ICE #IllegalImmigrants #NewYorkCity #Shootings #TrumpAdministration #ZohranMamdani

https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/39855/ DOT sets up no-drone zone along southern border #CounterUAS #CounterDrone #CounterUnmannedAircraftSystems(cUas) #DepartmentOfDefense(dod) #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity(dhs) #DepartmentOfTransportation #drones #TemporaryFlightRestriction #USDefense

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/44164/ DOT sets up no-drone zone along southern border #CounterDrone #CounterUas #CounterUnmannedAircraftSystems(cUas) #DepartmentOfDefense(DoD) #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity(dhs) #DepartmentOfTransportation #Drones #ForeignPolicy #TemporaryFlightRestriction #USForeignPolicy

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/41962/ ICE resists automatic activation of body cameras despite oversight concerns #BodyWornCameras #CBP #CustomsAndBorderProtection #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DHS #GAO #GovernmentAccountabilityOffice #HomelandSecurity #HomelandSecurityDepartment #ice #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationEnforcement #ImmigrationOfficers #LawEnforcement #PoliticalInvestigations #ThomasHoman #USDepartmentOfHomelandSecurity

Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s $20 Million Ad Campaign

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurenglish.net/blocks-trump-20-million-ad-campaign/

A letter from an ICE detention center: A pastor writes from inside

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://religionnews.com/2026/10/14/a-letter-from-a-detention-center-a-pastor-writes-from-inside/

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/38502/ Trump is staffing up agencies with political appointees. They’re not sticking around, new analysis finds #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ExecutiveBranch #OfficeOfPersonnelManagement #PartnershipForPublicService #PoliticalAppointees #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #ScheduleC #SeniorExecutiveService #StaffTurnover #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouse&ExecutiveBranch

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/38494/ DHS Says Immigration Fine Blitz Helped Spur 82,000 Self-Deportations #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #FederalPolicy #ice #immigration #MassDeportations #Policy #TrumpAdministration

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/37438/ DHS Budget Talks in Congress May Touch “Sanctuary Cities” #&Governance #Appropriations #Budget #Congress #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity(dhs) #HouseAndSenate #immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement(ICE) #LawEnforcement #LocalGovernment #Senate #USCongress #USSenate

NY rejects 16,000 Trump ICE detainers for illegal migrants accused or convicted in over 52,000 crimes

WASHINGTON — New York blew off 16,000 Trump administration ICE orders to detain suspected heinous illegal migrants accused…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #departmentofhomelandsecurity #Exclusive #ICE #Immigration #NewYork #Politics #UnitedStates #Us #USNews #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/767929/

https://www.europesays.com/3306101/ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s DC home raided by DHS as part of probe into Democrat’s immigration paperwork #congress #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #IlhanOmar #immigrant #TomHoman #UsHouseOfRepresentatives #USNews #WashingtonDc

https://www.europesays.com/people/263016/ Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Running Taxpayer Funded Ads #CommonCause #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #TrumpAds

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Running Taxpayer Funded Ads That Promote POTUS
#News #Politics #CommonCause #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumpads

https://deadline.com/2026/10/judge-orders-halt-to-trump-ads-1237154527/

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/31882/ Supreme Court tells Wyoming to pay teachers more #Arizona #CoreyLewandowski #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #divorce #EducationFunding #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationEnforcement #Kansas #KristiNoem #Meatpacking #OutWestRoundup #PrisonHealthCare #SouthDakota #SupremeCourt

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/31234/ DHS data-migration guidance falls short as modernization project nears #DataMigration #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity(dhs) #FederalEmergencyManagementAgency(fema) #FinancialManagementSystems #GovernmentAccountabilityOffice(gao) #PoliticalInvestigations #USImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement

https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/30674/ Janelle Stelson in Striking Distance of Flipping GOP Seat Amid DHS Attack #Congress #Democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #Elections #HouseAndSenate #midterms #Pennsylvania #Polls #Republicans #Senate #TrumpAdministration #USCongress #USSenate #USPolitics

https://www.europesays.com/people/260763/ Trump DHS boss rips Mamdani for calling ICE ‘rotten to its core,’ says mayor ‘won’t even stand up for his NYPD officers’ #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #NYCIceShooting2026 #Politics #USNews #ZohranMamdani

https://www.europesays.com/people/260617/ ICE SHOOTING: Homeland Security Secretary Mullin offers murky account of events, false claims about Mamdani response to stabbed cop #BronxProtests #BronxNews #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #FederalImmigrationEnforcement #ICEShooting #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JoseMercedes #KathyHochul #MarbleHill #MarkwayneMullin #NewYorkCityPolitics #NYPD #OscarBelgal #PmNewsletter #ZohranMamdani

Markwayne Mullin Uses ChatGPT to Push a Red-State-to-Blue Immigration Conspiracy

Markwayne Mullin asked ChatGPT how red states turn blue, then blamed immigrants. His leap exposes a conspiracy narrative that the evidence does not support.

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/ice-emails-discuss-using-palantir-supported-tool-to-investigate-voter-fraud/

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-dumping-protester-photos-into-a-palantir-database/

Supreme Court Backs Use of SAVE Database for Voter Citizenship Checks

In a significant move, the Supreme Court has ruled that states can use the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE database to verify voter citizenship, paving the way for more accurate and secure elections. This decision allows state and local election officials to request citizenship checks,…

https://osintsights.com/supreme-court-backs-use-of-save-database-for-voter-citizenship-checks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#VoterCitizenshipChecks #SaveDatabase #SupremeCourt #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ElectionAdministration

ICE arrests at Liberty restaurant deemed unlawful by federal judge https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/27865/ #arrests #court #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #dhs #ice #ImmigrationsAndCustomsEnforcement #LibertyRestaurant #Missouri #MissouriDining #MissouriFood #MissouriGroceryStores #MissouriRestaurants #ruling #stated

SoCal food truck owner accused of alleged illegal food stamp transactions https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6524/ #California #CaliforniaFood #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #FoodDrink #FoodStamps #FoodTrucks #fraud #Metro #USNews #USDA

DHS says man who stalked, executed woman at Panera Bread was in the U.S. illegally

Immigration officials say man who stalked, executed woman at Panera Bread was in th…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #country #departmentofhomelandsecurity #deputy #dhs #highway #Immigration #investigator #man #office #panerabread #police #restrainingorder #rohit #RohitRohit #Sacramento #sacramentocountysheriff'soffice #shalinithakur #sheriff #UnitedStates #Us #USA #vehicle #woman
https://www.newsbeep.com/728327/

What we forget when we remember 9/11

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/politics-issues/2026/09/11/318955/what-we-forget-when-we-remember-9-11/

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem Alleged Lover Corey Lewandowski Hit by Bombshell Accusations

Corey Lewandowski faces a series of damning claims. Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Corey Lewandowski, the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CoreyLewandowski #departmentofhomelandsecurity #donald-j-trump #kristi-noem #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/724581/

ICE Wants to Know Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/ice-wants-to-know-who-bought-a-certain-green-beanie-from-rei-in-the-last-2-years/

https://www.alojapan.com/1534846/dhs-chief-mayorkas-spends-under-six-hours-in-helene-hit-nc-before-grabbing-sushi-at-dc-nobu-complete-failure/ DHS chief Mayorkas spends under six hours in Helene-hit NC before grabbing sushi at DC Nobu: ‘Complete failure’ #Democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HurricaneHelene #JapaneseRestaurant #JapaneseRestaurantsInWashington #NorthCarolina #politics #republicans #UsHouseOfRepresentatives #UsNews #Washington #WashingtonDc Something’s fishy about this. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spent less than six hours visiting h

Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-ice-in-louisiana/

The County Prosecutors Who Became ICE Informants

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-county-prosecutors-who-became-ice-informants/

Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/border-wall-construction-threatens-6000-years-of-history/

Supreme Court Backs Trump Mail Voting Order, For Now

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/supreme-court-backs-trump/

Veterans For Peace Will Not Be Intimidated by U.S. Government Surveillance

Veterans For Peace Statement - August 19, 2026
[first screenshot below]

#VeteransForPeace (#VFP) is not surprised by news reports that our #TwinCities VFP Chapter 27, along with activists and organizations associated with #DirectActionMinnesota (#DAMN), was targeted by the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity (#DHS) for #surveillance. The #Trump regime has repeatedly shown itself to be lawless and to have no respect for truth or the well-being of people in our country or around the world.

PDF of statement can be found here:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/RX9EJ78PHC#YAk7jgrw8IfD

PDF of statement of Twin Cities Veterans for Peace (second screenshot) can be found here:
https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/images/van/EA/EA015/1/94223/images/PDFs/VFP27-statement.pdf

#DefendFreeSpeech #DefendRightToProtest
#news #politics #veterans #US #USpol #USA
#Minnesota #protest
@usa

"Locked up and locked in. The #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity spent $2.2 BILLION in the past two MONTHS purchasing FOUR #ICEDetentionCenters from a single private prison company. The firm CoreCivic — which Donald Trump TRADED STOCK IN as recently as last winter
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ICE’s $2.2 Billion Prison Buy-...

ICE detains a beloved Philadelphia drag queen. The community is asking for support

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/philadelphia-drag-queen-ice-custody

The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-painful-truth-of-exactly-how-ice-new-shock-gloves-actually-work/

CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-workers-allegedly-used-government-databases-to-spy-on-exes-crushes-and-colleagues/

Why a drone flying over a South LA community garden drew FBI response https://www.allforgardening.com/?p=1929274 #2026FIFAWorldCup #2028Olympics #AmirEhsaei #backyard #BzZhang #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #dhs #drones #FanFestival #FBI #FederalBureauOfInvestigations #fifa #FIFAWorldCup #GreenhouseLA #JeffersonBoulevard #JeffersonPark #LANeighborhoodLandTrust #LA28 #Olympics2028 #SoFiStadium #south #SouthBackyardGarden #SouthBackyardGardening #ufc #WendySalvador #WorldCup