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New York Times: Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force. This link goes to a gift article. “Screenshots of internal documents and communications obtained by The New York Times show that Salesforce has pitched Immigration and Customs Enforcement on using the company’s artificial intelligence capabilities to help ICE staff up as Mr. Trump expands immigration raids […]
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Civil Discourse – Are We the Nazis Now? -Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Are We the Nazis Now?
By Joyce Vance, Oct 13, 2025
It’s hard to watch. People being treated like they are less than human because of their perceived immigration status. Like this six-year-old girl.
In early October, federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI, and ATF arrested 37 people in a raid on a Chicago apartment building at 7500 S. South Shore Drive. They banged on residents’ doors overnight, according to a report in the Chicago Sun Times, “pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said.” A witness said she saw “agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans,” and that “kids were separated from their mothers.” DHS claimed the neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but offered no evidence in support and didn’t confirm that any of those arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.
Earlier this month, at West Loop Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, ICE was forced to release two sisters it pulled out of their car at a school pick up, because they have legal status under DACA. But that didn’t stop the masked agents, captured on video by a quick-thinking teacher, from surrounding the car and smashing its windows before dragging the two out. One of the sisters cried out her name and where she lived to bystanders, an apparent effort to prevent being “disappeared” into ICE custody.
Are We the Nazis Now? by Joyce Vance
How do we meet this moment?
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Concerns mount over increased violence among federal immigration agents – NPR
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
October 13, 202512:57 PM ET
By Meg Anderson
Federal officers detain a person while members of the community and activists protest near the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue, Oct. 4, in Chicago. Armando L. Sanchez / Tribune News ServiceThere are countless videos on social media showing similar scenes. One, filmed by a photographer in Hyattsville, Md., shows a man pinned to the ground by two ICE officers. He pleads in Spanish and English for someone to help him.
During the incident, one of the officers drops his gun and fumbles for it. Then, he appears to point it at bystanders. Emily Covington, an assistant director in ICE’s Office of Public Affairs, told NPR in a statement that drawing a weapon can be used as a de-escalation tactic.
Another video, from Broadview, Ill., near Chicago, appears to show a man outside an ICE facility getting shot in the head with a pepper ball, a projectile filled with chemical irritants. That man, Pastor David Black, has sued the Trump administration.
Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car at that same facility, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Broadview Police are now investigating.
“These are just the tip of the iceberg,” says Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “People being tackled, people getting pepper sprayed or tear gassed. We’ve seen people getting threatened. And we’ve seen at least two incidents involving gunfire.”
A majority of Americans do not approve of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, according to a recent survey from The New York Times and Siena University. Yet in Chicago, immigrant advocate groups say federal immigration officers are escalating those tactics and becoming more violent.
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The Register: ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads. “US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking contractors to trawl social media and other open-source data for potential immigration enforcement leads, assuming public posts can yield actionable intelligence.”
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US Citizen Detained At Work Files Class Action Suit to Stop Raids
“I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” said U.S. citizen Leo Garcia Venegas.https://murica.website/2025/10/us-citizen-detained-at-work-files-class-action-suit-to-stop-raids/
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ICE Agent Who Attacked Woman in Courthouse Has Been Reinstated
The agent attacked the woman after her husband was abducted following a court appearance on his asylum application.https://murica.website/2025/09/ice-agent-who-attacked-woman-in-courthouse-has-been-reinstated/
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Over 60 Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into Trump Administration’s Disappearances
The Trump administration has disappeared thousands of people to countries they have no connection to. -
Federal Agents Are Abducting Any DC Residents Who Appear Latino, New Suit Says
Federal agents detained one resident while he was on his way to dialysis treatment, according to the complaint. -
DHS Takes Down Video Featuring Theo Von After Von Demands Its Removal
The Trump administration often uses pop culture in its propaganda videos, including songs by Taylor Swift and Jay-Z. -
Ossoff, Warnock Demand Trump Admin Answer for Record Deaths in ICE Custody
Ten people died in ICE custody in the first six months of the year. -
Ossoff, Warnock Demand Trump Admin Answer for Record Deaths in ICE Custody
Ten people died in ICE custody in the first six months of the year. -
Ossoff, Warnock Demand Trump Admin Answer for Record Deaths in ICE Custody
Ten people died in ICE custody in the first six months of the year. -
Ossoff, Warnock Demand Trump Admin Answer for Record Deaths in ICE Custody
Ten people died in ICE custody in the first six months of the year. -
Ossoff, Warnock Demand Trump Admin Answer for Record Deaths in ICE Custody
Ten people died in ICE custody in the first six months of the year. -
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
The executive order comes in the midst of the Trump administration’s widespread attacks on the First Amendment. -
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
The executive order comes in the midst of the Trump administration’s widespread attacks on the First Amendment. -
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
The executive order comes in the midst of the Trump administration’s widespread attacks on the First Amendment. -
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
The executive order comes in the midst of the Trump administration’s widespread attacks on the First Amendment. -
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
The executive order comes in the midst of the Trump administration’s widespread attacks on the First Amendment. -
Politico: Judge tells Meta not to share Instagram users’ information with Trump admin . “A U.S. district court judge ordered Meta on Friday not to provide the Department of Homeland Security with the personal information of Instagram users accused of releasing personal details about a border patrol agent.”
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DHS Official Calls California Ban on Masked Agents “Garbage”
“No one wants masked officers roaming their communities and kidnapping people with impunity,” said the bill’s sponsor.https://murica.website/2025/09/dhs-official-calls-california-ban-on-masked-agents-garbage/
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DHS Official Calls California Ban on Masked Agents “Garbage”
“No one wants masked officers roaming their communities and kidnapping people with impunity,” said the bill’s sponsor.https://murica.website/2025/09/dhs-official-calls-california-ban-on-masked-agents-garbage/
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Techdirt: Activists Are Using AI To ‘Identify’ ICE Officers And That’s Definitely Not Good News. “I’m not sure what software Skinner is running on this particular box, but asserting a whole face can be accurately determined from only 35% of a face is a non-starter. I certainly wouldn’t trust cops with this tech add-on to existing facial recognition software. It’s no more trustworthy […]
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DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is “Doxxing,” Vows Prosecutions
Recording on-duty law enforcement agents is protected by the First Amendment. -
DHS Launches Crackdown in Chicago Despite Objections From Mayor, Illinois Gov
“People all across Chicagoland are coming together to reject Trump's impending occupation,” one advocate said. -
DOJ Board Says Millions of Immigrants Can Be Jailed During Removal Proceedings
The ruling would force immigrants to litigate their cases — a process that could take years — while being detained. -
ICE Is Incarcerating Immigrants at Angola, Louisiana’s Max Security Prison
Angola sits on the grounds of a former slave plantation and is notorious for violating incarcerated people’s rights. -
Trump Admin to Financially Reward Police Agencies For Working with ICE
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on September 2 that it will financially reward local law enforcement agencies that carry out its anti-immigrant agenda, effectively creating an incentive system in which the more people wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that an agency abducts, the more money it stands to make. “Starting October 1, 2025…
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Federal Agents Expected to Flood Chicago to Carry Out Anti-Immigrant Raids
This week, the Trump administration plans to flood Chicago with federal officers to carry out its anti-immigrant agenda, according to news reports. “The operation is expected to kick off in Chicago by this Friday and could involve agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and potentially be backed by guard forces in a peacekeeping role…
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ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids
At a court hearing on Wednesday, the judge didn’t rule on Mario Guevara’s petition to be released.
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Advocates Call on Newsom to Investigate Death of Man Who Was Fleeing ICE Raid
Carlos Montoya, a Guatemalan father and day laborer, was hit by a car while fleeing an ICE raid in Monrovia, California.
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White House Clashes With Jack White After Using His Song to Promote Deportation
The Trump administration frequently uses popular music in its propaganda videos, including by artists who oppose Trump.
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Straight Arrow News: Interactive ‘ICE Detention Map’ shows 71% of detainees have no criminal record. “Markers on the map vary in size and color based on the number of people held at specific facilities. A privately run detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, for example, is tagged with a large red circle indicating it was holding 1,137 detainees. Of those, 39%, or 443 people, had […]
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Techdirt: Kristi Noem, DHS Again Getting Shitty Because Tech Tools Are Being Used To Warn People About ICE . “Suck it up, shitbirds. You’re the beneficiaries of full-throated support from a megalomaniac who has just untied the purse strings and dumped pretty much everything in it into ICE’s back pocket. ICE is on its way to becoming the largest law enforcement recipient of federal tax […]
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Children, Pregnant Women Mistreated in Immigration Detention, Sen. Ossoff Says
One woman bled for days before she was taken to a hospital, where she miscarried alone in a room.
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The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests – The Washington Post
Sherman Austin, 42, created StopICE.net, which allows its users to report and track suspected Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity nationwide. (Rick Loomis / For The Washington Post)Immigration
The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests
The Trump administration claims sites tracking immigration officers are putting law enforcement at risk. The creators say they’re helping shield people from a modern-day “Gestapo.”
Updated, July 20, 2025 at 10:09 a.m. EDT, today at 10:09 a.m. EDT, 12 min
By Robert Klemko
Two decades ago, Sherman Austin decided the life of an internet activist was no longer worth the trouble. He’d landed in federal prison at 20 years old after investigators found instructions on how to make a bomb on a website he hosted. After a year behind bars, Austin retired his self-taught coding skills.
Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad allege that ICE officers represented themselves as police in a ruse to get them out of their apartment and arrest them. (Alex Brandon / AP)He found work as a low-voltage electrician in Long Beach, trained in mixed martial arts and started a family.Then President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign roiled the Los Angeles region. Austin thought of his high school-aged children and the prospect of masked, anonymous federal officers entering their school to make arrests.
The community would need to be alerted if that happened, he thought, so undocumented people could escape and less vulnerable people might show up and protest.After several late-night coding marathons, Austin launched StopICE.net, which invites people to report sightings of suspected federal officers and notifies users who sign up for alerts.
The network now boasts over 470,000 subscribers nationwide. It is one of dozens of sites that have launched in recent months as both undocumented immigrants and many U.S. citizens grow alarmed at the scale of Trump’s deportation campaign and the aggressive tactics officers are using to detain people.
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Mashable: ICE just got access to 79 million Americans’ Medicaid data. “In documents obtained exclusively by the Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) agreed to provide demographic and location data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, including names, addresses, and ethnicities, in order to more […]
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: Meet your new national police force – CNN What Matters
: Meet your new national police force
By Zackary B. Wolf
The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren’t afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers and pluck nonviolent undocumented immigrants off the street is about to become the best-funded federal police force.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already been acting with impunity during President Donald Trump’s second term.
Get used to ICE
Video of agents on horseback and in armored personnel vehicles in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles is striking both for its demonstration of militarized power and for the total inability of the city’s Mayor Karen Bass to do anything about it.
“They need to leave and they need to leave right now,” she told reporters on the scene Monday.
But Trump administration officials feel no need to listen to local authorities in a city like Los Angeles.
“Better get used to us now, because this going to be normal very soon,” El Centro Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino told Fox News on Monday, responding to Bass.
That new normal may come as a shock to Americans unused to a federal national police force operating inside the country.
The megabill Trump signed last week will elevate ICE in the American consciousness and on American streets.
A flood of cash
ICE will have more funding in the coming years than any other federal law enforcement agency, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at pro-immigrant American Immigration Council.
The new law allocates $75 billion for ICE through 2029 to order as many as 10,000 new agents and to build detention facilities for more than 100,000 additional people.
“It makes ICE a higher-funded law enforcement agency than the entire FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals Service and Bureau of Prisons combined,” Reichlin-Melnick explained, after averaging that $75 billion across the next four years, more than doubling ICE’s budget in each of those years.
A new part of American life
With all that money and the OK to hire new agents, ICE will become even more visible.
“Most people in the United States are going to experience immigration enforcement for the first time in their lives,” predicted David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
The spectacle will be the point
The future Bier foresees looks like this:
“US citizens being interrogated on the streets about their citizenships; ICE agents in apartment buildings knocking down doors; National Guard troops on the streets blocking traffic. At your workplace, your home, your neighborhood, your park, in a very visible way and intentionally so,” he said.
Making raids and actions as visible as possible may be designed to scare immigrants out of the country and deter anyone who might otherwise come.
Bier also anticipates a “mad dash to spend all of this money in the next three years,” before the next presidential election.
No longer primarily targeting violent criminals
Already, the pace and intensity of ICE’s actions have increased.
There was a major spike in the number of ICE arrests in June, to more than 34,000, according to data compiled by the Syracuse University immigration researcher Austin Kocher. At the same time, the number of detentions has risen to more than 50,000.
The profile of the detained population has also changed, according to Kocher. When Trump took office, most detainees had a criminal conviction. Now, a third of detainees may have only a civil immigration violation.
And most of the arrests are taking place inside the country rather than at the border, according to Kocher.
Corners will have to be cut
As ICE begins a hiring and construction frenzy, look for mistakes to be made, according to Garrett Graff, who has written about a similar effort to quickly tighten border security with new border agents after 9/11. At that time, agencies, including ICE, were reorganized under the now-massive Department of Homeland Security.
“What happens when a law enforcement agency at any level grows too rapidly is well-documented,” he wrote in his Doomsday Scenario newsletter. “Hiring standards fall, training is cut short, field training officers end up being too inexperienced to do the right training, and supervisors are too green to know how to enforce policies and procedures well.”
There were ultimately stories about corruption and agents recruited by drug cartels.
Now there could be “a tidal wave of applicants who are specifically attracted by the rough-em-up, masked secret police tactics, no-holds-barred lawlessness that ICE has pursued since January,” Graff wrote.
ICE agents operate outside of the normal judicial system
Immigration enforcement is not criminal law enforcement, which means agents don’t have to adhere to the standards of FBI agents or local law enforcement.
“You get an agency which is primarily oriented at non-citizens, but also authorized to arrest citizens at the same time for certain violations of law,” Reichlin-Melnick said.
ICE agents have also operated intentionally in anonymity, an adjustment for anyone who expects law enforcement to identify themselves.
The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to protect agents from doxxing.
“I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, and their family on the line, because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” said ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons during a press conference in Boston in June.
Trump officials also seem ready to arrest local officials if it comes to that. Border czar Tom Homan said anyone, including local and state elected officials, could be arrested by ICE.
“You can protest if you want; you have that First Amendment right,” he told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in June. “But when you cross the line of putting your hands on an ICE officer, impeding our enforcement operations, knowingly harboring and concealing illegal alien, that’s a crime.”
ICE will also begin looking to detain and deport people who committed no crime. Entering the US illegally is a civil offense, which is certainly deportable. But the Trump administration has also moved to remove the legal status of literally millions of migrants, according to Bier.
It has moved to revoke temporary protective status for multiple groups of migrants from Central and South America, including Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.
The Trump administration is now primed to turbocharge efforts to denaturalize, or take citizenship away from, people who immigrated legally to the US.
Bier said the administration will continue looking for new groups to deport.
“The idea that they will ever be satisfied with the number of deportations I think is just preposterous,” he said.
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Gizmodo: I Asked AI to Create a Pro-ICE Chant. Google and Meta Did. ChatGPT Said No.. “In the lead-up to nationwide protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids this weekend, I decided to test a simple but revealing prompt on five major AI chatbots. The goal wasn’t to endorse ICE or its actions, but to explore the political boundaries, moderation policies, and […]
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NBC News: Russia is amplifying conspiracy theories about the L.A. protests. “Protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles have triggered a flood of falsehoods and conspiracy theories online, and Russia has sought to exploit and amplify them, experts say. Russian media and pro-Russian voices have embraced right-wing conspiracy theories about the protests, including one that alleged the […]
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Gothamist: NYC Health and Hospitals, taking on false social posts, says it won’t report undocumented patients. “New York City’s sprawling hospital system is debunking misinformation spreading via social media and reassuring the public it won’t report any undocumented ‘person or patients’ to immigration enforcement agents.”