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Rachel Maddow
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"Frustrated by a city council that has refused to oppose the opening of an immigration detention center, community activists in Surprise, Arizona are hoping residents will agree to disincorporate the city, stripping away the council’s power...."
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Frustrated by inaction on ICE warehouse, activists move to dissolve Surprise altogether
Surprise ICE warehouse facility opposition fuels a petition to disincorporate the Arizona city entirely, but it's a big challenge to do so
https://azmirror.com/2026/06/17/frustrated-by-inaction-on-ice-warehouse-activists-move-to-dissolve-surprise-altogether/
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Jada Jones
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The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All
The sentences, ranging from 30-100 years, are part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of the Trump administration criminalizing speech and assembly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/prairieland-sentences-anti-ice-protests-free-speech-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=cnfmm
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ICE Detention Center Contractor Endangered Detainees, Destroyed Homicide Evidence
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ICE Detention Center Contractor Endangered Detainees, Destroyed Homicide Evidence
One of ICE’s largest detention centers is conveniently located only miles from the US border in El Paso, Texas. Erected on an apparently unused section of the Ft. Bliss military base, the det…
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/25/ice-detention-center-contractor-endangered-detainees-destroyed-homicide-evidence/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=techdirt-daily-newsletter-for-datemtext-datedordinal-datey-2
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Raider
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ICE abducted this man in Linda Vista, essentially beating him with excessive force without presenting a warrant.
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Marc Elias
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Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confronted a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent primary elections.
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ICE agents confront New York poll worker during voting, as state prosecutors review incident
“They knew I was a poll site worker and still came in."
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ice-agents-poll-worker-syracuse-new-york-polling-site-primary-elections/
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Taniel
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Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross).
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Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/federal-agents-track-down-syracuse-woman-demand-she-remove-instagram-post-about-ice.html
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paulpro
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Belmic
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We have to fight to cancel concentration camp …. How T F did we get there 😡
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Gabe Ortíz
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“Revolt in small Georgia town appears to ward off ICE detention center. Social Circle announces Homeland Security has canceled plans to convert warehouse to detain up to 10,000 people.” The proposed camp “would have been one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country.”
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Revolt in small Georgia town appears to ward off ICE detention center
Social Circle announces homeland security has canceled plans to convert warehouse to detain up to 10,000 people
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/georgia-federal-immigration-detention-center
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Kyle Cheney
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JUST IN: DHS and DOJ cannot cateogrically shut out the public from immigration court proceedings in most instances, a New York-based judge ruled Monday. They also can't prevent observers from quietly communicating about legal/religious support, she says.
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Eight activists have been 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 on charges of providing material support to terrorists for wearing all black to a protest outside an ICE facility in Prairieland, Texas. F̶o̶u̶r̶t̶e̶e̶n̶t̶h̶ ̵A̶m̶e̶n̶d̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ A̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ ̵I̶ A̶r̶t̶i̶c̶l̶e̶ ̵I̶I̶ F̶o̶u̶r̶t̶h̶ ̵A̶m̶e̶n̶d̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ S̶e̶c̶o̶n̶d̶ ̵A̶m̶e̶n̶d̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ F̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̵A̶m̶e̶n̶d̶m̶e̶n̶t̶
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FBI Tried to Flip Anti-ICE Protesters Into Informants “They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the feds, who was arrested while playing the cello. More fine work from Kash.
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FBI Tried to Flip Anti-ICE Protesters Into Informants
“They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the FBI, who was arrested while playing the cello at ICE’s Delaney Hall.
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/20/fbi-ice-delaney-hall-protest-informants/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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Police Chased the Wrong Man, Then Shot Him and Watched as He Bled Out Sheriff’s deputies in MI fired 27 shots at John Jenuwine. “He was not the guy that they were supposed to be chasing,” said victim’s father So focused on ICE, forgot these guys.
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Police Chased the Wrong Man, Then Shot Him and Watched as He Bled Out
Sheriff’s deputies in Michigan fired 27 shots at John Jenuwine, even though “he was not the guy that they were supposed to be chasing.”
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/18/police-killing-michigan-john-jenuwine/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
5 days ago
Content warning for violence. Today, at Delaney Hall, a car entering Delaney Hall and driven by a known employee ran over a peaceful protestor who was waving an American flag. Do not take your eyes off Delaney Hall.
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talia jane
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ICE/Geo drove into a demonstrator today.
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ChaniSykes📎💔
6 days ago
Did you know that crossing the border is a misdemeanor, while pedo behavior is felonious?🤔Do you think that the wrong people are in jail?🤔✌🏼🤟🏼
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WeMove Europe
10 days ago
Today, they voted to bring ICE-style deportation politics to Europe. They voted for a law that will allow children to be detained. And then they celebrated by chanting: "Send them back." A chant about human beings. About families. About children.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
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Simple-minded Donald thinks people will like masked thugs who murder people in the streets if they are called "NICE" instead of "ICE." Works for me! NICE: Nazi Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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TrumpsTaxes
7 days ago
The more local an election is, the more directly it impacts your life. Some of these Sheriff races will be vital for a community's collaboration with - or opposition to - ICE activities. This is one such example. Via
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A North Carolina Sheriff and ICE Ally Faces Accusations of Racism—and a Challenger This Fall - Bolts
This story is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and NC Local. One Saturday in May, Shannon Long, a pastor running for sheriff in North Carolina, set up his campaign... Read More
https://boltsmag.org/alamance-county-sheriff-terry-johnson-shannon-long/
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Kyle Griffin
7 days ago
NYT Exclusive: ICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses. Now it wants to get rid of them.
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ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/ice-warehouses-immigration.html
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Wasn't deporting the construction labor force supposed to reduce the number of home owners, and thus cause prices to drop? 🤔
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Marisa Kabas
8 days ago
holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!
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ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/ice-warehouses-immigration.html
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
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This is huge. For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia. We just learned DHS is cancelling it. The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.
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June '26 ICE agents tackled a U.S. citizen, pinned him face down with four agents, then a fifth tased him in the back while he was already restrained. When a witness objected, an agent pointed a weapon.
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Raw America (@rawstory)
BREAKING: ICE agents tackled a U.S. citizen, pinned him face down with four agents, then a fifth tased him in the back while he was already restrained. When a witness objected, an agent pointed a weap...
https://substack.com/@rawstory/note/c-275622438?utm_source=feed-email-digest
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Jesse Duquette
4 months ago
Quakertown, PA police chief Scott McElree, out of uniform and looking for a kid to lay hands on, put a teenage girl in a chokehold for exercising her right to free speech and speaking out against ICE. You can contact the PD at (215) 536-5002. ACAfuckingB
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Ilhan Omar
10 days ago
While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters. The Administration thinks intimidation will make us back down. They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don't scare easily. We organize for our rights ✊🏽
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Decoding Fox News
10 days ago
Last week the children's performer known as Miss Rachel was depicted as a radical activist with antisemitic and anti-Western views who was hellbent on indoctrinating children. Miss Rachel has sung for and advocated for children in ICE detention centers.
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TCarlson
about 2 months ago
#IceOUT
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South Orange Village New Jersey De-ICE Citizens Bank!!! Saturdays May 2, May 16, Jun 6, Jun 20 10 – 11am EDT Citizens Bank 79 S Orange Ave South Orange Village, NJ
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De-ICE Citizens Bank!!! · Mobilize
Citizens Bank is the only major lender to the country's two largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and The GEO Group, running dozens of ICE detention centers across the country. Through loans, bo...
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/941655/
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌎
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ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
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ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump
On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-ice-detention-dilley-kids-immigration?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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I'm not talking about Alligator Alcatraz or any of the facilities that were preexisting, i'm talking about the camps they're building with the help of the military that all have 'biohazard' incinerators, the information was found in the contract given to the Navy
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US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals | Common Dreams
Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of 'Concentration Camps,' Navy Contract Reveals
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps
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GoBlue
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Pelley told the Times: “Two of the things in the email include, ‘Can we make the protesters look more violent?’…. And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.” | The Guardian
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Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer’
Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it echoed what Trump said of the shooting
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/07/scott-pelley-bari-weiss-renee-good-report?CMP=share_btn_url
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Keep any warehouses and vacant lots in your locale from being converted into concentration camps by attending city council meetings in which land use is ruled on.
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Here's The Terrible Thing Republicans Funded at 5 a.m.
ICE funding receives little attention from the mainstream media, but we're not looking away.
https://www.rawamerica.com/p/heres-the-horrifying-thing-republicans/#:~:text=Want%20to%20Fight%20Back
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23 days ago
White people have a difficult time seeing the malevolent intent of other White people. Especially when Black people tell them of said intent.
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Senator Andy Kim
25 days ago
If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week. We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.
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Aaron Rupar
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Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."
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ICE officer Christian Castro wanted for shooting Venezuelan arrested in Texas
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ICE officer wanted for shooting a man during Minneapolis crackdown arrested in Texas
He is the second federal agent to be charged over their conduct during the Minnesota crackdown, known as Operation Metro Surge
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/christian-castro-arrested-ice-officer-minneapolis-shooting-b2986228.html
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Fake ICE agents
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Fake ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants
Families across America are being terrorized by criminals posing as immigration enforcement agents. These incidents have skyrocketed in the last year, fueled by President Donald Trump’s decision to…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/26/800045408/justice/fake-ice-agents-are-terrorizing-immigrants/?utm_source=recap&utm_medium=email
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ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence A newly uncovered police bulletin warns that white supremacists may interpret ICE social media content as a call to violence.
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ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence
Social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, Colorado law enforcement officials warned, ...
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice-dhs-social-media-white-supremacist-violence/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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What works? Homan threatened New York. NY responded by passing legislation requiring masks be lowered, PD not be used for crowd control (like in MN), and requirement of a judicial warrant to enter identified safe locations.
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“SHOVE IT.” Tom Homan vowed to “flood the zone” with ICE agents if New York refused to cooperate with his immigration crackdown. New York...
“SHOVE IT.” Tom Homan vowed to “flood the zone” with ICE agents if New York refused to cooperate with his immigration crackdown. New York’s response? Pass the legislation anyway and make it clear the ...
https://leftistviewpoints.quora.com/SHOVE-IT-Tom-Homan-vowed-to-flood-the-zone-with-ICE-agents-if-New-York-refused-to-cooperate-with-his-immigration-cr
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Glenn Kirschner
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Abrego Garcia AND the Rule of Law Win; Trump's Corrupt DOJ Goons Lose!
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Abrego Garcia AND the Rule of Law Win; Trump's Corrupt DOJ Goons Lose!
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
https://youtu.be/W5WV9t5w4yg?si=OlpMFLfnExe6o1Wy
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CU Boulder economist: Construction companies find it cheaper to cut back on operations (thus hiring fewer citizen too) than to hire more (expensive) citizens.
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Trump’s deportations lead to job losses for Americans, study says
The study examined industries that rely heavily on undocumented workers.
https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2026/05/trumps-deportations-lead-to-job-losses-for-americans-study-says.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor
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Restaurateurs claim they're suffering more than during the pandemic.
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'Worse than the pandemic': Red state restaurants now suffering from Trump's ICE crackdown
A coalition of business groups, restaurateurs, and lawmakers in Texas has been formed to push back against the anti-immigrant policies of Donald Trump’s administration as sales collapse and companies ...
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-ice-2676758481/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr.17.2026_8.15pm
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Arizona off-duty cop stages attempt at entrapment on high-school students protesting ICE.
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Armed Off-Duty Cop Tried to Incite Violence at a High School Anti-ICE Protest
The armed and masked off-duty Phoenix, Arizona, cop said he wanted to get kids at a high school ICE protest arrested.
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/15/high-school-ice-protest-arizona-armed-cop/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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