Excellent podcast episode of Apple News In Conversation explores "How ICE entered its most aggressive era — and what comes next," featuring Caitlin Dickerson who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for her 2022 Atlantic article on family separation. You can listen to the episode here. Here
I am not sure that state and local governments to this latest Trump administration edict. News agencies are reporting that President Donald Trump has declared that federal law enforcement will not respond to protests or riots in “poorly run" Democratic-led cities until support is requested, but will still protect
GEOFF MULVIHILL for the Associated Press reports on a federal court order that a 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by next Tuesday from the Texas detention center where they have been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota. "Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing
The Associated Press reports that journalist Don Lemon has been charged with federal civil rights crimes in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted service at a church in Minnesota. He "is charged with . . . interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a Jan. 18 protest at
A cruel irony perhaps but Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, will be argued on April Fools' Day, also known as All Fools' Day.
It has been at work since the uproar over the death last weekend of Alex Pretti. NPR reports that Tom Homan, the Trump administration's border czar, said in a press conference yesterday that the federal government is working on a plan to reduce the number of U.S.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Kim McLane Wardlaw, Salvador Mendoza, Jr., and Anthony D. Johnstone, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Wardlaw; Concurrence by Judge Mendoza) has ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from 600,000 Venezuelans was unlawful.
Press release from Public Citizen Tricia McLaughlin, chief spokesperson for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "Secretary Kristi Noem, is named in documents obtained by Public Citizen as the point person for a $220 million DHS anti-immigration advertising buy that, in part, went to her husband’s company." “This
The White House has released a statement regarding Tom Homan's trip to Minnesota: Border Czar Affirms Commitment to Public Safety, Removing Violent Criminals in Minnesota. (You can watch the entire press conference at this link.) Spoiler alert: there is nothing that addresses the murders of two US citizens
It has been a tough few days for Greg Bovino, who was reassigned from Minneapolis after a tragic few weeks. To add to the tough times, the Daily Beast reports that Bovino was tricked by a fake news story posted by a QAnon social media account shortly before getting demoted.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 🎧 Democrats are pushing to pass the other five spending bills in the package, leaving out DHS while they negotiate terms, NPR’s Claudia Grisales tells Up First. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says his party wants tighter cooperation with local law enforcement, a uniform code of
The Intercept has the scoop on the report demanded by Congress on the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this weekend. United States Customs and Border Protection sent Congress its responses to a list of questions. "According to a congressional source who provided The Intercept with the communications on