The World Cup is continuing to suck, and here’s the latest reason why: CBP goons denied referee Omar Artan entry into the U.S., where he was set to become the first-ever Somali to officiate a World Cup game.
Artan arrived in Miami on Saturday to attend a mandatory training hub for the tournament’s 140 officials. (Because all on-pitch refs have to stay at the base in Florida, he can’t just go to…
I’m not here to kink shame or suggest sex work isn’t work. I’m not here to claim that every sex worker is a victim of sex trafficking. I’m not even here to suggest that government officials shouldn’t be allowed to exchange money for goods and sexual services. If they’re not on the clock, I’m not […]
Tuesday was the second day of the Illinois Accountability Commission.
Under Trump, DHS, ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have violated every single right affected by their daily work. When you’re trying to perform 3,000 arrests per day, you can be slowed down by things like the Constitution. And these agencies certainly haven’t been slowed. In fact, they’ve been encouraged to continue violating rights by being […]
An Illinois group is expected to reveal Monday results from its investigation into Operation Midway Blitz.
The courts keep pounding the nails home. What this government is engaged in is illegal, on multiple levels. If you subtract the pro-MAGA Fifth Circuit and 6/9ths of the Supreme Court, you have a judicial quorum that says rights are still rights, despite this administration’s claims otherwise. DHS has issued memos claiming (without facts or […]
The Illinois Accountability Commission sent out a total of eight letters seeking testimony from people like former Border Patrol Commander-at-large Greg Bovino.
I come here to celebrate the apparently permanent sidelining of former DHS head, Kristi Noem. I know the adage usually does some hedging before damning with faint praise, but I’m not interested in praise, faint or otherwise, much less pretending this isn’t worth celebrating. Noem openly pined for the VP position, but shot herself in […]
Yet another one to add to the “it’s OK if we do it” file for the Trump administration. This administration is cool with censoring speech, nationalizing elections, seizing the means of production, and blackmailing law firms and universities. It would be heated AF if any other administration did these things, but since it’s the one […]
The Trump administration is purposefully cruel. That much cannot be argued, not when it has deliberately sent deportees to foreign torture prisons, dumped them in war-torn countries with histories of human rights abuses, and stranded people its has been ordered to release far from home without their IDs, phones, or money. This regime loves to […]
Federal agents at a California border crossing pulled aside a grandmother and demanded to know why she kept visiting local casinos. She is a lawful permanent resident of the Imperial Valley who'd committed no crime — but her driving habits had been logged by a covert network of over 40 license plate cameras hidden along Southern California's border highways, a CalMatters investigation by Wendy…
Well, we always knew it would come to this. In a blow to the First Amendment and privacy, the Trump administration last week approved a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plan to collect social media handles from people applying to change their immigration status. The new requirement, which was approved for one year, comes after the administration has […]
Department of State has stood behind the practice of third country deportations and defended it as a part of Trump's campaign to end illegal immigration.
The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means everything (legal or not) is “necessary” if it can help White House advisor Stephen Miller hit his self-imposed 3,000 arrests per […]
A Montessori school teacher shot by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz is expected to speak out Wednesday.
The DHS accused Marimar Martinez of ramming agents with her car, but her attorney argued it was the agents who crashed into her.
Johnson also tried to clarify questions and downplay concerns about his executive order that were raised by the county's top prosecutor.
In the grand scheme of things — the wanton cruelty, the routine violations of rights, the actual fucking murders — this may only seem like a blip on the mass deportation continuum. But this report from Dell Cameron for Wired is still important. It not only explains why federal officers are approaching people with cellphones […]
The woman shot five times by federal agents in Chicago, during Operation Midway Blitz has asked a judge to release more evidence.