Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: ICE

ICE killing in Houston fuels demands for independent investigation

Family members, civil rights groups, and local leaders are demanding answers after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an ICE officer during an immigration operation in Houston.

Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into...

The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.

ICE weakens detention rules as private prison firms stand to gain

New standards allow broader AI use, lock in $1-a-day labor limits, and give detention operators more flexibility as ICE expands under Trump’s mass enforcement agenda.

Gaza surgeon wins New Jersey House primary on healthcare not bombs...

Dr. Adam Hamawy, a retired Army combat surgeon who treated patients in Gaza during Israel’s assault on the enclave, won New Jersey’s Democratic primary in a deep-blue congressional district after running on a platform centered on healthcare, economic reform, immigration policy, and opposition to U.S. support for the war in Gaza.

US lawmakers demand reforms to immigration officers’ use of tear gas...

A ProPublica investigation found that scores of children were hurt by these chemicals during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lawmakers say the findings show more restrictions are needed.

Senator pepper sprayed outside ICE detention center as hunger strike exposes...

Sen. Andy Kim says federal agents used pepper spray and less-lethal rounds outside a New Jersey detention center where hundreds of migrants are protesting alleged medical neglect, inadequate food, and poor treatment inside a privately operated ICE facility.

Trump ICE crackdown has separated an estimated 145,000 US citizen children...

A Brookings Institution study suggests the scale of family separation tied to Trump’s expanded immigration detention campaign is far greater than previously documented, with more than 22,000 American children left without any live-in parent at home.

From ICE to Iran, veterans are challenging US militarism

Antiwar veterans are leveraging their unique credibility to oppose the war in Iran, stop ICE and support active duty resisters.

Trump’s deportation campaign has harmed scores of kids with tear gas,...

In several cities, judges have chastised federal officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”

The global war on terror’s journey home

The collective trauma of America's twenty-first century wars.

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.