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1 hour agoInside Democrats' new push to handcuff ICE
Senator Murphy seeks Democratic conditions on DHS funding to impose limits on deportation tactics, ICE firearm use, and agent identification amid shifting public opinion.
Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois said on Wednesday that she is planning to introduce articles of impeachment against Noem, who she calls "a disgrace to our democracy." "Secretary Noem wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area, and now, her rogue ICE agents have unleashed that same destruction in Minneapolis, fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good," Kelly said in a statement, referring to the woman shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent.
Ashli Babbitt, shot while breaching a barricaded doorway during the January 6 attack, is framed by Trump as a victim of unjust state violence. Her conduct is treated as incidental. Context is stripped away. The asymmetry did not stop at rhetoric. Trump and his White House publicly identified the Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt, despite longstanding norms protecting officers involved in use-of-force incidents.
For my money, judicial arrogance and an "overinflated view of their intelligence and their abilities" would look like basing a politically motivated, but legally dubious Second Amendment opinion around a bunch of cases that conclude the opposite way if the judge bothered to read them. Or maybe using their perceived clout to blackmail a law school for not disrespecting student speech enough.
Good was shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Wednesday on a Minneapolis street. She was in her vehicle and was driving through an area where ICE was conducting a sweep. The Trump administration has been spinning the story to claim that Good was a threat to the ICE agents, "weaponizing" her vehicle, but video shows her trying to drive away from the scene when she was shot.
amNewYork was denied access to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's Lower Manhattan press conference on Thursday, following months of detailed coverage of ICE in the Big Apple, as even Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was met with police for protesting the snub.
Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society's trajectory right now, but as I followed Wednesday's news of an ICE agent killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, then watched the federal government flatly lie about the sequence of events, the indignant language and informational smokescreens felt nauseatingly familiar. It was as if someone had taken Israel's playbook for Gaza and tested it out stateside.
Edwin Torres DeSantiago received a text message on Wednesday morning as he was tracking immigration enforcement across Minneapolis a person was shot by ICE at 34th Street and Portland Avenue. He jumped into his car to head to the scene. Torres DeSantiago manages the Immigrant Defense Network, a group that monitors ICE activity and responds to community needs after someone is taken.
I will walk you over here with these protesters, McAdams said. And the reason that the border patrol moved back was because they had to retreat after they just made a few arrests. But it's kind of slimmed down a little bit in terms of protesters, but this is what it looks like from a different angle. They called these agents killers' and also for people listening, they will hear some cursing, McAdams warned.
On Tuesday afternoon, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman driving an SUV in a Minneapolis suburb. Amid a crowd protesting the agency's recent incursion into the Twin Cities, legal observer Renee Nicole Good was stopped in the middle of the street when federal vehicles zoomed toward her, sirens wailing. Agents then hopped out of the vehicles and aggressively approached Good's car on foot.