#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

Dulcie and her family, who live in the Twin Cities metro, are afraid every day when they leave for work and school. "All of my friends are staying at home. No one comes out. It gets to me," said Dulcie, who declined to use her last name because she fears retribution from federal agents, who have been detaining citizens and legal immigrants.

In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots - and a second follows. They appear to fire nine more shots as Pretti lies on the ground.

Millions nationwide have begun the process of filing their yearly taxes - including many immigrants without a permanent immigration status. But since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, his administration has sought access to IRS data - including taxpayers' addresses - to further its immigration crackdown and locate undocumented immigrants. And last April, ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, secured a data-sharing agreement with the IRS, alarming many taxpayers who use ITINs to file.

It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now,

"I am in touch with the Rapid Response Network and community organizations to ensure communities continue to receive accurate information," Lurie said. "We are not aware of any other immigration enforcement action in the city today. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and remain committed to upholding the values and laws of our city."

In December, the YouTuber Nick Shirley uploaded a video purporting to expose a scheme led by Somali refugees in Minneapolis. It caught the attention of Vice President JD Vance, who shared the video online. Soon after, ICE was deployed to the city. The video was inspiring to Amy Reichert, a 58-year-old San Diego resident, who started making her own videos claiming a similar scheme was afoot in her city.

Earlier this week, Gary Kendrick, a GOP council member in the red town of El Cajon, on San Diego's eastern outskirts, announced that he was crossing the aisle and joining the Democrats. Kendrick was the longest-serving Republican official in the region's local government. "I've been a Republican for 50 years," he said, in the statement explaining his action. "I just can't stand what the Republican Party has become. I'm formally renouncing the Republican Party."

Leaders in the Massachusetts Senate unveiled a new piece of legislation this week that would allow residents to sue federal law enforcement officers who violate their constitutional rights. The move comes as residents continue to push leaders on Beacon Hill to do more to combat the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda. The lawmakers behind the bill directly referenced the administration's violent operation in Minnesota, saying that measures like this are necessary when the federal government refuses to hold its own officers accountable.

A month ago, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, was projecting confidence that a bipartisan group of lawmakers was nearing a deal to restore lapsed health insurance subsidies. The enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expired at the end of last year, despite a majority of Americans in favor of Congress renewing them, according to polling from the nonprofit KFF. "We're in the red zone," Moreno told reporters. "But that does not mean a touchdown. It could mean a 95-yard fumble."

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Tom Homan, dubbed the border czar by President Donald Trump, announced Thursday that the brutal anti-immigration operation launched in early December in Minnesota by the White House has concluded. I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude, Homan said at a press conference held in Minneapolis early in the morning. The Trump administration ordered the withdrawal of 700 federal agents from the Democratic city last week, and Homan said a significant drawdown of personnel would continue into next week.

President Donald Trump's approval took a hit in the latest Associated Press poll, dropping to 36 percent amid overwhelmingly unpopular deportation operations. Trump's polling on the economy has cratered over the past year, and his overall approval numbers have followed suit he's at 39 percent in a new NBC News poll and 37% in the latest The Economist/YouGov survey. But he's even lower in the most recent AP poll. Just 36 percent approve of Trump, while 62 percent disapprove.

Last week, two Democrats in the Senate hosted a " bicameral public forum to receive testimony on the violent tactics and disproportionate use of force by agents of the Department of Homeland Security." Here in Minnesota, we continue to deal with the thousands of immigration enforcement agents who have unleashed unspeakable violence on our state. Flights leave daily with men, women, and children, some of whom are citizens, green-card holders, or asylum-seekers with pending cases, to detention centers with a prevailing culture of abuse. Countless other legal observers and protesters, including myself, have been handcuffed and detained for hours without being charged with a crime, or intimidated with weapons and threats.

"We're very much in a trust but verify mode," Walz said. He added that he expected to hear more from the administration "in the next day or so" about the future of what he said has been an "occupation" and a "retribution campaign" against the state. While Walz said he's hopeful at the moment because "every indication I have is that this thing is winding up," he added that things could change.

"Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down," Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios, "and maybe, maybe, they'll take us serious and understand that we are unwilling to negotiate some minimal crap."

JDCA's 30-second ad, titled It's Gone Too Far, began airing Monday on MSNBC's Morning Joe and various CNN programs, including AC360 and Erin Burnett's OutFront. The organization said Fox News refused to carry the ad. JDCA CEO Halie Soifer told Mediaite that the group placed a national ad buy on Friday with the intention of running the spot nationally on Fox & Friends, the morning program widely viewed as President Donald Trump's favorite television show.

Amid calls for a national shutdown on 30 January, Anton Kinloch displayed a sign on the sidewalk outside Lone Wolf, his craft cocktail bar and restaurant in Kingston, New York. In large block letters he wrote: WE LOVE ICE IN DRINKS. WE DON'T LOVE ICE IN REAL LIFE. SOLIDARITY ALWAYS. Along with his wife and business partner Lisa Dy, he'd made the difficult decision to stay open, electing instead to donate a portion of the night's proceeds to a local immigrant advocacy group.

US immigration chiefs of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) faced questions from lawmakers on Tuesday, as they appeared before the US Congress. Todd Lyons, acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Rodney Scott, commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Joe Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, all appeared before the the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee.

Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE's physical presence across the US. Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country's largest metropolitan areas.