#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

The student backlash comes amid national outrage over the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown, which has been criticized for its use of violent tactics and racial profiling. Though the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has led most of the deportation efforts, CBP, which is a larger agency and recruits more heavily than ICE on college campuses, has been involved in the campaign as well.

After coming off of the high of participating in citywide teacher strikes, a group of around 20 people gathered at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital's courtyard for a different cause. "We're going to get the Zuckerberg off of San Francisco General Hospital," said Sasha Cuttler, a retired nurse and organizer of the event. The effort was simple; get a group of 10 people to replace each letter in Zuckerberg's name with a hand-made construction paper box to spell out "Pretti Good," the last names of two Minnesotans who were shot dead by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.

The Puerto Rican megastar, whose songs fuse the raw energy of musica urbana, Boricua pride and resistance politics, has promised a huge party. At a moment when masked federal agents are sweeping through American cities, rounding up long-settled immigrants, legal residents and even US citizens, Bad Bunny's presence on the grandest stage in US sports offers a striking contrast a joyful celebration of pride and solidarity for millions of Latinos.

Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other. For that, I want to say thank you. Thank you to this incredible community for showing up again and again - organizing food and rides, making sure our kids get to school, checking in on neighbors, and standing together in the cold. I am so proud to call Minneapolis my home.

A lot of times, athletes are hesitant to talk about political views and how we feel about things. I feel heartbroken about what's happening in the United States, Lillis said. I'm pretty sure you're referencing ICE and some of the protests and things like that. I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's rights and making sure that we're treating our citizens as well as anybody, with love and respect.

People gather for National Day of Truth & Freedom at Union Square on January 23, 2026, in New York City. 1199SEIU frontline healthcare workers, faith leaders, students and community members stood in solidarity with Minnesota, after community groups, faith-based organizations, and unions in the state came together to call for an "economic blackout," as part of National Day of Truth & Freedom to stand against corporations profiteering from Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) actions.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend's car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He sings the names of the dead haltingly, as though he is reading them off a screen-which, judging from the recording-studio footage in the song's lyric video, he probably is. The song is about the news, but it is also, perhaps unintentionally, about the moment of lag when we absorb the names and images, when we try to assimilate atrocity into narrative.

A girl holds a placard that reads "Free Liam" as people protest against deployment of ICE agents during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on January 31, 2026 in Milan, Italy.Maja Hitij / Getty Images The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has filed an expedited request to terminate the asylum claims of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his family, after the boy's arrest by federal agents last month made international headlines.

The front door is locked and we have the back door locked at all times. People have to wait for us to open the door. There are people of color who work for us who are all trying to do the right thing and go through the right processes, but they can be scared to come to work. We have people that have seen neighbors being snatched. It's no longer a Democrat versus Republican issue. It's a human issue.

Federal immigration officers, acting without a judicial warrant or consent, entered the Brooklyn home of Hayk Safaryan early one morning last summer, took him into custody and seized his personal documents as well, according to a federal lawsuit challenging the arrest's legality. Safaryan, 44, an Armenian immigrant who has lived in the United States for more than two decades, was sitting at his computer and eating breakfast when the officers knocked, according to written court testimony from his wife Léah Lazonick.

In my previous post, I discussed the psychological violence being imposed on the Latine immigrant community through the implementation of new and insidious immigration policies under the current administration. Since that publication, this violence has intensified in both scale and visibility. Across many regions of the United States, the public has witnessed large-scale ICE raids in neighborhoods, workplaces, hospitals, school events, and even outside immigration courts, where individuals and entire families are apprehended as they exit mandatory hearings.

Nearly 60,000 unauthorised migrants and convicted criminals have been removed or deported from the UK since Labour took office, the Home Office has said. The announcement came amid claims that the government was promoting harmful stereotypes by equating migration with criminality. Officials said the figure was the highest number in a decade. The department said 15,200 people who were in the UK illegally were removed since the 2024 election a 45% increase on the previous 19 months.

Under the policy, federal agents would be prohibited from using city-owned properties including parking lots, garages and other open spaces as staging grounds for civil immigration enforcement. The city intends to post signage and install physical barriers around these areas. The signage will be available to businesses and other landowners who want to prevent immigration operations on their private property.

Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets and was deployed without the scrutiny that has historically governed the rollout of technologies that impact people's privacy, according to records reviewed by WIRED. The Department of Homeland Security launched Mobile Fortify in the spring of 2025 to "determine or verify" the identities of individuals stopped or detained by DHS officers during federal operations, records show.

Across the Twin Cities, federal immigration enforcement operations have turned businesses into sites of confrontation - with agents in store parking lots rounding up day laborers, armed raids on restaurants and work authorization inspections conducted in tactical gear. Some retailers report revenue drops of 50% to 80% as customers stay home out of fear. Along Lake Street and in East St. Paul, areas within the Twin Cities, an estimated 80% of businesses have closed their doors at some point since the operations began.