#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

We have heard nothing that suggests that there will be any increase in immigration enforcement from the federal authorities.

The interchamber tensions between Democrats are becoming a regular feature of funding fights in the second Trump term. Lawmakers, strategists and voters alike exploded in anger last March when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of colleagues allowed a spending package to move forward amid the Elon Musk-led DOGE assault on federal agencies. In November, tempers again flared when a handful of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to end a record 43-day shutdown.

Palantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to prop up the Trump administration's push to deport immigrants. Palantir has secured millions of dollars in federal contracts amid Trump's crackdown on immigrants. The multibillion-dollar Denver-based firm creates tech focused on surveillance and analytics, to be used by the government agencies and private companies.

Every Homeland Security officer on the ground, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday. Noem made the announcement on the social media platform X. She said the body-worn camera program is being expanded nationwide as funding becomes available. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country, Noem said in the social media post.

Official lies after an ICE killing begin to backfire. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the fatal shooting of a protester by border control agents triggered mass demonstrations and presented the Trump administration with an unexpected test of its immigration strategy. Footage captured by onlookers has undercut official statements and intensified questions about the level of force and use of high-tech tools being used to crack down on dissent.

The corporate response to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions has been muted at best. After the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, the CEOs of more than 60 Minnesota-based companies issued a carefully worded letter calling for "an immediate de-escalation of tensions." Target's incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke sent a video message to employees calling the events "incredibly painful."

Hegseth, who grew up north of Minneapolis, took to social media in the hours after masked immigration agents shot the ICU nurse with a stark calculation: "ICE > MN." "We have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country," the Pentagon chief told immigration agents in an X post. "Shame on the leadership of Minnesota-and the lunatics in the street."

We have all seen his picture, or by now we all should have seen the image of the adorable five-year-old in his bright blue hat, its floppy bunny ears so appropriate for a child whose middle name means rabbit. In the photo, he is wearing his Spider-Man backpack, which, like so many kids his age, he loves and is very proud of. And we know or we should know what happened to him.

"They told me they just needed to verify the fingerprints for our oldest son, but he would not be detained," he said. The family asked to use only their initials for fear of retaliation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. J.J. and his wife, A., didn't understand why one child's fingerprints would need checking, but they opened the door. And then they watched as their 20-year-old son was, in fact, arrested and driven away in a black SUV.

I'm sure a lot of you are wondering why Greg Bovino, the last guy, was dismissed, Homan said. I want to stress that it wasn't because he did a bad job, or publicly lied about the shooting of an American citizen, or even uh-oh dressed like a Nazi. It was that he was filmed doing these things. And the president no likey that!

Cory never expected he'd spend hours each day driving around after immigration agents, videotaping their moves. The south Minneapolis resident is not the type of person to do this, he said. The dangers of what he's doing, even after the killings of two observers, largely stay out of his mind when he's watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents even when he's gotten hit with pepper spray.

Speaking during his YouTube show on Friday, Lemon said that this is a moment for journalists around the world "to stand up for each other." "It may have started with people having their due process rights violated on the streets, violently violated on the streets. But now they're trying to silence journalists. And I will not be silenced," Lemon said on his show.

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who sits in San Antonio and was appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, said in his ruling that "the case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children." Biery had previously ruled that the boy and his father could not be removed from the U.S., at least for now.

Although Homan has acknowledged that the immigration surge in Minnesota has not "been perfect," his upbeat predictions of a smooth and swift détente seem to underestimate how much ill will the Trump administration's actions have caused among the state's politicians, activists, and residents. The killings of Good and Pretti--each followed by a Trump-administration push to denigrate the victims and box out local investigators--came against a backdrop of growing mistrust and frustration even among officials who have typically embraced partnership with their federal partners.

It's fundamentally cruel and inhumane, and it doesn't take into account any specific considerations for people who have been here a long time, for people whose children are citizens and have been here a long time. So when you do these random raids, they provoke a response that is justifiably you're going to provoke a lot of anger because this is barbarism.

The protest in Piazza XXV Aprile, a square named for the date of Italy's liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945, drew people from the left-leaning Democratic Party, the CGIL trade union confederation and the ANPI organisations that protect the memory of Italy's partisan resistance during World War II, along with many other people. list of 4 itemsend of list Organisers handed out plastic whistles, which participants blew as music blared from a van.

As the standoff between the United States government and Minnesota continues this week over immigration enforcement operations that have essentially occupied the Twin Cities and other parts of the state, a federal judge delayed a decision this week and ordered a new briefing on whether the Department of Homeland Security is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies for immigrants.

"It was just collective exhaustion," said Paul Neary, a shop employee.

Funding lapsed for several US government departments on Saturday, the result of a standoff in Congress over new restrictions on federal agents involved in Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign following the killings of two US citizens in Minneapolis. The partial government shutdown is the result of Democratic senators refusing to vote for a bill authorizing continued spending by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minnesota's largest city last week, and Renee Good earlier in January.