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Driving the news: Almost half of ICE's field office directors are being shifted out of their roles in an effort to ramp up immigration enforcement. They will be replaced with leaders from other parts of the Department of Homeland Security, including Border Patrol, which has been assisting ICE in its operations in Los Angeles and Chicago. Zoom in: The Washington Examiner first reported the leadership shakeup on Monday, which included removing ICE's top staff in Portland, Denver, San Diego, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

The senators' letter cites an AP investigation this month that revealed several examples of ICE using the device on people - sometimes for hours - on deportation flights dating to 2020. Van Hollen was joined by U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Alex Padilla of California, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, and six others. The WRAP is the subject of several federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and even torture.

Two former employees were arrested in Santa Rosa Saturday in connection to the homicide of Mark Calcagni, the general manager of San Francisco's Condor Club. Police suspect Richard Lund, 43, and Asia Morton, 25, who were in a romantic relationship and worked for Calcagni at one of the venues he managed, planned the killing. [KPIX] Police in the town of Watsonville in Monterey County are searching for two 12-year-old runaways a girl and a boy, who were involved in two hit-and-run collisions.

We're establishing a misconduct tracker to systematically document abuse and civil rights violations by this administration - including cases where ICE has detained U.S. citizens and violated federal law, The tracker documents unconstitutional actions after they occur - it is not a live location tool. Creating this kind of investigatory record is routine and essential in any oversight inquiry.

It is abundantly clear that the Trump administration is unwilling to police its own officers or hold them accountable for gross misconduct. Accordingly, NYPD - pursuant to the department's own mission, values and oath of office - has an obligation to intervene and take appropriate action, including arrest, when federal immigration officers engage in conduct that is unlawful under state law and beyond the scope of their federal enforcement authority.

President Donald Trump's plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency's training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test. More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency's plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

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"We are very, very, very excited to be here with you in your wonderful, wonderful city,"

We always say it's hard to hate up close, Ana Navarro began, continuing: So, I think the theoretical idea of undocumented immigrants is one thing, but when you realize that it's the woman you know, it's the woman who's been serving you waffles in Wisconsin for decades, the woman who's been doing your nails in the Hamptons for decadesthe kid who plays with your kid at school when you put names and faces, when you see those little children on their knees praying and begging the I.C.E. agents not to take away their parents, I dare any Christian American not to feel brokenhearted.

You know, I heard that and listened to a little bit of it and was extremely disappointed and disheartened, and actually, I hope he understands how completely disrespectful that song is, not just to law enforcement but to this country. To every single individual that has ever stood up and fought for our freedoms, he just compromised it all by putting out a product such as that, that attacks individuals who were just trying to make our streets safe, she said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid $825,000 earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement, including fake cellphone towers known as "cell-site simulators," which can be used to spy on nearby phones. According to public records, the award dated May 8 "provides Cell Site Simulator (CSS) Vehicles to support the Homeland Security Technical Operations program" and is a modification for "additional CSS Vehicles."

Brad Lander is one of New York City's most prominent progressive elected officials. He became the city's Comptroller in 2022 after serving on the City Council for a dozen years, representing Park Slope and other parts of brownstone Brooklyn. He ran for mayor as a Democrat this year, finishing third behind Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. Shortly before Election Day, Lander and Mamdani cross-endorsed one another, forming a left wing bulwark against Cuomo in the city's ranked-choice voting.