#ice-enforcement

#ice-enforcement

The matchups are set and the transformation is underway at Levi's Stadium. Plans are turning into preparation for Super Bowl LX and the Valley Transportation Authority is ready to take people where they need to go. VTA has been holding trainings for operators and maintaining the fleet of busses and light rails for the event. Twenty-two extra trains will run Super Bowl Sunday to help move an expected VTA record 25,000 fans on gameday.

Good morning. Partly sunny with a high around 43 today. The National Weather Service has issued a cold weather advisory beginning at 8 PM tonight. Temperatures will plunge to a low near 11 that wind will make feel even colder. As you may have heard, a major snowstorm is forecast for this weekend, with heavy snow beginning Saturday night. Enjoy the snow while it's beautiful, take care when shoveling, and I'll see you on the other side Monday.

It is utterly inevitable that when the U.S. government floods the streets with a new crop of hastily trained and prepared agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and give those people arbitrary quotas to achieve in meting out government brutality against illegal immigrants, that ordinary American citizens are going to get swept up into the net of pain.

A letter writer takes issue with the GOP Chairman of Santa Cruz's lament that Gavin Newsom and California Democrats have sabotaged state legislation that would have eliminated taxes on tips for low-wage heroes like servers and bartenders. Her complaint is that Republicans blocked legislative efforts to raise California's minimum wage, implying that if Republicans really cared about workers, they would support a higher minimum wage.

This case involves six individual plaintiffs, and Minneapolis, St. Paul and state officials have filed a separate lawsuit that seeks to end the ICE surge. Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez barred ICE agents from arresting or pepper spraying people for simply observing or criticizing the federal government's actions. The judge also ruled that safely following ICE vehicles does not on its own justify a traffic stop, protecting an increasingly common tactic used by Minnesotans to track raids in the Twin Cities.

The brutal crackdown in Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, Russian aistrikes in Kyiv and heavy rain in Gaza the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists

The regime has lashed out in turn, increasingly directing its violence and intimidation toward U.S. citizens attempting to stand up for their loved ones and neighbors, whether that's detaining people and allegedly offering to pay them for the names of immigrants or protest organizers, or simply applying brunt, physical violence, as in the case of 21-year-old California resident and citizen Kaden Rummler, who was permanently blinded by an immigration agent this week when he was shot in the face by a "less than lethal" munition.

The Sheriff's Office in Louisiana's Richland Parish, where the massive Hyperion Data Center is under construction, said Wednesday that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained two dump truck drivers traveling to the site during a traffic stop inspection. "During those stops, two drivers were arrested by ICE due to their immigration status," the office said. The drivers were from Guatemala and Honduras.

As Elle Neubauer drove before dawn past the darkened windows of the immigrant-owned businesses on Lake Street in Minneapolis, her co-pilot and friend Patty O'Keefe scanned the passing vehicles with binoculars, searching for signs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. As the sun rose, more community patrollers arrived on Lake Street, keeping eyes on the Ecuadorean grocery stores, Somali restaurants and Mexican taco shops that line the street.

Potylo said federal agents in Minneapolis targeted him after the Portland arrest, calling the situation surreal. These guys are out to send a message, and yeah, if you get under their skin, they will target you. And you know what? Who gives a sh? I am representing marginalized people that don't have a fing voice in this country, man, he said. I do it for them.

In 1996, the Supreme Court decided Whren v. United States, which came about when plainclothes vice officers patrolling in the District of Columbia passed a truck in a "high drug" area and "their suspicions were aroused." They had a hunch that the truck was involved in a drug operation. They chose to wait until it had violated a traffic ordinance (turning without a signal) and then used that violation as an excuse to stop the truck. In the course of searching the truck, they found crack cocaine.

The killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent may or may not have been a justified use of force. On first appearance, it does appear that it wasn't. But even if it wasn't justified, that in no way justifies shutting down ICE and the enforcement of our immigration laws. Furthermore, rioting or defending rioting in support of this is a disgrace and damnable foolishness.

If you've spent any time at all reading news stories in the last year on the steady ramp-up of Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's terror campaign against immigrants (and U.S. citizens) that is being conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), then there's another name you've no doubt come across over and over again, even if you've never taken particular notice of it: Tricia McLaughlin.

David Yelland, former deputy editor at the New York Post, slammed his old newspaper as a disgrace for its Friday front page branding the Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent as a Warrior' of the Left. The cover splash, which shows a large image of Renee Nicole Good, reports that the victim was an activist member of ICE Watch and trained to resist' agents.

Yesenia Campos was only a few months into volunteering with the network when she was detained by ICE on Oct. 30 while observing agents in San Jose. Campos said she was collecting contact information for people being detained so their families could be notified when an agent ordered her to step back. When she did not move quickly enough, she said, the agent detained her. Other volunteers were present and documented the encounter.

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.

The forceful and intimidating actions by ICE pose an existential threat to the safety and security of both shelter-based staff and clients. Recent incidents nationwide and in New York City underscore ICE's overreach and the fear it instills in vulnerable communities of color through racial profiling and discriminatory enforcement, said Christine C. Quinn, president & CEO of Win. These unlawful practices have no place in our city and put migrants and shelter workers at risk.

When they arrived at the courthouse four unmarked ICE vehicles surrounded and blocked Ramirez Sanan's car, according to the lawsuit. Within seconds, and without stopping to identify themselves, ask any questions, or give any warnings or orders for the passengers to follow, the officers surrounded the car and used a sharp tool to shatter both the front and back windows on the driver side, hitting Ramirez Sanan and [her brother-in-law] with shards of glass, the lawsuit says.

By the numbers: Two-thirds of Americans - including majorities of independents and many Republicans - support preserving the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to those born in the U.S., the survey found. Roughly 8 in 10 Black Protestants favor keeping birthright citizenship, and solid majorities of Hispanic Catholics and Hispanic Protestants support it as well. Even among Trump's most supportive religious constituency - white evangelical Protestants - 53% say the Constitution's guarantee should stand.

We can all stand up to ICE if you know your rights.

Sophia Nyazi's husband, Milad, shook her awake at 8 a.m. "ICE is here," he told her. Three uniformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were downstairs at the family's home on Long Island, N.Y., on Tuesday, according to a video reviewed by The Times that she captured from atop the staircase. Nyazi said the agents asked whether her husband was applying for a green card. They told her they would have to detain him because of the shooting of two National Guard members a week earlier in Washington, D.C. "He has nothing to do with that shooting," Nyazi, 27, recalled answering. "We don't even know that person."