#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

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United States President Donald Trump called for the jailing of Democratic officials in Illinois resisting his mass deportation campaign, a day after armed troops from Texas arrived in the state to bolster the operation. Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and third-largest in the country, has become the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration's drive to deport millions of immigrants, which has prompted allegations of rights abuses and myriad lawsuits.

What is anti-Americanism? What are those "ideologies or activities," exactly? And without any meaningful guidance, how is anyone on either side of the immigration process supposed to identify it? Maybe the imprecision is the point. Three weeks on, practitioners tell The Verge that it is almost impossible to figure out how to advise clients on this standard or properly prepare for it.

Trump has deployed the National Guard and a wave of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into the district. ICE arrests there have increased tenfold. The situation has thrust the Latinas who hold up the nation's child care sector into a perpetual state of panic. Nationwide, about 1 in 5 child care workers are immigrants, but in D.C. it's closer to 40 percent; about 7 percent nationally lack permanent legal status. Nearly all are women.

The increased number of violent ICE raids and arrests have escalated concerns about the equal protection and due process rights of migrants. Non-citizens won these rights more than a century ago, when two Chinese laundrymen brought their fight against discrimination all the way to the US Supreme Court. Yick Wo vs. Hopkins is just one way early Chinese immigrants helped shape constitutional principles that remain foundational to American democracy. And as KQED's Cecilia Lei reports, that case still resonates today.

Back in June, Chiland, a Los Angeles public-school teacher, heard rumors that National Guard troops were being marshalled on Terminal Island in preparation to arrest anti-ICE demonstrators across the city. This inspired Chiland and his wife, Maya Suzuki Daniels, to co-found the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, a group of community activists that track the movements of immigration authorities around Los Angeles.

The attorney for a woman who was shot by federal agents in Chicago over the weekend after she allegedly rammed a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicle has claimed that body-camera footage captures one of the officers saying, Do something, bitch, before opening fire, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The shooting occurred on Saturday morning in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood, as immigration agents, at the behest of the second Trump administration, have been scouring Illinois's largest city for people to deport.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that he had named Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano to serve in a newly created CEO role at the Internal Revenue Service, raising concerns both about Bisignano's newly split priorities and the Trump administration's effort to consolidate government databases of Americans' personal information to aid in its mass deportation efforts. In addition to his duties running the Social Security Administration, Bisignano will be responsible for "overseeing all day-to-day IRS operations," the Treasury Department said in a press release Monday.

People have to understand our democracy is being taken away from us, and we only have about a year, Reiner said. He then told Velshi that he and many other pundits are doing a great job of covering Trump. But make no mistake, we have a year before this country becomes a full on autocracy and democracy completely leaves us, Reiner said.

"He's giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are. And he cannot do that. And we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out, because that's not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country."

President Donald Trump has mentioned both Oakland and San Francisco among potential target cities with crime problems where he would send troops, having already ordered the National Guard in recent months to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., while making formal threats to Chicago and Portland, Oregon. The president has not yet announced any official plans to send the guard to the Bay Area.

The ICEBlock app alerts users to ICE agents in the area, allowing them to evacuate migrants who may be arrested. Curtailing illegal immigration has been one of the central domestic policies in Trump's second term at the White House. However, reports suggest that ICE agents, often in masks using unmarked vans, have also detained permanent US residents, visa holders and those involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy. Protests against immigration raids have occurred at ICE facilities and other key government sites across the country

"Obviously New York is no stranger to the risk of terrorist attacks and it's not just 9/11 that tells us that," US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in a hearing Wednesday, pointing to the day when "3,000 people died within sight of this courthouse." New York is suing to restore the money, which was earmarked by the US for mass transit security.