#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

If all goes well, this will be the last time I am the news and you can instead count on me to bring you some uncompromising journalism as the latest addition to the Mercury's news team. You may be familiar with my work at Street Roots, where I worked as a staff reporter for the past few years. I'll say, despite the risk of turning this into a cover letter, I learned a lot about reporting on housing and homelessness there,

"We've gotten more testimonials. I'm starting to now see 'Leaving MAGA' signs popping up on billboards, overpasses, and [at] No Kings protests," said Rich Logis, a Catholic ex-Trump supporter who founded a group called Leaving MAGA. Catch up quick: Images of federal agents grabbing U.S. citizens or unauthorized immigrants who were picking up children from school have jolted some evangelicals who backed Trump in 2024.

When ICE and other federal agencies operate without transparency, and when they use local property as staging grounds, that fear multiplies in our communities. It erodes the trust we've worked so hard to build," Ortiz said. "This is what local leadership looks like. When the federal government chooses fear, we choose community. When others look away, we act.

DHS sent me to the border to see the separations for myself to try to make me more compassionate but it didn't work, she told MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff in 2018, according to his book on the border policy, Separated. The book also quotes Miller saying she didn't expect to change her mind: My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I'll think about family separation differently. But I don't think so.

"the car stopped and attempted to run officers over by reversing directly at them without stopping."

The department posted the clip because Bovino was ordered to appear in court before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Tuesday, after he was recently caught on camera pelting a can of tear gas at protesters. Judge Ellis basically gave Bovino a curfew, ruling that he now has to appear in her courtroom every day at 6 p.m. to explain what the fuck is happening with border control in Chicago. Before he could comply on Wednesday, though, an appeals court blocked the order.

Urban photography rewards amateurs. Whatever grandeur is lost in overexposure or an obvious angle is compensated for by lookie-loo enthusiasm, which charms locals on par with tourists. This is true of any beloved city, but since I live in Chicago my relevant example is Chicago, the Windy City, on a sea-size lake, with a skyline appreciable from a human vantage.

The Republican-led US Senate has passed a measure that would terminate Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of opposition to the president's trade war. The vote passed 52-48. The resolution was led by Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia, and seeks to overturn the national emergency that Trump has declared to justify the levies.

In a video shared on TikTok in September, a masked man in a tactical vest runs across a street in Chicago toward a Ford SUV. More people in tactical police vests get inside the vehicle, as an angry crowd forms around it, yelling profanities. "You guys are separating families," one woman shouts at the car, which is flashing red and blue lights.

A week after federal agents arrested sellers on Canal Street during an immigration sweep, street vendors teamed up with delivery workers to push for better conditions and more protections in their immigrant-heavy industries. A week after federal agents arrested sellers on Canal Street during an immigration sweep, street vendors teamed up with delivery workers to push for better conditions and more protections in their immigrant-heavy industries during a rally Wednesday morning.

Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

US immigration officials have been increasingly detaining people in small, secretive holding facilities for days or even weeks at a time in violation of federal policy, a Guardian investigation has found. These holding facilities located at ICE offices, in federal buildings and other locations around the country are typically used to detain people after they have been arrested but before they are transferred or released.

Yes. I mean, look, I've been doing this for 20 years now, and it really is one of the craziest cases I've worked on. One minute, I'm here waiting for a hearing following week. And then I get a call from him, and he says, I'm in Mexico. Mexico? We have a hearing in front of a judge. And I went in front of the immigration judge. The judge had no idea what was happening. DHS had no idea what was happening.

"The support of [Department of Homeland Security] agencies continues the Coast Guard's action to provide its unique authorities and capabilities as part of [the] government's approach to control, secure and defend U.S. borders and maritime approaches by dismantling transnational criminal organizations, including drug and human smuggling operations, narcoterrorists and other hostile activity before they reach the border," the spokesperson said.

Outside the court at 630 Sansome St., around 50 peaceful protesters held signs reading " Huelga general, general strike" as they walked around the building. They chanted "Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here!" as a long line of asylum-seekers, waiting outside for their hearings, recorded videos and cheered. The picket line, organized by the San Francisco General Strike Committee and Anti-ICE Action Coalition, was joined by members of four Aztec dance groups, who led the crowd in a cleansing ritual. They used copal, an incense used to purify a space and honor Aztec gods, to bless both immigrants standing in line and various entrances to the court building. Protesters beat drums and blared trumpets.

I am trying to cope because that's what I am supposed to do, but what hurts me the most is to hear my kids ask where daddy is. My eight-year-old daughter with autism waited for him until the last minute. They would talk over the phone while he was detained, but one day before the funeral, I had to tell her that daddy was in heaven and that he would be watching her and that she wouldn't see him.

Multiple security personnel opened fire Thursday night at a U-Haul truck that had been backing up to the entrance to Coast Guard Island, where protesters had spent the day rallying against the planned arrival of federal immigration agents. It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured in the shooting, which happened at about 10 p.m. and was captured by camera crews for television station KTVU.