Source: Anadolu / Getty In October of last year, Marimar Martinez, a teaching assistant and U.S. citizen from Chicago, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, and before the ink was even dry on the headlines reporting the story, the Department of Homeland Security was already dragging her name through the mud, claiming […]
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Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty The heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) appeared before the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on Thursday and spouted a whole lot of nothing. The New York Times reports that the hearing comes two days after they spoke in front of House members and […]
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Source: TIMOTHY A. CLARY / Getty As the Trump administration is reportedly planning to take its mass deportation tour to the state of Ohio, it is already becoming clear that the agenda is to rid the nation of Black and brown immigrants, regardless of whether they’re documented or not — which is why yet another […]
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Over the last year, there’s been more and more talk about domestic terrorism, whether it’s the Trump administration levying the term at Renee Good and Alex Pretti to justify their fatal shootings at the hands of federal agents, or the public describing ICE’s increasingly brutal immigration campaign. While Renee Good and Alex Pretti were obviously […]
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Source: Al Drago / Getty Top officials in the Trump administration collectively stepped in it when they reflexively blamed Minnesota health professional Alex Pretti for his own violent death at the hands of federal agents, the same way they lied about Renee Nicole Good. Because, in Pretti’s case, video footage leaves no doubt that he […]
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Source: Xinhua News Agency / Getty ICE and Border Patrol have only been deployed to Minneapolis for a few weeks, and it’s already been a crapshow. The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good has understandably put the city on edge, with anti-ICE protests continually escalating. On Monday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit […]
Read MoreSource: The Washington Post / Getty The city of Minneapolis has understandably been on edge for the last week after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, a wife and mother of three, whose only crime was warning her neighbors that ICE was in the neighborhood. Homeland Security Secretary and noted dog shooter […]
Read MoreSource: Stephen Maturen / Getty Not two full days have gone by since it was reported that the Trump administration had begun deploying some 2,000 federal agents, including ICE agents, to Minneapolis, escalating his immigration crackdown in the city in what is also purported to be the Trump administration’s response to the fraud scandal in Minnesota — […]
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Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year. In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]
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Watergate, and Nixon’s forced resignation in the face of certain impeachment, resulted in the end of his political career. But in the last several months, Trump has taken some concrete steps to rewrite his own impeachment history. Trump is the only U.S. president to be impeached twice, in 2019 and 2021. In August, the Smithsonian […]
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After a video recirculated of Zohran Mamdani eating food with his hands, many MAGA figures revealed their inability to engage with New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee without being sent into a xenophobic tizzy. In the video, a 2023 interview with Uncivilized Media, Mamdani describes growing up in the Third World and being surprised by […]
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After a video recirculated of Zohran Mamdani eating food with his hands, many MAGA figures revealed their inability to engage with New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee without being sent into a xenophobic tizzy. In the video, a 2023 interview with Uncivilized Media, Mamdani describes growing up in the Third World and being surprised by […]
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Source: David McNew / Getty Legal and oversight experts are raising serious concerns after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out new rules, limiting access for members of Congress to inspect and view immigration detention and processing facilities operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to the new guidance now imposed by […]
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