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Christian Castro, an ICE officer, was arrested in Texas for a January shooting in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged for the first time the agency's growing arsenal of surveillance technology includes spyware. Such tools can remotely hack into phones and have been abused repeatedly by governments around the world that have used them not only to counter national security threats, but also to spy on political rivals, diplomats, human rights activists and journalists.
Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed Chris Rabb, a progressive firebrand state lawmaker from Philadelphia who's running for a U.S. House seat in a competitive, three-way Democratic primary. Ocasio-Cortez is rumored to be visiting Philadelphia this month to campaign for Rabb. She has also fundraised for Rabb and posted on social media in support of him.
A week before Alex was gunned down in the street - despite posing no threat to anyone - he was violently assaulted by a group of (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents," Schleicher said in a written statement. "Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex's killing at the hands of ICE on Jan 24.
The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, resigned this week following a dispute with the association's board over the litigation. Don Craven, who had led the Illinois Press Association since 2021, added the organization to the lawsuit Sunday alongside other Illinois news outlets and advocacy groups.
FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. -- A suspect is dead after allegedly dragging an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with his vehicle in the west Chicago suburb of Franklin Park on Friday, ICE said in a statement. ICE said its officers were conducting "targeted law enforcement activity," and during a vehicle stop, a suspect resisted and tried to drive his vehicle into the arrest team.
An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks - a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, estimates he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrests. He told POLITICO his experts are "able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible."
One of the biggest points that was being made to her aggressively by officers was, 'Did you think that you were going to get away with recording our activities and there wouldn't be a consequence?' That was said to her many times by many different people while she was being held in Los Angeles,
These immigrants, many like a farmworker in Texas or a cancer survivor, remain in detention due to the Trump administration's no-bond policy, preventing their release regardless of circumstances.
I don't have any faith and confidence in the CBO, Nehls said, who was smoking a cigar and had both hands wrapped in bandages. They're scoring, they're wrong half the damn time.