#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors familiar with the incident, who shared their belief that the top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. Most of them spoke privately for fear of retaliation. The raid has reverberated among fire crews, agency leaders and contractors. Wildfire veterans say the arrests have stoked fear and distrust among firefighters on the ground.

As Labor Day rallies took place across the US, the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson sharply denounced the Trump administration's threat to deploy federal troops to the city as part of an immigration crackdown. No federal troops in the city of Chicago, said Johnson on Monday to a gathered crowd at the Workers over Billionaires demonstration in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood. Johnson added: We're going to defend our democracy we're going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.

Bajun Mavalwalla II a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan was charged in July with conspiracy to impede or injure officers after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington.

Thousands of union members and others participated in marches, rallies and picnics on Labor Day throughout the Los Angeles region and across the country on Monday, decrying actions by the Trump administration that they say weaken unions and harm workers while strengthening and emboldening major corporations and the wealthy. A White House proclamation Monday said President Trump's actions are "reversing decades of neglect and finally putting American Workers first" by rewriting tax laws and creating a better economic climate for businesses.

Labor Day protests across the Bay Area drew thousands of participants Monday, aiming to push back against a "war on working people." From San Francisco to Oakland to San Jose, more than 20 demonstrations took place across the Bay Area as part of a nationwide day of protest called Workers Over Billionaires set to coincide with Labor Day. Across the country, close to 1,000 protests were planned in all 50 states and were organized nationally by AFL-CIO with partner organizations.

President Donald Trump won a second term with a promise to support the working-class voters who backed him. But many workers now feel less secure and find their jobs harder to do - squeezed by immigration crackdowns, federal layoffs and funding cuts, and weakened labor protections. The uncertainty fueled by these policies, combined with Trump's trade wars, is beginning to surface in economic data, economists say.

They shouldn't be kidnapping people off the street,

A man from Tennessee who wanted to apply because of "the way things have become with the illegal immigration and the strain it's been on our economy." And a young Latino who was already catching flak for trying to work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A friend texted: "Oh hell no Ricardo I thought you was joking. I will not speak to you ever again if you become and ice agent ... You have a dad who was deported dude."

Tensions are high in the community right now and relations are being strained,

Surprise operations, raids on car washes, displays of force in public parks, and racial profiling in Home Depot parking lots throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The terror that the Donald Trump administration has spread among the city's migrant communities has begun to bear the fruits promised in the campaign. This week, the government boasted of having reached 5,000 arrests for deportation purposes in Los Angeles, one of the main sanctuary cities in the United States.

They may come to the emergency room, bringing in someone who's suffering a medical crisis while being detained. They may wait in the lobby, as agents did for two weeks at an L.A.-area hospital waiting for a woman to be discharged. Or they may even chase people inside, as federal agents did at a Southern California surgical center. The sight of these agents often armed and with covered faces makes many wary and may keep people from seeking care.

conduct of ICE agents and Border Patrol agents that caused the false arrest, false imprisonment, assault, [and] battery

Portland's rich, varied, and vibrant Mexican food scene deserves more attention than it gets. Quality taquerias and mercados have long simmered guisados and pressed tortillas across the city, but in recent years, the scene has blossomed even more. Quesabirria carts, mariscos pop-ups, and artful tasting menus have landed around town, expanding the range and regional representation in Mexican dining. Yet as the food scene has grown, so has the federal government's aggression toward the people behind it.

In a video produced by the Department of Homeland Security this month, two tricked-out ICE vehicles roll around on the National Mall to "Toes" by rapper DaBaby: "My heart so cold I think I'm done with ice (uh, brr) / Said if I leave her, she gon' die / Well ... you done with life." The vehicles feature a new ICE logo and DEFEND THE HOMELAND in block letters, painted in a color scheme similar to the president's private plane.

When Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief. It just felt unreal like this wasn't a world that we could be living in right now, said Duran Zecca, a James Beard Award nominated chef and co-owner of Amiga Amore in Highland Park, a historically Latino neighborhood in north-east LA.

they received a message from the administrator saying that unmarked cars were parked directly outside. Shortly after 8am, federal agents in tactical vests arrested two people unaffiliated with the center, the administrator said. While these activities are not connected to our program, we are closely monitoring the situation and taking extra precautions to ensure everyone feels safe entering and leaving the building, read the message to parents, reviewed by the Guardian.

The complaint highlights significant concerns with these tools including the collection, retention, and processing of data presumptively in violation of many of the legal requirements set out in the UK GDPR and the DPA 2018. From PI's perspective, the HO's use of these tools is opaque, lacks a clear and foreseeable justification, processes unjustifiable volumes of personal data, is subject to inadequate human review, and may be adversely impacting migrants who are subject to them.

On the basis of a year of legal research by PI as well as documents obtained by other civil society organisations, and evidence provided by legal representatives fighting these automated systems on behalf of their clients, on the 18th August 2025, we issued a formal complaint to the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) regarding the UK Home Office's use of two 'automated recommendation-making tools' (ARMTs), the Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases tool (IPIC) and the Electronic Monitoring Review Tool (EMRT).

Most California voters strongly disapprove of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies and believe that raids in the state have unfairly targeted Latinos, according to a new poll. The findings, released Sunday, reflected striking emotional reactions to immigration enforcement. When voters were asked to describe their feelings about news reports or videos of immigration raids, 64% chose rage or sadness "because what is happening is unfair." Among Democrats, 91% felt enraged or sad. Conversely, 65% of Republicans felt hopeful, "like justice is finally being served."

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro has frequently pushed for those who commit crimes to face harsher punishments. During a visit Thursday with federal law enforcement and National Guard troops deployed in the district, with President Trump by her side, she pledged to ensure arrests lead to charges. "I am making sure we back the blue to the hilt. Every arrest you make, we're going to the longest way to make sure that we charge in those cases," Pirro told the group.

In 2017, the California Legislature passed the California Values Act ( SB 54), which restricts local law enforcement from using their resources for immigration enforcement, except in limited cases. The law was designed to build trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities so that all residents feel safe reporting crimes and seeking protection. Yet in 2024, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department notified ICE 132 times.

In late February, in Charlotte, North Carolina, unidentified federal agents burst into a home, without a warrant in hand, apparently looking for an undocumented immigrant whom they had on their snatch list. He had recently moved into another apartment in the building, and 20-year-old Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla, the oldest of four siblings in the home, told the agents that he was no longer there.

For the past two months, 32-year-old Isabelle Brourman has entered 26 Federal Plaza's immigration court with a large easel and art supplies. Putting pen to paper inside the facility's courtrooms and hallways, she has not only illustrated immigrants as they plead their cases, she has also borne witness to masked ICE agents dragging fathers and mothers, daughters, and sons out of sight.