#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

ICE arrested Sumith Gunasekera in Detroit on Nov. 12, DHS announced in its Nov. 25 release. That's the date Ferris State "became aware of accusations regarding" Gunasekera, university spokesperson David Murray said in an emailed statement. Murray didn't answer further questions from Inside Higher Ed Monday, including whether the university performed a background check on Gunasekera before hiring him. "He has been placed on administrative leave while the university gathers more information," Murray wrote.

The White House's official TikTok is stirring controversy again. After using Wicked's "Defying Gravity" to celebrate the detention of people by ICE, it has now used Sabrina Carpenter's "Juno", which is about sex, in a bid to further promote ICE's work. Captioned, "Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye", the 14-second clip shows people being pursued by ICE officers and handcuffed, while the lyric, "have you ever tried this one? repeats three times.

"ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!" read a November 29 message posted to the Eagle, Idaho, bar's X account. In a follow-up post, the bar explained that customers can claim their free beers by sending "a detailed email with any evidence, photos, videos, summary of events, dates, and times etc" to a dedicated email address.

Donald Trump isn't going to be president forever, much as he would like to declare himself immortal. At some point, his unpopularity will catch up with him. It may be in the next midterms, as Democrats are increasingly dreaming about recapturing both houses of Congress. It could be in the run-up to the 2028 election, when Trump will have to contend with his lame duck status, even if he tries to run again as an 82-year-old.

Prosecutors in Oregon are warning the US justice department to rein in federal agents who've repeatedly used excessive force on protesters, immigrants and even local police. A joint letter from Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and district attorneys from Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties, demands the US Department of Justice "immediately halt unlawful and reckless actions by federal officers operating in Oregon."

Carlos Jimenez, a father of three, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week after prosecutors accused him of trying to "reverse" his car into a Border Patrol agent conducting an early morning Oct. 30 immigration stop near the Ontario mobile home park where he lives. An accompanying ICE agent, according to a complaint filed shortly after the incident, had ordered him to leave and pulled out a gun and pepper spray.

Contractors would confirm home and work addresses for people targeted for removal by-among other techniques-photographing residences, documenting comings and goings, and staking out workplaces and apartment complexes. Those filings cast the initiative as a substantial but limited pilot program. Contractors were guaranteed as little as $250 and could earn no more than $90 million each, with the overall program capped at $180 million. That structure pointed to meaningful scale but still framed the effort as a controlled trial, not an integral component of ICE's removal operations.

Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto's phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers.

Community members and organizers gathered at the Home Depot in Monrovia to demand the company prevent the immigration raids taking place at its locations. Saturday's demonstration included a buy-in, where volunteers bought an ice scraper from Home Depot and returned it. The efforts follow the death of Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez, a day laborer who was struck and killed after running onto the 210 Freeway while trying to flee from an immigration sweep at the Monrovia store.

Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz urged ICE and Border Patrol agents to ignore the yahoos who protest them and to keep doing the right thing by cracking down on illegal immigrants. Chaffetz, while appearing on The Big Weekend Show on Saturday, was asked by co-host Tomi Lahren about the Trump Administration's latest efforts to deport illegal immigrants living in Charlotte, North Carolina.

President Donald Trump has hit the pause button on deploying the National Guard to New York City, with the commander-in-chief on Saturday saying there are other American cities that need it more right now. The president's comments came a day after he welcomed Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who will be New York City's next mayor, to the White House. Trump has said previously that New York was on his list of Democrat-run cities that he would deploy the National Guard to, saying in August he would help fight crime in the Big Apple after he was done in Chicago.

No one seems to know what happened to Vicente Ventura Aguilar. A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn't have lawful immigration status, was taken into custody by immigration authorities on Oct. 7 in SouthLosAngeles and suffered a medical emergency. But it's been more than six weeks since then, and Ventura Aguilar's family still hasn't heard from him. The Department of Homeland Security said 73 people from Mexico were arrested in the Los Angeles area between Oct. 7 and 8.

Last week, Leonardo Williams, the mayor of Durham, North Carolina, received a call from the office of Governor Josh Stein. Stein's office had heard that the Trump administration was going to launch an immigration-enforcement operation in Charlotte and possibly in Raleigh, but it didn't have much more information. Over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection agents swarmed Charlotte, ultimately arresting about 370 people.

SteveTheGamer55 is live on YouTube. He's streaming a session to his 4.6 million subscribers of GTA 5 RP, a Grand Theft Auto 5 mod that allows people to role-play with other players. "Really wanna show you guys some real-life scenarios," he says, offering a little background on his character, a man headed to his job while on a work visa.

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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two ideologically opposed leaders with conflicting visions for the nation's largest city. The meeting marks the first face-to-face discussion between the combative Republican president and the defiant democratic socialist who secured a commanding electoral victory last month with over 50% of the vote.

In February, the Task Force Model was the least commonly used of the three, and only seven states had that type of agreement, ICE's data shows. As of Nov. 20, a total of 620 police agencies across 34 states have signed into a Task Force Model agreement. More than 300 of the agreements are in Florida alone, ICE's list shows, and about 3,100 people in Florida have been arrested under the 287(g) program, according to a database maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

For months, shady organizations and individuals carried out a smear and harassment campaign designed to intimidate and silence me, said Khalil in a statement to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The public deserves full accountability for every bad actor who helped make that possible, including those at Columbia who fabricated and amplified these smears and opened the door for state retaliation against Palestinian speech.

The incoming democratic socialist mayor whom Trump has repeatedly belittled the democratic socialist as a communist since winning the Democratic Primary in June told reporters during a City Hall Park news conference on Nov. 20 that he requested the Oval Office sit-down earlier this week. Mamdani sought the meeting to discuss skyrocketing costs in the five boroughs and balancing public safety with steps taken by this administration.

The Texas raid, which targeted alleged Tren de Aragua gang members, resulted in more than 140 arrests, Axios San Antonio reported. Two days of surged enforcement in Charlotte totaled 130, according to press statements for the respective operations. The San Antonio operationalso resulted in more arrests than a similar operation in Chicago with federal agents and a Black Hawk helicopter, which caught 37 people.

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed Swamp Sweep that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide

The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street. A 70-year-old protester in Chicago is pushed to the ground by an armed Border Patrol agent holding a riot gun. In Los Angeles, an agent shoves away a demonstrator. These videos capture the aggressive tactics of immigration officers under the second Trump administration. But they share something else, too. In each instance, following documented violence by federal officers toward protesters and immigrants, the Justice Department pressed charges-against the victim of that violence.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, declined to discuss Border Patrol's plans. "Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. We do not discuss future or potential operations," McLaughlin said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued California on Monday to block newly passed laws that prohibit law enforcement officials, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks and that require them to identify themselves. The laws, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, came in the wake of the Trump administration's immigration raids in California, when masked, unidentified federal officers jumped out of vehicles this summer as part of the president's mass deportation program.