ICYMI: ICE lawyers are now prosecuting crime unrelated to immigration in DC Superior Court. I spoke to half a dozen former immigration judges and current immigration attorneys, and all said this was a bad idea. One ICE lawyer said as much herself in court!
I think she should have endorsed too but this is plainly a misogynistic thing to say. IVF is not irrelevant when we could lose it. During woke 1 you guys would’ve known to at least pretend you care about women or reproductive justice
The official said it will be safer for the public than pepper spray and more effective than tasers but could point to no other law enforcement agency using these gloves making arrests in the field
NEW: 39 stalking cases. 55 other cases of officer misconduct. 31 errors ending in wrongful stops, and 15 other miscellaneous abuses. @IJ has put together the most comprehensive database of Flock and other ALPR abuse to date.
A senior DHS official tells me all ICE officers will begin wearing zap gloves to deliver non-lethal electric shock on people resisting arrest by the end of September.
ICE running through terminals (as we've seen), is something major airlines fear could impact the public's desire to travel and, in turn, hurt business.
It’s somewhat self selecting based on who is willing to chat with me, but every federal agent I’ve ever met who has been repurposed to beat cop work is less than thrilled by the trajectory of their career.
If you want to understand the impact of Trump’s aggressive approach to crime in D.C. you need only spend a day in Superior Court, where judges are handling a huge influx of arrests by federal agents — many for seemingly minor offenses. By @jennygathright:
On Sunday, a day laborer saw someone waving a gun at a Home Depot and called 911. @HoustonPolice arrived, but in the midst of it all, ICE showed up & took the witness. Today, @SeanTeareHCDAO spoke to @abc13houston. Story link next.
UPDATE: There will be a very long delay to the Milwaukee upload. Five of the USB sticks were missing results from the election.
Election officials have to go back to the absentee facility to get the results again.
This stuff really is repugnant. The president of the United States suing a think tank for publishing a report that offended him is called "authoritarianism." I know people are desensitized, but anyone who claims to care about free speech should find this detestable.
My office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.
While I am relieved that she is safe, the habitual dishonesty and dangerous and unjustified escalation seen in this video matches what we have seen from ICE agents across the country.
This kind of misconduct and threat of force against members of our communities cannot be tolerated.
I will be demanding answers and consequences.
Houston police need to answer questions about what happened here: After a man called Houston police this weekend to report an active shooter outside a Home Depot, ICE agents *arrested the man who reported the shooting*
BREAKING WSJ:
Trump White House officials have asked the Trump Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of David Hearn, the man accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool — as Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's decision to drop the case.
Breaking: The DNC is suing ICE for documents revealing the agency's plans to deploy agents at polling places in November.
Last week, ICE turned over 576 pages of press clippings — a ploy that "circumvented the court's orders," the DNC charges. (paywall)
Boston's Barcelona Wine Bar has had its liquor license suspended for 3 days.
Investigators found underage patrons drinking and witnessed a bartender standing on the bar while pouring wine directly into a customer's mouth.
Would you look at that? Ohio's Republican governor has an op-ed today crediting Haitians with reversing Springfield’s economic collapse. And here I'd been informed we need to "send them all back."
So many armchair immigration pundits have zero clue what they’re talking about.