Trump declares war on Americans

[Blake]

teach my grandkids this is what the good guys look like?


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Exactly. These are the guys that are saving us from the scary illegals that are eating the dogs and the cats.

[Winehole23]

I reached out to Graff, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his history of the Watergate scandal (https://www.amazon.com/Watergate-History-Garrett-M-Graff/dp/198213917X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0), because just two days before the ProPublica report, he offered some extraordinary history and background about CPB in testimony before an Illinois state commission (https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp) that’s looking into misconduct during the 2025 immigration raids there.
Graff’s statement went viral on social media (https://bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bsky.social/post/3mdsspnj3bs23) because it detailed a toxic culture at CPB that’s highlighted by shocking levels of criminality among its agents, from on-the-job brutality to off-duty thuggery, as well as domestic violence (https://www.pogo.org/analyses/misconduct-at-cbp-runs-deep-and-congress-must-address-this-systemic-problem).
Finding that at least 4,913 Border Patrol agents and CBP officers were arrested over a 20-year period, Graff testified (https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp), “Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and officers was higher per capita than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/alex-pretti-customs-border-patrol-tulsi-gabbard-20260203.html

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https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3946

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the transcript is bonkers

DOJ is coming unglued in Minnesota from the large number of illegal detentions requiring habeas relief


The Minnesota AUSA office has gone from ~50 lawyers to reportedly 9 in about one month

Still looking for a cite on this twitter post, it appears to be one of Paul Blume's www.fox9.com/person/b/pau... (https://www.fox9.com/person/b/paul-blume)

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NM bans immigration detention centers and state agencies cooperating with ICE


A bill bans Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in New Mexico has been approved by state's 2026 Legislature.
The Immigration Safety Act, or House Bill 9 (https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0009.pdf), was approved by the Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 3, in an emotional vote. It passed in during a floor vote 24-15. All senator Republicans opposing the bill.
The bill, which moved quickly through the Legislature, now goes to the desk of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has stated she would sign the legislation into law if it arrives on her desk.



A key amendment was added to the bill in the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 28 that would block sheriffs departments and police departments from entering 287(g) agreements with ICE, which allows local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE on immigration enforcement.https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/02/04/new-mexico-is-set-to-ban-ice-detention-center-as-bill-goes-to-governor/88367954007/

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[Winehole23]

Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More: Act 2, Scene 4


Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise

Hath chid down all the majesty of England;

Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,

Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,

Plodding tooth ports and costs for transportation,

And that you sit as kings in your desires,

Authority quite silent by your brawl,

And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;

What had you got? I’ll tell you. You had taught

How insolence and strong hand should prevail,

How order should be quelled; and by this pattern

Not one of you should live an aged man,

For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,

With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,

Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes

Would feed on one another.https://pressbooks.nvcc.edu/eng245britlit/chapter/william-shakespeare-sir-thomas-more-act-2-scene-4/

[Winehole23]

Background:


Some six hundred years ago in medieval England, feverish xenophobia swept through the population as 64,000 foreigners (https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/), from wealthy Lombard bankers to Flemish laborers, arrived on English shores between 1330 and 1550 in search of better lives. Locals blamed them for taking their jobs and distorting their culture. Tensions reached a zenith on May 1, 1517, as riots broke out in London and a mob armed with stones, bricks, bats, boots and boiling water attacked the immigrants and looted their homes. Thomas More, then the city’s deputy sherif, tried to reason with the crowd.

This dark day in history, known as Evil May Day, was portrayed in a then-banned play called The Book of Sir Thomas More, believed to be written between 1596 and 1601. William Shakespeare and two other writers were called to edit the manuscript, with the Bard contributing the 147 lines of More’s emphatic pro-immigrant monologue.



The play was never performed in Shakespeare’s lifetime because the Queen’s censor, Edmund Tilney, thought it might incite riots during a time when England was once again besieged by another immigrant crisis with the arrival of French-speaking Protestant asylum seekers from France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

https://qz.com/786163/the-banned-400-year-old-shakespearean-speech-being-used-for-refugee-rights-today

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DHS has wrecked the DOJ in Minnesota


The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota says his short-staffed office has been abandoning “pressing and important priorities” to manage the flood of immigration cases stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s mass deportation push in the Twin Cities.


U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, in a little-noticed filing (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca8.113186/gov.uscourts.ca8.113186.00805443733.0.pdf) last week with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, said his office is buckling under the crushing weight of hundreds of emergency lawsuits filed by immigrants arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent weeks. He said 427 had been filed in January alone, and that the pace is expected to continue into February.


“To respond to this wave of habeas petitions, this Office has been forced to shift its already limited resources from other pressing and important priorities,” Rosen said in a declaration to the court. “The MN-USAO has cancelled all [civil enforcement] work and any other affirmative priorities and is operating in a reactive mode.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/minnesota-prosecutor-ice-sidelining-priorities-00766733

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systematic lawlessness is meeting judicial resistance


Rosen is urging the appellate court to quickly resolve an issue at the heart of the emergency lawsuits: whether ICE has the legal authority to lock up most of the immigrants that agents are targeting for deportation, even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for years without incident. Judges in Minnesota (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/minnesota-immigration-cases-ice-00746275) and around the country (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-administration-immigrants-mandatory-detention-00709494) have overwhelmingly rejected ICE’s position, ordering thousands of detainees freed or provided with bond hearings in immigration courts run by the Justice Department.

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DOJ is 0-16 so far vs 32 known defendants in Chicago related to Operation Midway Blitz

Mr. Meier had been charged with resisting an officer

When DOJ drops charges that usually means DOJ doesn't think it can win with the evidence it has or somebody screwed up

DOJ has dropped a lot of cases in Chicago for some reason

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what's up with the continued federal occupation of DC?


“What’s interesting is that despite that significant investment of taxpayer dollars now six months into the mission, the National Guard has been unable to identify any specific measurable public safety outcomes directly attributable to their presence,” Peters, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters on a media call.


The 14-page report (https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:ef81a463-52a1-46c0-be77-243c4570e889) characterizes the National Guard's presence as having a vague crime-fighting directive with an “unrealistic or unachievable outcome that would leave them in D.C. indefinitely.” It says a top National Guard commander told staff members that their mission is to help drive down metrics like violent crimes and drug overdoses so that they're nonexistent.


President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C. in an executive order in August (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-announce-plans-address-crime-washington-surging-federal-law-enfo-rcna224232) and deployed the National Guard to the city. Within a month of his order, more than 2,300 National Guard troops from the district and eight states, including West Virginia, Georgia and Ohio, were patrolling the city’s streets.


Trump at the time called D.C. “one of the most dangerous cities” in the world, even though the Justice Department had reported that the crime rate (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-announce-plans-address-crime-washington-surging-federal-law-enfo-rcna224232) in the city fell to a 30-year low in 2024.


The cost of the deployment, which the senators project will come to $602 million over 12 months, eclipses the entire D.C. police budget, with the deployment including nearly 2,500 National Guard members at any given time. The Metropolitan Police Department employs 4,900 officers, with an annual budget of less than $600 million.


Peters said the report's findings indicate that "the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this deployment have not been effective in making the district safer.”
“Instead, the mission has truly blurred the line between military and civilian law enforcement. It has weakened the guard’s readiness that’s diverted local law enforcement officers and federal civil servants from core responsibilities that they have,” he said.
htps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-criticize-cost-national-guard-deployment-dc-results-new-repo-rcna257470

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rampant violations of privacy and personal data, with verified harm to US citizens

IRS blocked from sharing personal information with DHS




The Trump administration was dealt another setback Thursday in its effort to use taxpayer information to track down undocumented immigrants, as a second federal judge ordered the IRS to stop sharing residential addresses (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.289669/gov.uscourts.mad.289669.75.0.pdf) with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.


U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said the information sharing potentially violated taxpayer privacy rights. She blocked the agencies from sharing the data until the court can review the case further and barred ICE from using information already provided by the IRS.


Talwani, a Boston-based appointee of President Barack Obama, raised numerous concerns about the controversial information-sharing agreement made last year by the Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security, the respective parent agencies of the IRS and ICE.











Beyond the possible violation of taxpayer privacy laws, Talwani cited the chilling effect the data sharing may have on tax filing by immigrants and the risk that people will be wrongfully arrested due to mistaken identity.


She cited the highly publicized arrest of a naturalized U.S. citizen in St. Paul, Minn., who was dragged from his house barely clothed after ICE agents mistook him for a sex offender they were looking for at the address.


https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/second-judge-blocks-irs-from-sharing-taxpayer-information-with-ice-00768196

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DHS-occupied Minnesota


“Fucking overkill,” a homeland security official said of the inventory. “I’ve never seen this amount of shit being used.”

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https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-war-the-public-is-winning

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[Winehole23]

hope it happens to him every day



Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar (https://www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-gregory-bovino-kicked-out-of-vegas-bar-to-maintain-safety/) out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.




Days after being removed from his post in Minneapolis (https://apnews.com/article/shooting-minneapolis-protests-ice-immigration-lawsuit-5bd12d70d3c76bfe5eacd802ce7480a7), Bovino headed to Sin City, where he was spotted drinking wine at the multi-level Bottled Blonde sports bar on the Las Vegas Strip.


A representative from the establishment told the Daily Beast that the 55-year-old officer is no longer welcome there.


“Upon becoming aware of the individual’s presence, the patron was asked to leave the premises and was escorted out by staff in accordance with venue policy to maintain a safe and orderly environment for all patrons,” the venue said.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/feb/05/border-patrol-boss-gregory-bovino-tossed-from-las/

[Winehole23]

military lawyers are filling in for regular DOJ in Minnesota



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DHS is wrecking justice in Texas with rampant illegal detention and deportation, too

In a shadow docket "precedent" SCOTUS nixed nationwide TROs for habeas, making people file them individually

Now that that's fucking things up for DHS and DOJ, they're praying for a consolidation of cases



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[Winehole23]

The war on due process for immigrants is a war on everybody's rights in the USA

Background: it starts with a pretextual traffic stop


Petitioner was pulled over on January 11, 2026, because his vehicle had “unclear, paper license plates.” (ECF No. 15-6 at 3.) Although he had no criminal history, no outstanding warrants, and no history of gang affiliation, ICE arrested Petitioner because he had “no documentation” allowing him to reside in the United States and was allegedly here in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). (Id.)

That is not true, though. Petitioner is a citizen and national of Venezuela and a noncitizen resident of the United States. (ECF No. 1 at 4, ¶ 15.) After facing tortuous conditions in his home country, Petitioner fled to the United States. (See id. at 16, 17.) Once here, he was apprehended by the United States Border Patrol near Laredo, Texas on June 15, 2022. (ECF No. 15-2 at 4.) The Border Patrol Agent determined that Petitioner had unlawfully entered the United States, and Petitioner was transported to the Laredo Sector Enhanced Centralized Processing Center for further processing. (Id.) Once there, Petitioner was released into the United States on an Order of Release on Recognizance,4 pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1226. (See id. at 6; ECF No. 157 at 2.)

After being lawfully released in the United States, Petitioner settled into a productive and meaningful life for years. He applied for and received Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”),5 (see ECF No. 1-1); an Employment Authorization Document, also known as a work permit, (see ECF No. 1-2); and a North Carolina driver’s license, (ECF No. 1-3). Petitioner is employed as a contractor and pays his taxes. (ECF No. 1 at 4, ¶ 16.) He is a husband and a father and resides in the United States with his family. (Id.) Petitioner adhered to the INA after his entry into the United States, including by participating in the removal proceedings that were initiated against him.

Petitioner attended all hearings, (see ECF No. 22), and filed a pro se application for asylum and withholding of removal under section 241(b)(3) of the INA, and protection under the Convention Against Torture, based on persecution he suffered in Venezuela, including kidnapping in Zulia at the hands of a guerrilla group associated with the Venezuelan government, (ECF No. 1 at 4, ¶ 17). Those proceedings were ultimately voluntarily dismissed by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) on January 7, 2026. (ECF No. 15-5 at 2.)


After dismissing immigration proceedings against him, DHS detained Danny Briceno Solano again four days later and transferred him to a regional jail in South Carolina


Nevertheless—just four days later—ICE detained Petitioner on the side of Interstate 77, allegedly pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1225. Petitioner was transported to the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia. (ECF No. 15-6 at 3.) He was then transported to the South Central Regional Jail (“SCRJ”) in Charleston, West Virginia. (ECF No. 1 at 1, ¶ 1.) To date, Petitioner remains in civil detention at SCRJ, along-side those facing criminal charges and convicted criminals. (See ECF No. 1 at 5, ¶ 19 (claiming that his detention is “civil and administration in nature” and is “not based on any criminal conviction or charge”).) To date, Petitioner has not had an administrative judge or neutral decisionmaker determine that his confinement is justified based on an individual assessment. (See id. at 5–6, ¶¶ 21–24, 27–28.)

Four days after that, DHS filed an arrest warrant for him and set the first hearing for 18 days after his second detention


Instead, four days after Petitioner had already been detained, ICE issued an arrest warrant against Petitioner. (See ECF No. 15-7 at 2.) ICE also issued Petitioner a Notice of Appearance for yet another removal proceeding, just nine days after DHS had voluntarily dismissed Petitioner’s initial removal proceedings. (See ECF No. 15-8.) To make matters worse, the first hearing was scheduled for January 29, 2026—eighteen days after he was detained. (See id.)

The government argues that the petitioner is not entitled to a bond hearing and that the court has no jurisdiction

Here we see the Trump 2.0 pattern of DOJ making the same arguments over and over again, especially after the courts reject them -- the pat response of DOJ to adverse judicial rulings seems to be to say that they all are erroneous


This case arises out of a dispute over immigration statutes, specifically as to whether the mandatory detention statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1225, or the discretionary detention statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1226, applies to Petitioner. Petitioner contends that § 1226 applies, which entitles him to a bond hearing, but the Government insists that Petitioner is detained under § 1225, which does not entitle him to a bond hearing. That dispute is the foundation of Petitioner’s due process claim. In its 7 Case 2:26-cv-00045 Document 25 Filed 02/04/26 Page 8 of 44 PageID #: 193Motion to Dismiss, the Government also raises the issue of subject matter jurisdiction. (ECF No. 15-1.)

The Court notes that these issues have already y been thoroughly addressed by courts throughout the country, and, as discussed below, the Government’s arguments have been consistently rejected as contrary to established law.

DOJ seems to be bad at this game, but the administrative policy they're trying to establish (detaining legal US residents then denying them bond hearings) is most expedient for a mass deportation scheme that aspires to deport millions of people

(Boumediene, a Gitmo habeas case rears its head)

Judge claims jurisdiction under the Suspension Clause



Here, the Government contends that, despite § 2241’s grant of jurisdiction, this Court lacks jurisdiction for four reasons. (See ECF No. 15-1.) Throughout its arguments, the Government consistently ignores the meaning of the words in the statutes upon which it relies, as well as binding Supreme Court precedent. Unsurprisingly, then, Petitioner disagrees.


Courts employ a two-step analysis to determine whether a jurisdiction-stripping statute violates the Suspension Clause. First, the Court must determine whether the petitioner is prohibited from invoking the Suspension Clause due to some attribute of the petitioner or to the circumstances surrounding his arrest or detention. Id. at 739. “[A]t least” three factors are relevant to this first inquiry: “(1) the citizenship and status of the detainee and the adequacy of the process through which that status determination was made; (2) the nature of the sites where . . the alien has exhausted all administrative remedies available” to him (emphasis added))apprehension and then detention took place; and (3) the practical obstacles inherent in resolving the [detainee's] entitlement to the writ.” Id. at 766; see also Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, 591 U.S. 103, (2020). Second, the Court asks whether there is an “adequate and effective” substitute for habeas to “test the legality of the [Petitioner]’s detention (or removal).” Boumediene, 553 U.S. at 766.

Here, the Suspension Clause applies. To start, all three factors weigh in Petitioner’s favor. First, it is undisputed that Petitioner is not a United States citizen, but the Government claims that Petitioner is “seeking admission” into the United States. However, the “process” through which that status was determined was far from adequate. ICE’s determination that Petitioner is in the country illegally and “seeking admission,” which was made on the side of the highway before Petitioner was indefinitely detained without a hearing, provided Petitioner no due process, discussed more fully below. Cf. Boumediene, 553 U.S. at 767 (concluding that the process in which the Combatant Status Review Tribunal’s determination that petitioners were enemy combatants, which did not permit the petitioners to retain counsel, introduce evidence on their own behalf, or cross-examine the prosecution’s witnesses “f[e]ll well short of the procedures and adversarial mechanisms that would eliminate the need for habeas corpus review”).

Further, despite the fact that Petitioner is not an American citizen, he was legally paroled into the Country. Once here, he has worked and paid taxes in the United States for years. He has also established a family and significant ties to the community. These contacts indicate that Petitioner is “part of a national community or [has] otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community.’” See Joshua M. v. Barr, 439 F. Supp. 3d 632, 672 (E.D. Va. 2020) (quoting United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259, 265 (1990)).

As to the second factor, Petitioner was re-detained within a sovereign territory of the United States, which weighs in favor of finding that the Suspension Clause applies. Cf. Boumediene, 553 U.S. at 768 (apprehension and detention occurred outside the sovereign territory of the United States). As to the third factor, there are no practical obstacles in permitting this proceeding, other than the kind of “incremental expenditure of resources” that the Supreme Court deemed an insufficient barrier to granting a writ of habeas corpus. Id. at 769 (comparing “[c]ompliance with any judicial process” which always “requires some incremental expenditure of resources” with judicial concerns in a post-war occupation like “enemy elements, guerilla fighters, and ‘werewolves’”) Finally, turning to the second Boumediene inquiry, adequate alternatives to a habeas petition do not exist because it is the government’s position that Petitioner is not entitled to any hearing before a neutral decisionmaker on the matter, as discussed more fully below. Thus, the Court still has jurisdiction pursuant to the Suspension Clause. See, e.g., Y-Z-LH v. Bostock, 792 F.Supp.3d 1123, 1142–43 (D. Or. 2025); Munoz Materano v. Arteta, No. 25 CIV. 6137, 2025 WL 2630826, at *10, n. 17 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 12, 2025); Boutta v. Raycraft, No. 1:25-CV-1559, 2025 WL 3628232, at *8 (W.D. Mich. Dec. 15, 2025); see also Kong v. United States, 62 F.4th 608, 616 (1st Cir. 2023) (explaining that the Government’s suggested interpretation could bar the courts from hearing all detention-related claims, which “would raise serious constitutional concerns under the Suspension Clause. Absent the right to judicial review through a habeas petition, the government could detain noncitizens indefinitely without needing to provide a justification to anyone”).


Courts all over the country are granting habeas relief to people with legal residency status, which clashes with DHS's policy of mandatory administrative detention for anyone it detains


finding that challenges to DHS’s new interpretation of the mandatory detention scheme have prevailed in 350 out of 362 cases “decided by over 160 different judges sitting in about fifty different courts spread across the United States”.


Here, this Court joins the vast majority of courts confronting this precise issue that have rejected the Government’s interpretation. As discussed below, Section 1226(a) clearly applies to Petitioner. The Government’s arguments—which contradict the plain text of the statutes, Supreme Court precedent, and common sense—are without merit.


The government relied on the law it now says doesn't apply in its own filings


The Government’s own exhibits unequivocally establish that Petitioner was previously detained pursuant to the Government’s discretionary authority under Section 1226(a). (ECF No. 15-7 at 2.) Petitioner was arrested and detained in 2022, and the warrant for his arrest was explicitly authorized under “section 236 of the Immigration and Nationality Act”—i.e., Section 1226. (ECF No. 15-7 at 2.) In fact, Petitioner’s 2022 Notice of Custody Determination explicitly states that Border Patrol released him on his own recognizance also pursuant to Section 236 of the INA, codified at § 1226. (ECF No. 15-2 at 6.)

The Supreme Court ruling which the court is bound to uphold is no doubt erroneous too


As this Court has recently made clear, “[d]espite what some may have been led to believe, immigrants illegally in this country enjoy protections guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.” Larrazabal-Gonzalez, 2026 WL 221706, at *5. It is unfathomable how the Government can argue otherwise in blatant contradiction of the plain language of the Constitution and clear and extensive Supreme Court precedent. Thus, to the extent that the Government argues that Petitioner is not protected by the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, its Motion to Dismiss is DENIED.


Pinning the tail on the donkey


“[T]he essence of habeas corpus is an attack by a person in custody upon the legality of that custody, and . . . the traditional function of the writ is to secure release from illegal custody.”

This is the real tongue lashing

Judges telling the DOJ they don't believe them was pretty rare before this year


Here, Petitioner seeks immediate release or, in the alternative, “an order directing Respondents to provide him with a constitutionally adequate custody hearing.” (ECF No. 1 at 12.) Conversely, the Government urges that ordering a bond hearing is the appropriate remedy because, under the INA, Petitioner has the burden to show that his release would not pose a danger to property or persons and that he is likely to appear for future proceedings. (ECF No. 15-1 at 26–27.) The Government’s suggestion is unavailing, and immediate release is appropriate for two reasons.

First, this Court has no faith that the Government would comply with an order to hold a bond hearing. One court recently compiled an appendix that identifies at least 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases since January 1, 2026. Juan T.R. v. Noem, No. 26-CV-0107, 2026 WL 232015, at *1 (D. Minn. Jan. 28, 2026) (“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”). Even if ICE was willing to comply, “Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond requests” by individuals, of 44 PageID #: 227like Petitioner, “who are present in the United States without admission” under the Government’s interpretation of § 1225. Hurtado, 29 I. & N. Dec. at 216.

Second, a bond hearing would be futile. Hurtado also instructed that Immigration Judges lack authority “to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.” Id. Despite innumerable federal court decisions holding that the Government’s interpretation of § 1225 is unconstitutional, Immigration Judges have been instructed to continue to apply Hurtado. Further, former legal counsel to ICE Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and former “Assistant Chief Counsel for ICE in Virginia,” has attested to his firsthand observation and experience that, since the beginning of January 2026, detainees “who were granted federal habeas relief and ordered § 1226(a) bond hearings are now being systematically denied bond based on rationales that would not have been deemed sufficient weeks earlier,” in what “appears to be a systematic effort to nullify the constitutional protections that federal courts have recognized and enforced through habeas corpus.” (ECF No. 24-1 at ¶¶ 26, 32 (declaration of Jorge E. Artieda under penalty of perjury pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746).) Thus, there is little chance the Government would actually hold a bond hearing, and there is no chance any hearing that occurred would comport with due process.

Accordingly, the Court ORDERS Petitioner’s immediate release.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242890/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242890.25.0.pdf

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This Court is entrusted to interpret the law. In this case, the law is clear: the Government violated Petitioner’s due process rights. It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written.

A hypothetical posed at the Show Cause Hearing demonstrates the dystopian absurdity that could stem from the Government’s incorrect, unfounded interpretation of the law. By the Government’s own admission, its position is that if an ICE officer made a mistake and, pursuant to § 1225, detained somebody who was legally in the United States, that detainee would not be entitled to a bond hearing. Instead, that detainee—who is confined to a jail cell and may not have a mastery of the English language—could only have their case heard by a neutral judicial officer if they were somehow able to file a habeas petition with a Court of Appeals or the District Court of D.C.

This concession should concern everyone. A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.

For the reasons discussed above, the Government’s Motion to Dismiss, (ECF No. 15-1), is DENIED, and the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, (ECF No. 1), is GRANTED. Further, Respondents are ORDERED to RELEASE PETITIONER IMMEDIATELY from civil immigration custody, and Respondents are PROHIBITED from re-arresting and detaining Petitioner pending further order of this Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 43

[Blake]

Gutless cowards


The Republicans on the committee, however, have largely defended federal actions, highlighted threats against enforcement officers and condemned Democrats for disregarding what they say are the threats that undocumented migrants present to Americans.

It’s a return to the partisan trenches after it appeared, for a brief moment, that public outcry following the shooting of Alex Pretti might prompt greater congressional scrutiny of the Trump administration’s activities in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cp820yqn6e2t

[Winehole23]

besides verbal threats, has anyone followed a DHS officer home or menaced him or her physically?

the threat of doxxing to DHS agents appears to be approximately 100% speculative so far, but the beatings, detentions of US citizens and kidnappings occur daily

[Winehole23]

this guy ran background checks for DHS

bad guys hiring bad guys


A Twin Cities-based employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is among 16 men arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor following a sting operation by police in suburban Minneapolis.


Alexander Steven Back, 41, is among four people charged so far with trying to pay a 17-year-old girl for sex. Back could also face federal charges, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said at a news conference on Tuesday.


Authorities said that they’ve submitted evidence against the other 12 men to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for possible charges.
According to the criminal complaint filed Friday in Hennepin County, Back, of Robbinsdale, responded to a fake online advertisement “offering prostitution services.”


In a text message to Back on Nov. 13, an undercover officer posing as a 17-year-old girl named Bella wrote “U ok if I’m a lil younger than my ad says … just wanna be honest.”


“Sure,” Back allegedly replied.


“K cause I am 17 and one guy got hella mad at me,” the officer replied.


After stating for a second time that she was 17, “Bella” gave Back an address in Bloomington, where police arrested him and seized his phone.


Hodges said that his department partnered on “Operation Creep” with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and police from Eden Prairie, Roseville and Richfield, as well as MSP Airport Police. Back is a civilian ICE employee, Hodges said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/bloomington-sex-trafficking-sting/

[ChumpDumper]

besides verbal threats, has anyone followed a DHS officer home or menaced him or her physically?

the threat of doxxing to DHS agents appears to be approximately 100% speculative, but the beatings, detentions of US citizens and kidnappings occur daily

Doughy white guys like yoni are afraid.

That's all that matters to them.

[Yonivore]

this guy ran background checks for DHS

bad guys hiring bad guys

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/bloomington-sex-trafficking-sting/
I'm glad he's in custody. Now, if you want to compare statistics for DHS hiring bad guys vs. Protestors protecting bad guys, I'm up for it.

[Blake]

I'm glad he's in custody. Now, if you want to compare statistics for DHS hiring bad guys vs. Protestors protecting bad guys, I'm up for it.

No you're not.

[Winehole23]

I'm glad he's in custody. Now, if you want to compare statistics for DHS hiring bad guys vs. Protestors protecting bad guys, I'm up for it.oh yeah?

you totally ignored my cite that BPS has a higher arrest rate than illegal immigrants

[Winehole23]

Overall, CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is FIVE TIMES (https://qz.com/1734240/criminal-misconduct-by-us-border-officers-has-hit-a-5-year-high?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police) higher than other federal law enforcement agencies — and, in fact, if you look over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER than (http://ttps://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police) the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%).

[Yonivore]

Overall, CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is FIVE TIMES higher than other federal law enforcement agencies — and, in fact, if you look over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%).
1) You'll need to define "arrest AND misconduct." Are we keeping records on the misconduct of illegal aliens, for comparison?
2) If you look over the last decade, we spent four years watching the borders be overrun with illegal aliens - not sure much arresting was going on. In fact, Minnesota apparently released almost 500 felony criminal illegal aliens, on who ICE had detainers.
3) I'd like to know what the raw number of CBP officers is, that were arrested.

If the link is in one of your previous posts, please repost so I don't have to hunt through 3 pages of cut and paste.

[Winehole23]

links are embedded to the sources, I encourage you to read

[Blake]

1) You'll need to define "arrest AND misconduct." Are we keeping records on the misconduct of illegal aliens, for comparison?
2) If you look over the last decade, we spent four years watching the borders be overrun with illegal aliens - not sure much arresting was going on. In fact, Minnesota apparently released almost 500 felony criminal illegal aliens, on who ICE had detainers.
3) I'd like to know what the raw number of CBP officers is, that were arrested.

If the link is in one of your previous posts, please repost so I don't have to hunt through 3 pages of cut and paste.

Lol yoni's parameters

[Winehole23]

backflips for adjusting the US racial mix

[Yonivore]

links are embedded to the sources, I encourage you to read
Thank you. I'm reading now.

Your first article is from 2022 - covering data from 2014 to 2018 so, not sure how that relevant. The sudden rise in arrests, from 2017 to 2018 could indicate the Trump administration was cracking down on the criminal element hired into the system by the Obama administration.

Your second link doesn't connect me to the url: http://ttps//docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police But, the words "how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police," could lead one to reasonably believe the content is biased.

[Winehole23]

the second link is to public information via a US agency

https://nij.ojp.gov

[Winehole23]

nice derail, btw

did you have any take on the 350 out of 362 cases where district courts ruled detentions were illegal?

there has never been such demand for Habeas Corpus in the USA hitherto afaik, and the DOJ's contempt for adverse rulings seems to be demonstrative.

[Yonivore]

the second link is to public information via a US agency

https://nij.ojp.gov
that took me to what looks like the National Institute of Justice's home page. I couldn't find an article on that page discussing CBP vs. illegal alien arrest rates.

[Winehole23]

you're welcome

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf

[Winehole23]

it was there all along, profe

[Yonivore]

nice derail, btw
What'd I derail? Your article was from the Obama and first year of the first Trump administration. It's irrelevant in a current conversation about CBP and alien criminality.


did you have any take on the 350 out of 362 cases where district courts ruled detentions were illegal?
Where was that? In one of those two articles or in one of your other cut and paste posts?

Have I considered it?

Yes, a recent federal appeals court ruling supports the Trump administration's policy of detaining certain immigrants without bond hearings (which are hearings before an immigration judge to determine if someone can be released on bond while their deportation case proceeds).

On February 6, 2026, a divided 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (covering Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) upheld the administration's interpretation of immigration law. The court ruled that noncitizens who entered the U.S. without inspection (i.e., unlawfully) can be treated as "applicants for admission" under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A), making them subject to mandatory detention without eligibility for bond hearings — regardless of how long they have lived in the United States.

This decision reversed lower district court rulings in two consolidated cases and marked the first time an appeals court has backed this aggressive policy, which the Trump administration implemented in 2025. It reverses nearly 30 years of prior practice under both Democratic and Republican administrations, where such individuals (especially those long-resident in the interior) were typically eligible for bond consideration under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a).


there has never been such demand for Habeas Corpus in the USA hitherto afaik, and the DOJ's contempt for adverse rulings seems to be demonstrative.
It will probably end up with the co-equal branch of government known as the U. S. Supreme Court. But, for now, it's not unlawful to detain them.

[Winehole23]

"Trump is right, it's 96% of federal district courts who are wrong"

[Yonivore]

you're welcome

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf
Again, reference pre-Trump administration data where Biden wasn't really enforcing immigration law but, more importantly, the article doesn't speak to the claim you made, Winehole: in the original post, you said, "...the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%)." The words HIGHER than were hyperlinked to an article I couldn't open. You shared another link to the Home Page of the NIJ and there was no such article. If this link pretend to speak to your original premise - it has nothing to do with the illegal alien arrest rate being lower than the CPB arrest rate. None-the-less, it's still from before the Trump administration.

Not derailing just pointing out your fail.

[Winehole23]

I notice you don't have better information

[Yonivore]

I notice you don't have better information
Debunking yours is quite enough.

[Winehole23]

I don't think you debunked anything, you just found the declared and implicit limitations of the information, as any careful reader would

your own implicit case to the contrary is entirely speculative, it's based on nothing

[Yonivore]

I don't think you debunked anything, you just found the declared and implicit limitations of the information, as any careful reader would

your own implicit case to the contrary is entirely speculative, it's based on nothing
I didn't make the claim, you did. I merely pointed out your support for the claim was irrelevant. I don't have the time to chase down every erroneous thing you throw on here Winehole. I have a job and a life.

[Winehole23]

you didn't prove any errors

[Yonivore]

you didn't prove any errors
Other than your second article didn't speak to the comparison you claimed and the first article was representative of a previous incompetent administration. Other than that?

[Yonivore]

you didn't prove any errors
Also, you made the claims in the present tense.

I could take the statistics of that first article and make the claim that President Trump cleaned up the CBP in his first year in office.

[ChumpDumper]

Could you?

[Winehole23]

Don Lemon update: he's now represented by lawyer who was a Minnesota AUSA a few weeks ago

Career prosecutors switching sides wasn't something you saw until the US government started refusing to investigate government-involved homicides


A federal prosecutor who quit amid concerns over how the Trump administration was handling the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing is now representing journalist Don Lemon.

On Tuesday, Joseph H. Thompson entered a notice of appearance (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.231106/gov.uscourts.mnd.231106.103.0.pdf__;!!PIZeeW5wscyn RQ!uLlk-GCQBoHWj6XLPF8RUFS-3cafS0G-4WMwVRtCGxkE5mwXXc_ah-4JEEtSyhDDRNfyzigJUx6op3NF8oIJUyFZfZgFD2zHD6faIw$) for Lemon, a former CNN anchor, in a case that accuses Lemon of violating the religious freedom of worshippers following his coverage of protesters who interrupted services at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-lemon-hires-ex-us-prosecutor-quit-concerns-investigation-renee-goo-rcna258467

[Winehole23]

DOJ releases information it formerly claimed would smear BPS agent Charles Exum, the man who shot Marimar Martinez five times


The footage seems to undermine the initial Homeland Security claim that Martinez and another man “rammed” the Tahoe driven by Exum that also carried the two additional agents. It also appears to support Martinez’s claim that Exum swerved his Tahoe in her direction.


Now Martinez is expected to announce a new lawsuit stemming from the shooting at a press conference Wednesday with her attorneys. They say newly released evidence from the case will show that Exum lied to the FBI about firing all five shots into Martinez’s front windshield.


They’ve said previously that at least one bullet was likely fired from behind.



Federal prosecutors had objected to the release of some of the evidence. But they ultimately released the records Tuesday after Alexakis ruled against them Friday (https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/federal-judge-will-let-marimar-martinez-release-text-messages-sent-by-border-patrol-agent-who-shot-her). A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office declined to comment.




Christopher Parente, Martinez’s attorney, said he found it “ironic that after months of fighting the release of this evidence … the U.S. attorney’s office releases it at the 11th hour in a misguided attempt to take the sting out of just how damaging it is for the government.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/10/marimar-martinez-the-chicago-woman-shot-by-border-patrol-agent-expected-to-file-lawsuit-release-evidence

[Winehole23]

here's the body camera footage

nXGuQ7FrC38

[Winehole23]

here's the scary "semi-automatic weapon" DHS told us about

found holstered in the bottom of Martinez's purse

Martinez has a valid concealed carry permit


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreidtu277qr7pfqn3koep6bwmbke5s26coyufulwdbxl2c hh7jdatf4@jpeg

[Winehole23]

"Uber" light in the window


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreibkugzsomqxgke47glh5ovma5iznituvp2bqeoextbtn s2fs6o4se@jpeg

[Winehole23]

FIRE sues DHS for strongarming social media to take down accounts posting ICE activity




The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.
The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.
It’s unconstitutional for the government to coerce private companies into censorship.

https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-sues-bondi-noem-censoring-facebook-group-and-app-reporting-ice-activity

[Winehole23]

federalized NG troops withdrawn from LA, Chicago and Portland


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreibxei7xdrbxnvp6sk272ysbspddirlxnjrmmw6wwo2i4 mre4xbgsu@jpeg

[Winehole23]

US citizens swept up in DHS immigrant dragnet



Beginning in December 2025, under “Operation Metro Surge,” ICE and CBP agents conducted warrantless arrests of residents across Minneapolis and St. Paul — at homes, on roads, during check-ins, and outside stores. Targets included U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, and others with legal status and without a final order of removal.
Racial profiling documented in Hussen v. Noem (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72146903/hussen-v-noem/): The ACLU class-action lawsuit contains 29 sworn declarations. 100% of declarants had legal status or status pending — the supermajority are U.S. citizens. No warrants were shown. Somali and Latino communities and individuals were apparently systematically targeted based on appearance. All declarations are collected from the court docket and available in a bank at Just Security (https://www.justsecurity.org/130745/minnesota-ice-racial-profiling/).
https://www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-minnesota-texas-pipeline/

[Winehole23]

Phase 2-3, transportation/detention at Whipple


The Whipple Building at Fort Snelling is allegedly highly overcrowded, lacks adequate bedspace, hygiene (including overflowing toilet water), and food. Historically used for processing under 12 hours, it became a de facto detention facility where people were held for days.

Phase 4: transfer to Texas


Within hours — sometimes before processing was complete — detainees were handcuffed, shackled, loaded onto buses, driven to the airport, and flown to El Paso, Texas. Planes carried 80-120 detainees at a time. Attorneys and families were not notified. Some transfers violated active court orders; detainees include individuals with legal status and not subject to removal orders.

Stage 5: detention in Texas


Detainees were held at facilities in Texas. They were allegedly pressured to sign self-deportation papers even when the court had ordered their release, pushed to cross over the Mexico border, denied phone access and counsel, and held in overcrowded cells with poor hygiene (including flooding with sewage water) and inadequate food. Allegations of beatings and sexual abuse are rampant.

Exit A, detainees released/stranded


After courts ordered release, detainees were transported – in handcuffs, and chains around their waists – to Minnesota oftentimes to be released in the dead of winter. Some were released at the Whipple Building at night without phones, coats, or any way to contact family. Others were left on the streets of Texas to find their own way back.


The average temperature in Minneapolis over January and the first week of February 2026 was highs of 22–25°F and lows of 4–10°F, with wind chills regularly below −10°F. Multiple federal judges had to include special protective language in their orders about the danger of releasing people into extreme cold.


Exit B: indefinite detention or deportation


For those not released by court order, the pipeline can lead to indefinite detention across multiple facilities or to deportation — often under allegedly coerced “voluntary” self-deportation agreements signed without access to counsel or compelled to physically cross the Mexican border (see also Stage 5 Declarations). Those who refused were allegedly told they could be held indefinitely or deported to other countries.

Exit C: flown back to Minnesota


After courts ordered release, others were transported by plane, in handcuffs and chains, back to Minnesota for release.

[Winehole23]

to be completely clear, the linked article does not allege US citizens were transferred to or detained in Texas, just that they got swept up in DHS's racial profiling operations in Minnesota

[Blake]

here's the scary "semi-automatic weapon" DHS told us about

found holstered in the bottom of Martinez's purse

Martinez has a valid concealed carry permit


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elipdmmf5istuvtyituspske/bafkreidtu277qr7pfqn3koep6bwmbke5s26coyufulwdbxl2c hh7jdatf4@jpeg

https://i.imgflip.com/ajvgik.jpg

[ChumpDumper]

https://i.imgflip.com/ajvgik.jpg

TSA and yoni and the rest of the ST Trumptard krew choose ICE.

Every time.

[Blake]

They'll somehow spin that these victims and their holstered concealed weapons aren't protected by the 2A.

And then bonus argue that the mini van used to run away from ice agents is a weapon.

[Winehole23]

Kash Patel is still calling Martinez a domestic terrorist

[Blake]

Lol Patel's girlfriend:

2020679156942704786

[Winehole23]

DOJ loses again in LA

DHS alleged that the defendant took a swing at agents with a cloth hat, making contac t

Judge cites unreliable information (they lied about what happened) plus prosecutorial shenanigans
(DOJ tried to dismiss without prejudice so it could revive the charges later)


The judge ordered the case dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled. The judge further said the “right to protest is a core first amendment protection”, and allowing prosecutors to recharge Redondo-Rosales “risks sending a dangerous signal: that when officials are confronted with protest or criticism, they may respond with aggressive tactics and then deploy criminal charges that can be imposed, withdrawn, and revived at the Government’s discretionhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/los-angeles-protester-jonathon-redondo-rosales

[Winehole23]

Kash Patel is still calling Martinez a domestic terroristlol

Months later, after all the lies, after the video evidence is released, DHS does the thing consistent with agency policy




U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez, "was placed on administrative leave":

[Blake]

Just wait until these individual ice fucks start getting personally sued. That'll be fun.

[Winehole23]

Just wait until these individual ice fucks start getting personally sued. That'll be fun.identification will be crowdsourced

there's a Dutch website that's outing violent DHS agents

[Winehole23]

Also, you made the claims in the present tense.

I could take the statistics of that first article and make the claim that President Trump cleaned up the CBP in his first year in office.consider it stipulated

so what?

you're so skeptical of information contrary to personal bias that you'll disbelieve everything but the irrefutable; for information supporting your bias, threadbare excuses and bald lies will do

[Winehole23]

here's the body camera footage

nXGuQ7FrC38badmotorscooter asked me if I had any reason to think BPS did anything wrong

The video answers it

BPS sideswiped Marimar Martinez's car because Charles Exum wanted to get aggro, then shot her five times for no reason -- twice from the side and once from behind

Exum immediately drove the car out of state and had the car repaired

Then DHS lied in court about what happened, pressing assault charges on Martinez

The charges were eventually dropped by DOJ, but that didn't stop DHS/FBI for continuing to call Martinez a terrorist

Now the evidence comes out and people can see for themselves that DHS lies and DOJ carries those lies faithfully to federal criminal courts

[Winehole23]

Marimar Martinez is a Montessori teacher

[Winehole23]

depriving Texas prisons of needed workers


Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/immigration/article/kenyan-priest-detained-ice-conroe-21136114.php), with his employment authorization vetted by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.



But Mwangi overstayed a visa, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said, and he was placed in deportation proceedings in October. Last month, he chose to voluntarily “self-deport” to his native Kenya (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/immigration/article/priest-ice-detained-deportation-conroe-21243754.php) instead of remaining in a detention facility in Conroe.



Mwangi’s employment with the state agency wasn’t unusual. He was one of several hundred immigrants working for TDCJ with valid work authorization that was verified by state officials.



Criminal justice experts said TDCJ’s need for immigrant labor, even in deep red Texas where tough-on-immigration rhetoric is expanding, speaks to the agency's long-standing problem maintaining staffing levels.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/immigration/article/texas-immigrant-workforce-tdcj-staffing-21268530.php

[Winehole23]

harassing Americans at home for exercising 1A rights


“They just came over to intimidate me,” Mr. Woo said in an interview this week. “To say, ‘We know where you live.’”

His was not an isolated experience. Among nearly 100 sworn statements filed in federal court on Friday are more than a dozen accounts like Mr. Woo’s, in which federal agents deployed to Minnesota singled out protesters, finding the addresses of their homes and showing up there.


It is not entirely clear how the agents determined the monitors’ home addresses; some assumed the agents had used their vehicles’ license plates. But whatever the case, the sworn statements describe a remarkable projection of police power.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents-protester-home-visits.html

[Winehole23]

NIMBY vibes, across the nation


Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center
Majestic Realty Co., the California-based owner of the Hutchins property, said it would not sell its warehouse to the federal government to be used as a mega migrant detention centerhttps://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2026/02/16/warehouse-owner-wont-sell-dallas-county-property-to-ice-for-migrant-detention-center/

[Winehole23]

this was before DHS started hunting and killing Minnesotans

it's a shitty job

the factotums mostly seem to think their leadership sucks



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n=1100




https://ourpublicservice.org/press-release/new-partnership-for-public-service-survey-data-points-to-profound-loss-of-confidence-among-cbp-ice-employees-in-agency-leadership/

[Winehole23]

When NPR serial tweeted the Declaration of Independence in 2018 iirc, there were bitter right-wing flames denouncing anti-Trump indoctrination on public media

they weren't totally wrong


He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jd5ynkua4gin3r2fmb25marj/bafkreia3symrmzkhjgybfboyst62dlzzcwqiiabchilfizdln dlhl4jyuu@jpeg


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[Winehole23]

economic loss to Minneapolis because of Operation Metro Surge is hundreds of millions of dollars so far

Donald Trump and everyone associated with Metro Surge should be removed from office and prosecuted for deprivation of rights under color of law

https://www.fox9.com/news/operation-metro-surge-cost-minneapolis-millions-officials-say-feb-13-2026

[Winehole23]

chilling the free exercise of religion is unlawful



A federal judge issued an order on Friday (Feb. 13) barring federal immigration enforcement agents from raiding certain churches except in a “true emergency,” handing a preliminary win to a growing number of faith groups that have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over its decision to end restrictions on raids at houses of worship.


Judge F. Dennis Saylor of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction, (https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/74-PI-Opinion.pdf) siding mostly with the religious plaintiffs. The case (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70939776/new-england-synod-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-america-v-department-of/), filed last July (https://religionnews.com/2025/07/28/fourth-group-of-religious-organizations-sues-trump-administration-over-ice-raids-at-churches/), centers on faith groups who argued their religious freedom — particularly rights guaranteed by the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act — had been violated by the president’s decision to rescind a 2011 internal government policy that discouraged immigration raids at “sensitive locations” such as hospitals, schools and churches.


Although the judge decided that three of the plaintiffs — a trio of regional Quaker groups — lacked standing, the injunction will apply to all the other plaintiffs, which include five regional synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as well as churches affiliated with American Baptist Churches USA, Alliance of Baptists and Metropolitan Community Churches. It does not apply to houses of worship that were not involved in the lawsuit.






“In substance, the preliminary injunction will prohibit warrantless enforcement actions — absent exigent circumstances — inside a church, at the entrance to a church, at a religious education facility (such as a Sunday school), at a religious social-service facility (such as a day-care center), or on adjacent church property (such as a parking lot),” the ruling read.


RELATED: ‘This is domestic terror’: Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries (https://religionnews.com/2025/08/04/when-ice-detains-people-on-church-grounds-pastors-say-congregations-suffer/)
The judge also barred immigration enforcement “within 100 feet of the entrance to a church, absent exigent circumstances or supervisory approval,” and disallowed agents from “knowingly setting up checkpoints to interrogate persons on their way to or from a church.”


Saylor permitted the federal government to take action at a church “in emergency situations,” describing a potential scenario where “an armed and dangerous individual attempted to take refuge in a church.” But the judge suggested such a situation would be rare and noted that raids on churches would not be allowed only because agents have “supervisory approval.”


“The Court can conceive of no circumstance, outside of a true emergency, in which a law-enforcement operation to enforce the immigration laws inside a church would be justifiable under the First Amendment and RFRA,” the ruling read.
https://religionnews.com/2026/02/16/judge-mostly-bars-immigration-raids-at-a-group-of-churches/

[Winehole23]

refusing to investigate DHS-involved homicides or share the evidence with local authorities makes it look like the USG is covering up crimes



Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.


The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) had been shut out of the investigation from the outset. The BCA continued to seek access to evidence while the state conducts its own probe. BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said Monday that the FBI formally notified the state on Friday that it won't grant the access.


Pretti, an ICU nurse, was killed by Border Patrol agents as Pretti filmed their immigration actions in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Several agents piled on Pretti as they sought to handcuff him before one opened fire. At least two officers fired multiple shots. Pretti died at the scene.


"While this lack of cooperation is concerning and unprecedented, the BCA is committed to thorough, independent and transparent investigations of these incidents, even if hampered by a lack of access to key information and evidence," Evans said.


"Our agency has committed to the FBI and Department of Justice that should its stance change we remain willing to share information that we have obtained with that agency and would welcome a joint investigation. We will continue to pursue all legal avenues to gain access to relevant information and evidence."


State investigators have also been denied cooperation with two other probes into shootings by immigration authorities, including the deadly encounter with Minneapolis resident Renee Macklin Good.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/16/fbi-will-not-provide-bca-access-to-evidence-gathered-from-pretti-shooting-bca-says

[Winehole23]

US Coast Guard man overboard?

sorry, we need that plane to deport immigrants


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got off to an immediately rocky start with the U.S. Coast Guard, according to new in-depth reporting.



President Donald Trump's pick to lead DHS angered senior Coast Guard officials by prioritizing deportation flights over search-and-rescue operations, and the tensions began just days into her tenure, on Feb. 4, 2025, when a 23-year-old guardsman went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the cutter Waesche, four current and former officials told NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/noems-use-coast-guard-resources-strains-relationship-military-branch-s-rcna258904).


"The Coast Guard (https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-2674708056/) had surged ships and aircraft to the Pacific to find the Coast Guardsman," NBC reported. "Hours into the search, Noem learned that a Coast Guard C-130 that was supposed to fly detained migrants from California (https://www.rawstory.com/tag/california) to Texas was among the aircraft over the Pacific looking for the missing Coast Guardsman, and she intervened, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official."


"Noem verbally instructed the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane off the search-and-rescue mission (https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4061302/coast-guard-suspends-search-for-crew-member-missing-in-the-eastern-pacific-ocean/) so it would not miss the migrant flight as part of the DHS’s so-called Alien Expulsion Operations, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official," the report added.


The admiral notified National Command Center, which ordered the C-130 to fly to San Diego while other aircraft and ships continued searching, but the regional Coast Guard command in San Diego scrambled to find two available C-27s to fly the migrants to Texas, which allowed the C-130 to rejoin the search after about an hour.



"The search ultimately went on for 190 hours covering 19,000 square miles, but the Coast Guardsman was never found," NBC reported. "It’s not clear that Noem’s directive to pull the C-130 had any impact on the search, particularly given the Coast Guard found alternative aircraft that allowed it to return to the effort."https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-coast-guard/

[Winehole23]

DHS assaults citizens, tells lies to get criminal indictments against them, then loses in federal district courts



In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending, a recent investigation (https://www.fox9.com/news/dhs-arrests-assaulting-ice-agents-rarely-charged-regularly-dismissed-jan-28) by Fox 9, a Minneapolis-based station, showed. As of the end of January, there have been no convictions.


In LA, the federal public defenders have won all six cases filed against ICE protesters that have gone to trial since June, the LA Times recently reported (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-06/federal-public-defenders-winning). Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted across the US in fiscal year 2024, with US prosecutors traditionally having a roughly 90% conviction rate, the paper noted.
Juries have also issued not guilty verdicts for people accused of assaulting ICE or similar charges in Louisville, Kentucky (https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2026/02/06/louisville-man-not-guilty-assaulting-ice-officers/88534302007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z119353p118150c118150v119353d--xx--b--xx--&gca-ft=34&gca-ds=sophi), Seattle (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/jury-acquits-stanwood-man-accused-of-assaulting-homeland-security-agents/) and Washington DC (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/man-threw-sandwich-agent-washington-not-guilty-verdict).


“That losing streak is really unheard of,” said LA-based defense lawyer Katherine McBroom.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/doj-protesters-federal-agents-cases

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poor DOJ track record in 2025


Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles, did not respond to questions about the specific cases, but shared data indicating that as of Friday, his office had filed charges against 103 people for assaulting or impeding federal officers or related allegations since last year. In addition to the six people acquitted at trial, 25 of those cases ended in dismissals and another 25 defendants pleaded guilty. The rest were pending.

[Winehole23]

Quakertown, PA Police pick on high-school protesters


Civil rights organizations and parents are calling for an investigation into the violent clash (https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2026/02/20/quakertown-high-school-police-anti-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-threats-cancel-centennial/88775242007/) between Quakertown police and high school students Friday during an ICE protest, and they want the arrested teens immediately released to their parents and charges dropped.

A handful of students were arrested on Front Street after police said the protest became disruptive and dangerous. However, a video from the protest shows the peaceful walk, escalated to violence once police intervened, civil rights leaders and parents said Saturday at a morning press conference.


"Parents and community members are outraged by reports that officers used physical force against minors and escalated what began as a student demonstration into arrests and criminal charges," read a statement ahead of the press conference. "It is especially disturbing that the police chief was directly involved (https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2026/02/20/quakertown-protest-police-chief-scott-mcelree-students-ice-walkout-police-violence/88788187007/) in the physical confrontation with a student."




"Our daughter was wrongfully accused. She was deliberately sought after and she was assaulted. She was thrown into the ground and she was a choked. We want her home safe. We want respect for our daughter and for the other students like her who were there," said Allison, the stepmother of a teen who was arrested, as she teared up at the press conference held in front of the Quakertown police station.https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2026/02/21/quakertown-police-need-to-answer-ice-protest-violence-arrests-groups-quakertown-high-school-naacp/88794892007/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

^^^ this is NJ

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dp

spurstalk.com totally cracked out

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DHS is withdrawing TSA-precheck and Global Entry as if they were blandishments of the executive to be enjoyed during good public behavior, but not otherwise

Trump attempting once again to influence the process by withholding the honest services of a government we have already paid for and duly passed into law, grates


“TSA and CBP are prioritizing the general traveling population at our airports and ports of entry and suspending courtesy and special privilege escorts.”https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-tsa-precheck-global-entry-dc1d2ccd913a74fa2c8b91dad340a3b3

[Winehole23]

lol TSA says precheck is still open


The Transportation Security Administration abruptly reversed course on suspending its PreCheck service (https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/us-news/homeland-security-suspends-tsa-precheck-and-global-entry-airport-security-programs/) Sunday — saying it will remain operational despite a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“At this time, TSA PreCheck remains operational with no change for the traveling public,” a TSA spokesperson told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/us-news/trump-admin-reverses-course-tsa-says-precheck-will-remain-operational-for-now/

[Winehole23]

the DHS is in disarray, what else can you call it when the agency chief's public announcements are contradicted by her subordinates?

[Winehole23]

acting all tuff then immediately folding is typically Trumpian

[Winehole23]

immoral and inhumane policies are demoralizing the USA


The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a stark critique (https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/thought-holding-thousands-families-massive-warehouses-should-challenge-conscience-every) of the Trump administration's announcement that it plans to double its federal immigration detention capacity.


"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American," said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration.


"Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country," he said in a Feb. 20 statement issued by the bishops' conference.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-warn-ice-mega-detention-plan-moral-inflection-point-america

[Winehole23]

Observing public servants in public is 100% legal and is in fact a right guaranteed by the US constitution

DHS is spreading violence and terror in communities all over the country. The people watching them aren't terrorists, they're the affected Americans.


Last month, Colleen Fagan was observing an immigration enforcement operation at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine, when federal agents scanned her face with a smartphone and appeared to record her car license plate number.


In a social media video she recorded, Fagan can be heard asking why the agent was taking her information. What the agent said next made the video go viral.


"Cause we have a nice little database," the masked agent said. "And now you're considered a domestic terrorist."


Fagan, who is a social worker, has now joined a federal class action lawsuit that argues the Department of Homeland Security and a number of its sub-agencies are violating the First Amendment and are taking actions "designed to chill, suppress, and control speech that they do not like."


"A federal agent called me a domestic terrorist just because I recorded agents operating in public in my community. But I have a right to do that, and so do others," Fagan said in a statement. "I want people to know how important it is to use our First Amendment rights to observe and document what is happening. Peaceful dissent is not a crime."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/23/nx-s1-5722988/dhs-lawsuit-biometrics-domestic-terrorism

[Winehole23]

putting the obvious inhumanity of warehousing thousands of people in buildings not designed for human habitation aside for the moment, there are practical considerations, such as water usage in small municipalities


On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement).


“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the Trump administration (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration)’s mass deportation plan.



“I told them I’m not going to do it,” Taylor said. “Not until they come and talk to me.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/ice-detention-center-warehouse-georgia

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ICE whistleblower testifies that ICE is being trained to violate your rights


A whistleblower from Immigration and Customs Enforcement testified at a congressional forum Monday that the agency is “lying to Congress and the American people” about its training of new recruits.


Ryan Schwank — an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned this month — testified that the agency’s training program “is now deficient, defective, and broken.”

“Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority, and do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order,” he said.
https://www.ms.now/news/ice-whistleblower-comes-forward-to-testify-before-congress

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I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.

[Winehole23]

Local DA investigating the PD is wild


Accounts differ of what led to the confrontations between students and police in Bucks County.


A widely circulated video of the clashes shows a man in plainclothes putting a girl in a chokehold.


Eyewitnesses and the local Bucks County Courier Times newspaper identified the man as Quakertown Borough Police Chief Scott McElree (https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2026/02/20/quakertown-protest-police-chief-scott-mcelree-students-ice-walkout-police-violence/88788187007/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69991fd3874746000130ddb9&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawQGnApleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJBcjFDb Xh3STBpUDFNdFJ0c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg 5MgABHt9OMQ6Zg2CAZO8IbVoET4FpBvqrp021nj3FI5yvsiZAa NgDRxEprd9abac4_aem_MbHcz_DF1zC63r2AQWJjmw).

The Independent has requested comment from the police department and McElree.


One demonstrator who witnessed the encounter told the newspaper that the students were unaware McElree was an officer.


"Everyone started to beat on him because he was grabbing at random kids," the student said.


A bystander who saw the confrontation said the situation escalated further when a male student tried to help the female student, prompting officers to force the male student to the ground.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/quakertown-students-arrested-ice-investigation-b2925429.html

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ACLU alleges the police chief went into the crowd in plain clothes, as a counter-protester


Quakertown, PA Police pick on high-school protesters



https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2026/02/21/quakertown-police-need-to-answer-ice-protest-violence-arrests-groups-quakertown-high-school-naacp/88794892007/


“Quakertown Borough and the Quakertown Police Department are fully cooperating with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office concerning this investigation,” the statement reads. “Until this investigation is complete, neither the Borough nor its Police Department will be commenting on this matter.”
https://whyy.org/articles/ice-protest-student-arrests-quakertown-police-chief-aclu/

[Winehole23]

lol Borough Manager/Police Chief put a teenager in a headlock


He's both Chief of Police for the borough police department and the Borough Manager (a position accountable to the Borough Council), so demands should be removal from *both* positions

[Winehole23]

IICE ought not to be investigating and policing US citizens whatsoever


Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego is monitoring activists who document the agency's activities, court records revealed (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27355874-operation-road-flare/?ref=daylightsandiego.org).
Called Operation Road Flare, the surveillance has targeted Jeane Wong, an activist who organized cyclists to patrol schools for ICE activity in their communities, and Arturo Gonzalez, an influencer on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@officialarturo?lang=en&ref=daylightsandiego.org) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/officialarturoo/?hl=en&ref=daylightsandiego.org) who films encounters with immigration enforcement officials, among others. It's not clear from the document made public in a court case how many activists the government might be monitoring in San Diego.
https://www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-in-san-diego-is-monitoring-activists-through-operation-road-flare/

[Winehole23]

even Republicans don't want concentration camps in their home districts


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[Winehole23]

ACLU alleges the police chief went into the crowd in plain clothes, as a counter-protester



https://whyy.org/articles/ice-protest-student-arrests-quakertown-police-chief-aclu/bonkers

looks like the police chief started some shit in plain clothes, without announcing himself


The teen, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said teenagers were gathered on the sidewalk and speaking with a uniformed officer when a man pushed through the crowd and “barged onto the sidewalk.”


The man — whom she later learned was McElree — grabbed a teenage boy by the back of the neck, she said. “All the kids thought he was a counter protester,” she said. “So everyone started to protect their friends.”


The girl said she saw McElree throw one student to the ground and place another in a chokehold. At least three students were injured, she said — one with a broken nose and another who required stitches to his chin. McElree, too, was injured, she said, and left the scene bleeding from his head.


She recorded portions of the confrontation and shared the videos with The Inquirer.


“It was really scary, because it was a group of kids versus this really angry man,” the teen said, adding that it took what felt like several minutes for uniformed officers to step in. “It was the kids doing what the police should have.”


The girl said she did not realize that the man at the center of the fight was the police chief until she returned home and showed the footage to her father, who recognized McElree.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/quakertown-students-arrested-police-chief-20260224.html?id=ZOafbIvePC9zW&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

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immigration enforcement is a fig leaf for state terrorism


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2amnkge5a6hplfwyesmxqkfl/bafkreidixrpwu5pl6phnyhpxzrxn4uimdz76fe6uikcsghy7c y6ylmrpym@jpeghttps://newrepublic.com/article/206994/ice-stockpiling-military-weaponry-trump-forever-war

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[Winehole23]

and zero detained or prosecuted for fraud


The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

[Blake]

and zero detained or prosecuted for fraud

Trump tards will forever cry that the ends justify the means.

And also... the price tag listed there does not include the needless executions of two American citizens.

[Winehole23]

Trump tards will forever cry that the ends justify the means.I was taught that's commie talk when I grew up

what set us apart from them was having due process and substantive freedom to challenge the state before impartial magistrates and with jury trials

[Winehole23]

the masks are needed so that DHS can continue to disrupt everyday life and spread domestic terror with relative impunity

DHS is Trump's internal police force, and it's hunting regular Americans now

[Winehole23]

bureaucratic animus against a blue state containing Somalis

the bureaucratic pogrom accompanies the racial one

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-medicaid-funding-fraud-trump-47b160fd664cdfeef355ae00ca5fecc0

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the VP fronting out illegal impoundment

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Trump's ethnic cleansing operations are bad for business and bad for Minnesota


Roofers are turning down jobs. Painters are locking themselves inside the homes they’re finishing. Concrete crews have monthslong waiting lists.


In the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has slowed home construction to a crawl – at a time when Minnesota, like much of the country, faces a steep housing shortage.


The White House has begun scaling back its monthslong enforcement surge in the state. But across the housing market, the aftershocks are still unfolding.


“I think most of us would probably take Covid over this,” said one large homebuilder in the Minneapolis area who asked for his name not to be shared since some of his job sites have been targeted by immigration officers over the last few weeks. “This is misery for us in the housing industry.”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/economy/minneapolis-housing-industry-ice-immigration-impact

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capitol Police detained an ICE victim -- not coincidentally a woman -- merely for standing up silently during the SOTU bloviation

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[Blake]

I was taught that's commie talk when I grew up

what set us apart from them was having due process and substantive freedom to challenge the state before impartial magistrates and with jury trials

These days if you challenge Trump, you're the one that's un-American and you must hate freedom.

[Winehole23]

These days if you challenge Trump, you're the one that's un-American and you must hate freedom.Nonsense, opposing tyranny and oppression is quintessentially American

[Winehole23]

immigration officers clocking encounters with US citizens, yanking their travel privileges and making lists of internal enemies


I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-watchers-global-entry-memo_n_699e3cdee4b0c4f808270959

[Winehole23]

US Citizens and Green Card holders detained by CBP at O'Hare


A U.S. citizen from Skokie who was born in Evanston was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Chicago O’Hare International Airport Thursday, along with two other U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, after returning on a flight from Turkey, her family said.


Early Saturday morning, Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi was released from a detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/21/dodge-co-sheriff-is-transporting-migrants-to-and-from-controversial-suburban-chicago-ice-facility/), her sister told Evanston Now.
https://evanstonnow.com/skokie-woman-detained-by-border-patrol-at-ohare-being-held-at-broadview/

[Winehole23]

contextually, they were returning from Turkey and their US passports and Green Cards were not honored

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no charges, no warrant, no hearing, no chance to call a lawyer.

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amazing statistic if accurate

zero alleged assaults against immigration officers have survived contact with the court system so far


WSJ says that *none* of the people charged under 18 USC 111 for supposedly assaulting/impeding immigration officers have been convictedhttps://www.wsj.com/us-news/immigration-protests-noem-minneapolis-0b8bd496?mod=hp_lead_pos7

[Winehole23]

A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters

[Winehole23]

181 of the 279 “people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year” are U.S. citizens

About 1/2 never charged

0 convicted

[Winehole23]

by contrast

https://prospect.org/2026/01/29/ice-trump-killed-injured-list-dhs-cbp-border-patrol-renee-good-alex-pretti/

[Winehole23]

an 8,000 percent increase in alleged assaults with zero convictions sounds like puffery

[Winehole23]

pure puffery

[Winehole23]

(Trump 2.0 is approximately 100% official oppression and financial extortion)

[Winehole23]

zero convicted in the whole USA so far during the Trump regime

for assaulting/impeding federal officers under 18 USC 111

lol

[Winehole23]

by contrast

https://prospect.org/2026/01/29/ice-trump-killed-injured-list-dhs-cbp-border-patrol-renee-good-alex-pretti/

[Winehole23]

181 of the 279 “people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year” are U.S. citizens

About 1/2 never charged

0 convicted

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:bono5gae7m6r3qpfxomshwbd/bafkreiazra27m5mvktwxta3hwr2i3zqyiollnk3fb54lqixnu qffffxuue@jpeghttps://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/family-demands-answers-after-us-citizen-detained-at-ohare-airport-held-for-more-than-30-hours/3904749/

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Vermont

This is the crowd that assembled to protest one warrant being served

Mass deportation is very unpopular with Americans

https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/eea0b1e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1536+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F67%2Fe0%2Fcb1561f345 2e8e9cdbe7997fdc2b%2Fice-vsp-standoff-vermontpublic-mcdonald-03112026.jpg

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2026-03-11/ice-enforcement-action-multi-car-crash-standoff-south-burlington

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This case looks squirrelly, Chicago Tribune can't corroborate basic facts


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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/family-demands-answers-after-us-citizen-detained-at-ohare-airport-held-for-more-than-30-hours/3904749/

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more dismissals of charges against purported criminal protesters in Chicago



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[Winehole23]

defense attorney for another party


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[Winehole23]

(this is recalled by heart, but I believe the DOJ record in the Operation Midway Blitz prosecution is now 0-19, with 13 cases remaining)

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration)


The findings offer one of the most granular pictures yet of the criminal records of the tens of thousands of people swept up in DHS’s massive deportation campaign, building on reporting by the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/immigrants-criminal-record-ice-detention) and others that show most of the people targeted for arrest and deportation are not violent criminals.


The expansion of immigration enforcement to broad, sweeping arrests, experts say, has led to a massive expansion of immigration detention (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/ice-detentions-record-immigration), with the highest number of people held in US history.


“What is being conducted is dragnet enforcement with the goal of ensnaring as many people as possible in the detention and deportation process, despite all the public claims of the administration that they’re going up for the worst,” said Phil Neff, research coordinator with the University of Washington Center for Human Rights.


The documents reveal a different picture, Neff said. “It really represents a cross-section of society at large in the United States, of people who have been here for many years and who have close ties to communities."

[Winehole23]

"spontaneous conspiracy"


Federal prosecutors said Thursday they plan to narrow conspiracy allegations and review “newly unearthed” evidence in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to block and damage an immigration agent’s vehicle outside the ICE facility in Broadview in September.


The indictment, which is the last remaining high-profile criminal case stemming from last fall’s Operation Midway Blitz, alleged the defendants used “force, intimidation, and threat” to injure the agent and his property “so as to interrupt, hinder, and impede him in the discharge of his official duties.”


Defense attorneys for weeks have tried to get the government to provide a detailed account of the scope of the alleged conspiracy, arguing the evidence laid out in the charges as criminal appeared to be “constitutionally protected acts of dissent against the administration’s immigration enforcement actions.”


At a status hearing in the case Thursday, prosecutors confirmed for the first time that they intend to show the conspiracy was “spontaneous” and not preplanned, and that there no explicitly stated agreements between the conspirators.


Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan also told the judge they intended to redact the indictment to remove the “injure” clause, and could narrow it even further, though they were still consulting with superiors on the matter, including U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros.


“We’re going to take a look at everything,” he said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/broadview-six-case/

[Winehole23]

vindictive prosecution of Americans for political speech


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[Winehole23]

DOJ drops charges against flag burner in DC


With disclosures for a potential vindictive prosecution motion due to the defense on Monday, feds (Pirro) drop criminal case against Army vet who said he burned flag in park to protest Trump pledge to prosecute flagburners. No explanation.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27878071-careymtd031326/

[Winehole23]

gotta think this is the losingest DOJ ever, they're probably hoping hard the political coup will succeed

[Winehole23]

federal district court judges are not particularly amused by the hearty contempt of the DOJ in filings and in open court

nor the lawlessness of executive agencies (DHS, OMB, etc..,) whose lies the DOJ records faithfully in the charging documents

[Winehole23]

Trump is basically using DOJ to smear his political opponents at this point, eventual conviction is neither here nor there

you can't beat the ride

[Winehole23]

tourism is woke and gay


At the 2026 Americas Lodging Investment Summit in January, U.S. Travel Association CEO Geoff Freeman noted the U.S. was “the only major nation in the world to see a decline in travel” in 2025 and questioned whether the Trump administration would continue to pursue tourism-suppressing policies like the $250 visa integrity fee (https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/11/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-nasty-surprise-world-cup-tourists/) and a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol proposal requiring some international travelers to provide their social media histories (https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/12/10/world-cup-visitors-mandatory-social-media-biometric-screening/).

At the same conference, Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano wondered aloud if the U.S. wasn’t making the world welcome, telling conference-goers, “When you have visitors asking legitimate questions about what their experience will be coming through customs and immigration … those are big impediments to optimizing what should be a home run opportunity for the lodging industry.”https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2026/03/13/us-hotel-industry-worry-world-cup/

[Winehole23]

DOJ is 0-20 in Midway Blitz cases



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[Winehole23]

Greg Bovino retired today


Bovino’s threat to launch a renewed Border Patrol occupation of Chicago, apparently as retribution for a politician criticizing him, was certainly news. And journalist Amanda Moore—who has spent months (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-ice-minneapolis-chicago-new-orleans-video/) covering Bovino (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35wrfYCntQ) and federal law enforcement for Mother Jones (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-horns-and-whistles-work/) and other outlets (https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/broadview-ice-cbp-gregory-bovino/)—quickly pointed that out (https://x.com/noturtlesoup17/status/2021741010708029457).

What happened next was bizarre—and a bit creepy.

“Perhaps you could make the pie for us,” Bovino tweeted (https://x.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/2021742315598147797) at Moore.

“Commander it would be my honor, just tell me where to go,” Moore responded (https://x.com/noturtlesoup17/status/2021742868260442549).

“Most excellent,” Bovino wrote (https://x.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/2021745326299001025). “I’ll let the gubner know you’ll be taking care of his appetite, in a healthy way.”

Things got even weirder from there, with Bovino at one point writing, “I’d love to see you bustling around the gubner’s kitchen fixing us a pie.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/watch-gregory-bovino-border-patrol-reporter-pie/

[Winehole23]

tick tock


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[Winehole23]

Trumpy Basij


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[BadMotorscooter]

Hey, Wine Ho....is your party gonna win the mid terms and the 2028 presidential?....because if you dont....it looks like all this effort youre putting in here is a joke and I would love that....wasting your life like this. Have a nice day.

[Winehole23]

Hey, Wine Ho....is your party gonna win the mid terms and the 2028 presidential?....because if you dont....it looks like all this effort youre putting in here is a joke and I would love that....wasting your life like this. Have a nice day.I would say the Republican party has wrecked itself for the midterms and far beyond already. The Dems will win the House and might take back the Senate, making Trump a lame duck with two years to go.

Trump stumbling into a global energy shock can't be turned around imho. There's zero chance the resulting chaos and inflation gets blamed on Dems.

Thanks for your concern for me, I'll be fine

Have a nice day.

[ChumpDumper]

Hey, Wine Ho....is your party gonna win the mid terms and the 2028 presidential?....because if you dont....it looks like all this effort youre putting in here is a joke and I would love that....wasting your life like this. Have a nice day.

He's not campaigning here. Anyone remotely intelligent could see that.

[Winehole23]

don't you worry about me badmotorscooter guy, I'll be just fine

[SnakeBoy]

I would say the Republican party has wrecked itself for the midterms and far beyond already. The Dems will win the House and might take back the Senate, making Trump a lame duck with two years to go.

Trump stumbling into a global energy shock can't be turned around imho. There's zero chance the resulting chaos and inflation gets blamed on Dems.

Thanks for your concern for me, I'll be fine

Have a nice day.

You won by losing everything...Libtard 4D chess

[ChumpDumper]

We let you beat yourself off.

[Winehole23]

Sydney Reid was no-billed by three consecutive grand juries

Charges were likewise dismissed on related misdemeanors

Reid's cellphone caught government agents concocting a tale during the ride


What the arresting agents discussed next, Reid argued, was what helped her avoid a potentially lengthy prison sentence on a felony assault charge.


“In another part of the recording, agents went back and forth about exactly how Reid, a veterinary assistant at an animal hospital, had assaulted them,” the Journal’s report reads.

“First, it was a raised knee, then an elbow. The next day, Reid was accused in a criminal complaint of ‘forcefully’ pushing an agent’s hand against a cement wall.”
Reid’s recording was submitted as evidence in her trial, where three grand juries ultimately declined to indict her.https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2676612904/

[Winehole23]

“If I didn’t have the video (https://www.rawstory.com/all-video/), I would 100% be in jail right now,” Reid told the Journal for its investigative report (https://www.wsj.com/us-news/immigration-protests-noem-minneapolis-0b8bd496?mod=article_inline) earlier this month.

[Winehole23]

ICE immigration court arrests over the last year have depended on a material misstatement of fact that DOJ withdrew and apologized for today

Trump 2.0 has been at war with the US Constitution and the law the whole way


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[Winehole23]

rigged against the little guy


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[Winehole23]

using the US government preferentially as to political affiliation

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[Winehole23]

Trump 2.0 is a crime spree



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[Winehole23]

amazingly bad leadership and morale clocked in this report

https://bestplacestowork.org/data-dashboard/

[Winehole23]

US cities emulating Chicago, fighting back against Trump's immoral and unconstitutional immigrant purge




Amid Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson began signing a series of executive orders aimed at curbing Trump’s immigration enforcement surge. The measures included banning federal agents from using city property for operations, directing Chicago police officers to work with demonstrators to manage — rather than shut down — protests, and pushing Chicago police to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by federal agents.

Those tactics are now being used by dozens of municipalities across the country facing similar, unwanted immigration enforcement actions. Officials from Alameda, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland as well as smaller cities throughout Illinois say they have looked to Chicago as a model for how to respond to federal immigration agent



“When we band together … we can move that much faster to uphold the law and the moral values that our country was founded on,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told POLITICO, adding she spoke with Johnson ahead of her city passing an executive order to prohibit federal agents from operating on city-owned property.

Similarly, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal to develop an ordinance creating ICE-free zones on county property after discussions with Chicago officials, according to the Los Angeles mayor’s office.

And last month, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, like Wu, signed an executive order prohibiting federal agents from operating on city-owned property during enforcement actions modeled after Chicago’s approach. They join Seattle (https://wilson.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2026/02/Executive-Order-2026-03-Prohibition-on-Staging-on-City-Property.pdf); Providence (https://www.providenceri.gov/mayor-brett-smiley-to-sign-executive-order-prohibiting-use-of-city-property-for-civil-immigration-enforcement-activities/), Rhode Island; Minneapolis; Santa Clara County; San Jose and Los Angeles County (https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-signs-executive-directive-17-bolstering-las-defense-against-escalating-ice-raids), all of which used Chicago’s executive order language as a springboard for their own orders tailored to local legal requirements, according to city staffers who spoke to POLITICO.

In January, Alameda County and the city of Oakland created their own ICE-free zones (https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/16/ice-free-zones-alameda-county-oakland/) after talking with Johnson’s office, according to the Oakland mayor’s office. And across Chicago’s nearby suburbs, Aurora, Elgin, Evanston and Waukegan are among municipalities that have banned federal agents from city-owned property, as have Cook, Lake and Will counties.


https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/28/chicagos-ice-playbook-spreads-as-cities-challenge-trumps-crackdown-00849174

[Winehole23]

if the finger-biter gets convicted, that'll be the very first charge of assaulting/impeding a federal officer to hold up in court since DHS started smearing US citizens with bogus prosecutions last year


“ICE officers are facing a 1300 percent increase in assaults because of dangerous, untrue smears by elected Democrats. Recently, an officer had his finger bitten off by a radical left-wing rioter.

[Winehole23]

challenge coins



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[Winehole23]

ethnic cleansing is morally depraved and Americans hate it


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[Winehole23]

racial profiling of US citizens is a constant

has happened to this guy three times



On the morning of May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas was driving home from a convenience store run in Silverhill, Alabama, when he noticed an unmarked vehicle following him. As he parked the truck outside his home, immigration officers approached him and tried to open the driver’s door. In a declaration submitted as part of a civil lawsuit, Garcia Venegas said the agents pulled him out of the car and onto the ground, and shackled his arms and legs. Garcia Venegas estimates seven or eight law enforcement personnel, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and local police—most of whom wore plain clothes and tactical vests—surrounded him. They asked him no questions.

Garcia Venegas, a 26-year-old Florida-born US citizen, said he tried to show his Alabama STAR ID as proof of status, but the agents ignored him. They put him in the back seat of one of their vehicles, questioned him about his place of birth, and searched his wallet. He offered to provide his American passport, which was inside the house, but the agents refused. Several minutes later, they released him, but not before having dogs sniff the truck for drugs, according to the declaration. Garcia Venegas said the officers told him he had been stopped because the car he was driving was registered in the name of his brother, who is undocumented. (ICE didn’t respond to a request for comment before publication.)

This wasn’t the first time ICE agents stopped and held Garcia Venegas. In fact, Saturday’s encounter marked the third such incident, according to court filings. Garcia Venegas, whose parents are originally from Mexico, had twice before been detained after ICE raided construction sites where he was working, and twice before he was let go after proving his American citizenship. This third detention, Garcia Venegas wrote in his statement, had caused him emotional distress and anxiety. “I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life,” he said, adding, “I only wish to live my life in peace.”https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ice-keeps-detaining-the-same-us-citizen-again-and-again-and-again-hes-fighting-back/

[Winehole23]

181 of the 279 “people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year” are U.S. citizens

About 1/2 never charged

0 convicted so far

[Winehole23]

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[ChumpDumper]

It's a memory care center now.

[Winehole23]

eminent domain against a Catholic church to build border fencing


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[Winehole23]

"it wasn't safe for ICE to conduct its investigation in public, so it took Concepcion somewhere else to question him privately, but it wasn't a detention"




The Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood.

Jeury Concepcion told NBC New York he suffered a concussion and needed stitches (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/bronx/teen-wrongfully-detained-ice-bloody-takedown-bronx/6499581/) after ICE agents suddenly confronted him on Wednesday.

Concepcion says the agents had their guns drawn and that they did not identify themselves during the encounter. "They didn’t want to talk to me. They want to kill me," he told News 4 this week

“They didn’t identify themselves as ICE," he added. "They grabbed me and threw me on the floor and started hurting me.”

In a statement to NBC New York, DHS says ICE was conducting a targeted enforcement operation when they saw someone who matched the physical description of the person they were looking for, outside of that person's residence.

In reference to Concepcion, the DHS stated, "When law enforcement approached the individual, he became combative and refused to identify himself."

The agency also says a crowd of so-called "anti-ice agitators" swarmed officers, forcing them to take the man away to a safe place to finish the questioning. DHS says Concepcion was then promptly released. The statement adds that he was not arrested, and that DHS is not arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.
ttps://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/dhs-responds-to-claim-of-wrongful-ice-detention/6500126/

[Winehole23]

to be wasting public resources on loser sh!t like this

is the loserest sh!t


https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/fbi-kash-patel-trump-payback-squad-political-cases-james-comey-john-brennan

[Winehole23]

ditto the 2020 election

y'all lost, get over it

[Winehole23]

mass deportation hurts businesses and communities

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6759278

[Winehole23]

Bovino lied and DOJ pressed false charges, which video evidence obliged it to dismiss

https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/11/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-cole-sheridan-broadview-iceConspiracy charges against the Broadview Six had already been dismissed.

After meeting in camera with the judge to review (redacted -- why?) grand jury testimony, DOJ dropped all remaining charges with prejudice -- meaning the charges can't be refiled. Sanctions against the government are still possible, owing to "significant errors" related to the grand jury

DOJ has not yet won a single assault/impeding an officer case related to Market Blitz.

https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/21/judge-sanctions-against-prosecutors-possible-after-remaining-broadview-six-charges-dismissed/

[Winehole23]

DOJ can't shoot straight


Defense attorney Chris Parente says there were actually "missing pages" from the "Broadview Six" grand jury transcript.

[Winehole23]

misleading grand juries for quick indictments failed twice each for Comey and Letitia James, apparently it has failed here too

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Near the bottom of the alert, DHS acknowledged the comedian did not pose a danger. “At this time, there appears to be no direct threat to life or infrastructure,” the alert reads.https://www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts/immigration/2026/dhs-alert-comedian-ben-palmer/

[Winehole23]

the prosecution basically abused the grand jury until it issued a true bill

then it tried to convict on a redacted record

then DOJ withdrew hastily when its own behavior was about to be revealed



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[Winehole23]

transcript at the link


This marks another astonishing loss for the Northern District U.S. Attorney's Office that has yet to secure a conviction on any criminal matter related to Operation Midway Blitz immigration enforcement.https://abc7chicago.com/post/broadview-ice-protesters-federal-misdemeanor-trial-chicago-vacated-grand-jury-developments-sealed-hearing/19145499/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

another US citizen shackled and detained by ICE

local police declared her state-issued ID and Social Security card fake and turned her over to ICE, which apparently didn't accept them either at first



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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

it's a dumb idea and illegal as hell (https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C6-1/ALDE_00001094/)


Major airline and hotel industry groups are sounding the alarm over a Trump administration proposal to halt customs and immigration processing at airports in sanctuary cities, warning the move could severely disrupt international travel and tourism at a critical time.


Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday on Fox News’ "Hannity" that if "radical left Democrats" continue refusing to allow federal immigration enforcement, "we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either."


The proposal comes as the U.S. prepares to host millions of international visitors for next month’s FIFA World Cup across cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dhs-markwaynemullin-sanctuary/2026/05/28/id/1257847/

[Winehole23]

yesterday US agents pushed somebody under an 18-wheeler, then continued to beat him up on the ground and detain him


Two nights ago, I told the ICE agents in front of Delaney Hall that this was the most violence I had experienced from them. They were surprised it wasn’t Minnesota, where many of them had also been deployed, or Chicago.https://bsky.app/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3mmz3vnzao22r

[Winehole23]

lying thug faces criminal charges related to Metro Surge


An ICE agent accused by Minnesota prosecutors of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-video-puts-focus-ice-shooting-charges-2-men-dropped-rcna267065)and lying about it (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-prosecutor-dismiss-minneapolis-fbi-shooting-venezuelan-rcna258870) was arrested Friday


Investigators with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension located the agent in Texas, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said (https://www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2026/May/castro-arrested) in a news release Friday.



Castro was taken into custody by law enforcement officials from Texas and Minnesota Friday morning on charges of assault in the second (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agent-charged-four-counts-assault-minnesota-shooting-venezuelan-im-rcna345732) degree and falsely reportin (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agent-charged-four-counts-assault-minnesota-shooting-venezuelan-im-rcna345732)g a crime (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agent-charged-four-counts-assault-minnesota-shooting-venezuelan-im-rcna345732) in connection with the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis during an attempted immigration arrest on Jan. 14.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agent-charged-operation-metro-surge-shooting-arrested-texas-rcna347567

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mass deportation wrecks families and wrecks the lives of US citizens



A May 18 report (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/) from the Brookings Institution estimates that nearly 147,000 American citizen kids have seen a parent detained under the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant obsessions, which have already endangered children’s safety by diverting federal resources away (https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/ice-keeps-showing-us-that-no-one?utm_source=publication-search) from investigating predators and traffickers in order to target hardworking moms and dads. The think tank found that of that number, more than 22,000 of these American kids have experienced the detention of both of their parents.

“Roughly 36% were younger than six years old..."
https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-new-family-separation-crisis

[Winehole23]

military occupation of DC continues for no good reason


President Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. has reduced petty property crimes, but has had little to no effect on violent crime, despite the high cost to taxpayers, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan think tank Niskanen Center (https://www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/#the-national-guard-as-natural-experiment).


The study's findings were published just weeks after federal officials announced (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2_SWDOzBNk) that the number of troops in D.C. is set to double this summer to 5,000 as part of a "summer surge" of law enforcement ahead of events planned for America's 250th birthday celebration.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5845073/national-guard-washington-dc-crime

[Winehole23]

another felony assault case got reduced to a misdemeanor then fell apart completely


tl:dr

DHS arrested a protester, took trophy pics then swore out false affidavits. Pam Bondi posted the pics to social media with derogatory information that could compromise the protester's right to a fair trial.

When video evidence that contradicted the affidavits emerged and the judge ordered DOJ to show their hand, the DOJ moved to dismiss the case without prejudice.

The court dismissed with prejudice

​

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230891/gov.uscourts.mnd.230891.64.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

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DOJ vouched, concealed a no-bill then tried to re-indict on the same information and communicated with grand jurors outside the courtroom -- in the Broadview Six conspiracy case in Chicago.

DOJ dropped felony charges but continued to prosecute misdemeanors.

When the defense caught a whiff of their misconduct, DOJ tried to dismiss everything in order to make the record moot.

DOJ's attempt to bury their turds in the catbox has obviously failed.


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DOJ drops fraud charges in a doomed attempt to avoid scrutiny of its own behavior


The dismissal marked the first case to crumble under what another judge called a “credibility crisis” swirling around U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office following the collapse of the Broadview prosecution (https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/05/21/broadview-ice-protest-grand-jury-transcript-kat-abughazaleh-trump) last month.


On Thursday, the feds moved to drop charges (https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/06/11/broadview-six-grand-jury-misconduct-federal-prosecutors-drop-charges-loretto-hospital-covid-fraud) against two “low level of operators” linked to former Loretto Hospital chief financial officer Anosh Ahmed. They did so to avoid a hearing that could have put Boutros on the witness stand (https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/06/10/hearing-in-loretto-hospital-case-could-address-claims-of-prosecutors-misconduct-if-feds-dont-drop-it) to address fresh allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

“We have cases throughout this building that are all in turmoil,” U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said while dismissing the charges Friday. “Pandora’s Box has been opened … I don’t know if by doing this you get to put everything back in the box”https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/06/12/broadview-six-boutros-chicago-abughazaleh-justice-department-doj

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[Winehole23]

if DOJ doesn't swear off the slush fund, a permanent injunction will issue

amazing pattern of DOJ continuing to lose badly in federal district court


and it is hereby

ORDERED that, to avoid any further litigation in this civil action, defendants Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, Jr., and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent FILE a declaration under the penalty of perjury that they will not take any action to create or operate the Anti-Weaponization Fund, and that the Anti-Weaponization Fund will not proceed in any manner, or under any name. If such a declaration is not filed by June 19, 2026, the Court will issue a Scheduling Order and require defendants to file a responsive pleading by July 17, 2026; and it is further

ORDERED that to ensure the status quo, the following preliminary injunction be and is IMMEDIATELY ENTERED, effective today, until further Order from the Court. Specifically, defendants be and are ENJOINED from taking any action to create or operate the Anti-Weaponization Fund, including but not limited to transferring or causing to be transferred any money to the Anti-Weaponization Fund; processing any claim submitted to the Anti-Weaponization Fund; making any payment out of the Anti-Weaponization Fund; appointing any member to manage the Anti-Weaponization Fund; establishing any rules or procedures governing the Anti-Weaponization Fund; destroying any documents relating to the Anti-Weaponization Fund, its creation, its procedures, or claims submitted to the Anti-Weaponization Fund; reconstituting the Anti-Weaponization Fund under a different name; or taking any actions under the purported authority of the Anti-Weaponization Fund; and it is further

ORDERED that if defendants have transferred or caused to be transferred any money to an account for the Anti-Weaponization Fund, they shall immediately reverse that transfer; and it is further

ORDERED that defendants shall submit a status report within seven days of this Order updating the Court on compliance with this Order’s terms, including confirmation that no payments have been made from the Anti-Weaponization Fund, and that no funding has been transferred to an account for the Anti-Weaponization Fund, or if it has, that that transfer has been reversedhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617.85.0_1.pdf

[Winehole23]

ICE swearing out fake affidavits against people who'd done nothing wrong besides piss officers off as been a pattern

This guy got beaten up and taken to a hospital, where he was chained to a bed and held incommunicado

Agents who did this should 100% be prosecuted and jailed


The probable cause statement filed by Agent Richard Berger states, among other things, that earlier on January 22 and prior to his arrest, Mr. Johnson “exited his vehicle, approached the vehicle driven by CBPOs with a baseball bat . . . [and] sprayed the passenger side of [an ICE] vehicle with . . . [OC spray].” ECF No. 1-1. None of this is true. Notably, Agent Berger has a documented pattern of submitting false affidavits in the District of Minnesota, which in one case led Magistrate Judge Schultz to state that he had become “concerned with the veracity of [Agent Berger’s] affidavits” and with respect to one affidavit in particular, stating: “that’s a fake affidavit.” 2 See also Report and Recommendation, United States v. Adbebe, Case No. 26-mj-77, ECF No. 64 at 10-11, (filed June 3, 2026) (noting that video evidence directly contradicted statements contained in a sworn affidavit from Agent Berger).


Agents handcuffed Mr. Johnson, bundled him into an unmarked CBP vehicle and whisked him away as a gathering crowd hurled expletives at them. CBP ultimately drove Mr. Johnson to HCMC. There, they kept Mr. Johnson confined to his hospital room under armed guard. Agents photographed him in his hospital bed, clad in his gown, while he slept under the influence of painkillers. Incredibly given his serious injuries, agents kept Mr. Johnson shackled to his hospital bed for the entire five days he was at HCMC with the only break being when he went to PT appointments. Agents told Mr. Johnson he could not make any phone calls or contact family to inform them of his injuries or the fact that he was being held at HCMC. Agents did not make any attempt to locate or inform Mr. Johnson’s family of his detention at the hospital. Mr. Johnson’s wife knew that he had been violently arrested but had no idea where he was, whether he was injured, or if he was even alive.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230903/gov.uscourts.mnd.230903.77.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

Trump considered suspending habeas corpus last year


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[Winehole23]

(Swan and Haberman saved that fact for their upcoming book)

[Winehole23]

(SCOTUS had to accelerate the shadow docket to protect a regime getting creamed on constitutional issues in federal district court)

[Winehole23]

blood in the water

government is offering to pay for the Broadview Six's legal expenses, erstwhile Broadview Six defendants are asking for a special prosecutor to hold the DOJ in criminal contempt



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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/0c/07/4afee6884bf697cfdb71c93b7733/b6discovery.pdf

[Winehole23]

Minnesota neighborhood protectors charged


The feds have already dismissed more than than one-third of charges related to alleged assaults on federal agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge, according to reporting by the Star Tribune (https://www.startribune.com/tracking-federal-assault-cases-against-anti-ice-protesters/601853692). https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/16/feds-charge-anti-ice-activists/

[Winehole23]

denaturalization for speeding tickets, fishing without a license, walking dogs without a leash


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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

set loose to hunt Americans, community be damned

[Winehole23]

https://people.com/thmb/P5EBjRz1xs4Q3d7jfqB5dia2XhM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc() :focal(749x0:751x2):format(webp)/David-Hearn-reflecting-pool-Donald-Trump-062026-627904615558427480d7733d2ff99b48.jpg


United States Park Police officers arrested the 67-year-old — who competed in the canoe slalom in three Summer Olympics (https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/david-hearn) — on Friday, June 19, after he stopped to look at the newly renovated Washington, D.C., pool in the midst of a 52-mile bike ride, according to The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/).

Hearn told The Post that after noticing a piece of liner that was partially detached from the pool, which was painted "American Flag Blue” (https://people.com/trump-finishes-reflecting-pool-renovation-11995023) as part of its more than $14 million renovation, he reached into the water to see what the piece felt like — and just moments later, he was being arrested.

While preparing to leave and continue his bike ride, the U.S. Park Police officers arrested and detained the former Olympian on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property, per The Post. Hearn claimed to the newspaper that his detainment at a Park Police facility lasted for nearly five hours, and he was allowed to leave at around 9 p.m. local time.
https://people.com/former-olympian-david-hearn-arrested-for-touching-reflecting-pool-amid-trumps-claims-of-vandalism-12003496

[Winehole23]

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Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234490/gov.uscourts.mnd.234490.1.0.pdf)

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To be clear, the Court agrees with the Department that a grand-jury subpoena need not be supported by probable cause. At the same time, a grand-jury subpoena cannot be issued for an improper purpose. The fact that connections between the information sought in the subpoenas and any possible criminal violation range from extremely weak to nonexistent only adds to the overwhelming evidence that these subpoenas were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate.

In sum, because the Court finds that the dominant purpose of the challenged subpoenas is to coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so, the Court grants the motions to quash.

[Blake]

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https://people.com/former-olympian-david-hearn-arrested-for-touching-reflecting-pool-amid-trumps-claims-of-vandalism-12003496

Incoming border wall to protect the reflecting pool

[Winehole23]

Trump's weaponized DOJ is getting clobbered in court

Todd Blanche has wrecked the presumption of regularity -- lawless leadership


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[Winehole23]

noncompliance = incompetence and/or contempt for judicial rulings

DOJ is bucking the rule of law


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[Blake]

People fired over Charlie Kirk posts get big payouts for First Amendment retaliation

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements

[Winehole23]

Intel shareholders: Trump extorted Intel


This formerly sealed stockholder derivative complaint alleges that the Trump administration extorted Intel into giving it 9.9% of its common stock, plus warrants for another 5%, without a legal basis for doing so. The complaint named the Secretary of Commerce as a defendant who removed the case to federal court where motions to dismiss filed by the Secretary and the Intel defendants are pending.


https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6985440

[Winehole23]

sending federal agents around to harass Americans for their speech is getting more frequent

this lady was confronted while she was working at a primary polling location as an observer


Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents issued a warning to a Syracuse woman Tuesday to remove a social media account they said threatens federal agents.

Paigelynne Gonyea said she believes they are referring to a January post (https://www.instagram.com/p/DTQ1FYDkyua/)where she named the ICE agent (https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214) who shot protester Renee Good.

Gonyea was working as a poll worker Tuesday afternoon at the Central Library on Salina Street when agents called to meet with her. She said she invited them in...

Gonyea posts frequently about immigration on her social media accounts. In January, she posted the name of Jonathan Ross, citing news reports. Ross is the ICE agent who shot protester Renee Good in Minnesota. His name has been widely reported in news stories and other social media posts across the world.

“I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted,” the post says.

Gonyea said she does not consider it doxxing to quote a news story and call for an indictment.

“I didn’t dox his personal information, such as address, phone number,” she said.

Gonyea said she does not intend to delete her post. In addition to the attorney general’s office, she said she has contacted Rep. John Mannion, Mayor Sharon Owens and the New York Civil Liberties Union.

“For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me,” she said. “They definitely should have known better to not go into a polling place, even if I said it was OK.”

[Winehole23]

The agents handed Gonyea a form letter that says they were investigating threats made against ICE personnel. The form says the agents had identified an Instagram account they believe breaks federal law. They asked her to remove and discontinue the behavior, according to the unsigned document she shared on Instagram.

“This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties or retaliate against a federal official due to the performance of their duties,” the document said.

The document said she could be subject to both federal and state prosecution.

The agents had New Jersey phone numbers and license plates. She said the agents held a folder with copies of her social media posts and her drivers’ license.

“They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working,” she said.https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/federal-agents-track-down-syracuse-woman-demand-she-remove-instagram-post-about-ice.html

[Winehole23]

reposting straight news to social media isn't doxxing or a crime of any sort, on the contrary, it's specifically protected by the 1st Amendment

[Winehole23]

Trump's beef against Catholics is nontrivial


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[Winehole23]

the tender feelings of the third most powerful US Rep are under threat

Rep. Emmer is apparently in a personal state of fear and apprehension of having his attitude accurately described by others

Republicans are whipping up race hate in Minnesota

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.JzmZxAw3kgdLH5kgjxSv0QHaE8?w=243&h=180&c=7&r=0&o=7&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7&rm=3


Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mp53ucsqms26

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on the heels of the SCOTUS decision declaring temporary immigration status determinations unreviewable

Stephen Miller teases race hate and xenophobia in Ohio


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[Winehole23]

to cover up the epochal loss to Iran, the US government is going to do some big race pogroms, apparently

[Winehole23]

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

[Winehole23]

Tom Emmer in 2015



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[Winehole23]

Trump wants to institutionalize more disabled Americans


THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE clear that it wishes to purge (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/trump-deletions-government-records-defense-photos/) America of some of its undesirables. That includes, for instance, deporting 100 million people (https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006472108222853298) (a third of the population). But for those he can’t expel, he hopes to simply hide away.

Last week the Department of Justice published a memo (https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1446701/dl) authorizing states to institutionalize more people with disabilities. This basically means plucking more people out of society and shutting them into nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, segregated schools, and sheltered workshops, rather than funding community- or home-based care where they have more autonomy.

“This is at its core about the belonging and inclusion of people with disabilities in our communities,” says Alison Barkoff, a health law professor at George Washington University who worked on disability policy under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. “This is about moving forward from a very shameful part of our history when we locked people with disabilities away from society.”

The DOJ policy would turn back the clock on decades of law and Supreme Court precedent. Since Olmstead v. L.C. (https://archive.ada.gov/olmstead/olmstead_about.htm), (https://archive.ada.gov/olmstead/olmstead_about.htm)1 (https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americans-trump-would-rather#footnote-1)in 1999, states have been required to support disabled people in the most integrated setting possible that is appropriate to their needs. Institutionalization is supposed to be the last resort.

The consequences of this change could be enormous. Community- and home-based care services involve having a home health aide visit a person for, say, a few hours a week at home, rather than sealing them off in a closed facility. They help disabled people achieve both personal and financial independence. This kind of support empowers people to care for themselves, maintain relationships with friends and family, and hold jobs. And there has generally been bipartisan political backing for policies that, for example, enable children with disabilities to live with their parents whenever possible.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americans-trump-would-rather

[Winehole23]

just letting it all hang out

race war declared in Ohio


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[ChumpDumper]

Dilutes what for us?

[Winehole23]

"purity of essence"

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[Winehole23]

new to me


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[Winehole23]

I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being institutionalized.


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[Winehole23]

write a letter critical of the government, get a warning from federal goons

has happened at least twice in NY during the last week or so


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[Winehole23]

here's a counter form

lock em all up under 18 US Code, section 241 - Conspiracy against rights

and 18 US Code, section 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law



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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242

[Winehole23]

The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a resident who accused police officers of illegally detaining him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader's theme song (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/man-detained-for-protesting-national-guard-in-d-c-with-darth-vader-theme-song-lawsuit-says) from "Star Wars" on his cellphone, according to a document released Monday.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/d-c-will-pay-50000-to-man-detained-while-protesting-guard-patrol-with-star-wars-song-record-says

[Winehole23]

masked goons and rioters violated Americans' rights in Chicago


Immigration agents assigned to Chicago frequently wrote in reports that they were “targeting immigration violators” in a “confined, civilian-heavy environment” with a goal to “enhance public safety.” The agents often claimed civilians attacked them or refused orders before agents used force.


But a state commission is offering a competing picture. Based on video evidence and accounts from locals’ harrowing experiences with agents, the Illinois Accountability Commission found that the Trump administration encouraged agents to act recklessly.


“Federal officials did not just tolerate lawlessness,” said commission Vice Chair Patricia Brown Holmes, a former Cook County judge and county and federal prosecutor. “They encouraged it, they shielded it, and they made a grand bargain with the agents to deliver arrests: Occupy the city through fear, and we will protect you, even if you violate the Constitution.”
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/30/who-were-the-midway-blitz-border-patrol-agents-most-were-veteran-immigration-officers/

[Winehole23]

ICE is now Trump's thought police


The incident, which was first reported by local news outlet Syracuse.com, was unsettling in many ways, but one part stuck out to Gonyea: the warning notice said it was sent by ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility.


“That office is supposed to be for internal investigations,” says Gonyea, “and now they're using their own internal departments on American civilians.”


OPR is supposed to act as an internal watchdog. It’s responsible for inspecting detention facilities, investigating allegations of employee and contractor misconduct, and processing security checks for new applicants. On its site, it says it also protects against “external threats” by managing badge access to buildings and maintaining the agency’s network security. But lately, court documents indicate, it appears to be pursuing more civilians like Gonyea for what they say online.https://www.wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/

[Winehole23]

Chicago US Atty's office will pay the legal fees of the Broadview Six, but insists it did nothing wrong

AUSA Boutros is very sweaty to make this go away

If is prosecutors did nothing wrong, why pay for the other side's costs?


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[Winehole23]

Pentagon extends Trump's pretextual military occupation of Washington, DC until inauguration day, 2029


The National Guard (https://wjla.com/topic/National%20Guard) will remain activated in Washington, D.C. through Inauguration Day 2029 as part of President Donald Trump (https://wjla.com/topic/Donald%20Trump)'s anti-crime mission, unless the president deems otherwise, according to the Pentagon (https://wjla.com/topic/Pentagon).

"The DoW remains committed supporting the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and our Federal law enforcement partners until law and order are fully restored in our Nation's Capital," a Pentagon official told 7News. "The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Mission has been extended to Jan. 20, 2029, or until terminated by the President."

As of July 8, nearly 5,150 National Guard troops from multiple states are in D.C., according to the joint task force (https://dc.ng.mil/Domestic-Operations/Joint-Task-Force-JTF-District-of-Columbia-DC/). Nine states and territories are providing support for Freedom 250 and associated summer events from May through the end of August.
https://cbs4local.com/news/nation-world/national-guard-washington-dc-pentagon-donald-trump-dc-safe-and-beautiful-mission-metropolitan-police-department-mpd-anti-crime-freedom-250-crime-federal-law-enforcement-emergency-executive-order-7news-district-of-columbia

[Winehole23]

another ICE-involved homicide in Maine

ICE shot a legal resident with permission to work and a social security card

the man was not ICE's intended target -- looks like another Kavanaugh stop (racial profiling) pursued with deadly force


Here are some of the key updates from our coverage of Monday’s shooting.


The man killed was Joan Sebastian Guerrero (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/neighbor-ids-man-shot-by-an-immigration-agent-in-biddeford/), a 26-year-old father from Colombia, a neighbor identified and immigrant advocates confirmed. Here’s what we know about him so far (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/neighbor-ids-man-shot-by-an-immigration-agent-in-biddeford/).
Guerrero was not the intended target of the arrest warrant (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/sen-king-says-biddeford-shooting-victim-was-not-intended-target-of-warrant/), officials say.
Witnesses described seeing the victim bleeding as he was pulled out of his vehicle, telling agents ‘I tried to stop,’ (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/biddeford-witness-saw-gunshot-victim-bleeding-from-head-2/) and bystanders shouting at agents, including believed family members of the victim (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/biddeford-woman-recounts-seeing-victim-familys-after-deadly-shooting/).
Protesters attempted to storm Sen. Susan Collins’ office (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/protestors-storm-susan-collins-biddeford-office-after-federal-agent-shot-man/) in Biddeford as anti-ICE protests erupted (https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/lingering-tensions-from-january-ice-surge-boil-over-in-wake-of-biddeford-shooting/) around the city.



https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/shooting-reported-in-biddeford-2/#054af091-4b3e-4429-879b-792f474bf410

[Blake]

another ICE-involved homicide in Maine

ICE shot a legal resident with permission to work and a social security card

the man was not ICE's intended target -- looks like another Kavanaugh stop (racial profiling) pursued with deadly force

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/shooting-reported-in-biddeford-2/#054af091-4b3e-4429-879b-792f474bf410

When will some of these assholes finally get charged with manslaughter?

[Winehole23]

When will some of these assholes finally get charged with manslaughter?a ver, the government finally turned over homicide evidence to Minnesota

[Winehole23]

Homan on Laura Ingraham, promising to kill more Americans if they criticize him or protest ICE

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.xGi57ecyPFL_e5OZ3JSlwwHaEK?w=307&h=180&c=7&r=0&o=7&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7&rm=3


"It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

[Winehole23]

The shooter called his ex-wife to vouch for his character

She said no and went to the press


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[Winehole23]

official oppression is a Trump 2.0 hallmark, bogus prosecutions of American citizens are just a symptom


In its nationwide immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has charged hundreds of people with assaulting or impeding federal agents. President Trump has branded them “insurrectionists,” “animals” and “thugs,” part of a broader effort by his administration to cast protesters and immigrants as violent criminals.


But a close examination of those cases reveals that in its rush to meet White House demands for deportations, federal law enforcement has engaged in extensive misconduct — ranging from attacking protesters to destroying evidence and misrepresenting facts in court.


The New York Times found that the Trump administration has filed assault charges against more than 550 people who were caught in its immigration dragnet — far more than previously known. Of the more than 400 cases resolved so far, nearly half have unraveled: Juries acquitted defendants, judges threw out charges, or prosecutors withdrew them.


The record is abysmal by the typical standards of federal prosecutions: The Justice Department seldom loses criminal cases, with more than 90 percent (https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/data-tables/2025/12/31/statistical-tables-federal-judiciary/d-4) of defendants pleading guilty or being convicted at trial.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/us/ice-assaults-protesters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ylA.N-qW.MA96fbGj6SFX&smid=url-share

[Winehole23]

you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride


“There seems to be a pattern of charges being filed without any merit,” said Jimmy L. Arce, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago who served on a commission (https://ilac.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/ilac/documents/final-report/IAC-Final-Report-April-2026.pdf) that investigated immigration raids in the city last year. He added that some defendants were “having their speech criminalized by the U.S. attorney’s office.”

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In dozens of cases, court records and videos show that federal agents were the first to get physical — including shoving, tackling or pepper-spraying defendants. Many defendants successfully argued that the assaults they were accused of were actually acts of self-defense.

Judges repeatedly chastised prosecutors and immigration agents for misconduct including distorting facts and withholding evidence. Two judges found that agents purposely destroyed evidence, including ordering a defendant to delete cellphone photos.

Officers charged more than two dozen people who were filming or following agents, often while honking car horns, blowing whistles or shouting warnings like, “La migra is coming!” There was no allegation of physical contact with agents.

In more than 100 cases, prosecutors did not claim that any agents were injured. In at least seven other cases, officers’ injuries were caused by their or their colleagues’ actions. For example, a judge last fall dismissed assault charges against an immigrant, ruling that the agent involved had been cut by shards of glass from a car window he himself had smashed.

Sixty-five times, prosecutors abandoned or downgraded charges before hitting a deadline to present evidence to a grand jury or judge. Former prosecutors said that this pattern of rapid retreat was unusual and signaled that the cases should never have been brought.

[Winehole23]

The government has lost or abandoned nearly half of the resolved cases in which it accused people of assaulting immigration agents. Normally the Justice Department wins more than 90 percent of its criminal cases.

[Winehole23]

The Times identified more than 30 instances of judges criticizing prosecutors or federal agents for conduct such as destroying or withholding evidence, violating rules about communications with jurors and making false or exaggerated claims, including some disproved by videos.


Judges have denounced the government’s actions as “flagrant,” in “bad faith” and “shocking to the universal sense of justice.”

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

FBI turns a blind eye to Trump's secret police


Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision.


If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents, as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism over killings at the hands of federal officers. In the last two weeks, two fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas and Maine have thrust the government’s tactics back into the spotlight.


F.B.I. managers around the country received a written notice informing them of the change on Thursday, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal communications. The same day, some ICE agents around the country were notified by their F.B.I. counterparts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y1A.8sOK.cl v5nJVxmakl&smid=nytcore-android-share

[Winehole23]

garrisoning US troops in cities to cow and intimidate citizens is shitty and a tyrant move

https://static.notus.org/dims4/default/7205a08/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5811x3874+0+0/resize/312x208!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-aji.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F91%2F2c%2F236c72344 5f6bd9478d167abcc45%2Fap21063551005168.jpg

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/4553683/national-guard-awards-contract-to-support-mobilized-dc-troops/

[Winehole23]

admission in open court that CA grant cancellations were 100% politically motivated

maybe the government preferred to stipulate political animus rather than go through discovery about it

this too is war on Americans -- partisan war


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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...-canceled.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/trump-state-grants-canceled.html)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...41312.25.0.pdf (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2041312/gov.uscourts.txsd.2041312.25.0.pdf)