Children's drawings and letters from the kiddie concentration camp in Dilley, TX embarrassed DHS
So now they're taking away the drawings and letters away from the kids
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-a...itions-inside/
eight separate skull fractures, ICE says he fell and hit his head on a wall
DH lies all day long
https://apnews.com/article/immigrati...d844d0073411c2McLaughlin’s assertion that Castañeda Mondragón had been targeted for removal was contradicted by a Jan. 20 court filing in which ICE said officers only determined the man overstayed his work visa after he was in custody. McLaughlin did not respond to questions about which account was correct.
DHS like to swipe people's IDs
FAFO
DHS doesn't know up from down
https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/...-announcementsOn Tuesday night, hundreds of residents packed the Wilson County Commission meeting in Lebanon, Tenn., to protest an ICE detention facility that the federal government had announced was coming to their community. They did not know — could not have known — that ICE was already drafting the email that would tell reporters the announcement had never been authorized.
That same evening, the agency sent word: “ICE has NOT purchased a facility in Lebanon, Tennessee. That statement was sent without proper approval and this mistake has since been rectified.”
By Wednesday morning, ICE had issued a second retraction, in nearly identical language, for a warehouse it had also claimed to have purchased in Chester, N.Y.
The back-to-back reversals were not isolated stumbles. They capped a week in which ICE distributed an economic analysis for a proposed facility in New Hampshire that appeared to have been copied from a do ent prepared for another state, ICE’s acting director told Congress something a sitting governor directly contradicted, and the department’s top spokesperson announced she was leaving. Taken as a whole, these episodes reveal an agency issuing confident, specific information — purchase confirmations, job projections, tax revenue figures — that it cannot stand behind.
here's the 737 Noem and Lewandowski needed "for deportations and travel for cabinet officials"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/no-expense-spared-luxury-jet-dhs-wants-buy-deportations-rcna259425
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bigotry is one thing, but this is morally deranged
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2922331.htmlThe life of a Congolese asylum seeker granted permission to stay in the United States is in “grave danger” after ICE secretly flew her to an unknown African nation, while the woman’s husband – a widely feared local politician who allegedly had her father shot dead as she watched – continues to hunt her across continents, according to a tranche of federal court do ents reviewed by The Independent
At the age of 14, “Jane Doe” - as the devoutly Christian and former hairdresser in the Democratic Republic of Congo - was forced to become the African politician’s sixth wife in order to satisfy a family debt, according to the motion. For the next decade, Doe was physically and sexually abused by her husband and two of his sons, bearing four children while being “kept like a hostage,” says the motion, which seeks Doe’s immediate return to the U.S.
In late 2024, Doe managed to escape to her parents’ house, the motion goes on. But Doe’s politician husband quickly found her, brutalized her and her brother, ordered his bodyguards to execute her father in front of her, and burned the family home to the ground, the motion says. When Doe went to the police, they said her only option was to leave the country because “her abuser was too powerful and… they could not protect her,” according to the motion.
ST Trump s want Christians dead.
this is from back in March of last year
ICE killed San Antonio-native Ruben Ray Martinez during a traffic stop and shot his passenger, also a US native
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-f...cords-11544225Sheridan Nolen, press secretary at the Texas Department of Public Safety, told Newsweek, "This is still an active investigation by the Texas Rangers, and no other information is currently available." The FBI’s San Antonio field office is not involved in the investigation, Special Agent Carmen Portillo told Newsweek.
ICE's involvement was kept under wraps for a year
detaining harmless tourists to satisfy quotas
The dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26 September, as Karen and Bill were trying to leave the US. When they crossed the border, Canadian officials told them they didn’t have the correct paperwork to bring the car with them. They were turned back to Montana on the American side – and to US border control officials. Bill’s US visa had expired; Karen’s had not.
“I worried then,” she says. “I was worried for him. I thought, well, at least I am here to support him.”
She didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of an ordeal that would see Karen handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell, before being driven for 12 hours through the night to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre. Karen was incarcerated for a total of six weeks – even though she had been travelling with a valid visa.
Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.When they were turned back from Canada, and US border control agents saw that Bill’s visa had expired, Karen fully expected to be allowed to return home. The Newtons immediately offered to pay for their flights – they had funds available to cover the tickets – but the officials “weren’t interested”, she says. Instead, they were taken into an office and made to wait there, from 10.30am until nightfall.
At first, Karen was bewildered. “There was no reason to hold me,” she says. “Bill’s an adult. Why am I held responsible for him?” When she asked why she was being detained, an officer told her his supervisor had instructed him to hold her. The hours ticked by. “It was scary. You have no way of knowing what’s going to happen. It got darker and darker. And then other agents turned up with all these chains and handcuffs.”
Karen and Bill were shackled at the wrists , waist and ankles and bundled into a vehicle. Karen doesn’t know how long they were on the road for. “It just seemed to be a never-ending day.” They arrived at Sweetgrass border patrol station in Montana in the middle of the night, and were held there for three days, sharing a cell without beds; they slept on mats on the floor, under foil blankets. “I was very nervous and frightened the whole time. And I was chilled to the bone – I couldn’t warm up.”
They were interviewed separately. Karen was not offered a lawyer; she wasn’t en led to one, she says, because she had been detained, rather than arrested. She didn’t think she needed one, anyway. “I just thought, ‘When they listen to me, when they come to their senses, they are going to let me go.’ I thought they might escort me to the airport and put us on a plane – hopefully both of us. But that didn’t happen.”
Bill had been working in the US with a valid work permit, but did not have a green card – fed up with the appeals process, he had decided to leave and retire back in the UK. Karen was told that she was “guilty by association”, and that she had broken the terms of her valid B2 tourist visa by helping her husband pack for the trip. “It just went from crazy to ridiculous. It felt like they just wanted an excuse to detain me.”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...a-detained-ice“He said, ‘If you volunteer for self-removal – and because of the special relationship the US has with the UK – it will be over very quickly,’” Karen continues. They’d have to sign a do ent that would mean they would be banned from the US for up to 10 years, and waive their right to go before a judge. If they chose not to, and waited for their day in court, they would be prolonging the ordeal, she was told.
“I said to him, ‘I’m on holiday. I want to go home.’ I would have taken the shortest route, whatever it was, which he said was volunteering for self-removal.” So they signed. Karen had no way of knowing that she was only on day three of what would turn out to be 42 days of detention.
federal district court judges stating to speak plainly about secret police doing secret police stuff
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...42928.28.0.pdf
Pe ioner was driving through West Virginia when he was stopped by an unmarked vehicle, despite having violated no traffic laws. The officer cited only a plastic cover on his license plate as the reason for the stop. As Pe ioner waited, additional unmarked vehicles converged on the scene. Despite presenting his duly issued driver’s license and an employment authorization do ent issued by U.S. immigration authorities, he was ordered out of the vehicle and handcuffed by masked individuals without any explanation. He was taken into custody by masked, unknown federal agents, leaving him unable to identify those seizing him. I conclude that the use of masked agents to effect a civil immigration detention under these cir stances is unreasonable and uncons utional. As a result, Pe ioner’s Fourth Amendment rights were unquestionably violated.When precedent directly resolves the question before me, that ends the inquiry. When prior cases provide clear guidance, I follow it. But when existing cases address different facts, different contexts, and different questions, the Cons ution still applies. And the court must determine what it means through disciplined interpretation, not serial citation. This is especially true when the government employs practices so recent that doctrine has not yet addressed them. The absence of a case holding that warrantless, non-exigent, anonymous civil seizures in the interior of the United States violate the Fourth Amendment does not mean the Cons ution permits them. It means the practice is new enough, and brazen enough, that no court has yet been required to state the obvious. This court is now required to say it.The Founders recognized that freedom is imperiled not only when government actions lack legal justification, but also when those actions are carried out by agents whose authority is unchecked and whose actions cannot be traced. In this light, a warrantless, anonymous civil seizure like the one at issue here is merely a general warrant in modern dress. Masking and anonymization of officers, therefore, are fundamentally inconsistent with the historical understanding of the Fourth Amendment.
What justifies concealment in genuine exigencies is that it is exceptional. Stops without identification must remain rare exceptions, not routine practice. Doornbos, 868 F.3d at 584 (permitting plainclothes officers to initiate stops without identifying themselves “must remain a rare exception, not the rule”). Anonymous policing “provokes panic and hostility from confused civilians who have no way of knowing that the stranger who seeks to detain them is an officer.” Doornbos, 868 F.3d at 584. “Self-defense is a basic right,” McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 767 (2010), “and many civilians who would peaceably comply with a police officer’s order will understandably be ready to resist or flee when accosted—let alone grabbed—by an unidentified person who is not in a police officer’s uniform.” Doornbos, 868 F.3d at 585.
What is happening here bears no resemblance to those recognized exceptions. This is not an undercover operation. No specific danger has been identified that required these agents to be masked for this arrest. This is a deliberate choice to conduct routine civil immigration enforcement through masked anonymous agents operating without warrants across the interior of the United States.
When concealment becomes policy rather than exception, the government has not invoked an exigency. It has abolished the rule that exigency was meant to qualify.
A mask does not stop a bullet. It does not deflect a blow. It provides no physical protection that the tactical equipment these officers already carry does not provide. A mask does one thing: it hides the face of the officer wearing it. On a public highway, in a civil arrest of a person suspected of no crime, the only purpose served by hiding an officer’s face is to prevent his identification. And preventing identification serves only to eliminate accountability.
A law enforcement practice whose sole operational effect is the elimination of accountability is not a safety measure. It is a cons utional deficiency wearing the name of one.
The point runs much deeper than the inadequacy of the government’s justification. Every public official who exercises coercive power assumes some personal exposure as the price of legitimate authority. Judges sentence. Prosecutors accuse. Officers seize. None is en led to anonymity as a default condition of exercising state force.
The officer who arrests a person stands in no different cons utional position than the judge who sentences him or the prosecutor who sought the conviction. All exercise delegated authority. All do so under their own names and in their own persons, because accountability is not a burden imposed on public officials as a matter of grace. It is the structural condition of their authority. Remove it and what remains is not law enforcement. It is force without a face, which is another name for the thing the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent.
An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct.
A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty. Masks obscure government action and deprive the public of its Fourth Amendment protections.
Therefore, the Pe ion for Writ of Habeas Corpus, [ECF No. 26], is GRANTED. Pe ioner is ORDERED released immediately from civil immigration custody. Respondents are PROHIBITED from re-arresting and detaining Pe ioner absent significant change in cir stances to justify detention or subject to the determination of a neutral and detached decisionmaker.
https://www.newsweek.com/ruben-ray-m...crash-11567767Joshua Orta, 25, a close friend who was with Martinez during the shooting and the only known eyewitness, had planned to formally sign a statement and assist with further inquiries into the incident before he was killed over the weekend in an unrelated highway collision near San Antonio, according to Martinez’s family attorney. His statement contradicted the Department of Homeland Security’s version of events.
Martinez, 23, was shot and killed on March 15, 2025, in South Padre Island, Texas, during an encounter with federal agents that authorities later confirmed involved a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations unit—an involvement that was not publicly disclosed at the time....
Where are the tin foil cosmic pizza hatters on this one?
Oh right, Korea.
civil sanctions against DHS for moving a man out of state against a court order, failing to release him on time and not returning him to Minnesota
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...30554.23.0.pdf
the judge was appointed by Trump
Republican governor gets political cover from DHS
ICE killed a detainee at Ft. Bliss, told the public that it was a suicide attempt, then deported the witness
The Trump administration has updated the events that led up to the death of a Cuban immigrant held at Camp East Montana.
Geraldo Lunas Campos' death was the result of a "spontaneous use of force," a new report from ICE reads. The report states that guards responded to stop Lunas Campos from inflicting self-harm.
A 911 call was made by guards on Jan. 3 that reported the incident as "an attempted suicide," according to the El Paso 911 call logs obtained by the El Paso Times. The El Paso County coroner's office ruled that Lunas Campos' death was a homicide.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar called for a criminal investigation into the homicide of Lunas Campos after ICE's statement and called for the closure of the immigration detention center.https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/ne...d/88742190007/"Now that DHS has acknowledged the homicide inside of Camp East Montana was a result of a use-of-force incident, accountability must follow," Escobar, D-El Paso, said. "DHS should turn over all information and evidence to law enforcement in order for there to be a criminal investigation. At the minimum, this includes an investigation into the private contractor, access to security footage that may have do ented the homicide, the publication of the private contractor's use of force policy, and an explanation as to why they initially lied to the public."
lots of people should go to prison for this, hiding the government's hand in a killing is a sinister crime
Lunas Campos's last words were "I have asthma," as he began to convulse, Andrade Mosquera said.
The guards removed the handcuffs from his body before paramedics arrived, administering oxygen for about half an hour before declaring him dead. Andrade Mosquera could hear, from his position, the paramedic say in English, "there is no reaction."
Andrade Mosquera and the others, in seclusion, began yelling "killer" and "murder" at the guards.
"They killed him here in Cell 8," Andrade Mosquera said. "He didn't die en route to the hospital, he didn't die in the ambulance, he didn't die in the hospital, they killed him there."
"sloppiness" is load-bearing
ICE lied again
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2927381.htmlA federal judge reprimanded Donald Trump’s administration for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 — when he was 4 years old.
To support arguments for the man’s ongoing detention and removal from the country, government lawyers attached a do ent from Immigration and Customs Enforcementthat they "indicated" was related to his criminal history.
They submitted the do ent in court filings “despite the differences in birthdate, birthplace, parents’ names, and immigration status,” West Virginia District Judge Irene Berger noted in her order to release him on Tuesday.
“This sloppiness further validates the Court’s concerns about the procedures utilized by the Respondents depriving people present in the United States of their liberty,” she wrote.
They're sloppy, they lie and they break laws.
BUT THEY NEED THE MASKS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES!
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