Trump-Appointed Judge Flays #ICE Over Conditions in Long Island Lockup

A detainee and eight others were held in a tiny room with an open toilet in freezing, filthy conditions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/nyregion/judge-ice-detention-long-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.JgeL.bF4mfZNPFBsS&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Dec. 19, 2025, 3:00 a.m. ET

“After nearly 35 years of experience with federal law enforcement in this judicial district, encompassing service as a prosecutor and a judge, I have never encountered anything like this,” Judge Brown, who was appointed by President #Trump in 2019, wrote.

The judge also wrote that #Immigration and Customs Enforcement had presented false information about Mr. Clarke’s arrest and had ignored court orders by failing to present him for a hearing and provide photographs of the cell. He questioned why the agency should not be held in contempt.

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'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests

Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMT

At a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.

The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.

Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.

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[US Sen. Patty] Murray: ICE dog attack on WA man ‘should shock the conscience’

https://archive.ph/qpZRf

from #SeattleTimes
Dec. 6, 2025

#US Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is calling for the immediate release of a Clark County man whose attorneys say was mauled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement dog despite not resisting arrest.

Undercover immigration officials detained Wilmer Toledo-Martinez, of Vancouver, Wash., outside his home on Nov. 14. An #ICE agent pretended to be a construction worker, claiming he had hit Toledo-Martinez’s vehicle and needed to exchange insurance, luring the family out of their home, according to the senator.

Another agent was waiting for Toledo-Martinez outside, releasing a dog that then mauled him, according to his attorney. As of Saturday, Toledo-Martinez, was being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

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A Retired Police Officer Posted a Meme. It Earned Him 37 Days in Jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opinion/charlie-kirk-free-speech-bushart.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k8.D0Ra.e8jABbcRY06y&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Opinion - Guest Essay
By Greg Lukianoff
Nov. 26, 2025

Mr. Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer living in Lexington, Tenn., had posted a meme on Facebook after the assassination of the conservative activist #CharlieKirk on Sept. 10. It was a picture of Donald #Trump along with Mr. Trump’s comment in response to a school shooting at Perry High School in Iowa in 2024: “We have to get over it.” The meme was headed by the caption, “This seems relevant today.”

Mr. Bushart shared that meme in a Facebook thread promoting a vigil for Mr. Kirk in nearby Perry County, Tenn. The Perry County Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant for Mr. Bushart’s arrest, claiming that the post was a threat of “mass violence” at a school.

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Iranian Professor in Oklahoma Released 3 Days After His Detention by #ICE

Vahid Abedini, who colleagues said was in the United States on an H-1B visa, was arrested on his way to a conference in Washington. It was unclear why.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/vahid-abedini-oklahoma-professor-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.HDk6.UsVoaLQ1zEQy&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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By Mark Arsenault
Nov. 25, 2025 Updated 3:35 p.m. ET

Sina Azodi, assistant professor of Middle East politics at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, said Dr. Abedini’s detainment would have a chilling effect on international scholars in the United States. Mr. Azodi said he did not know Dr. Abedini extremely well but they had met several times.

Mr. Azodi, who said he was an American citizen originally from #Iran, added that many international scholars were being “forced into silence” by fear of arrest. “They are afraid to speak and to write what they think in papers,” he said.

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‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What #ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/opinion/ice-immigration-green-card-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.208.m_RP.zaE2kDJpdMx7&smid=url-share

#NewYorkTimes
By Sarah Wildman
Nov. 21, 2025

The videos circulating on social media are brutal and terrifying — the often violent arrests, people pulled screaming from their cars, out of day care centers, away from their children and their spouses. What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras, away from the view of judges and lawyers and the media. #DueProcess is not a constitutional right afforded only to citizens; legal restrictions on unlawful detention apply to all people on #US soil.

The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the #Trump administration is directing #immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status.

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The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
Two months after #CharlieKirk’s #assassination, a government-backed campaign has led to firings, suspensions, investigations and other action against more than 600 people. #Republican officials have endorsed the punishments, saying that those who glorify violence should be removed from positions of trust.

https://apple.news/AbU6Pfs-yRcW1cE59SamGjw

from #Reuters
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens

[One person, a devoted Christian, had posted a quote from Kirk about the Second Amendment, and then added "Thoughts and Prayers." She was fired a few days later.]

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NSPM-7: Project Esther in Overdrive

from #TheVoiceMemo
by Stefanie Fox [Executive Director of #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace in #USA]
Oct 20, 2025

One year ago, the Heritage Foundation released #ProjectEsther, which is best understood as an addendum to #Project2025. It was released quietly, but with ambitious tactics; it contains everything needed to defame, defund, and ultimately dismantle groups like JVP “within 12-24 months.” This is the #Trump administration’s blueprint to destroy civil society, starting with attacking Palestine solidarity.

Twelve months in, and they are well underway, judging by the giant stack of paperwork on my desk from JVP’s lawyers laying out the active lawsuits brought against our organization from Trump-aligned law firms and government requests for information...

https://open.substack.com/pub/thevoicememo/p/nspm-7-project-esther-in-overdrive?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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BREAKING: CAIR Calls on ICE to Release Sami Hamdi, British Journalist Abducted Over Criticism of Israel’s Genocide

October 26, 2025
2:34 pm EDT

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for the immediate release of British Muslim journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi, who was detained at San Francisco International Airport this morning, apparently because of his criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and at the urging of a notorious anti-Muslim, pro-Israel extremist.

https://www.cair.com/press_releases/breaking-cair-calls-on-ice-to-release-sami-hamdi-british-journalist-abducted-over-criticism-of-israels-genocide/

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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for #deportation.

from #Wired
Oct 3, 2025 9:21 AM

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has similarly sued #ICE, calling its reliance on data brokers a “significant threat to privacy and liberty.” The #AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion has argued that buying bulk datasets—such as smartphone location trails gathered from ordinary apps—helps ICE sidestep warrant requirements and helps it pull in vast amounts of data with no clear link to its enforcement mandate.

The newly proposed social media program is only the latest in a string of #surveillance contracts ICE has pursued over the past few years.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

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These Red Vermont Towns Wanted ‘America First.’ They’re Getting More Than They Bargained For.

Northern #Vermont went all in on #Trump because of his border promises. Then came the changes voters here weren’t anticipating.

from #Politico

By Will Bredderman
09/26/2025 05:55 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/26/vermont-canada-border-towns-donald-trump-00579592?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=a5ba0ce1-62d5-4ac7-b597-dd02d29885c9

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Palestinian student #MohsenMahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’

Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studies

Anna Betts
Tue 2 Sep 2025 16.33 ET

Mohsen Mahdawi, the 34-year-old #Palestinian student and #US permanent resident, returned to #ColumbiaUniversity on Tuesday and vowed to continue speaking out.

“They have failed to silence me, and in fact, now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice. I do this work not for myself alone – I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or #Israelis,” he told the Guardian on Tuesday in his first interview since stepping back on to campus to begin his graduate studies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-university-palestinian

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Community rallies around #LA teen detained by #ICE while walking dog

People attend rally for Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz, 18, arrested in Van Nuys in what family call kidnapping

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano and Abené Clayton
Tue 19 Aug 2025 21.22 EDT

Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz was supposed to be starting his senior year of high school at Reseda charter high school this month. But just days after his 18th birthday, masked Ice agents detained him as he walking his dog in the #LosAngeles neighborhood of Van Nuys in what his family described as a kidnapping.

The agents allowed his dog to run loose, and treated Guerrero-Cruz like a criminal and joked while arresting him, his family said in a GoFundMe.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/california-teen-ice-immigration-detention-van-nuys?CMP=share_btn_url

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How #Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image

#ColumbiaUniversity President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of #Trump's demands.

from #TheIntercept
Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes
August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/

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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with #Trump
Rashid Khalidi

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a #university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in #Gaza, a crime in which #Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter?CMP=share_btn_url

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Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal

#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement

from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.

Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-trump?CMP=share_btn_url

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She fled Cuba for asylum – then was snatched from a US immigration courtroom

Jenny, 25, entered the US legally, but #ICE agents arrested her after a hearing, part of a growing trend of court detentions

from #TheGuardian
Sat 26 Jul 2025 05.00 EDT

[I support Cuba, but that is not the issue here. Due process is.]

But reporting by the #Guardian has uncovered how Ice is casting a far wider net for its #immigration court arrests and appears also to be targeting people such as Jenny whose cases are ongoing and have not been dismissed. The agency is also snatching up court attendees who have clearly been in the US for longer than two years – the maximum timeframe that according to #US law determines whether someone can be placed in expedited removal – as well as those who have a pathway to remain in the country legally.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/cuba-asylum-seeker-ice-courtroom?CMP=share_btn_url

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A Pattern of Violence

Documenting #ICE Agents’ Brutal Use of Force in LA Immigration Raids

from #TheIntercept
Jonah Valdez
July 7 2025, 6:00 a.m.

"Agents have aimed firearms and sprayed chemical irritants at onlookers and protesters. They have launched tear gas and flash bang grenades into crowds. They have beaten the people they detain, struck them with batons, and restrained them face down in a prone position, pressing them into the pavement and restricting their abilities to breathe.

Agents often deployed these violent tactics against the targets of #immigration raids — people they presumed to be #undocumented #immigrants. In the majority of cases reviewed for this story, federal agents used force against U.S. citizens who were attempting to document raids or intervene by putting their bodies between the agents and their neighbors."

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/07/ice-raids-la-violence-video-bystanders/

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'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows

#DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for #ICE detention centers.

from #DropSiteNews
Ka (Jessica) Burbank
and Ryan Grim
Jul 08, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/alligator-alcatraz-funding-fema-ice?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Los Angeles: Thousands Denounce ICE Raids in July 4 Protest

from #WorldOutlook
July 5, 2025

"The article below first appeared in the #LosAngeles Times on July 5, 2025. The protest the article describes was a fitting way to mark #US Independence Day, given the #Trump administration’s intensified workplace raids and #deportations of undocumented #immigrants. L.A. has been the epicenter of many such protests over the last month since the White House picked the city to launch its aggressive dragnet, carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement #(ICE) agents, targeting millions of workers across the country.

As a recent article published by the #WashingtonPost revealed, ICE arrests have more than doubled since Trump took office in January, compared to the same period last year."

https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/05/los-angeles-thousands-denounce-ice-raids-in-july-4-protest/

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