Maps Mania: Mapping ICE Activity. “People Over Papers is a community-driven map showing reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity. People Over Papers lets anyone submit sightings of possible ICE operations and view recent reports near them.” The map carries only 24 hours’ worth of sightings at a time.

How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE

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A new study shows how local governments can facilitate or slow down ICE arrests | WUWM 89.7 FM – Milwaukee’s NPR

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The Check-In: Voices from Milwaukee’s changing immigration landscape

With immigration laws and enforcement changing rapidly under the Trump administration, WUWM checks in with experts and community members to understand how immigrants and immigrant communities in the Milwaukee area are being affected.

A new study shows how local governments can facilitate or slow down ICE arrests

WUWM 89.7 FM | By Jimmy Gutierrez

Published January 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM CST

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Over the past year, the federal government has ramped up immigration enforcement with a focus on arrests. One of the key cogs in that approach is local jails and police departments cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative shows the differences in ICE arrests by state. The initiative’s Wanda Bertam talked with WUWM’s Jimmy Gutierrez.

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity

Jimmy Gutierrez: We’re seeing all-time highs in immigration detention, the criminalization of asylum seekers and immigrants, and yet the Trump administration is still well behind their own [target] deportation numbers. And your findings say that tells us something interesting about the power of local agencies.

Wanda Bertram: The last few months have established that the Trump administration can set high quotas, and it has, for immigration arrests, but actually carrying out those arrests is harder than some might think. Now, for that reason, ICE relies heavily on cooperation from local law enforcement. The single largest source of ICE arrests, in the last several months, has been and continues to be local jails.

Now, that’s partly because there are agencies that have partnered with ICE in the 287(g) agreements. And so they’re actively performing immigration enforcement duties on ICE’s behalf. But even in places that do not have 287(g) agreements, or even places where those agreements might be prohibited, jails are cooperating with ICE by honoring detainers, by sharing information and doing other things that basically allow ICE to piggyback off of local arrests to make immigration arrests.

Now, I want to be super clear about something from the jump, which is that a lot of the folks who are arrested by ICE out of local jails, who have previously been picked up by local police for violating local laws, have not been convicted because jails are primarily a place to hold people pretrial. So many of these folks have not been convicted, and furthermore, many of them have not even been charged.

So populations of people who are swept into jails by law enforcement, ICE is now taking advantage of this to make their arrests because it is so much easier in many ways than coordinating an arrest in the community.

So you break down 287(g) numbers in the paper and your findings, but you also have documented ICE arrests by state. And I find that interesting, because in Wisconsin in 2025, there [were] around 950 arrests, which is the bottom third of all states. And the majority of those arrests are happening in local jails and other lockup facilities. But, what trends are you seeing in the states with those higher arrest numbers?

Continue/Read Original Article Here: A new study shows how local governments can facilitate or slow down ICE arrests | WUWM 89.7 FM – Milwaukee’s NPR

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Published January 12, 2026

• By Hans Nichols

Happy Monday! Tonight’s edition is 862 words, 3.5 minutes.

• 🧊 Dems’ coming ICE war
• 😳 Big 4 reacts to Powell probe
• 🎣 “America First” meets “Alaska First”

1 big thing: 🧊 Dems’ coming ICE war

The “defund ICE” banner that progressives brandished during President Trump’s first term is now starting to take hold among the more moderate wings of the Democratic Party.

Why it matters: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has long signaled that resurrecting Affordable Care Act tax credits has priority in the government funding fight. But some of his members are clearly spoiling for a fight over ICE.

• “We need funding reductions. … Policy is not enough,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), who stressed that “‘defund’ and ‘abolish’ are two different things.”
• Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), a leading member of the center-left New Democrat Coalition, said he is “totally open” to trying to reduce ICE’s funding.

Zoom in: Jeffries finally waded into the ICE funding debate during his regular press conference today.

• “They’re running around out of control, with masks, no body cameras, no accountability, no warrants, arresting and in some cases deporting American citizens,” Jeffries told reporters.
• “It’s important to understand that a lot of the funding for ICE that is currently being unleashed on the American people … was provided not through the traditional appropriations process, but in connection with the one big, ugly bill,” he said.
• Rep. John Mannion (D-N.Y.), a swing-district centrist, noted the “big, beautiful bill” that became law nearly tripled ICE’s funding: “I would support reducing that funding back to fiscal year 2024 levels if I could.”

The other side: Some centrist Democrats — while signaling they would support policy changes — drew a clear line in the sand against defunding ICE.

• “I don’t know if we need to defund ICE,” said Rep. Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (D-Texas), who said the agency has been “overly funded” but that “we don’t have the votes for that anyway.” 

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Axios Hill Leaders

Should ICE Agents Be Able To Wear Masks?

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

Should ICE Agents Be Able To Wear Masks?

By Joyce Vance, Jan 13, 2026

Protect and serve. That’s supposed to be the job.

What could be further from that than masked agents roaming American streets in packs, refusing to identify themselves, and terrorizing—there is no other word for it at this point—American citizens?

Early on, the excuse for wearing masks was that it was necessary to protect the agents. From what? There were reports that they were being doxxed, which no one in law enforcement likes to deal with. But they’re the ones assaulting and killing people, which is far more problematic. Back in July, the Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said that he did not encourage agents to use masks but would continue to let them wear them in the field “if that’s a tool they need to keep them and their families safe.” Now masks and gaiters are emblematic of ICE agents and their colleagues from CBP (Customs and Border Protection) doing immigration work in places like Minneapolis.

You don’t routinely see the FBI or U.S. Marshals out doing their jobs with masks on. There is literally no legitimate reason for ICE and Customs Border Patrol (CBP) to continue to operate this way during immigration “enforcement actions,” especially in light of the recent history of documented abuses. Anonymity accelerates that kind of behavior. It tells the agents they aren’t accountable for violating people’s civil rights.

There has been concern about the kind of people the administration is rushing into service in ICE and as deportation officers. Congressional Democrats are asking for information on whether hiring includes now-pardoned Jan. 6 defendants.

The overwhelming majority of federal law enforcement agents I worked with during my 25-year career at DOJ were men and women who were committed to following the law themselves while protecting their communities and prosecuting crimes. They believed citizens had constitutional rights. There’s no reason for the sudden change, a world where an agent shoots and kills a woman for no good reason, except that the current leadership in the White House and at DHS is willing to tolerate, if not encourage, what we’re now seeing. There are people ripped out of their cars, homes entered without a judicial warrant, agents who treat American citizens like they have no rights. This administration dishonors the service of the federal agents who spent their careers committed to constitutional policing.

Law enforcement officers are trained to de-escalate tense situations. Instead, we’re watching ICE agents act like the accelerant to a smoldering fire. The administration’s take on the failure of agents to behave like the good guys they’re supposed to be isn’t to put a stop to it. Instead, they revel in the Gestapo-like images of doors being busted down, school kids being knocked to the ground, and peaceful protesters being hit with pepper spray. So, it’s up to someone else to stop it.

The state of training at ICE is unclear, as new agents are rapidly hired and deployed. But what we’re seeing is troubling.

Some states have tried passing laws to prohibit masking.

California passed SB 627 (the “No Secret Police Act”) in late 2025, restricting law enforcement, including federal agents, from using extreme face coverings like ski masks during operations, effective Jan 1, 2026. There are logical exemptions to protect officer safety and the identity of undercover operatives. California Governor Gavin Newsom said at the time, “This is about the secret police. We’re not North Korea, Mr. President. We’re not the Soviet Union. This is the United States of America.”

The language of the bill explains that “facial coverings limit the visibility of facial expressions, which are essential components of nonverbal communication. In high-stress or emotionally charged interactions, the inability to read an officer’s expression may lead to misinterpretation of tone or intent, increasing the risk of conflict escalation” and that “the visibility of an officer’s face is vital for promoting transparency, facilitating communication, and building trust between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve.” It also points out that “when officers are not readily identifiable, it increases the risk of impersonation by unauthorized individuals, which further undermines public trust, endangers public safety, and hinders legitimate law enforcement operations.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Should ICE Agents Be Able To Wear Masks?

Seeing Things – Trump’s Police State Moves Scare Me – Liza Donnelly

Trump’s Police State Moves Scare Me

And a dog cartoon to help you cope

By Liza Donnelly, Jan 12, 2026

The drawing above was done during Trump’s first term in office. I don’t recall the precise news item that made me draw this pied piper image, but it’s still relevant.

Only things are much worse.

It appears as though Trump is ratcheting up his efforts to create a police state, enforced by people who support him and believe in the tactics used on January 6th. We know Kristi Noem is sending thousands more ICE to Minneapolis. But that’s the tip of the iceberg. In Heather Cox Richardson’s column yesterday, she shared information about this increase in military power to enforce trump’s ideology and police American citizens. I quote her here because it’s important:

“Although ICE currently employs more than 20,000 people, it is looking to hire over 10,000 more with the help of the money Republicans put in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act of July. That law tripled ICE’s budget for enforcement and deportation to about $30 billion.

On December 31, Drew Harwell and Joyce Sohyun Lee of the Washington Post reported that ICE was investing $100 million on what it called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of new officers. It planned to target gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts as well as those who listen to right-wing radio shows, directing ads to people who have gone to Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fights or shopped for guns and tactical gear. It planned to send ads to the phone web browsers and social media feeds of people near military bases, NASCAR races, gun and trade shows, or college campuses, apparently not considering them the hotbeds of left-wing indoctrination right-wing politicians claim.”

Sunday night after an announcement from Trump’s DOJ would investigate the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, in an unprecidented move, Powell released a video powerfully countering this action. Every living former head of the Federal Reserve condemned an “unprecedented” attempt by the Trump administration to weaken the central bank’s independence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckGHaBLSn4

“The reported criminal inquiry into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell is an unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine that independence,” a blunt statement signed by 13 former senior officials said. “This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences for inflation and the functioning of their economies more broadly. It has no place in the United States whose greatest strength is the rule of law, which is at the foundation of our economic success.”

Powell argued he had been threatened with criminal charges because the Fed had set interest rates “based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president”.

The Federal Reserve is designed to be independent of presidents to avoid exactly what Trump is trying to do, writes Heather Cox Richardson. Senator Tillis, who sits on the Senate Finance Committee posted that “[i]f there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.”

More agents are being sent to Minnesota and Kristi Noem ordered restrictions on congressional oversight.

Hopeful news: States are moving to rein in ICE.

In a long NY Times interview, Trump said civil rights led white people to be “very badly treated.”

I wanted to share this video below with you, a very strange Trumo moment. I know there’s a lot of strange moments with Trump, but this one stuck out to me. Last week he was in a boardroom at the White House with oil executives, and he paused the meeting to wander over the window and boast about the plans for his new ballroom. It was extremely awkward, it seemed to me, people laughing nervously at what he was doing. It also seemed very much like a man who can’t control himself and his egocentric, narcissistic tendencies, and in some ways he knew it hadn’t worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxVv8HHcLs

ALL of the relentless hostile things that Trump is doing in the last few weeks is a reaction to the Epstein Files. Trump’s DOJ has released less than 1% of the Epstein Files, and much of those released are ridiculously redacted as to be useless. They are trying to distract us.

I’ll end today with a dog drawing for you.

Have a good Monday, if you can. See you tomorrow, thanks for being here! Keep up the good work.

Thank you, Liza. Featured image at top by WP AI. –DrWeb

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s Police State Moves Scare Me – by Liza Donnelly

What Comes After the Protests

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/what-comes-after-the-protests

Seeing Things – Trump’s Police State Moves Scare Me – Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things – Trump’s Police State Moves Scare Me, And a dog cartoon to help you cope

By Liza Donnelly, Jan 12, 2026

The drawing above was done during Trump’s first term in office. I don’t recall the precise news item that made me draw this pied piper image, but it’s still relevant.

Only things are much worse.

It appears as though Trump is ratcheting up his efforts to create a police state, enforced by people who support him and believe in the tactics used on January 6th. We know Kristi Noem is sending thousands more ICE to Minneapolis. But that’s the tip of the iceberg. In Heather Cox Richardson’s column yesterday, she shared information about this increase in military power to enforce trump’s ideology and police American citizens. I quote her here because it’s important:

“Although ICE currently employs more than 20,000 people, it is looking to hire over 10,000 more with the help of the money Republicans put in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act of July. That law tripled ICE’s budget for enforcement and deportation to about $30 billion.

On December 31, Drew Harwell and Joyce Sohyun Lee of the Washington Post reported that ICE was investing $100 million on what it called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of new officers. It planned to target gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts as well as those who listen to right-wing radio shows, directing ads to people who have gone to Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fights or shopped for guns and tactical gear. It planned to send ads to the phone web browsers and social media feeds of people near military bases, NASCAR races, gun and trade shows, or college campuses, apparently not considering them the hotbeds of left-wing indoctrination right-wing politicians claim.”

Sunday night after an announcement from Trump’s DOJ would investigate the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, in an unprecidented move, Powell released a video powerfully countering this action. Every living former head of the Federal Reserve condemned an “unprecedented” attempt by the Trump administration to weaken the central bank’s independence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckGHaBLSn4

“The reported criminal inquiry into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell is an unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine that independence,” a blunt statement signed by 13 former senior officials said. “This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences for inflation and the functioning of their economies more broadly. It has no place in the United States whose greatest strength is the rule of law, which is at the foundation of our economic success.”

Powell argued he had been threatened with criminal charges because the Fed had set interest rates “based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president”.

The Federal Reserve is designed to be independent of presidents to avoid exactly what Trump is trying to do, writes Heather Cox Richardson. Senator Tillis, who sits on the Senate Finance Committee posted that “[i]f there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.”

More agents are being sent to Minnesota and Kristi Noem ordered restrictions on congressional oversight.

Hopeful news: States are moving to rein in ICE.

In a long NY Times interview, Trump said civil rights led white people to be “very badly treated.”

I wanted to share this video below with you, a very strange Trumo moment. I know there’s a lot of strange moments with Trump, but this one stuck out to me. Last week he was in a boardroom at the White House with oil executives, and he paused the meeting to wander over the window and boast about the plans for his new ballroom. It was extremely awkward, it seemed to me, people laughing nervously at what he was doing. It also seemed very much like a man who can’t control himself and his egocentric, narcissistic tendencies, and in some ways he knew it hadn’t worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxVv8HHcLs&t=1s

ALL of the relentless hostile things that Trump is doing in the last few weeks is a reaction to the Epstein Files. Trump’s DOJ has released less than 1% of the Epstein Files, and much of those released are ridiculously redacted as to be useless. They are trying to distract us.

I’ll end today with a dog drawing for you.

Have a good Monday, if you can. See you tomorrow, thanks for being here! Keep up the good work.

Editor’s Note: Thank you, Liza, for the research, facts, and truth in these times. –DrWeb

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s Police State Moves Scare Me – by Liza Donnelly

The Register: How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech . “Clever hackers and digital privacy advocates are fighting back against the snooping activities of Kristi Noem’s masked agents. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has rounded up several of these counter surveillance projects, and perhaps unsurprisingly many of these have to do with Flock, best known for its […]

March in Minneapolis calling for ICE to leave Minnesota draws thousands – KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News

March in Minneapolis calling for ICE to leave Minnesota draws thousands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3jK1tHlehQ

Thousands march in Minneapolis calling for ICE to leave Minnesota

Protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis continued Saturday, with thousands taking to the streets calling for ICE to leave.

Saturday afternoon saw what looked to be thousands gather at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, where a march was set to take place, with protestors calling for ICE to leave the state.

Organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), the group spoke out against ICE, as well as its recent announcement that 2,000 more agents would be sent to Minnesota to assist with operations in the state.

The protest is just one of many the city has seen in recent days after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.

READ MORE:

• Protests and vigils call for action, some support for federal agents
• Hundreds protest ICE in downtown Minneapolis; at least 29 people detained
• New video appears to show ICE agent’s cell phone video of fatal Minneapolis shooting
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaks on fatal shooting of woman by ICE agent in Minneapolis
• Frey calls for ICE to ‘get the f*** out of Minneapolis,’ says DHS narrative of shooting is ‘bulls***’

The Department of Homeland Security has stood by the ICE agent, stating Good attempted to run the agent over in her vehicle, and he fired in self-defense.

Others have pushed back against the self-defense narrative, arguing that Good was not trying to hit the agent, including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: March in Minneapolis calling for ICE to leave Minnesota draws thousands – KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News

Variety: Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform. “The recruitment ads were running on various platforms including Hulu, Max, YouTube and Pandora as far back as last April. In November, Rolling Stone reported that Spotify had received $74,000 from the Department of Homeland Security to run their advertisements, while Google and YouTube were paid $3 million on […]

New York Times: Disinformation in Minneapolis Shooting Points at People Who Were Not Involved. This link goes to a gift article. “Within hours of a federal officer shooting and killing a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman on Wednesday, some social media users identified two separate and unrelated people as the shooter, a move that for hours sent threats and vitriol their way.”

EFF: The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases. “This week, EFF and the Heinrich Boell Foundation released an update to our database of vendors providing technology to components of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protections (CBP). It includes new […]

Minneapolis Reacts to ICE’s Killing of Renee Nicole Good

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/an-ice-killing-puts-minneapolis-on-the-brink

ICE’s New-Age Propaganda

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ices-new-age-propaganda

Mashable: ICE is spending millions to use influencers as recruitment tools. “The agency’s $100 million marketing strategy, detailed in a 30-page document distributed to ICE officials this summer, includes a massive push to flood the digital market with geo-targeted and content-based advertising. The plan even names specific platforms, like Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Substack, and […]

Supreme Court says Trump’s attempt to use the military on Americans went too far – Vox

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The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss

Even some of the Court’s Republicans ruled that his attempt to use troops against US citizens went too far.

by Ian Millhiser, Dec 23, 2025, 1:50 PM PST

Supreme Court justices stand during President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Ian Millhiseris a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.

The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday.

In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he deployed a few hundred members of the National Guard to squelch protests outside of an immigration detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, which is about 12 miles west of Chicago.

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Notably, however, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate opinion saying he would have ruled against Trump on very narrow grounds. So, it appears that only a bare majority of the justices voted to place significant limits on Trump’s authority to deploy the military against Americans located on US soil.

Trump attempted to use the military against a small number of protesters outside of the Broadview facility. According to Judge April Perry, a federal district judge who previously heard this case, “the typical number of protestors is fewer than fifty,” and “the crowd has never exceeded 200.”

Nevertheless, Trump claimed the authority to use National Guard members against this minor protest under a federal law that permits the federal government to take command of the Guard (which is ordinarily controlled by states) if there is “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States” or if “the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”

The Supreme Court’s Tuesday order does not even engage with Trump’s implausible claim that several dozen people protesting an immigration facility (some of whom have been charged with crimes) constitute a “rebellion.” Instead, it focuses largely on Trump’s claim that he could deploy the Guard because he is “unable” to execute US law without it.

The first part of the Court’s response to Trump is a bit alarming. The Court’s order explains that the words “regular forces,” as it is used by the relevant statute, “likely refers to the regular forces of the United States military.” Thus, Trump cannot use the National Guard unless he is somehow unable to enforce the law by using the full might of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

This argument could be troubling, because it seems to goad Trump into actually attempting to use the regular Army or Marines on political protesters. But, the Court’s Illinois order also contains some language suggesting that his power to use the regular military is also limited.

The circumstances when Trump may do so, the Court explains, are “exceptional.” That is because a separate federal law prohibits the military from “execut[ing] the laws” outside of “cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.” And, as the Court’s brief order notes, Trump “has not invoked a statute” that permits him to use the regular military to execute the laws.

That said, the Illinois order is unlikely to be the end of this conflict. As Kavanaugh notes in his separate opinion, Trump might attempt to deploy regular troops under the Insurrection Act, which permits the military to “suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” — but only in limited circumstances.

The Justice Department has long interpreted these circumstances very narrowly. A 1964 memorandum signed by then-Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, for example, indicates that the Insurrection Act may only be invoked when “those engaging in violence are either acting with the approval of state authorities or have, like the Klan in the 1870s, taken over effective control of the area involved.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Supreme Court says Trump’s attempt to use the military on Americans went too far | Vox

WTTW: Judge’s Footnote on Immigration Agents Using AI in Chicago Area Raises Accuracy and Privacy Concerns. “Tucked in a two-sentence footnote in a voluminous court opinion, a federal judge recently called out immigration agents using artificial intelligence to write use-of-force reports, raising concerns that it could lead to inaccuracies and further erode public confidence in how police […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/15/wttw-judges-footnote-on-immigration-agents-using-ai-in-chicago-area-raises-accuracy-and-privacy-concerns/

New York Times: App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It. This link goes to a gift article. “For six months, Apple distributed an app called ICEBlock that allowed users to alert people when they saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But after the Trump administration complained that the app endangered officers, Apple removed it. On Monday, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/new-york-times-app-that-tracks-ice-raids-sues-u-s-saying-officials-pressured-apple-to-remove-it/

The Guardian: Authorities monitor online criticism of New Orleans immigration crackdown. “State and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/09/the-guardian-authorities-monitor-online-criticism-of-new-orleans-immigration-crackdown/