Category: Dept of Homeland Security
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Read the explainer from the National Immigration Forum here.
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In this 6 1/2 minute video, a former ICE Attorney Whistleblower asserts that newly-hired ICE agent training is deficient because new ICE agents do not understand use of force policies nor constitutional authority – and, therefore, they can not recognize unlawful orders. Watch here
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The NPR series, “If you can Keep It” explores companies that are profiting off of ICE expansion and activities. Here is the podcast and article.
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This substack from Andrea Flores provides background details and suggestions for alternatives to family detention in the U.S.
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In October, 2025, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson signed an Executive Order that indicates that city property is off limits to ICE and other federal law enforcement as described in this article.
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Record earnings from the two major for-profit immigrant detention facilities (which also provide ICE check-ins and ankle monitors for DHS) are described in this article.
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This article explains that Colorado and 19 other states are required to turn some Medicaid patient data over to federal authorities. The states involved with this suit are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
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ICE may be at US/Mexican Ports of Entry to detain people who are self-deporting across the US/Mexican border in order to raise the number of detained individuals and to impose stronger penalties on those people. Read more here
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This article, “The 48% of ICE arrests people never hear about” from The 50501 Movement, explains that many ICE arrests come from hand-offs from local jails.
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