Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem needed 3000 dollar in her bag for….
#politics #dhs #kristinoem

Nearly 1,000 Rally and March in #SeaTac Demanding an End to #ICE Incarcerations, Supporting Public #Education, Student Safety, Public Workers

https://southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/04/08/nearly-1000-rally-and-march-in-seatac-demanding-an-end-to-ice-incarcerations-supporting-public-education-student-safety-public-workers

Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity #OWLS #MeltICE #AbolishICE #HandsOff #AngleLake #Seatac #ICE #DHS #CBP

“Border Patrol arrested a US citizen from Albuquerque walking on the street near BP Headquarters in Tucson. The agent who arrested him seems to have lied & said he was picked up in Nogales (an hour south of Tucson) and admitted entering illegally.

He was detained for 10 days.”
-A Reichlin-Melnick

#Fascism #DHS #DueProcess #Constitution #USPol

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

"An Indonesian father of an infant with special needs, who was detained by federal agents at his hospital workplace in Minnesota after his student visa was secretly revoked, will remain in custody after an immigration judge ruled Thursday that his case can proceed."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia

The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#California is begging #Canadians to come visit. The Canadians aren't holding back! #USpol #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #KilmarAbregoGarcia

https://www.latintimes.com/canadians-reject-gavin-newsoms-plea-keep-visiting-california-over-deportation-concerns-i-dont-581157

So, I was on an American flight from London to Dallas yesterday and the plane was barely half full. I had an entire row all to myself. Maybe a lot of people decided they didn't care to visit the US after all, that flight is always packed wall to wall.

I have now compiled a list of #lawsuits challenging the current wave of arbitrary #student status terminations by #DHS #ICE:
https://austinhuang.me/sevis-terminations.html

To clarify, the vast majority of cases have nothing to do with protests, but rather minor run-ins with police or CBP that have already been resolved, sometimes up to 10 years ago.

(The list is intended for a support group of international students who are similarly situated or at risk. If you're affected, I can give you some pointers.)

(NBC 7 San Diego) DHS tells US citizen and immigration advocate from California to leave country

“I was born in National City, California," National City resident Aldo Martinez told NBC 7. "I was never paroled, I was never admitted into this country, I am no type of parole"

#USPol #Immigration #DHS #SanDiego

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/dhs-us-citizen-immigration-leave-country/3806750/

"Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented immigrants, two sources with direct knowledge tell WIRED.

DOGE is knitting together immigration databases from across DHS and uploading data from outside agencies including the Social Security Administration (SSA), as well as voting records, sources say. This, experts tell WIRED, could create a system that could later be searched to identify and surveil immigrants.

The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, has never been done before, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens, certified foreign workers, and undocumented immigrants."

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/

#SCOTUS moved with urgency late last night, intervening in the Alien Enemies Act cases and blocking #deportations. It appears that a majority on the court finally figured out they were being "played" by the govt who seems to have been moving detainees around to avoid court orders and giving the detainees less than full access to due process.

#Thomas and #Alito, the leading sociopaths on the court, dissented ... of course.

#ICE #DOJ #DHS #AlienEnemiesAct #ACLU #AARP

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night

#DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track #immigrants

DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a #surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
#dhs #ssa #irs #privacy #security

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/

For now, #Pentagon and #DHS won’t recommend that #Trump invoke the #Insurrection Act

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Jake Tapper and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
Fri April 18, 2025

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act in a memo the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to send to President Donald Trump about the conditions at the southern border, multiple US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN.

"The Insurrection Act is a 19th century law that would allow the president to use active-duty troops within the United States to perform law enforcement functions such as arresting migrants. Trump issued an executive order in January declaring an emergency at the southern border that ordered Hegseth and Noem to send him a report within 90 days about the conditions there, and advising whether to invoke the Insurrection Act to help obtain “complete operational control” of the border.

"The deadline for Hegseth and Noem’s recommendation is Sunday, but the Pentagon and DHS are expected to send the memo with their findings to the White House next week, officials said.

"Hegseth and Noem are expected to tell Trump that border crossings are currently low and that they don’t need additional authorities at this point to help control the flow of migrants, officials said. Migrant crossings at the US southern border have been under 300 a day, according to a Homeland Security official — a dramatic drop from recent years when unlawful crossings were well over 1,000 or more a day.

"The US military has deployed thousands of additional troops, including active-duty forces, to the southern border in recent months, but they have been doing patrols, building barricades and providing logistical support to DHS — not conducting arrests.

"Trump officials have been frustrated with the slower pace of interior arrests across the country of undocumented immigrants, and there have been some tense calls about it between the White House and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, multiple sources said.

"But interior arrests often require significant manpower and resources, moreso than detaining migrants as they cross the border. Invoking the Insurrection Act and allowing US troops to get involved in arresting migrants has been viewed by some in Trump’s orbit as a way to help bolster arrest numbers across the country, one official explained."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/pentagon-dhs-wont-recommend-insurrection-act/index.html

#California #ice #dhs #trump

LA schools superintendent says he'll protect undocumented students 'to the very end'

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5361232/la-superintendent-dhs-schools

B/c sux indoctrination dollars dick

"In their haste to comply with apparent directives from Trump, universities became unwitting handmaidens of the #deportation machine.

The #DHS said this week in a Michigan court that the agency does not have the authority to terminate students’ #immigration statuses by terminating their records in the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System."

#Universities Told #Students to Leave, #ICE Now Says They Didn't Have To
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/international-student-visas-deport-dhs-ice/ @palestine