inquest.org
The ICE Reformation Trap
Professionalization will not make immigration policing less violent. It will only increase its capacity, authority, and scope.
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"Particularly troubling are the [.] reminders that both Good and Pretti were [.] citizens."
"[F]undamental issue is [.] whether having a devalued citizenship designation should make one vulnerable to state violence."
#California #Massachusetts #Minnesota #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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"We need answers."
"Palacios is alleged to have shot Porter after the 43-year old fired a gun into the air [..] to celebrate the new year."
"The petition [..] garnered more than 18,600 signature." "LAPD has been aiding and abetting ICE."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
lapublicpress.org
After ICE shootings in LA, residents want accountability for agents, safety for neighbors
Residents say they'll feel safe when ICE agents face consequences for violence and operate under stricter standards when opening fire in LA neighborhoods.
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"One morning in July 2013, tens of thousands of California prisoners made history when they refused to eat."
"After 60 days of refusing food, and along with a concurrent lawsuit, the hunger strikers ultimately won major policy changes."
#California #USA #Food #Protest #Incarceration #Solitary
www.themarshallproject.org
Echoes of Isolation
A 2013 prison hunger strike in California led to a dramatic decline in the use of solitary confinement. More than a decade later, people impacted by solitary reflect on the toll of separation.
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"These arrests are supposed to intimidate those who tell the truth."
"Documenting disappearances, police brutality, greed, and corruption is integral for public accountability and collective action."
"[W]e will not be intimidated."
#Minnesota #California #USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
lapublicpress.org
We will not be intimidated.
The federal arrest of two journalists defies the First Amendment.
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"Hospitals have used [..] blackout procedures."
"Numerous immigration attorneys have spent weeks trying to locate clients detained by ICE, with their efforts sometimes thwarted by hospitals."
"Family members were also denied access."
#California #USA #Healthcare #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
truthout.org
Hospital "Blackout Procedures" Make It Hard to Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees
Some hospitals are registering patients under pseudonyms and prohibiting staff from contacting family members.
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"[Q]uieter escalation unfolded in San Diego."
"Agents arrested more than 4,500 people between May and October of 2025 compared to less than 300 in the same period of the previous year."
"How long is this going to go on?" "Nobody knows."
#California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
calmatters.org
Immigration arrests quietly surge by 1,500% in San Diego: 'I feel the temperature rising'
With immigration arrests increasing, San Diego is bracing for an even bigger crackdown.
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"[M]ainstream media outlets erased her queerness."
"[W]e must continue to keep each victim whole in our minds."
"Queer people have always been protectors. "
#Minnesota #Illinois #California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
prismreports.org
The identities of DHS’s victims matter
To honor the full humanity of shooting victims such as Silverio Villegas-González, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, we must acknowledge how their identities shape media coverage, public outrage, and action
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"Los Angeles county has seen at least five maternity wards close since 2023 and 16 since 2014."
"Severe maternal morbidity rates in Los Angeles county are highest among Black women, who sustained a rate of 193.5 morbidities per 10,000 deliveries."
#California #USA #Healthcare
www.typeinvestigations.org
As LA maternity wards close, patients are giving birth in ERs: 'There's no system to care for these women'
From 2016 to 2023, more than 26,500 people, mostly Latino, have gone to an ER in LA county to seek birthing care.
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"If the U.S. stopped shipping the weapons and supplying the funding, Israel would not be able to maintain its genocide."
"U.S. workers are really the only ones with the power to stop it."
#California #USA #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Labour #Protest #Education #Genocide
inthesetimes.com
The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza
How one UAW local pulled off a mass strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.
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Father "told her that he felt tired walking and was short of breath."
"She thinks they should've taken him [to the hospital] sooner."
"[S]he wishes [ICE] had told her when he was hospitalized so she could've said goodbye."
#California #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
capitalandmain.com
Honduran Grandfather Who Died in ICE Custody Told Family He’d Felt Ill For Weeks
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody less than three weeks into 2026.
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"[W]hat unfolded in Oakland was hardly the bold crime-fighting initiative [Gavin Newsom] promoted on television."
"Black people and Latinos each made up around a third of CHP stops." "[F]ar higher than [Oakland's] Black population, at 19%."
"They are racially profiling."
#California #USA #Policing
www.typeinvestigations.org
What happened when Gavin Newsom sent a 'surge' of state troopers to fight crime in Oakland
The governor promised a crackdown on crime. But in the first year of the surge, state troopers arrested very few violent criminals. Instead they stopped 15,000 Black and Latino drivers.
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"Parra occupies a rare role: helping unhoused people with mental illness keep the pets they rely on for stability and companionship."
"For many, animals are not just companions but the most stable and, possibly, the only relationship a person has."
#California #USA #Housing #Animals
capitalandmain.com
Keeping People With Their Pets Can Help L.A.'s Housing Crisis — and Mental Health
Social worker Jackie Parra intervenes at L.A.’s busiest animal shelter to help people in crisis keep their pets and housing.
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"A young protester in Santa Ana is permanently blind in one eye after being hit in the face at close range by a 'nonlethal' round."
"[A]gents pressed his face into the [..] blood and did not immediately call paramedics."
#California #USA #Protest #Deportation #Healthcare #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
www.commondreams.org
LA Protester Permanently Blinded After DHS Agent Unloads 'Nonlethal' Round Into His Face
The victim—whose skull was fractured and nearly died—said federal agents mocked him, saying, "You're going to lose your eye."
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"[B]illionaires' errand boy."
"Newsom vowed Monday to stop a proposed tax on the state's richest people."
"California Billionaire Tax Act [..] would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of roughly 200 billionaires 'to protect healthcare.'"
#California #USA #Healthcare #Taxes
www.commondreams.org
Newsom Ripped as Billionaire 'Errand Boy' for Opposing Wealth Tax on California Plutocrats
"Gavin Newsom wants a future for the Democratic Party that consists of sucking up to conservative billionaires," said one progressive critic. "That's a path destined for losses."
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"Wise ruled that educators 'do not have First Amendment rights while teaching.'"
Assembly Bill 715 will "stifle classroom instruction on Palestinian history and criticism of Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Censorship #Education #Courts #Genocide
lapublicpress.org
California teachers have no free speech rights in class, judge says in antisemitism case
Educators challenged AB 715, arguing it would restrict teaching about Palestinian history and Israel's apartheid policies.
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"We know too well this playbook of lies to cover for an imperialist war."
"They lied to us in Iraq." "They lied to us about the entirety of Palestinian society, naming [them] terrorists."
"We know this playbook, and we know the threat to Venezuela."
#California #USA #Venezuela #Protest #Military
eltecolote.org
Hundreds Gather in downtown S.F. to protest U.S. military action in Venezuela
Hundreds gathered in downtown San Francisco to protest U.S. military action in Venezuela after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.
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"I found evidence showing Hillel Silicon Valley emailing the [SJSU] President and Provost [..] demanding they open an investigation on me [..], demanding how to investigate me, and what to charge me with."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Labour #Protest #Policing #Genocide
mondoweiss.net
San Jose State professor fights back after being fired over Palestine protest
San Jose State professor Sang Hea Kil was suspended over allegations related to a Palestine protest, and now the university plans to fire her. Omar Zahzah speaks with Kil about the precedent set by her case and the implications for academic freedom.
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"[W]here is Nick?"
"[M]ultiple law enforcement agencies either could not, or would not, connect the dots."
"Both living and nonliving Native peoples have been treated as nonhuman and really disregarded."
#California #USA #Policing
ictnews.org
This Native man from Northern California has gone missing not once, but twice
A portion of Nick Patterson's skeletal remains, finally recovered years after he went missing, were lost again by officials during his missing person investigation. The stunning error has complicated the Pit River Tribe's grieving process and led to suggestions for policy changes.
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"'For many of us,' said Huerta, the immigration crackdown 'has deepened our commitment to [..] worker justice.'"
"How do we broaden the labor movement to fight on behalf of those who are most vulnerable?"
#California #NorthCarolina #Louisiana #USA #Labour #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
theintercept.com
American Labor Needed Unity. Then Came Trump's Immigration Crackdown.
Trump has aimed to turn American workers against their immigrant colleagues. Union leaders say it backfired.
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Trump "will back off his plans to use National Guard troops in the Democratic-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland."
"[F]ollows the Supreme Court's decision last week that found Trump could not deploy guard members to Chicago."
#Illinois #California #Oregon #USA #Courts #Military
www.newsfromthestates.com
Trump gives up on National Guard deployment in 3 cities
An appeals court in early December ruled that the Trump administration must remove troops from Los Angeles, which upheld a lower court ruling that found it illegal to keep an extended military presence long after protests quelled.
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"[H]undreds of families and their children remain in limbo, facing chronic stress, instability and compounding health risks as they wait for housing."
"A computer determines whether you're eligible, and it doesn't [..] see our suffering."
#California #USA #Asylum #Immigration #Housing
eltecolote.org
Who gets housing support in S.F.? Inside a system that frustrates homeless families
Many families with unstable housing describe the process of qualifying for housing support ins San Francisco as opaque and emotionally exhausting. Here’s how it works.
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"Trump administration is on a losing streak against some of its loudest critics, as federal cases targeting opponents of aggressive immigration enforcement fall apart in courts nationwide."
#California #Illinois #WashingtonDC #USA #Protest #Courts #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
theintercept.com
The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and Losing
Prosecutors for the Trump administration have been quick to bring charges against ICE protesters. They've also been quick to lose the cases.
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"AIPAC knows their brand is toxic."
"AIPAC donors have supported its picks by giving to other dark-money groups."
"The candidates can say they received money from donors, not AIPAC, to avoid association."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #Weapons #Voting
theintercept.com
AIPAC Is Retreating From Endorsements and Election Spending. It Won't Give Up Its Influence.
The lobbying group is taking a quieter approach this midterms cycle, but it's still seeking to keep Congress in Israel's pocket.
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"These protections exist for one reason: to keep students safe."
"[W]hat they really want is [..] that queer kids (especially transgender youth) can't safely express their identity to a trusted adult without the state forcing that adult to rat them out."
#California #Florida #USA #Courts #Education
www.assignedmedia.org
Judge Benitez Says Trans Kids Have No Rights
A federal judge ruled on Monday that teachers and other school employees should be required to report any changes in a child’s gender identity to their parents, a ruling which may violate state laws and will certainly endanger vulnerable children.
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