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TechdirtOct 14, 2026

ICE’s Lies About A Man Officer Ran Over Undone By Footage Captured By Nearby CCTV Camera

Here's something ICE pretends has happened: ICE alleged in a statement that "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." ABC13 reached out to an ICE spokesperson, who said agents were attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who was their intended target. ICE alleges Mendoza-Cervantes entered the United States illegally from Mexico five...

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TechdirtOct 14, 2026

Court Filings Show DHS Is Collecting Info On Protesters, Feeding It To Palantir

More evidence is piling up that contradicts the almost-but-not-quite denials given by administration officials in response to allegations about the DHS compiling a database to keep tabs on protesters. Just a few months ago, "Immigration Czar" Todd Lyons was trying to turn credible accusations into a nothingburger by deploying a few vague and trite statements...

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The Marshall ProjectOct 8, 2026

ICE Is Detaining Children in Hotels Where Families and Lawyers Can’t Find Them

Families described constant surveillance, poor access to food and threats of separation if they told anyone where they were being kept.

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TechdirtOct 8, 2026

FBI Whistleblower Says Emil Bove Directed Agents To Investigate Anti-ICE Protesters

Hey, this guy is a judge now! Let that seep in for a bit. Emil Bove used to work for the DOJ. Then he went to work for Trump, acting as his personal lawyer starting in 2023. Upon Trump's return to office, he was brought back to the DOJ to serve as an "associate deputy...

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The Marshall ProjectOct 8, 2026

Tracking Trump’s Immigration Crackdown on Children

How many kids has ICE arrested, detained, and deported under the second Trump administration?

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TechdirtOct 6, 2026

Trump Officially Opens Border To Thousands More White South Africans

Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that's in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass deportation efforts are a daily event, randomly punctuated by court order violations and the occasional murders of US citizens. Trump often wonders why people from Nordic nations aren't...

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TechdirtOct 6, 2026

Judge Reinstates DOJ Prosecutor Illegally Fired By Trump

Yet another one of Trump's many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here. It seems Trump really doesn't know who's going to be loyal enough to satisfy him and also able to pass the rudimentary screening we generously call the Senate Confirmation Process. So, what tends to happen is that Trump places someone...

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TechdirtOct 5, 2026

Court Permanently Dismisses Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Against David Hearn

Finally. Now, it doesn't matter what Trump wants his DOJ minions to do. If he's going to try to pin a botched repair job on people who just happened to stick a hand into his algae-infested, liner chunk-filled Reflecting Pool/metaphor for his entire presidency, he's going to have to stick it to someone other than...

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TechdirtOct 1, 2026

DHS’s Nevada ‘Illegal Voter’ Claims Have Dropped From 16,000 To 200 To ZERO In Less Than A Month

Donald Trump has been claiming for years that all elections he hasn't (or won't) win are rigged. This also goes for mid-terms -- especially this one -- where Republicans seem likely to lose seats to Democratic Party members. We won't know if Trump will try to become President For Life until 2028, but it seems...

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TechdirtOct 1, 2026

California’s Top Court Rules Against Rogue Sheriff Who Just Went Out And Seized 650,000 Ballots

Riverside County, California sheriff Chad Bianco is definitely one of those guys. You know the ones I mean. The kind of "law and order" hypocrite who loves the law as long as it can be used to hurt the people he doesn't like and protect the people he does like. In other words, he's a...

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The Marshall ProjectSep 25, 2026

ICE Says It Can Detain Immigrants as Long as It Wants. Will the Supreme Court Agree?

Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy, but the Supreme Court may soon have the final say.

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TechdirtSep 22, 2026

Appeals Court Rejects ICE Detention Policy, Comparing It To WWII Japanese Internment

Ever since Trump's return to office, almost every federal law enforcement agency has been ordered to treat illegal immigration as their first priority. This is why the administration is gutting FEMA to direct more dollars to detention and removal efforts. And that's why ICE is now the administration's largest law enforcement budget line item. To...

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TechdirtSep 21, 2026

Trump Says Arch Must Be Built Because We Need Somewhere To Store Our Precious ‘Sniper Ammo’

Satire is dead. But it's been dead since the first Trump administration, back when people were "owning the libs" with a combination of horse dewormers and willfully contracting COVID. Bleach consumption was discussed. It was a whole thing. Not enough of those people died, apparently. We somehow got a second season of Trump and at...

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TechdirtSep 18, 2026

Research Shows ICE Raids Are Killing Local Economies

Contrary to the "worst of the worst" posturing presented by the Trump administration, it's long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natural-born US citizens: Our consistent finding is that legal immigrants have the lowest incarceration rates, followed by illegal immigrants, and that native-born Americans have the highest. Illegal immigrants...

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The Marshall ProjectSep 18, 2026

New Prison Policy Gives Trump Administration More Power to Punish Enemies

The Bureau of Prisons quietly revised its rules to allow Attorney General Todd Blanche to unilaterally decide where federal prisoners serve time.

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TechdirtSep 17, 2026

ICE Arrests Ramp Up, Which Only Continues To Prove Most Migrants Aren’t Criminals

Public furor is hard to maintain. It takes a concerted effort from people who have a lot to lose. Not only do they not have anything to gain (financially or otherwise) from engaging in protests, but they face the real possibility of arrests, job losses, beatings, or actual death. On the other hand, the Trump...

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TechdirtSep 15, 2026

Minneapolis ICE Observer Sues DHS For Its Retaliatory Stripping Of His Global Entry Status

The lowest common denominator administration continues to roll. It doesn't care what's legal or what's proper. It just does what it wants because the shittiest people are in it and its basest of voter bases will feverishly clap their sweaty hands together in applause whenever it does whatever it wants to do. It will be...

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TechdirtSep 8, 2026

ICE’s Vetting Standards Are So Low It Can’t Even Be Bothered To Verify The Identities Of New Hires

A whistleblower report delivered to the DHS Office of the Inspector General makes it clear ICE is willing to hire pretty much anyone who applies for the job. Keeping up appearances (and by "appearances," I mean constantly pushing for 1,500-3,000 arrests per day) is tough when you don't have the warm bodies to do all...

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BITVoxy GlobalSep 4, 2026

The White House Arcade Is Vibecoded Garbage—and That Is Being Generous

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 3, 2026 — The White House just launched a federal government-sponsored video game arcade. Let that sentence sit for a second. The actual Executive Branch of the United States government is now operating a website—arcade.gov—dedicated to hosting playable browser games. And the results are exactly as chaotic and politically charged as you […]

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BITVoxy GlobalSep 4, 2026

The White House Arcade Is Vibecoded Garbage—and That Is Being Generous

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TechdirtSep 3, 2026

Working With ICE Is So Toxic, ICE Is Now Offering Liability Insurance To Local Police Officers

If you're worried about the bad optics of working with ICE, the federal government is here to help subsidize your recovery from mass deportation conjunctivitis. If you're worried about the personal negative side effects of buddying up to ICE's masked kidnapping squads, the administration is here to assure cops that it might cover some of...

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TechdirtSep 3, 2026

DOJ Issues Memo Saying There’s Nothing Illegal About The Military Arresting Migrants

A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally declared expansive areas near US military bases to be "national defense areas." This meant that areas surrounding bases -- like (especially) Fort Bliss...

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TechdirtSep 2, 2026

ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants

This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat new tool of cruelty it absolutely had to have were gloves that behave like stun guns or low-powered Tasers....

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TechdirtSep 1, 2026

FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals

As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don't know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE went on a hiring surge following the imposition of impossible arrest quotas and a few billion...

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