“Garcia, who is a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University, said the officers seemed surprised when he told them he was a U.S. citizen.”
“A good samaritan who sprang into action to help save a nine-year-old girl after a shark attack in Florida is now being held by ICE agents and is at risk of being deported.”
“Video shows an explosion set off by federal agents as they entered a Huntington Park home in an early morning law enforcement operation that startled a woman who was inside the house with her two young children. Everyone who lives at the home is a U.S. citizen.”
“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone. If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day. Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.”
“The immigration crackdown is also clouding the outlook for cherry growers in Oregon.”
“‘What are you doing in the United States?‘ he said the agent asked him as they drove away. ‘It’s not your country.'”
“Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home.'”
“Seeing individuals who fled persecution on account of their Christian faith be detained by masked officers over the desperate pleas of their pastor is something I never thought I’d see in the United States.”
In Los Angeles, Torosian said the Iranian couple from his church called him for help when ICE agents approached them near their home. As he filmed agents binding the hands of the husband, whose name CT is not publishing, the pastor told the agents, “He’s an asylum-seeker.”
“It doesn’t matter,” one agent says in the video.
“He came with CBP One,” Torosian replies, referring to the now-discontinued app that migrants used during the Biden administration to apply to lawfully enter the country.
“It’s no longer valid anymore. That’s why he’s being arrested,” another agent says.
Seconds later, the detained man’s wife collapses to the grass in an apparent panic attack, convulsing and hyperventilating. Torosian moves closer, attempting to comfort her. Agents tell him to keep away or face arrest himself.
The pastor asks if he can go with them or even follow them. “They need me,” he says. An agent says the pastor cannot go with them.
Torosian tells the agents that the couple was persecuted in Iran and fled because of their faith.
The agents don’t respond.
“An Alabama woman married to an Iranian immigrant says her family regrets supporting President Donald Trump and his aggressive immigration policies after ICE detained her husband over the weekend as part of a recent round-up of Iranian nationals.”
“Spanish-language reporter arrested at Atlanta-area protest; faces deportation.”
“ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby.”
“Narciso’s son Alejandro Barranco, 25, a Marine veteran, told MSNBC on Tuesday that had he treated a detainee the same way while he was serving as a Marine, ‘it would have been a war crime.'”
“We need instead to make sure that the calculus for the Dodgers ownership isn’t just ticket sales or a ratings drop. They need to know they will be publicly humiliated if they so much as bat their eyelids in ICE’s direction.”
“The point is to create friction for Stephen Miller’s dragnet. The point is to bring visibility and opposition to inhumane treatment.”
“In total, the [GAO] found that ICE arrested 674 potential U.S. citizens, detained 121, and deported 70 — all of whom may have been legally untouchable by immigration enforcement. And the actual number could be much higher.”
“A centralized national database of Americans’ personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government. Legal experts told NPR they were alarmed that a development of this magnitude was already underway without a transparent and public process.”
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