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"Patrick Cunningham, the agent who oversaw the arrest of Öztürk in March, told the court in Boston that he had consulted a Department of Homeland Security attorney to check that arresting her based on her visa being revoked was legal. Cunningham also said he had no knowledge of any criminal offense she had committed.

Öztürk, who was in ICE custody for two months, was released in May.

“When you receive information from headquarters at this level, top down, you make the assumption that it’s legally sufficient,” Cunningham, who is part of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations arm in Boston, told the court. “But I did contact our legal counsel to ensure that we’re on solid legal ground.”

Öztürk’s attorney Mahsa Khanbabai said in an email to NBC News that the arrest has “never been about immigration enforcement.

Rather, it “has always been about retaliation and punishment on protected speech,” Khanbabai said. “We are confident the courts will continue to uphold the basic principles of a just and free society.”"

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/homel

NBC News · Homeland Security agent said he had to ask a lawyer if Öztürk’s arrest was legal after orders to prioritize her caseBy Kimmy Yam

How to know if you're living in a police state...

The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

wired.com/story/dhs-and-doj-fa

WIRED · DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant ChildrenBy Dell Cameron

“Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns🚨IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE.”

George Retes was arriving to work when federal agents surrounded his car, & despite him identifying himself as a US citizen -broke his window, pepper sprayed him, & dragged him out.

He was held in #ICE #detention for 3 days without charges.
#PoliceState #DueProcess #RacialProfiling #Rights #USPol
apnews.com/article/us-army-vet

"Reddit has introduced age verification on its UK site to stop people aged under 18 from looking at "certain mature content".

The social media platform brought in the measures to comply with new rules under the UK's Online Safety Act which require sites that show adult material to introduce "robust" age checking techniques.

Reddit, known for its online communities and discussions, said that while it does not want to know who its audience is: "It would be helpful for our safety efforts to be able to confirm whether you are a child or an adult."

Ofcom, the UK regulator, said: "We expect other companies to follow suit, or face enforcement if they fail to act."

Reddit said that from 14 July, an outside firm called Persona will perform age verification for the social media platform either through an uploaded selfie or "a photo of your government ID", such as a passport.

It said Reddit will not have access to the photo and will only retain a user's verification status and date of birth so people do not have to re-enter it each time they try to access restricted content.

Reddit added that Persona "promises not to retain the picture for longer than seven days" and will not have access to a user's data on the site.

The new rules in the UK come into force on 25 July."

bbc.com/news/articles/cj4ep1zn

Woman looks at Reddit website on a laptop
www.bbc.comReddit introduces age verification in the UK ahead of new rulesThe platform will bring in the measures from 14 July to stop under-18s looking at "certain mature content".
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"I believe bland coverage of Trump’s horrors has become a national sedative. We aren’t outraged about the eight people sent to South Sudan who then vanished. We now take for granted that hundreds of Venezuelans are being detained at a notorious prison in El Salvador know for inhumane conditions."

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState #media
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criticalread.substack.com/p/bl

Press Watch · Bland coverage normalizes evil of 'third countries' deportation planBy Dan Froomkin
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"Immigration lawyers said the new policy applies to millions of people, including folks who have been here for decades and have established families, own homes and businesses, and who haven’t broken any laws other than crossing the border without authorization (remember, kids, that’s a misdemeanor on the first offense)."

#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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"I think we need to come to terms with what Trump and Miller really doing here, and what is means for the country. Simply, they intend to force at least 15 million people - almost all with jobs and families - out of the country."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflati

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg · Inflation Is Rising And Trump's Agenda Is FailingBy Simon Rosenberg
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"Undocumented farm workers feel they’re being 'hunted like animals', they told the Guardian, as Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration.

Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews."

~ Michael Sainato

#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · US undocumented farm workers feel ‘hunted like animals’ amid Trump’s immigration raidsBy Michael Sainato
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"The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.

ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an 'on demand' process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport."

~ Pro Publica

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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propublica.org/article/trump-i

ProPublicaThe IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
More from ProPublica
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"As Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng reported Saturday in Rolling Stone, the administration is fighting to impose its will on wrongly-deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom it rendered to a terrorist prison in El Salvador, because if they are forced to back down, 'it could set a precedent that opens the floodgates to other legal challenges' to Trump’s other executive power grabs."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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BP arrested her selling tamales. Then💔she suffered a heart attack. The agent that ran to her never ID'ed himself, provided a warrant or requested doc of her IMM status. He grabbed her from behind.

“I could feel his vest against my ear,” said Matilde, who's about 5 ft tall. “I told him I couldn’t breathe.”

A 2nd grabbed her hands to handcuff her -3rd agent called 911.

She underwent heart surgery -had suffered a heart attack.
#PoliceState #DHS #Immigrants #Protest #USPol latimes.com/california/story/2

PACOIMA, CA - JULY 09: Matilde, 54, was temporarily detained by federal immigration agents during a sweep in Pacoima on June 19 as she was selling food on the sidewalk. She experienced a minor heart attack during the event and was hospitalized for five days. Photographed on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times · Border Patrol arrested her selling tamales. Then she suffered a heart attack. 'I told them: I can’t breathe'By Ruben Vives
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I'd like to take a moment to talk about a regional PNW news story about resistance to the Gestapo, because I think Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's response to it is at once very typical of the regime's fascist propaganda style, and also crude enough to perhaps expose the direction the fascist shitshow that is Trump 2.0 is heading. After semi-anonymous groups of heroic citizens worked to publicly identify masked ICE Gestapo agents openly violating the civil rights of Oregonians, noted puppy murderer Noem promised swift prosecution of “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated groups” who acquire or share "personal information" of federal law enforcement officials who work for the government.

oregonlive.com/crime/2025/07/i (archived: archive.ph/0cm2B)

ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem says

"Noem, in a statement and photos, identified Rose City Antifa, “Rose City Counter-Info,” and “The Crustian Daily,” as groups that have published names, photos and personal addresses of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on their websites or put up fliers in the officers’ neighborhoods. In one case, trash was dumped on the front lawn of an officer’s property, but the location was not disclosed.

“We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law. These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers,” Noem said in the statement. “We won’t allow it in America.”

So, before we get into what I think Noem's belligerence has exposed about how the Trump regime intends to market the transformation of the United States into a white ethnostate executive branch dictatorship with theocratic characteristics, I just want to clear up an point of order here. ICE agents are public law enforcement officials, who are issued numbered badges, and work for the government; it is categorically impossible to dox someone who shouldn't be allowed to run through American cities wearing neck gaiters pulled up over their faces like a CIA-trained Latin American death squad. So, right off the bat we've got the DHS Secretary arguing that people who haven't broken a law are guilty because they exposed people, Gestapo pigs, who actually are breaking the law, or at least openly violating the civil and constitutional rights of both migrants and American citizens alike.

Don't sleep on Gestapo Barbie's attempts to revive the "Antifa and anarchist scare" that characterized the first Trump administration's justification for using federal agents to conduct blatantly illegal operations in cities they consider politically hostile either. Trump and the pigs loyal to him have spent a very long time trying to get you to associate "Portland" with "lawless anarchist violence" and "Antifa terrorism" and I don't think it's any sort of accident that she's invoking that trope again now.

What I think is most revealing here however is that Noem couldn't resist tying all of this back to the regime's threats against "sanctuary cities" - which as the article notes, has also been a key talking point being put forward by Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan recently. This context, which Noem wasn't required to provide, paints a giant target on Portland, for the type of militarized invasion and occupation we've been watching for weeks in Los Angeles.

Now, you gentle reader might think it would be ridiculous to pretend an American city had been taken over by "Antifa terrorists" in league with Democrat officials, and therefore needed to be brought to heal by militarized federal forces, and nobody could blame you for that - the problem is, the first Trump administration made precisely that argument already, repeatedly in 2020, and started using Federal Marshals to black bag protestors and suspected antifascists right off the streets of Portland. The only thing that stopped Downmarket Mussolini from fully invading a bunch of Democrat-controlled cities back then was a lack of military buy-in, and I think the ongoing invasion and occupation of LA demonstrates that won't be a problem with Pete Hegseth running the Department of Defense and a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court.

oregonlive · ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem saysBy Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
#Fascism#Trump#DHS