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Oh, if you think agents had a tough time in LA and Chicago.. just wait til NYC steps up. The sheer density means federal agents are going to find themselves regularly outnumbered by angry crowds.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/ice-raids-canal-street-trump-imm…

Don’t hold your breath, but as raids stifle economy, Trump proves case for immigration reform
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-20/lopez-column-trump-ice-raids-economy-immigration-reform

As raids stifle economy, Trump proves case for immigration reform
Even California GOP lawmakers say ease up on raids and rewrite immigration law.

Good news out of California.
https://apnews.com/article/california-ice-agents-immigration-raids-masks-ban-97936f70699b75d8b483a850967c2e42

California restricts use of masks by most law enforcement officers
California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while conducting official business. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measure into law Saturday. The new law prohibits neck gator, ski masks and other facial covering for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, with some exceptions. It’s a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles where federal agents covered their faces while making arrests. Critics say …

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say (Dorothy Sedovic/KKTV-TV)
https://www.kktv.com/2025/10/21/us-marshal-shot-during-immigration-enforcement-operation-la-reports-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p114#a251021p114

> In short, it seems like the Secretary of Homeland Security can exempt any person, company, or even an entire industry from the travel restrictions and the $100,000 at their (or more likely, the president’s) discretion.
https://www.theverge.com/report/782289/tru

Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about making tech companies bend the knee in exchange for a pass.

Paul Krugman: Trump administration 'about to ICE the economy' with immigration crackdown
https://thehill.com/business/5463724-immigration-crackdown-economic-impact/

The White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not be applied to renewals or existing holders of valid visas re-entering the US, only new applicants (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/20/trump-h-1b-immigration-visas

New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says
The $100,000 fee for the highly prized visa is intended to boost jobs for U.S. workers.

Avoid the US like the plague. https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115068447096730360

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image New guidance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may make pro-Palestine activism a disqualifying factor for non-citizens who seek to live and work in the US. #Fascism #US #Israel #Protectionism #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #USpol #Palestine https://therealnews.com/feds-move-to-deny-requests-to-live-work-in-us-based-on-pro-palestine-activism @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Large deviation rates for supercritical multitype branching processes with immigration
Liuyan Li, Junping Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15428 https://arxiv…

Large deviation rates for supercritical multitype branching processes with immigration
Let $\{X_n\}_{n\geq0}$ be a $p$-type ($p\geq2$) supercritical branching process with immigration and mean matrix $M$. Suppose that $M$ is positively regular and $ρ$ is the maximal eigenvalue of $M$ with the corresponding left and right eigenvectors $\boldsymbol{v}$ and $\boldsymbol{u}$. Let $ρ>1$ and $Y_n=ρ^{-n}\Big[\boldsymbol{u}\cdot X_n -\frac{ρ^{n+1}-1}{ρ-1}( \boldsymbol{u}\cdot \boldsymbolλ)\Big]$, where the vector $\boldsymbolλ$ denotes the mean immigration rate. In this paper, we …

National Guard mobilizing in 19 states amid immigration, crime crackdown (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-guard-mobilizing-19-states-immigration-crime-crackdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p135#a250822p135

Ice’s detention of Atlanta reporter seeks to ‘silence him’, ACLU petition says | Ice (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/ice-detention-atlanta-reporter-mario-guevera

“The US will…stop issuing work visas for commercial truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday.”
The prices of everything will go up.
Ain’t no inflation like maga inflation ‘cause maga inflation don’t stop.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-to-review-all-vis…

US to review all visa holders, stop truck driver visas
The Trump administration says it will vet millions of US visa holders for deportable offenses and halt truck driver visas. The moves are the latest in Trump's crackdown on immigration.

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-deporting-africa-military-flights-1235431848/

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

The ranking Democratic members of two congressional oversight committees
announced on Monday that they had started an investigation into reports of misconduct by federal agents during immigration arrests across the country,
focusing on the detainment of American citizens.
The investigation, a joint effort between the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
will inquire how long American citizens have been held and whether the…

Congressional Democrats Investigate Arrests of Americans During Raids
Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens.

I just belatedly saw this poignant essay that my friend Atul Singh wrote in May about his emotional experience moving country, and thought it deserved to be much more widely read.
https://www.fairobserver.com/fowednesday/the-pain-of-leaving-your-parents-beh…

Trump tariffs, policies have hurt businesses, most CEOs say: survey
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/trump-tariffs-immigration-ceos

Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track on economy, immigration and more: poll (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/poll-us-wrong-track-economy-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p11#a251022p11

#Japan 🇯🇵 finally got their first female PM! Unfortunately, I don’t like most of her far-right political views, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, desire to amend Japan’s pacifist constitution, support for anti-immigration policies, and downplaying of Japanese war crimes.

That signing bonus and promise of macho fantasy fulfillment is getting to be less fun now, huh?
LA ICE protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/la-ice-protests-hotel…

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

🥠 How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
#media #socialmedia

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Social media platforms are increasingly central to campaign communication, with both paid (advertising) and earned (organic) posts used for fundraising, mobilization, and persuasion. TikTok, and other short-form video platforms, with its short-video format and content-driven algorithms, demand unique content. We examine the final six months before the 2024 US Presidential Election to understand how major campaigns used TikTok. We frame our analysis around two political science theories. The fir…

Maine police officer detained by Ice agrees to leave US | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/maine-police-officer-immigration-ice "Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security, then accused the town of “r…

The truth about immigration - https://on.ft.com/4nE84Vp
featuring some wonderful photos of immigrants to Denmark like me courtesy of 100pctfremmed.dk

DeSantis: 'Alligator Alcatraz' ruling won't 'deter' Florida immigration enforcement (Andrew Atterbury/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/desantis-alligator-alcatraz-ruling-wont-deter-florida-immigration-enforcement-00519721
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p126#a250822p126

Santa Clara county in California is home to San Jose, and many other SFbay area towns and communities.
They are establishing NO-ICE zones, following Chicago's lead.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-will-create-ice-free-zones/

Santa Clara County will create ICE-free zones - San José Spotlight
Santa Clara County leaders will establish ICE-free zones throughout Silicon Valley — raising physical barriers and locking gates to prevent federal immigration agents from using county properties for surveillance and arrests.

A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SOUTHEASTASIA-SCAMS/mypmxwdwwvr/

They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.
A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands to scam strangers online under threat of violence. Thailand has become a key transit hub, Reuters found.

Passage times of fast inhomogeneous immigration processes
Hwai-Ray Tung, Sean D Lawley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14202 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14202

Passage times of fast inhomogeneous immigration processes
In many biophysical systems, key events are triggered when the fastest of many random searchers find a target. Most mathematical models of such systems assume that all searchers are initially present in the search domain, which permits the use of classical extreme value theory. In this paper, we explore $k$th passage times of inhomogeneous immigration processes where searchers are added to the domain over time either through time inhomogeneous rates or a Yule (pure birth) process. We rigorously…

Trump unveils $100K yearly fee on H-1B visas in clampdown on high tech
Trump on Friday announced an annual $100,000 fee on successful applicants for a high-skilled worker visa program that is widely used in Silicon Valley.

Trump also signed an executive order that would allow wealthy foreigners to pay $1 million for a “gold card” for U.S. residency
and companies to pay $2 million for a “corporate gold card” that would permit them to sponsor one or more employees.

Trump unveils $100k yearly fee on H-1B visas in clampdown on legal immigration
The Trump administration also plans to launch a $1 million gold card visa for wealthy foreigners in a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s paths to legal immigration.

ICE director says agents won't be at D.C. schools on the first day -- but may be going forward (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-schools-first-day-washington-dc-immigration-agents-todd-lyons-rcna226516
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p142#a250822p142

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
☑️ Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids - ABC News

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
The declaration was passed on Tuesday by a 4-1 vote.

Republican farmer says immigration raids are decimating his work force - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/republican-farmer-says-immigration-raids-are-decimating-his-work-force/

"Net immigration fell from around 800,000 in 2023 to around 400,000 in 2024. Yet when people were asked about this, only 8% thought that migration had decreased.
mainly macro: Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right"
https://mainlymacro.blogsp…

I learn a new lie every day. Saturday, the 5M protesters were "paid actor terrorists", today the protesters “used fake blood to falsify injuries”
Lawmakers slam Ice after US military veterans are arrested, injured | Ice (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.…

On the H-1B fee, Jensen Huang says he's "glad" to see "Trump making the moves he's making"; Sam Altman says "outlining financial incentives seems good to me" (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-ope

'We need the smartest people': Nvidia, OpenAI CEOs react to Trump's H-1B visa fee
"We want all the brightest minds to come to the U.S. and remember immigration is the foundation of the American Dream," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday.

Can we start a #ResignNOW #ThankYouForYourAttention campaign across platforms citing his misdeeds?
https://masto.ai/@Non…

Can we start a #ResignNOW #ThankYouForYourAttention campaign across platforms citing his misdeeds?
https://masto.ai/@Non…

Columbian asylum-seeker arrested at immigration hearing ordered freed from ICE custody | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/columbian-asylum-seeker-arrested-at-immigration-hearing-ordered-freed-from-ice-custody/

Crime isn't important. National security isn't important. Only Trump's publicity stunts are important.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/08/fbi-agents-reassigned-immigration/

study from Berlin: rent control made tenants more likely to approve of construction in their neighborhoods (and of immigration)!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738581

Jayapal: Report on US Citizens in ICE Custody ‘Absolutely Shocking’ https://ground.news/article/more-than-170-us-citizens-have-been-held-by-immigration-agents-theyve-been-kicked-dragged-and-detained-for-days

Immigration Court is Being Held Hostage By the ICE Gestapo — Essay
https://meryllynnranzer.medium.com/immigration-court-is-being-held-hostage-by-the-ice-gestapo-b108d485ef19

Immigration Court is Being Held Hostage By the ICE Gestapo
When I began accompanying people to immigration court in 2018, It was oppressive and fascistic. I had no idea how much worse it could get.

In July, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE,
approached a group of children playing baseball in Manhattan’s Riverside Park.
The agents began asking the kids where they’re from and who their parents are,
their coach, Youman Wilder, toldthe local ABC News affiliate.
Wilder, the founder of the Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, decided to intervene.
“I told my kids to walk to the back of the [batting] cages, right here,
and I said they’…

Don’t Let ICE’s Legal Abuses Stop You From Asserting Your Rights, Advocates Say
“We need to use every tool at our disposal to protect and empower our communities,” one immigrant justice advocate said.

Most CEOs say Trump policy has harmed their businesses, new survey finds (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/trump-tariffs-immigration-ceos
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p128#a250922p128

California governor signs bills pushing back on federal immigration enforcement | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-governor-signs-bills-pushing-back-on-federal-immigration-enforcement/

ICE Used So Much Tear Gas, a Public School Fled Its Campus (Robert McCoy/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/199451/trump-ice-immigration-protests-tear-gas-school-oregon
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p146#a250822p146

Chicago is in Cook County and now courts are safer.
"Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court."
"...bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to court proceedings. It includes arrests inside courthouses and in parking lots, surrounding sidewalks and entryways."

Cook County judge's order bars ICE from arresting people at court in Chicago area
Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court. The county includes Chicago, which has seen a federal immigration crackdown in recent months. Detaining residents outside courthouses has been a common tactic for federal agents, who have been stationed outside county courthouses for weeks, making arrests and drawing crowds of protesters. The order, which takes effect Wednesday, bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while goin…

Trump admin vetting 55M U.S. visa holders for potential violations (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/22/trump-us-visas-immigration-vetting-deport
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p139#a250821p139

Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe
— before Donald Trump’s Department of Justice shut down the probe.
“The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official,”
the report said.
“But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January."

Bombshell Report Claims Trump DOJ Shut Down Probe Into Alleged $50K Tom Homan Bribe
A bombshell new report claims Tom Homan was being investigated for allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe before the Trump DOJ shut it down.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors (The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/ice-raids-canal-street-trump-immigration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p126#a251021p126

"The UK’s actual record in the 1930s is far from good, but no doubt if Nigel Farage had been in power he would have eagerly sent every Jewish refugee fleeing from the Nazis back to Germany."
mainly macro: Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right
https://

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal, TikTok streamer during Los Angeles operation (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-21/immigration-enforcement-hurt-operation-southla
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p144#a251021p144

With increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that EMPATHY has become a VICE.
For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left:
It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice
“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policie…

Conservative Christians argue empathy can lead to sin
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights. Conservative evangelicals Allie Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney have written books within the past year criticizing certain forms of empathy. Stuckey's and Rigney's views have gained traction among President Donald Trump’s Christian base as his Republican administration enacts hard…

Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact (Lori Rozsa/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/21/florida-alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detention/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p126#a250821p126

A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area,
even with children and seniors in the area.
At least four protesters were detained.
“When you’re using these tactics, you are asking people to be hospitalized,”
said Oscar Sanchez, a member of a rapid response network that tracks immigration enforcement activity.
He said h…

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who protested the tactics of immigration agents.

An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/chicago-south-shores-border-…

An ICE Raid at a Building in Chicago Swept Up Dozens of U.S. Citizens
An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.

Federal judge orders closure of Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration jail (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/trump-alligator-alcatraz-judge-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p131#a250821p131

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

Some new ICE recruits have showed up to training without full vetting (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-ice-recruits-showed-training-full-vetting-rcna238739
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p116#a251022p116

Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters
who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadview Friday morning. 
Protesters flocked to the west suburban building, which has its windows and door boarded up, early in the morning
to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown known as “Operation Midway Blitz.”
The group chanted, sang and screamed at a group…

New visas paused for commercial truck drivers, Rubio says (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/immigration-trump-rubio-truck-drivers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p136#a250821p136

Immigrant Population in U.S. Drops for the First Time in Decades (Miriam Jordan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/immigration-decline-united-states-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.Buw9.sgX3muJg5E6U&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p5#a250822p5

Federal Prosecutors Downgrade Charge Against David Huerta to a Misdemeanor - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/david-huerta-immigration-raid-charges.html

Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees (Churchill Ndonwie/Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311770767.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p63#a250822p63

‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center
The Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola – the largest maximum security prison in the country – was out of bed space for “violent offenders” who would be “transferred to its facilities”,
the governor warned in an executive order.
The emergency declaration allowed for the rapid refurbishing of a notorious, shuttered housing unit at Angola formerly known as Camp J
– commonly referred to by p…

'Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free' | Wrongfully deported Maryland man released, heading home with private security, attorney says (Jordan Fischer/WUSA)
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/dmv-immigration/kilmar-abrego-garcia-is-free-wrongfully-deported-maryland-man-el-salvador-cecot-trump-dhs-tennessee-human-smuggling/65-3caf9b36-4a59-4175-b728-16133c6a7b5a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p103#a250822p103

Travel ban separates Cuban families, divides community loyal to Trump (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/19/trump-cubans-visas-travel-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p2#a251020p2

Washington AG pushing new law to protect workers from immigration raids • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/14/washington-ag-pushing-new-law-to-protect-workers-from-immigration-raids/

Los Angeles leaders are demanding answers after federal immigration agents
reportedly detained more than 100 U.S. citizens in recent enforcement operations across Southern California.
Standing alongside immigrant rights groups in downtown Los Angeles on Monday,
Mayor Karen Bass and Rep. Robert Garcia
announced plans to launch a major investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) conduct,
pledging to hold a congressional hearing in Los Angeles to…

Portfolio: The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza (New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/26-federal-plaza-nyc-immigration-court-ice-agents-detainments-deportations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p85#a251020p85

Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

The thing about arrest quotas is that the important arrests
— folks committing or organizing crimes
— don't tell you where they are.
So if you want to hit your numbers, you need lots of basically law-abiding people you can punish.
-- @joedudekjd.bsky.social

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.

Newsom to sign five bills aimed at protecting Calif.'s large immigrant population from Trump’s mass deportation agenda
— including a ban on face coverings for federal agents.
https://bsky.app/profile/politico.com/post/3lzc4ffiz222s

Politico (@politico.com)
Newsom to sign five bills aimed at protecting Calif.'s large immigrant population from Trump’s mass deportation agenda — including a ban on face coverings for federal agents. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/ca-immigration-bill-signing-00574378

Ex-ICE director says Trump's immigration crackdown putting agents in "terrible position" (Anna Schecter/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-ice-director-says-trump-immigration-crackdown-putting-agents-in-terrible-position/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p55#a251018p55

The far right is surging in the United States,
driven in part by white nationalists exploiting economic anxieties
and a populace increasingly frustrated with the political status quo.
Now, as the Trump administration rolls back diversity, equity and inclusion policies,
cracks down on immigration and offers pardons to white supremacists,
some see an opening.
In creating their community, the founders of "Return to the Land" are challenging anti-d…

Arkansas Housing Development Restricted to White Residents Sparks Legal Concerns
Housing rights experts say a community restricted to white residents is illegal, but the creators believe they could win a potential challenge in court in the current political climate.

Suspects in Texas ICE shooting tied to trans, anti-fascist activism (Robert Klemko/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/17/alvarado-shooting-transgender-antifascist-immigration/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU1NDAzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU2Nzg1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTU0MDMyMDAsImp0aSI6IjRhYTFmYmFjLWQ0YmYtNDY0Ny1hYTY0LTE2OWNiZDBjZTNmZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI1LzA4LzE3L2FsdmFyYWRvLXNob290aW5nLXRyYW5zZ2VuZGVyLWFudGlmYXNjaXN0LWltbWlncmF0aW9uLyJ9.hx1kisA0pqEQ7exOtcPi0L0p3q3guMv0lby26MzL6E4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p25#a250817p25

Immigrants with special deportation protections are facing detainment across the country,
as the Trump administration continues its aggressive mass deportation campaign. 
Home is Here -- a coalition of advocates for immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status-- has documented a pattern of immigration agents targeting DACA recipients.
At least 18 DACA recipients are detained, according to a Home is Here tracker. 
So far, Home is Here has pi…

ICE boasts about ripping Mount Pleasant sign with anti-border patrol message (WUSA)
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/dmv-immigration/ice-immigration-dc-washington-mount-pleasant/65-d3517d58-d9e1-4f47-974b-e8ad4575a4d4
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p58#a250817p58

Trump is asking the Supreme Court, for the first time, to clear the way for him to use National Guard troops to support the president’s immigration enforcement and mass deportation drive.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency appeal with the high court Friday,
seeking to lift lower-court rulings that are currently preventing Trump from deploying National Guard troops he pressed into federal service to aid Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in Illinois.

Judge Demands Answers on Trump Immigration Crackdown in Chicago (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/chicago-hearing-tear-gas-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p46#a251020p46

The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that
“the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”

“Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” the Labor Department said

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices
U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

Florida GOP removes new immigration merchandise after Home Depot objects (Lawrence Mower/Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311733859.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p66#a250818p66

A month into the new Trump administration,
on the predawn streets of suburban Maryland,
a high-ranking ICE official stood alongside a Mazda sedan that his officers had just stopped.
The official told a local TV reporter at the scene what was about to happen.
“He can either give us a license,”
he said,
“or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”
Then, as the driver refused to exit the car, officers broke the glass

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

U.S. probing immigration applicants' social media to identify "anti-American" activity that's "beyond the pale," official says (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-social-media-anti-american-uscis-joseph-edlow/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p70#a251016p70

Woman invoked Charlie Kirk's killing while threatening immigration agents, US charges (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/woman-invoked-charlie-kirks-killing-while-threatening-immigration-agents-us-2025-10-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p102#a251016p102

Increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensionsin the nation’s third-largest city.
“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN.
“They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”
U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained
in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounter…

Immigration agents use increasingly aggressive tactics in Chicago, alarming activists and residents
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city. That includes storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept and deploying chemical agents near a public school. About 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month in the Chicago area. But U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and c…

Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid (Stuart Anderson/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/09/16/stephen-millers-quota-likely-drove-korean-arrests-in-immigration-raid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p171#a250916p171

We Should Be Cracking Down on the Cartels, Not Chicago (Tom Suozzi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/opinion/illegal-immigration-chicago-cartels.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.uLUt.f1umUUbrs6k-&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p32#a251018p32

What went wrong with Biden and immigration (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/what-went-wrong-with-biden-and-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p35#a251015p35

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-teachers-immigration-enforcement-schools-scaring-kids-rcna236734
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p32#a251015p32

L.A. County Declares State of Emergency Over Immigration Raids (Jonathan Wolfe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/americas/los-angeles-emergency-immigration-raids.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p89#a251015p89

Gallego Gets Candid About His Party's Immigration Failures (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ruben-gallego-arizona-interview-immigration-iowa-democratic-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p51#a250815p51

Exclusive: Trump immigration plan may wipe out 15M jobs by 2035, study claims (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/17/trump-immigration-workforce-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p23#a251017p23

Trump's Reversals on Immigration Mount Over Economic Concerns (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/us/politics/trump-immigration-policy-reversals.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p3#a250914p3

Federal officers detain, tackle moped driver amid Trump D.C. police crackdown (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/17/dc-arrests-violent-takedown-immigration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p56#a250817p56

Feds Conduct Immigration Raid Outside California Redistricting Press Conference (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-agents-immigration-raid-california-redistricting-press-conference/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p94#a250814p94

DC police to increase cooperation with immigration enforcement amid Trump crackdown (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/dc-immigration-sanctuary-city-00509731
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p90#a250814p90

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids (Leah Sarnoff/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-county-declares-state-emergency-immigration-raids/story?id=126531481
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p171#a251014p171

Los Angeles County officials to vote on emergency declaration over immigration raids (Christopher Weber/Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/los-angeles-county-officials-vote-emergency-declaration-immigration-126499093
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p71#a251014p71

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd (Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/crash-involving-immigration-agents-in-east-side-leads-to-tear-gas-detentions
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p156#a251014p156