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California plaintiff in lawsuit challenging immigration raids arrested by ICE
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-17/california-plaintiff-in-lawsuit-challenging-immigration-raids-arrested-by-ice

California plaintiff in lawsuit challenging immigration raids arrested by ICE
ICE on Thursday arrested a plaintiff involved in a class action lawsuit challenging Los Angeles immigration raids, prompting concerns from lawyers of retaliation and calls for his release.

At least 13 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/at-least-injured-in-russian.html

WR Flowers: Harbaugh's practices led to injuries https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48512386/harbaugh-practices-why-ravens-had-lot-injuries

Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants.
Federal courts in the state are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II
to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves.
The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize presence in the United to justify removal.

Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants

1 killed, 25 injured across Ukraine as Russia launches latest mass missile, drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/killed-injured-across-ukraine-as.html

Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January.
Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in Minneapolisduring the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in the city.
His killing came just two weeks after an immigration official shot and killed Renee Good an…

Ukrainian veteran with disability injured in car explosion in Odesa, marking 2nd such incident in 10 days: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/ukrainian-veteran-with-disability-injured.html

Trump’s plan to shift IRS criminal investigators away from tax crimes and into immigration enforcement isn’t just a bureaucratic reshuffle
—it’s a direct threat to the deterrence model that underpins the voluntary tax system.
https://news.bloom…

IRS Shift to Immigration Enforcement Hurts Voluntary Tax System
Opinion: Columnist Andrew Leahey says reassigning IRS agents from tax crimes to immigration signals selective enforcement of the law and could cause a gradual erosion of tax compliance.

Five days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot activist Renee Good,
tensions were running high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed. 
As federal immigration agents surrounded and questioned a man whose car they had stopped,
people emerged from their homes onto the snow-lined sidewalks and street.
They shouted obscenities, told the agents to leave and filmed what was happening on their phones.
A crew from FRONTLINE an…

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.
A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

A Texas court interpreter who was arrested by ICE after living in the US for more than 35 years
is speaking out from detention, saying she has been “treated like a criminal”
and fears being deported to a country where she has never been.
Meenu Batra is the only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu court interpreter in the state,
and has served as an interpreter for hundreds of people in immigration court.
Then, last month, immigration agents at Harlingen internation…