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“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

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"We saw ICE agents on farms, pointing assault rifles at cows, and removing half the workforce,'' said American Business Immigration Coalition President Rebecca Shi, whose coalition represents 1,700 employers and supports increased legal immigration.

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it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

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This man put his life on the line to support our military as an interpreter in Afghanistan. He risked his life for us. Our allies deserve better than this.

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It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

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Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, draws a historical comparison to the Fugitive Slave Act and that of the ongoing ICE raids. The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.

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UPDATE — At least 37 members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. +5 since yesterday. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

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Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

submitted 6 days ago • 451 comments

Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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“I told him it was brutal and cruel.” Minnesota Senator @tinasmithmn (D) pulled Utah’s @senmikelee out of a Republican meeting and confronted him for his ugly tweets blaming Democrats for the shootings of Dems in Minnesota — by a man friends say was a staunch conservative.

submitted 6 days ago • 124 comments

Let me pose this question… Will that man in that house deploy national guard and marines to every city currently protesting him or nah that was only for LA to be made an example of…. Stay tuned for the answer on the next episode of dragonball Z 🤣🤣🤣

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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

Marines detained a civilian, reportedly an Army veteran, in Los Angeles today. Extremely chilling sight. This is not ok. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Why doesn’t Trump hire Americans?

submitted 9 days ago • 329 comments

BREAKING: US Marines deployed to Los Angeles have carried out the first known detention of a civilian, the US military confirms. It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 10 days ago • 690 comments

Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

I was told both sides are the same

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 10 days ago • 839 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 10 days ago • 712 comments

Put this on a billboard.

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

submitted 10 days ago • 2747 comments

Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB

submitted 11 days ago • 897 comments

1. In the early hours of June 12, 1963, after Medgar Evers, the first field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi, was returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers on voting rights. Hours after JFK had given his Civil Rights address, Medgar Evers would return late to his home in the early morning

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This is what’s happening

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Council Leaders Seek Probe of Possible NYPD Sanctuary City Violations www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/10/n...

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CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

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Now the Speaker of the House, second in line to be President of the United States, is calling for the elected leader of the 4th largest economy in the world to be publicly tortured for [checks notes] defying the treasonous whims of the wannabe dictator currently occupying the Oval Office.

submitted 12 days ago • 256 comments

Every Dem Gov said tonite what every Gov should have said Mr Trump- Do not use the Guard in your war against immigrants.. immigrants who were just trying to work was the trigger for the Trump ICE assault in LA . This is an abuse of power.

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Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility in Manhattan where the representatives were seeking to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.

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Here's a march led by MLK Jr in Selma, Alabama in 1965, where protestors took over a bridge. According to Karen Bass, this is a violent protest. www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/011...

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the pay is shit, everyone — even other law enforcement agencies — hates you and thinks you're stupid brutes, your coworkers are on the news ziptying grandfathers and kindergarteners every day, your quotas are laughably unrealistic and your bosses spend all day going on tv, what's not to love

submitted 14 days ago • 68 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 14 days ago • 382 comments

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

submitted 14 days ago • 245 comments

What’s the opposite of all in? One might say limp, perhaps flaccid, definitely anti-anaconda.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 14 days ago • 3069 comments

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

submitted 14 days ago • 128 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 15 days ago • 360 comments

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…

submitted 16 days ago • 905 comments

SEIU President David Huerta was injured & arrested today for simply exercising his first amendment right during an ICE raid in LA. How Huerta was treated is horrific and the increased terrorization of immigrant communities is unacceptable. I join SEIU CA in calling for Huerta’s immediate release.

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OPINION: "The purpose is not to try to round up serious criminal migrants, or to address the country’s broken #immigration system," Light columnist Jack Spillane says of the #ICE arrests in New Bedford. "No, they are meant to terrify good, generally law-abiding people into self-deporting."

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if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

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