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TechdirtSep 23, 2026

DHS Starts Dicking Around After Blowing Past Its Deadline For ICE Body Cam Rollout

In what was a severely belated response to acts of violence by immigration enforcement officers, "Border Czar" (who seems far more interested in raiding inland cities than patrolling the border) Tom Homan assured the nation that all ICE officers would soon be wearing body cameras. The only holdup, he said, was a lack of funding....

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TechdirtSep 22, 2026

Appeals Court Rejects ICE Detention Policy, Comparing It To WWII Japanese Internment

Ever since Trump's return to office, almost every federal law enforcement agency has been ordered to treat illegal immigration as their first priority. This is why the administration is gutting FEMA to direct more dollars to detention and removal efforts. And that's why ICE is now the administration's largest law enforcement budget line item. To...

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TechdirtSep 22, 2026

ICE Officer Who Dodged Extradition To Minnesota Arrested By MN Cops One Day Before His *Federal* Criminal Court Appearance

I love everything about this. I love the way this ICE officer was picked up. I love the fact that his lawyer claims an arrest is the same thing as "surrendering." And I especially love the fact that this officer is in state custody only a day prior to scheduled court appearance to face federal...

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The Emu Café SocialSep 21, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-21-26

Daily Pook-Emu Bee links ceased being daily for the last week and change, but perhaps it is back with two straight editions to start the new week. 1 | Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Introduces "Create Your Own Adventure" Writing Game (Marcus Nestor for 9 To 5 Linux. Sep. 28, 2026.) While I disable (or don't...

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TechdirtSep 18, 2026

Desperate DHS Demanded Info On Beanie Cap Buyers While Trying To Prosecute Journalists

Some day we'll look back at this and laugh. I mean, I would hope so. The DOJ and DHS are still trying to put people in jail for protesting a church whose pastor was also an ICE officer. Ultimately, the protesters entered the church and disrupted the service. Among those entering the church were a...

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TechdirtSep 18, 2026

Research Shows ICE Raids Are Killing Local Economies

Contrary to the "worst of the worst" posturing presented by the Trump administration, it's long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natural-born US citizens: Our consistent finding is that legal immigrants have the lowest incarceration rates, followed by illegal immigrants, and that native-born Americans have the highest. Illegal immigrants...

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TechdirtSep 17, 2026

ICE Arrests Ramp Up, Which Only Continues To Prove Most Migrants Aren’t Criminals

Public furor is hard to maintain. It takes a concerted effort from people who have a lot to lose. Not only do they not have anything to gain (financially or otherwise) from engaging in protests, but they face the real possibility of arrests, job losses, beatings, or actual death. On the other hand, the Trump...

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TechdirtSep 15, 2026

Minneapolis ICE Observer Sues DHS For Its Retaliatory Stripping Of His Global Entry Status

The lowest common denominator administration continues to roll. It doesn't care what's legal or what's proper. It just does what it wants because the shittiest people are in it and its basest of voter bases will feverishly clap their sweaty hands together in applause whenever it does whatever it wants to do. It will be...

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The Marshall ProjectSep 12, 2026

ICE Treatment of Transgender Women Reversing Years-Long Practices

Women said they face harassment and lack proper medical care.

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The Marshall ProjectSep 10, 2026

Inside the ‘Shadow Surge’ Driving ICE Arrests to New Heights

Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests.

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TechdirtSep 9, 2026

DOJ Fired Prosecutor, Blocked Assault Charges Against ICE Officer Following Minneapolis Shooting

Let's start out with the obvious (and obviously heartbreaking): this is not related to the multiple times ICE officers have murdered people. Those officers still remain at large and the DOJ and DHS have shown absolutely zero interest in following up on those cases. In fact, when any local agency attempts to do so, they're...

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TechdirtSep 9, 2026

ICE Officer Hit With Federal Charges After Successfully Dodging Minnesota’s Attempt To Extradite Him On Assault Charges

One of the natural side effects of flooding the zone with hastily hired, poorly trained immigration enforcement officers is an increase in violence and rights violations. Christian Castro may not have been a new ICE hire, but he'd been there long enough to realize the new White House boss had given him and his fellow...

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TechdirtSep 8, 2026

Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back On ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.

In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal and chilling investigations, any resistance is welcome. But social media...

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TechdirtSep 8, 2026

ICE’s Vetting Standards Are So Low It Can’t Even Be Bothered To Verify The Identities Of New Hires

A whistleblower report delivered to the DHS Office of the Inspector General makes it clear ICE is willing to hire pretty much anyone who applies for the job. Keeping up appearances (and by "appearances," I mean constantly pushing for 1,500-3,000 arrests per day) is tough when you don't have the warm bodies to do all...

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The Marshall ProjectSep 8, 2026

ICE Wrongfully Arrested Him. Will His Lawsuit Change How Courts Hold Agents Accountable?

As courts winnow legal path to sue federal officers, attorneys search for new avenues in state law.

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TechdirtSep 3, 2026

Working With ICE Is So Toxic, ICE Is Now Offering Liability Insurance To Local Police Officers

If you're worried about the bad optics of working with ICE, the federal government is here to help subsidize your recovery from mass deportation conjunctivitis. If you're worried about the personal negative side effects of buddying up to ICE's masked kidnapping squads, the administration is here to assure cops that it might cover some of...

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TechdirtSep 2, 2026

ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants

This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat new tool of cruelty it absolutely had to have were gloves that behave like stun guns or low-powered Tasers....

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TechdirtSep 1, 2026

ICE, CBP Officers Prefer To Sexually Assault Children When Committing Crimes

The "worst of the worst" are coming for the "worst of the worst." Of course, this administration has completely given up on this pretense, despite sending out lots of noisy messaging otherwise every time an immigration officer murders a person. For the entirety of Trump's anti-migration surge, it's been obvious that it's all about expelling...

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TechdirtAug 31, 2026

Administration Escalates Deportations To Haiti As Violent Gang Attacks Escalate In Haiti

I can't assume the Trump administration hoped this would happen. But I can't believe no one in the administration (Trump, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan) isn't secretly thrilled that this has happened. The administration managed to revoke temporary protected status for Haitian refugees in America, a decision that affects nearly 350,000 people. The revocation of this...

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TechdirtAug 31, 2026

ICE Worked With Iran To Deport Iranians Back To A Country Trump Repeatedly Claimed Was Harming Iranians

The Trump administration has been working steadily to remove protected status for asylum seekers that even Trump admits are deadly "shitholes." Trump makes claims about countries that seem to indicate they're too dangerous to live in, but then insists there's no reason we shouldn't be allowed to deport migrants to places where they're likely to...

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TechdirtAug 28, 2026

School Asks Cops To Stop Using Stun Gloves On Its Students

Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICE's big purchase, it may as well have never existed. It only had a few clients, and those few clients purchased a few pairs for...

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TechdirtAug 26, 2026

ICE Tries, Fails To Illegally Raid An Immigration Law Office; Settles For Empty Threats Instead

The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this?) died out almost immediately when the interloping...

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The Marshall ProjectAug 25, 2026

Trump’s ICE Has Detained More People Than the Population of Atlanta

Unlike prior administrations, in Trump’s second term, ICE is aggressively arresting people far from the border and detaining them longer.

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TechdirtAug 24, 2026

Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves

We've moved into a new era where the administration's constant cruelty, violence, and actual murders simply aren't enough to keep Trump appeased or entertained. ICE is now goosing its arrest numbers by arresting holders of expired visas at domestic airports. Now we're being treated to additional abject cruelty in the places where boots are on...

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