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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 21, 2026

Trump Says Arch Must Be Built Because We Need Somewhere To Store Our Precious ‘Sniper Ammo’

Satire is dead. But it's been dead since the first Trump administration, back when people were "owning the libs" with a combination of horse dewormers and willfully contracting COVID. Bleach consumption was discussed. It was a whole thing. Not enough of those people died, apparently. We somehow got a second season of Trump and at...

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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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The Marshall ProjectSep 18, 2026

New Prison Policy Gives Trump Administration More Power to Punish Enemies

The Bureau of Prisons quietly revised its rules to allow Attorney General Todd Blanche to unilaterally decide where federal prisoners serve time.

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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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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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BITVoxySep 4, 2026

The White House Arcade Is Vibecoded Garbage—and That Is Being Generous

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 3, 2026 — The White House just launched a federal government-sponsored video game arcade. Let that sentence sit for a second. The actual Executive Branch of the United States government is now operating a website—arcade.gov—dedicated to hosting playable browser games. And the results are exactly as chaotic and politically charged as you […]

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BITVoxySep 4, 2026

The White House Arcade Is Vibecoded Garbage—and That Is Being Generous

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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 3, 2026

DOJ Issues Memo Saying There’s Nothing Illegal About The Military Arresting Migrants

A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally declared expansive areas near US military bases to be "national defense areas." This meant that areas surrounding bases -- like (especially) Fort Bliss...

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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

FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals

As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don't know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE went on a hiring surge following the imposition of impossible arrest quotas and a few billion...

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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 27, 2026

Two Die In Pennsylvania Of Measles Marking The First Deaths Of 2026

Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy mostly ignored the outbreak from the beginning...

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The Marshall ProjectAug 22, 2026

How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children

Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.

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TechdirtAug 20, 2026

ICE Says It Will Fit Every Officer With A Body Cam, Restrict Public Access To Recordings

After immigration officers murdered two people in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the DHS made some noises about outfitting officers with body cameras. Six months later -- and following even more killings -- nearly every officer was still bereft of state-owned recording devices. The administration offered this excuse for its lack of compliance with its own promises: While...

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TechdirtAug 19, 2026

ICE Opportunism Expands To Passengers On Domestic Flights

Things used to be normal. We used to be doing alright here in the United States, limiting ourselves to catching people at the borders or picking up migrants with criminal charges or convictions with detainers at local jails. Now, it's just a constant swarm all day, every day. "Worst of the worst" has long been...

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TechdirtAug 13, 2026

ICE Is Buying Stun Gloves For Officers Because They’re Just Not Injuring/Killing Enough Migrants

The administration has no legitimate justification for this action. It's all about inflicting as much literal pain as possible on anyone ICE officers happen to encounter. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up...

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TechdirtAug 10, 2026

Trump Doubles Down On Conspiracy Theories After DOJ Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charges

We'll see how long US Attorney (and, of course, former Fox News personality) Jeanine Pirro gets to keep her job. I would guess the exit door is only inches away from hitting her ass since she refused to carry out Donald Trump's plan to punish Reflecting Pool visitors for highlighting the failures of his no-bid...

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TechdirtAug 5, 2026

Trump’s War On Journalists Also Includes Targeting A Freelance NYT Contributor

Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million "gift" plane from the Qatari government earlier this year. Trump claimed it was a coup for taxpayers and a boon for America, even as he made it clear this was all about him. According to Trump, no plane was more luxurious than this graft-y replacement for the...

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TechdirtAug 5, 2026

Trump’s Mass Detention Policy Shut Down By Two Appeals Courts On The Same Day

The Trump administration has been shut down more than 10,000 times by federal courts over its novel interpretation of the law -- one it claims allows it to indefinitely detain migrants without giving them a bond hearing. Some of those 10,000 adverse decisions have been significant, with implications that stretch far beyond single cases or...

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TechdirtAug 4, 2026

Capital One Says Money Laundering, Not January 6 Riot, Led To Shutdown Of Trump Accounts

I don't know but when your best argument is "we got locked out of our accounts for supporting violent insurrectionists," maybe it's time to stop arguing. But if there's anything Trump likes, it's being a plaintiff in a lawsuit. So, that's exactly what the Trump Organization argued, in hopes of pressuring Capital One into a...

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TechdirtJul 31, 2026

Grand Jury Witness: Reflecting Pool Was Already Damaged Before Arrested Man Touched It

Donald Trump swore he could turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into something he could use to bask in his own reflected glory. Instead, it turned out to be everything we expect from Trump: braggadocio followed by abject failure. Trump hired some guys he used to do some stuff to his personal pool(s) back in...

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