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TechdirtNov 5, 2026

Judge: ICE Officers Can’t Be Trusted And The Only Way To Fix This Is To Put Them On The Stand

We all know ICE officers can’t be trusted. Neither can the agency that heads up most of Trump’s anti-migrant activities. Every murder by immigration officers is immediately greeted with self-justifying lies about “threats” to officers. Every assault gets the same treatment. Every recorded instance of abuse is immediately rebutted by bullshit claims about violent resistance...

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TechdirtNov 4, 2026

DOJ Admits Its ‘Illegal Voter’ Lists Can’t Be Trusted, Leading To Three Court Losses In 24 Hours

A last minute attempt to throw the midterm election into chaos failed. Leading up to this point, the signs were never good in the Magic 8 Ball way. The Trump administration wants people to believe California was overrun with non-citizen voters. The facts, however, refuse to comply with the narrative. This particular ship has been...

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TechdirtOct 29, 2026

Fifth Circuit Flips Earlier Ruling, Once Again Declares Migrants Have No Due Process Rights

The Fifth Circuit has shown itself to be especially subservient to the Trump administration since his return to office. And it’s certainly not going to rock Trump’s mass deportation boat — not when it’s sitting right on top of Texas, which contains almost two-thirds of the US-Mexico border, as well as some of ICE’s largest...

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TechdirtOct 28, 2026

Trump DOJ Says It Won’t Investigate Trump DOJ’s Reflecting Pool Vandalism Arrests

Who wouldn’t love the chance to clear themselves of misconduct? I guess not the Trump DOJ, which decidedly won’t be investigating itself, even though it could cook the books to an acceptable temperature (155-170 internally) to let itself off the hook in the Reflecting Pool prosecution debacle. It’s too many metaphors to be sure, at...

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TechdirtOct 27, 2026

DOJ Demands California Help It Hunt Down Thousands Of ‘Illegal’ Voters Who Don’t Actually Exist

The thing about being in power is that there’s not much room left between the floor and the ceiling. The administration can fall, but only so far, because it’s still the administration. Conversely, it can only rise so far. The system of checks and balances — even when broken — limits upward trajectories. Bureaucracy generates...

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The Marshall ProjectOct 27, 2026

When ICE Makes People Disappear

In criminal court, families can track arrests. In ICE detention, thousands are moved across state lines within 24 hours, leaving families in the dark.

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The Marshall ProjectOct 27, 2026

A Tale of Two Cases: How ICE Operates in the Shadows

They were arrested the same month. One man faced criminal charges, and had rights and protections. The other entered a secretive immigration system.

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TechdirtOct 26, 2026

Trump’s Voting Fraud Squad Proudly Announces It Has Arrested 28 Of California’s 23 Million Voters

It’s essential to understand that this isn’t about protecting the integrity of elections from people who don’t have the right to vote. This is a suppression effort meant to intimidate people who do have the legal right to vote by making it seem like it might be better to sit out the mid-terms than be...

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TechdirtOct 22, 2026

ICE Officers Who Ran Over Man Were Trying To Arrest Someone Who Had Been Dead For Years

Not that we really needed any more evidence of bad faith by ICE and the officer who decided to drive his car across a city street and into an adjacent parking lot for the apparent sole purpose of running over a fleeing migrant, but here it is anyway. As we covered last week, ICE officers...

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TechdirtOct 21, 2026

DOJ Turns A Thumb Drive And A Post-It Note Into A Lawsuit Aimed At Disrupting Voting In California

For the past several months, the DHS and DOJ have been pushing hard to make Trump’s illegal voter election conspiracy theories a reality. Trump continues to claim millions of non-citizen voters are participating in federal elections — something he persists in proclaiming despite having won two of the last three presidential races. This isn’t really...

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TechdirtOct 20, 2026

Teen Sues CBS News Over Report That Referred To Him As A Reflecting Pool Vandalism Suspect

It’s never a good idea to just print whatever the government tells you to print, not when you have the First Amendment to rely on. On the other hand, if you’re CBS News, it’s probably in your best interest to run whatever the government says to run because it’s probably going to be the same...

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TechdirtOct 20, 2026

Kash Patel Claims Local Arrests As His Own To Boost FBI Crime Stats

At best, most Trump administration officials can be called “sycophants.” At BEST. But so many of them can be called a lot of other things a bit more insulting. We have a lot of shoe options to work with. Most of them fit multiple people. Rubes, hucksters, useful idiots, bigots, charlatans, window lickers, narcissists, anthropomorphic...

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TechdirtOct 16, 2026

DOJ Lawyers Starting To Get Hit With Sanctions, But So Far, It’s Barely Even A Wrist Slap

There's been plenty of talk by judges about imposing sanctions on ICE and DOJ lawyers who have routinely violated court orders and constitutional rights, and straight up lied in court (or allowed agents and officers to lie in court). But not much has actually been done about this. So far, it's mostly been threats of...

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TechdirtOct 15, 2026

Trump-Appointed Judge Calls Out ICE For Lying

This is now as common as breathing. ICE does stuff. Arrested people invoke their rights. ICE shows up in court. The court expresses its anger at ICE's tactics and lies. Thousands of habeas cases filed by migrants have ended with the courts siding with the arrested migrants. It's actually more than 10,000 at this point,...

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TechdirtOct 14, 2026

ICE’s Lies About A Man Officer Ran Over Undone By Footage Captured By Nearby CCTV Camera

Here's something ICE pretends has happened: ICE alleged in a statement that "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." ABC13 reached out to an ICE spokesperson, who said agents were attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who was their intended target. ICE alleges Mendoza-Cervantes entered the United States illegally from Mexico five...

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TechdirtOct 14, 2026

Court Filings Show DHS Is Collecting Info On Protesters, Feeding It To Palantir

More evidence is piling up that contradicts the almost-but-not-quite denials given by administration officials in response to allegations about the DHS compiling a database to keep tabs on protesters. Just a few months ago, "Immigration Czar" Todd Lyons was trying to turn credible accusations into a nothingburger by deploying a few vague and trite statements...

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The Marshall ProjectOct 8, 2026

ICE Is Detaining Children in Hotels Where Families and Lawyers Can’t Find Them

Families described constant surveillance, poor access to food and threats of separation if they told anyone where they were being kept.

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TechdirtOct 8, 2026

FBI Whistleblower Says Emil Bove Directed Agents To Investigate Anti-ICE Protesters

Hey, this guy is a judge now! Let that seep in for a bit. Emil Bove used to work for the DOJ. Then he went to work for Trump, acting as his personal lawyer starting in 2023. Upon Trump's return to office, he was brought back to the DOJ to serve as an "associate deputy...

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The Marshall ProjectOct 8, 2026

Tracking Trump’s Immigration Crackdown on Children

How many kids has ICE arrested, detained, and deported under the second Trump administration?

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TechdirtOct 6, 2026

Trump Officially Opens Border To Thousands More White South Africans

Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that's in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass deportation efforts are a daily event, randomly punctuated by court order violations and the occasional murders of US citizens. Trump often wonders why people from Nordic nations aren't...

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TechdirtOct 6, 2026

Judge Reinstates DOJ Prosecutor Illegally Fired By Trump

Yet another one of Trump's many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here. It seems Trump really doesn't know who's going to be loyal enough to satisfy him and also able to pass the rudimentary screening we generously call the Senate Confirmation Process. So, what tends to happen is that Trump places someone...

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TechdirtOct 5, 2026

Court Permanently Dismisses Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Against David Hearn

Finally. Now, it doesn't matter what Trump wants his DOJ minions to do. If he's going to try to pin a botched repair job on people who just happened to stick a hand into his algae-infested, liner chunk-filled Reflecting Pool/metaphor for his entire presidency, he's going to have to stick it to someone other than...

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TechdirtOct 1, 2026

DHS’s Nevada ‘Illegal Voter’ Claims Have Dropped From 16,000 To 200 To ZERO In Less Than A Month

Donald Trump has been claiming for years that all elections he hasn't (or won't) win are rigged. This also goes for mid-terms -- especially this one -- where Republicans seem likely to lose seats to Democratic Party members. We won't know if Trump will try to become President For Life until 2028, but it seems...

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TechdirtOct 1, 2026

California’s Top Court Rules Against Rogue Sheriff Who Just Went Out And Seized 650,000 Ballots

Riverside County, California sheriff Chad Bianco is definitely one of those guys. You know the ones I mean. The kind of "law and order" hypocrite who loves the law as long as it can be used to hurt the people he doesn't like and protect the people he does like. In other words, he's a...

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