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American support for abolishing ICE hits record 50% in new poll It's the 1st time in YouGov's polling history that support for abolishing ICE has reached 50%.

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"Camp East Montana’s population has declined to about 1,500 detainees in recent weeks, about half as many people as it held in January, according to a separate internal ICE document obtained by The Post."

HCAO launches new evidence portal, establishes Transparency and Accountability Project HCAO launches new evidence portal, establishes Transparency and Accountability Project (release, March 2026)

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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, ap...

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We can fight the feds with laws you may not know about • Minnesota Reformer If nothing else, you’ll be highlighting the hypocrisy of the administration’s alleged commitment to law and order when it’s clear they are repeatedly breaking the law.

minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/04/w...

Federal judge weighs contempt for U.S. Attorney over ICE property dispute A federal judge is weighing whether to hold U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen in contempt after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to return detainees’ belongings, prompting a tense daylong court h...

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Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...

ICE treats American citizens like they are a war-time enemy. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Senators pressed Kristi Noem on the DHS shutdown and shootings. Here are key moments Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testified amid a pause in funding to her agency and increased bipartisan scrutiny of her leadership.

www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n...

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

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The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.

Citizens Bank has largely flown under the radar as a major financier of ICE detention companies.

Not anymore. 🧵

Hennepin County Attorney asks public for evidence of misconduct by Bovino, other immigration agents • Minnesota Reformer The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office is investigating 17 incidents in which immigration authorities potentially violated the law — including one involving former Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovin...

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Data: Immigrant Detention Quick Facts
68,289 people
in detention on February 7, 2026

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6 Surprising Facts About Trees That Will Change How You See Forests | Earth Day Celebrate World Mangrove Day by discovering six surprising facts about trees that reveal just how vital they are to our planet’s health and future.

"Trees actually communicate and share resources with one another through an underground fungal network often referred to as the “Wood Wide Web.” This network is made up of mycorrhizal fungi that connect the roots of different trees and plants."
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Same Brutal ICE. Now Stealthier. ICE has learned how to be cruel and lawless without drawing so much attention to itself.

www.thebulwark.com/p/same-bruta...

Big win for Minnesota refugees represented by @chrclla.bsky.social & @irap.bsky.social & cocounsel.

Singing Resistance! March 1, 1pm
1313 Belknap, Superior, WI
Douglas County Courthouse
Weekend of Actions!
We sing in resistance to the violence perpetuated by ICE & Border Patrol agents across our nation.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

ICE’s Largest Prison Contractors Post Record Revenue Two of ICE’s biggest contractors for operating detention centers hailed "growth opportunities" amid Trump's crackdown.

One of ICE’s biggest contractors for building and managing detention centers posted record revenue in 2025. The GEO Group, which operates 19 facilities for ICE, reported $2.6 billion in total revenue in 2025. That’s profits paid for with your tax dollars.

Immigration Agents Arrest Student Inside Columbia Building, School Says

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How to build emergency response systems for the long haul The international accompaniment movement teaches us that to avoid burnout, we must build durable, collective and supportive structures now.

@democracydefenders.work wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/how-...

The children of Dilley • Minnesota Reformer Quickly after returning to office, President Donald Trump resumed family detentions as part of his mass deportation campaign.

minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/25/t...

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.

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He witnessed a migrant death at an ICE detention center, then was deported A deported witness describes the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an El Paso ICE facility, alleging guards beat him while he yelled 'I can't breathe.'

"He was yelling 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' as they hit him"

DHS deported one of the witnesses to the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana. He was held in disciplinary segregation at the time when guards choked the 55-year-old Cuban immigrant to death.

Investigation urged into immigration practices of company owned by Maga donors Milwaukee city council member calls for inquiry into Uline’s previous ‘shuttle program’ to bring in Mexican workers

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE, Inc.: The Top Companies Profiting from Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A number of the companies winning the largest amount of ICE contracts in Trump’s second term made large political contributions and lobbied on a law tripling ICE’s budget.

www.pogo.org/investigates...

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

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