“There is no legal requirement that US citizens carry papers or have proof of their citizenship on them,” said an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a […]
“Completely identical language,” said one observer. US President Donald Trump wasted little time exploiting the shooting of two National Guard troops to advance his lawless assault on immigrants and refugees, pledging on Thanksgiving Day to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries” and expedite the removal of people his administration doesn’t see as “a net asset” to the United States. […]
“If the federal government wants to help they should invest, not invade,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois’ elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump’s militarized “invasion” of the country’s third-largest city. […]
The Louisiana state prison has been known for brutal working conditions, solitary confinement, and violence As a court in Fort Myers, Florida prepared to hold the first hearing on the legal rights of immigrants detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Everglades detention facility that a federal judge ordered to be shut down last month, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem […]