"Most of the incidents involve officers firing at drivers during enforcement stops in cities like LA and Chicago. At least 10 people have been struck by bullets - including 4 US citizens. Three people have been killed.”

#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
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"At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025. ICE facilities across the country have faced allegations from human rights groups, immigration lawyers and lawmakers about overcrowding and poor conditions, such as rotten food, which the agency has denied."

~ Janelle Griffith

#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
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people.com/deaths-ice-custody-…

At Least 32 People Died in ICE Custody Last Year, as Fatal Shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti Spur National Outrage

The deaths occurred during a year of intensified immigration enforcement and preceded recent fatal encounters involving federal agents.

^{Janelle Griffith (PEOPLE)}

"Today Jeff Winter and Priscilla Alvarez of CNN broke the story that ICE agents have been collecting the personal information of protesters in Minneapolis. They reported that officials asked federal agents sent to Minneapolis to 'capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #AlexPretti
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

January 27, 2026

The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents has put wind in the sails of those trying to rein in the Trump administration at the same time it has sent the administration scrambling to regain its course.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"A form titled 'intel collection non-arrests' enabled agents to fill in protesters’ personal information. ...

Sources told Winter and Alvarez that federal agents had documented details about Pretti before Saturday. About a week before his death, Pretti stopped his car to observe federal agents chasing a family on foot, shouted, and blew a whistle."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #AlexPretti
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"Five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back, breaking a rib, before they released him. Medical records confirm Pretti was treated for the injury."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #AlexPretti
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"Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology.

The app is named Mobile Fortify."

~ Sanya Mansoor

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
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theguardian.com/technology/202…

How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota

Mobile Fortify tech being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

"Simply pointing a phone’s camera at their intended target and scanning the person’s face allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual from multiple federal and state databases, some of which federal courts have deemed too inaccurate for arrest warrants."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
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"The US Department of Homeland Security has used Mobile Fortify to scan faces and fingerprints in the field more than 100,000 times, according to a lawsuit brought by Illinois and Chicago against the federal agency, earlier this month."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
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"The Guardian has confirmed that ICE is increasingly using a smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan faces in Minnesota and nationwide, allowing agents to instantly pull biometric data from multiple databases, a practice critics warn risks misidentification, racial bias, and privacy violations, has sparked lawsuits and protests," (continued in /11)

Aaron Parnas

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/10

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/imp…

Important Update: Trump Faces Internal Chaos as Republicans Break From White House While ICE Causes International Incident

Good morning everyone.

^{Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)}

(continued from /10)

"and prompted Democratic lawmakers to push legislation restricting or banning its use outside ports of entry."

#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/11

"A plurality of Americans now want to abolish ICE, a position that before this year was considered a crazy lefty idea no smart Democrat would want to associate themselves with. Both privately and publicly, Republicans have been telling Trump that he’s losing the public relations battle over Minneapolis."

~ Paul Waldman

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
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paulwaldman.substack.com/p/wha…

What Trump and Republicans Never Understood About Immigration

They thought all Americans shared their hatred and bloodlust.

^{Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)}

"In social media spaces devoted to everything from knitting to football, conversations have been taken over by outrage at ICE. Yet still, Republicans don’t quite understand how this happened."

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
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"The killing by federal agents of two Americans in Minneapolis this month — Renee Good on Jan. 7, 2026, and Alex Pretti on Jan. 24 — has created a backlash to the administration’s policy of mass deportations and 'immigration enforcement' that is causing voters (in all parties) to move against the president’s agenda."

~ G. Elliott Morris

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
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gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-im…

The ICE shootings are a tipping point

Donald Trump's approval on immigration has collapsed 18 points since taking office, and support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swung 50 points since Sept. 2024.

^{G. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)}

"As a student of public opinion, I see these events as constituting a classic 'tipping point' in how voters see immigration — and how they evaluate their leaders on the issue."

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
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