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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."
~ Minneapolios Star Tribune
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.
Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,
“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderSam Levin (The Guardian)
"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."
Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."
The father, Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, was detained near Powderhorn Park on Jan. 22, while returning home from a grocery store with his daughter, according to lawyers for the family."
~ Susan Du and Mara Klecker
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"'Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,' the official explained.
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #immigrants #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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"The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to 'send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,' a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me."
~ Ken Klippenstein
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”Ken Klippenstein
"That threat relates back to a post I wrote two weeks ago about the risk Trump would use his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights as though they were terrorists. Now it’s a reality."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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"Today in Portland, Maine, ICE agents began videotaping people who were observing them. Apparently, they thought this was clever. When asked why they were doing it, the agent in the video below responds: 'We have a nice little database.' 'And now you’re a domestic terrorist.'”
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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There’s ICE In Maine
Mainers have been watching Minnesota.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Now the visible targets of border enforcement are increasingly immigrants who have built their lives in the U.S. – neighbors, friends, co-workers – as well as anyone who opposes ICE’s tactics, like Renee Good."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"But Trump during his second presidency has greatly shifted immigration enforcement north into the interior of the U.S. And ICE has played a central role. ...
Americans may not know about the experiences of migrants who are quickly deported near the border, but it is harder to ignore recent images of people snatched up within their own neighborhoods."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"From 2010-2020, nearly 80% of all deportations were initiated at or near the U.S.-Mexico border. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that number jumped to 98%, as both the Trump and Biden administrations utilized Title 42, a public health statute that allowed the government to rapidly deport recently arrived migrants."
~ The Conversation
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.The Conversation
"ICE is the worst of America, indeed perhaps the worst of humanity – a window into the corruption that is possible in the human soul. They are animals with the gall to call themselves men."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"[Pictures of Liam used as bait by ICE] make plain the sheer sadism of ICE and their agenda, the smallness, cowardice and moral degeneracy of people who would arm themselves to the teeth and cover their faces in order to attack a child not yet big enough to tie his own shoes."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"It need not detract from the specificity of Liam and his suffering to say that his arrest and the photos of it that were released by the school that wants him back, are a potent symbol of what Trump’s ICE raids are doing, both to Minneapolis and to the country as a whole."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"Liam’s plain blamelessness, his innocence, the useless cruelty of his capture, the bald, shameless cynicism of his use as 'bait' to capture the adults who love him – these evidence an evil I was naive enough not to know about. I am not so naive anymore."
~ Moira Donegan
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE
It has become difficult to feel shock at the actions of the Trump administration. But this useless cruelty is shamelessMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
"You're using a 5-year-old to to bait other adults to come out and then you still detain the 5-year-old while another relative is there saying if you've got to take the father at least leave the child with us and then refuses to do that. Like you you've lost your humanity. What on earth?"
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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Jemar Tisby comments on the story of ICE using five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to lure his family out of their house, then sending Liam and his father to Texas:
"You've lost the plot as a human being at this point."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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The Escalating ICE Brutality and Church Protests
This week we talk about the recent autopsy reports that reveal the escalating brutality of ICE. Renee Goode’s autopsy revealed that she was shot four times i...YouTube
"No one in this family is a criminal — least of all, a five-year-old boy.
But what ICE did was not an error. It was the policy working as designed."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"And because they did everything right, ICE knew exactly where to find them.
Agents didn’t have to investigate. They didn’t have to dismantle a criminal network or put themselves at risk. They simply showed up at a home and detained a preschooler whose backpack was still on his shoulders, despite having no deportation order and no allegation of criminality."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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"Liam is five years old. He wasn’t hiding and his family wasn’t evading the law. They entered through a legal port of entry and applied for asylum, checked in repeatedly with immigration authorities and did everything the United States asked of them — because that is what the law required."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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The Secret ICE Doesn’t Want You to Understand
Compliance is the new crimeJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
"Federal immigration authorities under the Department of Homeland Security launched an ICE crackdown dubbed 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine as part of the Trump administration’s deportation push, prompting heightened concern in cities like Portland, where Mayor Mark Dion said residents are on high alert amid recent migrant arrivals."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty #Maine
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"While aggressive deportation tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have garnered headlines, cuts to the admission of legal immigrants will have a profound impact on the country and millions of people.”
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
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“New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years. Restricting Americans’ ability to sponsor their closest family members will be the administration’s primary way to lower legal immigration."
~ Stuart Anderson
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
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"Trump’s approval on immigration has dropped to 44% approve / 53% disapprove (net -9), and his deportation policy is at 42% / 54% (net -12). Border security remains his only positive issue at 50% / 46% (net +4). Trump’s numbers on all three have declined since our last poll in October, 2025."
~ G. Elliott Morris
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #violence #ApprovalRating
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New poll: Trump loses ground on immigration; Dems lead 2026 House vote by 8 points
The new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the 2026 House vote, while Trump approval sinks on immigration, deportations, and public safetyG. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)
"Lunas Campos died of asphyxiation after guards put pressure on his neck and chest during an altercation during which Lunas Campos asked for his medication. Two detainees testified that they saw guards choking Lunas Campos, who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe. The Trump administration has since tried to deport the two witnesses."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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January 21, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
“'Based on the investigative and examination findings, it is my opinion that the cause of death is asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,' Adam C. Gonzalez, deputy medical examiner for El Paso County, said in the report. 'The manner of death is homicide.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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"The recent death of a detainee [Geraldo Lunas Campos] at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner."
~ Douglas MacMillan
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #KristiNoem #DHS #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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"Vance is visiting the Twin Cities today, and they’ve launched a new operation in Maine. For in their collective madness this will to power, this need to feel their boot on our neck, their seizing of Gaza and Venezuela - all of it has become the central project of the regime. It is not about what is good for the country. It is about more and more power and control."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #JDVance #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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Appeasement Never Works, Only Strength - Lessons From An Ugly Week (New Video, Analysis)
We must remember at all times that Trump has chosen not to govern with us, or for us, but against us - for they are scared of us, of the power of the peopleSimon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"This is only the latest cruel outrage I’ve heard about. All this is being done in our name — the United States of America — with our authority, our tax dollars, and, seemingly, our acquiescence."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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"ICE agents have kidnapped a 5-year-old child to use him as “bait” to arrest his parents. The child and his father are now in a detention center in Texas, although no one knows their exact whereabouts. They were in America legally."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America?
We’re in a far more dangerous and violent stage of Trump’s regime. What should we do to stop it?Robert Reich
"The Columbia Heights [Minnesota] Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year-old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as 'bait' to draw family members out of their home."
~ Elizabeth Shockman
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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"Miller plainly places more importance on reducing the totals of people here—or trying to get here—than on removing people who pose any actual danger. He appears to be actively prioritizing shifting the ethnic mix of the country over public safety."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #cruelty
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"Miller’s mission of boosting deportation numbers of necessity requires arresting people who are not criminals or gang members—people who have jobs and have become integrated into U.S. communities—because there’s no other way to get the removals up. But it makes us less safe."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #cruelty
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"Miller’s grander aims are best understood as an effort to destroy the entire architecture of immigration and humanitarian resettlement put in place in the post–World War II era."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #cruelty
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"When the final book is written on the Trump administration, Stephen Miller may well go down as the most decisive driver of its agenda, the figure who did more than anyone else to shape not just Trump's immigration policy but other core areas of his populist-nationalist vision."
~ Berny Belvedere
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #cruelty
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