Lisa Cook Tells Trump She Won’t Quit, Abrego Garcia Detained Again, Inside North Korea’s ‘Waikiki’

If Trump successfully destroys the Fed’s independence, he will have eliminated the country’s ability to manage the economy with limited influence by short-term election cycles.

Israel hits hospital and kills five journalists, then says they will investigate what happened.

Trump is preparing to send the national guard to more cities. The national guard is not designed to enforce crime. Trump focuses on cities run by Democrats even though several high crime cities are run by Republicans. If Trump mostly or only sends troops to “crack down on crime” in Democrat run cities, that indicates that this is political intimidation and U.S. democracy is dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLmiwzOxaaA

The Human Rights Crisis in ICE Detention Centers

“The overcrowding, combined with negligence and malevolence, has led to inevitable abuses that are too large to ignore or deny.

In one case reported to the senator’s office, a woman in ICE custody “was pregnant and bled for days before facility staff would take her to a hospital. Once she was there, she was reportedly left in a room, alone, to miscarry without water or medical assistance, for over 24 hours.”

“We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” Harpinder Chauhan, a British entrepreneur who was detained by ICE this spring, told the researchers.

“There was a dude, he passed out. He was crying for his medicine for like two or three days,” A.S. says. “They didn’t give him his medicine until he finally passed out, right before they were gonna put him on the plane.”

These sorts of abuses aren’t exclusive to the Trump administration; they’re a feature of mass detention. During the Biden administration, Reason obtained whistleblower audio recordings from a tent camp for migrant youths inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas. In the recordings, officials frankly discussed filthy conditions, lack of medical care, and inappropriate staff contact with minors.

The Trump administration’s reaction, though, has not been to slow down its deportation efforts, but to supercharge them. The administration awarded a $238 million contract in July to build and operate the largest immigrant detention center in the country at Fort Bliss.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/15/the-human-rights-crisis-in-ice-detention-centers/

Video Shows Immigration Officers Shooting at a San Bernardino Family’s Car. DHS Calls It Justified.

“A recent immigration stop in San Bernardino, California, ended with three gunshots from federal officers after the driver fled the scene in his vehicle. While the Department of Homeland Security claims that the officers acted in self-defense after the driver struck two agents, the passengers believe footage of the altercation reveals that it was the passengers, not the officers, who were the victims.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/20/video-shows-immigration-officers-shooting-at-a-san-bernardino-familys-car-dhs-calls-it-justified/

Trumpflation Squeezes Parents; Populist Dem Runs In Maine w/ Liz Pancotti, Graham Platner | MR Live

Trump’s Federal police action in DC is costing one million dollars a day.

Right wing media uses a deadly car accident where an illegal immigrant with a driver’s license made a driving mistake and people died…as evidence of illegals killing people. JD Vance refers to this deadly car accident as murder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDncNEBydPI

Shattering Norms: Federal Immigration Agents Aren’t Afraid to Smash Your Car Window

“An investigation by ProPublica has revealed nearly 50 instances of officers shattering windows while conducting immigration-related arrests in the last six months. Although not comprehensive and hard to verify without government statistics, only eight occurrences were found in the decade preceding Trump’s return to office. The uptick in window destruction coincides with growing uneasiness around how federal agents conduct themselves—and how aggressive behavior may even be rewarded within the Trump administration.

American citizens have also been implicated during these forceful arrests. In a since-deleted Facebook Live video, agents pulled over Jennifer Gribben, a U.S. citizen, and her boyfriend Martin Rivera (ProPublica did not note his citizenship status), and told them they were looking for a fugitive named Garcia. Officers then smashed the car’s window to arrest them. Gribben said in a Facebook post that she was hit in the head by officers and that Rivera suffered a broken arm. She was later charged with resisting arrest and third-degree assault, to which she pleaded not guilty.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/01/shattering-norms-federal-immigration-agents-arent-afraid-to-smash-your-car-window/

Immigrant Warns Trump’s Foreign Workers Brain Drain Is Real And Already Devastating

Trump’s policies are decreasing the number of smart, highly productive, and helpful people who live in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKeLSbYCh_c

Trump Voter Gets Racial Profiled By ICE Goons

ICE is pulling over and harassing American citizens apparently just because of their race. ICE is using simply one’s race as reasonable suspicion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlk0xqVCNs

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Imperils the Fourth Amendment Rights of U.S. Citizens

“the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit largely affirmed a lower court ruling that found that the Trump administration was likely guilty of conducting illegal immigration raids in the greater Los Angeles area that violated the Fourth Amendment rights of multiple U.S. citizens.

Generally speaking, Fourth Amendment caselaw requires that an officer must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity in order to stop someone. In the immigration context, a federal officer must have reasonable suspicion that a person is in violation of immigration law in order to detain them.

In this case, Perdomo v. Noem, the lower court held, and the appellate court agreed, that the Trump administration was apparently carrying out immigration raids and arrests without any semblance of reasonable suspicion, which invariably meant that U.S. citizens were also getting caught up in the federal dragnet.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/05/trumps-immigration-crackdown-imperils-the-fourth-amendment-rights-of-u-s-citizens/

Trump’s big bill is powering his mass deportations. Congress is starting to ask questions

“The Republican Party’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts that Trump signed into law July 4 included what’s arguably the biggest boost of funds yet to the Department of Homeland Security — nearly $170 billion, almost double its annual budget.

The staggering sum is powering the nation’s sweeping new Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, delivering gripping scenes of people being pulled off city streets and from job sites across the nation — the cornerstone of Trump’s promise for the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. Homeland Security confirmed over the weekend ICE is working to set up detention sites at certain military bases.

The crush of new money is setting off alarms in Congress and beyond, raising questions from lawmakers in both major political parties who are expected to provide oversight. The bill text provided general funding categories — almost $30 billion for ICE officers, $45 billion for detention facilities, $10 billion for the office of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — but few policy details or directives. Homeland Security recently announced $50,000 ICE hiring bonuses.

In the months since Trump took office, his administration has been shifting as much as $1 billion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other accounts to pay for immigration enforcement and deportation operations, lawmakers said.

Polling showed 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a “good thing” for the country, having jumped substantially from 64% a year ago, according to Gallup. Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults say immigration is a bad thing right now.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumps-big-bill-powering-mass-111514464.html