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“The First Amendment protects filming the police, but Berenice Garcia-Hernandez says she was dragged out of her car and detained for nearly seven hours for snapping photos of ICE agents.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/oregon-woman-says-ice-broke-out-her-car-windows-and-detained-her-for-filming-them/
“A federal judge in Chicago ordered roughly 600 people to be released from immigration detention…The individuals, the judge found, had been arrested in violation of a 2022 consent decree designed to ensure immigration agents have probable cause before making warrantless arrests.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/federal-judge-orders-over-600-ice-detainees-to-be-released-from-custody/
An Interview With the Man Behind Trump’s Current Immigration Crackdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjYYOEXZLKc
“Two reports find that the detention system is failing to provide detainees with adequate food, water, and medical care.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/03/senate-investigations-find-medical-neglect-and-other-human-rights-violations-in-immigration-detention-centers/
If you can’t humanely treat the mass of people you are arresting on immigration charges, then you should arrest less people.
“The emergency lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’ Eastern Division on October 30, accuses the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and ICE of denying detainees adequate access to counsel, food, water, and medical care. An emergency hearing was held on Tuesday, in which Broadview detainees described being held in a cell with roughly 150 other people, sleeping on the floor for days near overflowing toilets, inoperable showers, and a lack of hygiene products like toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap while at the facility.
One of the detainees who spoke on Tuesday was Felipe Agustin Zamacona, a 47-year-old man who was born in Mexico but has lived in the U.S. for 31 years. He said the cell was never mopped or swept, and had an overflowing garbage can, according to CBS News. He told the judge that “it smelled like a dirty washroom, like sweat, like a dirty locker,” reported The New York Times. Although detainees were given two or three cold sandwiches a day, Agustin only ate his first one after subsequently getting sick with diarrhea.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/06/federal-judge-blasts-disgusting-ice-facility-conditions-orders-basic-humane-treatment-for-detainees/
‘We Have a Border for a Reason’ | “The Opinions” podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zLPQl5iMM
“”Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Dell Cameron and Caroline Haskins write at Wired. “The bulletin cites five 2025 incidents involving fake immigration officers and says criminals are using Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s heightened profile to target vulnerable communities, making it harder for Americans to distinguish between lawful officers and imposters while eroding trust in law enforcement.””
https://reason.com/2025/11/07/even-the-fbi-thinks-masked-ice-agents-are-a-bad-idea/
“Despite Trump promising to stand “with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela,” his administration has fast-tracked deportations for victims of communism.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/10/dont-send-cubans-and-venezuelans-back-to-suffer-under-communism/
The U.S. is declaring large parts of the southern border military areas. The U.S. military cannot be used to enforce immigration, but it can stop people from entering its own bases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2WGo3KynBg
What I Saw at the Epicenter of Trump’s War on ‘Illegals’
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/31/migrants-asylum-immigration-court-00622991?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=73c6cfca-34bf-4f9a-ab1a-14ba8cc85651