#ice-enforcement

#ice-enforcement

San Jose is planning to slash its funding for immigrant protection services in half amid a budget deficit, while immigrants continue to face fear of federal enforcement. The city's proposed operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year allocates $500,000 for legal defense services and education - half of what the city allocated last year. Immigration advocates said it isn't enough to keep up with the demands of providing free legal services to a local population worried about being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. They want the city to restore full funding.

“The mass deportations in Trump 2.0 are not helping the labor market overall and not creating more job opportunities for U.S.-born workers,” East says. In fact, she and her co-author find evidence that, if anything, the clampdown has hurt the employment prospects of U.S.-born workers, particularly working-class men who work in industries that are heavily reliant on undocumented workers, like construction.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have detained at least 46 people outside Santa Clara County's main jail since June 2025, exploiting publicly posted release lists to make arrests in a county that otherwise bars cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, officials say.

We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain't funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don't get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go f- yourselves... Radiohead

Labor unions, immigrant rights groups, nurses, students, San Jose elders and faith representatives led a resounding echoing drumbeat that our community would not tolerate the infamous "ICE surge" we saw invade Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities. It seems undeniable that the showing of an organized, button-upped top to bottom community, influenced the calculus of the federal administration to not invade our county with the brutal, terrorizing and intentionally public raids ICE is known for.

Americans, broadly speaking from all the polls, are happy for people who are in the country illegally, who then commit crimes unconnected to their status, to be deported, it's the behavior of ICE on the streets of American cities and towns in going way too far with people who may have been in the country for ten years, raised kids, got jobs, paid taxes, and so on, that is not supported by the American people.

I know a little place where the ingredients are always fresh. You can get a mega-burrito and a Dos Equis to wash it down for not much more than 10 bucks. If you're in a bad mood when you arrive, you won't be for long, because the workers smile, they laugh, they seem like they're having so much fun making your food just the way you like it that you can't help but start to feel like you're having a little fun yourself.

The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024 while attending Cornell University in New York. Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson's IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account.

Lark: This was our way to make our voices heard, because at the end of the day, we're 16 what we say isn't going to make the lawmaker listen to us.

So you would guarantee to the American public that ICE will not be around polling locations or voting locations in November? I can't guarantee that an ICE agent won't be around a polling location in November. I mean, that's frankly a very silly hypothetical question, but what I can tell you is I haven't heard the president discuss any formal plans to put ICE outside of polling locations, replied Leavitt. It's a disingenuous question.

"Freedom from fear" was the fourth of four freedoms defining democracy President Franklin D. Roosevelt framed in his rally cry to fight fascist conquest from without. It is openly debated whether America is now fighting a fascist takeover from within. It may be debated, but only because the would-be dictators of the world will always disguise their plays for power in the mock forms of democratic legality-by declaring a fake emergency, attacking political rivals through trumped-up legal charges or holding rigged elections.

She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. In a follow-up tweet, Blume added that Blackwell had called the hearing because he was frustrated that in 5 Habeas cases he was presiding over, he felt his orders were being ignored, leaving immigrant detainees unconstitutionally locked up for days. Then, Blume said, Le admitted that the government's lawyer just cannot keep up.

The most telling scenes for Andrew Hazzard are the abandoned cars in the middle of the streets. On a recent Friday morning, the Sahan Journal reporter was out in south Minneapolis, where he lives, looking for federal immigration activity. "I know they're very active in the morning," he said. Over the past several weeks, Hazzard has noticed trends, but the one that encapsulates what he says "feels like an occupation" is the abandoned vehicles.

State of play: The appearance of sometimes militant armed groups could heighten tension following the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by federal agents. These groups present themselves as immigrant-rights defenders, not paramilitary forces - but the revived names carry historic weight. Catch up quick: ICE enforcement activity has increased in several cities, prompting large protests and neighborhood-level response efforts.

The US Senate approved a major government funding package on Friday, after the killings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis upended spending talks and gave out-of-power rare leverage over Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. In a 71-29 tally, the Senate overcame last-minute opposition from a handful of Republicans to rally behind a deal the president struck with Democrats, an unusual display of bipartisanship as tensions rise nationally over the presence of ICE in American cities.

The word that comes to my mind is dissidence. If we want to understand why the whistleblowing, camera-wielding people of Minneapolis have caused the Trump administration-and Donald Trump himself-to flinch, I believe we need some added history, and a bigger map. What we've been watching is part of a long, established tradition-one that might help Americans unlock a different kind of future.

Since the beginning of January, thousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the city. Confusion, violence and chaos followed. Two people have been killed, hundreds have disappeared but that's not the full story. Because thousands of residents in the city have been mobilising. Annie Kelly spoke to five people living in Minneapolis about how they have been taking on ICE and the consequences.

Minnesota, we've been through a lot, Klobuchar said in a video posted on X on Thursday morning, calling out political violence across the state, including the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents dispatched to the area by Donald Trump. She continued: We cannot sugar coat how hard this is, but in these moments of enormous difficulty, we find strength in our Minnesota values of hard work, freedom and simple decency and good will.

Nobody can see those videos and say that that man was assaulting ICE agents. He was backpedaling the whole time, a woman was violently shoved to the ground. He was shoved, he was pepper sprayed, and then taken to the ground. If we're going to say that he was assaulting the police, I think that leads to more distrust of ICE, Paul said.

In mid-January, I gathered my staff of 10 for a training session on what to do if ICE agents showed up at my restaurant. It came after days of hearing how concerned the team was following news of an increased presence of ICE agents in Portland. This is not the kind of information we, as restaurant workers, are accustomed to needing to know and relay. This is all so new. We're entering the unknown. And people are scared of the unknown.

The matchups are set and the transformation is underway at Levi's Stadium. Plans are turning into preparation for Super Bowl LX and the Valley Transportation Authority is ready to take people where they need to go. VTA has been holding trainings for operators and maintaining the fleet of busses and light rails for the event. Twenty-two extra trains will run Super Bowl Sunday to help move an expected VTA record 25,000 fans on gameday.

Renée Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent on January 7, 2026, sparking nationwide protests, was an award-winning poet, musician, and writer. In recent years, she was dedicated to being a stay-at-home parent to her 6-year-old son with her wife Rebecca "Becca" Good. From a previous marriage she also had two older children, ages 12 and 14, who now live with their biological father.