Tag: Immigration & ICE
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ICE Brings Batons to Suburbs
We are now watching where they go next. Friday night in Frederick, Maryland, federal immigration agents drove onto a sidewalk where community observers were standing and chanting. City Council President César Díaz says people had to move or risk getting run over. He says Council Vice President Katie Nash was nearly struck, and that he…
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Trump Haitian Arrests
One may well ask, what kind of dignity and respect are we exhibiting as a quarter of this city’s residents now fear to move about? On Wednesday, the mayor of Springfield, Ohio confirmed that federal agents are arresting Haitian immigrants in his city. Roughly 15,000 Haitians live in Springfield — about a quarter of the…
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ICE Shock Gloves
New tech being deployed to make the compliance state more efficient. What could go wrong? On August 10, the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to spend up to twenty million dollars on electric shock gloves for ICE officers. The device, called the Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter or G.L.O.V.E., is made by Compliant Technologies…
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Children In Court Alone
Children, detained and alone, facing the government of the United States. This is what deporting the so-called worst of the worst looks like. On Friday, the Trump administration awarded a no-bid $158 million contract for legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children. It went to a group called Our Rescue. Multiple women have sued its founder…
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Trump Anti-Birthright Orders
We are one changed mind away from reopening the question of who is born a citizen. The administration seems intent on doing so. On Thursday, Donald Trump signed two executive orders seeking again to restrict birthright citizenship. Five weeks ago, on June 30, the Supreme Court struck down his first attempt to do so. Trump…
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ICE Airport Arrests
The airport security every traveler passes through is now part of the immigration dragnet. This week the Washington Post reported that ICE is expanding arrests inside airports nationwide. Documents obtained by watchdog groups show how it works. In May 2025, ICE and the TSA signed a data-sharing agreement. Several times each week, TSA sends ICE…
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ICE Business
Last year’s temporary detention camps are becoming permanent human confinement infrastructure. Amid a reshuffling of the administration’s internal security services, a longtime private prison executive has been named head of ICE. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security named David Venturella acting director of ICE, effective June 1. He spent eleven years at GEO Group,…
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Birthright Citizenship
Trump abruptly walked out just as the other side began its time and took to social media back at his office. Note to my future self. Today Donald Trump made history as the first president to attend arguments before the Supreme Court. The case is whether the administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is constitutional.…
Notes To My Future Self 