U.S. Border Enforcement - ICE will get you

[Innula Zenovka]

The secretive, destructive work of an ICE attorney: ‘My job is to do what I’m told’

 

[detrius]

ICE is planning to warehouse their detainees. This is sickening.

Trump team plans to renovate industrial warehouses so they can hold up to 80,000 migrants: report


They want to put one of these in my state.

When Dachau was opened in 1933, it had a capacity for 5,000 people.

When Auschwitz II Birkenau was liberated at the end of the war, it had a potential maximum capacity for about 200,000 people.

 

[detrius]

Who of you folks isn't? I'm from Germany so I'm not concerned - for now...

Khalid El-Masri just wanted to go on vacation in Macedonia when he was detained and handed over to the CIA to be raped and tortured.

Someone else who had a similar name was on a list.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social)

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways

bsky.app

Homeland security is increasing the use of undercover techniques to infiltrate and interact with social media users in order to collect intelligence and target individuals, documents leaked to me reveal.

The new program, called “masked engagement,” allows homeland security officers to assume false identities and interact with users—friending them, joining closed groups, and gaining access to otherwise private postings, photographs, friend lists and more.

 

[Khamon]

Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social)

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways

bsky.app

With this news, flooding social media with ICE deterrent bots is authorized, I mean, not that one has the presence to influence such a thing, but those that do, can.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

With this news, flooding social media with ICE deterrent bots is authorized, I mean, not that one has the presence to influence such a thing, but those that do, can.

Or try to remember a piece of wisdom too many people have forgotten: don't put it in writing unless you're content to have it read out in court or read it on the front page of a newspaper.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.

This is an example of “Silicon Valley CEOs and their inability to divorce ICE and the complete lack of understanding of why that makes them monsters,” a Salesforce employee told 404 Media. “Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was.” Another employee told 404 Media that Benioff “then followed it up with a joke about not understanding the message of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance. On its own just seems out of touch, but coupled with the previous joke it does seem worse.”

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[Innula Zenovka]

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

techcrunch.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

ICE Is Inside Your Phone

Masked federal agents patrol downtown Chicago, but the surveillance did not begin when they arrived and will not end when they pass.

wendy664.substack.com

Unlock your phone and check how many apps have access to your location. Every one of them is broadcasting your precise GPS coordinates to thousands of private bidders every time they serve an ad, and the federal government is buying that data in bulk.

That data pipeline is just one layer of a much wider system. In January 2026, an ICE agent pointed a smartphone at a woman standing on a public sidewalk in Portland, Maine and told her she was being entered into a database of domestic terrorists. She had done nothing but watch an enforcement operation from across the street. That same month, Google received an ICE subpoena demanding a student journalist’s credit card numbers, bank account information, and metadata, then complied the same day it notified him, leaving no meaningful window to challenge the demand in court.

This would be completely unlawful in the EU and the UK.

 

[Free]

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

techcrunch.com

"Force" - That's a laugh!

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

gizmodo.com

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.

Those three companies, plus Discord, have received “hundreds” of such requests that have come from DHS recently. Meta, it should be noted, is the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

Administrative subpoenas used for this purpose represent an escalation. This tool, which comes not from a judge but from DHS itself, was formerly reserved for situations like child abductions, according to the Times.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into camps

Merriam-Webster defines a concentration camp as “a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard”. By that definition, ICE already operates a sprawling network of concentration camps where captured immigrants, the largest group of whom have committed no crime, are housed in what countless accounts describe as inhumane conditions, designed to degrade, hurt, sicken and punish them, despite Trump administration claims that ICE facilities are held to “national detention standards”. With its new warehouse purchases, the Trump administration is seeking to expand and intensify this archipelago of torture. Mass illness, abuse, immiseration and death will be the inevitable result. How will we live with the shame?

ETA

Joe Walsh (@socialcontractwithjoewalsh)

substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

When undocumented workers are no longer available as a source of cheap labour, whether because ICE have imprisoned them or they're frightened to turn up for work because of ICE, Florida has a solution -- divert high school students out of education and into the labour force so they can provide cheap labour instead.

Aaron Rupar (@aaronrupar)

Florida AG James Uthmeier: "We need to focus on getting people into the workforce even earlier. We passed legislation last year to help high school students get their hands dirty and get on job sites more quickly."

substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Reuters: Trump's immigration approval hits new low, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll

 

[Free]

ICE can’t take Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into custody, federal judge rules

Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be re-detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, dealing the Trump administration another blow in its effort to keep him locked up while it attempts to deport him again.

The injunction issued by US District Judge Paula Xinis, of the federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, follows an emergency order she handed down in December that similarly blocked officials from taking Abrego Garcia into immigration custody. But unlike the earlier ruling, the government can appeal the new one up to a Richmond, Virginia-based federal appeals court.

Tuesday’s decision is the latest judicial rebuke of the government’s maneuvering in Abrego Garcia’s case, which has come to symbolize the administration’s hardline — and, at times, slapdash — approach to immigration enforcement. Abrego Garcia was unlawfully deported to El Salvador last year and, following a series of court rulings, brought back to the US to face federal human smuggling charges in Tennessee.

The government has been dicking around with Garcia's life since March of last year. It's about time someone is trying to put an end to it (the dicking around).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps

“This system is designed to punish, not protect”

contrarian.substack.com

In the twisted structure embraced by the Trump administration, each new human detained by ICE represents a profit opportunity for a corporation. Nearly 90 percent of people in immigration detention are held in facilities “owned or operated by private prison companies,” according to the AIC report. Trump’s brutal mass-detention complex is enriching a network of private prison companies with names like CoreCivic, Acquisition Logistics, and Akima Global Services — at taxpayer expense.

Below, we examine serious allegations from four federal facilities that have become notorious for detainee mistreatment. Neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security responded to requests for comment for this story.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

 

[Free]

What you need to know about Texas ICE detention deaths

Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.

www.texastribune.org

In the span of just six weeks between December and January, six people died while detained by ICE in Texas — three of them at Camp East Montana. The deadly period began with a 48-year-old Guatemalan, Francisco Gaspar-Andres, who ICE said died on Dec. 3 of liver and kidney failure after being hospitalized for more than two weeks following detention.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How MAGA learned to love Christian persecution

Their "faith" has become a weapon of white nationalism.

www.publicnotice.co

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

 

[Beebo Brink]

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

The inaction of the British embassy is what surprised me the most.