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French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart

Thank god she's been released.

‘Maman is finally free!’: French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal | France | The Guardian

An 86-year-old French widow arrested and detained by US immigration agents has been released and allowed to return to her home country.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Whistleblowers Raise Alarm About More Kids Dying in CBP Custody

Another preventable child death is "only a matter of time," they warn, days after PunchUp revealed chaos behind the scenes at the federal agency.

thepunchup.substack.com

 

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If this is an attempt to become writers for The Onion...

Trump backs idea of changing ICE’s name to ‘NICE’

President Trump on Sunday endorsed the idea of changing the name of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would give the agency the acronym NICE.

The idea was promoted by conservative influencer Alyssa Marie last month.

“I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement) so the media has to say NICE agents all day everyday,” Marie wrote in a March post on social platform X.

Late Sunday evening, the president publicly endorsed the switch.

“GREAT IDEA!!! DO IT,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

 

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[Isabeau]

“We didn’t vote for this…”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

These brothers, 15 and 18, came here legally to learn. Their status changed without their knowledge because they transferred schools. Now separated and detained out of state. The “worst of the worst” are in the White House and Fort McNair...

bsky.app

Fortunately they've been released

Gillian Brockell (@gillianbrockell.com)

Great news: Brothers Israel and Max Makoka have been freed. They never should have been detained in the first place, and they still have a capricious and stupid immigration case to fight, but they are free and back with their guardians...

bsky.app

 

[Govi]

If this is an attempt to become writers for The Onion...

Trump backs idea of changing ICE’s name to ‘NICE’

It could easily stand for the far more appropriate Nazified Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

BREAKING: Trump is Demanding Google Turnover Private Information Of Canadians Who Shit Talk Him. I'm Literally Right Here...

The Department of Homeland Security is using a 1930 customs law to try to unmask Canadian critics. the case could decide whether the U.S. government can surveil dissenters anywhere on Earth.

deanblundell.substack.com

The story in one paragraph

A Canadian man who lives in Canada, has not crossed the U.S. border since 2015, and posts pseudonymously on X about American politics learned in February that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had served Google with an administrative subpoena demanding nearly everything Google knows about him — his name, address, location history, the websites he visits, who he talks to online, his sign-in times, his IP addresses. The trigger, according to the lawsuit he filed Monday in the Northern District of California, was a series of posts criticizing federal immigration agents after they killed two American citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, during the ICE surge in Minneapolis. The legal authority DHS cited? A 1930 customs statute meant to verify that importers paid the right duty on shipped merchandise.

Yes, really.

 

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Trump is going to do so much damage to the Tech Bro Oligarchs who've been funding him. There's already a big push in europe to de-americanise services from messaging and email to payment systems. He's just proving them right. I want to see what happens when US services operating in Europe find themselves subjected to orders to turn over data that should be subject to EU privacy laws.

 

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Politico: 10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies

Ten thousand losses.

That’s the Trump administration’s track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.

 

[Free]

Another alligator bites the Alcatraz.

‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the controversial Florida migrant detention facility, expected to close, source says

Florida is expected to wind down its “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility sometime this summer, according to a source familiar with the planning.

Vendors at the site were told Tuesday that detainees will be removed by “the start of” June and the center will be dismantled in the following weeks, three people familiar with the facility’s operations told The New York Times.

WFOR reported similar details about notices given to state contractors who run the facility, citing four sources familiar with the announcement.

Though the facility, embedded deep in the Florida Everglades, has been touted by Republicans as a valuable tool in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the closure follows nearly a year of legal challenges, mounting operational costs and allegations of inhumane conditions.

And stupid naming choices. They should have called it Trump Prison. A lot of us might be interested in trying to keep it open as the next home of a certain someone.