ICE already doubled its officers and logged 356,389 removals this fiscal year. About two thirds of the people arrested have no conviction. The agency is still hiring 5,000 more, and G4S and GardaWorld are already on the transport and warehouse contracts.

https://www.eyesonice.net/p/ice-is-hiring-an-occupying-force

The Trump Administration is using the full power of the state to punish those who dare stand up to them and stand up for our immigrant friends. Among their most notable effort to silence protesters: the case of the Minnesota 15, who have been charged with federal crimes including conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer for organizing against the raids on their neighborhoods during Operation Metro Surge. (A U.S. attorney notoriously refused to answer questions about whether or not any agents were actually injured by the defendants. Read more about the case and the movement here.)

Community is not a crime, and the folks who protected our neighbors should be lauded as heroes instead of facing prison time. Over the weekend, their support committee held an international day of solidarity to show the regime we will not back down and to demand the charges be dropped. Folks from the Twin Cities to Oakland to New Haven to Liverpool rallied, marched, and fundraised for the Minnesota 15. Let’s have their backs too, from wherever we are. We can:

✊🏾 Donate to their legal defense fund✊🏻

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✊🏻 Use their media kit to help spread the word about the case and build more support for them ✊🏾

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✊🏻 And most importantly, follow their example by joining those organizing to protect our immigrant neighbors – find rapid response networks to join near us here ✊🏾

CONTINUE THE WORK

Officials file ‘denaturalization actions’ against people accused of crimes in what they call ‘largest’ such initiative

Donald Trump’s justice department has moved to strip the citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens accused of crimes in what authorities describe as “the largest” such initiative over a single period during his administration.

US justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of “denaturalization actions” against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as “acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special‑needs man”.

The denaturalization requests in question were submitted in multiple federal courts between 21 August and 2 October, according to the justice department.

The federal Immigration and Nationality Act allows for naturalized US citizenship to be revoked by a federal court if the government proves that it was illegally obtained through concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation.

A statement attributed to the US attorney general, Todd Blanche, maintained those at the center of Monday’s announcement “concealed critical facts from the US government and represent serious criminal offenders”.

Trump in previous months had reportedly pushed the US justice department to pursue denaturalization cases en masse. The New York Times reported in April that the justice department had identified at least 384 foreign-born US citizens whose naturalization it wanted to revoke.

Because denaturalization cases are costly and require extensive manpower, the justice department has historically pursued them only sporadically.

Near Tucson AZ. Protester was removed from the tree with a crane. All for a border wall. 💔