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Reader Comments: State of the Union or of the Confederacy; Justice Department; Minneapolis Victory; Last Week's People's History - A Correction; Need to Take Action: Cuban Americans Say: Engagement Not Escalation; lots more and cartoons too...

Federal records obtained by WIRED show that over the past several months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US.

Defense of ICE has become a political loser, and the deal to trade reforms for continued funding is off the table.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) has ordered the termination of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agreements with law enforcement on Wednesday in an attempt to establish principles for agencies and divisions, to not being a tool for ICE.

The editors of The Nation magazine are in the process of formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The following nomination statement, which is addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee...

Reader Comments: May Day General Strike; Trump’s New “Prison Camp” ARE Concentration Camps; What Mark Carney gets wrong about end of the ‘rules-based order’; Body cameras are a hands-free killing tool for ICE; Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders; more..

The Trump regime’s deportation monomania has left far more people dead and wounded than it wants you to know. ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list.

A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right. The posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing...

Reader Comments: Minneapolis and Nation Respond to ICE; NBA Assoc Speaks Out; National Briefing - Minnesota and Beyond: Rapid Response to ICE in Occupied Cities; Planning Call-Stand with Minnesota-plan for NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING-MAY 1st;

The latest ICE murder produces a unified Senate Democratic Caucus blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security until strict and enforceable limits are set.