All posts tagged "Ice Raids"

A Republican lawmaker's comments about ICE ramping up deportations of Haitian immigrants stunned the internet on Monday.

Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) reacted to the federal agency's plan, praising the move during an interview with Fox News.

"Let's get them out of here. Let's get 'em all out of here, and let's start from the beginning," Rulli said....

President Donald Trump's MAGA inner circle has appeared to have entered the season of love with two Florida weddings this past weekend amid tensions over aggressive ICE immigration raids and killings of citizens, a recent attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and growing disapproval among voters.

The Cut's Olivia Craighead roasted the far-right followers and their leader for the separate celebrations, the first for 28-year-old Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz and former Miss Nevada Carolina Urrea at Trump's Miami golf club and another for White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and director of art in embassies Erin Elmore — officiated by Lara Trump — at Mar-a-Lago.

The outlet highlighted the arrivals of the president's closest allies and frenemies at the double events, including tech billionaire Elon Musk (in a red scarf), White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, Trump adviser Kari Lake, FBI Director Kash Patel, MAGA rapper Nicki Minaj and Kanye West's former girlfriend Amber Rose. ...

President Donald Trump's White House pressured Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to quickly produce social media videos — all in a push to try and score viral hits, a report claimed Tuesday.

The Washington Post revealed a series of internal chats, leaked to the outlet, that suggested ICE's media relations office was urged by the president's officials to pump out videos while immigration raids ramped up across the U.S.

"For years, this ICE team had run like a routine government communications shop, dispensing public service announcements and news releases few Americans would see. But during President Donald Trump’s second term, ICE’s public affairs arm has rapidly transformed into an influencer-style media machine, churning out flashy videos of tactical operations and immigration raids," The Post reported....

A former Biden administration official and human rights expert warned Wednesday that harmful MAGA immigration policies have crippled struggling local economies — further damaging Americans.

Michelle Brané, a non-resident fellow at the Cornell Law Migration and Human Rights Program and the executive director of Together and Free, wrote in a Newsweek opinion piece that immigrants working legally have been pulled off job sites, costing them and their employers thousands of dollars fighting legal battles they shouldn't have to.

Brané, who served as the immigration detention ombudsman for the Biden administration and the executive director of the Family Reunification Task Force, shared a story of Jaime in New York, who was detained for almost two months despite showing his work permit. Jaime was pulled from a job during an ICE raid where dozens were arrested. ...

The Coast Guard stationed a helicopter at Yaquina Bay, Ore., after a fishing boat capsized in 1985, killing three people because rescue aircraft were too far away to respond fast enough. When the Obama administration tried to move the helicopter to North Bend in 2014 local residents sued and Congress intervened to force the Coast Guard to provide ample notice and research to support any relocation of the helicopter — even for maintenance.

So, when rumors spread a few weeks ago that the helicopter was gone, many fishermen dismissed them, reports the New York Times, primarily because the very idea was ridiculous. Response times from the alternative landing site in North Bend can take up to an hour or longer.

“It’s mind-boggling that the decision was made to move this helicopter, but it’s just as mind-boggling that nobody bothered to talk to us about it,” said Taunette Dixon, a leader of the nonprofit Newport Fishermen’s Wives. “I don’t understand why the approach has to be adversarial here.”...