All posts tagged "Law Enforcement Agencies"

Jesse Iñiguez, a coffee shop owner, has inadvertently found himself at the center of Operation Midway Blitz — the Trump administration’s contentious U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mission that’s brought military-style raids, violent clashes and National Guard troops to Chicago.

“It's extremely frustrating,” said Iñiguez, owner of Back of the Yards Coffee.

“We didn't ask to be in the forefront of it, but they brought it to our store steps, and so we've had to find ways to deal with it.”...

A quick Walgreens trip near campus turned into an interrogation about foreign travel. Uniformed officers demanded citizenship papers from students. The FBI searched for a professor in the Center of African Studies. Department heads advised biology labs to lock their doors after U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents were allegedly spotted nearby.

Such stories ricocheted around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign last spring, ratcheting up anxiety, internal emails obtained by Raw Story show.

Police chief Matt Ballinger wrote there was no evidence ICE had carried out any such operations but also explained the problem: ICE doesn’t notify local police when making inquiries....

California state Sen. Mark Leno (D) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies in the state from using a person's cell phone to track their movement, unless they first got a warrant.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Friday blasted Congress for making the United States a "wide-open playground for government snooping."

"Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded," she says