#USA #politics #censorship #human-rights: “Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) sent #Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.”
on 02026-04-15discussion of #ICE and #censorship in #USA #politics through restrictions on #drones: “[D]rone operators can’t know whether they are within 3000 horizontal feet of unmarked DHS vehicles. Yet the TFR allows the government to capture or even shoot down a drone if it flies within the TFR radius, and to impose criminal and civil penalties on the operator. (...) We don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the TFR was put in place in January 2026, at the height of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, shortly after the killing of Renée Good and shortly before the shooting of Alex Pretti. After both of those tragedies, civilian recordings played a vital role in contradicting the government’s false account of the events.”
on 02026-04-03#ICE using #Mobile-Fortify to do #facial-recognition against #USA #politics protestors and revoking their #Global-Entry status. #human-rights
on 02026-02-16#USA #ICE #politics #news #video file of #Good killing
on 02026-01-08#USA #ICE #news showing #video of immigration agents killing 37-year-old US citizen Renee Nicole #Good with several shots at point-blank range as she was apparently trying to flee a sort of traffic stop. She seems to have hit the agent with her SUV before he started firing, but the government’s claims of “self-defense” don’t hold up given that the SUV accelerated out of control into a parked car as Good died, doing no harm to the agent. #politics
on 02026-01-08#news about #ICE #facial-recognition #biometrics called "Mobile Fortify". #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-10-29"#Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”” “ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA” is the name of the EO. “ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.” But only 600 soldiers? “Just this week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Governor Newsom was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the president from using the military for domestic policing unless he first invokes the Insurrection Act. (...) But if the courts do intervene, don’t expect Trump to give up on the idea. The most likely scenario is a similar project, but staffed with #ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, or DHS officers instead.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-10-02#USA #politics #ICE beating up US citizens and legal immigrants, apparently because they’re brown. #human-rights #racism
on 02025-09-29