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War on the Castle, Peace in the Valley🛡️🍉🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦theghostoftomjoad@infosec.exchange
2026-02-06
Whoa...Minneapolis Shooting | ICE Shooting | ICE Minneapolis | Minneapolis | Minnesota | Maria Alfonsina Martinez | Marimar Martinez Shooting | Marimar Martinez ICE Shooting | DHS Shooting In Washington DC, a Congressional forum by Democrats heard the testimony of Marimar Maria Martinez, a Chicago-based woman, who was shot by a Border Patrol Agent during a vehicle incident in Brighton Park late last year. #MinneapolisShooting #ICEShooting #ICE #DHS #CBP #BorderPatrol #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ReneeGood, #MarimarMartinez #MariaAlfonsinaMartinez #ImmigrationEnforcement #PoliceBrutality #CongressHearing, #BreakingNews, #LiveNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUV9AiMfrs0
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Bi SasquatchBiSasquatch@c.im
2026-02-04

"The power to enforce immigration law rests with the federal government. But Trump adviser, Stephen Miller, has a vision for states working in coordination with federal immigration officials, and he’s attempting to test it out in Tennessee."

#Tennessee #ImmigrationEnforcement #ICE
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DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2026-02-04

HT @bob

#DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old #USCitizen Who Criticized Them in Email

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Hafiz Rashid/ February 3, 2026

"The #Trump administration is targeting #FreeSpeech with a little-known legal tool: #AdministrativeSubpoenas.

"The #WashingtonPost reports that a retired #Philadelphia man, Jon, 67, found himself in the government’s crosshairs after he emailed a lead prosecutor at the Department of Homeland Security, #JosephDernbach, who was handling the deportation case of an #AfghanRefugee, identified as H, asking him to consider that the man’s life was in danger from the #Taliban.

" 'Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,' Jon wrote from his #GMail account. 'Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.'

"Later that day, Jon received an email from #Google notifying him that an administrative subpoena had been sent to them from the Department of Homeland Security 'compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.' Federal agencies can issue such subpoenas without an order from a judge or grand jury, and Google gave Jon, who withheld his last name to protect his family from the government, one week to challenge it.

"Laws are supposed to restrict the use of administrative subpoenas, but DHS has used the tool against dissent protected under the #FirstAmendment to the #Constitution. Jon could not find who in the agency issued the #subpoena, let alone a record of it to show an attorney.

"Days later, DHS agents showed up at Jon’s door. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the #UK, Jon was worried about potential violence. The agents showed him a copy of the email and asked to see his side of the story. They didn’t know about the administrative subpoena but said they received orders to interview Jon by #DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.

"Eventually, the agents agreed that Jon had committed no crimes after he told them he found Dernbach’s email address through a simple Google search. Jon secured pro bono representation by #ACLU attorneys, who argue that the government is violating a statute that limits how administrative subpoenas can be used for '#ImmigrationEnforcement' and that the government targeted Jon for #ProtectedSpeech.

" 'It doesn’t take that much to make people look over their shoulder, to think twice before they speak again,' said Nathan Freed Wessler, one of Jon’s attorneys. 'That’s why these kinds of subpoenas and other actions—the visits—are so pernicious. You don’t have to lock somebody up to make them reticent to make their voice heard. It really doesn’t take much, because the power of the federal government is so overwhelming.'

"Both #Google and #Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months. Jon was fortunate to have his case picked up by the ACLU and later reported on by a national media outlet. How many others in the U.S. haven’t been so lucky and face legal challenges for exercising their right to free speech?"

Source / listen:
newrepublic.com/post/206088/ho

#USPol #GoogleSucks #BigTech #Fascism #DefundDHS #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #NineteenEightyFour #Authoritarianism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

Rick Ollierickollie
2026-02-03

Three families. Three American cities. One shared fear.
This is a personal reflection on how immigration enforcement, political rhetoric, and federal overreach are reshaping everyday family life.

rickollie.com/2026/02/03/the-r

dailyupdates247
2026-02-02

Catch up on today's top news: Partial shutdown resolution efforts, Minneapolis immigration updates, Trump's Kennedy Center idea,

dailyupdatesworld.com/up-first

The Democracy Advocatetda@thedemocracyadvocate.com
2026-02-01

Trump Orders DHS to Stay Away From Protests in Democratic Cities

President Trump says DHS will avoid protests in Democratic-led cities unless asked for help, after deadly federal immigration operations sparked unrest.

thedemocracyadvocate.com/2026/

Trump orders DHS to stay away from protests in Democratic-led cities unless federal help sought Jasper WardJanuary 31, 20263:13 PM CSTUpdated 6 hours ago Protest against ICE, in Minneapolis Demonstrators attend a protest against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. federal immigration agents, in Minneapolis Minnesota, U.S., January 31, 2026. REUTERS/Seth Herald Purchase Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to "under no circumstances" get involved with protests in Democratic-led cities unless they ask for federal help or federal property is threatened. The announcement follows weeks of unrest and protests sparked by a large deployment of Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Minnesota, and the killings of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents who said they were reacting to threats. The Reuters Inside Track newsletter is your essential guide to the biggest events in global sport. Sign up here. Advertisement ¡ Scroll to continue Many observers have said bystander videos contradict those claims of self-defense. Video footage of Pretti's death, verified by Reuters, undercuts Trump administration claims that he brandished a weapon before officers fatally shot him. Activists and demonstrators opposed to Trump's immigration enforceme
DrWebdrweb2@drwebdomain.blog
2026-01-30

DrWeb’s Domain Report – Project 2025 (DHS Chapter 5) vs. What We’ve Actually Seen Since Trump Took Office (Jan 20, 2025) – Department of Homeland Security

Project 2025 (DHS Chapter 5) vs. What We’ve Actually Seen Since Trump Took Office (Jan 20, 2025)

Editor’s Note: I prepared this report with assistance from Gemini AI. The chapter 5 on Department of Homeland Security is included below as PDF, for your own review. See the summary at the end. Links for sources are embedded within. –DrWeb

My summary and thesis statement: “The protests of 2025–2026 did not emerge spontaneously. They followed the collision of a long-shelved enforcement blueprint with real communities — implemented faster than the protocols needed to keep it lawful, humane, and trusted.”

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This section compares the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025’s Chapter 5 (“Department of Homeland Security”) against major, publicly reported DHS/immigration actions and controversies since Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025.

The goal is not to “prove” causation, but to evaluate whether observable policy moves and outcomes mirror the chapter’s agenda and recommended operational levers. And what about the blueprint has not been implemented (like “training”). And like this quote below, it is a right-wing, conservative outline or blueprint of “their views:

Unfortunately for our nation, the federal government’s newest department became like every other federal agency: bloated, bureaucratic, and expensive. It also lost sight of its mission priorities. DHS has also suffered from the Left’s wokeness and weaponization against Americans whom the Left perceives as its political opponents.

Chapter 5, DHS
2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-05Download

1) Where Chapter 5 aligns strongly with reported DHS actions

A. Expanded use of “Expedited Removal” (fast-track deportation)

Chapter 5 urges DHS/ICE to make full use of Expedited Removal (ER)—and criticizes prior internal limitations (including limiting ER to within 100 miles of the border) as unnecessary because they are not mandated by statute.

In the current Trump term, DHS issued guidance consistent with an expanded ER posture, and independent immigration-policy analysis has described the administration’s approach as widening the scope of fast-track deportation tools.

B. Rollback of “protected areas” / “sensitive locations” constraints

Chapter 5 also recommends rescinding “sensitive zones” policies that limit where immigration enforcement may occur. In public reporting and policy tracking, the administration’s early term posture includes rescinding protected-area guidance and triggering state-level pushback where schools, hospitals, jails, prisons, and other sites are concerned.

C. Detention expansion toward the chapter’s “100,000 beds” benchmark

Chapter 5 calls for Congress to require and fund a major increase in detention capacity—explicitly naming 100,000 beds as a target. Since early 2025, major reporting has described detention capacity pressures and administration interest in expanding detention at scale (including coordination with other federal agencies).

D. Interior enforcement posture (nationwide operations + fewer “self-imposed limits”)

The chapter frames ICE/ERO as responsible for civil arrest, detention, and removal anywhere in the United States and urges removal of “self-imposed limitations” on enforcement reach. Current reporting reflects a heightened interior enforcement posture, including tactical guidance changes and political pushback tied to public demonstrations.

2) Where Chapter 5 is only partially reflected (directional alignment, not a 1:1 match)

A. Pressure on states/localities via data-sharing and eligibility leverage

Chapter 5 advocates a posture of aggressive federal leverage over state/local compliance, including requirements involving information-sharing and eligibility conditions. While the public record includes controversies around DHS data use and state-level responses, the visible pattern is better described as “directionally aligned” rather than a clean implementation of a single, explicit “grant conditions” mechanism described in the chapter.

3) What appears “missing,” underdeveloped, or not publicly evidenced

A. The chapter’s headline structural agenda (dismantle DHS; relocate FEMA/CISA; privatize TSA)

Chapter 5’s flagship recommendation is a sweeping reorganization: dismantle DHS and relocate or restructure major components (including FEMA, CISA, TSA, Secret Service). Since January 2025, the most visible DHS story has been immigration enforcement intensity—not a publicly documented, Congress-driven dismantling campaign of DHS itself.

That does not mean internal planning is absent; it means that the publicly evidenced pattern (from major reporting) is far clearer on enforcement levers than on structural re-architecture.

B. Operational detail beyond big levers

The chapter provides strategic direction and major levers (ER, detention, policy rescissions) but offers less detail on practical implementation challenges at scale—logistics, diplomatic repatriation pipelines, adjudication bottlenecks, and safeguards to reduce mistaken identity harms and due-process failures.

C. Civil-rights and community-impact analysis

The chapter argues for removing constraints but does not deeply address chilling effects and public safety concerns that become salient when enforcement enters spaces like schools, hospitals, and churches—precisely the sites that have prompted state-level “keep ICE out” efforts.

D. “Urban” or city-specific training

The DHS chapter does not present an “urban training” initiative or metro-specific preparedness plan. The closest relevant portion is the FEMA/grants discussion, where the chapter criticizes Washington for funding local law enforcement training and argues for terminating most FEMA grant programs. In short: Chapter 5 does not emphasize city-focused training; it leans toward reducing DHS grant making that often supports local preparedness and training.

4) Bottom line: How much of what we’ve seen is mirrored by Chapter 5?

High mirroring (core enforcement levers): ER expansion, rollback of protected-area constraints, and a push toward major detention expansion align closely with the chapter’s recommendations.

Medium / partial mirroring (pressure + data + leverage): some reported patterns of federal pressure and data-driven controversy echo the chapter’s posture, but the public record does not show a neat one-to-one match to every specific “grant eligibility” mechanism described.

Low or not publicly evidenced (structural dismantling of DHS): the chapter’s sweeping plan to dismantle DHS and relocate FEMA/CISA/TSA is not the dominant visible story line of the term so far; enforcement intensity is.

One-sentence takeaway: Since January 2025, DHS actions in immigration enforcement and removal mechanics track closely with the tools and priorities outlined in Project 2025’s DHS chapter—while the chapter’s more radical plan to dismantle and rebuild DHS has not yet shown the same level of public, documentable implementation.

Protests like in Minnesota and around the Nation don’t arise in a vacuum; they emerge when policy blueprints meet lived reality without guardrails.

Additional Points to Ponder…

  • Project 2025 as a revealed blueprint, not a conspiracy.
    What Chapter 5 shows is intent: removal of internal restraints, maximization of enforcement tools, and de-prioritization of community impact. When similar actions appear in real-world policy, people recognize the shape of what’s happening — even if every element isn’t implemented verbatim.
  • Absence of protocols is the accelerant.
    The chapter is heavy on what to do (ER, detention, location access) and light on how to do it safely. That gap is exactly where protests tend to ignite: schools, hospitals, city centers, and workplaces become pressure points because no credible safeguards were articulated or trusted.
  • “Conservative administration” ≠ uniquely responsible.
    The long-delayed immigration overhaul is a long-standing bipartisan failure. Multiple administrations expanded enforcement authorities while deferring comprehensive legislative reform. Project 2025 doesn’t invent the tools — it proposes removing the brakes.
  • Why protests look urban, loud, and immediate.
    When policy emphasizes interior enforcement without parallel investment in training, coordination, or due-process clarity, urban areas absorb the shock first. Cities become the stage not because they’re ideological, but because they’re where systems intersect.

Summary: The protests of 2025–2026 did not emerge spontaneously. They followed the collision of a long-shelved enforcement blueprint with real communities — implemented faster than the protocols needed to keep it lawful, humane, and trusted. A conservative author wrote a blueprint, and Trump’s zeal and ignorance led him and his people to implement a blueprint without engineering drawings –no training plans, no protocols, no realization of urban cities realities for massive enforcement efforts, ignoring civil rights and due process. This is a major failure, and has resulted in unwarranted, illegal deaths, for which crimes there will be justice. –DrWeb

And last word. Gemini spoke up after our work together and was insightful. “And yes — sometimes you really do have to look backward to understand why people are suddenly in the streets.”

#Blueprint #Chicago #Deaths #DHSChapter5 #DrWebSDomain #GeminiAI #HeritageFoundation #ImmigrationEnforcement #investigation #LosAngeles #Maine #Minnesota #News #Project2025Document #Protests #Report #training
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HarbouchaNewsHarbouchaNews
2026-01-29

When Past Confrontations Resurface: What the Alex Pretti Case Reveals About Policing, Narrative, and Accountability in America





eng.harbouchanews.com/2026/01/

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-28

Copy of warrant provides details of HSI raid at Zipps grills in Phoenix area

A copy of the first page of the federal warrant obtained by Arizona's Family says agents were at Zipps Sports Grill locations "for the purpose of interrogation and civil administrative arrest of illegal aliens." David Caltabiano is looking at the next steps for the chain. For more Local…

fllics.com/en/video/copy-of-wa

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-26

Students hold walkout, demonstration at Chandler High School

Students held an anti-ICE enforcement demonstration outside of Chandler High School amid nationwide walkouts. Alaina Kwan reports. For more Local News from KPHO: For more YouTube Content:

fllics.com/en/video/students-h

six_grandfathers_mountainsix_grandfathers_mountain
2026-01-26

@futurebird



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"Lower your head and put that ⭕sign down and they will go away. Say "yes officer" and "no officer" and show your papers..."

1978 Czech dissident asked "How did the communist system sustain itself?"
(answer, see full text as image

How to , take the sign out of the window and hold up a new sign

Today, the "sign in the window" could be "MAGA folks watching

"In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. And in it, he asked a simple question: How did the communist system sustain itself?" "And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: "Workers of the world, unite!" He doesn't believe it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists." "Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false." (cut) "Friends, it is time for companies and countries to... 😡take their signs down.😡"
Fllicsfllics
2026-01-25

Minneapolis Shooting LIVE News: Minnesota Guv Waltz Demands Trump Stop ICE Operations | US News LIVE

Minneapolis Shooting LIVE News: Minnesota Guv Waltz Demands Trump Stop ICE Operations | US News LIVE Minnesota Governor Tim Walz urged President Donald Trump to halt ICE operations in the state after a second fatal shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis, saying the situation has escalated and must be brought under control. …

fllics.com/en/video/minneapoli

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-25

ICE Shooting LIVE News: ICE & Border Patrol Leaders Brief on Minneapolis Operations | US News LIVE

US Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino briefed the media on a deadly incident in Minneapolis, saying federal agents believed the man who was shot posed a threat during an immigration operation and was carrying a firearm along with additional ammunition. …

fllics.com/en/video/ice-shooti

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-25

ICE & Border Patrol Press Conference on Minneapolis Shooting | ICE Shooting Live | US Shooting

US Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino briefed the media on a deadly incident in Minneapolis, saying federal agents believed the man who was shot posed a threat during an immigration operation and was carrying a firearm along with additional ammunition. …

fllics.com/en/video/ice-border

Egberto Williesegberto@egbertowillies.com
2026-01-25

Federal Agents Kill U.S. Citizen, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis: Outrage and Demand for Justice

Federal officers shot a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, in Minneapolis during a federal immigration operation, sparking protests and calls to end militarized enforcement.

#2026News #AlexPretti #CivilRights #federalAgents #ICEShooting #ImmigrationEnforcement #justiceAndAccountability #Minneapolis #policeViolence #progressiveCommentary #protests #publicSafetyReform #USCitizenKilled wp.me/p1OjMZ-oCo
Federal Agents Kill U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis: Outrage and Demand for Justice
Fllicsfllics
2026-01-24

ICE & Border Patrol Officials Hold Press Conference | Minnesota Shooting | ICE Shooting Live

US Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino briefed the media on a deadly incident in Minneapolis, saying federal agents believed the man who was shot posed a threat during an immigration operation and was carrying a firearm along with additional ammunition. …

fllics.com/en/video/ice-border

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-24

ICE & Border Patrol Leaders Hold Press Conference on Minneapolis Operations | ICE Shooting Live

US Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino briefed the media on a deadly incident in Minneapolis, saying federal agents believed the man who was shot posed a threat during an immigration operation and was carrying a firearm along with additional ammunition. …

fllics.com/en/video/ice-border

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-24

Guv Demands Trump Stop ICE Operations After Deadly Minneapolis Shooting | Immigration Crackdown |

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz urged President Donald Trump to halt ICE operations in the state after a second fatal shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis, saying the situation has escalated and must be brought under control. …

fllics.com/en/video/guv-demand

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-24

Guv to Trump: End ICE Operations in Minnesota After Fatal Shooting | Minnesota | Tim Walz | US

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz urged President Donald Trump to halt ICE operations in the state after a second fatal shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis, saying the situation has escalated and must be brought under control. …

fllics.com/en/video/guv-to-tru

Fllicsfllics
2026-01-24

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Blasts Trump After Deadly Shooting | Minneapolis | US News | ICE

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the presence of heavily armed federal agents in the city, questioning the impact on families and calling for an end to what he described as aggressive and unchecked enforcement. …

fllics.com/en/video/minneapoli

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