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#CivilRights #ImmigrantRights #Immigration #Shoreline #KingCounty #Washington #EyesOnICE #ICEActvity #ICE

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights

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#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #TRump
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
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Sharing for signal: #ACLU

#KnowYourRights #CivilRights #ImmigrantRights #Immigration

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights

#Immigrants #Iowa #ACLU #refugees

Each year, the ACLU of Iowa recognizes a student for activism in support of civil liberties.

This year’s winner is a refugee from South Sudan who lives in the Des Moines area.
https://www.aclu-ia.org/news/meet-the-award-winning-student-who-raised-15000-for-immigrant-and-refugee-peers/

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#Weslaco #Texas #RioGrandeValley #CivilRights #ImmigrantRights #Immigration

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights

#ACLU Calls for #UN Probe into #IlDuceOrangeGarbage's #antiimmigrant violent #humanrightsabuses

#DemocracyNow

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/5/headlines/aclu_calls_for_un_probe_into_trumps_immigration_crackdown_over_human_rights_abuses

For your #BandcampFriday consideration:

My Morning Jacket has released Peacelands, "an album of mostly unreleased, acoustic peaceful protest songs," exclusively on Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to "organizations like @aclu_nationwide fighting for our safety and freedoms here at home, as well as @doctorswithoutborders and @rescueorg - organizations working hard to help heal the horrors of war and terror around the globe"

The band states: "We stand with the people of #Minnesota and everywhere else affected by the horrors of #ICE brutality and lack of human decency or transparency from this administration."

https://mmorningjacket.bandcamp.com/album/peacelands

#ICEOut #ACLU #Minneapolis #USPol

#ACLU of #Minnesota

#KYR #KnowYourRights #ImmigrantsRights

https://www.aclu-mn.org/issues/immigrants-rights/

Here is a highly practical ACLU guide to your 1st amendment right to record police activity, including:

--II possible, stay on public property. If asked by a property owner to leave, do so to preserve right to record.

--Holding your phone to capture video while driving may subject you to arrest for violating state hands-on-wheel laws.

--If asked by an official to move back, do so, but loudly state "I'm moving back" so it will be recorded on your video.

#ACLU

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/recording-and-documenting-police-and-federal-agents

#aclu

“we are the American Civil Liberties Union and we are not moving to Canada. “ Direct mail.

#ACLU: Join our call, Eyes on #Ice: Document and Record on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET. RSVP for Link.

#civilrights #nokings #CBP
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/892452/

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:
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email

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

#ACLU #privacy #DHS
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/

The tech firm that helped police find the Brown shooting suspect has sparked privacy concerns. Its CEO responds
#Flock faces criticism from #privacy and community groups who worry that its cameras are collecting too much personal information and could be misused. #EFF & #ACLU urged communities not to work with Flock. Flock also drew scrutiny in Oct when it partnered with #Amazon’s #Ring cameras that lets public safety agencies request video footage from Ring customers.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/tech/flock-safety-ai-cameras-brown-suspect-privacy