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Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment 19 July 2022 American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive...

ICE Set Up a Fake College, Robbing and Deporting Foreign Students. Civil Rights Groups Want Answers. Hundreds of lives were upended by the University of Farmington, a fake university that took $6 million in tuition and fees from foreign students. 12 August 2022 The University of Farmington...

Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers' Turbans “The turban is sacred.” At least 64 Sikh men have had their headwear confiscated and discarded by Yuma’s Border Patrol. 2 August 2022 Gurjodh Singh was leaning against a rusted vehicle barrier — planted like a giant jack in the...

Inside D.C. police's sprawling network of surveillance From protesters to everyday residents, recently revealed documents provide a first-of-its-kind look into the invasive eye of Washington police. 18 June 2022 It was the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protesters gathered in...

Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Cops To Unreasonably Extend Traffic Stops 3 June 2022 The Supreme Court made it pretty clear in its Rodriguez decision that pretextual traffic stops were fine, but once the pretext evaporated, it was time to cut civilians loose. We hold that a...

Biden Secret Service agent arrested over drunken assault in South Korea: Reports 20 May 2022 A Secret Service agent working for President Joe Biden was reportedly arrested for allegedly assaulting a citizen of South Korea in the nation’s capital city of Seoul just hours before Biden was...

Men Posed as Homeland Security Agents, Offered Gifts to Real-Life Secret Service Employees—Including an Agent Assigned to FLOTUS: Feds 7 April 2022 The FBI has arrested two men who they say posed as Homeland Security agents for years, using their false identities to get close to actual law...

ICE force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones Staffers say move reflects abysmal morale at immigration enforcement agency 31 March 2022 ICE automatically installed a suicide prevention app on employees’ government-issued smartphones this week, staffers told The Washington...

Why Does Border Patrol Need the Ability To Delete Messages? A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function. 4 April 2022 The same government that wants to demand access to all our secure phone and online...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

LAPD Police Commission Enrages Police Union By Enacting Minor Changes To Pretextual Stops 14 March 2022 Pretextual stops are law enforcement at its most shameless. The laws and the courts have blessed this activity, which involves cops claiming stops are justified for one reason while using...

The U.S. Border Patrol is Broken | Opinion 2 March 2022 The way the United States handles the arrival of migrants at the southern border is in dire need of reform, as border control agents themselves have told me. Recently, eight former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents spoke with me...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision 9 February 2022 A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing. As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

"Our findings reaffirm that law enforcement not only failed to protect protestors, but actively put them in harm’s way by enabling and encouraging predominantly white, right-wing armed civilians and militia groups that night. These actions escalated tensions, heightening rather than diffusing a...

ICE Is So Toxic That The DHS's Investigative Wing Is Asking To Be Completely Separated From It 4 January 2022 The Department of Homeland Security is trying to distance itself from its most toxic asset, the Washington Post reports: Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations say they...

DHS, ICE Begin Body Camera Pilot Program With Surprisingly Good Policies In Place 30 December 2021 Following protests over killings by law enforcement officers, the Department of Justice decided it might be a good idea to equip more police officers with body cameras. In May 2015, it announced...

You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Has a Naughty List, and You’re On It 25 December 2021 Tracking you based on your health status Tracking you based on your face Tracking you based on your behavior Tracking you based on your spending and consumer activities Tracking you based on...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...