On Wednesday, toys, shoes & food were still in piles in the building’s hallways. Property managers were seen throwing mattresses & broken doors into dumpsters.
#DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid. DHS said some of those arrested “are believed to be involved in drug trafficking & distribution, weapons crimes & #immigration violators.” [sure, whatever]
Gov #JBPritzker is directing the state’s Dept of Child & Family Services & the Dept of Human Services to evaluate how #children were treated during an aggressive #immigration raid on a South Shore apartment building this week….
#DHS said federal agents with #BorderPatrol, the #FBI, & the #ATF arrested at least 37 people in the raid, making it one of the largest operations executed since the start of “Operation Midway Blitz” on Sept 8.
US immigration agents will have access to hacking tools from Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications, The Guardian writes.
"The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was put on hold pending a compliance review to make sure it adhered to an executive order that restricts the US government’s use of spyware, Wired reported at the time."
"That pause has now been lifted, according to public procurement documents, which list US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as the contracting agency."
@briankrebs i don't appreciate giving a masked secret police force abducting people will be compelling their victims to exploit their phones so they can dredge up more people they can drag out of windows.
can't help but feel that giving ICE access to this sort of thing is like giving my 10yo a flamethrower.
meanwhile: aren't #ATF still using fscking microfische and digging through literal boxes of records to track down guns used in crimes? this law and order president sucks at law and order.