Sophia Goodfriend wrote about why it’s no coincidence that #ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation: #US#immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel, and now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets.
Also:
‘I would never do it again’: Inside the struggle to enter and leave #Gaza
Released into exile, #Palestinian prisoners navigate freedom on Israel’s terms
A Palestinian influencer spent 27 months in Israeli prison — for social media posts
To confront Israeli fascism, we need a new #Jewish- #Arab party
The false symmetry of Jewish-Arab partnership
PODCAST: Documenting the settler takeover of the #WestBank
My 13-year-old son just said, "Mum, I think I have a good idea. The people in America protesting ICE should call themselves LAVA -- Local And Very Angry. And lava melts ice. You should post that and see if it's a good idea."
We're about as far away from the United States as you can get, here in Perth, Western Australia. But I hope the people over there know that even a young boy on the other side of the world can see when something isn't right.
Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions “Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centers
President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.
Video footage captured by another bystander shows that just as Pretti managed to stabilize the EMT, agents shoved the other woman to the ground. As Pretti and the EMT attempt to help her stand up, multiple agents surround the group and begin to spray them with cans of chemical irritant. Some of the agents continue pursuing the women, while others separate #Pretti from the group and begin beating him.
“I was saying to the agents, “We’re leaving! We’re leaving. We’re leaving!’ — just trying desperately to like get them to stop,” the EMT said.
The Department of Homeland Security (#DHS) is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose #ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.
In recent months, #Google, #Reddit, #Discord and #Meta, which owns #Facebook and #Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the DHS, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests.
On Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, students at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas, walked out as part of a coordinated regional effort involving several area schools, including Cypress Falls and Conroe High Schools, to protest operations by #Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) amid fears that its agents will be allowed onto school property to detain students and their families.
The Houston Chronicle article reproduced below on the Bellaire walkout conveys important developments in the fight to oppose #deportations across the United States.
The widespread high-school student walkouts on January 30 are now being followed by new and similar grassroots initiatives at schools around the country.
#Courts have ruled 4,400 times that #ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled >4,400 times since October that the #Trump admin is detaining #immigrants unlawfully, a review of court records found.
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s #immigration crackdown. Yet the admin has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy illegal.
#Israel continues to harass #Palestinians returning to #Gaza. Far-right Israeli bill would mandate death penalty for Palestinians. #Trump to meet #Netanyahu at the White House to discuss #Iran. Grand jury rejects Trump-backed effort to indict Democratic lawmakers over military dissent video. Trump weighs second #US aircraft carrier deployment to #MiddleEast. Progressive challenger #AnaliliaMejia wins Democratic primary in #NJ special House race. Instagram suspends #AIPAC tracker. Children in #Texas#ICE family detention experience fear, illness, and months without school. Children zip-tied during militarized #immigration raid at Idaho horse racing venue, lawsuit claims. #Kurdish#PKK fighters withdraw from #Syria.
"Saari, a Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, went to the scene of #AlexPretti’s killing in #Minneapolis less than an hour after federal agents fired the fatal shots. He was wearing his Marine camouflage and carrying a lawfully owned 9mm Glock handgun on his right hip, as he does every day, he told The Intercept. Agents on the scene 'thought I was undercover,' Saari said. 'They kept asking what agency I was with.'
"When Saari told them he was not with any agency, their demeanor shifted. Federal immigration agents soon aimed M4-style rifles at his head, footage reviewed by The Intercept shows, their fingers on the trigger less than a minute’s walk away from where Pretti was killed.
'More and more #BorderPatrol and ICE agents gathered around me,' Saari said. 'Then they moved in with rifles and handguns drawn.'
"The encounter raises questions about how federal agents assessed threats, used force, and made arrest decisions in the immediate aftermath of Pretti’s killing. In Saari’s case, he and his attorney told The Intercept, federal agents took scans and samples of his biometric data and made a copy of his phone — without obtaining a warrant."
This victory belongs to the people of Minnesota who have inspired all of us by transforming crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. People power works.
Resistance art can be thought-provoking, shocking, funny, moving, subversive, and sometimes all of those in one.
@RacketMN talked to some of the people in Minnesota who are making it.
"nearly three-quarters of the poll respondents say they want the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to be reformed or abolished. They overwhelmingly say immigration officers have gone too far. Well over half, 63%, say the federal government has gone too far in disregarding local and state governments, compared with 37% who said state and local governments have gone too far in disregarding federal authority.
Perhaps it's time to simply eat the wealthy so we can shit them out and then lie about it and focus on solving #immigration in #Congress by capping federal #immigration funds to every US state. #NoKings !
#IRS “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed #confidential#immigrant tax data to #DHS
The #tax agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.
On February 3, Aliya Rahman — a US citizen and resident of Minneapolis, #Minnesota — testified before a bicameral public forum at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
The session on the violent tactics and use of force by agents of the Dept.of Homeland Security (DHS) was convened by #US senator Richard Blumenthal (Democrat, Connecticut) and US congressman Robert Garcia (Democrat, California). Other testimony came from Miramar Martinez, who was shot five times by #DHS agents in Chicago, Illinois, and from family members of #ReneeNicoleGood, who was murdered by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) agent in #Minneapolis on January 7.