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ADC Sues DHS Secretary Over Illegal Seizure Of Max Blumenthal’s Devices

July 17, 2026 The Grayzone. , , , ,
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a time-sensitive motion in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court on behalf of journalist Max Blumenthal, seeking the immediate return of two smartphones unlawfully seized and retained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The motion argues that CBP’s warrantless seizure and continued retention of Blumenthal’s phones violate the First and Fourth Amendments and the Privacy Protection Act. It seeks the immediate return of both devices and all information or copies obtained from them under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g), along with an expedited hearing because the seizure is interfering with Blumenthal’s work, chilling his reporting, and threatening the confidentiality of his sources and unpublished reporting.

New Report: Growing Partnership Between Surveillance Tech And ICE

June 26, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , ,
A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts with surveillance and technology companies. DHS runs both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

DHS Documents: Government Bracing For Nationwide Anti-AI Riots

June 12, 2026 Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News. , , ,
New documents from government agencies such as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security show that Washington is preparing for widespread anti-A.I. riots, as the technology destroys communities and industries across the country. Ironically, the Trump administration is already using invasive A.I. technology to identify and suppress what it calls anti-A.I. “extremists,” in the process, sweeping the entire nation into its massive surveillance dragnet.  More than 1,000 pages of leaked documents reviewed by WIRED Magazine show that government agencies are anticipating a huge wave of domestic unrest in the coming years, as artificial intelligence upends American society.

ICE Tweets Are So Racist, Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

May 27, 2026 Matt Sledge and Sam Biddle, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
Colorado law enforcement officials warned their counterparts across the country that social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, according to internal records obtained by The Intercept. The Colorado Information Analysis Center cautioned in a March bulletin that “violent extremists” might perceive “White Supremacy Ideology in ICE Recruitment Materials, Leading to a Potentially Increased Threat Environment.” The bulletin from an agency tasked with preventing terrorism advised law enforcement offices throughout the United States that these posts could create a “permissive environment to engage in vigilante action and/or violence against individuals perceived to be immigrants.”

DHS Is Buying Access To Real-Time Location Data

May 1, 2026 Maurizio Guerrero, Scheer Post. , , ,
Despite serious concerns raised by dozens of federal legislators about the potential misuse of location technologies to violate rights, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a new contract to Penlink PLX, a surveillance system that intercepts, aggregates, and analyzes live communications from phone calls, texts, and internet activity. The platform enables DHS to track people’s movements in real time. The $2.9 million no-bid contract, reported for the first time by Prism, began April 1, with a potential award amount of $8.3 million.

DHS Paying Local Police Millions For Immigration Enforcement

April 16, 2026 Jamiles Lartey, People's World. , , ,
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement often appeared calibrated for public attention and maximum spectacle under former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. For much of the administration’s first 14 months, operations commonly included highly-produced videos, bombastic social media rhetoric and staged photo ops. Noem became the public face of the crackdown, but that also made her a convenient scapegoat as public disapproval of the campaign ballooned, especially after federal agents killed two U.S. citizens during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.

US Military Helping To Build Massive Network Of ‘Concentration Camps’

February 11, 2026 Stephen Prager, Scheer Post. , , , ,
In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks, the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward with a plan to expand its capacity for mass detention by using a military contract to create what Pablo Manríquez, the author of the immigration news site Migrant Insider calls “a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps.” On Sunday, Manríquez reported that “a massive Navy contract vehicle, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion ceiling to expedite President Donald Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ agenda.”

Residents Mobilize To Stop 1,500 Bed ICE Detention Center

February 11, 2026 Hagerstown Rapid Response, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Maryland - On February 10, the Washington County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to support the Department of Homeland Security and ICE’s planned detention facility at 16220 Wright Road in Williamsport, just outside Hagerstown, Maryland. The vote took less than 30 minutes, but the consequences could last decades. And we were there. On January 28, county officials first made the public aware that DHS had purchased a massive, 825,000-square-foot warehouse in Washington County for approximately $102.4 million. Public reporting indicates the facility is believed to be intended as an ICE detention center capable of housing up to 1,500 detained immigrants.

Why Treat DHS’s Known Liars As Reliable Sources?

February 8, 2026 Priyanka Bansal, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
Last June, FAIR’s Emma Lucia Llano (FAIR.org, 6/20/25) documented how DHS smears against Kilmar Ábrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador last March, were dutifully reported by major newspapers—who at the same time regularly omitted commentary from Ábrego Garcia’s legal team that challenged those smears. More than seven months later, it’s long past time for news coverage to reflect journalists’ knowledge that DHS exaggerates, shares dubious statements and flat-out lies to the press and the public. Instead, we continue to get largely credulous reporting from most major corporate outlets.

DHS Turns Warehouses Into Mass Detention Camps

January 27, 2026 Julia Norman, Consortium News. , , , ,
The Department of Homeland Security’s (D.H.S.) warehouse detention system is rapidly unfolding across the United States, advancing in open contempt of oversight, outpacing public scrutiny, and operating with the same disregard for the Constitution, the rule of law, and human life that defines the Trump administration’s exercise of power. In November 2025, NBC News reported that D.H.S. was actively scouting enormous industrial warehouses across the country, particularly in rural areas near major airports and transportation hubs, in an effort to expand the administration’s capacity to execute its mass deportation agenda — a system Secretary Noem recently aptly described as “one of the most consequential periods of action and reform in American history.”

Venezuela: Failed US Plot To Kidnap President Maduro Revealed

October 31, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
An intelligence agent from the US empire has been caught attempting to co-opt an airplane pilot working for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in order to kidnap him, according to an Associated Press report. The report details how a US Homeland Security Investigations agent, identified as Edwin Lopez, approached the Venezuelan pilot after learning in 2024 that two private jets frequently used by President Maduro were being repaired in the Dominican Republic. Lopez told the pilot to divert a flight carrying the Venezuelan president to a site where he could be kidnapped by US operatives, offering a multimillion-dollar reward and even threatening his children.

Trump’s Blueprint To Crush The Left Draws From Decades Of Counterterrorism Policy

October 7, 2025 Chip Gibbons, Dropsite News. , , , , , ,
Five days after the murder of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, Vice President JD Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast from the White House. The Trump administration has never been particularly friendly to dissent, but since the killing of Kirk it has increasingly sought to lay blame for his death on their political opponents. While broadcasting from the White House, the vice president used the opportunity to rail against the left, promising to “dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country.” Vance was joined by Stephen Miller who serves as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff as well as Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor. Miller pledged, “With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again for the American people.”

We’re About To Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like

April 19, 2025 Nick Miroff, Portside. , , ,
The Trump administration is working hard to convince the public that its mass-deportation campaign is fully under way. Over the past several weeks, federal agents have seized foreign students off the streets, raided worksites, and shipped detainees to a supermax prison in El Salvador using wartime powers adopted under the John Adams administration. The tactics have spread fear and created a showreel of social-media-ready highlights for the White House. But they have not brought U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement much closer to delivering the “millions” of deportations President Donald Trump has set as a goal.

State Department Found No Evidence For Abducting Tufts Student

April 15, 2025 Sharon Zhang, Truthout. , , , ,
The State Department internally found no evidence supporting the Trump administration’s reasoning for abducting and pushing to deport Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, new reporting finds, just days before immigration officials snatched her off the streets and took her to a horrific immigrant detention center anyway. The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing a State Department memo, that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had not provided any evidence of Öztürk engaging in activity labelled antisemitic or “terrorist” supporting. Additionally, searches of government databases did not turn up any evidence of Öztürk participating in terrorism-related activity.

Shuttering Of Department Of Homeland Security Oversight Arm Freezes Cases

April 9, 2025 J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam, Pro Publica. , , , ,
On Feb. 10, more than a dozen Department of Homeland Security officials joined a video conference to discuss an obscure, sparsely funded program overseen by its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The office, charged with investigating when the national security agency is accused of violating the rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, had found itself in the crosshairs of Elon Musk’s secretive Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. It began as a typical briefing, with Homeland Security officials explaining to DOGE a program many describe as a win-win.
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