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DHS Chief Calls For Military Arrests In Los Angeles Protests

June 12, 2025 Julia Conley, Consortium News. , , , , , , ,
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared to take a step toward circumventing federal laws that bar the military from taking part in domestic law enforcement in a letter she sent to the Department of Defense Sunday as the National Guard was deployed to Los Angeles amid mass protests over immigration raids. In a letter obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle, Noem wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the Pentagon should direct military forces “to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them.” The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the military from taking part in domestic law enforcement without the authorization of Congress.

Movement Against ICE Raids Spreads To Cities Across The US

June 12, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , , , , ,
US President Donald Trump sent in the military to suppress anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles this past weekend, but instead of stopping the protest movement in its tracks, demonstrations have taken place in cities across the entire United States to reject Trump’s immigration policies and crackdown. Since protests erupted against immigration raids in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, they have spread to cities throughout the US, including New York City, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Boston, and Atlanta. As the Trump administration scrambles to meet mass deportations quotas, with officials ramping up the immigration enforcement arrest quota to 3,000 per day, ICE operations have escalated to new heights.

Free Speech Ends Here: What I Saw During The LAPD Crackdown

June 12, 2025 Jalyssa Dugrot, MintPress News. , , , , , ,
On the morning of June 10, 2025, I made the decision to travel to Los Angeles to cover the underreported protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). By night, I was already en route to the airport. For days, the world watched as California burned. Cars set ablaze, crowds being flash-banged, rubber bullets flying, smoke in the air as protesters and reporters run for cover, gasping for air and hurrying to put their masks on. The scenes on the ground gripped us all. Just as striking were the headlines: “RIOTERS BURN LA,” “VIOLENT PROTESTERS IN LA,” and it made me wonder, when did free speech become synonymous with violence?

The Los Angeles Protests Are An Act Of Self-Defense

June 11, 2025 Melissa Gira Grant, Portside. , , , , , ,
Early Sunday evening in Los Angeles, as the city was under siege by federal anti-immigration forces, aided by local law enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass was holding a press conference. Out in the streets, a reporter noted, it appeared that the Los Angeles Police Department was “cooperating” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “using flashbangs and less-lethal munitions” to push people engaged in “peaceful protest” away from a federal building being used as an ICE detention center. The reporter asked if Mayor Bass would comment on this cooperation, which is against city policy.

Militarized Raids Against Migrants Spark Mass Protests In Los Angeles

June 10, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
Since Friday afternoon, mass protests have been taking place across Los Angeles in response to raids carried out by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The mass raids carried out by federal agents in military gear at three workplaces in Los Angeles on Friday, June 6 resulted in the detention of dozens of migrants. The intensified raids in the city are taking place as the Trump administration is scrambling to meet mass deportation quotas. Protests calling for an end to ICE raids continued into Monday, despite facing heavy repression from the Los Angeles police and the deployment of the National Guard at the request of President Donald Trump.

ICE Now Expanding Into Local Law Enforcement

June 10, 2025 Marc Cooper, The Coop Scoop. , , , ,
Trump’s violent ICE agency is about to escalate its war against any or all “illegals” in a dramatic fashion while engaging local law enforcement in its repression. And this should come as no surprise to us. Every authoritarian regime in recent history has formed its own elite corps of feared special police and/or military units to suppress dissent and act as the spearhead of state repression. The Revolutionary Guard and the Morality Police in Iran. The GRU and the Spetsnaz in Russia. Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard. The GOPE in Mexico. DINA in Chile. The AAA and the Federal Police during the Argentine dictatorship were inseparable from the horrific death squads. And, of course, the SS in Nazi Germany.

Los Angeles Demands: ICE Out Of Our Communities!

June 9, 2025 Otto Fors and Julia Wallace, Left Voice. , , ,
Los Angeles has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s escalating war on immigrants. On Friday, June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a Home Depot parking lot in the city’s Westlake District, detaining several undocumented day laborers. Later, agents raided the city’s garment district. But ICE is meeting fierce opposition from community members. The raids sparked demonstrations, with protesters chanting and throwing eggs and rocks at the agents and police officers, who responded with pepper spray and tear gas. Forty-four people were arrested, among them California SEIU president David Huerta. The labor leader has been treated for injuries, but still in federal custody.

Protesters Clash With Law Enforcement In Downtown Los Angeles

June 8, 2025 Frank Stoltze, Megan Garvey and Jared Bennett, LAist. , , , , ,
Federal agents conducted a series of immigration sweeps across Los Angeles on Friday, prompting anger and resistance from onlookers and immigrant rights groups that have braced for this type of action for months. Over the weekend, tensions continued to rise between state and local authorities and Trump administration officials, who said they were calling up the National Guard in response to what they said were "violent mobs" attacking "ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles." Gov. Gavin Newsom called the plan to take over deployment from the state "purposefully inflammatory," adding that it "will only escalate tensions."

LASD, Federal Police Attack Press Covering ICE Protests

June 8, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
Police and federal agents fired crowd-control weapons at several reporters covering protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles County, California. Journalist and and videographer Sean Beckner-Carmitchel reported that the LA County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) dispersed a protest after an ICE operation in Paramount. Officers deployed tear gas, percussion grenades, and other so-called “less lethal” munitions. Federal authorities shot at protesters, too.  A tear gas canister, according to Beckner-Carmitchel, hit him in the head. His face was covered in the CS agent, and Beckner-Carmitchel later said that the canister appeared to have been fired by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, which are part of ICE. 

High School Student Detained By ICE Released From Inhumane Conditions

June 8, 2025 Emma Lee, Left Voice. , , ,
The high school student in Massachusetts who was arrested and kidnapped by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) on his way to volleyball practice was released after six days of detention on Thursday after a judge granted him bond. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, who came to the U.S. from Brazil at the age of 7, was detained by ICE last Saturday. The agents were looking for Marcelo’s father, who owns the car that his son was driving. He had parked in a friend’s driveway and was headed to practice when ICE agents pulled him over, arrested, and detained him. The student did not even know about his own immigration status because he was so young when he arrived in the United States.

Federal Agents Conduct Immigration Raids Across Los Angeles

June 7, 2025 Frank Stoltze, LAist. , , , ,
Federal agents conducted a series of immigration sweeps across Los Angeles on Friday, prompting anger and resistance from onlookers and immigrant rights groups that have braced for this type of action for months. About 44 people were arrested in the raids, according to a statement from a spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement obtained by LAist's media partner KCAL News. "ICE officers and agents alongside partner law enforcement agencies, executed four federal search warrants at three locations in central Los Angeles," ICE spokesperson Yasmeen Pitts O'Keefe said in the statement.

Midwest Communities Organize To Oust ICE

June 5, 2025 Fight Back! News. , , ,
On Tuesday June 3, at around 10:30am, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) received reports of possible ICE presence and possible immigration enforcement activity at the intersection of Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue in south Minneapolis. Our members arrived at the scene quickly to observe and assess the threat level of the activity. MIRAC members were able to verify that more than 40 officers were present as part of the operation, mostly heavily armed and masked and wearing insignias of federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, DHS, HSI, ATF, DEA, and ICE.

Immigrant Rights Activists Push Back Against Arrests At Immigration Courts

June 5, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , ,
After Carmen, a mother of five US citizen daughters, was arrested by plainclothes ICE agents in front of her husband at San Antonio Immigration Court for an immigration hearing, Texas immigrant rights activists sprung into action. 170 immigrant rights activists gathered on June 3 for a press conference outside of San Antonio Immigration Court. Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an immigration attorney in Texas, stepped up to the podium, alongside a family of three – Eduardo and his daughters Olivia and Jocelyn. Carmen, Eduardo’s wife and the mother to five daughters who are US citizens, was arrested by ICE along with others outside a San Antonio Immigration Courthouse last week. 

Swell Of Support For Pro-Palestine Student Yunseo Chung

June 2, 2025 People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
Following a court hearing on Thursday, May 29, a federal judge extended an order blocking Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting 21-year-old college student Yunseo Chung. Chung, like fellow Columbia students and graduates Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Ranjani Srinivasan, has been targeted by the Trump administration amid its broader attacks on immigrants, institutions of higher education, and the pro-Palestine movement. The temporary restraining order on Chung’s detention by ICE is now extended until her next court hearing on June 5.

New Jersey’s Movement Against ICE Detention Is Not Going Away

June 1, 2025 Sam Carliner, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
New Jersey’s newest immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall, sits deep in the arteries of Newark, where shipping containers are stacked on top of each other in every direction. The air smells like sewage and the roads surrounding the center are constantly filled with truckers driving around. None of this has deterred activists from holding daily vigils outside of Delaney Hall. These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month. By now, the existence of Delaney Hall has become national news following the high-profile arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
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