Tag Archives: Enforcement

Even without the national guard, law enforcement agencies of the federal government have been using military hardware and tactics on civilian targets. At a low-rent apartment complex on Chicago’s south shore, people started hearing the boots hit the roof around one in the morning. The oh-dark-thirty immigration enforcement raid in the early hours of 1 October featured an air assault …

DHS preps new law enforcement sites in major cities  Axios Kristi Noem accuses Oregon leaders of ‘covering up terrorism’ after visit to Portland  KGW Federal officials to buy Chicago buildings in immigration enforcement operations  NBC 5 Chicago Noem threatens ‘four times’ more federal officers to Portland after meeting with mayor  KATU ‘Do it the hard way’: DHS Secretary wants to buy more Portland buildings …

Nearly half of the FBI agents working in the US’s major field offices have been reassigned to aid immigration enforcement, according to newly released data, a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns. Personnel data obtained by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator, and shared with the Guardian, suggests the Trump administration has moved 45% of …

A person was arrested in connection with the deadly Palisades Fire in January that killed a dozen people in California, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News. The name of the person and the nature of the charges have not been released. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Los Angeles Police Department …

NOTE: Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling is set to hold a press conference at 1 p.m. CT. Coverage of the address will appear live in the player above as it begins. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was signing an executive order Monday aimed at limiting where federal agents can gather in the city, prohibiting them from using certain city-owned spaces for …

Law enforcement officials in South Carolina are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of a state judge and a former Democratic state senator but say there’s no current evidence the fire was intentionally set. The fire at a beach home in Edisto on Saturday hospitalized three people. Property records show that the home is owned by Circuit Court Judge …

CHICAGO — Federal agents will no longer be able to use city-owned property as staging areas, according to an executive order filed Monday by Mayor Brandon Johnson. The order also encourages private property owners to put up signs to deter agents from assembling on their property. The order follows reports that federal agents recently used city-owned lots at Harrison and …

A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekend. On Saturday, US district judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington DC issued a temporary restraining order directing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to …

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Gregory Bovino, a border patrol sector chief, were seen at an Ice facility in suburban Chicago on Friday where law enforcement has been cracking down on protesters. In recent weeks the Broadview facility has become the site of escalations by federal agents against protesters and journalists. Videos of agents deploying tear gas, pepper …

CHICAGO (AP) — The sight of armed, camouflaged and masked Border Patrol agents making arrests near famous downtown Chicago landmarks has amplified concerns about the Trump administration’s growing federal intervention across U.S. cities. As Illinois leaders warned Monday of a National Guard deployment, residents in the nation’s third-largest city met a brazen weekend escalation of immigration enforcement tactics with anger, …