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Chicago - 7th Circuit Pauses Order Restricting ICE Agents

CleverNews.Net — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:57:45 -0500

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals just paused Federal District Judge Sara Ellis' order restricting the violent actions of ICE agents until the appeals court can further review her reasoning for the order.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-halts-order-limiting-immigration-agents-re...

CBP Arrests Charlotte Volunteer For Honking His Horn At Them

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:01:39 -0500

Over the weekend they arrested 231 people in Charlotte. There are reports that they will also start terrorizing Raleigh, NC. Today, the heavily-armed masked Gestapo goons arrested a community volunteer for honking his horn at them. I guess that is against the law? Thankfully, the encounter was filmed with a cellphone so we have video of the incident. We have to record EVERYTHING that these thugs do!

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/volunteer-arrested-by-cbp-after-honking-horn-agents-charlotte-witn...

Judge Dismisses Challenge Against NY Law Prohibiting Immigrant Arrests At Courthouses

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:43:49 -0500

Federal District Judge Mae D’Agostino has dismissed the challenge to New York's 2020 Protect Our Courts Act, after the Trump administration claimed it was preempted by federal law, and that it was an unconstitutional obstacle to immigration enforcement. The law protected immigrants against warrantless civil arrests when attending a court proceeding in which they or a family member is a party or witness. They were also protected on their way to/from the courthouse. The ruling also upholds two previous Cuomo Executive Orders which restrict state employees’ ability to disclose information to ICE, and prohibits immigration arrests in state facilities without a warrant. The DOJ claimed that all of those restrictions violated the 10th Amendment, and I'm sure they will appeal to the circuit court of appeals and then to SCOTUS.

Here's the 41-page Memorandum-Decision and Order.

Address of the Bookmark: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nynd.148581/gov.uscourts.nynd.148581.66.0_1.pdf

National Guard Deployment To Memphis Blocked by Tennessee Judge

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:20:13 -0500

Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal wrote that Tennessee Governor Bill Lee's authority to deploy the National Guard is "not unfettered" and ruled their current deployment to Memphis to act as law enforcement violates the state's constitution. She wrote, "The governor may only call the militia into service in cases of rebellion or invasion and only with the General Assembly's declaration that the public safety requires it." Some of the outrageous costs of these deployments were also revealed, as the state is claiming it will cost at least $8M just to stop their deployment. The Tennessee Attorney General had argued that the deployment of the guard was beyond judicial review, and the court obviously disagreed with that assertion.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/17/national-guard-memphis-deployment-hold-judge/8...

Off-Duty ICE Goon Holds 17-Year-Old US Citizen At Gunpoint

CleverNews.Net — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:39:07 -0500

Video shows off-duty ICE goon Gerardo Rodriguez holding a 17-year-old Mexican-American US citizen at gunpoint after alleging that he was speeding through the neighborhood in Temecula, CA. Rodriguez pulls a gun from his waistband and forces the teen out of the car. He shows his ICE badge, but ICE has no police authority.

Thankfully, the community intervened and the parents were able to quickly come to the location with the teen's passport. The parents called 911, and so the police arrested Rodriguez and searched his home. He is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment, and assault by a public officer. The family has retained an attorney.

This is just another example of the kinds of thugs that DHS is employing, and proof of why every interaction with ICE needs to be recorded and witnessed by as many bystanders as possible.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.inquisitr.com/shocking-ring-cam-footage-shows-off-duty-ice-agent-holding-17-year-old-at-...

Video Shows Charlotte Woman Handcuffed

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:45:29 -0500

This video shows CBP agents stop their SUV, and then quickly handcuff a women holding a cellphone. As the masked goons with guns man-handle her, she tells them, "I'm a US citizen!" but they proceed to detain her and confiscate her cellphone. They claim they had probable cause because she "touched" their vehicle, but the video doesn't support that claim. We truly have to record EVERYTHING these thugs do!

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/cbp-encounter-charlotte-woman-handcuff-1...

Video Shows ICE Attack in Charlotte on US Citizen Willy Aceituno

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:04:04 -0500

I wrote about this earlier, but thankfully there is video showing the agents dragging him out of his truck, getting on top of him, and asking him for his papers. It was the second time today they made him show his "papers" so obviously Aceituno was terrified and didn't understand what was going on.

Think about it: a citizen who was doing nothing wrong was stopped twice, had his pickup truck window broken out, was dragged from his vehicle, thrown to the ground, and then man-handled by heavily-armed men in masks. This is happening in America! We have to record everything that these thugs do!

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/video-appears-show-border-control-agent-breaking-window-man-being-...

CBP/ICE Bringing Armored Vehicles to Charlotte and New Orleans

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:24:46 -0500

DHS has requested armored BearCats and special operations teams for their raids in North Carolina and Louisiana. They're currently setting up their operations center in Charlotte, and the community there is already reporting violence against minorities. There will be at least 200 CBP officers deployed along with the trigger-happy CBP chief Gregory Bovino. Remember to record everything they do!

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charlotte-new-orleans-border-patrol-immigration-trump/

DHS Using Facial Recognition and AI to Monitor All Types of Crowds

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:46:36 -0500

Any time a crowd gathers, from protests to football games, there's a good chance that the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) is using AI and facial recognition to monitor all of the participants. They have access to vast networks of data and have been compiling databases on everyone. HSIN is used over 500 times a day! Click the bookmarked link for reporting on the details.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.latintimes.com/dhs-platform-facial-recognition-access-quietly-monitored-college-football...

ICE Violence Arrives In Charlotte, North Carolina

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:06:49 -0500

The heavily-armed masked goons are already terrorizing minorities in North Carolina. Willy Aceituno is a Honduran-born US citizen, and federal agents smashed the window out of his pickup truck (covering him in glass), they took his keys from him, and has tried arresting him twice this morning. The first time they inspected his immigration papers after breaking out his window, and then they stopped him again to check his papers when he came out of a restaurant. He says the agents are in a Suburban and keep circling around. They are not stopping any Blacks or White people - they are using the racial profiling powers that SCOTUS recently gave them (coined "Kavanaugh Stops") which violates their 4th Amendment rights.

Here's video from The Charlotte Observer, but it requires disabling your ad blocker to watch it.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/article312930478.html#storylink=latest_side

CBP Thug Bovino Vows Retaliation After Court Loss

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:06:20 -0500

After an adverse court ruling for violating a 2022 consent decree, a maniacal Gregory Bovino threatens to retaliate against immigrants. I can guarantee that his words will be used against him in court, especially since he is still likely facing sanctions for flouting the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction from another federal judge. During his deposition, he was caught lying while under oath. It's also not smart to attack judges when you are already under their scrutiny for your illegal actions. Bovino said, "That's a very corrupt system in Chicago, whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzer or those out-of-control judges."

Even if these racist Gestapo goons were promised pardons by Trump, it won't protect them from any state charges that they may face. As they ramp up their violent attacks on our communities, our people are energized and organized against them. The Resistance is strong!

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.rawstory.com/bovino-threatens-chicago-arrests/

ICE in Alabama and North Carolina

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:31:23 -0500

CBP goon Gregory Bovino and his gang of thugs are going to be in Charlotte on Saturday, so the community is preparing for their arrival. After terrorizing the communities in North Carolina, they plan to head to New Orleans to wreak havoc.

In Alabama, there is a cooperation agreement between ICE and the state and local police. They have been raiding workplaces, and setting up roadblocks where they check your documents. I'm so proud of all of the protestors who showed up in Jemison to protest the raids held in Chilton County! (see the linked article)

Every community needs to organize ICE Kits that contain whistles and multi-lingual Know Your Rights cards. You blow the whistle loudly with three short bursts if you spot ICE, and you blow the whistle with three long bursts if a detention is in progress. You keep blowing the whistle until a crowd shows up. Record everything!

Many communities have set up ICE hotlines where you can report their activity. Those hotlines also need "verifiers" who go out and verify the reported activity by taking photos and video. The hotlines also need bilingual workers to answer the phones. If you are interested in volunteering, seek out the immigration activists in your community for info on how to join the effort.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.wsfa.com/2025/11/13/jemison-community-protests-alleged-ice-arrests-chilton-county/

More Violations of TRO and Preliminary Injunction in Chicago

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:54:59 -0500

Another notice of violations has just been filed which documents even more incidents where DHS/ICE/CBP violated the judge's orders. In a Joint Status Report also filed today, it says "Plaintiffs are still considering their position with respect to a motion for sanctions." This latest notice includes the outrageous incident where video shows federal agents for no reason deploying pepper spray into a car window with a man and his one year old daughter in the car.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559589/272/chicago-headline-club-v-noem/

CBP Bovino And His ICE Goons Leaving Chicago

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:04:27 -0500

After leaving a trail of destruction in their path, thug Gregory Bovino and his heavily-armed masked ICE goons are being reassigned to another area to terrorize. In a late-night rant on his social media platform, Grandpa Puddin' Brains threatened more troops to the area. But if the community and the courts keep standing up to their lawlessness in cities where they've been deployed, they'll be forced to retreat to red states like Texas where their illegal actions go mostly unquestioned.

As was posted yesterday, we now have right-wing militia groups like "Oath Keepers" preparing for violence and begging for Trump to call them into action. We have to continue getting organized, and try to thwart their plans for a civil war any way that we can.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/federal-border-patrol-chief-gregory-bovino-and-agents-said...

Federal Agents Throw Chemical Irritants at Car with a Baby Inside

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:36:15 -0500

This video shows in slow motion the federal agents deploying chemical irritants at Rafael Veraza's car with his baby inside. Do y'all see any justification for this? We have to do everything we can to get these trigger-happy masked thugs off our streets and out of our communities!

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/video-captures-moment-federal-agents-threw-irritants-into-car-...

Senate Reports Widespread Abuse in Immigration Centers

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:22:06 -0500

Senator Jon Ossoff has been conducting human rights investigations into the conditions at US immigration facilities. His first report revealed the abuse of children and pregnant women. His second report in the series covers the medical neglect, and denial of adequate food or water for ICE detainees. The DHS has refused to allow any oversight of their facilities during the government shutdown, so I'm thankful the Georgia Senator is doing the best he can to reveal credible reports of abuse. Links to the full reports are contained in this press release from his office.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/press-releases/sen-ossoffs-ongoing-investigation-uncovers-credible-rep...

DHS Expands Biometrics Collection Despite Privacy and Civil Liberties Concern

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:56:05 -0500

DHS is expanding it's collection and storage of mandatory biometrics (DNA, fingerprints, face and iris scans) from US Citizens, US Nationals, and lawful permanent residents. They are already photographing all non-citizens as they cross the border, but now they're expanding their data collection to just about everybody. The data is stored for 75 years, which raises concerns about security of the private data. This comes after they've already hired contractors to increase their online surveillance operations.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.latintimes.com/dhs-moves-expand-dna-storage-facial-scans-across-immigration-system-59121...

Did DHS Just Lie About "Shots Fired"? Where is the Evidence???

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:53:39 -0500

Lots of media outlets are running stories about DHS claiming that in Chicago shots were fired at them by a man in a black Jeep who got away. Remember that all cops lie, especially DHS, so we can't accept anything they say without solid proof.

Today it was border patrol chief Gregory Bovino who made the claims about shots being fired, but he is the same one who got caught telling the court that he was struck in the head by a rock thrown by a protester. The video evidence proved he was telling a lie!

After Bovino claimed that shots were fired today, the Chicago police responded but couldn't find any evidence. None of the video taken by protestors show any shots being fired or a man in a black Jeep. All of the federal agents are supposed to be recording their interactions with body cameras, so where is their evidence? It seems that Bovino used that lie as a pretext for launching tear gas at the protestors again. That would be yet another violation of the restraining order, so let's see what gets filed in court about the incident.

We also need to see evidence that agents were shot at from across the Mexican border. I have yet to see any proof of that, either.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-chicago

ICE Outsources Work to Private Contractors

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:10:20 -0500

DHS/ICE is working on billions of dollars in procurement contracts to outsource much of their work to private contractors. They have secured contracts with agencies who will be serving as bounty hunters to hunt down immigrants using skip-trace methods, and they will be paid based on their performance. They already have over 60,000 people in detention, and they are using private prison operators like CoreCivic who will make money off every person they put in jail. There is also a plan for a huge call center in Nashville, TN (where CoreCivic is based) to track unaccompanied minors. Another contract is to hire private contractors to transport all of the immigrants between locations.

It is bad enough to have trigger-happy militarized agents in masks going around terrorizing our communities, but the introduction of all of the private contractors make it even more dangerous. They're also turning the immigration crackdown into a money-making machine, which is wrong on so many levels.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.inquisitr.com/ice-to-launch-new-department-to-hunt-down-immigrant-children

ICE Hires Bounty Hunters to Hunt Immigrants

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:16:38 -0500

I recently posted that war criminal Erik Prince of Blackwater fame had proposed using bounty hunters to help ICE round up immigrants. DHS has now secured several multi-million dollar contracts to do just that.

Address of the Bookmark: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inside-ices-plans-for-a-bounty-hunter-army/

National Guard Deployment to Oregon Violates 10th Amendment and Federal Law

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:45:45 -0500

Here's the partial Final Judgment by Federal Judge Karin Immergut which says Trump violated the Tenth Amendment and "Defendants’ actions exceeded the scope of the President’s authority pursuant to Title 10, United States Code, Section 12406." That means that the deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon were illegal. Let's see what the appeals court and SCOTUS does with this, but for now there's no deployment of troops allowed in Oregon. Here's a link to the four page judgment.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481149/147/state-of-oregon-v-trump/

Federal Injunction Against National Guard Deployment in Oregon

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:11:52 -0500

Federal Judge Karin Immergut has just issued her 106 page order that grants the plaintiffs declaratory relief and a permanent federal injunction.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481149/146/state-of-oregon-v-trump/

Chicago - Judge Ellis Grants Plaintiffs Class Certification

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:48:39 -0500

Federal District Judge Sara Ellis slams DHS/ICE in her opinion and order where she grants the plaintiff's request to certify a class. They are clearly targeting non-violent people who are exercising their First Amendment rights. She created a main class, and then carved out two subclasses: one for exercise of religion, and one for the press.

The main class consists of:
All persons who are or will in the future non-violently demonstrate, protest, observe, document, or record at Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement and removal operations in the Northern District of Illinois.

The Court also certified the following subclasses:
Religious Exercise Subclass: All persons who are or will in the future engage in religious expression in the form of prayer, procession, song, preaching, or proselytizing at Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement and removal operations in the Northern District of Illinois.

Press Subclass: All persons who are or will in the future engage in news gathering or reporting at Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement and removal operations in the Northern District of Illinois.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559589/252/chicago-headline-club-v-noem/

ICE Filing "Fictional" Cases in Order to Jail Immigrants

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:16:04 -0500

District Judge Xavier Rodriguez slammed the Trump administration for filing a “largely fictional” case in order to sentence Jaime Alberto Quintanilla-Chavez to 20 years for allegedly harming an officer and impeding officers. You might remember the viral video showing an ICE agent breaking out the truck window. ICE has broken 50 windows this year, compared to just 8 in the past decade. The judge wrote that letting the indictment stand “would grant immigration enforcement officers carte blanche to evade the requirements of the Fourth Amendment."

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agent-texas-case-car-window-b28603...

Chicago Preliminary Injunction Order

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:34:08 -0500

Federal Judge Sara Ellis has just released her detailed order to restrict the use of force by federal agents. Here is the 8 page preliminary injunction.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559589/250/chicago-headline-club-v-noem/