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"Caught in the Crackdown" Documentary About Federal Immigration Raids

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:05:56 -0400

PBS' Frontline and ProPublica have produced a one-hour documentary on Trump's violent federal immigration raids. It's heart-breaking to watch, but we all need to bear witness to what is happening and then work with our must vulnerable communities to protect them. 💔

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPBVFRJQmk

ICE Warehouse Purchase Tracker

CleverNews.Net — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:38:41 -0500

We have to stop the purchase of new warehouses to be used as ICE detention facilities. This may take creative ways to block them at the local and state level. Here is an excellent data visualizer that tracks the purchases they've made and the purchases they want to make along with other helpful data.

Address of the Bookmark: https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b0228ccb-6fcf-4ab6-9d9b-41dd53292ec6/page/p_uy4yssvm0d

DHS Whistleblower Leaks Identities of 4,500 ICE and CBP Agents

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:25:13 -0500

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower has released the identities of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees, so now we need to match the names up with their faces. The ICE List website has been collecting information and photos of all of the officers and also has a boycott list of companies who have contracts with ICE. They are reviewing the leaked information and will be posting it to their wiki. ✊ #AbolishICE

Address of the Bookmark: https://icelist.is/

People Over Papers ICE Reporting

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:57:17 -0500

ICEOUT.org is a website where you can submit reports of ICE activity. The sighting is then confirmed and posted to a map to alert others. Every day at 4PM the map clears so you only see the active raids of the day.

Please bookmark, use, and share this link!

Address of the Bookmark: https://ICEOUT.org

Judge Strikes Down Limits on ICE Oversight

CleverNews.Net — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:05:35 -0500

Federal District Judge Jia Cobb ruled that ICE can't enforce policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities, and entirely barring congressional visits to field offices being used to detain immigrants.

Here is her 73-page Memorandum Opinion.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70964222/36/neguse-v-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/

FBI And DHS Intimidating Protesters (Again)

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:48:25 -0500

I've got a copy of an indictment that we all need to talk about! "Cop City" is a $118 million 85-acre police training facility built in Atlanta. They bulldozed a forest to create it in the middle of a Black community. Cop City wasn't wanted and it wasn't needed, so there were large groups of protesters who did everything they could to stop it because the government didn't care about their petitions or concerns. Police shot dead a peaceful protester while in his tent, and in 2023 Georgia filed RICO charges against 61 activists and even said the bail funds were part of a racketeering operation. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr called the protestors "domestic terrorists and violent criminals." All of those ridiculous RICO charges eventually got dismissed.

Samuel Tunick is an Atlanta musician and a Cop City activist. He recently visited a foreign country, and before he came back to the USA he wiped clean his Pixel cell phone. When he got to the airport in January to re-enter the US, CBP agents detained him and tried to force him to give them full access to his phone. They couldn't find what they were looking for, so he was released.

On December 2nd, Tunick was pulled over in Atlanta where he was asked to step out of his car because of an issue with his taillight. He was at that point arrested by DHS and FBI. After his first night in jail, he learned during his court appearance that they had obtained an indictment from a federal grand jury. He was charged with one count of destruction of evidence because he had wiped his phone.

This is a baseless case that must not stand! The government is still clearly trying to intimidate protesters through these ridiculous bogus prosecutions. Many people carry "burner" phones when they cross international borders because of the repressive laws in other countries. It seems now that the USA has become one of those repressive countries.

The Indictment reads: "On or about January 24, 2025, in the Northern District of Georgia, the defendant, SAMUEL TUNICK, before and during the search for and seizure of property by Customs and Border Patrol Tactical Terrorism Response Team Supervisory Officer L.C., a person authorized to make such search and seizure, did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government's lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control, in violation of Title 18, Untied States Code, Section 2232(a)."

I'll be following this case closely as it progresses through the court system and I'll post updates as I get them. There isn't much on the court docket yet, but here's a link to it: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71998357/united-states-v-tunick/

Sam is out of jail on bond, but now he is subject to random visits from parole officers and drug tests. I'm hoping a rights group will take this case on pro bono publico, but for now he is still trying to raise $20K for his legal fees to fight this case, so if you're able to contribute here is a link to his GiveSendGo account.

US v. California - The No Secret Police Act and the No Vigilantes Act

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:27:32 -0500

The No Secret Police Act and the No Vigilantes Act were passed in California to help provide accountability after the masked ICE goons terrorized Los Angeles. It makes it illegal for police to cover their face with masks, and ICE is really upset about it, so they filed a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the laws. They even state "the Federal Government does not intend to comply with the challenged laws."

There are other cities and states passing similar laws, so this is going to be an interesting case to watch. Here is the 16-page Complaint.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921382/1/united-states-v-state-of-california/

DC Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay on the criminal contempt proceedings against DHS Kristi Noem.

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:28:41 -0500

Bad News: DC Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay on the criminal contempt proceedings against DHS Kristi Noem. The whistleblower was supposed to testify on Monday at 9:30AM. Thankfully we have the written declaration by the whistleblower so we know exactly what they did.

Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker (who are Trump appointees) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week. Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay.

Chris Geidner of Law Dork has the analysis of what happened at this bookmark.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-dc-circuits-trump-appointees

DOJ Whistleblower Complaint

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:57:34 -0500

The whistleblower complaint is #158 on the docket, attachment 1 (Exhibit A) and attachment 2 (Exhibit B). Erez Reuveni was formerly the Acting Deputy Director for the Office of Immigration Litigation of the Department of Justice and he is scheduled to testify under oath on Monday at 9:30AM. That is, unless the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issues a Writ of Mandamus to stop the proceedings.

If you read his complaint, it is clear why DOJ is urgently trying to stop his testimony from taking place. He is able to testify that Emil Bove directed them to say "Fuck you!" to any court that defied Trump's agenda. Bove is now a federal appeals court judge! 🤬 When Reuveni refused to submit false information to the courts, the DOJ fired him.

It is so important for Chief Judge James Boasberg to hear his sworn testimony as he considers criminal contempt referrals for DHS ignoring his order. It's even more important for the public to know how our DOJ is misbehaving and ignoring the law as they carry out a terror campaign against our communities.

Here's a link to his whistleblower complaint.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741724/jgg-v-trump/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_...

ICE Goon Identified As Timothy Donohue

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:37:30 -0500

Timothy Donohue, age 38, was one of the gun-pointing Gestapo goons that was with CBP Chief Gregory Bovino. He's also online troll Timothy77593126 on Twitter, where he likes to post racist and homophobic things. These are the unqualified types of people that ICE is hiring to terrorize our communities. He was called out by Judge Ellis for his repeated unlawful and reckless behavior, like pointing his gun at bystanders and threatening to shoot them. He's just a violent and terrible person who doesn't have any place in our society, much less being a gun-toting ICE goon!

Here's some of his more shocking posts and more info about him.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gun-toting-border-patrol-goon-unmasked-as-racist-online-troll/

Naturalized Citizen Challenges DHS Airport Searches

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:54:37 -0500

A federal lawsuit was just filed that challenges the DHS extensive airport searches without a warrant. There is a 2018 directive that gives CBP agents the power to search people within a 100-miles of a border. That “border exception” affects 228 million people, or two-thirds of our population.

These searches violate the 4th Amendment which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

According to the 15-page Complaint paragraph 4 (a link is in the press release linked below): "Wilmer was separated from his husband and taken to an isolated secondary screening area, where he was repeatedly pressured to hand over his laptop, smartphone, and tablet, along with his passwords. When he objected, he was told he had no Fourth Amendment rights at the border. Moreover, he was told he was behaving suspiciously simply by asserting those rights and refusing to consent to the device searches. His requests to contact his family and lawyer were denied during the detention."

I've been waiting for one of these cases to challenge these unlawful searches, because we have to protect our 4th Amendment and I don't agree that we give up our Constitutional rights just because we're near a border.

Here's a summary of the case by Pacific Legal Foundation who has taken the case pro bono publico (for the public good). Godspeed!

Address of the Bookmark: https://pacificlegal.org/case/chavarria-border-searches-fourth-amendment/

ICE Using 9/11-Era Regulation To Deny Due Process

CleverNews.Net — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:58:53 -0500

Their goal is to make immigrants so miserable that they will give up their rights and self-deport. Even though judges have been ordering the release of detainees on bond, ICE invokes a 9/11-era "automatic stay" regulation to keep them in detention. That automatic stay doesn't require approval from a judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals. In the past five years, the regulation was used only three times. Between July 1st and September 16th, ICE has used it 877 times. They are abusing it to deny due process!

Here's more reporting.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.latintimes.com/ice-cites-9-11-era-regulation-override-bond-decisions-immigrants-nationwi...

New Orleans Resists ICE Invasion

CleverNews.Net — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:43:35 -0500

Despite widespread surveillance and a Louisiana law that criminalizes obstruction of ICE with 5 years of hard labor in state prison, the communities still came together and did the right thing to protect their neighbors. We can learn from each other and adopt the tactics that work.

Louisiana has organized caravans who follow ICE around and record everything they do. Everyone has their whistles that they blow when they see ICE. They're holding Know Your Rights training sessions for protesters and for immigrants. They've established local mutual aid networks (formed after hurricane Katrina) to help people get food and medical care. They established a hotline where people can report ICE activity. The legal aid and immigration attorneys are burned out because of the work load, but they're doing the best they can under the circumstances.

We need to have these exact same efforts in every community across the nation. I think these days everyone has a phone with a camera, so recording ICE activity is something everyone can do if you're unable to volunteer for any of the other activities. The hotlines especially need more people to volunteer who are bilingual.

Here's more reporting on what they're doing in The Big Easy.

Address of the Bookmark: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-orleans-resists-ice-invasion-despite-surveillance-and-state-rep...

ICEBlock App Developer Sues Government

CleverNews.Net — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:05:18 -0500

Josh Aaron created the ICEBlock application so that communities could track ICE agents. AG Bondi put pressure on Apple and Google to remove all ICE tracking apps from their app stores and they complied with the request. Joshua has filed a lawsuit that claims "Attorney General Bondi made plain that the United States government used its regulatory power to coerce a private platform to suppress First Amendment-protected expression."

Apple has previously removed apps at the request of oppressive governments around the world, but this is the first time they've taken down apps at the request of the USA. We really need these tracking apps and websites. This Complaint is pretty thorough (except it's missing the addresses of the parties and will have to be refiled). I hope Joshua Aaron wins this one! ✊

Here is the 39-page Complaint.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72003579/1/aaron-v-bondi/

ICE's Biggest Fear Is Transparency

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:30:06 -0500

They aren't rounding up "the worst of the worst" they are going after the easiest, most vulnerable targets, and they're bypassing the law to do it. Trump's goal was to deport 5,000 per day and thank god they are nowhere near reaching that goal. The arrest records show that the overwhelming majority of those being detained are not criminals. Those claimed to have "criminal records" mostly have minor things like traffic violations. Even if you paint those people as "criminals" they are far from being gang leaders or "the worst of the worst."

What they have succeeded in doing is terrorizing our communities by carrying out raids with violent heavily-armed masked Gestapo thugs with no police training. When SCOTUS allowed racial profiling through "Kavanaugh Stops" that's exactly the method they used. They're trying to detain as many people as possible in order to reach their mission quotas, the laws be damned. They don't want the public to know what the real arrest numbers and criminal statistics are because it points to their abject mission failure despite all of their bluster and propaganda.

Our greatest weapon against these domestic terrorists is to use our whistles and record everything that they do. We've been winning all of these legal cases mostly because of the videos that prove how they lie in court. We have to organize rapid-response groups in every community as they spread their efforts across the nation.

In reporting out of Louisiana, it shows how the local and state police are helping them monitor social media through the local DHS Fusion Center. When DHS, the feds, and police got hacked during BlueLeaks we learned exactly how these fusion centers really work. Very few press outlets would cover the BlueLeaks revelations because of their relationship with police, but in places where the truly independent media covered it the fusion center got quickly shut down. The BlueLeaks data trove is still published on DDOSecrets.com, and although it's a few years old, it is still of great value in understanding their training, procedures, and the propaganda that is disseminated.

Here's the latest reporting about the operations they're conducting in New Orleans:
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-orleans-online-monitoring-b2c300245ea4ffbef335502245760a1d

ICE Is Using Attack Dogs

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:18:11 -0500

Senator Patty Murray tells the story of her constituent Wilmer Toledo-Martinez who was mauled by an ICE attack dog. ICE lured him out of his house by telling him a lie (all cops lie!), then another ICE agent released the attack dog on him once he exited his home. ICE then delayed his medical care for hours. He required stitches, antibiotics, and another medication. They never provided him with the other medication he was prescribed. There are photos of his injuries. He's currently being held at the Northwest ICE processing center.

Toledo-Martinez was brought to the US at age 15 and is undocumented, but he was not resisting arrest or attempting to flee when the ICE dog attacked him. He was detained in front of his wife and two young children, who are all US citizens.

It doesn't surprise me, but this is the first time I've heard of them using attack dogs. They are trying to instill fear into our communities and their repeated acts of violence are achieving that goal. ICE and CBP agents are essentially domestic terrorists with a badge. 🤬

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/us-senator-ice-attack-dog-horrific-injuries

Immigration Incident Tracker By House Oversight Committee

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:05:18 -0500

The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have finally launched a website where people can report ICE/CBP incidents. It doesn't track ICE movements in real-time, but it looks at verified incidents such as excessive use of force, etc. There have been 15 deaths of detainees while in ICE custody, and over 250 incidents that have been thoroughly documented through this dashboard.

Address of the Bookmark: https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-dashboard

Women's March WIN Anti-ICE Ad

CleverNews.Net — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:40:15 -0500

Wow! In Charlotte, North Carolina there is an ad campaign airing that shames those who are working for ICE. I'd love to see more actions like this running in every city! ✊ Check out the powerful 60 second video:

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684ncxqERO4

ICE Bounty Hunters Have Arrived

CleverNews.Net — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:40:35 -0500

A federal contractor founded by a former ICE official is reaching out to ex-law enforcement officers and military on LinkedIn and offering them a bounty program to hunt down immigrants. They get assigned their own vehicle and the starting price is $300 per case to verify an address. They are supposed to just observe and not interact with anyone. They apparently are not required to have a private investigators license which is required in some states. This pilot program is part of a broader effort to use bounty hunters and "skip-tracers" to find immigrants and they will get paid based on their performance.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.latintimes.com/ex-law-enforcement-officials-offered-300-per-case-locate-immigrants-ice-r...

Border Patrol Arrives In New Orleans

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:45:25 -0500

Hundreds of CBP and ICE agents are arriving and staging to get ready for a campaign of terror that will start on December 1st. So far, the federal government hasn't reached out to any local police departments, the city, or the mayor to let them know of their presence or ask for their cooperation.

If you live in The Big Easy, then you already know what to do by learning from the raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. Organize your communities, pass out whistles, distribute multi-lingual Know Your Rights pamphlets, and record EVERYTHING that they do! ✊

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights

Alabama Needs DOJ To Follow-Up On Prison System

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:16:05 -0500

In April 2019, DOJ issued the results of their investigation into the conditions inside Alabama prisons. Sadly, nothing has been done. Governor Kay Ivey says "The Alabama Solution" is to build more mega-prisons, so she took funds from education and COVID relief to build new billion dollar prisons. That fixes nothing!

Election time is coming up, and we have a chance for new leaders to take the helm. As citizens, we have to get organized and demand a change. But in the interim, we need the DOJ to actually follow through on their investigation. During the Trump administration, that may not be realistic, so it may be up to us to force a change in the system. ✊

Their investigation reported that our entire prison system is broken. They wrote:

“There is reasonable cause to believe that the Alabama Department of Corrections(“ADOC”) has violated and is continuing to violate the Eighth Amendment rights of prisoners housed in men’s prisons by failing to protect them from prisoner-on-prisoner violence, prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse, and by failing to provide safe conditions, and that such violations are pursuant to a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of rights secured by the Eighth Amendment. The violations are severe, systemic, and exacerbated by serious deficiencies in staffing and supervision; overcrowding; ineffective housing and classification protocols; inadequate incident reporting; inability to control the flow of contraband into and within the prisons, including illegal drugs and weapons; ineffective prison management and training; insufficient maintenance and cleaning of facilities; the use of segregation and solitary confinement to both punish and protect victims of violence and/or sexual abuse; and a high level of violence that is too common, cruel, of an unusual nature, and pervasive.”

Here is the full report:
https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/5793211-DOJ-Report-on-Alabama-Prisons/

Portland First Amendment Class Action Filed

CleverNews.Net — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:29:54 -0500

The ACLU of Oregon has filed a class action lawsuit over the brutal treatment of protesters and journalists. The lawsuit claims that the Trump administration's policies and actions are "blatant attempts" to interfere with First Amendment rights, including freedom of speech, the press, peaceful assembly, and expressing disagreement with the government.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/aclu-oregon-sues-trump-administration-first-amendmen...

FBI Spied On Signal Group Chat Of Immigration Activists

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:28:05 -0500

Signal is open source and secure, but if you invite a FBI informant into your secure group chat or a member of the group squeals, you're going to get busted! The FBI is accusing a group of court watchers of being "anarchist violent extremist actors” and here's the details:

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration

IRS Sharing Data With ICE Is Illegal

CleverNews.Net — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:01:20 -0500

Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly just blocked the Internal Revenue Service from illegally sharing data with ICE. She ruled that "the IRS’s adoption of the Address-Sharing Policy and the IRS’s subsequent sharing of taxpayer information with ICE were unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act. Furthermore, Plaintiffs have shown that the IRS’s disclosure of confidential taxpayer address information to ICE was contrary to law because it violated several provisions of Internal Revenue Code." Here's a link to her 94-page ruling.

Address of the Bookmark: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.54.0.pdf

Halo Act Would Restrict Free Speech

CleverNews.Net — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:32:12 -0500

The GOP has proposed a bill that would give 5 years in prison and fines for anyone who comes within 25 feet of ICE or harasses them. There are already plenty of laws regarding the obstruction of justice that are being used in these cases, but they want to make it easier to arrest those protesting or recording ICE activities. Our nation has already slipped down the slippery slope of fascist government, and this law would take us further down that path.

Address of the Bookmark: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-law-halo-act-senator-moody-florida-11080367