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Ashley Huebner
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Immigration attorney and irritated Midwesterner. Views are my own.
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When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.

Activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NEW: During a week at immigration court in Connecticut, I didn't see ICE once. During a day at the Federal Plaza in New York City, ICE was everywhere.

My tale of two immigration courts, with illustrator Matt Stevens, at @ctinsider.bsky.socialwww.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
Many CT immigration cases are transferred to NYC court, where ICE is far more active
It’s much more common to see federal officers waiting in hallways and lingering outside courtrooms in Manhattan.
www.ctinsider.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This is great. Need such signs on CTA viaduct on West Sheridan, and Metra over Devon, Pratt, and Howard as well.
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"In one case, the agents smashed out the window of a pickup truck and took the driver into custody at a Home Depot, 2201 Oakton St.A short time earlier, agents arrested another man at a Mobil gas station in the northern suburb, 1950 Green Bay Road."
Bovino's Border Patrol caravan hits Chicago area for second day, making arrests in Evanston
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino had a tense standoff with Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss after federal agents arrested a man at a gas station on Wednesday. Later, agents broke out the window of a picku...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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"People who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic & spontaneous...it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure working to help them expand their tolerance for taking risks." ❤️👇
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.
December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Immigration advocates fear the Trump administration is conducting family separations far from the border for the same reasons as before: to deter new immigrants from coming and to terrify those who are here into leaving.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Not sure if people realize what a massive shift this is from prior practice…
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Immigration agents stayed in a sick Salvadoran woman's hospital room around the clock, pressuring her to say she was well enough to leave.

She said it was like "being tortured."

ICE has no place in hospitals, period.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
How an ICE hospital incident sparked alarm about the patient rights of immigrants
ICE agents monitored the private medical conversations of a detained Salvadoran woman. Such incidents prompted L.A. County to approve new protections for patients.
www.latimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Federal agents cut off her wedding ring.
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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NEWS: On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd. By Rebecca Johnson and @staceywescott.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/i...
On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd
Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas and pepper spray Saturday on a crowd that gathered to protest a prolonged arrest in a northwest Chicago suburb, angering neighbors who said it’s “uncall…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Happening right now. Community members in Elgin, IL are in a standoff with Feds who are trying to abduct their neighbor.

ERO guy in picture on left just peppered sprayed person I screencapped.
December 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The aunt of Adama Bah, a prominent New York immigrant activist and advocate, was freed from ICE detention today.

She'd been grabbed from line to board a plane at LGA airport two days before Thanksgiving.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/05/a...
Packed Crowd Cheers as Judge Releases Advocate’s Aunt in High-Stakes Immigration Hearing
Aissatou Diallo, the aunt of Adama Bah, was released Friday after a judge ripped into the Trump administration’s dubious account of her arrest and efforts to deport a woman who’d lived peacefully in A...
www.thecity.nyc
December 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It would be good for America in both the short and long term if people could not be like just numb to the President of the United States saying things like this.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.

I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This was disgusting
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM