Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.
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In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January.
Among those now in the Yaoundé compound are people who said they escaped imprisonment for their political beliefs, survived wars and fled countries where their sexual orientations are criminalized.
Most of those migrants and their lawyers say they have been detained since then at a state-owned compound.
They say they’ve been told by local authorities that they cannot leave the facility unless they agree to return to their home countries, from which they fled to escape war or persecution.
In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon.
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Protesters demanding regime change in Iran gathered on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of foreign leaders and diplomats focused on international security. Demonstrations also took place in other cities across the globe. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
are u going to la taqueria?
others:
lucca deli
deli board
nopalito
nopa
ferry building
but my final meal would be la taq carne asada burrito
U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter’s Home
The Justice Dept. did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows.
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Breaking News: The Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino mocked the Jewish faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota during a call with lawyers, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.
New:Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.
w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social
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Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
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Read more on what we found about the people being arrested by ICE:
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Federal court judge on the ICE operation targeting refugees:
"Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefully—and importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants..."
Amazing how long ago Venezuela invasion and Greenland threats seem. Cycles of manmade chaos.
We profiled refugees who:
Arrived in the country legally.
Applied for green cards.
Were arrested by ICE and detained.
One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released.
This is an unprecedented operation.
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Killings in Minneapolis Invert Usual Dynamic Over Policing the Police
It is far rarer and more difficult for state authorities to try to investigate federal law enforcement officials than the other way around.
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Iranians had protested en masse, fueled by the country's plunging economy. Security forces began to crack down with deadly force, killing at least 5,200 people. Verified videos show the breadth and ferocity of the regime’s crackdown. nyti.ms/3M4Xjyg
NEW: After Maduro's capture, Venezuela's government will now receive more deportation flights following discussions with Trump officials.
Up to three deportation flights per week are expected, up from two-a-week last year.
W/ Annie Correal and @haleaziz.bsky.social:
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The Trump administration's response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has underscored how it has embraced using lethal force in self-defense, which is supposed to be a last resort under the agency's written standards.
Breaking News: As President Trump weighs military action in Iran, the U.S. military is evacuating some personnel from an air base in Qatar as a precaution.
The FBI searched a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into classified material, people familiar with the matter said. It is exceedingly rare for federal agents to search a journalist’s home. trib.al/tKsg85n
Weeks before the shooting of a driver in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, officials at ICE warned agents on the ground to remain vigilant about protesters and be “prepared to take appropriate and decisive action should you be faced with an imminent threat.”
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Business Insider confirms our earlier reporting that Google cofounder Larry Page is cutting ties with California ahead of a voter initiative to tax the state's billionaires.
Good findings on how he's re-registered his businesses in other states.
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When we first reported our story, some made suggestions that these billionaires were making empty threats or laundering their messages thru our piece.
Folks are free to think whatever. But maybe keep more of an open mind unless you have reporting of your own.
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Exclusive: The Trump administration is ramping up its efforts to deport people to other nations, filing almost 5,000 motions in November alone seeking to dismiss asylum cases and arguing that applicants can get asylum there. w/ @Allison McCann + @haleaziz.bsky.social
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On Friday, D.H.S. lawyers were issued a new directive that motions seeking deportation to Uganda could be filed only for immigrants from most other African nations, according to the doc obtained by The Times.
Lots of new details on this deportation push:
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NEW: Yuanxin Zheng, the 6-year-old boy from Queens whose separation from his father drew outrage in New York City, has been deported to China with his dad. With @haleaziz.bsky.social
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If the cases are successful, it would represent a massive escalation of denaturalization in the modern era, experts said. By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just over 120 cases filed, according to the Justice Department.
The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year.
