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This isn’t another contract. The government bought the facilities. CoreCivic sold two of its biggest California detention centers to the Department of Homeland Security for $1.5 billion in cash. That number caught my attention. Washington didn’t lease more space. It bought the infrastructure. The facilities were already being used for immigration detention. Now DHS owns …
🚨 WATCH: A woman set fire to a warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri, reportedly believing it was an ICE detention facility.pic.twitter.com/UNocL2MRK9 — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 13, 2026
CBS News reports: In a 2-1 decision, a panel of federal judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Trump administration had properly reinterpreted an immigration law last year to disqualify many unauthorized immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement from being able to ask an immigration judge to be released on bond. …
by Michael The violent clashes that are causing so much chaos in the streets of our major cities aren’t going to stop. Tens of thousands of anti-ICE activists have already been recruited, and more are joining their ranks with each passing day. At this stage, the only thing that could put a lid on the volcano …
https://youtu.be/n9UbsafQ_rk AI Overview Walmart has not officially implemented a policy of using “detention cages” for shoplifters. News and social media posts discussing the appearance of such “holding cells” in some stores, particularly in Branson, Missouri, are based on recent, unconfirmed reports and viral videos that may be misleading or part of a local, isolated initiative, …
Family and friends of the 39-year-old held a pop-up event on Saturday, selling lunch plates to raise money for his funeral. “No one should have that kind of ending to their life.”
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state’s holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” DeSantis announced Thursday that …
Fourteenth suspect taken down in coordinated FBI crackdown. Benjamin Song is a member of a North Texas Antifa cell & multiple comrades abetted him. I've been reporting on the cell, including about the firearms militancy training Song provided. There are others to arrest, but they are likely destroying all evidence. https://t.co/1PpxyvabZX — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) …
🚨#BREAKING: Homeland Security has just approved a plan to build a detention center for undocumented immigrants surrounded by an alligator moat and pythons 📌#Everglades | #Florida The Department of Homeland Security has approved federal funding for Florida’s plan to establish… pic.twitter.com/UKGeb9GXha — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 24, …
.@USAttyHabba on the arrest of the Newark mayor for trespassing at an ICE detention facility holding vicious illegal immigrant gang members: "It's called grandstanding … When you break the law, there's no grandstanding that will help you." pic.twitter.com/iIaPsX1Z4l — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 9, 2025 BREAKING: Rep. LaMonica McIver (red jacket) attacks law enforcement …
A federal judge on Monday scheduled a Wednesday court hearing for Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), forbidding the government from moving forward with deportation efforts before then. Lawyers for Khalil, a green card holder and leading pro-Palestinian demonstrator whose arrest was cheered by …
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will reopen a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey that has a 1,000-bed capacity — the largest facility of its type on the East Coast. ICE announced Thursday that Delaney Hall will be the agency’s first detention center to open under the Trump administration, which has made cracking down …
An Italian navy ship has taken migrants to Italy from asylum processing centres in Albania following a court decision in Rome and is bringing them back to Italy. It was the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to process migrants in the non-EU country. An Italian appeals court on Friday refused to approve …
French judicial authorities have extended the detention of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov following his surprise arrest at Paris’ Le Bourget airport on Saturday. The list of charges include fraud, drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism promotion and cyber-bullying on the popular encrypted messaging platform. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for …
Israel is preparing an emergency law that would allow the police to arrest civilians, remove them from their homes or confiscate their properties if it is considered that they have disseminated information “that could harm national morale or serve as a basis for enemy propaganda”, as reported by Haaretz. The Israeli media details that the …