Originally published at: Secret Internal Memo Exposes the Scale of ICE’s Lawlessness
Morning Memo Live! Details and tickets here for the Jan. 29 event in DC. (TPM members should look out for a special discount code in your inboxes. Reach out to talk@talkingpointsmemo.com if you didn’t receive or can’t find it.) What 4th Amendment? A secret internal ICE memo dated May 12, 2025 gave unconstitutional guidance allowing…
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‘ICE is here!’ Refugee family with legal status unsettled by early morning arrest
The family says the agents arrived in force. A.J. and her husband, J.J., say roughly 20 officers came in at least six cars, some pounding on the front door as their younger children huddled together in fear in the living room.
J.J. said he held up the family’s immigration documents through a window as agents continued banging. Although weapons were not pointed directly at the family, he said officers had their fingers on their triggers throughout the encounter.
They claimed they only needed to clear up a question with the son, they weren’t there to detain him. Parents called the son home and he was whisked away. He was released more than 48 hours later.
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I love to see these ICEholes and this “administration” treating the Constitution like toilet paper. Someone really needs to stop this lawlessness. I keep hoping for a solution from Mother Nature, but to no avail.
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Agents say man injured in ICE custody ‘purposely ran headfirst into a brick wall’
A Minnesota man incurred severe head wounds while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody earlier this month, with the agency posting guards at his hospital bedside despite his deteriorating condition, according to his attorneys.
The man, who was born in Mexico, was detained by federal immigration agents Jan. 8 on St. Paul’s east side, according to a habeas corpus petition in federal court asking for his release.
The man was brought to the hospital by agents four hours after his arrest. A CT scan found that the man had “life-threatening bilateral skull fractures and hemorrhaging.” He was then transferred to HCMC hospital in Minneapolis, where his attorneys say two ICE agents are stationed in his room, and he’s prevented from leaving the bed by restraints on his limbs.
They have him shackled to the bed.
The man’s attorneys don’t know how his injury was caused, but they were told by hospital staff that he’d been “dragged and mistreated” by federal agents. ICE agents told medical professionals that he was on the ground in handcuffs when he attempted to flee and that he “purposely ran headfirst into a brick wall,” according to the petition.
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Trump and the Republican party have unleashed a pack of lawless sadists, criminals and murderers on the American people. Republicans could stop this now, but they will not. Most of them like it and those that do not can’t do anything because they are chickenshit cowards who only exist to protect their own power and wealth.
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Judging by the incoherence and fatigue on display at Davos yesterday, his doctors probably administered another dose of the dementia IV injection he’s allegedly receiving.
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What 4th Amendment?
The only amendment that counts is the 2nd, and that was put in to make sure the other original 9 amendments could be voided if necessary.
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It almost looks like Interwar Poland, which also seems appropriate.
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“It’s an aberration that short-term people are saying that,” Bäte told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday. “I think it’s about doing it intelligently. And by the way, the role model here is China, they are going to be the leader both in terms of renewable and cost of energy.”**
Yes, Donnie boy, there ARE wind farms in China!
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Is JD saying don’t fight the rapist?
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FJDV… can’t say that enough
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He can go fuck himself.
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OK Dems, we know now that you have to promise money, lowering prices, and bribing voters. Let’s make it happen.
Yes, we’ve always known that The Economy was the big gorilla in the electoral sphere. But that was always in a more ‘Normal’ America.
Now that we have a crazed lunatic in the WH setting the constitution and the world on fire, turning our own guns against our populace, and all but wearing swastikas openly…it still is The Economy that gets people to move. They don’t care if it’s a police state or if citizens can be thrown in vans and disappeared.
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Voters who flipped at the last election to vote for Donald Trump and the Republican Party believe one issue is dragging his administration down.
Despite action in Greenland and Venezuela, the ongoing release of the Epstein files, and a narrowly avoided healthcare crisis, it’s the economy that has people turning away from the president. Voters who were polled by the New York Times say the cost-of-living crisis is the main reason they are not satisfied with the president.
Analysis from Nate Cohn suggests voters who flipped to vote for Trump have now lost trust in his economic promises from the campaign trail.
He wrote, "The economy was one of the biggest reasons these same voters flipped to supporting Mr. Trump in the first place. In the last campaign, these voters disapproved of Mr. Biden’s handling of the economy, said it was the most important issue, and said they thought Mr. Trump would handle the issue well. Today, all of those conditions have flipped, and these voters have as well.
“…Over our last two polls, the voters who have soured on Mr. Trump — those who say they voted for him in 2024 but disapprove of him today — have been likeliest to cite an economic issue as the biggest problem facing the country: 44 percent of the Trump defectors cite economic issues, compared with just 24 percent of other voters.”
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