U.S. Border Crisis: No, You Can't Go Back

**archibaldcrane** · 2026-03-31 16:21

Well done

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**kuronosan** · 2026-04-01 07:12

Originally Posted by kisada

prefer they eat something worse than dirt

**Qalbert** · 2026-04-03 18:39

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-faci...ne-flashcards/

A user on Quizlet, an online learning platform, created a public flashcard set in February that appears to have exposed highly confidential information about security procedures in US Customs and Border Protection facilities around Kingsville, Texas.

The Quizlet set, titled “USBP Review,” was available to the public until March 20, when it was made private less than half an hour after WIRED messaged a phone number potentially linked to the Quizlet user. Though an individual with the user’s name was listed at an address of an apartment less than a mile from a Kingsville CBP facility, WIRED has not been able to verify that the flashcard set was created by an active CBP agent or contractor.

“This incident is being reviewed by CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility,” a CBP spokesperson wrote in a statement to WIRED. “We will not be getting ahead of this review. A review should not be taken as an indication of wrongdoing."

The public Quizlet set contained information about alleged codes for specific facility entrances. “Checkpoint doors code?” asked one card, with a specific four-digit combination listed in response. Another asks for the code of a specific gate at the facility, again with an exact combination listed as the answer. Two other gate codes were described in this manner, but WIRED is not using the gate names, because it is unclear if they are confidential.

Incredible.

**6souls** · 2026-04-15 11:10

**Bombur** · 2026-04-16 22:44

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is resigning and will leave on May 31st.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/polit...-stepping-down

**arus2001** · 2026-04-17 00:38

Wounder if he'll die under mysterious circumstances soon after.

**Madeline** · 2026-04-17 01:49

the third story window beckons!

**6souls** · 2026-04-25 11:09

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1...th-daca-status
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1437801/dl?inline

DACA is no longer a protective status for deportations.

A three-judge panel of appellate immigration judges sided with Department of Homeland Security lawyers who appealed a decision from immigration judge Michael Pleters terminating removal proceedings for Catalina "Xóchitl" Santiago, citing Santiago's active DACA status. They sent the case back to a different immigration judge for review.

Santiago's case gained national attention after she was detained by Customs and Border Protection officers while boarding a domestic flight at the El Paso airport in August. She was placed in immigration detention until a federal judge granted her release last October. She has been fighting the threat of deportation in the immigration court system since.

The BIA order, which is technically known as an interim decision, notes that DHS argued Pleters, the immigration judge, should be recused from the case because he is married to Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas, who has been outspoken about DACA issues on Capitol Hill, this case specifically and whose district includes El Paso. Neither the judge nor Escobar are identified by name in the interim order.

The BIA did not sustain DHS' appeal based on that argument, however, instead saying that "the Immigration Judge erred" by basing his decision to terminate removal proceedings solely on Santiago's DACA status.

The DHS has been trying to to convince DACA recipients to self-deport as they say it's not a safety net.

**Qalbert** · 2026-04-28 12:38

https://x.com/i/status/2049075059482870074

**Tyrath** · 2026-04-28 22:51

Yeaaah, similar insofar as both groups need Punisher to cave their fucking skulls in

**6souls** · 2026-05-05 19:07

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/0...t-alex-pretti/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/polit...ent=1777980545

Veterans Affairs has opened investigations into staffers who attended vigils for Alex Pretti because some of them have spoken to the press.

Then Halioua learned she was under investigation by that same government. Her supervisor informed her that an internal probe had been launched into whether she violated agency rules regarding employee interviews with the news media, a probe that could result in disciplinary action.

As part of her investigation, Halioua says investigators emailed her photos of herself at the vigil from news coverage, which also included a brief interaction with a local newspaper. Someone had drawn a line around her image in some photographs, labeled with her name.

Federal agencies typically have rules that limit employees from talking about their government role or department in media interviews, while allowing them to speak in a personal capacity. In some cases, Trump administration officials have taken a hard line against federal employees talking with reporters and what they characterize as leaks.

A VA employee handbook published on its website says: “VA employees who are not authorized to speak officially on behalf of the Department should refer the media request to their administration communications office.”

It also says anyone not authorized to speak on behalf of the VA should make clear during media interviews about their opinion or other information, whether work-related or not, that they are speaking in their personal capacity.

Halioua says she didn’t coordinate with the VA because she was careful to only speak about her opinion, not in an official capacity for the agency, and because she attended the event off-hours and off the VA campus. She also said she didn’t wear her VA identification badge, or anything with a VA logo, on purpose.

The VA found that Halioua violated agency rules, she said, because she consented to an interview without requesting prior approval. It was recommended that her supervisor review the rules with her, and she’s asked if further disciplinary action will be taken.

**6souls** · 2026-05-05 19:12

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...sures-00906830

Border Czar Tom Homan says he intends to "flood" New York with ICE agents if Gov Kathy Hochul makes it a sanctuary state.

“What’s going to happen with places like New York and [if] people pass ridiculous legislation not to work with us, we’re going to flood the zone,” Homan told a border security expo, according to video of the event. “You’re going to see more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen before. So, congratulations.”

The declaration is a last-minute complication for Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democratic-led state Legislature, which is expected to pass bills aimed at protecting the state’s undocumented immigrant population and limit the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

The bills include limits on how local New York police departments can coordinate with immigration authorities and would direct where civil deportation warrants can and can’t be executed. Hochul also reached an agreement with lawmakers that would ban law enforcement officers from concealing their faces — a measure the Department of Homeland Security has already called unconstitutional.

And Hochul wants to make it easier for New Yorkers to sue federal officials if they believe their constitutional rights have been violated.

Hochul has been working on the measure since the ICE invasion into Minnesota.

**Tyrath** · 2026-05-05 19:51

Isn't it already one? Or is that just the city.

**6souls** · 2026-05-06 07:41

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...tester-charges

Feds have dismissed a third of charges from arrests made during the Minneapolis ICE protests.

The alleged conduct is serious. But the government has dismissed more than a third of the cases after the allegations failed to stand up to scrutiny. Prosecutors are continuing to pursue others, including one case where a judge called the Justice Department’s actions “perplexing.”

Prosecutors charged Etherington with weaponizing her vehicle and ramming the Border Patrol SUV, a felony. Even with the case still under seal, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi posted Etherington’s name to the social media site X along with 15 others she called “Minnesota rioters.”

Prosecutors soon backed off the felony charge, which requires a grand jury’s approval. But even their new misdemeanor case faced skepticism from the judge.

At a March hearing, Magistrate Judge David Schultz noted there were no injuries or damage to the Border Patrol vehicle.

At a subsequent hearing in April, Schultz said that he does not believe the government’s account of events and said that Homeland Security Special Agent Richard Berger signed a “false affidavit.”

Of the three dozen people federal prosecutors charged with assault, they secured just two felony indictments. One defendant, Claire Feng, allegedly bit off an agent’s fingertip soon after the Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. The affidavit in Feng’s case includes photos of the injury.

But of the 35 other cases, prosecutors dismissed 14.

**Bombur** · 2026-05-06 20:14

US to close watchdog office for federal immigration detention abuses.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/govern...es-2026-05-05/

**Bombur** · 2026-05-18 16:15

Minnesota state prosecutors have charged an ICE agent with four counts of assault in the Minnesota shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-im-rcna345732