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Even Fox News reporting on ICE impersonations.

Though they can't but spread misinformation.

"Pack explained that real federal officers carry both a badge and photo credentials — and will always show them, especially in non-arrest situations."

Lots of video to the contrary.

#UnmaskICE
FBI warns of crooks posing as ICE to terrorize communities – former agent explains red flags
FBI warns criminals are impersonating ICE agents across multiple states to rob, kidnap and assault victims, making it harder to distinguish real officers.
www.foxnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#CBP Officer involved in detaining US citizen brandishes a firearm in restaurant. Security and eventually LAPD called. LAPD arrest and tase him and he is charged with police assault.

Much later, #CBP officer dies of drug overdose.

All for propaganda.

#UnmaskICE
#DeEscalate
Border agent died of overdose weeks after his arrest in assault on Long Beach officer, report says
A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of assaulting a Long Beach police officer died of an overdose weeks later in Riverside County, a report said.
abc7.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Prioritization decisions have consequences.

By choosing to deport gardeners and abuelas with no violent criminal record, DHS missions against terrorism financing, smuggling and sex trafficking are starving.

This is what 50% of voters voted for.

#UnmaskICE

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And so it begins in Charlotte.

This didn't take long.

#ICE harrasses US citizen twice on a grocery store on #KavanaughStops for the probable cause of... looking brown.

#UnmaskICE

www.wcnc.com/article/news...
Border Patrol enforcement begins in Charlotte. One man said his truck's window was shattered
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, saw CBP agents carry out operations in the city.
www.wcnc.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#DHS: "We're going after the worst of the worst."

Chicago Tribune: "No you're not. You're going after the easiest."

Bounty hunting leads to very perverse incentives.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...
Only 2.6% on list of 614 ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees had criminal histories, DOJ records show
Meanwhile, the other 598 people on the list had no listed criminal history at all.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Rumors surface that Charlotte, NC is the next city on #DHS #CBP list.

No discernible prioritization strategy. Maybe it's because Bovino is from there.

#UnmaskICE

www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/u...
Gregory Bovino and CBP are headed next to Charlotte, North Carolina. That was news to city officials | CNN
Before he got a call this week from CNN about reports US Border Patrol agents might be headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, City Councilmember Malcolm Graham had no idea such a plan was even in the ca...
www.cnn.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What happened in Broadview between Oct 19 and Oct 31?

"DO not attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence," but my bet's on malice.

#CongressionalOversight
#UnmaskICE
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Celebrate the wins.

The judiciary holds in a MASSIVE way.

DHS must hand over status and flight risk info on 615 Chicagoans who have been detained without a warrant against the 4th and 5th Amendments.

DoJ says it will present "a significant challenge" to gather the required documents.

#UnmaskICE
Judge demands ICE release 313 people held without warrants
The detainees are to be released on bond into a monitoring program by Nov. 21.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is an excellent summary of what being in DHS-occupied Chicago feels like on a daily basis.

While simply describing facts, interviews and reports, it reads like a war diary.

#UnmaskICE
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"If someone strays into a pepper ball, that's on them."

"Don't protest."

This is someone purporting to be law enforcement.

1st Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech... or the right to peaceably assemble."

#RememberYourOath
#UnmaskICE

youtu.be/RPNl7zCShmE?...
Former agent shares concerns about tactics used against protesters: "This isn't policing"
YouTube video by CBS News
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Anyone know the odds on which American city will be invaded by masked #DHS agents next?

#UnmaskICE

abcnews.go.com/US/border-pa...
Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino expected to depart Chicago in coming days
The Department of Homeland Security will maintain a presence in the city, according to multiple sources.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
According to Geo Group, forces labor is in the government's best interest.

"A lower court denied Geo Group’s claim that it couldn’t be sued for allegations of forced labor in an ICE detention center because it was acting in the government’s interest."

Not slave labor, since they get paid $1/day.
Immigrant detention firm seeks immunity in case before Supreme Court
A lower court denied Geo Group’s claim that it couldn’t be sued for forced-labor allegations at an ICE detention center because it was working for the government.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Another hammer blow to U.S. solar manufacturing.

Tariffs, customs delays, Investment Tax Credit going away in 2026, deporting roofers and electricians, an Administration openly hostile to renewable energy.

This Administration actively hurts US manufacturing despite claiming they want it to grow.
US Customs delays force solar giant Qcells to furlough 1,000 workers
Solar panel giant Qcells is furloughing 1,000 workers in Georgia due to supply chain delays caused by US Customs.
electrek.co
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The photos say it all.

#UnmaskICE
Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school and find that their parents are gone.

Anne Frank
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
More examples of #ICE #DOJ cases against protestors falling apart when confronted with video evidence in the sunlight of a courtroom.

But mostly calling out "may cause a credibility problem for current prosecutors." DOJ lawyers already have credibility problems from many bad cases.

#UnmaskICE
In L.A., federal prosecutors are charging more protesters. A surprising number of cases are falling apart.
Some former federal prosecutors say the discrepancies in how the Trump administration is describing protest behavior may create a credibility problem for current prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is quite the video.

"Professional, legal, ethical, moral — you know what I’m talking about, legal, ethical, moral. … You’re on camera, but other than that … it’s what we do.”

Essentially, "if you can get away with it, do it."

To agents wanting to be treated like law enforcement.

#UnmaskICE
Border Patrol Boss Tells Agents In LA 'It's Our F--king City' In Newly Released Video
The video, taken June 7, was made public this week in a Chicago court case. In it, the Border Patrol boss also says "arrest as many people that touch you as you want to" — and later confirmed the stat...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Wow.

DoE edits employees' out-of-office messages to include language that blames Democrats for the shutdown.

Not only a Hatch Act violation (like those matter) but also a 1st Amendment violation.

Don't believe a word this government says.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/p...
Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says | CNN Politics
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment rights of some agency employees when it sent out-of-office messages on their behalf that blamed Democrats for...
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Weirdest game of Duck, Duck, Goose ever.

#UnmaskICE
Suburban moms protesting peacefully and being arrested outside Broadview.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
DHS abandons automated communications capture software in favor of *checks notes* manual screen capture.

This approach is wide open to unintended or intended loss of evidence for FOIA requests, judicial evidence, Congressional oversight, etc.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

#UnmaskICE
To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Guy who threw a sandwich at a fed acquitted on misdemeanor assault.

This is jury nullification.

Besides multiple No True Bill results from grand juries (a very rare occurrence), this jury says, "We don't care what the law is. This defendant is not being penalized."

PS. Don't throw things at feds.
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The judiciary holds.

CBP chief Bovino lied about being hit by a rock before throwing tear gas grenades at a crowd. DHS propagandist McLaughlin reinforces and amplifies the lie.

Judge calls it out.

Don't believe a word this admin says.

And record everything.

#UnmaskICE
Border Patrol commander admitted he lied about tear gas incident, judge says, as she restricts use of force by immigration agents in Chicago
The incident involving Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, has been a key part of the court proceedings challenging immigration tactics in Chicago.
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The judiciary holds - and steps up.

"Normal order," the presumption that DoJ lawyers and federal agents are telling the truth, no longer exists.

Judges are openly saying "I don't believe you without corroborating evidence" to DoJ and federal agents.

#UnmaskICE
Ellis notes that the feds argue "plaintiffs have not been engaged in First Amendment protected activity" because they've "intermingled themselves with rioters."

"But as I've previously stated," Ellis says, "I don't find defendants' version of events credible."
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Huh. Turns out a hostile, unidentified, masked, low-training enforcement organization has downsides.

Such as reducing safety of regular law enforcement.

And copycats/vigilantes.

#UnmaskICE

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The illusion of a closed border. In many, many pictures.

Weren't we promised a fully-built border wall at some point?

#UnmaskICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...
View from the border: the wall dividing the US and Mexico – in pictures
The structure, variously known as the border fence or border wall, is not continuous and only covers sections of the almost 2,000-mile boundary between the two countries. It consists of a series of ob...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
1. DHS wants to collect biometric data, including DNA, for everyone in USA.

2. Elon was given full access to all government data.

3. Anticipate billionaires and/or sociopaths get full access to your and everyone else's DNA.

...

Future Elon: "You have good DNA. Want to have my child?"
DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says
Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM