When a security breach hits an agency like the Department of Homeland Security, Washington pulls up the drawbridge. We saw that reflex last month when hackers took personal files from FBI agents. But Wednesday brought something different. The transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets worked with researcher maia arson crimew. Together, they published a searchable database named Icepick.
By Alma Cordero ·
Springfield, Ohio, sits in the south-west of the state. An estimated 20,000 Haitians arrived in Springfield. Many fled the earthquake or the violence following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Their arrival followed the wider 2021 Haiti unrest that saw the catastrophic collapse of state security in the home country.
By Alma Cordero ·
ICE agents broke the arm of U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez during a violent detention in Long Beach, proving that federal impunity now targets anyone in the path of a deportation machine.
By Alma Cordero ·
María Elvira Salazar warns Donald Trump that deportations went too far, but Latino voters remember who funded the machinery before the panic set in.
By Alma Cordero ·
After ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in front of his child, Mayor Zohran Mamdani rightfully demanded the rogue agency leave New York rather than terrorize another neighborhood under the guise of law and order.
By Alma Cordero ·
An off-duty agent's assault on a senior citizen exposes the danger of an over-funded, under-trained agency that views immigrant communities as battlefields rather than neighborhoods.
By Alma Cordero ·
When ICE agents shot a man in Marble Hill with a child in the car, they proved that federal enforcement is a campaign of unbridled violence.
By Alma Cordero ·
Donald Trump turned immigration into a blunt tool of punishment, shattering his coalition as working Latino families reject the cruelty and demand accountability at the ballot box.
By Alma Cordero ·
As federal raids terrorize Kansas towns and gut local businesses, Republican politicians who cheered on this brutal machinery cannot run from the devastation they helped unleash.
By Alma Cordero ·
The problem with "surges"—whether they are technical deployments or federal law enforcement crackdowns—is that they almost always prioritize throughput over integrity.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The White House withdrew the nomination of Lance Schroyer to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday, September 17. The move concedes a point any consular officer knows: loyalty cannot replace a resume.
By Tom Beckwith ·
I spent my youth balancing books under Carter-era interest rates and my adulthood meeting payroll for 140 families. In my world, there are two things that don’t lie: the ledger and the flight line.
By Grant Colby ·