We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has been the target of a spike in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, including local…
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ICE agent Texas let walk finally faces a judge, days after filings showed Somalis jailed with no record.
“They had three months to find Christian Castro a parking spot in Texas but couldn't find Minnesota's fax machine. A man who's never been charged with so much as jaywalking is sitting in the same building they built for al-Qaeda. That's not enforcement, that's an insurance policy for guys with badges.”
“Look, extradition is a states'-rights issue, Abbott was simply respecting the process — did I say "simply"? There was a process, it just took exactly as many months as a governor needed to change his mind on camera. And Guantánamo's just overflow capacity, a resourcing call, nothing to do with who ends up on the manifest — okay, it has something to do with that, but that's paperwork, not policy.”
Earlier in this story
- Hennepin County pays out $500,000 to ICE raid victims, then shuts their relief fund for fraud. By Sal · the matinee edition, 17 September 2026
- Immigration enforcement met the law from every direction: a judge, a whistleblower, a Republican, an arrested agent. By Sal · the matinee edition, 17 September 2026
The receipts
Republicans' reconciliation package puts $70 billion into ICE's department NBC News, May 2026
ICE agent appears in Minnesota court to face charges in the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrantChristian Castro, a federal immigration officer, made his first court appearance in Minnesota since he was booked Wednesday into a local jail. Castro faces multiple state and federal charges in connection with a shooting during the immigration surge in Minnesota.
Anger is growing this week as more details emerge about the Trump administration's detention of Somali immigrants at Guantánamo Bay, including people with no criminal records and, in at least one case, a legal US resident. At least eight Somali men are being held at the notorious US military base in Cuba, while as many as 12 Somali…
· 'Playing With Constitutional Fire': Texas Gov. Abbott Lets ICE Agent Wanted in Minnesota Walk Free from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
· Federal prosecutors charge Texas ICE officer whom Minnesota failed to extradite: Report from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· ICE officer charged with lying about shooting turns himself in: Reports from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· DOJ charges ICE officer with lying to investigators following Minneapolis shooting of Venezuelan man from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· Trump administration expands mass deportations with noncriminals from the morgue, 6 Sep 2026
· ICE arrests reached record highs this summer as enforcement tactics shifted from the morgue, 11 Sep 2026
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