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A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ liveswww.theguardian.com

We reviewed DHS' list of immigrants + protesters who "weaponized" their vehicles to "assault" ICE agents. Nearly all claims have been debunked or dropped, with only one of 26 cases ending in an assault conviction. Inside the govt's stunning failure to prove DHS' claims of violence against agents:

ICE keeps accusing immigrants of ‘weaponizing’ vehicles. Most claims fall apartNearly all car ‘assault’ cases promoted by DHS in press releases have been disproven or dropped, a Guardian analysis of court records revealswww.theguardian.com

NEW: We obtained bodycam footage showing ICE violently arresting farm workers in Oregon and using a facial recognition app to try to ID them. The officers later admitted they had no warrants and no idea who the people were when they stopped them. Four of the workers were later deported.

Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognitionExclusive: Body-cam footage shared with the Guardian shows agents forced workers out of a van in what a judge has called ‘unlawful’ arrestwww.theguardian.com

NEW: ICE violently arrested a US citizen, filmed high-res videos of the operation + made viral social media content out of him Christian Cerna, LA native, speaks out about his arrest at gunpoint while driving his baby + toddler and the turmoil in his life that followed "They tried to humiliate me"

ICE violently arrested a US citizen and filmed it ‘like a documentary’, videos revealExclusive: DHS made social media posts out of a protester’s arrest at gunpoint. Christian Cerna speaks out about the lengthy prosecution that derailed his lifewww.theguardian.com

NEW: Corshelle Jenkins was falsely charged with a crime + a warrant issued for her arrest. It was clear mistaken identity but a judge said there were no available lawyers for her. The charge would stay + she had no way to fight it She's 1 of 1000s in Oregon trapped in criminal cases without lawyers

Falsely charged with a crime, no way to fight it: inside Oregon’s court crisisAn attorney shortage has left thousands trapped in criminal cases without lawyers. One wrongfully accused woman had no choice but to waitwww.theguardian.com

NEW: Law enforcement + city officials across the US have privately worried ICE operations are interfering with police work + public safety Internal memos reveal growing concerns people might misidentify local cops as ICE. Records obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org, shared with @us.theguardian.com

Police across the US worry officers are being misidentified as ICE, records showExclusive: Emails and internal memos reveal concerns immigration enforcement is interfering with police workwww.theguardian.com

DOJ prosecutes a California man who was shot in the face by ICE agents DOJ/DHS say Carlos, 36, "assaulted" officers with his car, but video doesn't show his car hitting officers + officials haven't claimed an agent was injured. FBI's complaint says it has "not been able" to interview key ICE agents

FBI arrests California man shot by ICE on ‘assault’ chargesDHS accused of false and misleading statements about Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez who was shot in facewww.theguardian.com

ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to. Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

California residents are now being sent to prison for shoplifting. In the first year of Prop 36, shoplifters have been charged with felonies + imprisoned for stealing diapers, hygiene supplies, a $13 belt, groceries and soda. DAs filed 15,000+ felonies for thefts previously treated as misdemeanors

California arrests thousands on minor drug charges, but few get treatmentExclusive: Drug users face felonies and prison under Prop 36, with analysis showing racial disparities and little helpwww.theguardian.com

NEW: California DAs have charged nearly 20,000 people with drug possession *felonies* under Prop 36, a new tough-on-crime law. Despite promises for "mass treatment," only 57 of those people have successfully gone into treatment + had their cases dismissed in the first year. Others face prison time.

California’s new ‘war on drugs’: thousands arrested, few get treatment, data showsExclusive: Drug users face felonies and prison under Prop 36, with analysis showing racial disparities and little helpwww.theguardian.com

Under oath, ICE agents in Oregon revealed: -quota of eight arrests a day per team, equaling roughly 50 arrests a day in OR -agents use a special app to choose areas + ppl to surveil -agents have followed, stopped + arrested ppl without probable cause, warrants or basic info about their targets.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimonyUnder oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’www.theguardian.com

NEW: Judge orders ICE to release a Minneapolis man and asylum seeker unlawfully detained for 50 days. In January, Elvis Joel TE + his 2-year-old were arrested without a warrant + flown to Texas despite an order barring their transfer. The girl was later released, but he remain jailed until today.

Judge orders ICE to release Minneapolis man after 50 days of unlawful detentionArrest of asylum seeker Elvis Joel TE and his two-year-old, without a warrant, had sparked widespread outragewww.theguardian.com

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter:

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rightswww.theguardian.com

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in courtString of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’www.theguardian.com

NEW: Two women incarcerated in a CA prison have come forward to report sexual assaults by a staff cook while they were working in the kitchen, paid 12¢/hr. They told me he threatened discipline if they spoke up. The prison concluded abuse occurred, a very rare outcome, but he hasn't faced charges.

Women in California prison accuse staff cook of rape and urge criminal chargesExclusive: After investigators concluded an abuse incident occurred, women speak out for first time – ‘I was so scared to tell anybody’www.theguardian.com

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hatJudge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jailwww.theguardian.com

More than 1,400 pending criminal cases in Oregon must be dismissed due to a huge shortage of public defenders, state supreme court ruled. Many defendants have waited months or years to get a lawyer, a constitutional violation leaving them unable to fight charges, indefinitely derailing their lives.

Oregon must dismiss more than 1,400 criminal cases due to attorney shortage, court rulesSevere lack of public defenders has meant people charged with crimes have been routinely unable to fight their caseswww.theguardian.com

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detentionElizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her fatherwww.theguardian.com

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claimswww.theguardian.com

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

ICE detains two more students from Liam Ramos’s school, officials sayThe brothers’ mother was taken by ICE and Minnesota educators were forced to bring the children to herwww.theguardian.com