Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window The three men detained alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo say the officer was never in front of or near the van, that images show no damage to it, and that ICE has since been pressuring them to self-deport — removing them as witnesses before investigators can hear their account. Posted on Jul 10, 2026 | The Associated Press
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers Three men arrested during the same operation, speaking from ICE detention through an attorney, directly contradict DHS's account of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing — saying ICE vehicles rammed into his van, not the reverse, that it was moving no more than 5 mph, and that no officer was ever in its path. Posted on Jul 10, 2026 | The Washington Post
Trump Pushes Out Last Federal Election Assistance Commission Members Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners on the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission by email and let the sole Republican commissioner resign, leaving the agency that helps states run elections with no sitting members months before the 2026 midterms. Posted on Jul 9, 2026 | ProPublica
Family of man shot dead by Ice agent in Texas demand answers Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son says his father — in the US nearly 35 years and in the process of obtaining legal work status — was on his way to pick up day laborers for his construction job when an ICE agent shot and killed him; his family and civil rights groups are demanding an independent investigation and release of video evidence. Posted on Jul 8, 2026 | The Guardian
These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled. ProPublica's analysis found immigration judges issuing more than 10,000 removal or voluntary-departure orders a month for unaccompanied minors, nearly four times the rate under Trump's first term, centered on 18-year-old Elder Chavez, detained in Louisiana after a traffic stop. Posted on Jul 6, 2026 | ProPublica
Trump pardons a major donor and violators of the Clean Air Act Trump pardoned 11 people, including major Republican donor Adam Kidan and several individuals convicted of tampering with vehicle emissions systems in violation of the Clean Air Act. Posted on Jul 4, 2026 | The Washington Post
ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump’s deportation push Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested roughly 10,000 people over five days in late June, a sharp escalation as the agency shifts from high-profile city sweeps to quieter, steadier arrests to hit the administration's deportation targets. Posted on Jul 2, 2026 | The Washington Post
Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms The Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day can still be counted, a defeat for Trump that he immediately used to renew his push for the SAVE America Act's proof-of-citizenship voting requirements. Posted on Jul 1, 2026 | Democracy Now!
Mass Arrests by Trump's ICE, CBP Repeatedly Fail Under Scrutiny A joint investigation found more than 300 protesters and bystanders arrested by federal agents on charges like assaulting an officer or interfering with law enforcement, accusations that repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny, video footage debunked officers' own statements, and in more than a third of the cases prosecutors dismissed the charges, declined to file them, or lost at trial. Posted on Apr 15, 2026 | ProPublica / FRONTLINE
Trump is dismantling democracy at "unprecedented" speed, global report finds Three separate reports, including one from V-Dem, found the U.S. has rolled back democratic norms faster under Trump than Erdogan did in Turkey or Orban did in Hungary, with America's global democracy ranking plunging from 20th to 51st. Posted on Mar 20, 2026 | NPR