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Knewz: Journalist carried off on stretcher after ‘violent attack by an ICE officer’
A routine day covering immigration hearings at a Manhattan federal building turned violent when a group of journalists were caught in a confrontation with ICE agents — leaving one photojournalist hospitalized.
Video captured by freelance photojournalist Stephanie Keith shows amNewYork’s Dean Moses following ICE agents into an elevator. Agents ordered Moses to leave before physically removing him. “Get the f*** out of the elevator!” one agent shouted. During the commotion, freelance journalist Olga Fedorova was knocked to the ground, potentially by another agent.
According to the Daily News, L. Vural Elibol, a photographer for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, was also pushed during the scuffle. “They pushed me off, and as another guy pulled me from behind, I hear the other [journalists] fall,” Moses told the paper. “I just heard the resounding thud as they hit the floor.”
The altercation took place on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, where ICE agents appeared to be escorting two women who had reportedly just completed an immigration hearing. During the chaos, at least one photojournalist was injured. Photos from the scene show the individual being carried out on a stretcher, wearing a neck brace. A co-worker later identified the injured journalist as Elibol, according to Gothamist.
Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller, condemned the altercation, calling it a “violent attack by an ICE officer.” He wrote on X, “Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza — this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors and our democracy.”
Journalist carried off on stretcher after ‘violent attack by an ICE officer’
A journalist was carried off on a stretcher after a confrontation with ICE agents at a Manhattan federal building.
https://knewz.com/journalist-carried-off-stretcher-following-violent-attack-ice-officer
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MSNBC: ‘Military occupation doesn’t make our cities safer’: Chicago demonstrator on National Guard presence
MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff reports from Chicago on the demonstrations against National Guard deployment in the city.
Inquisitr: Trump Roasted As Immigrant Nobel Prize Winners Are Highlighted
The Wall Street Journal roasted Donald Trump in a scathing editorial.
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal just handed Donald Trump a brutal reality check, and it did it by turning the spotlight on America’s newest Nobel stars. In a blistering editorial, the Journal’s board used this week’s science laureates to torch Trump’s immigration crackdown, arguing that the same immigrant pipelines he is trying to constrict are exactly what keep the United States competitive and inventive. “Welcoming immigrants to the U.S. is out of fashion on the political right these days,” the board wrote, “that’s short sighted for America’s future prosperity,” and the week’s Nobel roll call was Exhibit A.
Six U.S. residents were among nine Nobel winners in the sciences this year, and half of those U.S. based winners were immigrants. The board did not just toss out statistics, it named names, and the list was a pointed rebuke to restrictionism. French born Michel Devoret and British born John Clarke were highlighted alongside American researcher John Martinis for physics work involving quantum mechanical tunneling, a reminder that cutting edge labs often run on global talent.
Jordanian born Omar Yaghi, who fled his country as a refugee and learned English at a community college in Troy, New York, was hailed for chemistry breakthroughs in metal organic frameworks, the kind of next generation materials science that expands the frontier for energy, climate, and biotech.
The Journal’s message was not coy, immigrants are not an asterisk on the American science story, they are central to it. The editorial pointed to research showing that since 2000, immigrants account for roughly 40 percent of all U.S. based Nobel winners in physics, chemistry, and medicine, with an even higher share in physics and chemistry. “You never know who or how the poorest refugee or migrant might blossom into a world class scientist or entrepreneur,” the board wrote, calling immigration a “force multiplier” for U.S. innovation. For a paper often friendly to Republican tax and trade ideas, the tone was unmistakable, Trump’s immigration agenda is sabotaging the very prosperity case his party claims to champion.
Trump has been not so quietly campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize of his own ahead of Friday’s announcement, pitching his foreign policy as prize worthy while his domestic policy targets the student visas, research visas, and legal pathways that feed American labs. The Journal warned that turning the screws on legal immigration, from hiking H 1B costs for startups to discouraging foreign student enrollment, will push future luminaries to study elsewhere, or to take their degrees and go home. You cannot lock the lab doors and expect the breakthroughs to keep walking in.
This was not a partisan blog calling Trump small minded, it was the house editorial voice of a Murdoch flagship telling the Republican frontrunner that his tough on immigration posture is a slow bleed on American dynamism. The board anticipated the standard defenses, that the White House only targets illegal immigration and that anecdotes are not data, then swatted them away. Anecdotes matter, because science advances one person at a time, one lab at a time, and those people often come from somewhere else before they choose to stay here and build.
CBS News: Encountering ICE: A “David vs. Goliath” moment
In city after city, the Trump administration, through its agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been testing limits of the law in apprehending and detaining people suspected of being undocumented, many of whom have no criminal record. Lee Cowan talks with a pastor whose Los Angeles parishioners feared being targeted by ICE; a man whose legal status in the U.S. was revoked and now faces deportation; and an attorney who resigned from ICE and now helps defend those detained by the government, which claims it is acting within the law.
Encountering ICE: A “David vs. Goliath” moment
In city after city, the Trump administration, through its agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been testing limits of the law in apprehending and detaining people suspected of being undocumented, many of whom have no criminal record. Lee Cowan talks with a pastor whose Los Angeles parishioners feared being targeted by ICE; a man whose legal status in the U.S. was revoked and now faces deportation; and an attorney who resigned from ICE and now helps defend those detained by the government, which claims it is acting within the law.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/encountering-ice-a-david-vs-goliath-moment/vi-AA1NU0p2
Daily Beast: Stephen Miller’s Own Cousin Disowned Him in Wrenching Post
Stephen Miller’s own cousin has disowned him for becoming “the face of evil” as the architect of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown.
Alisa Kasmer penned a lengthy Facebook post publicly severing her ties to the top Trump aide in July, just as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out hotly contested raids in Los Angeles, where she lives. Her post made fresh rounds on social media over the weekend.
Kasmer, who described herself as Miller’s cousin on his dad’s side, recalled growing up with and babysitting an “awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention” but was “always the sweetest with the littlest family members.” She described him as “young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless.”
Images that accompanied the emotional post showed Kasmer and Miller going from young children donning turtlenecks and overalls to young adults dressed up in dresses and suits.
“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Kasmer wrote. “I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen… I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.”
Kasmer points out that she and Miller were raised Jewish with stories about surviving pogroms, ghettos, and the Holocaust.
“We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say ‘never again.’ But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught,” she said.
“How can you do to others what has been done to us? How can you wake up each day and repeat the cruelty that our people barely escaped from?”
Kasmer wondered out loud what happened to her cousin, who is widely credited with orchestrating the divisive immigration policy of both Trump administrations. Miller was also among the top Trump officials who set a lofty quota of at least 3,000 ICE arrests per day.
Though the quota has triggered tense clashes throughout the country between protesters and federal agents who were determined to deliver, data show that ICE arrests have fallen well below targets.
The Trump administration has consistently maintained that its immigration blitz is aimed at weeding out violent criminals. But official data show that immigrants with no criminal record make up the largest number of people in ICE detention.
“Where does this hateful obsession end? What are you trying to build besides fear? Immigrants were a part of your upbringing. Is this cruelty your way of rejecting a part of yourself?” Kasmer asked, musing that Miller’s evolution was “a perfect storm of ego, fear, hate, and ambition—all of it mangled into something cruel and hollow, masquerading as strength.”
“You’ve destroyed so many lives just to feed your own obsession and ego and uphold an administration so corrupt, so vile, I can barely comprehend it,” she went on. “Being this close to such deep cruelty fills me with shame. I am gutted. My heart breaks that this is the legacy you have brought to our family. A legacy I never asked to share with you, and one I now carry like a curse.”
In a separate Threads post over the weekend, Kasmer revealed that most of Miller’s extended family had also disowned him except for his immediate relatives, whom she said were supportive of the MAGA agenda.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Miller is no stranger to getting disowned by his family members. In 2018, his uncle David Glosser penned a scathing diatribe for Politico magazine where he was described as an “immigration hypocrite.”
Like Kasmer, Miller’s uncle—who is related to him on his mother’s side—underscored the irony of a descendant of immigrants crafting anti-immigrant policies.
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country,” Glosser wrote.
Stephen Miller’s Own Cousin Disowned ‘Face of Evil’ in Wrenching Post
Stephen Miller’s own cousin has disowned him for becoming “the face of evil” as the architect of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown. Alisa Kasmer penned a lengthy Facebook post publicly severing her ties to the top Trump aide in July, just as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out hotly contested raids in Los Angeles, where she lives. Her post made fresh rounds on social media over the weekend. Kasmer, who described herself as Miller’s cousin on his d
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stephen-miller-own-cousin-disowned-004403550.html
Fox News: ICE director warns activists placed ‘bounties’ on agents in Chicago
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss Chicago rioters threatening the lives of federal agents cracking down on criminal illegal immigration amid reports that police were ordered to not help the agents.
ICE director warns activists placed ‘bounties’ on agents in Chicago
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss Chicago rioters threatening the lives of federal agents cracking down on criminal illegal immigration amid reports that police were ordered to not help the agents.
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Newsweek: ICE Detains Mom of 3 at Green Card Interview After 35 Years in US—Family
Leticia Nevares, who has lived in the U.S. for more than 35 years, was detained after a green card interview and has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since mid-September, according to her family, who outlined her situation on a GoFundMe page for her legal fees.
Newsweek was unable to locate Nevares in the ICE detainee database. Newsweek has reached out to ICE for comment via email on Friday and contacted Nevares family via GoFundMe for comment.
Why It Matters
Nevares’ reported detention comes amid an immigration crackdown. President Donald Trump has pledged to launch the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, and immigrants residing in the country illegally and legally, with valid documentation, including green cards and visas, have been detained.
Several people awaiting green cards have reported being apprehended at required immigration interviews. The administration has repeatedly asked that people without proper documentation self-deport. The White House has announced that certain speech might cause green card applicants to face extra scrutiny.
What To Know
Nevares, who is a mother of three and works as an elderly caretaker, was reportedly detained on September 16, “After attending a scheduled meeting with immigration services to obtain a green card…she was placed in handcuffs and transported to a detention facility,” her son, Steven Rodriguez wrote in the GoFundMe.
He said that the appointment was supposed to be “the final step in a long process of gaining legal residency,” an effort that community members had contributed to. Green card interviews are typically later in the application process, following review of the 1-485 form, biometrics, and background check information.
Rodriguez says she has no criminal history, telling NBC Bay Area, “she’s like a model citizen and she’s being treated like a criminal.”
She was initially transported to a facility in Bakersfield, California, but according to an October 3 update, Rodriguez said his mother has been “transferred to a facility in California City,” which is run by the private prison company, CoreCivic.
There have been several reports of poor conditions at a remote facility that opened in late August. The facility is located in the Mojave Desert on the grounds of a former state prison. “This place is built to break us,” Sokhean Keo, a California City detainee who is facing deportation to Cambodia, told The Guardian.
The facility is one of many that have been popping up across the U.S. to meet the demands of the dramatic increase in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
What People Are SayingSteven Rodriguez said in the GoFundMe for his mother’s legal fees: “Through countless hours of service—helping at local food drives every week, participating in fundraisers, caring for sick neighbors, and providing end-of-life care to the elderly, the entire town is feeling her absence.”
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a previous statement shared with Newsweek: “Under Secretary [Kristi] Noem, we are delivering on President Trump’s and the American people’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens to make America safe. Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst and carry out the largest deportation operation of criminal aliens in American history.”
What Happens Next
Her family says her next court hearing is on October 28. The GoFundMe for her legal fees surpassed the family’s goal of $16,000, and as of Friday night was over $25,500.
CBS News: Growing tensions with ICE agents in Chicago
For weeks now, armed federal agents, some in full tactical gear, have been patrolling downtown Chicago. Ash-har Quraishi reports on Operation Midway Blitz.
Growing tensions with ICE agents in Chicago
For weeks now, armed federal agents, some in full tactical gear, have been patrolling downtown Chicago. Ash-har Quraishi reports on Operation Midway Blitz.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/growing-tensions-with-ice-agents-in-chicago/vi-AA1NV0Xa