By Jack Queen and Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -Portland police testified on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s order to deploy National Guard troops in their city inflamed protests and increased violence, as a court held a trial over whether the troop deployment was legal. The Portland trial, before U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, will be the…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco, a city he’s blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay Area’s most prominent tech leaders and the mayor changed his mind. “I got a great call from some incredible…
An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on Manhattan’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic on Tuesday after droves of angry New Yorkers surrounded federal agents and attempted to block them from driving off, prompting arrests and fierce standoffs along a bustling downtown corridor. Protesters face off with police during a protest against immigration crackdown in the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil. The emergency appeal to the high court came after a judge prevented, for at least two…
Nearly half of the FBI agents working in the US’s major field offices have been reassigned to aid immigration enforcement, according to newly released data, a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns. Personnel data obtained by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator, and shared with the Guardian, suggests the Trump…
CHICAGO — President Donald Trump authorized a historic federalized deployment of 300 National Guard members Saturday to the Chicago area over the objections of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, with the White House saying it was needed to protect federal officers and assets conducting immigration enforcement amid “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness.” But Pritzker and the…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an effort by the Trump administration to force states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in emergency and disaster aid is unlawful and unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, sided with 20 Democratic-led states…
President Donald Trump has amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation’s third-largest city. “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning,’” President Donald Trump wrote on his social media…
Hundreds of federal agents descended on a sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in Georgia and detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals. This is the latest in a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. But the one on Thursday is especially distinct…
SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal investigators solve a crime against his family. His arrest was illegal, the lawyers said, and violated Department…