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Many local activist groups volunteer at Delaney including Indivisble chapters. You can also check with this organization: https://www.njaij.org/

Here’s another group that goes to Delaney: https://north.dsanj.org/families-still-in-need-of-support-at-delaney-hall/

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When a tear gas canister landed near his feet, Caravello threw it away from the crowd, in a high arc over the federal agents, Taylor said. He later removed a separate canister that had become stuck underneath someone using a wheelchair and tossed it away. Shortly after, Taylor said, an agent snatched him and pinned him to the ground as several other agents piled on top of him. Agents eventually placed him in a car and drove away from the facility, driving through protesters who tried to block them from leaving. Taylor jumped in a truck to try to follow Caravello, but agents threw tear gas through the vehicle’s window, she said. By the time she recovered, Caravello was gone.

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Days after the raid, federal officials accused Caravello of throwing a tear gas canister at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, and he was charged with a misdemeanor count of assaulting a federal officer. In an affidavit, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Virginia Pulido alleges that “the canister came within approximately several feet above law enforcements’ heads” but does not describe any officer being hit or injured by the canister.

Caravello was released after four days in detention, on a $15,000 surety bond. Prosecutors later convened a grand jury to bring a felony charge of assault on a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Caravello found out about the felony charge from friends who learned the news from a post on X by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.

Caravello’s trial starts on Tuesday, where his defense is likely to argue that he was protecting himself and others from the tear gas rather than attacking federal agents. “They rolled it at him and some other protesters as they were walking away and he threw back over their heads,” his attorney Knut Johnson said in November after Caravello entered his plea of not guilty.

The letter is the first time ICE has indicated it is using Graphite. The agency initially signed a $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions for an unspecified software product at the end of the Biden administration. But the contract was swiftly paused until it was revived by the Trump administration last fall.

Graphite uses what is known as "zero click" technology so that it can gain access to encrypted messages on a targeted device even if the user never clicks on a link.

The encrypted messaging app WhatsApp disclosed in early 2025 that it discovered some 90 journalists and members of civil society in various countries were targeted with Graphite. Researchers at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy later identified specific journalists and humanitarian aid providers in Italy whose devices were infected with Graphite through WhatsApp messages. Paragon ended its contract with Italian government agencies in 2025.

Lyons said in a written statement that officers conducted a traffic stop Tuesday in Patterson, which is about 80 miles south of Sacramento, “to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection to a murder.”

Lyons stated that when officers approached his car, Mendoza Hernandez “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over.” Officers then fired what Lyons described as defensive shots.

Mendoza Hernandez was subsequently hospitalized. It is unclear how many times he was shot or what his condition is currently. ICE declined to provide further information on Mendoza Hernandez, in response to a question by a reporter for The Sacramento Bee.

ICE agents have been involved in at least six other shootings this year.

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This is textbook institutional neglect, weaponized and then covered up.

Detainees reported he complained of trouble breathing and feeling overheated. Medical staff allegedly did not respond until he was already unresponsive.

ICE’s own release admits the medical conditions but stonewalls the actual cause of death. His family is left in limbo, gaslit by an apparatus that operates with total impunity while taxpayer dollars subsidize private prison margins.

The shooting was a rare instance in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration ultimately acknowledged a serious lapse. The agency’s acting director, Todd Lyons, said after the charges were dropped that two agents had appeared to have lied under oath about the events, adding that they had been placed on leave and could end up facing criminal charges.

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Was leaving SFO around 10:30PM last night 3/22 when I heard yelling and saw a huge crowd of people. There were at least a dozen San Francisco police officers and a ridiculous amount of people gathered in a circle, some recording or talking on the phone. When I got closer, I saw a woman kneeling on the ground next to a couch/bench with a little girl and the police officers were basically surrounding her, facing away so seemingly keeping the crowd away/hiding her from the crowd. I asked a woman what happened, and she said she was there from the very beginning and saw it all. There were apparently two men in black + wearing backpacks who ran up and grabbed her passport, shoved her (?) and were keeping her there. She seemed to not know for sure, but she suspected that they were ICE agents and the police officers were there to protect them. I could see at least one of these men talking with police officers. Just a few minutes later, I heard yelling again and when I looked back, people were running up and filming while police officers were trying to keep them away. I saw the same woman as before now in a wheelchair in a very uncomfortable position (seemingly being shoved into it) and the small girl walking alongside her and crying. The two men in black were pushing the wheelchair/walking with her and there were a small group of officers/airport workers(?) going with her as well. People were yelling that she was being taken from her family, telling her to hug her kid, damning the ICE agents, etc. I wasn't really sure what was happening, so I filmed a video on my phone at a bad angle(I'll try to attach it). Afterwards, I asked a couple people if they knew what happened and they kinda confirmed it was ICE and they took her away for "questioning".

On Saturday, 30 youth activists and a journalist were arrested blockading the entrance to the Krome ICE Detention Facility near Miami, Florida. The activists have been held overnight with bail set at $1,200 per person. The activists were standing in solidarity with immigrant neighbors being disappeared from their homes, schools, and businesses by the Fascist Trump Administration. Please help us get our friends out of jail, cover their legal fees and associated costs, so they can continue fighting creeping authoritarianism in our country.

Their Go Fund Me for bail and legal fees: https://gofund.me/f2929f301

Funds will be used to reimburse organizers for bail which they paid out of pocket, to cover the costs of return travel for the protesters, and to cover any further legal costs that may arise from their arrest. Any funds left over will be used for mutual aid (rent, groceries, bills, and unexpected emergency expenditures for poor and working class organizers) to support pro-democracy organizing in the United States.

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Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old from Mexico, died on March 16 at the Glades County Detention Center — a county jail on the western shore of Lake Okeechobee that has long housed immigrant detainees and been the subject of allegations of abuse. According to ICE, Perez “died of a presumed suicide,” although his official cause of death remains under investigation.

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At least 36 people have died in ICE custody since January 2025, according to ICE.

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The woman, Leqaa Kordia, 33, was freed on Monday, about a month after she said she had been chained to a hospital bed following a seizure inside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she described filthy and inhumane conditions. She has not been charged with a crime.

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More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October — 23 — than died in the whole prior fiscal year.

The most recent death was of a 56-year-old Haitian man held at an immigration detention center in Arizona. He died in a hospital after going into septic shock.

The increase in deaths comes as nearly 70,000 people are in ICE detention, the highest number in several years.

Former agency officials and immigration advocates have warned that detaining more people — coupled with reduced oversight — will increase the likelihood of more fatalities.

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Description Specific to Video Below I went to witness the ICE arrests today in South Burlington. Of note, I am someone who generally supported local law enforcement until tonight. However, I witnessed them violate their own policy and Vermont Use of Force law. The law requires police actions to be reasonable, proportional, and first attempt de-escalation techniques.

Protestors did not intervene when ICE dragged two people out of their home and into waiting vehicles. Not just the man they got the warrant for related to the car crash, they also arrested a young woman, and the couple reportedly had very young children. There was a curtain featuring Anna and Elsa from Frozen in one of the windows - a child's bedroom.

Then, protestors linked arms and blocked the vehicles from leaving. At first, Vermont State Police, Burlington Police (including their ERU unit (Emergency Response- their version of SWAT), and South Burlington Police established a perimeter. Then, all of the sudden, the vehicle with the detainees gunned it over the median, turning a 180 and flooring it through the line of protestors behind them in the other lane. It was a major escalation: protesters were pepper sprayed, tear gassed, and tackled literal instants before the car ran through. For reference, everyone including all the local police thought that the ICE car had run over at least two protestors. A South Burlington officer ran over to where Migrant Justice medics were working on people asking how many people had been hit. Not if, how many. I'm still not sure if anyone was fully run over or just sideswiped by that vehicle. If no one was, it was only pure luck, the driver did not hesitate, drove at high speeds directly into people in the roadway, and the situation was reckless, dangerous, and almost unbelievable to witness.

Immediately after, some of the agitated protestors were yelling at police and one was arrested by Burlington PD. While they walked him to a car, a woman who appeared to be with him was running alongside, at least 6 feet ahead of them and to the side, trying to speak to him. I witnessed a Burlington PD officer (EDIT: from video posted on this sub, Burlington Police Officer Gonzalez) run up to her from the side, swing her, and violently slam her to the ground without warning. It was totally unnecessary: she was a good distance away, ahead of where he was walking, not interfering with the arrest whatsoever, and also was around 100lbs soaking wet, he could have grabbed and moved her easily if it was even necessary. She was never warned to move, and this did not occur in a crowd but with a great deal of space down the road from the main group. Instead of any alternative, he angrily used some tackle maneuver to throw her to the ground, her body and head hit hard. Other Burlington officers witnessed it and clearly knew it was another use of force violation because another officer immediately went to that officer and told him to leave and go get into the car. If anyone got video of this, please share it publicly, this action was a major use of force violation by Burlington Police.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION: After quite some time after the ICE vehicle with the detainees left, protestors surrounded the remaining ICE vehicle, which I heard had a flat tire. I was standing to the side, out of the roadway, peacefully witnessing. I expected they would establish a perimeter and arrest the few people who didn't comply. Instead, all of the sudden, Vermont State Police officers ran up without warning or giving any direction or opportunity to leave. There was no opportunity for de-escalation (for reference, watch the live WCAX footage for the suddenness of the attack. They sprayed chemical agents and deployed flash bangs and other forms of force. 3-4 protestors fell backwards and laid directly in front of the oncoming vehicle. It did not stop until one of the officers repeatedly screamed for it to stop, while at the same time pepper spraying right into their faces. Flash bangs were deployed too. Something hit me hard, and I have a bruise, I believe possibly from a rubber bullet.

At this point while all of this was happening I started my video and saw one of the protestors in the red/orange coat army crawling trying to get away. The video tilts to the ground as I stepped into the roadway to grab his arm and help him up to be carried out by someone else, I call out "let him be" as I saw an officer approaching to try to spray him again. Then I saw the vehicle continuing to move forward while at least one person was still in the way (left wheel well). I and others stepped forward screaming to try to get the car to stop. At this point I genuinely believed ICE was going to run someone over as they came so close to doing earlier.

As they clear the vehicle, you can tell I and others moved back out of the roadway. I was entirely out of the road, trying to deescalate protestors near me to keep them out of the road and hopefully bring down the heat of the situation. You hear me calling to stay calm, and that we are not a threat. You see Vermont State Police still deploying flash bangs and chemical agents, right at me, while I had both hands up and told them I was not a threat.

EDIT 10:16 PM: I'm now hearing that perhaps the officers in the video were likely Border Patrol, not Vermont State Police. That is possible, they are both in green fatigues and it was getting dark, so I could have misidentified. If that is the case, though, it was with the explicit knowledge of Vermont State police and local officers, who all had literally just been there. Maybe two minutes before this, Vermont state police had all cleared out - I figured they just went down the road to give space and came back with this escalation. It now sounds to me like State police, knowing that federal officers were coming to provoke using these tactics, left to give themselves plausible deniability - why else would they leave a scene they themselves were controlling? They left a scene that they had been running - that is on them, whether or not they deployed these measures themselves. Most generous interpretation: they are sending out statements claiming to be there to protect protestors, but knowingly left moments before federal agents deployed this violence against Vermonters. Thanks for all that protection, State Police.

There were many strategies and tactics for Vermont State Police, federal agents, and the local police agencies to utilize that did not recklessly endanger lives with moving vehicles. In the case of this video, with their manpower they could have established a perimeter, warned protestors to move back or risk arrest, and then dealt with the few remaining. Most people gathered were out of the roadway and were obviously not a threat. Many were media, such as the WCAX reporter. Law enforcement did not need to use chemical agents. Nor did they need to assist ICE drivers from coming close to killing multiple Vermonters earlier in the day. Vermont State Police also violated their policy with many wearing facial coverings and not identifying themselves. Typically, an first tier response for police is to use time to de-escalate and resolve a standoff: police throughout this situation could have used their established perimeters and waited for most of the protestors to get tired and leave. The Burlington ERU could have opened channels of communication with leaders from Migrant Justice to direct and redirect to peaceful forms of protest. Law enforcement did not need to use the excessive forced utilized tonight.

Therefore, it is not possible to reasonable believe any statement on behalf of the police that they were there to ensure peaceful protest or protect citizens. They acted recklessly and with wanton aggression. Burlington Police and Vermont State Police violated Vermont's Use of Force Law multiple times. Their actions were not objectively reasonable, were not proportional to the situation, and endangered citizens' lives.

If you or someone you know have additional video of these events, please bring it forward and to the light. I call on Vermont legislators and governor to hold them accountable for the volatile, dangerous, and egregious breach of law witnessed tonight, and am heartsick and sad to do so. I genuinely thought they, and we, were better than this.

Vermonters, now more than ever it is time to speak up for justice in our community.

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Americans surrounded a house targeted by fascist paramilitary invaders for hours. The fascist paramilitary invaders finally broke down the door & abducted the occupants. Americans surrounded their cars to prevent them leaving with the people they abducted, local police and the fascist paramilitary invaders deployed chemical munitions against the concerned Americans. Updates on instagram via @ pslvermont.

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Prokopas said she was standing outside the facility on March 3 holding a cardboard sign that read “SHAME” when Martinez stopped his truck near the entrance gate while waiting for a break in traffic to pull onto U.S. 41. The two began speaking through the open window of his vehicle.

During the exchange, Martinez told her he had just been fired after fighting with another officer. He had fresh gashes on his face.

Prokopas said Martinez was wearing the patch on his uniform. She said he then removed it from his shoulder and handed it to her.

Visibly upset, Martinez told Prokopas that he previously worked for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. He said he had just been discharged from Critical Response Strategies, the private contractor that provides security at the detention center, after a physical altercation with another guard inside the facility.

Martinez told Prokopas he planned to report the incident to the Miccosukee Police Department because the detention center sits on tribal land.

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• A persistent failure to adequately treat inmates’ health issues with medicine beyond a single dose of Ibuprofen

• A proliferation of diagnoses for serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia that inmates had never suffered from before

• An overall lack of sufficient calories and vegetables

• Verbal and physical abuse by guards

• Extreme temperatures

• Forced labor

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Naqvi, along with two other U.S. citizens and three green card holders, was detained by Customs and Border Protection agents Thursday morning in O’Hare Airport’s third terminal, where they were held for roughly 30 hours, according to Naqvi’s family, her attorney and local officials.

The group was then taken to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview Friday evening before being transported to the Dodge Detention Facility in Wisconsin, where they were released early Saturday morning, officials said Sunday.

Federal authorities, meanwhile, refused to give Naqvi’s family and supporters information about her whereabouts or even say if she was in their custody, they said. Naqvi’s iPhone location is how supporters kept tabs, Naqvi’s sister, Sarah Afzal, said at a rally Sunday outside of the Broadview ICE facility, 1930 Beach St.

The fascists gave her a starlight tour and she had to walk/hitchhike to a hotel after being released from the the concentration camp in WI.