Michael I. Niman, writing for ArtVoice of Buffalo, NY, July 16, reports on repression by federal law enforcement at this year’s Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. The annual back-to-nature gathering—held in a different state each year, with a… Read moreFederal police brutalize peaceniks in Wyoming
On June 20, West Palm Beach resident Valery Joseph died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida. The 23-year-old Haitian immigrant had been living in the US… Read more23-year-old dies in ICE detention
On July 10, US District Judge William Dimitrouleas in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sentenced former ICE agent Wilfredo Vazquez to 87 months in prison for sexually assaulting a female immigration detainee in his custody. Vazquez pleaded guilty in April to two… Read moreICE agent sentenced for sexual assault
On July 9, ICE agents joined Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in raiding two marine companies in Port Arthur in southeastern Texas, near the Louisiana border. The operations took place at the R & R Marine Fabrication and Drydock… Read moreICE raids Texas port company
From the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), July 10: NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a landmark lawsuit today to stop the government from conducting surveillance under a new wiretapping law that gives the Bush administration virtually… Read moreACLU pledges to challenge wiretapping law
On June 26, Palestinian professor Sami Al-Arian was charged in US District Court in Alexandria, Va., with two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury which is investigating whether Islamic charities in northern Virginia were… Read moreUS indicts Palestinian detainee Al-Arian
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested or helped arrest 489 people in “Operation Community Shield” raids announced between June 2 and July 2, targeting foreign-born alleged gang members in Kansas, Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia and Texas. On… Read moreNearly 500 arrested in ICE anti-gang raids
On July 3, ICE arrested supervisors Juan Carlos Guerrero Espinoza and Martin De la Rosa Loera at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant owned by Aaron Rubashkin in Postville, Iowa. Federal prosecutors said they had also issued an arrest warrant for… Read moreICE arrests supervisors at Iowa meat plant
Over a five-day period ending June 24, ICE Fugitive Operations Teams carried out a series of coordinated sweeps through southeast Wisconsin, the Chicago metropolitan area, southwestern Kansas and central Nebraska, arresting a total of 158 people, of whom fewer than… Read moreMore ICE “fugitive” raids in Midwest
On June 26, ICE agents executed a federal civil search warrant at an aircraft manufacturing plant in Arlington, Wash., arresting 32 of the company’s workers—16 women and 16 men—on administrative immigration violations. Two of the workers are from El Salvador;… Read moreICE raids Washington aerospace plant
Early on June 25, some 200 agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided Action Rags USA, an international supplier of used clothing and rags in Houston, Texas. The ICE agents executed a federal search warrant at the plant… Read moreHuge ICE raid at Houston clothing company
A two-year investigation of a 2,000-acre property in Humboldt County’s Lost River area, Operation Southern Sweep went above ground this week as an invading force of 450 federal and state agents descended in convoys of as many as 200 vehicles… Read more“Southern Sweep” raids shake California’s Emerald Triangle
