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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 09 > ice-troops-polls-trump-mullin-threats-law-constitution-denver-lawsuit-voting-election-integrity

ICE at the polls? Ain't never gonna happen, says this voting expert

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (504+ words) David Becker speaks to reporters during a zoom call on Friday, September 11, 2026. At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a “fiercly nonpartisan…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 09 > pierre-damas-bel-death-ice-tps

"I’m walking through the streets of the United States... carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation"

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (431+ words) Pierre Damas Bel attends Springfield High School's Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps award ceremony. Springfield City School District via CNN The family of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant in Springfield Ohio, says he died by suicide…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 09 > lawmakers-push-ice-cancel-shock-gloves-contract-compliant-technologies-delia-ramirez

Lawmakers Push DHS to Cancel Its Shock Gloves Contract

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (399+ words) Federal agents walk down a street while conducting immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Feb. 5, 2026.Ryan Murphy/AP Last week, DHS finalized its $16.7 million purchase of 6,650 pairs of electric shock gloves from the Kentucky-based company Compliant Technologies. That comes out to…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 08 > trump-deferred-action-special-immigrant-juvenile-status-deportations-ice-detention

A young immigrant's deportation nightmare

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (752+ words) The plane was stuck on the tarmac of a Louisiana airport, but Yurin Quiroa Ralda, 21, was not particularly eager to take off. He was being deported, based in part on misinterpreted records. And not to his birthplace, Guatemala, but to…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 08 > glendy-nixon-guatemala-overland-self-deport-st-louis-immigrant-police-ice

She followed ICE’s advice to self-deport. Five weeks later, she was dead.

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1223+ words) Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz built a life with her three young daughters in the suburb of Overland, Missouri.Mother Jones illustration; courtesy Missouri Workers Center When 25-year-old Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz took her three daughters and…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 08 > the-deaths-ice-doesnt-count

The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (400+ words) Prisciliano Trejo Ricano on the left. On the right, the shadow of two ICE agents as seen against a garage door.Mother Jones; Facebook; Getty Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, 55 people have died in ICE detention, according…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 08 > dhs-ice-self-deportation-salus-csi-aviation-geo-group

As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (962+ words) This story is a collaboration between Mother Jones, POGO Investigates, and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. William Walters is fighting to hang on to a massive government contract. Since last year, Walters’ firm—Salus Worldwide Solutions—has been…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 07 > prairieland-texas-antifa-trial-ice-protesters-terrorism-conspiracy

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1806+ words) Even then, Batten knew not to speak to the feds. Animal Connection’s lawyer told her, “If they come to your door, don’t talk to them.” Fourteen years later, the FBI once again had Batten in its sights. On July 4, 2025, she’d…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 07 > dhs-ice-surveillance-database-protest-public-records-spokane-hsi

“A nice little database”: Records reveal how DHS task force surveilled ICE protesters

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (707+ words) But the agency hasn’t said how or where it’s storing that information. And the administration’s definition of such crimes has grown extraordinarily expansive, with the Justice Department aggressively pursuing federal charges against anti-ICE activists in a string of cases that…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 07 > ice-immigration-family-separation-parents-perez-florida

Children are being left behind as ICE detains parents across the country

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (478+ words) Eliza Perez, 21, has been forced to become the head of her household in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, after ICE detained her parents. Six Eye Films Last fall, life for the Perez children was turned upside down. Their father, Romeo Sr.,…...