ICE

The Intercept-    Last July, anti-ICE activists joined a protest outside a detention center in Prairieland, Texas, dressed in all black.  Now, seven of these protesters are facing up to 60 years in prison after being convicted of charges including providing “material support for terrorism.”

The Prairieland trial marks the very first convictions under Donald Trump’s executive order designating “antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Civil liberties experts warn that the case sets a dangerous precedent for the administration's ongoing efforts to suppress left-wing speech.

The Guardian - A group of 40 House Democrats have described “grave concerns” over the Trump administration’s secretive program of deportation flights and demanded that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) address allegations of mistreatment and inhumane conditions on ICE charter jets.

In a letter shared with the Guardian and addressed to the FAA administrator, Bryan Bedford, the lawmakers describe the “urgent need for transparency” over ICE’s expanded use of commercial airliners to transfer detained immigrants and criticise its “inappropriate and dangerous” efforts to conceal these operations.

The letter follows a Guardian investigation that found the administration was transporting immigrants in irregular ways that often violated their constitutional rights.

.... The number of ICE flights during 2025 has surged by 84% compared with 2024, according to monitoring by human rights groups.