AM Brief: ICE's Armored Convoy Bags One Arrest
Plus, judge rules Trump cannot use ‘alien enemies’ law to deport Venezuelans.
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📸 ICE Deploys Armored Convoy to Arrest One Person
In an extraordinary escalation, ICE and the Secret Service collaborated in a militarized convoy of armored vehicles California—targeting an individual for hanging fliers with the personal information of ICE agents.
🧵 Meet ImmigrationOS, ICE’s Mass Deportation Machine
A $30 million AI-powered system built by Palantir is changing how ICE tracks, targets, and deports migrants—pulling sensitive data from across the federal government. ICE now calls it “ImmigrationOS.”
📜 Senate Republicans Consider Defying Parliamentarian
As a wildly anti-immigrant budget reconciliation steams steadily ahead in the GOP-led Congress, Senate Republicans are mulling over whether they should disregard parliamentarian determinations on enforcement proposals that don’t pass the “Byrd Bath” later this summer.
🛂 Trump-Bukele Pact Reshapes Deportation Geography
A secretive deal between Donald Trump and El Salvador’s president is rerouting deportation flows to Central America, potentially creating a regional holding zone for migrants the U.S. wants gone.
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🗞️ IN THE NEWS
📍Reuters | Judge rules Trump cannot use ‘alien enemies’ law to deport Venezuelans 👉 Link to story
📍Reuters | Cuban mother deported while breastfeeding her one-year-old baby 👉 Link to story
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