The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Tech Firms Make Millions from Trump's Anti-immigrant Agenda, report finds
Corporations including Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are raking in money from U.S. immigration enforcement by providing tools that aid surveillance, detention and deportation.
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The Trump Administration Transferred $9.8 Million From FEMA To ICE
As Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast, a "reprehensible" disclosure.
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The DHS Database of Journalists Will End Independent News Media as We Know It
The move by DHS is widely expected to have a “chilling effect” on the number of journalists applying for visas to travel overseas and report on what they see there.
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Homeland Security Wants to Monitor Journalists. Time to Sound the Alarm.
DHS intends to list and track hundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and "influencers" in traditional and new media alike, setting a frighteningly authoritarian precedent.
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Trump 'Could Be Sending People to Their Deaths,' Advocates Warn, After 200,000 Salvadorans Told to Get Out
"Deporting hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents back to the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere is not just an affront to American values, but a near-homicidal act."
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Homeland Security Plans to Collect Immigrants’ Social Media Info
The rule, which would take effect Oct. 18, would allow the agency to collect information from US immigrants' Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.
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U.S. Government Demands Details On All Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Site
Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional "fishing expedition."
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ICE Officers Told to Take Action Against All Undocumented Immigrants Encountered While on Duty
The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in charge of deportations has directed his officers to take action against all undocumented immigrants they may cross paths with, regardless of criminal histories.
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Homeland Security Sees Anger at Trump as Driver of "Domestic Terrorist Violence"
The conclusions laid out in a Feb. 21 report come amid a series of controversial post-election efforts by Republican lawmakers to criminalize protest.
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Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill With Huge Privacy Flaws – A Backdoor to Surveillance
Privacy advocates demanded Congress kill or reform a bill they say hides new government surveillance mechanisms in the guise of security protections – but the Senate passed CISA on Tuesday.
