The FBI reviewed an anonymous tip accusing Mahmoud Khalil of calling for violence — and closed the probe within days, finding it did not warrant investigation. ICE arrested him two days later. The administration kept calling him a threat.
A broken federal database was supposed to tell families where detained immigrants are held. Thirty-six lawmakers say it has become a mechanism for making people disappear — and they want to know if that's by design.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
Internal agency data reviewed by Reuters shows the TSA shared 31,000 traveler records with ICE, producing 800+ arrests — with no public disclosure, no congressional mandate, and no notification to the people whose data was shared.
A court ruled that police officers who sued Afroman for mocking their failed drug raid have no grounds to silence him — a crucial First Amendment victory as law enforcement increasingly uses civil suits to punish critics.