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In the middle of the night on Sept. 30, Eboni Watson heard an unusual buzzing sound. The noise came from 10 drones and three Black Hawk helicopters, Watson says, which dropped armed men on neighbouring rooftops in Chicago’s South Shore neighbourhood. On the ground, Watson saw agents deploy out of …
Read More »WATCH | U.S. Supreme Court rules federal agents can conduct raids in Los Angeles
U.S. President Donald Trump scored a legal win on Monday when the Supreme Court lifted a federal judge’s limits on immigration stops in Los Angeles. Critics warn the ruling could lead to more aggressive ICE raids and indiscriminate arrests. News Source link
Read More »Majority of people arrested in U.S. immigration raids have no criminal record, data shows
U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to deport “the worst of the worst,” yet the majority of people currently detained by immigration agents have no criminal convictions, according to government data regarding ongoing detentions. As well, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes — a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump …
Read More »Protests over federal immigration raids pop up across the U.S. with more planned
Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids and U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles are spreading all over the U.S. and are expected to continue into the weekend. While many demonstrations against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency have been peaceful, with …
Read More »Police seize over $1M in items, dozens of guns in southern Ontario raids
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in Barrie, Ont., and Simcoe County say they recovered over $1 million in property including several dozen guns as part of a recent fraud investigation. They say a months-long investigation into a man and woman who were passing bad cheques and …
Read More »3 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank as raids intensify
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinian militants in stepped-up operations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday following the killing of three Israelis near a Jewish settlement, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said an 18-year-old was killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike in Tamun, a town …
Read More »What happened to…. ? the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids – Toronto
On this episode of What happened to…? Erica Vella revisits the Toronto bathhouse raids that sparked massive protests and marked a turning point for the Queer community. On February 5, 1981, Toronto Police launched Operation Soap. Officers ambushed four Toronto bathhouses in a series of coordinated raids. The raids followed a …
Read More »‘Rescued’ Mexican citizens could be worse off after Ontario police raids last month, advocate warns
Migrant workers who get “rescued” in anti-human trafficking raids in Canada may find themselves worse off, and can even end up getting kicked out of the country or put behind bars, an advocate says. Syed Hussan, the executive director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, made the comments to CBC News this …
Read More »Farm workers in cannabis grow-op raids often oblivious to criminal nature, OPP say
Illegal marijuana grow operations most often crop up on the Ontario Provincial Police’s radar in Essex County, and during raids, farm workers are “almost every time” completely unaware of the criminals behind the cannabis, police told CBC News. Organized crime entities use illegal cannabis grow operations as “easy, quick” cash that’s …
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