ALPRs and Minneapolis’ Growing Discriminatory Surveillance Dragnet
Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs), an extremely invasive form of public surveillance, have been around for decades, but lately they have been becoming more prevalent.
Tag: Department of Homeland Security
🦄 Borders & Migration, Police
ICE in Minnesota — Days 69-71: Hints of Fed Withdrawal Teased, Homeland Security Chiefs Grilled in Congress
Politicians are hinting Operation Metro Surge could wind down, but any change in the situation remains vaporous for now.
🦄 Borders & Migration, Police
ICE in Minnesota – Days 57-62: Masses Protest ICE While Violence Continues and Feds Indict Journalists
Minneapolis, MN – In the week after the third shooting, and second killing, by federal law enforcement in the Twin Cities, the landscape has somewhat shifted while the federal occupation under Operation Metro Surge has continued its violent ways; tens of thousands of community members…
🦄 Borders & Migration, Tech
Atlanta Activist’s Arrest Underscores Search, Surveillance Powers of Border Agencies
Atlanta locals say that Tunick’s detainment at the border and subsequent arrest is part of an ongoing repression against political dissidents and activists of the Stop Cop City movement.
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Chuds on Parade 2: Trump’s Homeland Security Advisory Council
Washington, DC – President Donald Trump has made his appointments to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), so Unicorn Riot started looking into their backgrounds. The list is a who’s who of troublesome and generally bigoted individuals, not unlike Trump’s cabinet. A failed political candidate…
🦄 Borders & Migration, Police, Tech
New Federal Task Forces Under 287(g) Could Form ‘ICE Army’ From National Guard, State, Local & College Police
The Trump Administration has dramatically ramped up arrests and sweeps of people residing in the U.S., with new highly visible incidents and court cases unfolding every week and reaching new heights by mid-May. A new development could spell much larger scales of activity on American…
🦄 Racism & Far-Right
Chuds on Parade: Meet Trump’s Cabinet
President Trump’s cabinet is riddled with Klan-like nationalists, conspiracy theorists and xenophobes.
ICE is Training Civilians to Conduct Violent Raids on Immigrants
New details about a program from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are getting attention after the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) published a trove of internal documents about ICE’s ‘Citizens Academy’ programs. The academy trains civilians to operate multiple firearms,…
🦄 Investigative, Police, Tech
Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed
An Israeli spy software tech firm licenses web surveillance tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The software contract shows new details about this sensitive technology DHS has used to spy on activists during the last several years.
🦄 Police
FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists
A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the…
🦄 Tech
Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractor’s New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio
In 2020, while protests raged in nearly every city in the United States, a privately owned Israeli spyware firm helped the Department of Homeland Security monitor the online presences of Americans—including protesters and journalists. That company is now set to join forces with competitors, creating…
🦄 Borders & Migration, Global
Tijuana Groups Protest Border Wall Construction at Friendship Park
Tijuana, Mexico — Eduardo seemed not to notice the soft midday rain slowly dampening his clothes and beading up on the sleeves of his jacket. Just a couple hundred feet from where the Pacific lapped the beach of both Mexico and the U.S., drawing no…