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The Hindu
2 hours ago
- The Hindu
Landmark trial kicks off over Trump's use of U.S. military in policing role
A landmark trial kicks off on Monday (August 11, 2025) over the Trump administration's use of National Guard troops to support its deportation efforts and quell protests in Los Angeles, in a legal challenge highlighting the President's break from long-standing norms against deploying soldiers on American streets. The three-day non-jury trial before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco will determine if the government violated a 19th-century law that bars the military from civil law enforcement when it deployed troops to Los Angeles in June. Los Angeles suffered days of unrest and protests sparked by mass immigration raids at places where people gather to find work, like Home Depot stores, a garment factory and a warehouse. Anti deportation protest in Los Angeles The administration denies troops were used in civil law enforcement and plans to show they were protecting federal property and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Many of the troops have been withdrawn, but California said in recent court papers 2,000 National Guard members are still going on immigration raids and restricting civilian movements in the state. A ruling against the government could restrict those troops' activities and constrain President Donald Trump if he tries to deploy troops to police American cities in the future. Mr. Trump said on Wednesday he might send the National Guard, a reserve force that answers to both state governors and the president, to patrol Washington, D.C., a city he said was "very unsafe." California and its Governor Gavin Newsom have asked Breyer to prohibit the troops from directly participating in domestic law enforcement activities. California and Newsom say the National Guard is accompanying ICE agents on raids and assisting in arrests, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and other laws that forbid the U.S. military from taking part in civilian law enforcement. Mr. Trump ordered 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June against Newsom's wishes. Trump's decision to send troops into Los Angeles prompted a national debate about the use of the military on U.S. soil and inflamed political tension in the country's second-most-populous city. California sued the Trump administration over the troop deployment, arguing it violates federal law and state sovereignty. A U.S. appeals court has allowed Trump to retain control of California's National Guard during the legal challenge. California's lawsuit ultimately seeks a ruling that would return its National Guard troops to state control and a declaration that Trump's action was illegal.
Economic Times
5 hours ago
- Economic Times
US is holding immigrants in crowded and unsanitary cells, suit claims
A recently detained immigrant filed a potential class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday, denouncing the conditions inside holding cells at the main federal immigration offices in Manhattan as overcrowded and unsanitary. The cells belong to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at 26 Federal Plaza. They have drawn scrutiny as ICE has hastened the pace of arrests in New York City, with migrants filling the holding facility on the building's 10th floor. In the past, the cells were used to hold migrants for just a few hours, but amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, migrants often remain there for days or for more than a week. The lawsuit said that migrants often sleep on the concrete floor or sitting upright, lack access to legal counsel and are subjected to a "horrific stench" emanating from toilets next to where they sleep. A video recorded by a migrant who sneaked in a cellphone last month appeared to confirm some of those complaints, as has recent reporting by The New York Times. ALSO READ: Indian scholar in US allowed back to work while fighting deportation The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court by Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado, a Peruvian immigrant who entered the United States in July 2022 and lives in New Jersey. He was arrested by ICE on Friday as he was leaving a routine appearance in immigration court, where he was facing deportation proceedings and applying for asylum after being charged with entering the country unlawfully. Barco Mercado, a father of two, including a 3-month-old, is being held at 26 Federal Plaza, where the lawsuit said dozens of people were often crammed into a space that was just 215 square feet. His lawyers are seeking that a judge certify the suit as a class-action lawsuit. "People are being deprived of their basic rights, facing medical neglect, and they lack access to adequate food and hygiene," said Harold Solis, a co-legal director of Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group representing Barco Mercado. "This cruel detention policy is immoral and inhumane." The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ALSO READ: Judge blocks Trump's birthright order nationwide in fourth such ruling since Supreme Court decision The agency has denied claims of unsanitary conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, telling the Times recently that "overcrowding or subprime conditions at ICE facilities are categorically false." Agency officials have described the holding cells as temporary processing centers, not long-term detention facilities. They have used that designation to justify denying access to members of Congress who have sought to inspect the cells in recent months. The 10th-floor cells hold detainees who are in the U.S. illegally and were arrested by agents at the city's immigration courts, one of which is just two floors above the cells. Immigrants held there are typically processed and shuttled to detention centers elsewhere in the New York area or in other states, including Pennsylvania and Texas. New federal data analyzed by the Times shows that about half of the more than 2,300 people arrested by ICE in the New York City area since Trump returned to office in January have been held at 26 Federal Plaza. Concerns about detention facility conditions have surfaced across the country as Trump officials race to find enough space to hold the migrants whom Trump wants to expel as part his mass deportation campaign. The lawsuit argued that detainees have no way to communicate with their lawyers while being held in the lower Manhattan cells, are denied access to their prescribed medications and are served meals so meager that one detainee lost 24 pounds. It also said that ICE was violating its own policies that limit stays at such facilities to 72 hours. The lawsuit said that some detainees have been held for more than a week and that one person was held for 10 days. Barco Mercado is also being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Wang Hecker. Some of the same groups filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Aug. 1 challenging the federal government's practice of arresting migrants showing up for routine hearings in immigration court. That lawsuit, coming two weeks after a similar class-action lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C., argued that the arrests had turned the courts "into traps." The courthouse arrests have driven a spike in the detention of immigrants without criminal records in New York, according to the recent Times analysis. The lawsuit filed Aug. 1 in Manhattan argued that the arrests have undermined due process and discouraged immigrants from appearing for their mandated court hearings, which in turn puts them at risk of deportation. Trump officials have defended the courthouse arrests as a "common sense" tactic to easily arrest and swiftly deport migrants who entered the country illegally during the administration of former President Joe Biden without having to send ICE agents into neighborhoods. Democratic members of Congress from New York have sought access to the holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza but have repeatedly been denied entry by ICE. A dozen Democratic lawmakers -- including Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman of New York -- sued the federal government last month because of its refusal to allow members into immigration facilities in California, New York, Texas and elsewhere. Many migrants held at 26 Federal Plaza are moved to detention centers in the New York City region, including a new facility in Newark, New Jersey, known as Delaney Hall, a county jail on Long Island that began holding immigrants for ICE this year, and long-standing facilities in the Hudson Valley and near Buffalo, New York. Under a recent agreement with the Bureau of Prisons, ICE also began holding more than 100 detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which has a long history of conditions that some federal judges have described as "barbaric." Goldman and Espaillat, along with Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., were denied access to the Metropolitan Detention Center on Wednesday after showing up to conduct oversight. This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Time of India
6 hours ago
- Time of India
Chinese UCLA student's 'f**k ICE, f**k the Trump administration' speech goes viral, sparking right-wing outrage: 'Go back to China'
A video of a Chinese-American University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student, Jamie Han, delivering a passionate speech that includes the line 'f**k ICE and f**k the Trump administration' has recently gone viral. The clip was originally shared by Jamie on her Instagram in June but has recently blown up across social media platforms. In the video, Jamie becomes visibly emotional as she calls out Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration while her professors and fellow students applaud. Right-wing trolls harass Han online, demand deportation with hateful comments The viral clip has drawn severe backlash from right-wing social media users, who have targeted Jamie with harassment and racist comments. On platforms like X (formerly Twitter), users are sharing the video alongside captions such as 'Go back to China' and 'Deport her right now.' These trolls are demanding her deportation and using the speech as fuel to attack immigrants more broadly. A popular X page, Libs of TikTok, shared the video with the caption, 'Valedictorian: 'F**k ICE and f**k the Trump administration.' Why does she want foreign criminals terrorising American cities and breaking our laws??? Obviously not very smart… So stunning and brave…' Valedictorian: 'f*** ICE and f*** the Trump administration'Why does she wants foreign criminals terrorizing American cities and breaking our laws???Obviously not very smart.… So stunning and brave… The post quickly went viral, inviting backlash from right-wing social media users in the comments section. One commented, 'Pull their funding. Yes, she has a right to free speech, but certain things are just not appropriate for the circumstances. If she is speaking, she is representing the institution. Her words could cost the school.' 'What a disgrace. She should be ashamed, her parents should be ashamed, and her school should be ashamed," one user wrote. 'And if any of you had any doubts about it: look at how the Dean or faculty behind her applaud vigorously! I hope recruiters have a good look at her and say : 'Sorry, not you, honey!'' commented one person. An individual shared, "A good enough reason to ensure that your child never goes to that school!' A good enough reason to ensure that your child never goes to that school! Full speech reveals more than viral moment, expresses immigrant pride and gratitude The viral snippet only captures a portion of Jamie's full speech. In her complete address, Jamie reflected on her experience as a first-generation immigrant and thanked UCLA for providing a space to grow and nurture her. She said, 'I think it's safe to say our college experience has been nothing short of unprecedented... At a time when education, free speech, and democracy itself is being threatened... in a country that not only refuses to protect but actively persecutes, scapegoats, and villainises the indisputable backbone of immigrants who make America what it is.' Jamie continued, 'As a first-generation immigrant myself, and as a now citizen who has the privilege of not having to fear for my life every second of the day... I say, fuck ICE and fuck the Trump administration.' She urged critics to 'go touch grass' and 'find something, anything, less embarrassing and pathetic to do with your life than going around on a psychotic power trip terrorising and tearing apart families of hard-working, law-abiding, tax-paying folks.' Jamie remains unfazed, updates viral video caption amid backlash Despite the wave of online harassment, Jamie appears undeterred. Hours ago, she updated the caption on her viral video to read, 'Happy to announce I can now check getting booed by Trumpies off the bucket list!' Her response signals resilience in the face of aggressive trolling. To stay updated on the stories that are going viral, follow Indiatimes Trending.
