"A witness who spoke with ABC13 on the condition of anonymity said he saw the incident unfold.”

"He said, 'Ah! Ah! Ah! You broke my leg! You broke my leg!' the witness recalled.”

"The video shows Parra-Hernandez remaining on the ground for several minutes after he was struck.”

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"ICE said agents attempted to make the arrest and claimed Parra-Hernandez ran in front of their vehicle and was struck.

However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running over Parra-Hernandez."

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📍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒:

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📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊:

ICE agents shot a man in his car while a child was also in the car. The victim is at least the 25th person to suffer gun violence at the hands of federal immigration officers. @repespaillat.bsky.social attempted to see the victim, but was denied by ICE.

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From another death in ICE custody to a report revealing 506 U.S. citizens have been detained to a new tactic for separating families, this week’s #AbuseOfPowerWatch newsletter documents the escalating consequences of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐘:

“The state of New Jersey sued to close Delaney Hall as reports of inedible food, violent guards, and inadequate medical care continued to emerge from the facility. The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, claimed the hunger strike never happened.”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

@democracyforward.org obtained government documents revealing deliberations within Homeland Security Investigations, which conducts investigations for ICE, to send undercover agents into non-profit groups across the nation.

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“The participants, several of whom were large-statured men, stopped resisting seconds after officers applied shocks by touching gloves to their skin, and were left with ‘fatigue, soreness and excessive apprehensiveness to being shocked again,’ the study found.”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

The shock gloves purchased by ICE at a cost of $16 million to taxpayers worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study.

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Soliman’s removal to Equatorial Guinea violated his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, said the Trump appointee, who wrote that the man has faced “irreparable harm” after being “unlawfully” deported.

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📍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐗, 𝐀𝐙:

Since being deported to country he doesn’t know, Arizona resident Ahmed Soliman “has been confined under armed guard, assaulted, held at gunpoint, and, most recently, arrested, hooded, beaten, and held incommunicado,” a federal judge said.

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:
Democracy Forward, a nonprofit organization, obtained government documents showing that ICE was surveilling and investigating voter registration organizations "as part of their efforts to catch noncitizens voting."
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“With the directive on daily arrests, ICE returns to a previous White House imposed push to arrest 3,000 people a day, an unprecedented number that the agency has previously struggled to meet. ICE had recently been taking around 2,000 people into custody daily on average …”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

ICE leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive.

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“Once inside the ICE facility, she continued to ask why she’d been arrested. ‘You spoke too much, that’s why,’ came the reply, according to María. ICE agents then said, ‘You should have thought about it before speaking up to defend your friend.””

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📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀:

“Why are you taking him if he isn’t the one you were looking for,” farmworker María told the masked agents who were harassing her friend. “At that moment they turned toward me and said they would arrest me, too, for asking questions and complaining.”

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“We already don’t have an independent [immigration] judiciary,” said MIRC’s Ana Raquel Devereaux, “and to have the defense side of representation also be within the government makes me feel like it’s all a farce and everybody is working together to get the kids removed.”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids.

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:
A whistleblower filed two complaints alleging that the FBI opened an investigation into anti-ICE protesters in California after Trump was reportedly watching TikToks of protests against ICE and CBP agents. #AbuseofPowerWatch