Federal Limits
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Grading all 50 states + DC on due-process protections. Score your state. Research the data. Contact your reps. Advancing Durable Protections for Americans. www.FederalLimits.org
Your state legislature can set boundaries. Federal Limits wrote nine of them into one model bill, each adapted from a law another state has already enacted. Send your legislature the bill in a minute: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
On Friday, ICE posted 33 detainee mortality reports to their online FOIA Library. Over the weekend, those reports were inexplicably deleted. We have archived them on our GitHub and are sharing them in hopes that the information is useful to journalists, researchers, and the general public.
psb-foia/ice/FOIA Library Artifacts/ICE Mortality Reports at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia
FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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"We do not have to live like this." Since January 2025, at least 66 people have died in federal immigration custody, during enforcement operations, or days after release. Nine limits your state can pass: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
On June 4, 2026, the agency stopped reporting deaths after release from custody. Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was released while hospitalized and died days later. His name is on our wall of 66. Tell them: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
On Sept. 20, federal immigration agents stopped a U.S. citizen in Evanston, Illinois, who they said resembled their target. Police found him hurt on the ground. Your state legislature can set boundaries. Tell them: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
Have your State Reps pass it. www.FederalLimits.org
Federal Limits — Federal power needs a line. Your state can draw it.
Federal enforcement power needs a line — and your state can draw it. See your state's grade, then send your legislature a ready-to-adopt bill in a minute.
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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3d agoICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
Nine limits a state can put on federal enforcement, in one model bill: no state resources used, no deputized local police, a judge's warrant, identified agents, and five more. Tell them: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
"What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?" His sons asked that in Washington on Sept. 22. One of the nine limits your state can pass: identified agents. Tell them: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
Where your police stop. What your records give up. Who has to show their face. Three of the nine limits your state legislature can pass, written into one model bill. Tell them: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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Btw: ICE just added 31 new agreements to its 287(g) list this afternoon, putting us at 2,589 active agreements + 2,225 active agencies. 210 added in the past 30 days. 607 in the past 90 days.
Evidence #1268 that ICE escalation is not about immigration.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 4d agoNEW: Days after ICE fatally shot Alex Pretti, Virginia prosecutor Steve Descano got a call to join attorneys banding together to help bring charges against the federal immigration agency. Months later, Descano and his colleagues are working overtime to prepare for the threat of ICE at the polls.
Since January 2025, at least 66 people have died in federal immigration custody, during enforcement operations, or days after being released. Federal Limits has identified nine limits your state can pass. Tell them: federallimits.org Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3L8RdBiwg
Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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ICE agents surge into Indianapolis, begin making arrests fox59.com/news/indycri...
ICE agents surge into Indianapolis, begin making arrests
INDIANAPOLIS — Videos gaining traction online appear to show a surge of ICE arrests across Indianapolis, including incidents along a busy roadway and at a gas station. Cell phone video captured U.S…
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State Legislation can stop this. Contact your State Rep and tell them to: www.FederalLimits.org
Democracy Forward@democracyforward.org · last mo.Houses of worship are sacred spaces, not surveillance targets. That’s why we’re asking the court to hold DHS accountable and enforce our court order to protect these spaces amid reports of ICE intimidation and spying near and in churches.
Two accounts of the same arrest that cannot both be true, and no independent recording to settle it. The rules about whether that recording exists belong to the agency being asked about it.
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Two accounts of the same arrest that cannot both be true, and no independent recording to settle it. The rules about whether that recording exists belong to the agency being asked about it.
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Every protection that held last week came from a judge. And a judge's order reaches only the people who showed up in front of him.
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Every protection that held last week came from a judge. And a judge's order reaches only the people who showed up in front of him.
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One signature can switch off more than thirty laws at once. This summer, one did - six times. Not hidden. Not an emergency. Just a government that would rather not have to explain itself.
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One signature can switch off more than thirty laws at once. This summer, one did - six times. Not hidden. Not an emergency. Just a government that would rather not have to explain itself.
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Where states have required officers to identify themselves, the United States has gone to court to stop them. It sued Connecticut eleven days after the governor signed the bill. That fight is just starting.
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Where states have required officers to identify themselves, the United States has gone to court to stop them. It sued Connecticut eleven days after the governor signed the bill. That fight is just sta
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Four states have enacted all three rules with a way to enforce them: California, Connecticut, Maryland, New York. Maryland's does not take effect until October 1. Twenty-six have written nothing at all.
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Four states have enacted all three rules with a way to enforce them: California, Connecticut, Maryland, New York. Maryland's does not take effect until October 1. Twenty-six have written nothing at al
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Virginia's file on agent identification and recording is one word long. "None." That is the state where a man says federal agents put him in a hospital on August 11.
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Virginia's file on agent identification and recording is one word long. "None." That is the state where a man says federal agents put him in a hospital on August 11.
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Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime | apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime
President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said.
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Every protection that held last week came from a judge, and most reached only the people who went and asked. A statute covers the congregation that never hired a lawyer. That is the difference. Nine Limits:
Nine Limits: Week of August 17, 2026
Every limit that held last week was one a judge had granted.
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“Fight Back: How States Can Counter Authoritarianism” Series | www.justsecurity.org/154548/fight... Through the states is the only path available currently. Advocate your State Reps now: www.FederalLimits.org
“Fight Back: How States Can Counter Authoritarianism” Series
A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect individual rights.
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Agents lost the surveillance video in a Charlotte case after being told to preserve it. The judge called that troubling - and set trial anyway. No rule said what losing it should cost. Nine Limits:
Nine Limits: Week of August 17, 2026
Every limit that held last week was one a judge had granted.
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Three federal courts refused the Justice Department's demand for state voter files in four days - Nevada, Michigan, Minnesota. More than twenty judges have now said no. It keeps filing. Nine Limits:
Nine Limits: Week of August 17, 2026
Every limit that held last week was one a judge had granted.
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An undercover federal agent sat in on a martial arts class at University Baptist Church in Minneapolis. The congregation found out because he dropped his recorder on the gym floor. Nine Limits, this week:
Nine Limits: Week of August 17, 2026
Every limit that held last week was one a judge had granted.
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