Feb. 20, 2026
A federal judge excoriated immigration agents (click here) for making arrests while wearing masks that conceal their identities in a scathing opinion that references a “regime of secret policing” and mask-wearing by Ku Klux Klan members.
Judge Joseph Goodwin of the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia found on Thursday that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated an immigrant’s constitutional rights when they arrested him in masks and detained him without a bond hearing.
The agents’ presence—with masks, unmarked cars, and without badges—is “indistinguishable from lawbreakers,” and the arrest that followed is “the elimination of constitutional accountability itself,” Goodwin, a Clinton appointee who’s sat on the bench for over three decades, wrote in a 34-page decision....
It is 9 pm do you know where your children are?
If the agents carried out their duties with established methods, no one would even approach them. They would be invisible like the others. Noem brought this on the agency.
by Saraya Wintersmith
...“We absolutely (click here) want to extend the ACA premiums tax credits, they shouldn’t be lapsing, but we’re funding it by taking money from ICE’s budget,” said Moulton in an interview, calling the Trump administration’s priorities “completely out of whack.”
“The One Big Beautiful Bill nearly triples ICE’s budget at a time when American families across the country are facing higher premiums due to the ACA premiums tax credit lapsing,” said Moulton referring to the Trump administration’s signature spending package that gave ICE $75 billion in funding through 2029.
The bill, Moulton said, would restore ICE funding to its previous annual level of $10 billion and repurpose the rest. Cosponsors include Democratic U.S. Reps. André Carson on Indiana, Darren Soto of Florida and Sylvia Garcia of Texas....
...“We absolutely (click here) want to extend the ACA premiums tax credits, they shouldn’t be lapsing, but we’re funding it by taking money from ICE’s budget,” said Moulton in an interview, calling the Trump administration’s priorities “completely out of whack.”
“The One Big Beautiful Bill nearly triples ICE’s budget at a time when American families across the country are facing higher premiums due to the ACA premiums tax credit lapsing,” said Moulton referring to the Trump administration’s signature spending package that gave ICE $75 billion in funding through 2029.
The bill, Moulton said, would restore ICE funding to its previous annual level of $10 billion and repurpose the rest. Cosponsors include Democratic U.S. Reps. André Carson on Indiana, Darren Soto of Florida and Sylvia Garcia of Texas....
