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These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.

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  Nonprofit, investigative journalism on a mission to hold the powerful to account. Donate Daily Digest October 14, 2026 ·  These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead. It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump administration, those protections are eroding. Read story   More From Our Newsroom   New Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data Centers Could Undo Them. Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t. He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There’s No Rule Against It. As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones Watch: Inside Our $22K Sports Betting Experiment     Threads Instagram TikTok (Twitter) Mastodon Was thi...

Trump Broke His Word To A Federal Judge. Wait Until You Hear What She Called It. Twenty days. Let’s finish this together. Join us.

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The line I keep coming back to is in the Justice Department’s own manual: searching a member of Congress’s property needs sign-off from the Public Integrity Section first. Last year that unit went from 36 lawyers to two under Trump, and now his government has sent agents to Ilhan Omar’s door three weeks before her election. Help us get reporting like this to voters who are still deciding. Give a gift subscription to someone in a swing district, or become a Founding Member. Trump Broke His Word To A Federal Judge. Wait Until You Hear What She Called It. Also: what Ilhan Omar told the agents at her door, the Nobel winner Trump swears nobody’s heard of, and the county suing over his arch. Scott Dworkin Oct 14 Happy Wednesday, thanks for being here. With all of Trump’s chaos and 20 days to go until the election, I’m glad to have great news for you today. Over the holiday weekend, Trump’s regime broke its word to a federal judge and cut down about 430 trees while it thought nobody was watch...