Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids.

ICE and Border Patrol escalate authoritarian enforcement by detaining U.S. citizens during Los Angeles immigration raids, weaponizing immigration detention infrastructure against domestic dissent. #AuthoritarianEnforcement #USCitizenDetentions #ICEAbuse #LosAngeles #CapitalAndMain

Extremist Militias on Federal Duty This essay frames the constitutional and statutory meaning of “militia,” and explains the legal theory

Trump allies may exploit the Insurrection Act’s militia provisions to deputize extremist groups as federal enforcers, eroding the rule of law and militarizing ideological loyalty. #InsurrectionAct #MilitiaFederalization #RuleOfLawErosion #AuthoritarianEnforcement #CNAS

Preventing the Use of the National Guard to Evade the Posse Comitatus Act Limitations on military involvement in civilian affairs have been a central feature of Anglo-American law. Armies are trained to vanquish enemies.

Trump officials may bypass restrictions on domestic military enforcement by exploiting Title 32 loopholes, thereby undermining the Posse Comitatus Act and expanding the military presence in civilian operations.
#NationalGuard #PosseComitatus #CivilMilitaryBoundary #AuthoritarianEnforcement #CNAS

How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.

Trump officials are engineering legal pretexts in advance to shield unconstitutional actions, using law as a tactical defense to undermine judicial enforcement and entrench executive power.
#Lawfare #PretextualJustification #RuleOfLawErosion #AuthoritarianEnforcement #TheAtlantic

How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.

Trump administration uses "legalistic noncompliance" to quietly defy court rulings, substituting interpretation for obligation and weakening judicial authority. #LegalisticNoncompliance #RuleOfLawErosion #AuthoritarianEnforcement #TheAtlantic

Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests Trump's top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem bypassed ICE’s internal processes to impose mass arrest quotas—merging political direction with agency command in a Project 2025-style enforcement takeover.
#DHS #ICE #CommandFusion #Project2025 #AuthoritarianEnforcement #Axios

Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests Trump's top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

Trump officials institutionalized a 3,000-a-day ICE arrest quota, embedding mass deportation as core enforcement policy, without legal process or oversight.
#DHS #ICE #DeportationInfrastructure #InstitutionalAccountability #AuthoritarianEnforcement #Axios

Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests Trump's top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.

Trump officials ordered ICE to make 3,000 arrests a day and purged resistant leaders, centralizing immigration enforcement under direct political command.
#DHS #ICE #StephenMiller #AuthoritarianEnforcement #InstitutionalAccountability #Axios