(2025-09-04). Daily Memo: Rapid Responders Beat ICE at Some Home Depot Raids, but Car Washes Keep Getting Rocked. lataco.com On Day 90, ICE raids and scouting were reported across Southern California, with multiple people taken from car washes, Home Depots, restaurants, and warehouses, including as many as 10 from an Olympic Blvd. car wash in Los Angeles. In other news, Trump is retaliating against immigration protesters—including veterans—while ICE has gained access to powerful Israeli spyware capable of hacking encrypted apps, and L.A. TACO confirms that TSA officers on METRO are not conducting immigration operations.
(2025-09-04). Federal Judge Said Trump Can't Be National Police Chief. Will His Word Be Final? truthout.org Donald Trump appears fixated on "creating a national police force with the President as its chief," U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer wrote, holding that Trump's deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles to enforce the immigration laws was illegal. Trump has already sent troops to Washington, D.C., and has also set his sights on Oakland, San Francisco, Chicago, and Baltimore. |
(2025-09-04). Why Bob Katter is right on immigration. independentaustralia.net 
(2025-09-04). Why Ecuador went straight to China for relief. responsiblestatecraft.org Marco Rubio is visiting Mexico and Ecuador this week, his third visit as Secretary of State to Latin America. While his sojourn in Mexico is likely to grab the most headlines given all the attention the Trump administration has devoted to immigration and Mexican drug cartels, the one to Ecuador is primarily designed to "counter malign extra continental actors," according to a
(2025-09-04). Trump Moves to End Temporary Protected Status for Over 250K Venezuelans in US. truthout.org As tensions between the US and Venezuela were inflamed Wednesday by the Trump administration's deadly attack on a boat off the coast of the South American country, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was ending legal protections for more than a quarter of a million Venezuelans who President Donald Trump had previously shielded from deportation. US Citizenship and Immigration… |
(2025-09-04). Cruel and Deadly: Another Life Tragically Lost to Immigration Detention. indybay.org Florence, AZ, September 4, 2025 — The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and Detention Watch Network are mourning the tragic loss of Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, affectionately known as "Lenchito," a beloved son, brother, and friend who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on Sunday, August 31, 2025. ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, Arizona and has reported that the cause of his death is currently unknown. Immigrant justice groups are demanding an immediate investigation and public release of the findings relat…
(2025-09-04). USA – Workers are being deported. war on migrants. indybay.org Given the contradiction between the need for labor and the harsh rhetoric of Trump and Vance, it is questionable whether their administration will be able to deport more people than Biden or Obama. Companies will negotiate various exemption programs for the workers they need. They will live in the shadows and will not be able to get stable jobs.
(2025-09-04). On SF Labor Day 2025 Support for General Strike for Palestine & Against Fascist Government. indybay.org On Labor Day 2025 in San Francisco, workers and trade unionists spoke out against the genocide in Gaza and supported a general strike against the US supported Israeli genocide and the rise of facism and attacks on immigrants, trade unions and the working class.
(2025-09-04). Milwaukee, September 19, 2025: Voces de la Frontera Celebrates 25 Years of Organizing for Immigrant and Worker Rights! wibailoutpeople.org 
(2025-09-04). Tuesday 9/2: Stanford Healthcare Workers Demand Care not Deportation-Rally Outside Hospital. indybay.org Intersection of Welch Rd. and Pasteur Dr, Palo Alto | The address that works to find parking is 200 Pasteur Dr. that is the parking garage it is very closely…
(2025-09-04). Saturday 10/18: October 18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS. indybay.org Nation Wide…
(2025-09-04). UK Police Raids Home Of Palestine Action Supporters. popularresistance.org Counterterrorism police in the UK arrested five members of Defend Our Juries (DOJ) in dawn raids on 2 September, just hours before the group was due to announce details of a mass protest in London. | The press conference, which had been set to confirm that the threshold for Saturday's action had been met, was postponed until Wednesday after UK police raided the homes of the five DOJ spokespeople, including former government lawyer Tim Crosland and law student Paddy Friend. | DOJ said those detained were "key spokespeople," including former government lawyer Tim Crosland and law student Paddy Friend. Witnesses rep…
(2025-09-04). White House Epstein File-Gate Protests Call for Release of Records. indybay.org As the Epstein File-Gate controversy continues to grow, protests for the last two days have seen survivors, legislators and activists all calling for the unredacted release of the remaining three percent of files still being held by the Justice Department.
(2025-09-04). Lawmakers Turn Classrooms Into Sunday Schools. aclu.org If state lawmakers have their way, this fall public-school students in Arkansas and Texas will be forcibly subjected to unavoidable displays of a state-approved Protestant version of the Ten Commandments. Inspired by a similar Louisiana statute enacted last year, both states passed laws earlier this year requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in a "conspicuous place" in every single classroom. But the ACLU is fighting back against these laws and other efforts to turn our public schools into Sunday schools. | When schools impose religious doctrine, beliefs, or practices on students, it marginaliz…
(2025-09-04). Israel says expecting one million Gazans to flee new offensive. newarab.com 
Israel estimates that its In Jerusalem, meanwhile, hundreds of Israeli protestors took to the streets to Israel's military has been building up its forces for the planned operation to seize Gaza City, the…
(2025-09-04). Thousands protest after courts deal new blow to Turkey opposition. newarab.com 
Thousands rallied in protest late Wednesday after a court ousted the main opposition CHP's The
(2025-09-04). BREAKING: judge bails Defend Our Juries spokespeople following dawn raids. thecanary.co 
On Tuesday 2 September, counter-terrorism police arrested five of Defend Our Juries' key spokespeople following Zoom calls relating to a Palestine Action protest. Now, the group has announced that 'some of the spokespeople' have been granted bail with immediate release. Breaking: several @DefendourJuries spokespeople who were arrested this week have been released on bail, including […] | By
(2025-09-04). Protesters Vow to Fight Normalization of Troops in America. indybay.org "As veterans of multiple wars, we as veterans, adamantly oppose and we adamantly protest the occupation of DC" was how a speaker from FLAREUSA expressed the activist groups concerns on the deployment of National Guard troops in the city on Labor Day while standing outside of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) headquarters.
(2025-09-04). Pro-Palestinian protest forces Vuelta stage to be shortened. newarab.com 
The 11th stage of the Vuelta a Espana cycling race was shortened on Wednesday after "Due to some incidents at the finish line, we have decided to take the time at 3 kilometres before the line," the organisers of the Vuelta, cycling's third most-important Grand Tour, said. | Protests have targeted the Israel-Premier Tech team at each stage of this year's Vuelta. | On Wedne…