https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to ICE en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/06/project-2025-inspired-playbook-urges-trump-double-down-mass-deportation After its policy recommendations contributed to record levels of disapproval for the Trump administration, the anti-immigrant movement has a message: Double down, Mr. President. Last week the Mass Deportation Coalition (MDC)—a collection of national and state-level groups and individuals of… Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:39:46 EDT Ethan Fauré 8bbdac18-9fd6-428e-b67f-e70719351d0b https://politicalresearch.org/2026/04/02/mulling-over-mullin-and-theocratic-creep-gop On March 24, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Senator Markwayne Mullin as President Trump’s next Secretary of Homeland Security, following the disastrous tenure of Kristi Noem. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 EDT Frederick Clarkson 0aebbfb1-28f5-4e99-8bbf-a5e8a739bc06 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/31/were-all-together With ICE agents kidnapping thousands and executing people in broad daylight, the Trump administration’s authoritarianism is on full display for all to see. But so is the power of everyday people. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates, Ben Lorber, Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner, Annie Wilkinson 2b590605-47e6-4779-b7cc-7fc3027aaf67 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/17/flowing-against-fascism I watched federal agents disappear three people last week. I watched federal agents abduct three of my neighbors last Wednesday in South Burlington, VT, while members of our community surrounded and shielded them as best we could for as long… Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:10:02 EDT Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst 755919d6-4d7b-47ed-9e75-fa4910d48f8f https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/ferocity-responses-tim-walzs-anne-frankice-comments-are-revealing When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, said that , “We have got children in Minnesota hiding… Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:10:21 EST Joel Swanson a3526b03-a67f-4c3e-8fdc-72c49df06f01 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/15/thrift-store-bibles-and-execution-renee-good Renee Nicole Good’s extraordinary award-winning poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” contains a line I keep coming back to: i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores (mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp— the post-baptism… Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:47:51 EST Karen E. Park 15c4dc1d-9630-4377-be92-8c4026b8fd44 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they… Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:46:06 EST Ben Lorber 31d7b309-2b2c-4853-b367-6c44b08ffa36 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/09/30/jd-vance-refers-ice-criticism-blood-libel Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Vance told Ingraham : I think in a lot… Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:00:00 EDT Joel Swanson 6dfc9abc-3c25-448b-bb68-70ef824b9758 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/08/12/latest-ice-recruitment-materials-include-overt-neo-nazi-reference-and-nazi-nazi-script It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda . And it will, unfortunately, not be the last. This… Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:17:32 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque 3c4e180f-35a9-4baa-8c9c-bf89264b7a54 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/07/30/its-homeland-heritage-campaign-trumps-dhs-leaning-sharply-blood-and-soil-ideology Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass deportation; and then this one , the first… Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:09:45 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque 12e8e398-1112-4e18-8c18-749d29a87aec https://religiondispatches.org/2025/07/18/terminally-online-trump-administration-uses-social-media-frame-its-anti-immigrant-agenda Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images flashing on the screen settle on… Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:44:46 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque dbf60c8e-bac5-4487-b1e3-f0f5319dc153