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Trump has spent 700 percent more on deadly weapons for ICE this year - but agency still claims they can’t afford bodycams

Immigration agency spent more than $70 million in the first nine months of the year on small arms and ordnance as it ramped up its crackdown on undocumented migrants, data reveals

The Independent UK

Immigrants and U.S. cities prepare for Trump’s ‘devastating’ executive orders

Immigrant communities prepare ‘know your rights’ training as Trump guts legal immigration pathways and promises far-reaching actions, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

Despite internal police alerts, scant evidence of violent gang members among Venezuelan migrants in Chicago

Cops were warned to check crime suspects for tattoos linked to the El Tren de Aragua prison gang. A Sun-Times analysis found shoplifting and domestic violence arrests, but little proof of the gang’s presence among migrants.

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Johnson’s tent city plan legal, ‘but that doesn’t make it a good idea’

Migrant advocates worry about all the unanswered questions in the mayor’s proposed plan to move migrants from Chicago police stations to tent shelters.

Chicago Sun-Times

Businessmen seek $5 million in TIF funding to install surveillance cameras in Fulton Market, Garfield Park

The ACLU of Illinois has repeatedly raised alarms about such cameras, warning last year that the city’s camera system “continues to operate without any regulation or privacy or regular public reporting.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Stricter curfew approved by divided City Council

Mayoral allies and critics alike again condemned the crackdown as a desperate response that will have no impact on an outbreak of youth violence downtown — but signed off on it anyway.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Council delays action on Lightfoot’s curfew crackdown

Two mayoral allies used a parliamentary maneuver to put off approval of an ordinance that would alter Chicago’s seldom-enforced curfew law, though it is expected to pass at Wednesday’s Council meeting.

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CPD’s growing use of cameras that read license plates leads to worries about data misuse

“The numbers of licenses scanned demonstrates the broad reach to surveil and see where someone is,” a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union said about the 200 million plates logged last year. “It’s a lot of power.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Judge accuses Bureau of Prisons of playing ‘whack-a-mole,’ threatens fines in gender-affirming surgery case of former Illinois inmate

Cristina Nichole Iglesias has been trying for years to get the surgery. She’s set to be released from prison later this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPD should halt controversial push for more ‘positive’ interactions, monitor says in echoing AG

CPD Supt. David Brown set a goal of 1.5 million such interactions this year. The Illinois attorney general’s office already likened the initiative to a “quota system” that’s “rife with significant downsides.”

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