ICE, rape, measles, and scattered storms
ICE agents took the 25-year-old man into custody in the courthouse lobby. The man was not a criminal defendant, but rather someone subpoenaed by the defense in a case.
State's attorney: 'ICE agents acted reasonably'
Authorities have arrested a Brookings man who's accused of raping a middle school student.
21-year-old Brookings man arrested for rape of minor
The South Dakota Department of Health has confirmed its second case of measles in the state.
South Dakota confirms 2nd case of measles in 2025
Fewer crashes are being reported at two interchanges in South Dakota.
Fewer crashes at SD diverging diamond interchanges
Aside from an isolated shower in southeast KELOLAND early this morning, we have dry skies and temperatures in the 50s.
Scattered storms late today
A South Dakota swimmer is training to compete in the Paralympic games in Los Angeles in 20-28.
Alex Post: Aspiring, inspirational swimmer
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The Trump administration issued guidance to deny migrants bond hearings. Congress authorised spending to hold 100 000 people in detention facilities. Immigration authorities may also deport migrants to third countries quickly. The Trump administration is launching a new effort to keep immigrants who entered the US illegally detained by denying them bond hearings, an internal memo showed, a change that could further swell the numbers of those held. The guidance by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a portion of which Reuters reviewed, could be applied to millions of people who crossed the border illegally and are contesting their deportation. US President Donald Trump has vowed mass deportations, which he says are needed after high levels of illegal immigration under his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden. Congress passed a spending law this month that provides funding to detain at least 100 000 people, a steep increase over the record 58 000 in custody by late June. The Washington Post first reported the new ICE policy limiting bond hearing eligibility, citing an 8 July memo by its acting director, Todd Lyons. The guidance shared with Reuters called for ICE to interpret several immigration law provisions as 'prohibitions on release' after an arrest, adding the shift in policy was 'likely to be litigated'. Pedro Mattey/AFP It encouraged ICE prosecutors 'to make alternative arguments in support of continued detention' during immigration court hearings. The new policy appeared to reverse legal standards governing detention for decades, said Tom Jawetz, a former homeland security official in the Biden administration, calling it 'a radical departure that could explode the detention population'. The US Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment. US immigration officials may deport migrants to countries other than their home nations with as little as six hours' notice, Lyons said in a memo, offering a preview of how deportations could ramp up. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will generally wait at least 24 hours to deport someone after informing them of their removal to a so-called 'third country', according to a memo dated Wednesday, 9 July. Herika Martinez/AFP ICE could remove them, however, to a so-called 'third country' with as little as six hours' notice 'in exigent circumstances', said the memo, as long as the person has been provided the chance to speak with an attorney. The memo states that migrants could be sent to nations that have pledged not to persecute or torture them 'without the need for further procedures'. The new ICE policy suggests Trump's administration could move quickly to send migrants to countries around the world. The Supreme Court in June lifted a lower court's order limiting such deportations without a screening for fear of persecution in the destination country. Following the high court's ruling and a subsequent order from the justices, the Trump administration sent eight migrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Sudan and Vietnam to South Sudan. Herika Martinez/AFP The administration last week pressed officials from five African nations - Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon - to accept deportees from elsewhere, Reuters reported. The Washington Post first reported the new ICE memo. The administration argues the third country deportations help swiftly remove migrants who should not be in the US, including those with criminal convictions. Advocates have criticised the deportations as dangerous and cruel, since people could be sent to countries where they could face violence, have no ties and do not speak the language. Trina Realmuto, a lawyer for a group of migrants pursuing a class action lawsuit against such rapid third-county deportations at the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, said the policy 'falls far short of providing the statutory and due process protections that the law requires'. Third-country deportations have been done in the past, but the tool could be more frequently used as Trump tries to ramp up deportations to record levels. During Trump's 2017-2021 presidency, his administration deported small numbers of people from El Salvador and Honduras to Guatemala. Former president Joe Biden's Democratic administration struck a deal with Mexico to take thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, since it was difficult to deport migrants to those nations.
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Ohio's Geauga County continues its fight to keep ICE contract secret
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Every Ohio Republican congressmen voted to militarize America's cities
Federal agents block people protesting an ICE immigration raid. (Photo by) Minutes before the surreal show of force by masked, heavily armed federal agents, kids were playing on the soccer field in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, and a children's summer camp in the historic immigrant neighborhood was having fun. 'Better get used to us now because this is gonna be normal very soon,' said Customs Border Chief Gregory Bovino after ICE agents and military units arrived at the local park carrying rifles and traveling on foot, horseback, and in armored vehicles. Children and families scattered in terror. Mission accomplished? Faceless federal law enforcement moved, unprovoked, on a city park in a major American city in the middle of the day to conduct an apparent immigration sweep with weapons mounted on tanks. I cannot get the video out of my head. It should rattle every one of us to our core. Boots on the ground in the land of the free? You okay with that? The armed occupation scene in LA that went viral is not a one-off, people. Expect the camouflaged army of state police — deployed in full tactical gear to a mostly empty urban park — to greatly expand its militaristic campaign against the racially suspicious in the U.S., citizens or not, following a massive budget infusion from congressional Republicans. Unlimited funding has evidently convinced heady enforcers of state-sponsored intimidation and cruelty tactics that they're untouchable. When a rightly livid LA mayor demanded the outrageous ICE assaults on her city stop, the democratically elected leader of over 3,770,000 Angelenos was simply dismissed by the top border official. 'The federal government doesn't work for Karen Bass,' huffed Bovino. (So, who does it work for?) Moreover, he declared, the veiled federal agents dressed for war weren't leaving LA until they were good and ready. Until their indiscriminate dragnet of people with brown skin met an indefinite quota of no mercy, i.e., prolonged detention without due process and deportation to third countries where the human cargo lacks citizenship, family ties, and protection. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX By now you know the vast majority of people being grabbed off the streets, slammed up against walls, ripped from their children, ambushed outside courtrooms, chased down farm fields, and generally terrorized by tough guys who hide behind neck gaiters, are not hardened criminals who threaten anybody. They are not even close to being the 'worst of the worst' that Trump pledged to deport, according to the government's own data. The besieged populations are the present-day huddled masses whose only crime is working hard and paying taxes in the United States without legal status. Some are parents and grandparents with first- and second-generation progeny. Many have been on the spectrum of regular ICE check-ins to asylum-seekers and those on the long path to citizenship for years, if not decades. They are fixtures in their communities, neighbors, friends. Today they are hunted as prey. Deprived of dignity. Treated as less than human. Wrestled into submission and stuffed into unmarked vehicles bound for unknown destinations. Are you ready for armed occupation on steroids in Ohio tearing immigrant communities apart for sadistic spectacle? It is coming. Every single Ohio Republican member of Congress voted for it, while showering billionaires with tax handouts. With a three-fold increase in its budget, ICE is poised explode its militarized immigration enforcement and detention operation to a level never seen before. Picture thousands of new agents deployed throughout the country. Double the detention centers. Immigration-related arrests across Ohio have already tripled across the state under Trump. (Imagine it six months from today.) A New York Times analysis of the pattern and pace of immigration enforcement from Jan. 20 to June 10 showed raw arrest numbers in Ohio spiked by 209% since Inauguration Day. The state's ICE detention capacity also shot up significantly from two facilities and roughly 120 beds to half a dozen county jails with 1,450 beds. Ohio's Geauga County continues its fight to keep ICE contract secret Housing ICE inmates is a money-maker for counties with struggling budgets and some zealously guard their contractual arrangements with ICE from the public. Meanwhile, hundreds of Ohio migrants have been incarcerated, cut off from family and work not for criminal conduct — they pose zero threat according to even ICE metrics — but for navigating a civil immigration system replete with problems. Yet for weeks that can stretch into months, prisoners with no criminal histories sit behind bars denied bond and hope. Human beings who have been a rich part of the fabric of Ohio, who have filled acute labor shortages in the state and revitalized declining economies are left to rot in cramped cages before, with little notice, they're shipped back to their origin country or some distant place they've never been. Adding to the depravity that paralyzes Ohio immigrants with fear are Republican state lawmakers pushing several bills through the legislature to enhance the arrest and detention of 'any person who is, or is suspected of being unlawfully present in the U.S.' They are, in effect, setting the stage for something Ohioans are wholly unprepared to process — the expansive overreach of militarized ICE operations moving, unprovoked, on Ohio cities and towns to seize and disappear even any person suspected of being unlawfully present in the state. Get used to a police state and tanks in the road, border chief? Normalize gut-wrenching inhumanity on a mass scale in America? Never. Never. Never. 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