Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.
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Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.
Sanctuary laws prohibit local police from notifying federal immigration agents about undocumented immigrants and detaining them beyond release dates for transfer to immigration detention facilities or deportation.
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Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
On June 6, 2025, federal agents raided a downtown garment business, detaining workers and arresting labor leader David Huerta, head of Service Employees International Union California.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
Adam’s been shuttled off to Earth along with the coveted Sword of Power in the aftermath of evil Skeletor (Jared Leto, having a great time in the part) and his horrid denizens taking over his home planet and imprisoning his parents.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime’s very recent and brutal crackdown on its own people — imprisoning and killing thousands of citizens for dissent — has not been met with the same outrage by these voices.
Some compared him to El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele, who is widely popular throughout Latin America for jailing alleged gang members with no due process.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
The city has said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.
Trump’s interest in antitrust enforcement predictably has little to do with restraining corporate power and is largely consumed with leveraging regulatory threats to compel firms to support his political agenda.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
Two men were sentenced to years in prison after pleading guilty to felony second-degree kidnapping for luring a man to the Eagle Foothills on an offer of a photography shoot, but then tasing, restraining and beating him last fall.
The National Federation of Independent Business has warned that small businesses and consumers who rely on energy, rather than oil giants, will end up holding the bag.
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Yaël Ossowski,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
Ahead of the endorsement vote, Klobuchar supporters holding batons with flashing green lights dominated the convention floor.
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