SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a “ghost network” of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.
— Read on migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building

Ethiopian Airlines suspends all flights to northern region after federal forces and Amhara militias engage Tigrayan troops in contested territory.
— Read on www.theafricareport.com/407159/fears-of-renewed-civil-war-as-clashes-erupt-in-western-tigray/

For decades, the Border Patrol has operated with extraconstitutional powers along the U.S.-Mexico divide. Now it’s leading the charge in U.S. cities across the country.
— Read on www.theborderchronicle.com/border-patrol-nation/

Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
— Read on www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/

A handful of small Bay Area firms are profiting handsomely by assisting ICE
— Read on sf.gazetteer.co/these-sf-bay-area-companies-have-ice-and-cbp-contracts

Mexico’s state oil company backtracked on plans to send a much-needed shipment of crude oil to Cuba, a long-time ally of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/mexico-shelves-planned-shipment-of-oil-to-cuba-amid-us-tensions

The whistle blows in short bursts: PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! PHWEEE! Code: ICE is nearby. Then comes the long blast: PHWEEEEEEEEEEE! Code: ICE has taken someone. These are the codes rapid responders are using to alert their neighbors and co-workers to ICE sightings and kidnappings. Federal agents are armed with military-style weapons. Up against them, everyday people have
— Read on labornotes.org/2026/01/renee-good-killed-ice-was-standing-solidarity-her-neighbors

Phil A. Neel examines the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.
— Read on illwill.com/lies

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump

Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-network-minnesota-5-states/