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Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart

2026-04-21 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt In cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis, residents have taken to the streets to oppose the militarized immigration sweeps, enforcement tactics and violence of ICE and Border Patrol under President Trump's second term. A new ProPublica and _Frontline_ investigation looks at law enforcement's heavy-handed response to these protests, resulting in legally dubious charges that later unravel. "The Department of Justice was labeling the people who were in the streets as domestic terrorists, as agitators, as extremists. They were rounding them up in large numbers," says A.C. Thompson, investigative reporter with ProPublica and correspondent for PBS's _Frontline_ documentary series. "So, we looked at 300 arrests in these various cities and found that more than a third of them had collapsed." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@Mike2244eSam 2026-04-21

Great reporting. Thank you all for helping our democracy.

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@kylerucker3539 2026-04-21

Terrorism paid by our tax dollars.

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@karenhousley610 2026-04-21

Congratulations Democracy Now, 30 years. I'll ✅ on Portland Oregon 🎉Thank you FYI

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@jonathonvinkowski649 2026-04-21

Anytime you give criminals immunity there’s going to be no justice And more crime than the American people can cope with.

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@msdonnalouable 2026-04-21

Have a wonderful time in California San Francisco. You are welcome here. We love you thank you thank you thank you.

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@user-xv9fb9fk9i 2026-04-21

Why are ICE so violent?

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@sabinet3333 2026-04-21

What a terrible way to waste one's time when we need to save the planet all together. Fascists are jerks!

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@marceechristensen 2026-04-21

I feel we will never get restitution for the harm, damage, humiliation and human suffering. It will get silenced and tucked away and live with it and forget about it 😢😢😮😮💙🇺🇸💙

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@FrickinTony 2026-04-21

Protesting by non citizens is psychological warfare

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@BubbaHead1 2026-04-22

THAT'S BECAUSE OF LIBERAL PROTESTING JUDGES, IT'S LITERALLY WHY 3 HAVE BEEN STRIPPED OF POWER IN THE PAST MONTH ALONE

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