Reacting to comments made by Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan that agents will continue to haunt the nation’s airports for the foreseeable future, MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski choked up when describing the damage the Department of Homeland Security has done to the nation’s psyche.

“I just want to talk about Tom Homan's comments that we came in with,” she began. “I mean, there are really no words to describe the pain and trauma that this administration has caused for so many people across the country with their deportation program. They're violent and unlawful, brutish, and some would say murderous deportation program with ICE.”

“It's really a stain and a strain on what we all know is the American dream,” she continued. “It's a value that binds us together and ICE rips that apart. So I say ICE at airports may be a good idea because, as millions of people travel across the country for spring break or whatever else, they'll be reminded when they see ICE of Trump's worst policy. At least one of his worst policies ever to rain down on this country.”

“So let us never turn a blind eye on what ICE is doing to human beings in this country, America, and let ICE at the nation's airports be that reminder for everyone as they move on with their lives and go on their vacations and live well as ICE rains hell down on communities and people and families, some undocumented, but still with rights in this country.”

Trump turns housing agency, HUD, into another weapon to use against immigrants. - Rawstory via MSN (well, excepting those he personally escorted from S. Africa, maybe)

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has dramatically expanded its immigration enforcement activities, auditing thousands of housing applicants and proposing new rules that would force mixed-status families to choose between separating from undocumented relatives or losing rental assistance entirely.

The department is sharing data with the Department of Homeland Security and has proposed a rule blocking mixed-status households — families containing both documented and undocumented members — from accessing housing programs altogether.

The policy would devastate eligible families. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that nearly 80,000 people would lose housing assistance under the proposed rule, including 52,600 eligible citizens and 35,400 citizen children. Housing officials report that for every ineligible person removed from programs, approximately three eligible people lose assistance.

MEANWHILE:

José Guadalupe Ramos, a Mexican national, dies in ICE detention in LA - The Guardian

A Mexican immigrant has died at a detention center outside Los Angeles, marking at least the 14th death in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since the year began.

Security staff at the Adelanto detention center found José Guadalupe Ramos unconscious and unresponsive in his bunk on 25 March, according to an ICE press release. Staff attempted to carry out life-saving procedures, including CPR, then called emergency services, who took Ramos to Victory Valley Global medical center in nearby Victorville. He was pronounced dead there at 9.29pm.

Most Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records – The Intercept
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The majority of immigration arrests made by federal agents during President Donald Trump’s enforcement surge in Minnesota last winter were of people with no criminal background, according to The Intercept’s analysis of newly revealed government data.

The data belies a common talking point made by the White House during the massive immigration operation: that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were arresting thousands of “dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”

From December 2025 to mid-March 2026, ICE made 4,030 arrests in the state. Of them, a staggering 2,532 arrests, or 63 percent, were of people with no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to the data, which was previously unreported.

AND IN OTHER NEWS:

Drug camp bombing that Hegseth boasted about was actually a dairy farm: report - The Independent via Yahoo News A new investigation by The New York Times indicates that the bombed‑out site had no connection to drug trafficking and appears to have, in fact, been a small dairy and cattle farm, whose owner is now infuriated.

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