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Reform UK and a ‘British ICE’

Could a version of the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency come to the UK under Nigel Farage? Olly Haynes reports

James Orr, a Cambridge University professor and senior Nigel Farage advisor, at the Turning Point USA festival in December in Arizona
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Reform UK councillors Joseph Boam and Michael Squires recently faced a wave of backlash on X for posting favourably about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The agency, which has been accused of operating akin to a paramilitary force, caused outrage after the killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

It came just two weeks after Renee Good was also shot and killed by ICE as she drove away from agents in her car. Both were American citizens lawfully protesting against ICE activity who were branded “domestic terrorists” by the US Government.

‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent

The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Nafeez Ahmed reports
Nafeez Ahmed

A Letter from America – The Bear Mutated

Vladimir Putin’s greatest trick was convincing the West that the Cold War ended in 1991 with a whimper and a Big Mac in Pushkin Square.
Rick Wilson