{"id":130854,"date":"2025-10-18T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/130854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:19:11","slug":"fears-over-trump-administration-surveillance-at-us-wide-no-kings-rallies-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/130854\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears over Trump administration surveillance at US-wide \u2018No Kings\u2019 rallies \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration<\/a> on Friday asked the US<\/a> supreme court to permit the deployment of national guard troops to Illinois, as the president<\/a> pushes to expand the domestic use of the military in a growing number of Democratic-led cities.<\/p>\n

It was followed by concerns people who took part in Saturday\u2019s mass \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest against US president Donald Trump\u2019s administration may be targeted for federal government surveillance. This could involve a range of technology including facial recognition and phone hacking, civil libertarians said. <\/p>\n

In an emergency filing to the supreme court, the justice department urged the court to overturn a lower-court ruling that halted the deployment of several hundred national guard troops to the Chicago area. The district judge had raised doubts about the administration\u2019s justification for sending troops, questioning its explanation in light of local conditions.<\/p>\n

\"ThousandsThousands marched in New York as part of US-wide ‘No Kings’ protests against the Trump administration on Saturday. Photograph: Angelina Katsanis\/EPA <\/p>\n

A federal appeals court upheld the lower court\u2019s decision on Thursday, keeping the deployment on hold while the legal challenge proceeds.<\/p>\n

Late on Friday evening, US district judge Sara Ellis ordered federal officers to use body cameras. Ellis said those officers trained and equipped with body-worn cameras must turn them on while conducting immigration enforcement activity, including during interactions with the public.<\/p>\n

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The new measure follows her earlier temporary restraining order requiring federal immigration officers to give warnings before using anti-riot weapons like tear gas and to wear visible identification.<\/p>\n

Ms Ellis also said she wants representatives from federal immigration agencies to appear at a hearing on Monday to answer her questions about how her order \u2013 in effect until November 6th \u2013 is being implemented.<\/p>\n

\"DonaldDonald Trump has already sent national guard units to Chicago and Portland, Los Angeles, Memphis, and Washington DC. Photograph: Alex Brandon\/AP <\/p>\n

D John Sauer, the solicitor general representing the administration, wrote in the new filing that federal agents have repeatedly been \u201cthreatened and assaulted\u201d in Chicago and the suburb of Broadview, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility is located.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has already sent national guard units to Chicago and Portland, following earlier deployments to Los Angeles, Memphis, and Washington DC. The US president has argued that military intervention is needed to curb unrest and bolster immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople marching in the ‘No Kings’ protest against the Trump administration in New York on Saturday. Photograph: Angelina Katsanis\/European Pressphoto Agency <\/p>\n

Mr Trump and his supporters have portrayed these cities as dangerous and overwhelmed by violent demonstrations, framing the military\u2019s role as essential to restoring order.<\/p>\n

Democratic officials have pushed back sharply, saying the president\u2019s claims are greatly exaggerated and politically motivated. They accuse Mr Trump of misusing his authority to punish opponents.<\/p>\n

Judges have also voiced scepticism about the administration\u2019s depiction of events. Local leaders say protests over immigration enforcement have been mostly small and peaceful, contradicting Mr Trump\u2019s characterisation of \u201cwar zone\u201d conditions.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the administration federalised 300 members of the Illinois national guard and ordered additional Texas national guard troops into the state.<\/p>\n

As local leaders condemned the move, Mr Trump escalated his rhetoric, calling on October 8th for the arrest of Chicago\u2019s mayor and the Illinois governor, both Democrats, accusing them of failing to safeguard immigration officers.<\/p>\n

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Illinois and Chicago jointly sued the administration to stop the deployment. On October 9th, district Judge April Perry, appointed by Joe Biden, issued a temporary injunction blocking the order.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Chicago, at least 11 people were taken into custody outside the Broadview Ice detention centre following heated confrontations between Illinois state police and protesters.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Kings\u201d organisers expected 2,600 rallies across all 50 US states on Saturday. The level of surveillance at protests and the type of technology in use was likely to be both location-specific and dependent on the police forces present, said Thorin Klosowski, a security and privacy activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n

\"ThousandsThousands turned out in Chicago, Illinois for the ‘No Kings’ protest against the Trump administration. Photograph: Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n

For instance, crowds in Washington, D.C., where anti-scale fencing has been erected around the White House complex, are likely to be surveilled differently than those in a small rural town.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder previous administrations, law enforcement surveillance of peaceful demonstrations was already commonplace and corrosive of free expression,\u201d Ryan Shapiro, executive director of government transparency group Property of the People, said in an email on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven Trump\u2019s open hostility to even minor dissent, such surveillance now poses an existential threat to what remains of American democracy and only underscores the need for mass protest.\u201d \u2013 Guardian\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to permit the deployment of national guard troops…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,356,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,6221,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-130854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-trump-presidency","25":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}