The Daily Populous

Sunday January 11st, 2026 day edition

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If you’ve been watching reportage and viral videos of immigration raids over the last six months, you’ll remember that often there will be law enforcement officers or agents with uniforms that simply say “DHS Police.”

Not Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol, just “DHS Police.”

As far as I know, there is no such agency under DHS.

DHS employs some 80,000 law enforcement officers spread across nine agencies and offices.

So I think that the uniforms just provide a general designation that these are law enforcement officers from within the Department of Homeland Security.

But what was clear from DHS’s creation was that that power could all be directed and concentrated toward some corrupt or illegitimate purpose.

And that, among many other things, is what we’ve seen over the last year. »

Dallas woman fired after posting TikTok warning of ICE presence

Authored by keranews.org

The Hilton Anatole in Dallas fired a Dallas TikTok user after she posting a viral video that claimed there were ICE agents staying on the property.

The TikTok user, identified by The Dallas Morning News only as 20 year-old Gia, did not give her full name because of safety concerns.

In her initial TikTok, Gia said she was more concerned about families being separated and innocent people being jailed due to ICE’s presence in the hotel than losing her job. »

The Xbox Developer Direct will feature a secret fourth game

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

The upcoming Xbox Developer Direct will feature a currently unannounced fourth game.

VGC can corroborate this and understands that the fourth game is a smaller-scale original game from one of Xbox Game Studios’ first-party developers.

The Xbox Developer Direct will also include “the first in-depth look” at Beast of Reincarnation, the new game from Game Freak. »

Mass killings reported as security forces use live fire on Iran protesters

Authored by iranintl.com

In Mashhad, protesters filled major streets chanting “This is the last battle, Pahlavi will return,” according to eyewitnesses, as demonstrations continued despite heavy security deployments.

Several witnesses told Iran International that security forces appeared overstretched in some areas, relying on intimidation tactics, warning shots and use of force.

In other locations, particularly in southeastern Iran, rights groups reported that security forces fired directly on protesters in Zahedan after Friday prayers, wounding several people. »

Schumer and Jeffries Refuse to Back Growing Democratic Calls to Defund ICE

Authored by truthout.org

Both Schumer and Jeffries sharply criticized Wednesday’s shooting and the Trump administration’s insistence that, contrary to mounting video evidence, the ICE agent who shot Good was acting in self-defense.

But Jeffries said Thursday that he was focused on passing other appropriations bills that were ultimately approved by the House.

Democrats refuse to use their power in the appropriations fight to rein in ICE. »