{"id":78951,"date":"2026-09-21T00:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/freedom-oppressed-the-journalists-caught-up-in-trumps-ice-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:55:22","slug":"freedom-oppressed-the-journalists-caught-up-in-trumps-ice-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/freedom-oppressed-the-journalists-caught-up-in-trumps-ice-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump\u2019s ICE crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/sep\/21\/trump-deportation-deals\">Banished: Trump\u2019s secret deportation deals<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/21\/what-is-trump-third-country-deportation-policy\">What is Trump\u2019s third-country deportation policy?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As hundreds of masked and armed US federal agents besieged the streets of Minneapolis, turning the midwestern city into the frontline of the Trump administration\u2019s unprecedented crackdown on immigration, the independent photographer John Abernathy was documenting one of the protests that had become a daily occurrence when Immigration and Customs Enforcement tackled him.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/pressfreedomtracker.us\/all-incidents\/photographer-arrested-pepper-sprayed-and-tear-gassed-by-federal-officers\/\">photograph<\/a> of him on the ground, pepper spray running down his face, captured the violence with which ICE agents had for weeks treated immigrants and the thousands of US citizens who had come to their defence. It was also a stark reminder that journalists were not immune to the agency\u2019s aggressive tactics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/21\/journalists-caught-up-in-trump-ice-crackdown-press-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported Banished: Trump\u2019s secret deportation deals What is Trump\u2019s third-country deportation policy? As hundreds of masked and armed US federal agents besieged the streets of Minneapolis, turning the midwestern city into the frontline of the Trump administration\u2019s unprecedented crackdown &#8230; <a title=\"Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump\u2019s ICE crackdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/freedom-oppressed-the-journalists-caught-up-in-trumps-ice-crackdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump\u2019s ICE crackdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}