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Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media.

Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency. This granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go, and who we spend time with,” Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy project director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's increasingly bellicose stance on taking over Greenland and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are combining to trigger questions and theories about what the White House may have in mind for Canada.

The Trump administration's moves come on the heels of its vow to "reassert and enforce" American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere, spelled out officially in a new national security strategy.

Among those raising the alarm that it's a possibility is Bob Rae, the former ambassador to the United Nations. In interviews with multiple media outlets this week, Rae said Canadians would be wrong to think their country is not “on the menu” for U.S. aggression.

The Trump administration "doesn’t take Canada’s sovereignty seriously,” he told the Globe and Mail on Tuesday.

Adam Gordon, a visiting fellow of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University, says there's mounting evidence suggesting a real risk of the Trump administration using military coercion against Canada.

"We can't take off the table anymore the idea that it is at least plausible that there would be some use of force or threat of use of force, and we need to be prepared for that," Gordon told CBC News on Wednesday.

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Dutch police arrested two teenage boys as they investigated the death of a 60-year-old man they believe was possibly assaulted after a row over snowballs.

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A total fire ban is in place for Victoria as authorities warn of "catastrophic" and "extreme" fire conditions across the state.

Emergency warnings remain for dozens of towns surrounding two out-of-control bushfires in central and north-east Victoria.

What's next?

Authorities have warned Victorians to prepare for news of more property losses across the state.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Video and eyewitness testimonies have already circulated widely. There can be little doubt that this was a cold-blooded killing, for which there is no justification.

An ICE agent shot point-blank into the windshield of a car, killing the driver. The woman was believed to have been taking part in some capacity in a protest against ICE’s huge gestapo-style operation in Minnesota, which began at Donald Trump’s behest this week. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota member of Congress, said the victim was “a legal observer.”

Given ICE’s violent, impunity-drenched core, at a moment when the Trump regime is leaning heavily into a vision of dominance grounded in aggression and lawlessness, such a killing was all but inevitable.

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