@atrupar.com:
straight up Gestapo shit
@drugdatadecoded.ca:
ICE uses Hootsuite.
Here’s a $75,000 contract Hootsuite sold to Calgary police for social media surveillance in 2023. Not sure why anyone would be interested in that though.
@ardensteve.bsky.social:
Canada relatively recently entered into an agreement with the US allowing police to cross the Canada-USA border and exercise (limited) police powers on the foreign side, when “in hot pursuit”, etc.
This really needs to be immediately revoked, or at least to specifically exclude ICE.
ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit, From shutting down ICE offices to cancelling corporate contracts, Canadians have real power to stand in solidarity with those targeted by Trump’s secret police by Mark Kersten, Jan 30, 2026, Ricochet Media
Like many Canadians, I live and work close to the border with the United States. It’s just a few hundred meters away from my office, and when I gaze towards America, I cannot help but think just how geographically close the horrors being waged by ICE are.
But when my focus returns, I wonder: what can we do to help, here in Canada?
The answer is that there’s a great deal that Canada can do – and should do – in response to ICE’s brutality.
Canadians are horrified by the apprehension of children, invasion of healthcare facilities, and the murders of two American citizens – Renée Good and Alex Pretti – by ICE agents, all committed in broad daylight, recorded for all to see.
It is false comfort to believe that ICE could only operate in the U.S.. The agency currently has five offices in consular and diplomatic outposts in Canada: in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal, and Vancouver, where they claim to work with Canadian “partners” in enforcing laws “to protect the public from those seeking to harm [their] country.”
But what we are witnessing in America isn’t enforcing the law; it’s lawlessness waged by a well-funded and militarized agency doing the bidding of what experts and historians recognize is an increasingly fascist government. In the last U.S. Budget, ICE received a tenfold increase in funding. Today, only 15 countries have military budgets bigger than ICE’s. And as journalist Jonathan Rauch explains,
“Trump has turned ICE into a sprawling paramilitary that roves the country at will, searches and detains noncitizens and citizens without warrants, uses force ostentatiously, operates behind masks, receives skimpy training, lies about its activities, and has been told that it enjoys ‘absolute immunity.’”
The first thing Canada can do, therefore, is to close all ICE offices in the country. To do so, the Liberal government should work with all other parties to reach a consensus in Parliament that ICE is not welcome on Canadian soil because it is engaged in widespread criminal conduct. Parliament could then advise Foreign Minister Anita Anand and Cabinet to find that ICE agents operating in Canada are persona non grata and thus unwelcome in the country. Even if the ICE officers hold some diplomatic status, Canada can expel them by invoking relevant provisions of Canadian law and the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Some might argue: isn’t ICE involved in critical work, like tackling drug and human trafficking? And aren’t these tasks indispensable to Canada, too? Perhaps, but this work can be done by other agencies, such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. And if Ottawa thinks that there is any reason that ICE agents stay, the government should make that case clearly to Canadians; the onus is on them.
Others might argue: wouldn’t there be reciprocal action to kick out Canadian officials from the United States? Almost certainly. But that’s not a reason to placate ICE or turn a blind eye to the agency’s violent transgressions. There will be a real cost to our collective moral standing if Canada chooses to do nothing.
Moreover, ICE has lost any credibility it may have once had. How? By killing people and stealing children from their parents’ arms. And let’s not forget, even before the killings in Minnesota, this was an agency that had already detained at least 150 Canadians – including toddlers – since Trump returned to the White House, some of whom have died in custody after being denied medical care.
Moving to close ICE offices is not just a political or symbolic move. Given what we know about their conduct and ongoing threats to Canada’s sovereignty from the Trump administration, it is also a national and public security issue. But just ridding Canada of ICE isn’t enough. Canadian authorities should immediately take action to ensure that contracts between Canadian companies and ICE are scrapped.
Three come to mind, although there are others, as highlighted in a letter to Prime Minister Carney by the NDP’s Heather McPherson.
First and foremost, Canada must ensure that any contracts with Ontario-based defence manufacturers to sell ICE armoured vehicles are cancelled immediately. There are reports that Canadian-made Roshel vehicles have been deployed in ICE’s siege of Minnesota. If Roshel continues to sell military weaponry and goods to ICE, the RCMP should investigate it for complicity in criminal conduct in the United States and, potentially, crimes against humanity. Canada can do the latter under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
Second, Canada needs to pressure Vancouver-based company Hootsuite to end its contract with ICE. Dana Cramer, CEO of the Young Digital Leaders of Canada, articulated the dismay that many feel right now when she wrote that she was “shocked by the recent reporting that Hootsuite has taken US$95,000 in contracts to conduct social-media sentiment analysis” for ICE.
For its part, Hootsuite and its CEO Irina Novoselsky are unconcerned, insisting that they have “done nothing wrong.” The company and its founders and board members like Ryan Holmes, should be told by both Ottawa and its customers to put their interest in human life and decency before their interest in profits.
Third, the potential deal between ICE and British Columbia businessman Jim Pattison to sell a warehouse he owns in Virginia for “immigration processing” should be scuppered. Put simply: no Canadian should be selling ICE the properties or means with which to carry out its attacks on migrants. The government should make that clear, and that no tax benefits or subsidies will be provided to any company working with ICE.
ICE’s targets deserve to be treated with dignity. They are doctors, teachers, and nurses. They are workers, labourers, carers and educators. Some may be undocumented, but they are also neighbours, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. They contribute to their communities and their economies. Which brings me to my last suggestion on what Canada should do: welcome law-abiding people in the United States – 73.6 per cent of those targeted by ICE don’t have criminal records – by offering them resettlement in Canada through a new immigration pathway.
Whether ICE will be defunded or abolished is ultimately up to Americans, but what we do in Canada matters. Canadians can demand that our members of parliament and Canadian business leaders take action today. Canada and its companies cannot afford to be complicit in ICE’s crimes. By breaking any ties with ICE, we have an opportunity to offer a lasting reminder to our neighbours to the South and ourselves what decency, solidarity, and compassion look like.
Mark Kersten is an assistant professor in criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley and a senior consultant at the Wayamo Foundation.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Carney’s Minister of Digital Asbestos Integration is happy to report “ongoing engagement on technology, AI, and economic development” with Israel.
A few reminders:
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social:
Did Hudson, NY show up for the national #IceOut protest in the teeth of a -10-25 windchill warning? Why yes we did.
And if my phone hadn’t frozen I could show you the sign carried by the seven-year-old that said
ICE NO
LOVE YES
Dangerous to cry when it’s minus zero.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber in Hudson NY protesting ICE
@occamsdaughter.bsky.social:
I think Trump is going to put to use the database of protesters they’ve been gathering and start rounding them up along with Democrats (hence their desire for voter roles), marginalized communities, journalists, university profs…I agree. And, I believe Trump will want the money to house those ICE rounds up, for his own greedy ass, so he’ll start mass exterminations (copying his hero Hitler) of anyone opposing him, not licking his ass, not having not voted for him in the past, etc. And, I believe he’ll try to do this in Canada too, and elsewhere in the world. He thinks he’s the kid raping king of the world
@18thcenturyboy.bsky.social:
Trump and his GOP lickspittles have turned the US into a Nazi dictatorship.
The rotting murderous paedophilic cleptocratic carcass of a multiple felon that inhabits what is now a Shite House is loathed across the globe.
@auntelle.bsky.social:
… Trump is building a private and loyal paramilitary force that will be used to disarm us and reinstitute the Constitution under new terms of which theocracy is key.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov:
The Economist magazine, with a world-wide audience, steps in hard against Trump/Noem’s violent embarrassment of our country with ICE’s goon-squad behavior. It’s remarkable, and sad, that Trump’s America looks like this to the world.
@davekeating.substack.com:
Following reports of ICE agents illegally barging into embassies in the US and harassing European journalists, members of the European Parliament are calling for Trump’s paramilitary force to be blocked from entering Italy during the Winter Olympics.
@boomer-michael.bsky.social:
w #Olympic Event: terrorizing communities; medal favorites: #ICE and the #IDF.
@amandaunderwood.bsky.social:
american athletes win. or else…
@robbe-duesseldorf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy:
We have our own paramilitary forces here in Europe. Usually we call them Nazis, so we don’t need ICE-Gestapo in addition here. Not only for the Olympics, not at all.
@tommasinaresist.bsky.social:
Outrage has erupted in Italy over the US announcement that ICE will “assist” with security during the Winter Olympics there next month. They are not wanted, regardless of the regime’s excuse for sending them.
USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
@canaansdad1987.bsky.social:
There is absolutely no reason for ICE to be in Italy.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Show us your papers
@elizabethjoh.bsky.social:
In Minneapolis, they are starting to wear their passports at all times
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u…
@fleurdelinguist.bsky.social:
I’m in Missouri and I do. Natural born citizen. We can’t trust anything
And, no reason for ICE to be in Canada!
Need to add Mark Carney to this cartoon:
They are all responsible, Miller, Noem, Bovino, Homan…and most of all, Trump by Ann Telnaes, Jan 30, 2026
@corruptario.bsky.social:
Remember, many of Trump’s secret police (ICE) are Proud Boys, pardoned for their support of Trump on Jan 6th.
Proud Boys are a Canadian export.
ICE field offices are all over Canada. Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver.
ICE is using armoured vehicles manufactured in Brampton.
Canadian company Hootsuite is providing services to ICE. …
www.ice.gov/field-office…
@piledhigherdeeper.bsky.social:
Send them to Churchill. The bears are hungry.
@john-gardi.bsky.social:
True, Stalin and Adolf weren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer but that didn’t stop them from being responsible for the deaths of million each.
Are you headed that way, America?and Canada?
@timothysnyder.bsky.social:
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
@normative.bsky.social:
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
@john-gardi.bsky.social:
This is one of many Little Libraries found throughout our Canadian city.
A former Minister of Parliament I’m making an audio companion for his upcoming memoir for first saw these on a trade mission to #Minnesota.
He put one up and a tradition was born!
Thank you Minnesota for this gift of community!
@charlieangus104.bsky.social:
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt on having ICE at the Canadian border.
“We see what’s happening in their country. And it makes us all very, very uncomfortable. There’s nothing that we recognize in our neighbours right now, with the leadership that they have.”
Canadians no longer trust the USA.
@10000lakes.bsky.social:
I cannot disagree with Premier Holt. We Americans should not be trusted, as we, collectively have elected this awful bunch of fools. My hope is that we may, in a near day attain rapprochement with (and forgiveness from) our Canadian neighbors.Forgiveness, yes. Trust? Never again.
@davidlewis61.bsky.social:
Speaking as a criminal defense attorney, this has long been a serious problem, the erosion of rights over an ever-expanding border.
@arrest-them-all.bsky.social:
this was obvious when trump and his stooges decided that “the boarder” extended 200 miles into the interior of this nation.
@cykoore.bsky.social:
I wouldn’t travel to Germany in 1939, and I certainly won’t travel to the US now.
@lasta2.bsky.social:
@charlieangus104.bsky.social get them out of our country!!!!
@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social get them out of our country!!!!!!
@howaud.bsky.social:
Crime might not stop at their borders but their jurisdiction sure the hell does.
@kmkohle.bsky.social:
ICE out, of Calgary!
@MarkKersten:
That there are four #ICE offices in Canada – in Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal, & Vancouver – is not only morally reprehensible but a public security issue. They are not law enforcement; they’re the paramilitary branch of a fascist leader. Their operations in Canada must be ended.
Correction: There are five #ICE offices – an additional one is in Toronto.
For clarification … the ICE offices are embedded in US embassies and consulates in the five Canadian cities.
Canada is not immune. Corporate enablers of #ICE in Canada include:
Jim Pattinson Group (@JPAutoGroup)
@RoshelDefence (selling ICE armoured vehicles) Worth knowing – and calling out.
@CarrieCnh12:
Yep, the Canadian gov’t has allowed the US government to place [5] ICE stations in Canada, including the national capital and parliamentary seat. How that was even allowed..
So not only are Canadian companies fully complicit with ICE the gov’t has already given them a toehold here
@cdnresistance.bsky.social:
What business does ICE have in Canada? They have no jurisdiction here. Who let them in? Deport their asses back to Trump land.
@nancyholan.bsky.social:
Is the usa planting observers across our country? We need answers!🇨🇦
@magichummingbird.bsky.social:
WTAF?! How is this allowed? Do they have any authority here?
This is terrifying! Seriously life in Alberta is just too much these days. I do not even know what to say anymore….
@glendaaus.bsky.social:
My husband retires in 2 years. He has family with a BC coastal tribe, we may relocate there. It’s too dangerous here for anyone now. I’m too perceptive for my own good. I feel it when I leave my house, it’s this seething energy.Ya, I feel it too, have done since the Insurrection Jan 2021 and the Putin-Trump financed Fucker Truckers in Feb 2022.
@magichummingbird.bsky.social:
I completely agree. We are going to list our house in the spring and move to BC. I cannot spend my retirement in this dangerous, chaotic, corrupt province any longer. It will literally be the death of me, emotionally and physically.
@glendaaus.bsky.social:
Well lookie here #Alberta and #Canada looks like ICE is moving in. Spotted in Calgary yesterday.
This from Public Interest Alberta a few hours ago.
@notabot1.bsky.social:
Here is the address.
Consulate General of the United States
615 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary, AB
T2G 2M1
Canada
@glendaaus.bsky.social:
Thankyou. I just bought a deluxe packet of stamped envelopes. Fucking fuckers
@nancyholan.bsky.social:
Is the usa planting observers across our country? We need answers!
@HMcPhersonNDP:
Canada cannot fund, arm, or legitimize ICE.
I’ve written to PM Carney calling for sanctions, export bans, cancelled subsidies, and the closure of ICE offices in Canada. Fascist violence and human rights abuses demand action, not silence.
@sifill.bsky.social:
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
@emmettmacfarlane.com:
The one good thing about the Trump regime arresting journalists is maybe the media will wake the fuck up and start covering reality for what it is.
Fascist state.
@ruddock.bsky.social
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
@johnvaillant.bsky.social:
Sound familiar, @thenarwhal.ca?
@simplyskye.bsky.social:
Don Lemon from inside the Minnesota church protest: “I’m just here photographing. I’m a journalist. We’re here just chronicling & reporting”
Going to be difficult to assert that he was doing anything other than reporting on the event in his capacity as a journalist
Florida groyper GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback says the Founding Fathers would have had Don Lemon publicly executed: “Don Lemon should be lucky that he’s not getting executed in the public square for his little stunt.” https://peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
Three days after he was inaugurated, Trump pardoned dozens of anti-abortion protesters who had been convicted of violating the FACE Act. https://justice.gov/pardon/clemenc
The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown, How Amazon, AT&T, and Citizens Bank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. by Judd Legum, Jan 26, 2026, Popular Information
Imagine if these gov’t douche fuckers in Nazi USA and Canada and corporations worked as hard and spent as much studying and protecting the environment, air, land, food, water, wildlife, fish, health instead of non white non straight humans.
On Saturday morning, federal officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis. While administration officials claimed that Pretti “approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” video of the incident showed Pretti was holding a phone. The officers were in Minneapolis as part of a large-scale crackdown by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
As Pretti was attempting to assist another person who had been pepper-sprayed in the face, a group of federal officers pushed him to the ground, beat him, and shot him multiple times at close range. Pretti was licensed to carry a gun, but there is no indication that he was ever holding a weapon, much less threatening the officers.
Pretti’s death was the latest in a string of horrific, violent, and fatal incidents by federal officers participating in ICE’s Minneapolis operation.
Hours after Pretti was killed, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was in Washington, DC, visiting the White House for a screening of Melania, a documentary produced by First Lady Melania Trump. As Jassy and other guests entered, a military band played “Melania’s Waltz,” a song composed for the film. Guests received “glossy, commemorative black and white popcorn boxes for guests, served by gloved waiters.”
Amazon paid $59 million for the rights to the vanity project, most of which went to Melania Trump herself. According to Matt Belloni, Amazon is paying another $35 million to promote the film. Despite the massive budget, Amazon “has not shared the film with critics, and won’t before its release.”
Although Melania will almost certainly lose tens of millions of dollars for Amazon, it is a small price to pay to stay in the good graces of President Donald Trump and his administration. Amazon has billions in government contracts and provides much of the technological backbone for ICE’s surveillance and deportation activities.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport immigrants. ICM, which was created by Palantir, “integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.” The data includes “a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.” Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM.
Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create “ImmigrationOS,” which is “a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.” ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir.
AWS also hosts a massive surveillance system for ICE’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The $6 billion system, known as Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System (HART), is designed to hold “personal and biometric data on over 270 million people, including 6.7 million iris scans and 1.1 billion face images.”
In a 2022 letter to Amazon, advocates argued that by “hosting DHSʼ HART database, AWS is directly facilitating the creation of an invasive biometrics database that will supercharge surveillance and deportation, risking human rights violations.” They urged Amazon to stop powering the HART database, which is still in development, but the company did not respond.
When Amazon employees urged then-CEO Jeff Bezos to terminate its relationship with ICE in 2018, Bezos defended the practice. “There aren’t other countries where everybody is trying to get in,” Bezos told WIRED. “I’d let them in if it were me. I like ‘em, I want all of them in. But this is a great country and it does need to be defended.”
On its corporate webpage, Amazon says it “support[s] our refugee and humanitarian-based immigrant population because we recognize the challenges they face in the U.S.” This is the same population being targeted in Minneapolis.
In November 2025, Amazon announced it was investing $50 billion to build out its cloud and AI services for the federal government. ICE and related agencies are in a position to provide Amazon with a return on its investment. Trump’s megabill, enacted last year, “allocated more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior enforcement.”
Amazon, which did not respond to a request for comment, is one of several consumer-facing brands with deep financial connections to ICE.
Citizens Bank
Since Trump returned to the White House for a second term, the population of migrants held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has exploded — from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. This has created a massive demand for private prison companies, including GEO Group and CoreCivic, to build new facilities.
Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the private prison industry. (Bank of America and SunTrust have since “softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.”)
But Citizens Financial Group, which operates Citizens Bank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to GEO Group. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for CoreCivic.
On its website, Citizens says it is “committed to strengthening communities“ and works “to advance social equity.” The company did not respond to a request for comment.
AT&T
In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, DHS, to “provide mission-critical communications services.” The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with “end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.” In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with “data analytics and support services.”
AT&T pitched FirstNet, its specialized network for first responders, to the federal government, touting its ability to use “photographs, real-time audio/video feeds, and databases from other state, local, or Federal agencies… to aid in the identification… of undocumented immigrants.”
AT&T’s Human Rights Policy, last updated in August 2025, says the company seeks “to ensure that we are not complicit in human rights abuses.” It also stresses that “all people, regardless of status or circumstance, deserve the dignity and freedom of human rights protections.”
Last November, activists in Chicago accused AT&T of “lin[ing] its pockets with public dollars” from ICE, “whose agents are masked, unidentifiable, and operating without warrants as they terrorize members of the public.”
AT&T did not respond to a request for comment.
@lars_eide:
Time to boycott Amazon. Jeff Bezos has done enough damage to the US already.
@raylampago.bsky.social:
Cuba has been such a beacon of hope and light in this world. They have done so much with so little and have shown limitless resilience in the face of the most powerful country in the world. I don’t want to know a world without Cuba.
@nerdjpg.com:
Christ. Why is more shit needed
@2ez2dance.bsky.social:
They want to put a bullet in the head of the spirit of freedom
To punish Cuba for her empathy, for sending doctors to countries hard hit by COVID?
(New executive order)
ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA
January 29, 2026
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby determine and order:
Section 1. National Emergency. As President of the United States, I have an imperative duty to protect the national security and foreign policy of this country. I find that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
The Government of Cuba has taken extraordinary actions that harm and threaten the United States. The regime aligns itself with — and provides support for — numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adverse to the United States, including the Government of the Russian Federation (Russia), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Government of Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. For example, Cuba blatantly hosts dangerous adversaries of the United States, inviting them to base sophisticated military and intelligence capabilities in Cuba that directly threaten the national security of the United States. Cuba hosts Russia’s largest overseas signals intelligence facility, which tries to steal sensitive national security information of the United States. Cuba continues to build deep intelligence and defense cooperation with the PRC. Cuba welcomes transnational terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, creating a safe environment for these malign groups so that these transnational terrorist groups can build economic, cultural, and security ties throughout the region and attempt to destabilize the Western Hemisphere, including the United States. Cuba has long provided defense, intelligence, and security assistance to adversaries in the Western Hemisphere, attempting to thwart United States and international sanctions designed to enforce the stability of the region, uphold the rule of law, and safeguard the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Cuba continues to try to thwart United States efforts to address threats to the United States posed by hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors, including in the Western Hemisphere.
Further, contrary to the interests and foreign policy of the United States, the Cuban communist regime supports terrorism and destabilizes the region through migration and violence. The communist regime persecutes and tortures its political opponents; denies the Cuban people free speech and press; corruptly profits from their misery; and commits other human-rights violations. For example, families of political prisoners face retaliation for peacefully protesting the improper confinement of their loved ones. Cuban authorities harass worshippers, block free association by civil society organizations, prohibit free press, and deny the ability to speak freely, including on the internet. The Cuban regime continues to spread its communist ideas, policies, and practices around the Western Hemisphere, threatening the foreign policy of the United States.
The United States has zero tolerance for the depredations of the communist Cuban regime. The United States will act to protect the foreign policy, national security, and national interests of the United States, including by holding the Cuban regime accountable for its malign actions and relationships, while also remaining committed to supporting the Cuban people’s aspirations for a free and democratic society.
I find that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba directly threaten the safety, national security, and foreign policy of the United States. The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba are designed to harm the United States and support hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors that seek to destroy the United States. The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba are also repugnant to the moral and political values of democratic and free societies and conflict with the foreign policy of the United States to encourage peaceful change in Cuba and to promote democracy, the principle of free expression and press, the rule of law, and respect for human rights throughout the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the situation with respect to Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency with respect to that threat.
To deal with the national emergency declared in this order, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to establish a tariff system, as described below. Under this system, an additional ad valorem duty may be imposed on imports of goods that are products of a foreign country that directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba. In my judgment, the tariff system, as described below, is necessary and appropriate to address the national emergency declared in this order.
Sec. 2. Imposition of Tariffs. (a) Beginning on the effective date of this order, an additional ad valorem rate of duty may be imposed on goods imported into the United States that are products of any other country that directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba, in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of this section.
(b)(i) The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State and any senior official the Secretary of Commerce deems appropriate, shall determine whether, after the effective date of this order, a foreign country directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba. After the Secretary of Commerce finds that a foreign country directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba, the Secretary of Commerce shall inform the Secretary of State of his finding, including any information relevant to that finding.
(ii) The Secretary of Commerce may issue rules, regulations, and guidance necessary or appropriate to implement this order. The Secretary of Commerce may also make any other determinations or take any other actions necessary or appropriate to implement this order.
(c)(i) After the Secretary of Commerce makes an affirmative finding pursuant to subsection (b)(i) of this section and informs the Secretary of State of his finding, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the United States Trade Representative, shall determine whether and to what extent an additional ad valorem rate of duty should be imposed on goods that are products of the foreign country found to directly or indirectly sell or otherwise provide any oil to Cuba.
(ii) If the Secretary of State determines that an additional ad valorem rate of duty should be imposed on goods that are products of the country found to directly or indirectly sell or otherwise provide any oil to Cuba, the Secretary of State shall inform me of his recommendation, and the Secretary of Commerce shall inform me of his finding related to that recommendation. I will then consider the recommendation and finding, among other relevant things, in determining whether and to what extent to impose an additional ad valorem rate of duty on goods that are products of the country in question.
(iii) The Secretary of State may issue rules, regulations, and guidance necessary or appropriate to implement this order. The Secretary of State may also make any other determinations or take any other actions necessary or appropriate to implement this order.
Sec. 3. Modification Authority. (a) To ensure that the national emergency declared in this order is dealt with, I may modify this order, including in light of additional information, recommendations from senior officials, or changed circumstances.
(b) Should a foreign country retaliate against the United States in response to this order or any action taken pursuant to this order, I may modify this order or actions taken pursuant to this order to ensure the efficacy of this order and the actions taken pursuant to this order to deal with the national emergency declared in this order.
(c) Should the Government of Cuba or another foreign country affected by this order take significant steps to address the national emergency declared in this order and align sufficiently with the United States on national security and foreign policy matters, I may modify this order.
Sec. 4. Monitoring and Recommendations. (a) The Secretary of State, in consultation with any senior official the Secretary of State deems appropriate, shall monitor the circumstances involving the national emergency declared in this order. The Secretary of State shall inform me of any circumstance that, in his opinion, might indicate the need for further Presidential action to deal with the national emergency declared in this order.
(b) The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Trade Representative, and any other senior official the Secretary of State deems appropriate, shall recommend to me additional action, if necessary, if the actions in this order or taken pursuant to this order are not effective in dealing with the national emergency declared in this order.
(c) The Secretary of Commerce shall monitor whether a foreign country directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba. The Secretary of Commerce shall continue such monitoring after a foreign country has been found to do so.
Sec. 5. Delegation. Consistent with applicable law, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce are directed and authorized to take all actions necessary to implement and effectuate this order — including through temporary suspension or amendment of regulations or through notices in the Federal Register and by adopting rules, regulations, or guidance — and to employ all powers granted to the President, including by IEEPA, as may be necessary to implement this order. The head of each executive department and agency (agency) is authorized to and shall take all appropriate measures within the agency’s authority to implement this order. The head of each agency may, consistent with applicable law, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, redelegate the authority to take such appropriate measures within the agency.
Sec. 6. Reporting Directives. The Secretary of State, in consultation with any senior official he deems appropriate, is hereby authorized and directed to submit recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in, and authorities exercised by, this order, consistent with section 401 of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).
Sec. 7. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:
(a) The term “oil” means crude oil or petroleum products.
(b) The term “indirectly” includes selling to or otherwise providing oil to Cuba through intermediaries or third countries, with knowledge that such oil may be provided to Cuba, as determined by the Secretary of Commerce.
(c) The term “Cuba” means the territory of Cuba and any other territory or marine area, including the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, over which the Government of Cuba claims sovereignty, sovereign rights, or jurisdiction, provided that the Government of Cuba exercises partial or total de facto control over the area or derives a benefit from economic activity in the area pursuant to international arrangements.
(d) The term “Government of Cuba” includes the Government of Cuba, any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, and any person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the Government of Cuba.
Sec. 8. Effective Date. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on January 30, 2026.
Sec. 9. Interaction With Other Presidential Actions. Any provision of previous proclamations and Executive Orders that is inconsistent with the actions directed in this order is superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
Sec. 10. Severability. If any provision of this order or the application of any provision of this order to any individual or circumstance is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other individuals or circumstances shall not be affected. If the action in this order or any action taken pursuant to this order is held invalid, the other actions imposed to deal with the national emergencies declared with respect to the Government of Cuba shall not be affected and shall remain in effect.
Sec. 11. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of State.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 29, 2026.
@whosestreets.bsky.social:
American media—particularly algorithm-driven social media, but also traditional media and things like right wing podcasts—has driven about a third of the population into a state that can only be described as mass psychosis.
We need to impose clear limits on their capacity to influence people here.
@parismarx.com:
It’s fascinating to see Canadian media finally be more open about the US being a major disinformation threat. The nature of it has changed, but it’s long been the case.
It brings to mind when we were discussing foreign interference, but they would only discuss China and India, not US and Israel.