How an immigration raid could change ICE

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Richard Hall | October 20, 2026     Hello and welcome to The Brief. From France and Albania to Argentina and India, young protesters are taking to the streets to demand change. While the movements have different motivations and goals, they reflect a broader feeling that young people have been left behind. We’re taking a closer look at two of these places today, starting with a story about how France’s demonstrations spiraled out of control. We also speak with one of India’s best-known writers about why young people there are worried about democracy. IN TODAY’S BRIEF How an immigration raid could change ICE How protests in France spiraled Trump endorses Netanyahu India’s new protest movement $947 million Amanpour’s farewell         READ THIS FIRST The fallout from an Idaho ICE raid could change how it operates Sally Krutzig–Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images An immigration raid at a popular track for horse racing outside the Idaho town of Wilder is at the center of a court fight that could shape ICE operations around the country.  Federal authorities arrested 105 people for alleged immigration violations during the raid, yet on paper, this wasn’t an immigration raid at all. The only warrant for the Wilder raid was secured by the FBI. Its target was the owner of the track and four others for alleged unlicensed gambling.  Twelve months later, advocates are arguing in court that ICE unlawfully piggybacked on an FBI operation, rather than securing their own warrant, as they would be expected to do on this type of operation. A lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues that federal authorities violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, by using an unrelated search warrant as a “cover to go fishing for immigration arrests.”  —Philip Wang Read the full story here.         SPONSORED BY GURU 2026 You're invited to the world's largest virtual email marketing conference. Two full days of email marketing tips and trends, powered by Constant Contact. Famous keynotes (Molly Ringwald, Dan Levy, Amy Porterfield!), DJs, world-record breaking, rom-com fun, and networking. 100% Free & Virtual 29,000+ Marketers Joined Last Year November 12th & 13th Save your spot!         IN THE NEWS How the protests in France spiraled as police ‘lost control’ Jeff Pachoud—Getty Images France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez on Monday admitted that police “lost control” in some cities over the weekend as violent protests erupted across the country, while French President Emmanuel Macron called for a review of the police response to the rioting and looting. Nuñez said there had been a "lack of anticipation" ahead of the demonstrations on Saturday and acknowledged that policing numbers had fallen short in some areas as hundreds of thousands took to the ​streets to protest over, what they say are, underfunded public services and rising cost-of-living pressures. The demonstrations followed weeks of ‌student protests that had also seen some violence. In the wake of the chaotic scenes, Nuñez offered his resignation to Macron because he "felt responsible” for how things unfolded. Macron refused to accept it, due to “the need for a continuous command of the police,” the Élysée Palace told TIME. Instead, Macron has called for the Interior Ministry to “take all necessary steps to ensure transparency over planning and intelligence failures” and to put an end to the barricades and looting. —Tiago Ventura Read the full story here.         HAPPENING NOW Trump endorses Netanyahu days before Israeli election Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images With days to go before a crucial general election in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a last-minute endorsement for re-election on Sunday from his longtime friend, U.S. President Donald Trump. “Bibi Netanyahu has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent my Complete and Total Endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu in his upcoming Race for Re-Election as Prime Minister of Israel.” It’s a ringing, albeit late, recommendation for someone Trump hasn’t seen eye-to-eye with in recent months over how Netanyahu’s government has navigated the Middle East conflict. Trump explained his delayed endorsement to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, saying that he’d always meant to endorse Netanyahu because they “have a good relationship, and because we’ll continue to do good things together.”  Trump said in his post that, if Israel were to have “the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi,” the U.S. would be left alone to face the Iran threat. The U.S. and Israel jointly struck Iran in late February, kickstarting a conflict that has not only upended global markets but also thrust Middle Eastern regional security into turmoil. —Chad de Guzman Read the full story here.         SPONSORED BY TLDR AI The AI newsletter curated by engineers who build it TLDR AI is a free daily email curated by Anthropic and ex-Google engineers: the new tools worth trying and the research worth understanding, summarized for 1.1M+ readers. Subscribe for free         IN FOCUS Q&A: Why are so many young Indians fearful about the future of the world’s largest democracy? Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images Protests have swept India over the removal of some 130 million people from the electoral rolls. Election authorities say the exercise, known as the Special Intensive Revision, weeded out ineligible voters. Critics say it was designed to bolster Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and they want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign. Authorities detained leaders of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), a youth-led movement that forced out the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the summer. TIME spoke with historian and novelist Mukul Kesavan about the protests. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. —Richard Hall Q: What are these protests actually about? Are they a natural progression from the Cockroach movement’s earlier protests, or something different? MK: It’s related to the Cockroach movement sit-in at Jantar Mantar [a traditional site of protest in the Indian capital] that led to the resignation of the education minister, in that the sit-in created a space for dissent by making Modi’s government back down. But [the Oct. 12 march] was distinct because it was organized by the Congress Party along with other conventional political parties. It was also about a distinct issue: the Election Commission’s fiddling with voter rolls. Q: Police detained the movement’s leaders before the October 10 rally, then detained two of them again at Jantar Mantar days later. What does that tell you about how the government sees this movement? MK: There has been a reversal of the government’s attitude towards the CJP. At Jantar Mantar 1.0, the government underestimated the cockroaches. The lesson the government learned from the police violence that discredited it was that it couldn’t afford to let the cockroaches occupy a space where massed citizens confronted the police for phone cameras to record. We’re seeing a strategy of pre-emptive detention to head off that possibility. Q: India’s elections have long been a source of national pride. Has this episode damaged that image, at home or abroad? MK: India’s elections were a bit iffy until a man called T.N. Seshan became chief election commissioner in the early 1990s. He took his office seriously enough to clean up the whole election process. The Election Commission became a three-member body that was more or less impartial untill the Modi government passed a law that gave the government a majority in the three-member panel that appoints the election commissioners. Gyanesh Kumar has been grotesquely partisan, and the Special Intensive Revision has so obviously tried to shape the electoral roll to favor the BJP that the institution has been publicly discredited. India begins to resemble electoral autocracies elsewhere like Turkey. Q: What do these protests tell you about Modi’s position? MK: It’s palpable that Modi’s aura of menace and authority has dissipated. The mockery and rudeness of young cockroaches, especially the young women who crowded into Jantar Mantar, did something that solemn ideological opposition had failed to do: it made him seem ridiculous, old and out of touch. Opposition parties have to find a way of turning this fizz into votes. Read the full interview here.         ONE NUMBER $947 million Republicans are outspending Democrats by a significant margin in the battle for the Senate. In the seven tossup Senate races, Republicans are spending $947 million on advertising compared with the Democrats’ $625 million. 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