Immigration And Customs Enforcement

Immigrant rights groups rejoiced as authorities reunited a Guatemalan woman and her daughter Friday.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Envy Silva, whose family is originally from Guatemala, holds a holiday toy she received from immigration activists across the street from the Miramar Immigration and Customs Enforcement Facility in South Florida.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Lawmakers are decrying what some say appears to have been an orchestrated attempt by immigration enforcement to coax Samuel Oliver-Bruno out of sanctuary.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Peter Brown remained locked in a county jail for weeks, as county officials waited for immigration authorities to deport him to Jamaica—a country he had never lived in.

• By Jack Herrera

Advocates estimate there are dozens of similar cases of immigrant parents separated from their children who have American citizenship.

• By Massoud Hayoun

A lawsuit alleging that immigration authorities infiltrated a Vermont-based advocacy group could have national ramifications.

• By Jack Herrera

The program protecting Dreamers from deportation has achieved a string of victories in the courts. But legal experts—and DACA recipients—worry that not much has changed.

• By Jack Herrera

The convenience store giant may have played a role in immigration enforcement sweeps at franchises across the country.

• By Massoud Hayoun

A day with Dave Hutchinson, a veteran police officer running to unseat the anti-immigrant sheriff of Hennepin County, Minnesota.

• By David M. Perry

Hundreds of family asylum seekers were released in Arizona this week without shelter, overwhelming churches and non-profits as communities scrambled to accommodate them.

• By Jack Herrera

The Trump administration gives FEMA funds to ICE, the number of migrant children in custody soars, and Scott Pruitt courts a coal job.

• By Rebecca Worby

The end of the contract comes amid concerns that customs enforcement was using the information to target law-abiding undocumented immigrants.

• By Ian Hurley

By law, Nixon cannot, and Ocasio-Cortez would face overwhelming opposition from fellow lawmakers, analysts say.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will release reunited migrant families with ankle bracelet monitoring, backing off from efforts to detain them indefinitely.

• By Rebecca Worby

The Victims of Immigration Crime (VOICE) office's quarterly report offers case studies, but it does not include statistics on crime rates.

• By Francie Diep

A young protester takes part in a march against the separation of immigrant families on June 30th, 2018, outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Los Angeles, California.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Activists behind the movement say their ranks are swelling by the day with people opposed to the White House's raids and separation of immigrant families.

• By Massoud Hayoun

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The administration's weaponization of ICE may hurt its existing lawsuit against the Golden State's sanctuary protections, analysts say.

• By Massoud Hayoun

A new report highlights troubling patterns in medical care in immigration detention facilities.

• By Kate Wheeling

Over the weekend, 1,600 people being detained at the border were transferred to federal prisons because current detention infrastructure can no longer house the overwhelming number of detainees.

• By Ashley Hackett

#WhereAreTheChildren has been making headlines, but there's much more going on.

• By Ashley Hackett

The raid was one of the largest stings in recent years.

• By Kate Wheeling

As questions of children left unaccounted for by immigration authorities mount, rights advocates say the Trump administration's separation of parents and children remains the real issue.

• By Massoud Hayoun