The Shutdown Deal Includes More ICE Detention Beds. That Doesn’t Mean Mattresses.
What the agency actually wants is the funding to detain more people than ever before.
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Democrats’ Border Wall Solution Is Raising Privacy and Profiling Concerns
House Democrats are offering $1.6 billion to implement new surveillance technologies at the border and add more border-patrol officers. Human rights groups are concerned.
Trump Will Address Immigration in His State of the Union Address. Here Are the Facts.
Trump will likely stoke anti-immigrant sentiment in his address, but he won't talk about child separation and immigration court backlog.
Has ICE Overstepped Its Authority by ‘Demonizing’ 21 Savage?
The agency reportedly targeted not just the artist's immigration status but his persona, in the latest example of what advocates identify as ICE abusing its authority.
ICE Courthouse Arrests in New York Have Increased 1,700 Percent Under Trump, According to a New Report
ICE officers have expanded their scope to target all undocumented immigrants, regardless of background.
After 247 Days, Vilma Carrillo, an Immigrant Woman Separated From Her Daughter, Has Been Released From ICE Custody
Immigrant rights groups rejoiced as authorities reunited a Guatemalan woman and her daughter Friday.
Viewfinder: Supporters of Immigrants Hold a Toy Drive Outside an ICE Facility
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.
Members of a Christian Community in North Carolina Are Devastated After a Sanctuary Dweller’s Deportation
Lawmakers are decrying what some say appears to have been an orchestrated attempt by immigration enforcement to coax Samuel Oliver-Bruno out of sanctuary.
A U.S. Citizen Who Was Detained and Nearly Deported Files a Lawsuit in Florida
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.
One Immigrant Mother Is Fighting to Be Reunified With Her Daughter—Who’s a U.S. Citizen
Advocates estimate there are dozens of similar cases of immigrant parents separated from their children who have American citizenship.