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Among those detained in California, the majority are not the “worst of the worst” the Trump administration said it was targeting, federal data shows.
A Stockton police sergeant and eight officers wearing face shields and carrying batons helped escort vehicles from the city’s ICE facility Thursday night.
Crowds stood outside the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice chanting “say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.” The Friday morning rally organized by Juntos follows a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainments outside courthouses,
Jose Luis Zavala, a gardener, was one of thousands of immigrants swept up last month in President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown. Now he’s in a Texas detention center.
Parents at a preschool in Oregon are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to build migrant tent camps nationwide after receiving $45 billion in new funding, aiming to expand detention capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 beds by year-end,
Civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday in a bid to stop the government’s policy of allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to arrest undocumented migrants who show up for immigration hearings at courthouses.
Rep. Dan Newhouse, from Central Washington, is being called a traitor for defending undocumented workers, and for proposing that America allow more legal immigration.
It’s part of a new state law that will force counties that run or contract out operations of a jail to participate in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program called 287 (g), named for a section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. But right now, only about a third of Texas counties are signed on.
The Trump administration has dramatically curtailed the ability for those facing deportation to be released from immigration detention.
If approved by council at the Aug. 5 meeting, Keller law enforcement officers would be a part of ICE's 287 (g) program. The program authorizes state and local officers to "perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency's direction and oversight," according to the website.