Clarke and Homeland Security Chairman Thompson Call Acting Director of ICE to Address Concerns of Targeted Haitian Deportations

Clarke and Homeland Security Chairman Thompson Call Acting Director of ICE to Address Concerns of Targeted Haitian Deportations

US Congresswoman Yvette Diane Clarke speaks during 33rd Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House – New York, NY – January 21, 2019 (Shutterstock)   Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement on a call she and Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson […]

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Deportation Moratorium

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Deportation Moratorium

Media cover a bittersweet reunion through the US-Mexico fence between DACA recipients and parents who’ve been deported. – Nogales, Ariz. / US – June 11, 2013 (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigrant Impact In a blow to the Biden administration, a federal judge in Texas has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) not to enforce its moratorium […]

ICE Reactivates in New York: Advocates Demand Investigation

ICE agents have once again been active in neighborhoods such as Sunset Park, Red Hook, Bay Ridge and Fort Greene in Brooklyn, as well as in upper Manhattan and the Bronx, according to advocates.

ICE Reactivates in New York: Advocates Demand Investigation

By Daniel Parra, City Limits It was about 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, when Andrea’s oldest son woke up to the loud knocking on his window and the shouts of “police open the door!” coming from someone wearing an NYPD jacket and walking down the fire escape. Andrea—her last name has been withheld—was feeding […]

ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges ‘hysterectomies on immigrant women in US’

ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges ‘hysterectomies on immigrant women in US’

Advocacy groups have filed a complaint against a migrant detention centre in the US, alleging medical neglect and a lack of virus safety measures. The complaint condemns the practices and conditions at the private Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. It is based on the allegations of a whistleblower, a nurse identified as Dawn Wooten. […]

ICE agents storm Brooklyn restaurant and douse detainee with pepper spray

ICE agents storm Brooklyn restaurant and douse detainee with pepper spray

FILE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and NYPD police officers (Kendall Rodriguez/for New York Daily News) By Wes Parnell, NY Daily News ICE agents stormed a Brooklyn restaurant and released a cloud of caustic pepper spray to nab an undocumented immigrant worker, unsettling video of the bust shows. The agents barged into […]

Trump’s Plan to Subject Hundreds of Thousands to Fast-Track Deportations Faces New Lawsuit

Now, under the administration’s new rule, immigration officers can apply expedited removal to anyone picked up anywhere in the United States who cannot prove that he or she has been living continuously in the country for two or more years. The lawsuit is asking a federal judge to stop the administration from applying expedited removal so broadly.

Trump’s Plan to Subject Hundreds of Thousands to Fast-Track Deportations Faces New Lawsuit

By Karolina Walters, Immigration Impact The Trump administration recently announced it would start applying a fast-tracked deportation process known as “expedited removal” to hundreds of thousands more people than ever before. People across the United States could be deported within hours of being picked up by immigration officers, with no opportunity to see a judge […]

ICE arrested hundreds of people in raids. Now ‘devastated’ children are without their parents.

ICE arrested hundreds of people in raids. Now ‘devastated’ children are without their parents.

By Angela Fritz & Luis Velarde , MSN Elizabeth Iraheta was passing the Koch Foods processing plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday when she saw immigration officials swarming outside and a helicopter overhead. Big silver buses lined the driveway and agents blocked the entrance gates. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were sweeping through the […]