WATCH LIVE: ICE shares results of recent nationwide effort conducted by Enforcement and Removal Operations
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will hold a press conference Thursday to share the results of a recent law enforcement effort conducted by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
Supreme Court rejects a lawsuit from states demanding that Biden administration boost deportations
The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican-led challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritizes the deportation of immigrants who are deemed to pose the greatest risk to public safety or were picked up at the border.
I-TEAM given exclusive access by Baker County sheriff to federal wing of jail where immigrant detainees allege โinhumane conditionsโ
The News4JAX I-TEAM was granted unprecedented access this week to the federal wing of the Baker County Detention Center that houses more than a hundred immigrant detainees.
I-TEAM obtains inspection report for Baker detention facility where detainees allege โinhumane conditionsโ
The News4JAX I-TEAM obtained an inspection report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the federal wing of the Baker County Detention Center, which was described in a federal complaint as a โliving hell.โ
Agents with Homeland Security team to wear body cameras
Agents with an investigative unit of the Department of Homeland Security will wear body cameras for the first time as part of a six-month pilot program that will focus on the costs and benefits of using the technology in federal law enforcement.
Trial to determine if GEO must pay detainees minimum wage
After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a trial is underway to determine whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees who perform cooking, cleaning and other tasks at its Northwest immigration detention center in Washington state.
US govt seizes over 10M phony N95 masks in COVID-19 probe
They have no utility whatsoever,โ Homeland Security Secretary Ali Mayorkas said of the fake masks. Homeland Security officials would not say which states the phony masks were sent to, but said criminal charges would be forthcoming. The company delivered some 2 billion N95 masks in 2020 as the pandemic intensified, but in the earlier months, when masks were in short supply, fraudsters took advantage. But phony masks have already made it to front-line workers in other cases. Over the past year there has been more than 1,250 raids by law enforcement resulting in the seizure of millions of fake masks.
Trump agreements seek to tie Biden's hands on immigration
The agreements say Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas are entitled to a 180-day consultation period before executive branch policy changes take effect. The Biden administration rejects that argument on grounds that immigration is solely the federal government's responsibility under the Constitution. The Trump administration, usually eager to trumpet immigration enforcement, stayed publicly quiet on the agreements, which were first reported by BuzzFeed News. It is our hope that the SAFE agreement will foster timely communications about any significant forthcoming policy changes. โFor our entire history, immigration policy has been understood to be the exclusive responsibility of the federal government,โ Legomsky said.
US plans family deportations, including girl with broken arm
Rennix said ICE also declined to release the family so the girl can have the surgery in the U.S. while they pursue their immigration case. Some argue releasing children to family sponsors while keeping parents detained and facing deportation would be tantamount to family separation, a practice for which the Trump administration has faced enormous criticism. The 4-year-old girl and her mother first came to the U.S.-Mexico border last year, fleeing death threats in Ecuador, according to Rennix, their lawyer. The girl's arm was intentionally broken by a man who twisted it front of her mother as a threat, Rennix said. Earlier this year, advocates sued on behalf of a 5-year-old boy who suffered a skull fracture before his family was detained.
US agrees for now to stop deporting women who alleged abuse
HOUSTON โ The U.S. government has agreed temporarily not to deport detained immigrant women who have alleged being abused by a rural Georgia gynecologist, according to court papers filed Tuesday. Dozens of women have alleged that they were mistreated by Dr. Mahendra Amin, a gynecologist who was seeing patients from the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia. The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation, and the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general is investigating as well. Several women say they have faced retaliation by immigration authorities for coming forward. Further investigations have found several examples of Amin performing surgeries on women who later said they didn't consent to the procedures or didn't fully understand them.
ICE ups ante in standoff with NYC: 'This is not a request'
โThis is not a request โ it's a demand,โ Henry Lucero, a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, told The Associated Press. "New York City will not change the policies that have made us the safest big city in America," spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said in an email. New York City police say they didn't receive a detainer request for Khan, though ICE insists it was sent. He said on Twitter this week that the city has passed โcommon-sense laws about immigration enforcement that have driven crime to record lows." Meanwhile, ICE is considering expanding its use of immigration subpoenas in other sanctuary jurisdictions.
Lawsuit targets sanctuary cities' ban
This encroaches into an area of exclusive federal authority and will interfere with the comprehensive federal immigration system enacted by Congress in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, said. Ron DeSantis pushed for passage of the sanctuary cities ban, which was one of the most hotly debated issues of the legislative session that ended in May and was a cornerstone of DeSantis campaign last year. The suit, filed by the city of South Miami and nine other plaintiffs, names as defendants DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody. The plaintiffs want a court to deem the new law unconstitutional and keep the state from enforcing it. When he signed the bill, DeSantis said it would allow Florida officials to help ICE remove criminal aliens. Moody and DeSantis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.