After nearly seven months of being shuffled through detention facilities across three states, during which he faced health problems in unsanitary conditions, Bridgton resident Marcos Gaspar-Da Silva was granted lawful permanent residency and released from a facility in Arizona. His wife, Alessia Gaspar-Da Silva, was his first call once he got out, sharing the news […]
Federal immigration agents may soon be outfitted with a device – electrical shock gloves – manufactured by a Kentucky company.
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $63 million contract to an Alaska corporation to operate a national immigration enforcement call center in rural Tennessee, a federal contract database shows. The city of Adams, a Robertson County town of about 600 people near the Kentucky border, is identified in the database as the future […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be reopening a for-profit prison in Winton, North Carolina, as one of the largest immigrant detention facilities on the East Coast, according to reports from the New York Times. The report cited internal ICE documents showing plans for a mass detention center in the former Rivers Correctional Institution with […]
On Monday, the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office signed a 287(g) agreement — a formal cooperation agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that gives local law enforcement agencies “the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under ICE’s direction and oversight.” The agreement signed in Livingston County is for the Warrant Service Officer model, which “allows designated immigration officers to […]
(The Center Square) – California is suing U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies to stop construction of what plaintiffs say is an ICE holding facility near an agricultural city.
WASHINGTON — A newly released report by a nonpartisan government watchdog reveals severe financial waste and substandard conditions at the nation's largest immigrant detention center. The Government Accountability Office investigation into Camp East Montana, located at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is one of the first independent looks into facilities funded by a $170 billion immigration enforcement law passed in July.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is the first to go in the second Trump administration. Marred by controversy, she was fired by the president in a social media post after bruising back-to-back hearings in the House and Senate. But Noem may not be out of the woods just yet.
Founded in 2020 in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the Black Legacy Project describes itself as “a musical celebration of black history to advance racial solidarity, equity and belonging.” It brings together artists of all backgrounds “to record present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time.”
