A 9-year-old child with special medical needs from Billings is being held at the Havre Border Patrol Station after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol made an unlawful arrest earlier this month, according to a petition filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana. Federal agents detained parent Adrián Espinoza De La Cruz and the child […]
Democratic lawmakers proposed nearly 250 bills in state capitols this year seeking to limit federal immigration efforts as they sought to push back against what they view as federal government overreach.
A 78-year-old priest who has been in immigration detention in Aurora for almost a year continues to present symptoms of respiratory illness with no improvement in his condition. Edward Nalwamba, a citizen of Uganda who has lived in Colorado for more than two decades, has been in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention since September. […]
Last year, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg reinstated a detention policy for immigrants following complaints from the Trump administration. Since then, the move has led to a dramatic increase in requests to hold immigrants detained so the federal government can assume custody of the people, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky released Thursday.
Revenue grew more than 27% for private prison operator CoreCivic as the Tennessee company profited from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that support the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, according to a shareholders’ report released last week. Revenue from ICE, alone, increased more than 50% compared to the same three-month period last […]
This story was originally published by the Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis. On a Saturday morning in July, Joni Laney, a 73-year-old retired English teacher, parked her car in a small lot overlooking Wilson Air Center near Memphis International Airport. She had received word from her group of fellow volunteers that a flight there […]
Memphis advocates on Tuesday called on a privately-run aviation company to stop servicing flights that transport detained immigrants out of the state. Volunteers with Vecindarios 901, a Memphis mutual aid organization that coordinates a “rapid response” network to help immigrants impacted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said they have tracked 51 flights since March transporting […]
Five human rights organizations are seeking the immediate release of a breastfeeding mother with a pending asylum claim, who was detained in May by immigration agents at her home in Nashville as she was putting her two young children into a car to get to a doctor’s appointment. In a formal complaint filed Wednesday with […]
Rudy Villeda Mejía has his own roofing business, a wife and three stepchildren in Washington, near the state’s border with Canada. He has never been charged with a crime. He entered the U.S. without authorization for a second time in 2010 after he was kidnapped by a violent cartel in Mexico, and has been in […]
Andrea Pedro-Francisco feels like part of her is still trapped in a nightmare — back in the crowded, windowless cell block of the Texas detention center she left weeks ago. “My mind is halfway here, thinking ‘Yes, I’m back,’ but the other half feels like I’m still there,” said Pedro-Francisco, a migrant from Guatemala who […]
