Colleagues and community groups are pushing back on recent immigrant detentions in Portland as arrests nationwide hit a Trump-era high. Federal agents detained a Cambodian man on Tuesday while he was working at Veranda Asian Market. Earlier this month, agents detained a Portland Public Schools transportation employee. These detentions are in addition to others outside […]
U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M) is seeking answers from federal immigration authorities following reports that agents arrested one or more people in the parking lot of a Santa Fe healthcare facility on Wednesday, including the parent of a child who was left alone.
U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen on Tuesday led a group of senators in condemning recent immigration enforcement activity at airports nationwide and calling on Trump administration officials to disclose how ICE and TSA are collaborating. Recent incidents at airports, including two at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, “create fear in our communities and cause […]
The location of a planned U.S. Department of Homeland Security national immigration enforcement call center has changed from Adams to Nashville, a federal contract database shows. Last week, the database showed ICE had awarded a $63 million contract to Alaska-based company Koniag Government Services, and listed Adams, a rural town of about 600 people near […]
Through their attorneys, Department of Homeland Security officials told Salt Lake City leaders that they “no longer intend to convert” a Salt Lake City warehouse purchased earlier this year for $145.4 million with now abandoned plans to turn it into a massive detention center. That’s according to new court documents filed Wednesday, in which Salt […]
A judge has ordered the federal government to immediately release an immigrant held in an Iowa jail, saying it’s “hard to take seriously” the U.S. Department of Justice’s arguments in the case. It’s one of an increasing number of cases in which federal judges have expressed skepticism or outright disbelief in some of the claims […]
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday sued the private company that runs the Aurora immigration detention center over its noncompliance with a state public health order. Since June, The GEO Group has refused access and information requests related to a confirmed tuberculosis case in the detention center it operates for U.S Immigration and Customs […]
After a flurry of cases were decided Tuesday by the Arizona Supreme Court, the November ballot is set and voters will be deciding the fate of eight different ballot measures. One result of the expedited appeals that the high court decided this week is that voters won’t have any direct say over how Arizona’s universal […]
On June 11, ICE agents trailed a car into the parking lot of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. For the family riding in that car, an everyday school drop off quickly devolved into chaos.
Great Replacement conspiracy theorist and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang brought his racial grievances and “Christian Crusader March” to Dearborn and its city council meeting on Tuesday, where the right-wing provocateur told council members Muslim people are “looking to outbreed” white people and “steal our wealth.” Dearborn, home to the largest Arab American population […]
