By Massarah Mikati, Times Union BATAVIA — After a New Jersey county ended contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 15 detained immigrants were transferred to the ICE detention center...
ICE Makes It Impossible for Immigrants in Detention to Contact Lawyers
By Emma Winger “Ben G.” is a 35-year-old veterinarian from Nicaragua who fled to the United States after he was beaten and tortured by police. When he crossed the border into the United States, he...
DHS Issues New Memo Restricting Enforcement Activities in ‘Protected Areas’
By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued “Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas”—a new memo that provides a framework for when...
ICE Fails to Provide Basic Oversight of Solitary Confinement and Unlawfully Destroys Records
By Emily Creighton, Immigration Impact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been known to improperly subject individuals in its custody to solitary confinement and has destroyed solitary...
Biden Administration Halts Mass Worksite Raids By ICE
By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact The Biden administration just took a significant step toward reining in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Department of Homeland Security (D...
ICE May Have Deported as Many as 70 US Citizens In the Last Five Years
By Melissa Cruz, Immigration Impact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps making an inexcusable error: it has been deporting U.S. citizens by mistake. 70 potential U.S. citizens were de...
Lawsuit Challenges new law Closing Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma
By Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times The GEO Group, a huge private prison corporation, is suing the state, claiming a new law mandating the closure of the immigrant detention center it runs in Tacoma would ...
Firsthand Experiences Inside ICE Facilities During the Pandemic Underscore Why Immigration Detention Should be Abolished
ICE Protest outside Bergen County Jail – Protester holding “Abolish ICE” sign marching at a protest. – Hackensack, New Jersey, USA – November 27th, 2020 (Shutterstock) By...
This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information
By Johana Bhuiyan, LA Times You’re scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.” It may seem like a...