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...
Advocates Win Federal Court Appointment of Special Master to Oversee ICE Custody Releases
ICE Protest outside Bergen County Jail – “Breakdown Walls At The Border Detention Centers and Prisons” Banner held up at march against ICE. – Hackensack, New Jersey, USA –...
DOJ Appeals Ruling Limiting Immigrant Detentions Without a Court Hearing
By Paul Moses and Tim Healy, Documented NY The Biden administration has filed a notice to appeal a Manhattan federal judge’s groundbreaking order that limited immigrant detentions by instructing the...
Family Battles ICE For The Same Reason They Fled Their Home: They’re Muslim
No Muslim Ban sign at Protest Rally at the United States Supreme Court during demonstration against proposed ban on Muslim travel to the USA. Recorded June 26, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Shutterstock) ...
Not Enough Water, Toilets Full Of Human Excrement, No Showers: ICE Detainees In Texas Described The Storm’s Misery
By Adolfo Flores and Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed As millions across Texas endured freezing temperatures without running water or electricity this week, immigrants detained by ICE said they have endured th...
Biden’s immigration changes too late for grandfather deported on Inauguration Day
U.S. President Joe Biden at the Inauguration ceremony. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. , Jan. 20, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reute...