Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE)
Invoking Torah, Minnesota Jews mobilize against ICE operations
Minnesota’s Jewish community is speaking out against ICE raids, invoking Torah teachings on welcoming the stranger and mobilizing protests across the Twin Cities.
Tim Walz, Minneapolis mayor subpoenaed by US Dept. of Justice amid immigration crackdown
Pentagon prepares to deploy 1,500 soldiers to Minnesota as Walz mobilizes Nat'l Guard to protests
Court overturns ruling to free pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, paving way for rearrest
As asylum camp swells at US-Mexico border, Biden aide calls for patience
The Trump administration's protocols, in place since 2019, have pushed more than 65,000 asylum seekers back into Mexico to wait for their US court hearings.
Jewish senator: Trump’s immigration policy re-created ‘paper wall’
Sen. Ron Wyden, a son of Jewish parents who escaped Nazi Germany for the United States, compared President Donald Trump’s immigration policy to that of the restrictive U.S. policy in the 1930s.
US government ordered to reinstate protections for 'Dreamers'
DACA protects 'dreamers,' immigrants who arrived in the US as children from deportation and grants work permits to hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
US watchdog to investigate forced-sterilization claims at ICE facility
"A lot of them said that they didn't understand what was being done to them. Nobody explained it to them," Wooten, a former nurse at the facility told Reuters.
ICE Revises Visa Clampdown for International Students
US government agency to bar new students, including those from Middle East, from coming to study solely online, although those already in country can remain.
ICE signs $30M contract with Israeli data-extraction company
According to data released by CBP, the agency searched the devices of more than 30,000 international travelers in 2017 – 10,000 more than the year prior.
Six US mayors urge Congress to block Trump federal deployment
The tactics, condemned by Democrats as federal overreach, have fueled a new wave of protests following demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.
$30 million in drugs seized in tunnel under US-Mexico border
The nearly three-story-deep tunnel stretches for more than 2,000 feet (610 meters).
U.S. uses fake university to fight visa fraud, 100s of students arrested
"ICE is setting up fake universities to trap students. Yet we were called radical for opposing it," tweeted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Rhode Island governor supports ban on private prisons
Rhode Island has no private prisons, according to Josh Block, Raimondo’s press secretary.
