3 d. ago Turkish Tufts University student says was scared when surrounded, now in custody in a crowded cell

A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey detained by immigration officials said she was talking to her mother on her phone at the time shortly after she left her Massachusetts home when she was surrounded by several men, and “I screamed.” Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who has since been moved to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

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1 week ago Immigration officials raid Washington state roofing company and arrest over 3 dozen people

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Federal immigration agents arrested 37 people Wednesday during a raid at a roofing business in northern Washington. Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations and Customs and Border Patrol arrived at Mt. Baker Roofing’s warehouse around 7:30 a.m. in Bellingham, a city near the Canadian border. “They (law […]

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2 w. ago Border officials offer rare look inside Canada’s largest immigration holding centre

TORONTO — When Osama Al-Hadad arrived from Yemen and applied for asylum at Toronto’s Pearson airport, he was taken into custody because he lacked documentation to prove his identity. He spent over a month in Canada Border Services Agency’s immigration holding centre near the airport and was released on Feb. 19 after his identity was […]

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2 w. ago Columbia student protester who’s lived in the US since age 7 sues to stop deportation order

NEW YORK (AP) — Another Columbia University student said Monday that the Trump administration has targeted her for deportation over her pro-Palestinian views, accusing immigration officials in a lawsuit of employing the same tactics used on Mahmoud Khalil and other college activists. Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old lawful permanent resident who came to the U.S. as […]

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4 w. ago Hundreds of immigrants deported by Trump officials before ruling against it

Judge verbally ordered two planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order

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4 w. ago Canadian businesswoman detailed by U.S immigration officials returns home 

Jasmine Mooney, 35, was detained because she did not have legal documentation to be in the U.S., according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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4 w. ago Canadian businesswoman detained by U.S immigration officials returns home 

Jasmine Mooney, 35, was help because she did not have legal documentation to be in the U.S., according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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4 w. ago B.C. woman returns home after being detained by U.S. immigration officials

VANCOUVER — The mother of a British Columbia woman who was detained for nearly two weeks by immigration officials in the United States says her daughter is back on home soil. Alexis Eagles confirmed Saturday that her daughter, Jasmine Mooney, landed at the Vancouver International Airport at around midnight and returned to her home in […]

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