21 h. ago First immigration detainees arrive at Florida center in the Everglades

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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39 h. ago Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center is set to receive its first group of immigrants

The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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51 h. ago Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian

The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migrationDonald Trump’s tour of the bloodcurdlingly monikered – and hastily constructed – “Alligator Alcatraz” migrants detention center in Florida’s Everglades had the hallmarks of a calculatedly provocative celebration of the dystopian.Accompanied by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis and a phalanx of journalists, the US president saw only virtue in the vista of mesh fencing, barbed wire and forbidding steel bunk beds. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago A day outside an LA detention center shows profound impact of ICE raids on families

For immigrants who are detained in the Los Angeles region, their first stop is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in the basement of the federal building downtown

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64 h. ago Photos of Trump touring an immigration detention center dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'

President Donald Trump toured a newly built immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades surrounded by alligator-filled swamps and nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” He praised it as a model for future nationwide facilities aimed at accelerating deportations, including possibly deporting U.S. citizens.

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4 d. ago Florida woman's terrifying end after getting stuck in clothing donation drop box

The homeless woman was discovered sticking out of the pink bin in Plantation, Florida, and was dead when police arrived to rescue her. A handful of North Americans die each year the same way.

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6 d. ago DHS secretary praises Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' plan as agency expands immigration detention

The Homeland Security secretary is praising Florida for coming forward with an idea that’s been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because it would house immigration detainees in a facility being built in a Florida swamp

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6 d. ago Environmental groups sue to block migrant detention center rising in Florida Everglades

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades

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7 d. ago Ottawa ‘urgently seeking more information’ about death of Canadian citizen in Ice custody

Johnny Noviello was detained by US immigration in Florida over a 2023 conviction and died while awaiting deportationAuthorities in Canada are seeking information about the death of a 49-year-old Canadian man who died while in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody in Florida this week.In a statement, Ice, part of the Department of Homeland Security, said Johnny Noviello, 49, died on 23 June after being found unresponsive at a federal detention center in Miami, where he was being detained “pending removal proceedings” from the US. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening

Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New OrleansA 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents on Sunday morning while gardening outside her home in New Orleans.According to a witness, plainclothes officers in unmarked vehicles handcuffed Madonna “Donna” Kashanian and transported her to a Mississippi jail before transferring her to the South Louisiana Ice processing center in Basile, reports Nola. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump administration sues Maryland federal judges over order blocking removal of immigrants

The Trump administration is suing federal judges in Maryland over an order that blocks the immediate removal of any detained immigrant who requests a court hearing

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1 week ago ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their child

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans

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1 week ago Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown

The administration has torn up the rulebook as it seeks to implement a hardline agenda to expel people from the USDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. As previewed, the administration set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting people requesting asylum and refugees while conducting raids and deportations in undocumented communities, detaining and deporting immigrants and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multipronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This extraordinary assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Relief and a raised fist as Mahmoud Khalil goes free – but release ‘very long overdue’

The Palestinian activist described a bittersweet feeling as he emerged from Ice detention into the Louisiana sunMahmoud Khalil squinted in the afternoon sun as he walked away from the fences topped with razor wire, through two tall gates and out into the thick humidity of central Louisiana.After more than three months detained in this remote and notorious immigration detention center in the small town of Jena, he described a bittersweet feeling of release, walking towards a handful of journalists with a raised fist, visibly relieved, but composed and softly spoken. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mahmoud Khalil released from Ice detention after more than three months

Columbia graduate freed from Louisiana facility after judge ruled he is ‘not a danger to the community – period’Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against Israel’s war on Gaza.Khalil, the most high profile of the students to be arrested by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism, and the last of them still in detention, was ordered to be released by a federal judge on Friday afternoon from an Ice facility in Jena, Louisiana, where he has been held since shortly after plainclothes immigration agents detained him in early March in the lobby of his Columbia building. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Federal judge orders release of Mahmoud Khalil from Ice detention

Columbia University graduate had been held for three months over his activism against Israel’s war in GazaA federal judge has ordered the release of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil from US immigration detention, where he has been held for three months over his activism against Israel’s war in Gaza.Khalil is set to be released from Ice detention in Jena, Louisiana, where he has been held since shortly after plainclothes immigration agents detained him in in early March in the lobby of his Columbia building. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago New York mayoral candidate arrested by Ice: ‘Trump is looking to stoke conflict, weaponize fear’

Brad Lander was manhandled and marched out of the courthouse after trying to shield a man from arrest – but, he tells the Guardian, he’s not backing downAs New York city comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was hauled away by masked Ice agents on Tuesday, all he could think about was whether there was anything more he could do for the man he was trying to help, an immigrant New Yorker named Edgardo.Both men ended up detained, but unlike Edgardo’s, Lander’s ordeal was over after a few hours. By the time New York governor Katy Hochul marched him out of the courthouse – after proclaiming, of his arrest: “This is bullshit” – videos and photos of the officers manhandling him had gone viral. The arrest of yet another elected official prompted widespread condemnation of another sign of the US’s steady slide into authoritarianism. A host of New York politicians, along with a swelling crowd of angry New Yorkers, awaited Lander outside the courthouse in downtown Manhattan. (Andrew Cu...

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2 w. ago New York mayoral candidate detained by agents at immigration court

Video shows Brad Lander, the city’s top finance official, saying, ‘You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens’

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2 w. ago New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing

Mayoral candidate was detained by Ice as he escorted an immigrant out of court, says his wifeNew York City’s comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying a person out of a courtroom.Lander’s campaign spokesperson confirmed to Fox5NY that Lander was indeed arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) at immigration court. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift's really sweet comment to Travis Kelce revealed by lip reader amid secret marriage rumors

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor, 35, and Travis, 35, were seen talking sharing a close conversation as they made their grand arrival at Amerant Bank Arena to watch the Florida Panthers play the Edmonton Oilers.

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