7 h. ago Democrats say Trump is illegally blocking them from visiting Ice detention: ‘The goal is to bully us’

Confrontations are playing out nationwide as lawmakers conduct checks of facilities where thousands are being heldThe Arizona representative Yassamin Ansari toured a detention facility in May where immigrants rounded up as part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportation were being housed. She described what she saw inside as “sickening” and “worse than prison” – immigrant detainees were held in overcrowded, moldy cells and many reported that they did not have reliable access to food, water or medical care.Two months later, Ansari returned to the remote desert complex to conduct another congressional oversight visit. This time, she was denied entry. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago More than 100 human rights abuses discovered in immigration detention since Trump took office, senate probe says

Report from Senator Jon Ossoff uncovers dozens of allegations, including medical mistreatment of children women and children

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7 d. ago Maine cop arrested by ICE transferred to second detention center, report says

Homeland Security verified that Jon Luke Evans was authorized to work in the U.S. in May, Maine officials said

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7 d. ago Purdue University student freed from ICE detention after outcry from faith leaders

A Purdue University student from South Korea has been freed from federal detention following days of protests by faith leaders in New York and abroad

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9 d. ago ‘We have to clear our names’: Venezuelan makeup artist who survived Ice detention tries to rebuild his life

Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 251 men flown from Texas to the Cecot prison in El Salvador. Now he’s seeking justiceAndry José Hernández Romero has already picked out the color of the suit he’ll wear to the next celebration of the Three Kings festival in his home town in the Venezuelan Andes. The carnivalesque celebration of Epiphany inspired the tattoos that landed him behind bars in El Salvador, accused of belonging to Venezuela’s most feared criminal gang, Tren de Aragua.The suit will be green, “like hope”, he said. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Glamorous Bollywood couple lands in ICE detention after million dollar secret is revealed

A Texas man has been taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following allegations of his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.

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3 w. ago GOP congressman claims ICE detention centers are ‘pretty friggin’ nice’ as concerns rise about conditions

While Democrats are concerned by the conditions of the immigration detention facilities, Republicans claim there’s no reason for alarm

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3 w. ago Ohio mosque worshippers reel after imam is detained by Ice: ‘No one is ever truly safe’

Egyptian-born Ayman Soliman was detained while attending a regular check-in with immigration officersA week after the detention of their imam, Egyptian-born Ayman Soliman, worshippers at the Clifton mosque in Cincinnati, Ohio, are still in shock.Soliman was detained on 9 July while attending a regular check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, weeks after being told that his asylum status had been terminated, a provision that he had held for more than seven years. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportationThomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. It was one of many trips he had taken to the US, and he was authorized to travel under a visa waiver program that allows tourists to stay in the country for 90 days.He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody. Continue reading...

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