51 h. ago ICE agents wait in hallways of immigration court as Trump seeks to deliver on mass arrest pledge

A spate of arrests at immigration courts across the United States this week has rattled people showing up for hearings and may signal a coordinated attempt at deportations under fast-track authority that President Donald Trump sharply expanded soon after taking office

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4 d. ago New Jersey congresswoman LaMonica McIver charged with assault after clash at detention center

‘No one is above the law – politicians or otherwise,’ interim US attorney Alina Habba said.US representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, was charged with assaulting federal agents after a clash outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey, the state’s federal prosecutor announced on Monday.Alina Habba, interim US attorney, said in a post on social media that McIver was facing charges “for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement” when she visited the detention center along with two other Democratic members of the New Jersey congressional delegation on 9 May. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Immigrant released on bond in Massachusetts a month after ICE broke car window with hammer

A man living in Massachusetts who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained in April after smashing the window of a car he was riding in with a hammer has been released

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7 d. ago Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man dodge immigration agents seeks donations for attorneys

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man illegally evade immigration agents is seeking donations to fund her defense

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8 d. ago ICE says couple drove on the ‘wrong side of the road’ to cause a collision with agents as they conducted searches in the area

The couple, 28, and 34, ‘deliberately blocked and impeded immigration agents during the performance of their official duties’, officials allege

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9 d. ago A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration agents is set to enter a plea

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade U.S. immigration authorities is set to enter a plea in federal court

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9 d. ago Wisconsin judge argues prosecutors can't charge her with helping a man evade immigration agents

A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man who is in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration agents who were trying to detain him at her courthouse have filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that there’s no legal basis for it

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1 week ago Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge over alleged Ice obstruction

Hannah Dugan was arrested by FBI after reportedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid US authoritiesA federal grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI last month on allegations that she helped an undocumented immigrant avoid federal authorities.Hannah Dugan, a county circuit court judge in Milwaukee, was charged on Tuesday with concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case, allowing charges to continue

A federal grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities

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1 week ago Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Mehdi Hasan

Violent apprehensions, warrantless arrests, deported children: how many more abuses of power will it take for Democrats to speak up?On Friday, the Democratic mayor of Newark was arrested and detained in his own city by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. His crime? Trying to gain access and inspection rights to a privately operated detention center that he says is in violation of multiple city lawsuits.Three Democratic members of Congress accompanied Ras Baraka to the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, as they exercised their own congressionally mandated right to enter Ice detention facilities for oversight purposes, without prior notice.On 8 May, Ice agents “held a young girl’s face to the ground” while they detained her mother in Worcester, Massachusetts. A video of the incident from Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra shows the teenage girl screaming as multiple agents and officers chase her and grab her legs.On 7 May, Ice agents detained Jensy Machado, a US citizen, in northe...

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2 w. ago Judge orders release on bail of Tufts student battling deportation order

Judge says detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested for political speech, ‘raises very significant due process concerns’US politics live – latest updatesA federal judge in Vermont on Friday morning ordered the release on bail of a Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech and now held in Louisiana in what she and her lawyers argue is a breach of her constitutional rights.The judge had ordered Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Vermont, where she was briefly held after being grabbed on the street by masked immigration agents near Boston, for hearings. But the judge decided not to wait for her physical transportation and she appeared remotely from Louisiana at the hearing in Burlington on Friday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired

After he was terminated after going public about federal agents at his doorstep, Clay Jackson fears a ‘chilling’ effect that could impact legal aid for undocumented immigrants, he tells The Independent

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3 w. ago ICE raids wrong Oklahoma home, seizes life savings and leaves family ‘traumatized for life’

The state agreed earlier this year to increased cooperation with federal immigration agents

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3 w. ago Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan suffers humiliating blow after arrest by FBI for helping illegal migrant 'evade arrest'

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest to relieve her of her duties.

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3 w. ago Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends Judge Hannah Dugan after arrest for allegedly shielding immigrant

Milwaukee-area judge was arrested by FBI and hit with federal charges

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3 w. ago Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities

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3 w. ago Oklahoma family say they’re ‘traumatized for life’ after being mistakenly targeted in ICE raid

The state agreed earlier this year to increased cooperation with federal immigration agents

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3 w. ago The FBI’s arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is a bid to silence dissent | Moira Donegan

The Trump administration is making an example of the Milwaukee judge to intimidate critics and opponentsOn Friday, the Trump administration dramatically escalated its assault on the courts when the FBI arrested Hannah Dugan, a county circuit court judge handling misdemeanors in Milwaukee – allegedly for helping an undocumented man avoid abduction by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents outside her courtroom. The arrest, a highly publicized and dramatic move from the Trump administration, seemed designed to elicit fear among judges, government bureaucrats and ordinary Americans that any effort to slow, impede or merely not facilitate the administration’s mass kidnapping and deportation efforts will lead to swift, forceful and disproportionate punishment by Donald Trump allies. Her arrest may be the opening salvo of a broader Trump assault on judges.Even if you believe the FBI’s allegations, their account of Dugan’s alleged misconduct is trivial and flimsy, wholly undeserv...

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3 w. ago 300 federal agents arrest 100 undocumented immigrants in ‘underground nightclub’ raid

At least 114 people detained and placed on buses for ‘processing and likely eventual deportation’

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4 w. ago Pam Bondi claims judiciary ‘deranged’ after judge arrested for allegedly obstructing immigration agents

US attorney general Pam Bondi has attacked "deranged" judges who she says "think they are beyond and above the law", after the FBI arrested and charged Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan over allegations she helped a migrant evade immigration agents.

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