60 h. ago ‘I’m not coming home’: Trump policy holds people in Ice custody without bail

Restaurant worker’s case shows how Trump administration is ‘inflicting the maximum punishment’, experts sayLiset Fernandez spent most of the summer worried about her dad, Luis, but a few weeks ago she got some good news. After being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody for weeks, an immigration judge in Texas granted him release on a $5,000 bond.Luis, came to the US from Ecuador in 1994, had been held in detention at a facility in Livingston, Texas, thousands of miles away from his home in Queens. Liset, 17, had taken on extra shifts working a retail job to support her mom and nine-year-old brother. Luis’s co-workers at the Square diner, a railcar-style greasy spoon in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood for over 100 years, had raised more than $20,000 to support him and his family. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Kim Kardashian criticised by Homeland Security after slamming Trump's ICE raids

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has hit out at Kim Kardashian, labelling her "misinformed and detached from...reality" after the celebrity criticised Donald Trump's ICE raids

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3 d. ago Kim Kardashian slams Donald Trump's immigration policies and ICE raids

Kim Kardashian has hit out at US President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the ICE raids that have taken place in Los Angeles in recent months

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3 d. ago By the numbers: the latest Ice and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US

The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inaugurationDonald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian US, using data published every two weeks by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), is tracking the number of people the administration has arrested, detained and deported. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ICE asks permission to use Chicago Navy base as launch pad for its immigration and deportation crackdown

The president campaigned on reducing crime but his militaristic approach has sparked controversy among state leaders and civil rights groups

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6 d. ago ICE agents burnt out and struggling with Trump’s immigration crackdown

The Trump administration has pushed for high daily arrest quotas, leading to high pressure on ICE officials

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7 d. ago Who’s cashing in on Trump’s immigration crackdown? It’s not the American people nor the federal or state governments

Private contractors run many of ICE’s largest detention facilities. Now, with a push to deport more and more immigrants, these companies stand to win big under Trump. Alicja Hagopian reports.

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7 d. ago EXCLUSIVE: ICE to spend $100 million on 1,000 more SUVs to support Trump’s mass deportation efforts

Exclusive: The immigration enforcement agency will take delivery of 100 modified SUVs every two months, for the next 20 months, according to an draft RFP obtained by The Independent

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7 d. ago As Kilmar Abrego Garcia is detained again by ICE, here’s why his case has become a flashpoint for MAGA

El Salvador native arrives in Baltimore for ICE check-in just days after being informed that the Trump administration intends to deport him to Uganda

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7 d. ago When immigration shows up at daycare: crackdown in DC terrifies families and workers

Nannies stay home and schools provide transport as Trump takes over policing and Ice rounds up immigrantsEarly Tuesday morning, as parents went to drop off their young children at a bilingual childcare center in north-west Washington DC, they received a message from the administrator saying that unmarked cars were parked directly outside.Shortly after 8am, federal agents in tactical vests arrested two people unaffiliated with the center, the administrator said. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Superman actor Dean Cain, 59, brutally mocked for struggling through training course after signing up with ICE

The 59-year-old Hollywood star revealed he is becoming an 'honorary' ICE officer in an effort to help President Donald Trump 's immigration enforcers drive up recruitment numbers.

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8 d. ago ‘Trump burger’ inventor and owner of restaurants celebrating president is taken into ICE custody

Iyad Muhammad Abuelhawa, 55, who owned the original Trump Burger restaurant in Bellville, Texas, was arrested by ICE agents

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8 d. ago Great British Bake Off was rejected by TV bosses for 'five years' before it rose to fame

EXCLUSIVE: The hit baking show The Great British Bake Off was pitched multiple times before one BBC2 boss took a chance on it - and later reaped the rewards

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8 d. ago What to know: Four ways ICE is training new agents and scaling up

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is key in President Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations

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9 d. ago They donated millions to Trump — now, ICE detention providers are reaping the rewards

Private contractors run many of ICE’s largest detention facilities. Now, with a push to deport more and more immigrants, these companies stand to win big under Trump. Alicja Hagopian reports.

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1 week ago Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump's deportation goals

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ramping up its hiring efforts to support President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals

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1 week ago Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations

Selected employees will join Trump’s mass deportation campaign and ‘offer critical support’ to Ice operationsThe Pentagon is recruiting civilian employees to join Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and asking staff to sign up for deployments to immigration enforcement facilities across the United States.The defense department has posted a job listing requesting volunteers for civilian federal employees apply to join a “volunteer force” supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations. On Wednesday, the department reportedly emailed civilian employees asking them to take up this opportunity. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump's 'Ice Maiden' takes risk to protect 'blonde Barbie with nerves of steel' Pam Bondi after Epstein fallout revealed

Attorney General Pam Bondi was able to keep her job despite a slew of public outcry from Donald Trump's base for her to be fired over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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1 week ago Satire at its finest: South Park takes on Trump’s martial takeover, AI and tech bros

No show has ever worked harder to have its finger on the nation’s pulse than Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s long-running comedy – and it really showsEarly on in its 27th season, South Park has garnered more controversy than it has in years (possibly ever), along with some of its highest ratings.Last week’s episode took aim at the Trump administration’s brutal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids, poked fun at secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s penchant for puppy murder and cosmetic surgery (Noem has since climbed atop her moral high horse and accused the show of sexism), and of course, Donald Trump himself. Along with Trump’s martial takeover of Washington DC, this week’s instalment, titled Sickofancy, takes aim at artificial intelligence (specifically ChatGPT) and the larger tech-bro industry. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ICE adds two Mustang GT Fastbacks to its fleet – at Trump’s request – in latest move to entice recruits

Exclusive: The deportation agency believes the vehicles will serve “as a bold, high-performance symbol of innovation, strength and modern federal service,” according to federal procurement documents reviewed by The Independent

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