36 h. ago Stateless Palestinian woman detained after honeymoon released from Ice jail

Ward Sakeik, 22, who came to US aged eight, tells of ‘joy and a little shock’ after more than four months in detentionWard Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian woman who was detained in February on the way back from her honeymoon, was released from immigration detention after more than four months of confinement.“I was overfilled with joy and a little shock,” she said at a press conference on Thursday. “I mean, it was my first time seeing a tree in five months.” Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Husband says he will continue to back Trump despite ICE detaining his Iranian wife

Federal agents targeted dozens of Iranian nationals legally in the United States in the wake of Trump’s airstrikes

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3 d. ago Did Trump nab his Hannibal Lecter? At ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, Kristi Noem says ICE ‘detained a cannibal’

A DHS spokesperson says the alleged flesh-craving detainee was deported to Guatemala recently

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6 d. ago Trump administration taunts detained migrants with ICE alligators at proposed Florida prison

DHS called out for ‘horrendous lack of humanity’ over meme image

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8 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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9 d. ago Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos indicted on more charges

Russian-born Kseniia Petrova, conducting cancer research for Harvard’s medical school, indicted on three new countsA Harvard University researcher detained by Ice for months after being accused of smuggling frog embryos into the US was indicted on Wednesday on additional criminal charges.Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Boston on one count of concealment of a material fact, one count of false statement and one count of smuggling goods into the United States. She had originally been charged with smuggling in May. Continue reading...

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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 Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from jail before trial, but ICE plans to detain him

A Tennessee judge has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from jail while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges, but he is not expected to be allowed to go free

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1 week ago ‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely

Guardian reporting reveals confusing and contradictory events surrounding death of Abelardo Avellaneda DelgadoA 68-year-old Mexican-born man has become the first Ice detainee in at least a decade to die while being transported from a local jail to a federal detention center, and experts have warned there will likely be more such deaths amid the current administration’s “mass deportation” push across the US.Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado’s exact cause of death remains under investigation, according to Ice, but the Guardian’s reporting reveals a confusing and at times contradictory series of events surrounding the incident. Continue reading...

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1 week ago AOC blasts Trump’s ‘illegal’ persecution of Mahmoud Khalil as she welcomes Columbia student back to NYC

The New York congresswoman joined the Palestinian activist after his release from ICE detention, where he was detained for more than three months without charges and missed the birth of his son

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2 w. ago Texas man returns from honeymoon alone after wife is arrested by ICE in US Virgin Islands

Taahir Shaikh of Arlington says his wife, Ward Sakeik, was detained by ICE in February in St. Thomas

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2 w. ago ICE detains green card holder on return from Japan where he was visiting his Air Force member son

A 66-year-old green card holder is in custody in Bakersfield, California, after he was apprehended by ICE last month following a trip to Japan.

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2 w. ago Nursing student detained by ICE after cop noticed she had 'a bit of an accent' during routine traffic stop

Caroline Dias Goncalves, 19, was pulled over on the Colorado Interstate 70 on June 5, accused of driving too close to a semi-truck.

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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 US citizen blasts ICE after being detained as he drove to work: ‘They’re the criminals’

ICE and Homeland Security agents forced Elzon Lemus out of his car and detained him for between 20-25 minutes, apparently based solely on his appearance

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3 w. ago Ramming cars and raiding churches: The ways ICE is becoming more aggressive in arresting migrants

Tactics deployed by ICE agents to detain migrants are becoming more aggressive, a catalogue of recent high-profile incidents show

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3 w. ago Man ‘fitting the general description’ of someone wanted by ICE arrested at courthouse. It turned out to be a US Marshal

The brief detention took place at Tucson’s immigration court in Arizona

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3 w. ago MAGA influencer claiming to be 'Barron Trump’s best pal' brags he got TikTok star removed

Famous influencer Khaby Lame, who has over 162million followers, was been detained by ICE officers in the US, with Barron Trump's 'best friend' taking credit for the incident

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3 w. ago LA protests live updates: National Guard already detaining civilians as ICE raids continue

Homeland Security video clips appear to confirm unarmed Predator drones conducting high-altitude surveillance of protests over downtown Los Angeles

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3 w. ago Barron Trump’s friend Bo Loudon claims he got ICE to detain TikTok star Khaby Lame

The MAGA, Gen-Z influencer, who has been pictured numerous times with the president and his son, said he had ‘personally taken action’ to have Lame deported

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