Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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Immigrants are being swamped with social media rumors about possible raids

4:48am January 31, 2025

by Jude Joffe-Block

People without legal status in the U.S. are fearful about ramped up immigration enforcement. But when they check social media for immigration news, they're also likely to see false alarms and hoaxes.

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The Inauguration Of Donald J. Trump As The 47th President

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Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections

4:38pm January 21, 2025

The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."

Media Tour Of The Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas

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ICE estimates it would need $26.9 billion to enforce GOP deportation bill

6:25pm January 16, 2025

An internal document from Immigration and Customs Enforcement concludes it would be "impossible" for it to enforce the Laken Riley Act without significantly more resources.

Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States.

Politics & Government

Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention

1:31pm August 16, 2023

by Tom Dreisbach

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

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A U.S. law enforcement officer stands guard by a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas.

The Supreme Court sides with the Biden administration in a fight over immigration

4:59pm June 23, 2023

by Joel Rose

The case concerned the administration's effort to set guidelines for whom immigration authorities can target for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana had sued to block the guidelines.

Another effort to make NC sheriffs aid ICE approved by House

9:56am March 29, 2023

by Associated Press

North Carolina's sheriffs would be required to help federal agents who are interested in picking up jail inmates they believe are in the country illegally in legislation approved by the state House

Claudio Rojas, who was deported from the U.S. in 2019, is silhouetted against a curtained window of his home in Moreno, Argentina, on May 8, 2021. He was able to return to the U.S. in August.

National

An immigrant activist says ICE deported him in retaliation. Now he's back in the U.S.

10:40am December 15, 2021

by Joel Rose

The Biden administration has allowed several prominent immigrants' rights activists back into the U.S. after they charged that immigration authorities were retaliating against them for speaking out.

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Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez during a 2017 news conference in Crosby, Texas. President Biden has nominated Gonzalez to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of an attempt to overhaul the agency.

Biden's Pick To Lead ICE Would Take Over An Agency In Turmoil

11:43am July 15, 2021

by Joel Rose

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez runs one of the nation's biggest jails in Houston. If confirmed by the Senate, he'll be tasked with overhauling ICE, an agency he's criticized for its aggressive tactics.

While campaigning in November 2019, Joe Biden talked with a protester about his stance on deportations at a town hall at Lander University in Greenwood, S.C. The Biden administration says it will rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, starting with

National

For Immigrants, Election Promises Relief From An 'Atmosphere Of Terror'

7:53am November 18, 2020

by Joel Rose

The 2020 election is expected to usher in a major shift in immigration enforcement — particularly in suburban Atlanta, where newly elected sheriffs are pledging to limit how they cooperate with ICE.

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Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum fr

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Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

5:01pm November 02, 2020

by John Burnett

President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.

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