Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The U.S. Has A Long, Troubled History Of Detaining Families Together

4:24pm June 30, 2018

by John Burnett

Now that President Trump no longer can separate migrant families detained at the border, his administration is preparing to lock them up together — an arrangement with many critics and legal limits.

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Women hold signs as they protest the separation of immigrant families inside the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Hundreds Arrested Protesting Trump Administration's Immigration Policies

11:36pm June 28, 2018

Protesters marched through Washington, D.C., on Thursday to fight for families separated at the southern border. It was one of several demonstrations around the country.

A former top attorney at ICE in Washington state has pleaded guilty to stealing the personal information of immigrants who were at risk of deportation and using the data to defraud banks. Here, protesters stand outside the ICE office in Seattle during a d

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Former ICE Chief Counsel Facing Prison Time For Stealing Immigrants' Identities

1:54pm June 28, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The former ICE chief counsel — who oversaw immigration removal cases in four states — stole the identities of people who were "particularly vulnerable," the government said.

Demonstrators protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, just outside the agency's regional office in Portland, Ore.

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ICE Temporarily Closes Portland Office Amid Tumult Of Protests Across U.S.

3:59pm June 21, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

"Security concerns" persuaded Immigration and Customs Enforcement to shutter its office there for at least two days. But the Oregon city isn't the only place feeling unrest over immigration policy.

Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lead a man away from Fresh Mark in Salem, Ohio, on Tuesday. The mass arrests were the result of the second such large-scale raid this

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ICE Carries Out Its Largest Immigration Raid In Recent History, Arresting 146

2:50pm June 20, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

More than 100 federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a major meat supplier in Salem, Ohio, on Tuesday. It was ICE's second massive operation in Ohio in as many weeks.

A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants sleeps at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, in April.

DHS: Nearly 2,000 Children Separated From Adults At Border In 6 Weeks

11:50am June 16, 2018

by Brian Naylor

The government says the Office of Refugee Resettlement, charged with finding homes for solo children or those who have been separated from their families, has more than 10,000 children in shelters.

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Immigration lawyer Margaret Stock displays a document sent to U.S. Army enlistee Shu Luo, threatening him with deportation.

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ICE Drops Deportation Threat Against Chinese Student Joining U.S. Army

5:02am June 15, 2018

by Quil Lawrence

The immigrants were brought into the military — which offers a track to citizenship — because they provide hard-to-find skills and languages. A slow-moving vetting program had put their visas at risk.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take fingerprints while processing apprehended immigration fugitives inside the ICE staging facility in Los Angeles on April 18, 2017. Earlier this year ICE agents searching for an undocumented farmworker stopped

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Farmworkers In California Fearful After Immigrant Couple Dies While Fleeing ICE

7:04pm June 13, 2018

by Alex Hall

In March, two undocumented farmworkers died in a car crash after speeding away from ICE agents. But ICE had the wrong people. The accident has immigrant farmworkers and their employers on edge.

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A person is detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on April 11 in New York City.

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ICE To Send 1,600 Detainees To Federal Prisons

10:32am June 08, 2018

by James Doubek

The immigration enforcement agency said it needed the additional space because of a "current surge in illegal border crossings" and the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policies.

Fort Hamilton is one of the oldest military bases in the country and the only active U.S. military base in New York City.

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'From Delivery To Detention': ICE Detains Pizza Guy At Army Base In Brooklyn

6:42pm June 06, 2018

by Joel Rose

Pablo Villavicencio, an Ecuadorean immigrant, was attempting to make a delivery at Fort Hamilton when he was detained and handed over to immigration authorities.