New York City’s most ethnically diverse borough, the landing point for and home to many of the city’s immigrants, will head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that will help decide whether their next top prosecutor will target U.S. immigration officials who violate civil rights.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was postponing a nationwide immigration sweep to deport people living in the U.S. illegally, including families, saying he would give lawmakers time to work out border solutions.
Read moreDirecting immigration agents to stop arresting people in Massachusetts courts, a federal judge sided with prosecutors Thursday who say the threat of deportation should not deter people from participating in the justice system.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that a Mexican man who was arrested during an immigration sting at a Los Angeles manufacturing plant should not be deported, a rebuke that may influence how immigration authorities target factories and offices.
Read moreThe teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol station in Texas. She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born prematurely, being held in detention instead of where she believes she should have been — a hospital neonatal unit.
Read moreThe Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found spoiled food, unusable toilets and inadequate recreation time during surprise visits to four immigration detention facilities last year, according to a report released Thursday.
Read moreLed by the Alliance of Christian Leaders of the East Valley, a group of churches that assist refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants after they are released from ICE custody brought a federal civil rights complaint against the Patriot Movement AZ for conspiracy, trespass, and defamation.
Read moreA five-hour bus trip to bring immigrant detainees from Northern California to Bakersfield turned into a day-long ordeal, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday accusing a Homeland Security contractor of using a windowless van to transport the immigrants in suffocating heat that caused them to vomit and faint.
Read moreFederal authorities have begun using aircraft to move immigrants and asylum-seekers to less-crowded areas for processing, and families are being bused north to Colorado to alleviate the strain on shelters along the border in Texas and New Mexico.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated a settlement between an Indiana sheriff’s office and the American Civil Liberties Union that prohibited cooperation with federal immigration authorities without a warrant, finding the state has standing to protect its interest in cooperating with immigration enforcement efforts.
Read morePresident Donald Trump is tapping a former border patrol chief who served in the Obama administration to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Thursday on behalf of a class of immigrants to halt U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from transferring immigrants awaiting deportation hearings to facilities outside California where the ACLU claims they would lose contact with their families and attorneys.
Read moreTwo Massachusetts prosecutors brought a federal complaint Monday to halt U.S. immigration officers from patrolling state courthouses to round up people for deportation.
Read moreA Massachusetts judge was indicted Thursday on charges that she helped a man who was living in the U.S. illegally sneak out a back door of the courthouse to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent.
Read moreDespite assurances from the Justice Department that immigration officials “as soon as possible” would identify immigrant families separated at the Mexican border nearly a year before the “zero tolerance” policy was announced, a federal judge on Thursday set a six-month deadline for the government to identify the families.
Read moreA little more than two years ago, as the attempted deportation of immigration activist Ravi Ragbir became a lightning rod in New York, one Immigration and Customs Enforcement official vented about his agency’s worsening image.
Read moreA 27-year-old man died in a California hospital after he suffered a brain hemorrhage while detained by U.S. immigration authorities, his wife said Wednesday, demanding to know what caused his injury and whether he received appropriate medical care in custody.
Read moreThe White House on Thursday withdrew the nomination of a longtime border official to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the Trump administration grapples with a massive increase in Southern border crossings that are straining the system with no easy solution.
Read moreMotel 6 will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit with Washington state over claims that the motel chain regularly gave its guest lists to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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