Seattle council passes yearlong ban on new immigration detention centers
The moratorium focuses on land use concerns with a new facility, rather than immigration enforcement, but the intent is clear to people for and against the bill.
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The moratorium focuses on land use concerns with a new facility, rather than immigration enforcement, but the intent is clear to people for and against the bill.
The investigation includes two deaths and an incident where a border patrol commander threw tear gas into a Minneapolis park, prosecutors say.
New information reveals 6-year-old deaf student was deported under false pretenses; State Superintendent Tony Thurmond sounds alarm regarding child’s wellbeing.
Leavenworth was founded by pro-slavery settlers and became the epicenter of Bleeding Kansas. That same city votes today on whether to resurrect a CoreCivic detention facility — a company that has already killed people in its custody — and open a 1,000-bed ICE camp to kidnap, cage, and disappear immigrants from our region. The shackles have always looked different here. This morning, Leavenworth decides what they look like in 2026.
Two teen brothers in a nationally recognized mariachi band in South Texas have been released from immigration custody.
The City of Seattle has passed an emergency, one-year ban on new ICE detention centers.
Ruling centers on protests at the Portland ICE building and officers’ use of teargas on demonstrators and journalists
Fear of deportation keeps customers away, cutting hours and slowing immigrant entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh, entrepreneurs and experts say.
The Culver City Police Department said the federal immigration agents were waiting at the front of the station after officers booked the suspect into jail.
As ICE expands its use of surveillance across the country, concerns grow over potential violations of the Fourth Amendment. “Is the government watching you?” was the title of the latest lecture in the VTSU Castleton “Teaching the Present Moment” series presented on March 5 by Criminal Justice p
Protestor Alex Pretti was killed by masked federal agents while recording the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Jan. 24.
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton continued to tussle over how various financial backers of their candidacies would influence their ability to stand up to Republican Presi…