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Approach to Immigration Case Backlog Questioned By Some Republicans
For years, Congress has supported the addition of more immigration judges to help manage the long-standing backlog of deportation and...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 42 min read
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Immigration Arrests Up Sharply While Deportations Lag
Arrests in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown have increased dramatically in the past month relative to the...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 42 min read
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ACLU Sues, Says Trump Can't Send Migrants From U.S. To Guantanamo
The American Civil Liberties Union sued to block the Trump administration from transferring 10 migrants from the U.S. to a naval base in...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 31 min read
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Senators Seek Hearing On Holding Immigrants In 'Inhumane' Prisons
California's two U.S. senators asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold an “urgent” hearing about the Trump administration’s decision...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 32 min read
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ICE Awards Private Prison Firm $1B Contract To Detain Immigrants
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a private prison company a 15-year contract worth $1 billion to detain up to 1,000...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 282 min read
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Despite Priority On Deportations, Trump Lays Off Immigration Judges
While President Donald Trump has made his immigration policies a top priority, the Department of Justice has dismissed 28 immigration...
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Feb 282 min read
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Trump's Immigration Crackdown Goes Beyond Arresting Criminals
A few minutes after he left home for work, Lucas Dos Santos Amaral was stopped by immigration officers near his home in Marlborough,...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 272 min read
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Federal Prisons Hold 700 On Immigration Charges, Dems Protest
The federal prison system is holding about 700 immigration detainees at four facilities as of Wednesday, part of a Trump administration...
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Feb 271 min read
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Venezuelan Immigrants Detained At Guantanamo Bay Allege Abuse, Mistreatment
When Mayfreed Durán Arapé was woken up by a detention guard around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 8, he was confused. A guard at the Immigration and...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 262 min read
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Trump Administration Creating A Registry For Undocumented Immigrants
The Trump administration is creating a registry for all people who are in the United States illegally, and those who don’t self-report...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 261 min read
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Judge Blocks Trump Executive Order Suspending Refugee Program
On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked an executive order that President Trump signed shortly after he was sworn in that suspended a...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 262 min read
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How ICE Is Collaborating With Local Police Agencies On Immigration Enforcement
The Trump administration has revived a long-abandoned program that lets local and state law enforcement challenge people on the street...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 263 min read
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Immigration Raid At End Of Biden Administration Previewed New Reality For Farmworkers in CA
It has been more than six weeks since U.S. Border Patrol agents from the agency’s El Centro sector launched a three-day raid in rural...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 262 min read
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Immigrants Targeted In Houston Area Housing Development, Governor Says
Federal immigration authorities on Monday planned to conduct a targeted operation on "criminals & illegal immigrants" in a housing...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 251 min read
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Judge Blocks Immigration Arrests Inside Some Churches
A federal judge on Monday blocked immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations in houses of worship for Quakers and a...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 252 min read
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Arizona Considers Using Bounties to Aid Trump Deportations
Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 251 min read
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Manhattan Hotel Called ‘the New Ellis Island’ will Stop Housing Migrants by June
The former Roosevelt Hotel, a century-old building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, will stop operating as a shelter this summer, The...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 252 min read
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Mass-Deportation Proposal Pitched to White House Calls for ‘Processing Camps’ and a Private Citizen ‘Army’
A mass-deportation proposal circulated by Trump allies was pitched to the White House by a group of prominent military contractors,...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 251 min read
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States Threaten Officials Resisting Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Republican state lawmakers seeking to aid President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration are threatening local officials who resist...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 242 min read
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ICE Director Removed As Agents Fail To Make Deportation Targets
The Trump administration removed the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement one month into his tenure, as White House...
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Feb 222 min read
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