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Federal immigration agent fatally shoots man in Houston during an enforcement operation
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a man in Houston after he attempted to evade arrest in his vehicle during an operation Tuesday, the agency said. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, ignored commands and attempted to ram an agent who […]
Trump’s fixation on voting has had mixed results. He still has ways to affect November’s elections
ATLANTA | President Donald Trump has tried many ways to tighten his grip on U.S. elections, from signing executive orders to pushing restrictive legislation in Congress. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling siding with states that accept late-arriving mail ballots was the latest example showing the limits of his reach. It followed back-to-back rulings last week that […]
Supreme Court lets Trump end protections for Haitian, Syrian migrants. Salvadorans in Aurora at risk, too
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, […]
Supreme Court lets Trump end protections for Haitian, Syrian migrants. Salvadorans in Aurora at risk, too
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, […]
Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters
WASHINGTON | A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalize elections can no longer be used. U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for […]
Largest ICE detention facility wasted millions and put detainees at risk, report finds
WASHINGTON | Mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas created unsafe conditions that contributed to detainee deaths and suffering even as millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors, according to a federal report released Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office report documents serious problems at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent facility […]
Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
Eleven-year-old Ederson Galicia Alva had just stepped off the plane and into the Miami airport’s dim hallways when federal agents pulled his mother aside for questioning. Again. Panic welled up. His excitement at soon being back at recess with his Florida classmates fell away. Would the government take her away again? This was not his […]
ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds
Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught. Detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he was on his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri jail as he battled the fevers and chills of COVID-19. His request for mental health treatment had been put off, records show, and staff had forbidden Rayo from making his nightly call to […]
Trump administration proposes NDAs for federal employees to stop leaks
WASHINGTON | The Trump administration wants all current and future federal employees to sign non-disclosure agreements, part of a continuing crackdown on leaks to the media. The notice in the Federal Register from the Office of Personnel Management posted Tuesday asked for comment on a draft NDA to be used by federal agencies for “both […]
EDITORIAL: Let Aurora shine a light on GEO ICE jail’s lack of transparency
Aurora city lawmakers are right to push for greater oversight of the GEO Group’s ICE immigration detention center, and they shouldn’t be cowed by critics who dismiss the effort as “performative.” The real performance has been the years-long pretense by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and GEO Group that the Aurora […]