Tag: immigrant detention
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Trump administration increasingly places immigrants in solitary confinement, report finds
WASHINGTON — Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published Wednesday by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed at least 10,588 people in solitary confinement from April 2024 to May…
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Portland to issue land use violation notice to ICE building for allegedly breaching detention limits
Portland, Oregon, says it will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building
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Cuban man charged with capital murder in Dallas motel beheading unlikely to be deported
AUSTIN, Texas — A man being held in connection with a Dallas homicide that occurred last week is unlikely to be deported from the U.S. before his case is resolved, despite President Donald Trump’s comments on the man’s immigration status. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, is facing a capital murder charge by terroristic threat after he attacked…
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Ghana says all immigrants deported by the US have been sent home, contradicting lawyers
Authorities in Ghana are pushing back on claims that four African immigrants recently deported by the U.S. remain in Ghanaian detention, reiterating their assertion that all such migrants have been returned to their home countries
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After rescinding protections, ICE is moving to deport more immigrants who were victims of crime
A man detained by authorities days after he nearly died in an Iowa shooting is one of a growing number of crime victims who have been targeted in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration
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Under pressure, some immigrants are leaving American dreams behind
An increasing number of immigrants without legal status — even some who have lived here for decades — are finding it easier to seek opportunities in other countries than to stay in the U.S. amid threats of detention and deportation. “This has never happened in our country before. We have had periods of voluntary departure,…
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
MIAMI — For the hundreds of men who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz, entering the gates of the makeshift migrant detention center in the Everglades meant exiting the labyrinthine but familiar federal immigration process and entering what several immigration attorneys described as an alternate system where the normal rules don’t apply. One Guatemalan man detained…
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Lawsuit says US held West African migrants in straitjackets for 16 hours on flight to Ghana
A lawsuit says some West Africans who were deported to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a U.S. military plane on which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water
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Immigrant detainees begin arriving at former prison in rural Tennessee town
A company says detainees have started arriving at a former Tennessee prison that’s been turned into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center
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DeSantis’ step toward victory on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sets up a funding dilemma for Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a dilemma over the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades