Tag: Deportation

Secretary John F. Kelly's Department of Homeland Security had denied any changes to asylum procedure before the lawsuit. Those who claim to fear returning to their country are supposed to be granted interviews.

DHS rescinds Obama-era DAPA policy that would have protected illegal immigrant parents

Anna Giaritelli · June 16, 2017 2:11 am

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Tom Homan speaks at the announcement of the new Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office at a news conference at Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

ICE chief rips critics of deportations, entering illegally ‘is a crime’

Paul Bedard · June 13, 2017 3:14 pm

Sanctuary church resident Ingrid Encalada Latorre, right, sits with Jennifer Piper of the American Friends Service Committee outside a courtroom during a recess at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Golden, Colo., Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Latorre, an immigrant who has been living in a Denver church to avoid deportation, feared being arrested by federal immigration agents as she ventured out of her sanctuary to a court hearing Wednesday to try to stay in the United States.

GAO: 437,000 deportation cases backlogged, hearings delayed to 2022

Paul Bedard · June 8, 2017 12:06 pm

Arrests of illegal immigrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jumped 38 percent in the 100 days since President Trump signed his controversial immigration enforcement executive orders, ICE said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Gene Blevins)

Immigration arrests climb 38 percent under Trump

Kelly Cohen · May 17, 2017 3:49 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed seven new immigration judges. The announcement came less than a month after Sessions said the Trump administration was hoping to appoint 50 new immigration judges this year to speed up the deportation process for illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Justice Department swears in seven new immigration judges

Kelly Cohen · May 8, 2017 6:44 pm

Over the past month, ICE has arrested 644 illegal aliens through similar operations in nearly a dozen states. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Feds nab another 76 criminal immigrants in Florida, Puerto Rico

Anna Giaritelli · April 26, 2017 9:15 pm

Enrique Ariza Rivas, 49, was a member of the now-dissolved Administrative Department of Security in Colombia. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

US deports Colombian official wanted in aggravated psychological torture of a journalist

Anna Giaritelli · April 24, 2017 11:51 pm

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 95 illegal immigrants with criminal records in Southeast Texas as part of a four-day operation that ended April 21, the agency said Monday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

95 criminal illegal immigrants nabbed in Southeast Texas

Anna Giaritelli · April 24, 2017 11:27 pm

The new report found the agency was understaffed and overwhelmed. (Bryan Cox/ICE via AP)

Inspector general: ICE ‘not deporting all the aliens who could be deported’

Anna Giaritelli · April 21, 2017 1:06 am

The House Minority Leader promised Democrats will fight for DACA recipients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pelosi: Trump ‘terrorizing patriotic young people’ after DACA recipient deported

Anna Giaritelli · April 19, 2017 12:36 am

Juan Manuel Montes was deported by Border Patrol in February when he did not have his papers on him. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

First deported DACA recipient sues Trump administration

Anna Giaritelli · April 18, 2017 10:47 pm

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 82 illegal immigrants in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area as part of in a five-day sting that concluded March 30, according to a press release Wednesday. (Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Immigration officers arrest 79 illegal immigrants from 26 countries near DC

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2017 9:35 pm