Tag: Deportation

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 153 illegal immigrants in Texas last month as part of standard targeted enforcement operations, according to a press release Monday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

ICE officers arrest 153 criminal immigrants in Texas bust

Anna Giaritelli · April 3, 2017 10:19 pm

"That is not where we — ICE is focusing its efforts at all," the attorney general said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jeff Sessions: US is not going after non-criminal illegal immigrants

Anna Giaritelli · March 31, 2017 12:32 am

The program would speed up the process by removing the criminal immigrant as soon as their sentence is over. (iStock)

Jeff Sessions moves to speed up deportation of federal inmates

Kelly Cohen · March 30, 2017 8:13 pm

Canada saw a significant spike in the number of asylum-seekers in January and February, putting the country on track to surpass total annual levels for the past five years, according to immigration statistics released Monday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Canada on track to see 40 percent hike in asylum-seekers by year’s end

Anna Giaritelli · March 21, 2017 2:25 am

A 14-year-old female student at Rockville High School in Montgomery County, Md. reported being raped on Thursday by two male students, including one who had been slated for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Maryland girl alleges rape by two high school boys, one slated for deportation

Anna Giaritelli · March 18, 2017 3:38 am

The Justice Department has begun soliciting judges who are interested in being temporarily reassigned to 12 cities around the country to hear immigration cases from immigrants who have been charged with crimes, according to a report published Friday evening. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Report: DOJ plans to deploy immigration judges to a dozen US cities

Anna Giaritelli · March 18, 2017 2:05 am

The ICE Body Camera Act would require ICE agents to start wearing body cameras within eighteen months. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Democrats demand body cameras on deportation officers

Pete Kasperowicz · March 13, 2017 3:11 pm

ISome of those groups' "know your rights" sessions advise illegal aliens not to open the front door if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers show up. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National groups advising illegal aliens how not to get caught: Report

Anna Giaritelli · March 12, 2017 9:43 pm

ICE releases Mississippi woman with expired status

Anna Giaritelli · March 11, 2017 12:12 am

He worked for ICE, where he identified, located, arrested and removed illegal immigrants in the U.S. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

Former ICE deportation agent convicted of harboring illegal alien, accepting bribes

Anna Giaritelli · March 10, 2017 10:49 pm

Patricia Ice, an attorney with the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, left, hands out flyers to Jordan Sanders of Vicksburg, that call for the freeing of 22-year old Daniela Vargas, a Argentine native who has lived in the United States since she was seven years old, following a brief rally on her behalf, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, March 3, 2017, Vargas was detained, March 1, by immigration agents who state that she is a "unlawfully present Argentinian citizen" during a "targeted immigration enforcement action." (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Immigrant with expired visa asks for deportation court hearing

Anna Giaritelli · March 4, 2017 2:09 am

Daniela Vargas, whose father and brother were picked up during a recent immigration raid of undocumented immigrants listens as speakers discuss the series of raids that also picked up other undocumented immigrants across the state during a news conference at the Jackson, Miss., city hall, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Vargas was detained by ICE agents following the news conference. A college student, Vargas hopes to continue her education but fears for the fate of other undocumented immigrant families. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Feds pick up woman with expired DACA status after she tells crowd she could be deported

Anna Giaritelli · March 2, 2017 12:57 am