Tag Archives: deportations

iPhone App Notifies Users Of Nearby ICE Sightings

CNN reports: Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13. His newest app is designed for a very different purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area. …

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ICE Now Using Mobile Phone Facial Recognition App

404 Media reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter …

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Wired: ICE Facilities Have Made 400 Calls To 911

Wired reports: A WIRED investigation into 911 calls from 10 of the nation’s largest immigration detention centers found that serious medical incidents are rising at many of the sites. The data, obtained through public records requests, show that at least 60 percent of the centers analyzed had reported serious pregnancy complications, suicide attempts, or sexual assault allegations. Since January, these …

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Trump Admin To Dismiss Asylum Claims For Hundreds Of Thousands To Make Them Immediately Deportable

CNN reports: The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States and then make them immediately deportable as part of the president’s sweeping immigration crackdown, according to two sources familiar with the matter. It marks the latest in a series of moves by the administration to bar migrants from …

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DHS Puts New Limits On Reps Visiting ICE Facilities

CNN reports: After a spate of tense encounters involving lawmakers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, the Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance. Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are allowed to enter any DHS facilities “used to detain or otherwise house aliens” …

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Trump Doubles Down On ICE Targeting Blue Cities

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his goal to conduct mass deportations in some of the country’s biggest cities, specifically those run by Democrats. As he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in Alberta on Monday, Trump said Immigration and Customs Enforcement should turn its attention to New York and …

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ICE Told To Halt Raids On Farms, Hotels, Restaurants

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance. The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s …

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HHS Gave ICE Officials Data About Medicaid Enrollees

The Associated Press reports: Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data — including the immigration status — on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block …

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DHS Revokes Legal Status Of 500,000+ More Migrants

CNN reports: DHS on Thursday told hundreds of thousands of migrants that their permission to live and work in the US had been revoked and they should leave the country.The termination notice was addressed to nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who came in through a Biden-era parole program. More than half a million people from those four countries …

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Trump: I’ll Protect Farms And Hotels From ICE Raids

“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those …

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Politico: 9000 Migrants To Be Sent To Gitmo This Week

Politico reports: The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up sending undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay starting this week, with at least 9,000 people being vetted for transfer, according to documents obtained by POLITICO. That would be an exponential increase from the roughly 500 migrants who have been held for short periods at the base since February and a …

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Trump Orders Troops To “Liberate Los Angeles”

“A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. “I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney …

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ICE Officers Stranded In Djibouti Shipping Container

The Washington Post reports: Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday. A federal judge in Boston interrupted an Immigration and …

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ICE Agents Told To Get “Creative” And “Push Envelope”

The Guardian reports: Senior US immigration officials over the weekend instructed rank-and-file officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement, including by interviewing and potentially arresting people they called “collaterals”, according to internal agency emails viewed by the Guardian. Officers were also urged to increase apprehensions and think up tactics to “push the envelope” …

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ICE Accused Of Impersonating Arizona Utility Workers

Tucson’s ABC affiliate reports: Southside neighbors jumped into action Wednesday morning when they believed immigration officers were attempting an arrest near Sixth Ave. and Ajo Way. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told KGUN 9 that there is an ongoing investigation, but did not provide further details. Christine Cariño called KGUN 9 because she believed there were ICE …

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US Pushes Balkans To Accept Deported Migrants

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing Serbia and other Balkan nations to take in migrants deported from the US, according to people familiar with the matter. The requests to countries in the region are ongoing and part of a broader strategy to find foreign governments willing to receive migrants sent from the US, including some who originally …

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Rubio Works To Return Man Deported To El Salvador

The Hill reports: The Justice Department disclosed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading negotiations for the return of a Venezuelan man sent to a Salvadoran prison. The disclosure, made in Monday court filings, is no guarantee the Trump administration will secure the return of a man known only in court documents as Cristian, who was deported in spite …

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Trump To SCOTUS: Allow South Sudan Deportations

Axios reports: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn a federal judge’s order that blocks the government from sending undocumented immigrants to countries they’re not citizens of. The move comes after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy determined last week that the administration “unquestionably” violated his ruling by swiftly deporting a group of immigrants to South Sudan. All …

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Judge Orders ICE To Return Deported Gay Guatemalan

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there. The man, who is gay, was protected from being returned to his home country under a U.S. immigration judge’s order at the time. But the U.S. …

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Rubio’s Favorite Pro-Trump Rapper Faces Deportation

Politico reports: In 2021, like many Cubans and Cuban Americans that summer, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was jamming to “Patria y Vida,” the Grammy-winning protest anthem that became a rallying cry for dissidents in Cuba. The hip-hop song, whose title translates to “Homeland and Life,” directly rebuked Fidel Castro’s revolutionary slogan, “Patria o Muerte” — “Homeland or Death.” That was …

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