Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The Democratic senator's office said Friday that Alejandro Mayorkas and the DHS will be "held accountable for protecting Arizona communities and ensuring all migrants are treated fairly and humanely."

Over 20 other states have enacted similar bans. Washington's bill alleges that for-profit prisons have a "consistently and repeatedly documented" history of abusive, dangerous and unsanitary conditions for inmates.

"Border Patrol is overwhelmed, overworked, & discouraged by new policies," Collins tweeted on Friday morning, after spending a night shift with the agency.

GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert claimed the Biden administration's $86.9 million contract to house migrant families in hotels amounts to $395 per night.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has requested the Biden administration cease federal contracts with ICE.

As many as two flights will arrive in the western Texas city on a daily basis, each plane carrying up to 135 migrants. Roughly 270 migrants arrived on Monday, including some young children.

Operation Talon is a national operation geared toward deporting sex offenders illegally living in the U.S.

Freidrich Karl Berger, 95 had been living in Tennessee but his removal was ordered in February 2020.

Hundreds of thousands of Texans are still without power as the state faces freezing winter temperatures.

Democratic lawmakers and activists think serious changes need to be made to increase oversight, accountability, and transparency within the agency, up to and including firings and replacement of leadership.

After the Tesla crashed into a parked car, a second video showed another car losing control on the same hilly street in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Fox News TV host called on Congress to tighten asylum laws, because she believed it would help protect American jobs, safety, healthcare, and education.

According to a January tweet from Haiti's Ambassador to the U.S. Bocchit Edmond, "Mr Pierrilus isn't a Haitian Citizen & thus can't be sent to Haiti."

"This decision amounts to a re-victimization of this young lady, who only came forward to help build the case against the shooter in the racist attack," an immigration services spokesperson said.

After President Joe Biden signed an executive order ending federal contracts with private prisons, progressive Democrats have called on the new commander-in-chief to make strides in prison reform.

The move to deport Maradiaga, who came to the U.S. aged seven, sparked outrage because advocates said it defied President Joe Biden's 100-day pause on deportations for some immigrants.

On his way out of office, Trump's administration added 28 new questions to the U.S. citizenship test. His hardline views never stopped appealing to his most fervent supporters.

Religious conservatives and law-enforcement officers who were uncomfortable with family separations may be open to immigration reform.

"Every time the van stopped to pick up another deportee, I was sure someone would come on board, point at me and say, 'Not that guy—he's a veteran.'"

In theory, a prosecutor in Texas could bring charges against a Trump official on behalf of a separated child or parents. It's "a high threshold" but not impossible, said a human-rights expert.

Biden's boss Barack Obama was called the "Deporter in Chief." Immigrants and their advocates want to see what the new president does on immigration reform.

Even assuming a log-jammed Congress, there are still avenues for Biden to single-handedly provide temporary protection for millions of immigrants.

Mass amnesty with no increase in border security and the promise of less enforcement will have one side effect: unifying and galvanizing Republicans.

Joe Biden has also pledged to add more immigration judges and provide aid to Central and South American countries to help stop the flow of migrant refugees into the United States.

"You should sit this one out," former Democratic presidential hopeful Julián Castro wrote.

It's unclear why the driver hit them, how many people were hit, the extent of their injuries or whether the driver will face any charges.

"They don't treat us like immigrants. They treat us like prisoners," one accuser said in a recent report. "I don't know why they force us to go back to a country that is not stable right now. People die every day."

"ICE should listen to the medical and public health experts who want the agency to stop terrorizing our communities and deporting harmless people during this pandemic. It's needless, cruel, and undermines the COVID-19 containment efforts," Warren tweeted on Wednesday.

Two days before his release date, the inmate fire crew member, who suffered a "traumatic neck injury" while fighting fires, was told he would taken to a detention center.

A reporter for "The New Republic" noticed on Thursday that the @ICEgov Twitter account looked to have been wiped clean.