President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has led to an increase in raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in myriad human rights abuses - including the abuse and neglect of disabled immigrants in federal custody. In June, the largest disability rights group in the nation, Disability Rights California (DRC), conducted a monitoring visit at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California's San Bernardino County after receiving reports that disabled people were being held in unsafe conditions.
He explained that after being released from prison, in 2014, he spent time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody while they tried and failed to deport him to Ukraine and Russia. Both countries, according to legal filings reviewed by NPR, could not provide or confirm Surovtsev's citizenship since he left before the fall of the Soviet Union. They couldn't give him the travel documents needed for deportation.
Cops led us into the street as the new protest zone' and then beat us repeatedly, Abughazaleh said in a social media post. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. She added: Stay safe out there.
This is not an isolated case, because like this marriage, in which one spouse is undocumented and the other is a U.S. citizen, there are 1.4 million mixed-nationality couples who live in fear of being separated. Separation, however, has become a lesser evil in many cases, given the treatment received by those who end up in ICE custody. Many couples prefer to continue their relationship long-distance rather than enter the uncertain process of detention and deportation.
These are the details of 316 South Korean nationals' experiences in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention that have flooded the country's media in the weeks after the September 4 raid on a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia. Zip ties. Helicopters. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by negligent guards.
Local News Burlington leaders say that ICE is violating local zoning bylaws and keeping migrants detained in poor conditions for long periods of time. Burlington's Town Meeting members overwhelmingly voted Monday to denounce actions being taken by ICE agents at a facility in town that the agency is using to detain migrants. In Burlington, residents elect 126 members to serve on the body. The vote came on the final night of Town Meeting sessions, which have been ongoing since last month.
For days after the East Palo Alto housekeeper with an expired visa was moved from Stanford Medical Center into ICE detention in Bakersfield, she could barely speak to her family trying to connect with her through FaceTime phone calls.
A 47-year-old woman from Guadalajara, Mexico, was taken to Stanford Hospital for treatment after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained her Monday morning in East Palo Alto, according to officials and family members. Speaking through a Spanish translator, the woman's father, Armando Rodriguez Garcia, said his daughter, her husband and their child were heading to work and school when agents stopped them. The agents tried to detain the woman's husband but he escaped. The woman, however, lost consciousness and agents took her to the hospital.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant whose mistaken deportation from the United States to his country of origin made him a symbol of Donald Trump's hardline deportation policy, was detained again this Monday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when he appeared for an immigration court hearing in Baltimore, Maryland, regarding his case. His lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, reported that Abrego, 30, could be expelled again this time to Costa Rica or Uganda.
"Currently, 14 people are being held in the East Meadow Jail facility, where more than 1,400 people detained by ICE across the New York City metropolitan area have been held in the county jail since February."