#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

Elected leaders and community members in Santa Clara County said they weren't notified in January 2025 when the federal government leased a swath of unincorporated land near Gilroy with the intent to build a detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. " The move to build a detention center in unincorporated Gilroy is an attack on the immigrant community, and it's an attack on Santa Clara County," Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said. He added that his office is coordinating with state Attorney General Rob Bonta as it prepares a legal defense to block the detention center.

Late on Wednesday, the Trump administration confirmed that ticket-holding supporters from Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Tunisia will be exempt from the requirement to post a visa deposit. The five were among 50 countries swept up in the requirement, introduced last year, which is intended to reduce visa overstays and was part of a wider immigration crackdown by the White House. With 78 of the 104 games at this year's World Cup taking place on American soil, the climbdown matters.

Last fall, loops of razor-wire fencing were strung along the Rio Grande in the Big Bend area, a remote region of far West Texas. Then, in January, residents heard rumors that a steel barrier was in the works. The wall along the southern border of the United States, whose construction began in the early nineties, under President George H. W. Bush, spans some seven hundred miles. The Big Bend region had previously been a low priority, owing to its rugged terrain and low number of illegal crossings.

Between dates, he also spoke and performed at the End ICE Abuse rally at 26 Federal Plaza, the location of NYC's ICE field office and federal immigration court, on Tuesday afternoon (5/12). He did an acoustic version of "This Land is Your Land," and called for people to "take our power back and adjourn this motherfucking authoritarian clown show once and for all."

“We are reviewing and investigating these submissions as they come in and will work with the AG's Office to release others when they are ready,” a spokesperson for Governor Maura Healey said.

Rail workers in Texas found six people dead inside a boxcar at a yard close to the Mexican border on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The discovery was made by a Union Pacific employee inspecting the stopped train at the yard in Laredo before it continued its journey north, a spokesperson for the Laredo police department said, citing the railroad freight company. Authorities are working to establish a cause of death for the six, who were found at about 2.30pm local time on an afternoon when temperatures climbed above 90F (32C). Nobody was found alive in the boxcar, the spokesperson said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refuted that account, saying in an email to SFGATE on Thursday that CBP agents raided eight cruise ships between April 23 and 27, not just the Disney ship in San Diego, and that as a result of those raids, they interviewed 28 people and detained 27 of them on suspicion of handling or viewing child pornography.

He's a temporary, he's expendable, he's temporary. Who's Mamdani? Nah. He's total nonsense. He's an embarrassment and total nonsense. Not my mayor. All Democrats, no, waste of human race.

The Department of Homeland Security stated that Villegas-Gonzalez refused to follow commands and drove his car into agents, leading to the officer firing in self-defense.