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#refugee-detention
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago
US politics

White House grants ICE power to detain refugees for aggressive rescreening'

DHS will arrest and hold indefinitely thousands of legally admitted refugees without green cards for aggressive re-screening and verification of their refugee claims.
fromThe Washington Post
5 days ago
US news

New DHS memo outlines plan to detain refugees for further vetting

DHS directed arrest and indefinite detention of legally resettled refugees without green cards for rescreening, reversing prior protections and risking tens of thousands.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Appeals court affirms Trump policy of jailing immigrants without bond

The 5th Circuit upheld DHS authority to detain immigrants without bond, ruling unadmitted aliens apprehended nationwide are ineligible for bond hearings.
US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

After court ruling, Democratic lawmakers carry out congressional oversight at ICE facility in Los Angeles

Members of Congress inspected an ICE detention facility in downtown Los Angeles after a federal judge blocked DHS's seven-day notice requirement for oversight visits.
US news
fromPoynter
2 weeks ago

Recording immigration agents in public is a constitutional right. Here's what the law says. - Poynter

Recording immigration agents in public is protected but contested, with federal claims of criminality clashing with First Amendment protections and courts questioning DHS policies.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Trump orders federal agents to stay away from protests in Democrat cities

President Trump ordered DHS not to intervene in protests in Democrat-run cities unless those cities request federal assistance, while ICE and Border Patrol will protect federal buildings.
fromTruthout
1 month ago

ICE Recruiters Are Using Neo-Nazi Memes and Seeking Out Extremists at Gun Shows

Under Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone on an explicitly fascist zag as it seeks to recruit 10,000 additional U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Robert Reich and others have detailed in recent weeks how ICE is now actively seeking to recruit extremist young men from gun shows, Ultimate Fight Club venues, rodeos, martial arts centers, and other haunts for men who tend to have a far right political vision.
US politics
#immigration-enforcement
US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Kristi Noem Will Defeat ICE Oversight With Creative Accounting - Above the Law

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem barred members of Congress from inspecting immigration detention facilities without prior notice or her permission, violating federal law and court order.
fromAxios
1 month ago

What DHS' own rules say on the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis

"Anyone saying right now that they know exactly what happened is absolutely wrong," one former department official told Axios. "I don't care who it is, because it's not gone through an investigation."
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#immigration
LGBT
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

Lawsuit challenges US ban on transgender TSA officers conducting pat-downs

TSA policy bars transgender officers from performing pat-downs and using restrooms aligning with their gender identity, prompting a sex-discrimination lawsuit.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Ice threatens federal assault charges against anyone who attacks its officers

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) warned Tuesday that assaulting its officers constitutes a federal crime punishable by felony charges. Anyone regardless of immigration status who assaults an ICE officer WILL face federal felony assault charges and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, the agency posted on X. Embedded in the post was an image that read think before you resist with a clenched fist.
US politics
fromTruthout
5 months ago

Trump Moves to End Temporary Protected Status for Over 250K Venezuelans in US

As tensions between the US and Venezuela were inflamed Wednesday by the Trump administration's deadly attack on a boat off the coast of the South American country, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was ending legal protections for more than a quarter of a million Venezuelans who President Donald Trump had previously shielded from deportation. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) declared that allowing Venezuelan nationals to remain in the US with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was "not in America's best interests,"
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US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
6 months ago

Trump DHS Official Insists Painting Entire Border Wall Black Is Using U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Well'

The Department of Homeland Security is painting the southern border wall black to increase durability and deter climbers by making it hotter to touch.
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