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Family members greeted Emma De Paz with tears, hugs, signs and bouquets of flowers on Monday when federal immigration agents freed her after four months of detention. As she stepped out of the SUV that had ferried her to her home in East Hollywood from the Adelanto Detention Center, she already was holding her arms wide to hug loved ones welcoming her back.

We couldn't tell if it was day or night, said one former detainee who spent 10 months at the facility and whom the Guardian is not naming for fear of retaliation from US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and the Geo Group, the private company that operates the detention center. The lights were on 24/7. We maybe saw the sun twice a week. Windows were coated in dark paint, and people made eye masks with their socks, he recalled.

"Most days I feel helpless," said Kordia, 32, speaking from a Texas immigration detention center where she has been jailed since March.

The bodycam video obtained by local network THV11 shows police accusing Raghu of having an illegal substance in his vehicle. You got a vial of opium that was in your center console, an officer told Raghu. Go and take a seat. I was not doing anything wrong when he pulled me over. I was following all regulations, said Raghu, who told the Saline Courier that he was making a food delivery when he was stopped.

Growing up in the West Bank, Leqaa Kordia was separated from family in Gaza by Israeli restrictions on movement between the territories. So aunts and uncles in Gaza would call from the beach there, allowing Kordia to share her cousins' laughter and glimpse the waves. Now many of those relatives are dead, killed in the war that has destroyed much of the Strip. And more than 200 days after Kordia

An Ecuadorian man who asked to remain unnamed while his open immigration case unfolds stood with his wife, Gloria, as he showed amNewYork a GPS monitor wrapped around his ankle. This partial freedom came with a significant cost to the family $20,000 despite the man having no criminal record. Gloria's husband arrived in the US from Ecuador in 2023. When he walked into an immigration appointment in Malta, NY, he thought he was following the rules and complying with the law.

"It has come to our attention that individuals visiting their loved ones have been routinely subjected to inhumane and unsafe conditions while waiting for entry into the facility," the group wrote in a letter addressed to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and GEO Group CEO David Donahue. In July, an appeals court struck down New Jersey's ban on private prisons.

Lulac announced in a news release on Tuesday that Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, 32, had succumbed to his injuries after being removed from life support following the [24 September] sniper attack on the Dallas Ice facility. His wife, Stephany Gauffeny, said in a statement that her husband was a good man, a loving father and the provider for our family. We had just bought our first home together, and he worked hard every single day to make sure our children had what they needed, she added.

He's on life support after being critically injured on Wednesday in the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. He was being detained there after being arrested on Aug. 8 for driving under the influence. He is in the U.S. without legal status. "It hurts to think like, what if he never even gets to meet him," Gauffeny told NPR on Saturday, referring to her unborn child, a son. That is very possible.

Last Friday, Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian imam and hospital chaplain who had been detained at a county jail for more than 10 weeks, was released and is expected to have his visa status fully returned. Soliman had been accused by US authorities of a variety of alleged terror-related charges in Egypt

Since then, people arrested at Northern California immigration courts, at ICE check-in appointments and elsewhere have been locked up overnight - some as long as six days - and have nowhere to sleep but a metal bench or the floor, with the lights on around the clock, the suit alleged. They must share a toilet with no privacy, have nowhere to bathe and are denied soap and toothpaste, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of several people who were held there.

Tequila is produced exclusively in Mexico and has become a star in California's cocktail culture. More than 50 million cases of tequila were sold in the U.S. in 2023, with most of that consumed in the Golden State. And demand for tequila is growing faster than vodka, whiskey, and all other spirits combined. But this summer, several legal battles have begun which could shake up the entire industry.

NEW YORK (AP) More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees. Eleven officials were arrested while attempting to inspect holding rooms on the 10th floor of the government's 26 Federal Plaza building in Manhattan, according to a coalition of politicians, advocates and faith leaders involved in the protest.

When searching for people detained there, the ICE locator now says, Call the Florida Department of Corrections for details,' says Luis Sorto of Sanctuary of the South, a network that offers legal services and participated in a lawsuit against the government over restrictions on access to lawyers for detainees at the infamous immigration jail. All of the plaintiffs who were being held at the center were transferred to another location after a new lawsuit was filed in August challenging Florida's authority to detain people there.

While the Trump administration aggressively expands immigration detention nationwide, including a 2,500-bed private prison just opened in California's Mojave Desert, a controversial plan to build an immigration jail at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is now on hold. The push to build a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on the air base came to light in April through internal federal emails obtained by KQED.

He arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick. It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas shackled at his hands and feet had been transferred from a nearby immigration detention center to this remote US immigration facility in Louisiana. He feared it would be his last stop before deportation. He remembered the stench of the place. The packed jail rooms where hundreds of men were warehoused together with little access to showers, which sometimes spouted brown, rusty water when they worked.

CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company which owns and operates the facility, confirmed it has begun receiving ICE detainees but would not say when it started to do so. Lawyers for detained immigrants say they first heard last week that clients were being transferred from other locations to California City. "We are once again housing federal detainees to meet the immediate needs of our government partners," CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin said in a statement.

Florida International University (FIU) is under fire from one of its own faculty members after news reports detailed that the school provided equipment to the Everglades immigration detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The disclosure intensified existing anger over FIU's police partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ongoing labor disputes, fueling demands for transparency, higher pay, and accountability from administrators.

Guards at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday. The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami's Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge's order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands. The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for freedom after one received news a relative had died, according to the outlet. A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.

An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz " must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as the state and federal governments fight that decision. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams late Wednesday denied requests to pause her order to wind down operations at the facility, which has been plagued by reports of unsanitary conditions and detainees being cut off from the legal system.

El Paso, Texas' quintessential border city, has begun its resistance against the implementation of the Camp East Montana immigration detention center, built on the Fort Bliss military base, less than 15 minutes away from downtown. The facility whose first inmates arrived in mid-August is projected to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history, with a capacity for 5,000 people. To this end, the Department of Defense has approved an investment of approximately $1.2 billion for its expansion over the next two years.

Donald Trump has taken to boasting about his decision to deploy federal soldiers and agents on the streets of Washington, despite the unease the measure has generated among residents. The Republican, who adopted the measure 10 days ago citing an alleged escalation of violence, went to the headquarters of the deployment to greet soldiers and police officers. We're going to make it safe, and we're going to then go on to other places, but we're going to stay here for a while, the president said.