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As the Trump administration gears up efforts to deport immigrants en masse, asylum seekers at immigration court who thought they were playing by the rules were abruptly swept up by ICE agents in
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan is asking the Department of Homeland Security to cease courthouse raids in Virginia and nationwide.
ICE officers face surge in violence as DHS Secretary Noem condemns an 830% rise in assaults, citing incidents where Democratic lawmakers allegedly attacked officials.
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Two Democratic lawmaker say that the Department of Homeland Security is placing restrictive rules on visiting the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, which interferes with their ability to conduct Congressional oversight.
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DHS assistant secretary sounds off on ‘absolutely deranged’ Democrats over characterization of ICE agentsDHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin pushes back on the Democratic Party’s growing anti-I.C.E. rhetoric on ‘The Evening Edit.’
Ricardo Tomás for ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.
Agents in Dallas, Texas, apprehended alleged shooter Benjamin Hanil Song on Wednesday after a weeklong search.
ICE and federal officers face 690% increase in assaults since Trump took office, with DHS recording 79 events compared to 10 in the same period last year.
A majority of the people deported by ICE this year were convicted of traffic or immigration offenses, not violent crimes, according to data obtained by CBS News.
DHS said a woman who claimed to be held hostage in an ICE warehouse was never arrested and called the whole story “fabricated.”
Sen. Durbin criticizes HSI for focusing on immigration enforcement instead of organized crime, while DHS counters that agents are removing dangerous criminals.