Category: Immigration & Customs Enforcement
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The CATO Institute wrote this article, The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists, and describes incidents that have taken place throughout the country where ICE agents have threatened to arrest people for filming, following or observing ICE arrests.
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This report, After the Blitz – What our Chicago Neighbors are facing in ICE Detention, by the National Immigrant Justice Center, describes what has happened to those people who were detained in the Chicago area, where they are being detained, and what has happened to them since their arrest.
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Since 1997, the Flores Agreement established a 20-day limit on the time a minor can be held in detention. A recent report from ICE indicated at over 400 children were detained for more than this 20-day limit. Read the article here.
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The Border Report explains that there are 2000 unaccompanied minors currently being housed in ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement) in HHS (Health and Human Services). And that 25% of those unaccompanied minors (around 500 children) are now living in facilities near that southern border in Texas. The concern is that ICE may be preparing to…
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This article, by VT Digger, suggests that ICE is looking to outsource surveillance functions to look more closely at social media and other surveillance technology to identify arrestable/reportable residents throughout the country. The new surveillance center will be located in Williston, Vermont.
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A Brookings Institute survey from July 29, 2025 indicates that Americans have changed their opinions about immigration since the election of November 2024. Here are the study highlights: Read the entire report here.
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Hart Research, after polling 802 reigstered U. S. voters in August 2025, reports that strong majorities reject arrests in each healthcare setting. Here are some highlights from the report: We asked about: hospitals (59% no, 32% yes), doctors’ offices (58% no -35% yes), and medical clinics (58% no -34% yes). In addition, voters object to…
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This article describes how ICE flights (both shuffle flights within the U.S. and deportation flights) are affecting immigration inmates at the Aurora (near Denver, Colorado) Immigration Detention Center.
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The U.S. government expects to issue over 500,000 H2A (temporary unskilled agricultural) visas this year which is a 119,000 increase over the 420,000 annual average. The administration has lowered the state-specific wage rate for H2A visa-holders and has allowed growers to charge workers for housing (when in the past the government required that the grower…
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ProPublica reports that over 600 juveniles have been put in federal government custody during 2025 that have been apprehended during traffic stops, immigration court hearings, ICE check-ins, or home or business raids. These juveniles are kept in one of 170 Office of Refugee Resettlement (part of Health and Human Services) shelters. The average stay is…
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