Tag Archives: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Advocates: Asylum-Seeking Mom’s Seizures ‘Uncontrolled’ in Texas Detention Center
Susana Arevalo Hernandez and her kids were picked up by immigration officials during ramped-up raids in early January.
Immigration rights advocates say a Salvadoran woman detained after recently ramped-up ICE raids isn't getting the medical care she needs....Read More
Experts, Activists Challenge Detention Child Care Licenses
Dozens of activists gathered for a public hearing and press conference in Austin on Wednesday, hoping to block family detention centers from becoming licensed c...Read More
Hutto Hunger Strike Reportedly Growing Despite ICE Denials
One striker's daughter says staff retaliated against her mom by transferring her to solitary confinement in an all-male facility.
Cristina Parker, Grassroots Leadership’s immigration programs coordinator, said women have vowed to strike indefinitely, and some have taken to drinking sugar...Read More
Daughter: Mom, Arrested at Gynecology Office, ‘Doesn’t Deserve What’s Going On’ (UPDATED)
For the last two weeks, America Ruiz has had play “Mom” to her youngest sibling after their mother was arrested in an exam room at her Houston gynecologist...Read More
Houston Mom Arrested At Gynecologist’s Appointment May Face Deportation
After her arrest in an exam room at her gynecologist’s office in early September, a Houston mother of three remains in the Harris County jail while her family...Read More
Inexplicable Deportation of Visually-Impaired Father Dashes His Hopes for Legal Status
Luis Antonio Perez-Morales almost certainly could have been among those whose lives were changed by the June 2012 immigration order that gave reprieve from depo...Read More
ICE Director to U.S. Rep. Culberson: We Can’t Just Put People in Detention for ‘the Heck of it’
In a heated discussion with ICE Director Paula Saldaña, Houston Congressman John Culberson wondered why the U.S. lets so many immigrant detention beds go empty...Read More
Agency Says DHS Employees Routinely Report Overtime When Actually ‘Relaxing, Joking and Surfing the Internet’
Employees at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been bilking taxpayers for millions in overtime pay for years....Read More