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Immigration and Customs Enforcement

‘What Kind of Life Is This?’: Five Desperate Cubans Weigh Their Odds in Texas

Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into legal chaos.

by Jesús Jank Curbelo

Keep Reading

Biden Quietly Gave Border Wall Contract to Company Used by Trump, Abbott

by Gus Bova

Justice Department Seeking to Dismiss Lawsuit over Family Separation

by Zane McNeil

5,000 People Contract COVID-19 While In ICE Custody, Including This Father Of 5

by Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

Jul 13, 2018

‘Recipe for Disaster’: New Family Detention Center Could Open in South Texas

The proposed facility — a shuttered nursing home in San Diego, Texas — would be run by a British private prison company with a history of alleged abuses in Australia and England.

by Gus Bova

willacy Jul 10, 2018

After Years of Working with ‘Ritmo’ Detainees, I Know the Inhumane Facility Doesn’t Deserve a Second Chance

A facility with such horrible history should not be allowed to reopen under the same management.

by Erica B. Schommer

family separations Jul 09, 2018

The Trump Administration Deported up to 12 Parents Without Their Very Young Children

A hearing in federal court Monday gave a clearer picture of which parents will be reunited with their kids under 5 years old, as well as those who might never be.

by Gus Bova

border, presidio, sasha von oldershausen, essay Jul 05, 2018

In ‘Homelands,’ Alfredo Corchado Punctures the Myth of the American Dream

At once personal and political, this nuanced book is a sober reminder that today’s immigration challenges are the result of decades of misguided American policy.

by Sasha von Oldershausen

nielsen Jun 27, 2018

ICE Criminal Investigators Ask to Be Distanced from Detentions, Deportations in Letter to Kirstjen Nielsen

Nearly 20 ICE regional supervisors say the agency’s controversial detention and deportation policies have made it hard for them to conduct investigations into threats to national security.

by Jason Buch

Jun 27, 2018

New 1,000-Bed ICE Lockup Set to Open on Site of Notorious ‘Tent City’ in South Texas

Willacy County officials, ICE and a private prison company are set to ink a new deal within days that would resurrect one of the nation’s most troubled immigrant detention centers.

by Gus Bova

corecivic Jun 26, 2018

Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers

In the face of activist pressure, commissioners voted to end the county’s involvement in the incarceration of immigrant mothers and women at the 512-bed T. Don Hutto Detention Facility.

by Ruben Paquian

Jun 22, 2018

Despite Trump’s Executive Order, This Mom Still Doesn’t Know if She’ll See Her 3 Kids Again

“Every minute that I am separated from my kids is anguish,” says a Guatemalan mom who’s been apart from her kids for more than a month and isn’t even sure where they are.

by Gus Bova

andrew white, elections, greg abbott May 10, 2018

Untangling Andrew White’s Views on Border Security, with Andrew White

The gubernatorial candidate’s relative border hawkishness has clashed with the realities of a Democratic primary. With a first debate looming, what exactly does he believe?

by Gus Bova

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