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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.

Child welfare advocates, social workers and asylum-seekers described sterile, prison-like conditions in Texas' immigrant family detention centers, which the state is currently considering licensing as child care facilities. Dec 09, 2015

Experts, Activists Challenge Detention Child Care Licenses

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

A handwritten letter from "E.," a woman on hunger strike inside the T. Don Hutto detention facility. Nov 05, 2015

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.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Blanca Borrego and her daughter, America Ruiz Sep 15, 2015

Daughter: Mom, Arrested at Gynecology Office, ‘Doesn’t Deserve What’s Going On’ (UPDATED)

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

reproductive rights Sep 14, 2015

Houston Mom Arrested At Gynecologist’s Appointment May Face Deportation

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Aug 21, 2015

Inexplicable Deportation of Visually-Impaired Father Dashes His Hopes for Legal Status

by Lyanne A. Guarecuco

Apr 20, 2015

ICE Director to U.S. Rep. Culberson: We Can’t Just Put People in Detention for ‘the Heck of it’

by Melissa del Bosque

Dec 12, 2013

Agency Says DHS Employees Routinely Report Overtime When Actually ‘Relaxing, Joking and Surfing the Internet’

by Melissa del Bosque

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