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Government
Utah community mobilizes violinist detained by ICE
A violinist in Utah performing with major orchestras has been detained by ICE, sparking an outpouring of support from fellow musicians and c...
Carl Samson
Asian American History
Former Japanese American WWII camp is now the country’s largest immigration detention center
The Trump administration has opened the country’s largest immigration detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, a former military ba...
Boston
Boston Mayor Wu to ICE: ‘We will not back down’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has reaffirmed her commitment to protecting the city’s immigrant community after ICE threatened to boost enforcemen...
Community
ICE is now arresting community advocates documenting immigration raids
U.S. citizens and community advocates documenting enforcement operations are being increasingly targeted for arrest by federal immigration a...
Home
Margaret Cho to Dean Cain on ICE plan: ‘You’re never gonna be white’
Comedian Margaret Cho has criticized actor Dean Cain for announcing his plan to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of for...
Ryan General
How the Trump admin uses courthouse dismissals to fast-track deportations
In recent months, the Trump administration has devised an immigration enforcement strategy in which government attorneys seek case dismissal...
Entertainment
Dean Cain channels Superman as he joins ICE
Actor Dean Cain, best known for playing Superman in the 1990s television series “Lois & Clark,” announced this week that he is joining U...
Chinese ICE detainee dies by suicide days after transfer to Pennsylvania facility
Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old Chinese national, died by suicide just five days after entering U.S. immigration custody, according to the U.S. I...
Purdue student reunites with family after release from days-long ICE detention
Yeonsoo Go, a 20-year-old South Korean student at Purdue University, has been released from federal immigration custody and reunited with he...
Business
ICE raids Asian supermarkets in New York
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a pair of Asia Food Market locations in western New York last Wednesday, making mult...
Crime
Arizona sushi shop owner faces deportation after 21 years in US
A longtime business owner in Peoria, Arizona, is facing deportation after more than two decades of living and working in the U.S. Kelly Yu, ...
Second Vietnamese man dies in ICE custody this year
A federal investigation has been launched after Tien Xuan Phan, a 55-year-old Vietnamese national, died while being held at the ICE Processi...
Japanese Americans lead opposition to turn ex-prison into ICE detention center
Hundreds of Japanese Americans and allies gathered at Don Biddle Community Park in Dublin, California, on Saturday to protest the Trump admi...
Asian Americans face new threats as ICE gains access to Medicaid data
Immigration authorities will now obtain access to sensitive details of 79 million Medicaid recipients for use in locating undocumented immig...
Veteran accused in ICE ambush captured in Dallas
Benjamin Song, a former U.S. Marine Corps reservist wanted for his alleged role in a July 4 attack on an ICE detention center, was arrested ...
Search underway for Asian American veteran accused of ambushing Texas ICE facility
Authorities have intensified efforts to locate Benjamin Hanil Song, a 32-year-old former U.S. Marine Corps reservist wanted in connection wi...
ICE increasingly targeting non-criminals as deportation campaign intensifies
More than half of immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent months have no criminal convictions, suggesting...
Editorial Staff
Two dozen Hmong men in Minnesota face deportation
Twenty-four Hmong men who settled in Minnesota decades ago are being held in jails across Minnesota and Iowa as they await deportation to La...
ICE detention funding now 5 times higher than federal prison system budget
Congress has approved a historic $170 billion immigration enforcement package that includes $45 billion to nearly double the nation’s capaci...
Civil Rights
Asian Americans express solidarity with Latinos amid ICE raids in Los Angeles
Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders are organizing their communities to support Latinos as federal immigration enforcement expands a...
Orange County Viet Americans challenge Rep. Derek Tran over his response to ICE raids
Vietnamese American activists in Orange County’s Little Saigon are demanding Rep. Derek Tran take bolder action against federal immigration ...
Trump orders ICE to increase deportations in Democratic cities
President Donald Trump has ordered federal immigration officials to focus deportation efforts on Democratic-controlled cities, intensifying ...
ICE deports more than 100 Chinese nationals in major op
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), led by its Dallas office, deported 122 Chinese nationals earlier this month as part of a...
How ILRC’s ‘Red Cards’ can help protect immigrants during ICE encounters
As immigration enforcement actions grow under the Trump administration, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s “Red Cards” remain a practical...
Kash Patel’s jail threat to ICE protesters draws accusations of hypocrisy
FBI Director Kash Patel has faced backlash over his jail threat to anti-ICE protesters, with critics accusing the administration of applying...
Federal immigration raids in Los Angeles spark protests nationwide
Federal immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles on Friday culminating President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard tr...
Boston mayor Wu draws federal backlash for comparing masked ICE agents to neo-Nazis
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is taking heat from federal officials after comparing masked ICE agents to “secret police” and suggesting similarit...
ICE gained backdoor access to nationwide license plate camera network: report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has allegedly obtained informal access to a nationwide network of automatic license plate reader (...
Navy vet’s daughter remains in ICE detention despite US citizenship claims
A Filipino woman has been detained at a Georgia immigration facility since March after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested he...
ICE officials ousted amid White House order to triple number of daily arrests
Two senior ICE officials are being removed from their positions amid White House pressure for dramatically higher arrest numbers of undocume...
Missouri community rallies behind Chinese woman facing deportation
A Chinese immigrant and mother of three has become the center of a grassroots support campaign after federal agents arrested her during what...
Fear grips Hawaii’s Filipino teaching community after ICE home raid
A federal immigration raid at a Maui residence housing Filipino teachers has heightened anxiety among educators and drawn sharp criticism fr...
ICE raids Irvine couple’s home over son’s alleged involvement in personnel doxxing
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a couple’s home in Irvine, California, last week as part of an investigation into po...
Vietnamese refugee suffering from dementia dies in ICE custody in Texas
A 55-year-old Vietnamese refugee with dementia reportedly died of natural causes while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cus...
Feature
Deported Cambodian refugee returns home to Southern California after 11 years
In 2011, ICE deported Cambodian refugee Sophea Phea to a country her family fled from in the 1970s to escape genocide. While in Cambodia, ...
News
California lawmakers reject bill that aims to stop prison-to-ICE transfers
VISION Act (AB 937) fell three votes short of the 21 it needed to pass in the California Senate on Wednesday. Introduced by Assemblymember...
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