These are harrowing days for the Word of Life Center, a church that has long been a vibrant hub of the Haitian community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
ICE snatches two legal pastors on way to Billy Graham retreat
A married couple — both pastors in the U.S. on religious worker visas — were arrested by federal immigration agents at a Texas airport on their way to a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association retreat in North Carolina. The Department of…
Chinese Christian human rights lawyer wrongly arrested by ICE
Christian Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping, who represented persecuted religious believers and other victims of government repression before fleeing China, was released on bond July 24 after spending nine days in ICE custody despite having been granted asylum in…
Don’t look away: ICE and CBP are getting away with murder
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas. I don’t know how many of my classmates were undocumented — we never thought to ask. It was the late 1980s and early ’90s, after all. A few years later, I was…
Coalition campaign seeks to ‘Melt ICE’
A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups and federal legislators has launched “End the ICE Age,” a campaign urging Congress to defund and eliminate U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Loved ones are still dying in ICE detention right now, living in…
ICE agents are least-trained law enforcement in America
Proper training and education for officers of the law should be mandatory for the safety of the public and our officers. However, ICE has made cuts to its required curriculum from an already short training program and failed to properly…
In 3 charts: White Christian nationalists’ love of ICE and concentration camps
As the empirical evidence for the threat white Christian nationalism presents to pluralistic democracy has mounted over the past decade, various insider defenders of conservative white Christianity — and even some mainstream white Christian theologians — have alleged the term…
Texas religious leaders demand ICE accountability
A coalition of Texas religious groups is demanding major reforms to how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out its mass deportation operations. Dozens of faith leaders from across the state gathered for a July 22 news conference to call…
Attacks on human dignity can never be normalized, say 2 US bishops after deadly ICE shootings
Two U.S. Catholic bishops are lamenting recent deadly immigration enforcement encounters, calling for God-given human dignity to be respected in every individual.
Republican leaders worried ICE murders will damage their agenda
President Donald Trump’s doubling down on Immigration and Customs Enforcement traffic stops despite agents’ killing of two motorists proves deadly force is an integral part of the administration’s mass deportation campaign, an immigrant rights leader said. The administration’s “deportation machine…
After shooting 22 people, ICE agents told to cease vehicle stops
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered to cease most vehicle stops as part of immigration enforcement actions after agents killed two motorists in the past week. But President Donald Trump appeared to reverse that decision less than…
Demands mount as Trump’s ICE agents kill two more people
The second fatal shooting in less than a week involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has renewed calls for investigations, protests and demands that immigration officers stop terrorizing American communities. The latest deadly ICE action occurred around 7:30 a.m. July…