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…
Inside a Christian mother’s fight against ICE activity in Chicagocu
Audrey Luhmann, mother of eight, patrols courthouses, responds to community alerts, gathers supplies for immigrants and cares for her family.
ICE releases a Texas nun intercepted walking to church dressed in her habit
A nun was released from immigration custody after she was arrested walking to Mass in her habit in South Texas.
The Intercept challenges Trump’s retaliation against protesters
An online news organization sued the Trump administration June 24 to win the release of documents related to a federal database established to retaliate against protesters and others exercising constitutional rights. The Intercept is asking the U.S. District Court for…
A judge orders ICE to free a Wisconsin mosque leader, citing a ‘substantial’ free speech claim
A federal judge ordered immigration officials to release the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque from detention Thursday, finding that Salah Sarsour has raised a “substantial” claim that he was being targeted for speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights.
Nonprofits aiding immigrant kids say Trump admin intimidating them
The Washington, D.C.-area offices of nonprofit groups that provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children were recently visited by federal agents in what some of the organizations described as a campaign of intimidation. Kids In Need of Defense, or KIND,…
‘They have already suffered enough’: Central African clergy respond to US deportation
Religious leaders in the Central African Republic say they were stunned by the arrival Friday (June 12) of migrants deported from the United States to their country without cultural or familial ties, questioning why people who fled religious and political…
Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP
Immigrant and civil rights advocates condemned the $70 billion immigration bill President Donald Trump signed into law June 10. The “Secure America Act” passed by Congress a day earlier provides funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol…