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Judge: In This ICE Case, Issues 'Jumped Out at Me Immediately'

Charges tossed for Chicago's 'Broadview 6,' including ex-congressional candidate Abughazaleh

(Newser) - A Chicago protest case that turned into a test of how far prosecutors could go against anti-ICE activists has collapsed under its own handling. A federal judge on Thursday threw out all remaining charges against a group known as the "Broadview Six," saying prosecutors crossed multiple lines in...

Disagreement Over DOJ Fund Delays ICE Funding Vote

Senate now likely to miss Trump's June 1 deadline

(Newser) - Senate Republicans delayed a vote Thursday on a major immigration enforcement funding push, stalled not by Democrats but by their own doubts over a Trump administration plan tucked inside it. After a closed-door briefing with Justice Department officials, GOP senators balked at advancing a reconciliation bill that would steer nearly...

Minnesota Charges ICE Agent With 4 Felonies

Christian Castro charged in January shooting of Venezuelan immigrant

(Newser) - An ICE agent whose name was long kept from the public is now facing felony charges in a Minnesota shooting that helped ignite protests over federal immigration tactics. State prosecutors on Monday charged 52-year-old Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault, a felony, and one misdemeanor count of falsely...

ICE's Next Leader Comes From the Private Prison World

David Venturella has been with ICE since February 2025

(Newser) - A familiar name in the detention world is stepping into the top job at ICE. The Department of Homeland Security has tapped David Venturella, a former executive at private prison giant Geo Group, to serve as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reports the Washington Post . Venturella, currently a...

Analysis: Stephen Miller's Clout Is Waning

Atlantic suggests Trump is moving away from the architect of his hardline immigration agenda

(Newser) - Stephen Miller is still inside Donald Trump's orbit—but increasingly out of the driver's seat. That's the picture painted by Michael Scherer and Nick Miroff in an analysis at the Atlantic . The longtime Trump aide began the second term at the height of his influence as the...

NY Unveils 'Some of the Strictest Rules' for ICE

Budget deal to ban warrantless home raids, masked police

(Newser) - New York is moving to pull the masks off law enforcement officers. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday said she and state lawmakers have a deal on the 2027 budget that would bar police, including federal agents like those with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, from covering their faces while on duty...

Alligator Alcatraz May Be Shutting Down

New York Times reports that Everglades immigration site may be too costly

(Newser) - The days may be numbered for Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz." The New York Times reports that federal and state officials are in early talks to shut down the remote Everglades immigration detention center. Homeland Security officials have reportedly decided the state-run facility is both too pricey and ineffective....

Former ICE Deputy Director's Bid for House Seat Fails

Madison Sheahan finished 3rd in Ohio primary

(Newser) - The former No. 2 official at ICE under then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem came up short in her bid for a House seat. Madison Sheahan, who resigned in January to enter the GOP primary in Ohio's 9th District, finished third in Tuesday's vote, the Hill reports. According to...

Court Rejects ICE's Mass Detention Policy

Federal appeals court ruling on no-bond detention is likely to lead to Supreme Court showdown

(Newser) - A federal appeals court has thrown a major wrench into the Trump administration's immigration detention strategy. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected Immigration and Customs Enforcement's effort to hold most people facing deportation without any...

States Say Not So Fast on ICE's Detention Center Plans

Environmental lawsuits are holding up agency's push to convert warehouses into detention facilities

(Newser) - The push to turn old warehouses into immigration detention centers just hit a major legal speed bump. Facing lawsuits in at least four states, the Trump administration is now moving to complete environmental reviews for some facilities after initially arguing the projects were exempt from such scrutiny under the National...

Senate GOP Sidesteps Dems, Passes Funding for ICE

Late night 'vote-a-rama' sends funding bill to the House, would reopen DHS

(Newser) - The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House. The entire department has been shut down since mid-February...

Court Sides With Administration on Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Court says Florida's migrant detention site didn't trigger federal environmental review

(Newser) - A controversial immigration lockup in the middle of the Everglades just cleared a big legal hurdle, the Hill reports. A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday scrapped a lower court order that would have forced officials to dismantle Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center, siding with the Trump administration'...

Elderly French Woman Arrested by ICE Is Allowed to Fly Home

Marie-Therese Ross married her old American flame, but he died suddenly in Alabama

(Newser) - A French woman in her 80s who was arrested by ICE earlier this month has been released after 16 days in custody and allowed to fly home, reports the New York Times . Marie-Therese Ross had moved to Alabama after marrying her long-lost American sweetheart, who died unexpectedly in January before...

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons to Resign

No reason was given for his impending departure

(Newser) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Lyons' departure, calling him a great leader of ICE who helped to make American...

Minnesota Charges ICE Agent With Felony

Agent allegedly pointed gun at motorists while driving on the shoulder

(Newser) - A federal immigration agent's conduct during the Minnesota crackdown has led to state felony charges. Prosecutors in Minneapolis on Thursday charged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, with assault, alleging he pointed a gun at two people in a car after trying to pass them...

US Soldier's Wife Released From Immigration Detention

'All I have ever wanted is to live with dignity in the country I have called home since I was a baby'

(Newser) - The wife of a US soldier was released Tuesday from a federal immigration detention facility where she had spent nearly a week after being taken into custody on a Louisiana military base. The detention of 22-year-old Annie Ramos, the Honduran born-wife of a US Army staff sergeant preparing to deploy,...

Laura Loomer Claims Credit for Arrests of Soleimani Relatives

Far-right activist says she sent social media posts to State Department

(Newser) - Laura Loomer says it was her intel that triggered the US arrests of two reported relatives of slain Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. The far-right commentator said on social media that ICE agents detained Soleimani's niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, and her daughter after Loomer compiled months of Afshar's online posts...

Minneapolis Video Contradicts Feds' Narrative of ICE Shooting

Officials claimed men attacked agent with shovel, brooms

(Newser) - Prosecutors had a key piece of evidence within reach in a controversial ICE shooting in Minneapolis—but they didn't look at it for nearly three weeks, according to a New York Time s review of newly released video. The footage , recorded Jan. 14 by a city security camera and...

ICE Deportation Undermines Federal Drug Case

Defendants walked free after key witness was deported to Mexico

(Newser) - A meth case that once hinged on a scared but willing witness instead ended with two alleged traffickers walking free after ICE got involved. "Javier Hernandez" (a pseudonym) agreed to testify for federal prosecutors after a 2015 Drug Enforcement Administration bust in Fontana that turned up nearly 22 pounds...

ICE Detains Soldier's New Wife at Base Check-In

Annie Ramos, 22, facing deportation amid Trump-era crackdown

(Newser) - The honeymoon ended abruptly for an Army staff sergeant and his new wife when ICE agents showed up at his Louisiana base. Hours after arriving at Fort Polk to get her military spouse ID and benefits, 22-year-old Annie Ramos, an undocumented Honduran immigrant brought to the US as a toddler,...

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