A popular Los Angeles restaurateur is facing deportation after immigration agents detained him in an arrest. His family said he was arrested after a former employee ratted him out to authorities about a gun kept at his restaurant.Chef Carlos Lool, the owner of La Granja Rotisserie and Fuego Rotisserie in South Los Angeles, was taken […]
Ofelia Torres, the 16-year-old Chicago student who publicly appealed for her father’s release from immigration detention while battling a rare cancer, has died, reports NBC news. Ofelia passed away on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that affects soft tissue. She had been diagnosed in December 2024 and had spent […]
A Frenchman detained by US immigration authorities recalled his month-long ordeal, describing handcuffs, long transfers, and overcrowded dormitories. 26-year-old Julien Pereira said the experience left him physically and emotionally drained, reports HuffPost. Pereira arrived in the United States at 17 with dreams of studying and playing tennis at a high level. Over seven years, he […]
A St. Paul woman who is a US citizen said she was illegally detained last week by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, speaking on Wednesday at a news conference at the Minnesota Capitol.Nasra Ahmed, 23, said she stepped out of her St. Paul apartment on Jan. 14 when several ICE officers surrounded her and […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have detained the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew amid the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown, according to sources cited by NBC News.ICE agents took Bruna Caroline Ferreira into custody this month in Revere, Massachusetts. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson described her as a “criminal […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt In an interesting turn of events, a relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was detained as the Trump administration intensifies immigration enforcement efforts, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News. Leavitt, a close aide to US President Donald Trump, has previously referred to immigrants […]
An Indian-origin man in Arkansas was detained for a month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after authorities reportedly mistook his bottle of perfume for opium. He is now seeking to have his visa status reinstated after the charges were dropped.Kapil Raghu, married to an American citizen and pursuing US citizenship, was taken into […]
A former school superintendent, Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools, was recently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and has been charged by federal prosecutors in Iowa with one count of being an “illegal alien in possession of firearms,” according to court records.Prosecutors confirmed on October 2 that Roberts faces federal charges for possessing […]
Mahmoud Khalil reunited with family (Photo: AP) Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian rights advocate and Columbia University graduate, was released after spending over three months in US immigration detention, reuniting with his wife and infant son. The 30-year-old legal US resident walked free from a Louisiana facility on Friday evening after a federal judge ruled his […]
In The Trial, Franz Kafka’s bewildered protagonist wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest by an opaque, faceless authority — accused of a crime never named, tried by a system that never explains itself. In Amerika, another young man arrives in the United States with dreams of freedom and opportunity, only to be […]
