Immigration and Customs Enforcement

‘Unreliable social media posts’: US judge temporarily halts Donald Trump’s deployment of national guard to Portland; cites potential 10th Amendment violation

A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying 200 National Guard troops to Portland. The decision comes after Trump announced the deployment to protect what he described as a “war-ravaged” city, while a lawsuit challenging the move proceeds in court.The ruling by US District Judge […]

‘Possessed firearms’: Former Des Moines school superintendent detained by ICE faces federal charges; held four guns

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 […]

New York ICE incident: Officer who pushed woman at immigration court reinstated – report

New York ICE incident: Officer who pushed woman at immigration court reinstated An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was temporarily removed from duty following a widely shared video showing him pushing a woman to the ground outside a New York immigration court has been returned to work, two US officials cited by CBS News […]

Who is Ian Roberts? Iowa’s largest school district superintendent arrested by ICE for living and working in US illegally

Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools and leader of Iowa’s largest school district, was arrested Friday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after fleeing into the woods during a traffic stop, shocking educators and the local community. Roberts, originally from Guyana, was in the United States illegally and had no work authorization, […]

’45 flights a day’: ICE deportations surge under Trump; report shows 34% rise from Biden era

File photo (Source: X/Karoline Leavitt) .The Trump administration has sharply increased the number of daily ICE flights, new data showed on Thursday. In August, an average of 45 flights took off each day to deport immigrants or move them between detention centres, making it the busiest month since records began in 2020, according to the […]

‘Puts lives at risk’: Man dies attempting to flee ICE raid in California; dozens honour Montoya with march

A man fleeing an immigration raid at a Home Depot in Southern California was struck by a vehicle and killed on a freeway on Thursday as federal agents closed in, authorities said.The victim has been identified as Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés, 52, of Guatemala, by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.Montoya fled a Home Depot […]

Trump’s ICE boost: US President urges ‘courageous men and women’ to join immigration and customs; promises to ‘take GREAT care’

US President Donald Trump reinforced his support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling the agency’s agents “brave” and praising their ongoing efforts to expel what he described as “the WORST of the WORST” criminals from the country.Taking to social media platform Truth Social he said, “Our Brave ICE Law Enforcement Agents are getting the […]

Undocumented El Salvador migrants arrested in sting: Police posed as teen girls online; flagged for deportation

Three men from El Salvador, currently in the US without legal status, were arrested in Houston, Texas, after being caught in a police sting targeting online predators. Officers from the Houston police department posed as teenage girls on the dating app Jaumo. Over the last ten days, they arrested Abner Ruiz, 37, Erick Menjivar, 30, […]

Woman’s murder in Illinois: Judge sets Mexican illegal free; ICE arrests him back

Representative Image (AI-generated) A Mexican national accused of decapitating a missing Illinois woman and hiding her body in a bleach-filled container was re-arrested by US immigration authorities on Saturday (local time) in Chicago, months after he was released from custody despite facing serious charges.Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, a 52-year-old resident of Waukegan, Illinois, was first arrested […]

‘Not a criminal’: Woman self-deports to Mexico after living in US for 36 years; was ‘scared for her safety’

Image: Instagram/@julieear A woman who has lived and worked in the US for 36 years has self-deported to Mexico after having lived in the country since she was 15. Regina Higuera, 51, is a garment worker whose work permit had expired years ago, has left behind her three American-born children and her husband of 25 […]