Tag Archives: Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/27: Raids Update

Though the country’s attention has been focused on an ongoing financial crisis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are continuing, and there have been developments in the aftermath of past raids. News 21 gets you up to speed: “Fear. Stress. Isolation,” says the Hattiesburg American, listing themes in the lives of detainees’ families after the [...]

In Largest Raid Ever, ICE Arrests Almost 600 Suspected Illegal Immigrants

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained 595 suspected illegal immigrants after a raid at a Mississippi electrical parts plant on Monday. The raid targeted Howard Industries, one of the largest employers in Laurel, Miss., a city of about 18,000. Eight of the immigrants are facing federal charges of using stolen social security numbers, according the [...]

Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 8/22

A federal judge upheld Arizona’s Proposition 200, a 2004 law that mandates proof of citizenship for voter registration. News 21 reporters found that Latinos and other voters are often disenfranchised by Prop. 200. Time magazine delved into Miami Latinos’ shift toward the Democrats. News 21 reporters Don Duncan and Elizabeth Mendez Berry came to the [...]

New Fund Helps Detained Immigrants Pay Bonds

Illegal immigrants held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement often have trouble paying the bonds necessary to get out of detention centers. But now they can turn to the National Immigrant Bond Fund, set up by the liberal non-profit Public Interest Projects last year. This week the chairman of the fund, Boston financier Robert Hildreth, announced [...]

Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, August 18

A Chinese immigrant died of cancer in a detention facility after authorities ignored his excruciating pain for months. More immigration raids: ICE arrests 42 suspected illegal immigrants working at Dulles Airport in suburban Washington, D.C. and 57 at a parachute plant in Asheville, N.C. Deportations are up 40 percent in the Pacific Northwest, due to [...]