immigration and customs enforcement
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ICE Raids Continue: Agents Target Southern California Businesses
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are continuing the business of cracking down on undocumented immigrant workers and the employers that hire them. The latest targets of federal immigration audits are businesses in the Los Angeles area. The Los Angeles Times reports that after a five-day operation that ended Thursday, ICE issued audit notices to more…
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Immigration Agents Target 100 7-Eleven Stores Across the Country in 1 Day
Before dawn on Wednesday, seven immigration agents entered a 7-Eleven convenience store in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles and made arriving customers and a beer-delivery driver wait outside while they conducted a “federal inspection.” According to the Associated Press, that inspection was actually an employment audit. The agents verified that the cashier had a…
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Black ICE Agent Accuses New Mexico Sheriff’s Department of Racial Profiling After Being Pulled Over Multiple Times
It’s a clash of law enforcement agencies. A black female Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is pointing the finger at a New Mexico police department, accusing officers of racial profiling after she was pulled over several times by sheriff’s deputies for no apparent reason. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed the lawsuit…
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Plainclothes ICE Agents Who Did Not Identify Themselves Caught on Video Harassing Latino Citizen
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are being slammed for their conduct after they were caught on video harassing a Latino man, demanding that he give them his name and identification, even though they failed to identify themselves as agents. According to The Oregonian, Isidro Andrade-Tafolla and his wife were leaving the Washington County Courthouse on…
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Motel 6 Corporation Issues Statement On Phoenix Locations Turning Undocumented Guests in to ICE
Updated Thursday Sept. 14, 11:39 p.m. EDT: The Root received the following statement issued by the Motel 6 corporation: “Over the past several days, it was brought to our attention that certain local Motel 6 properties in the Phoenix-area were voluntarily providing daily guest lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As previously stated, this…
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ICE Picks Up Teen Hours Before His Senior Prom, Days Before His High School Graduation
Hours before his senior prom was set to begin, Diego Ismael Puma Macancela hid in a bedroom closet at his cousin’s home as immigration officers who had come looking for him stood outside the apartment banging on the door and threatening to break it down if Puma Macancela did not come out. Worried that agents…
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Colo. Governor Pardons Man Who Won Release From Prison and Was Picked Up by ICE the Same Day
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper heeded the call of lawyers and activists who asked him to intervene in the case of Rene Lima-Marin, the man who was awarded his freedom Tuesday, only to be picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Wednesday and detained for deportation. Hickenlooper pardoned Lima-Marin on Friday but said he does…
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Inmate Who Won Release From Prison Taken Into Custody by US Immigration
Updated Thursday, May 18, 2017, 1:33 a.m. EDT: Rene Lima-Marin’s family was heartbroken Wednesday when, on the day he was to be released from prison per a judge’s order, he was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. CBS Denver reports that Jasmine Lima-Marin surprised her sons Tuesday with the news that their father…
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Immigration Agent Tries to Question 4th-Grader, Gets Turned Away by School Officials
If you needed any further proof of how low the agents of this administration will sink to carry out its dictator’s mandates, a federal immigration agent showed up at an elementary school in Queens, N.Y., to question a fourth-grade student Thursday. A New York City spokesman told CBS New York that the incident happened at…
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ICE Temporarily Suspends Its Weekly List Meant to Shame Cities That Won’t Detain Immigrants
Remember how the Trump administration figured it would try to shame sanctuary cities into cooperating with its detainer requests by publishing the “Declined Detainer Outcome Report” on a weekly basis? Remember how the first one came out and we were all like, “Shut up, Homeland Security”? Well, apparently the administration has realized what a horrible…