• Ohio sheriff says local partnerships with feds on immigration 'starting to ramp up'

    Ohio sheriff says local partnerships with feds on immigration 'starting to ramp up'

    Nov 13, 2025 11:45 PM EDT

    As the Trump administration ramps up deportations, ICE has turned to local law enforcement through a program that has existed for decades. Under the agreements, sheriffs’ offices hold undocumented immigrants in jail before they are transferred. Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones reinstated his county’s partnership when Trump returned to office. He joined Geoff Bennett...

  • Trump's next immigration crackdown will target Charlotte, North Carolina, local sheriff says

    Trump's next immigration crackdown will target Charlotte, North Carolina, local sheriff says

    Nov 13, 2025 10:01 PM EDT

    ... the suburbs but eventually included hundreds of Customs and Border Protection agents whose tactics grew increasingly aggressive. More than 3,200 people suspected of violating immigration laws have been arrested across Chicago and its many suburbs dipping into Indiana.The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both immigration agencies, has ...

  • Day care worker detained by immigration agents in Chicago released

    Day care worker detained by immigration agents in Chicago released

    Nov 13, 2025 07:52 PM EDT

    CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago day care center employee who was detained by immigration agents at work as children were being dropped off last week has been released, according to her attorney. Diana Santillana Galeano was detained Nov. 5 at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center on the ...

  • Ousted immigration judge describes deepening court backlog

    Ousted immigration judge describes deepening court backlog

    Nov 12, 2025 11:35 PM EDT

    ... the mother and the family and their children, who had all come to court together. So, in other words, ICE, in the lobbies of the immigration courts, in some cases, were splitting up families. Regardless of how you feel about the law, and regardless of how you feel about immigration ...

  • Federal judge sharply criticizes immigration crackdown tactics in Chicago

    Federal judge sharply criticizes immigration crackdown tactics in Chicago

    Nov 06, 2025 11:35 PM EDT

    ... Chicago, even though Chicago wasn't first on his list. That went to Los Angeles, where also Gregory Bovino was leading the charge in that immigration enforcement operation. Amna Nawaz: Meanwhile, related to this, we should note this week there was another federal judge who ordered authorities to improve conditions ...

  • Nebraska converts prison into federal immigration center, aims to fill it by Thanksgiving

    Nebraska converts prison into federal immigration center, aims to fill it by Thanksgiving

    Nov 06, 2025 10:41 PM EDT

    OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A minimum-security state prison in the remote southwest corner of Nebraska reconfigured to serve as a federal immigration detention center began accepting detainees earlier this week, Gov. Jim Pillen said Thursday. The Republican governor said the facility at McCook — a remote city of about 7,000 ...

  • Judge calls alleged conditions at Chicago-area immigration site 'disgusting'

    Judge calls alleged conditions at Chicago-area immigration site 'disgusting'

    Nov 04, 2025 07:05 PM EDT

    CHICAGO (AP) — Allegations of heartless conditions at a key Chicago-area immigration building are “disgusting,” a judge said Tuesday before hearing evidence that could lead to changes at a site that is a stop for people rounded up by the Trump administration. The government is accused of denying detainees proper ...

  • Afghan man detained by immigration agents despite following legal asylum procedures

    Afghan man detained by immigration agents despite following legal asylum procedures

    Oct 31, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... of whether or not he's released, which is to say that he's going to have a series of hearings in front of the immigration court and an immigration judge is then going to make a decision on his asylum claim. After suffering already the upheaval of forced migration ...

  • Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers

    Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers

    Oct 31, 2025 05:40 PM EDT

    ... The Baltimore field office is examined Amelia Dagen, a senior attorney with the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, is working on a lawsuit against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore Field Office as well as officials in charge of national immigration enforcement efforts. Dagen said several of ...

  • WATCH: Vance calls for legal immigration reduction during Turning Point event at University of Mississippi

    WATCH: Vance calls for legal immigration reduction during Turning Point event at University of Mississippi

    Oct 30, 2025 06:27 PM EDT

    Vice President JD Vance advocated a slowdown in legal immigration Wednesday, saying, “We have to get the overall numbers way, way down." Watch the full event from Oct. 29 in our video player above. Vance took questions from students at the University of Mississippi at an event organized by Turning ...