Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A Boston civil rights group is taking a sheriff’s office in Massachusetts to court over its involvement in federal immigration enforcement matters. Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a petition with the state Supreme Judicial Court on Monday, asking the state’s highest court to nullify an agreement between Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald’s office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement....

Lawyers say the U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm that requires surgery.

A judge says newly detained immigrants must appear before a judge within 10 days rather than the weeks or months they’ve sometimes had to endure in recent years.

After allegations of forced hysterectomies and other medical practices at a Georgia immigrant detention facility, a doctor is now at the center of a criminal investigation. NBCLX talked to attorney David Dreyer, who represents five of the detainees who allegedly had unnecessary gynecological surgeries, to discuss the systemic problems that allowed this to happen and what happens next.

A Lynn resident was released from custody after he turned himself in to immigration authorities over a battle with his landlord who allegedly had called ICE on him.

After allegations of forced hysterectomies and other disturbing medical practices were raised about a Georgia immigrant detention facility, the private company that runs this facility and others has come under scrutiny. Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of CREW, unpacks the allegations against LaSalle Corrections and why he hopes Congress will get involved.

A federal judge has ordered the release of some detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California following a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility and an ACLU lawsuit saying they were not being protected from the coronavirus. But ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham says the safety precautions in place now are still not strong enough to keep them safe.

Massachusetts resident Bena Apreala was stopped by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers whom he said didn’t identify themselves while he was jogging in West Roxbury on Tuesday. They said he resembled a fugitive.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that barred immigration authorities from arresting people suspected of living in the U.S. illegally if they show up at Massachusetts courthouses. The decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston came in a case brought by prosecutors in two of the state’s largest counties. District attorneys and...

Several advocacy groups have sued the Boston police and school departments to find how much information they share with federal immigration officials. Lawyers for Civil Rights, the Center for Law and Education, and Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy filed suit in Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday for details on how police and schools share student information with U.S. Immigration...

The New York Times reports how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement inadvertently helped spread Covid-19 across the globe by holding immigrants in detention centers that became hotbeds for the virus before deportation.

Lawyers representing immigrant families in detention filed a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday alleging that ICE has failed to provide adequate medical care to their clients, NBC News reports.

The women were forced to live and work in filth and near darkness, the federal agent said, surviving on only the tips they received from performing massages and sexual favors.

All immigrant detainees and staff at Bristol County Jail must get tested for the coronavirus, a federal judge ruled, just days after an altercation broke out over testing in the facility.

A detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center died from complications of COVID-19, San Diego County health officials confirmed Wednesday. The detainee was a 57-year-old male who was hospitalized in late April, according to Dr. Eric McDonald, Medical Director with the County Epidemiology Immunization Branch. The detainee died early Wednesday. This marked the first reported death from the virus among…

Pressure was mounting on the Trump administration Wednesday to release people from immigration detention facilities where at least one detainee has tested positive for COVID-19 and advocates fear tight quarters and overall conditions could cause rapid spread of the virus. The U.S. holds around 37,000 people in immigration detention. Detainees and advocates say many are vulnerable because of age and…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker provides an update on COVID-19.

The agency said Wednesday it will focus on cases involving undocumented people who have committed criminal acts or pose a threat to public safety.

The Trump administration official said that in response to the state’s sanctuary and Green Light laws, all New York residents “can’t enroll or re-enroll” in the Trusted Traveler Programs

The Trump administration official said that in response to the state’s sanctuary and Green Light laws, all New York residents “can’t enroll or re-enroll” in the Trusted Traveler Programs