Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently asked the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA), which instructs federal agencies on
how to maintain records, to approve its timetable for retaining or
destroying records related to its detention operations. This may seem
like a run-of-the-mill government request for record-keeping efficiency.
It isn’t. An entire paper trail for a system rife with human rights and
constitutional abuses is at stake
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'Sick, Dystopian Stuff': Former Trump Adviser Kelly Joins Board of Company Running Immigrant Detention Centers
In what one critic deemed a "nauseating example of the revolving door"
through which powerful political players often move in and out of the
private sector, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly joined the
board of a company which owns some of the largest detention centers for
unaccompanied children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump proposal would evict undocumented immigrants from public housing
The Trump administration is proposing to tighten regulations to prevent undocumented immigrants from accessing federally subsidized housing, a move that low-income housing advocates fear will keep immigrants who are legally entitled to such benefits from receiving housing help.
Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removals of ‘millions of illegal aliens’ starting next week
President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration
agents are planning to make mass arrests starting “next week,” an
apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to
round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation
across major U.S. cities.
The Trump Administration Has Let 24 People Die in ICE Custody
Two dozen immigrants have died in the custody of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement since President Donald Trump’s inauguration,
according to a new NBC News analysis of federal data. That figure doesn’t include the deaths of at least four immigrants who died shortly after being released from ICE custody.
Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.
The Trump administration’s practice of separating children from migrant
families entering the United States violates their rights and
international law, the United Nations human rights office said on
Tuesday, urging an immediate halt to the practice.
Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for unaccompanied child migrants in U.S. shelters
The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreational
programs and legal aid for unaccompanied minors staying in federal
migrant shelters nationwide, saying the immigration influx at the
southern border has created critical budget pressures.
Migrant Children Moved Back to Troubled Texas Border Facility
At the squat, sand-colored concrete border station in Texas that has
become the center of debate over President Trump’s immigration policies,
a chaotic shuffle of migrant children continued on Tuesday as more than
100 were moved back into a facility that days earlier had been emptied
in the midst of criticism that young detainees there were hungry, crying
and unwashed.
ICE Uses Arrest Quotas for Its Mass Immigration Raids, Documents Show
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at the behest of
President Donald Trump, plans mass raids following the July Fourth
holiday, newly released documents shed light on the tactics the agency
employs during such operations.
The documents, released Wednesday
by the immigrant rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Detention
Watch Network, show that ICE officials are building arrest target lists
for mass raids to meet specific numbers, even as the agency continues
to internally and publicly stress a “public safety” rationale for
immigration arrests.
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes
Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol
agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos
at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on
Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to
screenshots of their postings.