Nearly one in four FBI agents nationwide are now assigned to immigration enforcement, a dramatic shift that’s drawing concern from inside and outside the bureau.
The developer of StopICE.net asked a federal court Thursday to block a Department of Homeland Security subpoena seeking information about social media accounts that identified a Border Patrol agent involved in recent immigration raids in Los Angeles.
Protests inside and outside Manhattan’s 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday ended with the arrests of more than a dozen elected officials demanding better treatment of migrants held in the building
After weeks of threats to send the National Guard into Chicago, the Trump administration on Monday announced a deportation sweep in Illinois.
For more than 15 years, ICE required officers to complete a “field operations worksheet” before making an arrest. The form included details such as name, appearance, addresses, employment, and criminal history, and had to be approved by a supervisor.
About 600 military lawyers have been cleared to work as temporary immigration judges, with 150 of them possibly starting this week, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Federal immigration agents arrested two Mexican contractors fighting a wildfire in Olympic National Forest, marking one of the first times such enforcement has taken place inside an active fire zone, firefighters said.
The FBI is urging local police to submit the names of people linked to certain drug cartels and gangs, along with their relatives and associates, for inclusion on the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list.
