Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The city of Joliet in Illinois could be home to a new detention center for immigrants facing deportation after residents of suburban Crete derailed a similar plan in their city, the Chicago Tribune reports. Joliet officials are considering the plan but were short on specifics. The Tribune said City Manager Tom Thanas…
By Hannah Rappleye and Lisa Riordan Seville NBC News In the freezer of a small funeral home nearly 13 miles from the Texas-Mexico border, 22 bodies are stacked on plywood shelves, one on top of the other. The bodies wrapped in white sheets have names, families and official countries of origin — Honduras, El Salvador,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the U.S. continues to tighten land routes along the Mexican border, immigrants are increasingly risking their lives to reach the country by water, the Orange County Register reports. Immigrants pay up to $9,000 to make the dangerous journey from Baja to the Southern California coast, according to the Register. Since…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ten ICE officers filed a lawsuit in federal court last week in hopes of invalidating President Obama’s new initiative to defer the removal of 1.8 million young illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements for at least two years, according to the Heritage Foundation. The lawsuit claims the agents have been ordered…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department will no longer fight the release of prisoners who have been deemed “legally innocent,” the USA Today reports. The department’s move, announced Monday, follows a USA Today investigation that found more than 60 people were imprisoned even though an appeals court later determined they did not commit a federal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are investigating human smuggling after a truck packed with illegal immigrants crashed in rural southern Texas, killing 17 and injuring nine, the Associated Press reports. Of the those killed, 11 were male and three female. At least two were children. They came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn some agents from Phoenix just as local police prepare to enforce Arizona’s new immigration law, The Associated Press reports. The federal agents were responsible for identifying and deporting illegal immigrants. To round up immigrants in other states, ICE began reassigning members of the Phoenix…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a dramatic departure from tough laws in Arizona and Alabama, the California Senate Thursday approved a bill that would bar local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration officials on most cases, the LA Times reports. The Trust Act bans local police from detaining suspects for possible deportation unless they have serious…
